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i VOLWALL PARK STEEPLECHASES. MONDAY, MARCH 23RD, 1914. List of Entries. THE LEDBURY SELLING HANDICAP HURDLE RACE of 50 sovs. Mr D Sanday's Grey Diamond, aged Mr A Remington Robert's Pardon, 5 years Mr L S Platt's b g Castlemahon, aged Mr W R Pugh's Peric II., 6 years Mr J M Kenworthy's St Knepp, 5 years Mr E Davis' Sea Kid, aged Mr J W Pollen's Ballsirenen, aged Capt P Barnett's Glen Falloