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"What n naaty brute you are I”
IfelTIME
■LOCK
Bj CHARLES EDMONDS WALK
Author of “Tha Silver Blade,”
“The Paternoster Ruby," etc.
(Ciyritfllt 1912 br A. C. McClulg e Ca.)
SYNOPSIS.
Book I.
CHAPTER I—Rudolph Van Vechten, a
young men ot leisure, la nstonlslied to
flee a man enter No. 1313, a house across
the street from the Powhatan club. The
house has Iona been unoccupied and Is
spoken ot as the House ot Mystery.
CHAPTER II—Several persons at rosu-
lmr Intervals enter No. 1313.
CHAPTER III—Van Vechten expresses
concern to his trlend, Tom Fhlnney, re-
garding the whereabouts ot hts cousin
and fiancee, Paige Carew. A fashionably
attired woman Is seen to enter tho House
of Mystery. A man Is forcibly ejected
from the house. Van Vechten and Tom
follow the man and And him dead In the
■treat
CHAPTER IV—Van Vechten Is attraot-
•d by the face of a girl In the crowd of
onlookers surrounding the body. Later
added. -----------------
Nothing less than paralyzing amaze-
ment, apparently, restrained Callia
from leaping upon Van Vephten and
finishing him out of hand. And per-
mps, too, there wan a quality In the
rouiiK man’s bearing that had some-
:htng to do with It—his unflinching
lerve, the mastery of his look, the in-
evitable dominance of caste and brehd-
ng. With a little bow, Van Vechten
■urned again to the girl.
he discovers the girl gazing at him with
a look of scorn from the wii
mysterious house.
rlndowB of the
CHAPTER V—Detective Flint calls on
Van Vechten to get hit version of the
tragedy,
CHAPTER VI—Tom Fhlnney goes alone
on a yachting trip. He recognizee among
some persons in a passing motor boat
two men whom he had seen enter the
House of Mystery. He sees one of them,
a Mr. Collie, on shore later and follows
him, Tom le seized, blindfolded and taken
to a home. He hears a girl named Jessie,
evidently the daughter of the man in
authority, question tile captors. A sweet-
voiced glrf later protests at
toughness of hts captora
against the
Book II.
CHAPTER I—Van Vechten calls on his
Uncle, Theodore Van Vechten, big man In
Wall street and known as the "Man of
Iron,” In search of Information regarding
the whereabouts of Paige Carew.
CHAPTER II—Detective Flint shows
Van Vechten a gold mesh purse found In
the House of Mystery. Van recognizes It
as belonging to Paige Carew.
CHAPTER III—The zweet-volced girl
helps Tom Phlnney escape, but refuses to
disclose -her Identity. Tom declares ho
will meet her again.
CHAPTER IV—Detective Flint tells Van
Vechten he has a theory that Paige has
been kidnaped. Van goes to lay the case
before hie uncle.
CHAPTER V—Messages are sent to
Europe In an effort to trace Paige. Tom
telle Van Vechten ho le In love and re-
lates hie adventure.
CHAPTER VI—A message from London
reports that two ladles resembling
Miss Carew and her companion, Mrs.
Devereaux, sailed for New Tork some
time previously. A reward of 23,600 la of-
fered.
CHAPTER VTI—It develops that the
ladles visited the English home of Tem-
ple Bonner, owner of the House of Mys-
tery. Flint has a theory that they are
connected with the mystery of No. 1818.
CHAPTER VTTT—It le recalled that
Temple Bonner was In love with a
daughter of Compton Schuyler, who mar-
ried Max Willard. The other daughter
married a man named Devereaux. Bon-
ner and 'Willard were Intimate friends. A
aevch la started for Willard.
Pjvf
CHAPTER DC—Van Vechten enters the
House of Mystery by the back door In
time to hear John Callia threaten a girl.
He Interferes and helps the girl escape,
1 -WjohnP The girl was now genulne-
Ijr alarmed. "Don’t talk bo wildly!
Ton'll regret this. And don’t—don’t
. look at me like that!” Another brief
• A pause and she concluded pleadingly
W) "Please, John, let me go!”
“I •han’t’’—doggedly.
"What do you mean to do with me,
* John?*’
"I don’t know. I haven’t made up
my mind. Maybe 111 kill you—If you
drive me to It.1
Tho girl must have rushed toward
the door, desperately striving to win
past him,'and just as certainly he
must have caught her and stayed her
•tepo. What followed was pretty much
oonfused in Van Vecbten's mind. There
was a sound of scuffling; the Incensed
listener In the hall Vfard the girl cry
oat In an agitated voice: “Oh! You
iire hurting me I” which was Immedi-
ately followed by a stifled shriek that
chilled the blood in hla veins.
Next Instant he had grasped the
knob and thrown all his weight against
the door.
It was unbolted and crashed open
with explosive violence. His Irrup-
tion promptly quieted the disturbance.
The man—It was the sandy-complex-
loned man—stood with dropped jaw,
•taring blankly at the Intruder.
And the glrlT Hla heart leaped. Hla
whole being was suffused with a warm
glow. The girl that he had despaired
of over seeing again, what unhappy
mischance had brought her to this
perilT And what unrecognised mes-
sage had prompted him to arrive upon
the scene so opportunely?
Attar the first shock of pleased aur-
prise, Van Vechten flamed, then
turned to ice. His regard traveled to
tha man In a narrowed look of anger
that left him white to the Upv. It was
a hard look, an ugly, wicked look that
■palled danger.
But Ms lifelong habit of repression
checked any violent display of feeling
on hla part The spell was broken
jWhen he composedly advanced a step
farther Into the room, not for an In-
? stant moving hla steely regard from
■the man. All of a sudden his thin lips
twisted In an odd little smile that
W*» not at all pleasing to see.
"WellT” he said quietly. Save for
tha unmistakable undercurrent ol
menace, the tone might have been af-
fable.
Bo profound was the other man’s
stupefaction that he mechanically re-
leased the girl's wrists and fell back
a pace. Only a quirk anticipation ol
hla set saved her from falling to the
floor; aa It was she staggered back-
ward until a dust-coated library table
Stayed her. At thla she clutched,
clinging to It* edges, and, wide-eyed,
tent from one to the other of the
Her tormentor’s brain, obvious-
rred only sluggishly; but all at
he sullen features .were oongest-
blood, the veins on hla fore-
^ Zlnd *u hie fnry—now re-
directed at Van Vech-
citlee,
liquor hen did you oomo from?”
taken evepoualy.
it of
eeosae
district to!
SSfc
tm
Van Vechten
’ with law-
’You are at perfeot liberty to de-
part,” he said, with calm, dignified
leference. “And, really, 1 think you
tad better do so at once. I can hold
,hls rufllan—at least until you make
;ood your escape. Once you ate In
the street, you know, and you are
lafe.”
By this time she had regained some-
thing of her own composure; but the
:ool assurance of this punctiliously
jarhod young man, the obvious deter-
mination and air of authority that lay
behind his courtesy, evoked from her
i look of startled wonder. The heav/
laBhes half-veiled her dark eyes as
they wavered to Callis, then back
again to him; It was a covert, all-ap-
praising glance. Then her lips curled
icornfully.
What wbb passing In her mind was
only too plain to Van Vechten. He
flushed hotly. Already he had made
the same comparison; and he fostered
no illusions respecting the possible
outcome of a combat.
Never before had he been confront-
od by any man so irresponsible with
rage, or one with whom it was so
hopeless to attempt to reason; never
In all his life had he Btruck a man In
anger; but he knew there was just one
way in which he could succor this dis
dalnful beauty, and that would be to
pit his endurance against the bully's
strength, to guard himself as much as
possible against his repeated on-
slaughts, and delay pursuit of the girl
until he (Vau Vechten) was pounded
Into insensibility—or mayhap slain. He
did not blink that contingency. Yet,
without the slightest hesitation, he
had resolved to offer himself to the
Baorlfice.
Through his mind all these aspects
of the crisis flashed. If only he had
the bludgeon which his fatuous wit
had so disparaged to Tom!
He was guilty of no error of Judg-
ment now, however-, Callis gave him
but scant time to reflect, then rushed,
not at him, but at the girl. Simultane-
ously Van Vechten plunged headlong
forward. Interposing his lighter body
between.
Amid the stress and confusion of
violent situations, the human mind is
capable of the most ridiculous pranks.
And at this critical moment Van Vech-
ten’s prompted him to commit such an
absurdity.
“Get out of here, you little Idiot!"
he yelled at the girl, who seemed
frozen to the table.
She hesitated one second longer,
then, with a stifled scream, slipped In-
to the hall and closed the door after
her.
It would not be pleasant to record
what happened In that room. There la
nothing heroic In a baited rat darting
desperately from a trap into the jaws
of a waiting terrier, noy In the spec-
~-a. lamb being prodds<Mo4i»
shambles, For perhaps live minutes
Van Vechten succeeded In preventing
Callia from grasping the door-knob—
a period In which he was reduced from
a correctly dressed, rather handsome
young gentleman to an object that was
no more than a tattered, bloody sem-
blance of humanity—and then he sank
Into oblivion.
Callis stared at his motionless ad-
versary. Why didn't tho fool move?
The answer came promptly, unbidden:
Because he couldn’t. He would never
move again, unless, perchance. It
should be to rise up and follow him—
out of the room, along the echoing
hails, down the dusty stairs, into the
street; whithersoever ho went, turn
and double, twist and dodge, there
would be that Thing at his side, until
at last—
And there was yet another shadow
in this silent house, one other fear-
some shade; suppose it should detach
Itself from the rest; suppose the two
shadows should get together and enter
into an unholy pact to work his undo-
ing?
John Callis clenched hla teeth to
stop their chattering. Hla starting
glance skirted the room and sought to
penetrate the shadows, which every
minute were looming larger and larger
and more obscure, then was irresisti-
bly drawn back to the shapeless
blurred heap in the corner. He did
not look away from it again.
Swallowing convulsively, licking hla
dry lips with a dry tongue, he backed
noiselessly, step by step, until he
brought up against the door. Never
for an Instant did the horrible dread of
the two shadows blending and follow-
ing him pause In Its unnerving sug-
gestion.
He felt far the knob like one In a
nightmare. Finding it, he stealthily
opened the door and slunk away,
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viewed the entrance with doubt and
disfavor. But there was no mistaking
it; from the curb, Brownlow’s name
could be seen on the directory board
just inside tho entrance. •
There was not even an elevator, so
Tom was obliged to climb two flights
of stairs, dark and dirty, to a suite of
dingy offices, in the outer of which two
old, white-haired clerks bent over pon-
derous ledgers without so much as
deigning him a glance, and a trim
young lady, affording a eharp note of
contrast to her surroundings, pounded
upon a typewriter. It was she who
recognized his presence with a bright,
smiling regard, who took his card
and disappeared Into another room,
and who returned presently to say
that Mr. Brownlow would see him at
once in his private office.
The farther Tom went, the more In-
credible It became that this could be
the business habitat of the Kohlnur's
owner—for Tom was familiar with
every private craft that acknowledged
New York ae Its home port—and far
from being dazzled by a bewildering
display of precious stones, the sparkle
of a diamond here would have been so
conspicuous as to be startling.
To his unobservant eye there was
nothing to indicate what manner of
business might be carried on here.
Brownlow’s private room was even
dingier and more uninviting than the
outer office—for all the world like the
husk of a frost-bitten nut ot which
Brownlow was the wrinkled kernel.
But could Tom have been present
while the Importer was entertaining a
prospective customer, he would have
obtained on insight intoi Brownlow’s
methods. In front of the only window
that was scrupulously clean stood a
wide table. Across the polished top
two comfortable leathern chairs faced
each other. Two or three dark pur-
ple velvet pads and s couple of jewel-
er’s lenses lay here and there upon
the top itself. At these two places the
Importer and the customer would have
been sitting tete-artete, the latter bark-
ening while the former discoursed at
length upon any subject save the one
that had brought them together, until
one of the bent figures in the outer of-
fice returned from Brownlow’a safe-de-
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second quarter principally concern the
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mainly as the great judge. These les-
sons have dealt with matters whlchi
occurred during the last months, wei
may almost say the last weeks, of his1
life. During that "year of opposition"
he Is met with the moat determined
hostility and persecution. Neverthe-
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calm assurance, in strict justice and
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BOOK III
Aboard the Kohinur.
CHAPTER I.
Tom Finds Employment.
It was In an exceedingly dejected
frame of mind that Tom Phlnney,
alone In Van Vechten'i huge six-cylin-
der car, made hie way to Malden Lane
In search of Mr. Brownlow. The low
state of hie feelings was in a large
measure owing to a condition that had
grown really Imminent and personal
only during the last few minutes; one
that meant renunciation of all hla past
mode of living and realization of a
necessary readjustment to an uncer-
tain future; ho had turned over a new
leaf, foresworn idleness and frivolity,
and was going to work!
Gloomy meditations darkened his
handsome face, and In hla preoccupa-
tion he wasted a good quarter ot an
hour searching for Brownlow's num-
ber. In harmony with a fancied por-
trait of the latter’e establishment, he
directed hie attention to the smarter,
more modern structures; and It was
quits by accident that hie eye alighted
upon the right piece—an Indescribably
shabby building, age-worn and de-
crepit, pinohed between two sky-
*crap*r*- H*g*g“3
beneath his arm a small leather case.
After this had been deposited at
Brownlow’s elbow and the bent figure
had retired to re-attach himself to his
own particular ponderous ledger, the
case would have been opened and Its
glittering contents poured out upon
the velvet pads. Then the little man’s
garrulity would have ceased, and he
would have uncovered a minute knowl-
edge of gems and values against which
the sharpest bargainer knew that It
was useless to contend. Unnumbered
millions of dollars worth of precious
stones had passed through his claw-
like fingers, each adding Its quota to
his wealth; and thus it was that he
could indulge in a luxury like the
Kohinur.
The importer was alone, however,
when Tom entered. He rose nimbly
from bis desk and greeted his caller
with an effusiveness that left the lat-
ter tongue-tied.
My dear Mr. Phlnney!” cried the
little man, beaming, the while he vig-
orously pumped Tom’s unresponsive
right hand. “My dear Mr. Phlnney!
Almost literally you have arrived at
the eleventh hour. It is Impossible, for
me to express my gratification at see-
ing you. So you didn’t forget the re
quest I made so bold as to proffer at
Mrs. Payne-French’al” He stopped
with surprising abruptness, then went
on in a tone expressive of consterna-
tion: “Don’t say that you have
failed! Don’t tell me you have come
here only to bring disappointment! It
would be a cruel act ot kindness on
your part, but . . . Ahem I Sit
down!”
Tom dropped Into the chair which
the other thrust at him as If he meant
to knock hie lege from under him.
"Pray don’t give me any such Bi-
ndings, Mr. Phlnney, for this is my
last day of grace; if I don’t get
skipper and mates for the Kohinur by
six tble evening, I stand to lose”—he
raised his hands in a despairing ges-
ture—“I can’t bear to hear myself say
itl I can't bear to think of how much
I ehall lose—more than any man can
afford—good, honest money, just wait-
ing to be picked up.”
This was all more or less unintel-
ligible to Tom; hut he had succeeded
In pulling himself together, and as
soon aa hf could wedge in a word he
npress upon the excitable
hat he was offering hlmBelf
ning. When at last Brown-
low comprehended, he suddenly
checked hljuself end stared at Tom in
silent Burpj'lse; but in a moment he
drew a lonf face, which put the finish-
ing touch \o his caller’s discourage-
ment
"You’re nit in earnest," Brownlow
voiced hie Iitsglvlngs, solemnly wag-
ging his he«'l, but nevertheless main-
taining an Interested scrutiny upon
the young mm. "Why, should you he
looking for such a billet?”
"Because I want the money," was
the blunt response. “And take my
word for it Mr. Brownlow, I'm in
earnest. If you doubt my qualifica-
tions—“ '
The other inised a silencing hand.
“I konw all about them,” said ha,
crisply, “«:se 1 shouldn’t have
broached the} matter to you in/the drat
Place* I supposed your Interest and
FRIENDSHIPS IN OLD ME
One of the world’s wisest men—Dr.
San&el Johnson—said that a man
should keep bis friendship in constant
repair, that as he adavnoed through
life he should be constantly making
new friends; otherwise, when he be-
oame old he would be left all alone.
Dr Johnson lived nearly all bis life
in the world’s metropolis and he
rp tA-ffiW-JOWl -hW> ■fcWHHrtt*
“My Dear Mr. Phlnney—My Dear Mr.
Phlnney.”
enable you to put me In the way of
finding what I wanted; I didn't expect
that you would—er—ahem!—"
Tom took the words out ot hla
mouth.
"Strike you tor the job myself, eh?
Well, I have.1
Brownlow seated himself at hla
desk, upon which he thoughtfully
drummed with his fingers, every now
end then directing a sharp glance at
hla caller. Tom was beginning to real-
ize that the employment of a captain
for the Kohinur, for some occult cause,
was not to bo so simply arranged aa
such matters generally are; the pre-
liminaries were unusual and—to him—
unnecessary; he was becoming more
and more puziled, for he believed that
Brownlow waa needlessly investing
the proceedings with an air of mys-
tery, and thla made him restive.
By and by Brownlow drew a long
breath and one* more gloomily shook
hla head.
"I’m fearful that lt'a not to be,”
sighed he, heavUy. "When you hear
the conditions you will back out like
all the rest of 'em. Beems like these
days navigators are too busy clipping
coupons and drawing dividends to be
attracted by a little thing Uke double
wages.”
Tom pricked np his ears. Two pas-
times had been mentioned which be,
at least, never bad enjoyed. He Inter-
rupted with an exclamation.
‘‘Double waapfll Say”—eagerly—“If
the game's straight \ don’t care to hear
conditions. Where’s your yaoht? I’ll
get my dunnage aboard without wast-
ing any more tl^se.”
The little man bounded from hla
chair and began pacing the floor with
short, nervous strides. Every now
and then he would halt with a jerk and
address a few remarks to Tom, rub his
hands together briskly end dart off
upon hla
Phlnney,” he epoke
a way thla Is a rare
me; but before we
t—my conscience
you—shorn I —eome
'details must be laid
I allow you, out of
'pour nature, to bind
' _//' in. The condl-
jnay truthfully af-
' ‘ ; Indeed, wtfh-
"I declare,
vehemently,
stroke of luck
go any further
Impete me ‘
thing*,
before you
the generoaM* n
yourself to
tlons, I ‘
firm, arh
out t.
may
are
must put
facte as l
■mm.
i state ot affairs, I
I to say that they
ary; and I
slon ot snob
impart,
»>,
loneliness of city life, especially dur-
ing- the period when he was strog-
Uog with adversity* his greatness
unacknowledged.
Men who have been reared in rural
communities, where “everybody
knows everybody and calls him by his
first name,” if they remove to a great
city will realize what it means to be
“alone in a great oity” They will
long not only for quiet comforts of
rural life, but they sigh for the
sounds of a friend’s voice speaking
their “first” names.
Men do not at any other period of
life make friends of the same kind nor
In the same number as in childhood
and yonth. Acquaintances thoy may
have, or even friends, in the common
acceptation ot the term, but they do
not have and are Incapable of forming
other friendships like those made in
their sohool days. Conventlonaly so
hedges about all the sooial Intercourse
of matnre life as to preclude the
friendly intimaoies that are common
In earlier years.. Hence the person
who removes from among the friends
of his youth may be snre that the
friendships he thus leaves will neyer
be replaced.—Selected.
I hlfc JVW—J£T-—arw-iV, 11
A mighty God—“For God”
A mighty motive—“So loved”
A mighty scope—'“The world"
A mighty *aoriflce—"So gave HJs only be-
gotten Son”
A mighty ezeape—“Not perlzh”
A mighty gift—"Eternal ltto.”
We here see Jesus set forth In grace
and while It does not declare that he
came to judge, yet, In the passage are
set forth those principles upon which
ho la constantly the judge, and where-
by he will eventually act In the last
and final judgment.
flod’a Right.
In the first lesson, that of the labor-
ers, Jesus taught hiB disciples the sov-
ereignty ot God. God has a right to
do as seemeth best to himself. In thiB
parable we see the true motive In serv-
ice, viz., fidelity and not for hope of
reward. Jesus thus prepared the way
for hla denunciation and judgment, of
the rulers.
Lesson two, which deals with the
self-seeking disciples and the self-sac-
rificing Savior, is Intended to teach
that there Is but one path to true and
lasting greatness, and that la the path
of sacrifice and service.
The atory of Bartlmaeua, lesson
three, Is a beautiful and touching ex-
hibition of his activity of mercy even
In the midst of the approaching judg-
ment
In the fourth leaaon la presented the
parable of the pounds and the talents.
Both are spoken to the disciples end
.both deal with their responsibilities to
himself In the coming days. Our eter-
nal reward depends upon onr aots and
attitudes In the life that now is.
Lesson five presents Jesus as the
Messiah prophesied of In the Old Toe-
tllllffllkmit limit With the story of hie,
oomlng into Jerusalem. Smterlngums
R0 MLOOR MONEY IN THEIRS
Writing from Emporia, Kansas.
Walt Mason says in Colliers’: “It
is a favorite claim of the saloon
men that they support the schools,
their license money usually going
to the sohool fund. The answer to
this is that Emporia has just built a
high sohool costing $135,000—which
is going some for a town of 10,000
people. All the grade schools are
housed in handsome buildings, the
beat teachers obtainable are hired,
and none of them baa to sue for his
wages.”
fTlfavn——mnrtt/rli
COTTON OIL MILLS IRCIEASIM
Greenville, Tex., £ept. 23.—The
number of cotton seed oil mills in
Texas increaaed from 220 in 1612 to
229 in 1913, according to it report
just issued by the census Bureau.
There were 1,106,000 tons of seed
crushed by these establishments.
The total cotton sscd preduction of
Texas during"that year was 1,755,-
000 tons and all except 411,000 were
crushed by Texas mills. ,
In such a manner demands our atten-
tion for It foreshadows the time of hla
judicial aotivlty with reference to the
people and the nation.
The next five lessons may be said
to deal with this ministry of judgment.
In lesson six we see some of the
preparatory signs and teaching. The
blasting of the fig tree and his cleans-
ing of the house of God are both sym-
bolical.
Lesson seven teaches us that If we
fall to be faithful In the kingdom
which has been entrusted to us It will
certainly be taken from ua.
Lesson eight presents the parable of
the marriage feast In which Jesus un-
folds the plan of God's Invitation and
lta human rejection in three stages.
Ood’e Klntttp.
The ninth lesson la a political In-
quiry which our Lord answered by
setting forth all of the Important state
relationships according to the funda-
mental fact of the kingship of God.
“Render unto Caeapr the things that
are Caesar’s, and unto God the things
that be God’s.” No other answer of
his better reveals the Infinite wisdom,
eklllfSnd tact of our Lord.
In lesson eleven, the parable of tha
virgins, we are taught that the Lord
Jeans Is oomlng again and we must
watch and be ready against that Immi-
nent event This lesson also suggests
the responsibilities of his people dur-
his
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TREATS ALL DISEASES OF
LIVE STOCK
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HARRY RUSSELL
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PAINTER, PAPER HANG-
ER AND DECORATOR
We make a Specialty of Covering
Old Walls with Sanitary Oil Paint
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Old Photographs Copied and Enlarged
Out-Door and Interior Views to Older
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Opposite Postofflce.
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lng hla absence.
The twelfth lesson la a prediction of
the Judgment of the nations and
veals the way by which he le to begin
the administration which will enaue
when that kingdom Is established.
There Is a kingdom prepared from the
foundation of the world for the right-
eous and a punishment prepared for
the devil and those who willfully
choose to do hla will. Those who cast
their lot with his must go with him
to spend eternity. They themselves
•It in judgment upon themselves, Judge
themselves not worthy.
The chief vslne of these lessons dur-
ing this quarter is In the revelation
which they give us of the fact that
{when our Lord made that last Journey
to Jerusalem it was not to the death
■of a victim, one who waa mastered by
circumstances, who could not escape;
Ibut aa a king. Aa he marched along
that pathway “setting his face stead-
fastly,” he perfectly understood, and
resolutely faced a passion by means
ot which he waa accomplishing the
purposes of God and beyond the dark-
ness of whloh ho saw the brightness of
ultimate victory and glory for man-
kind.
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Stump, D. L. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 25, 1914, newspaper, September 25, 1914; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth725907/m1/4/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.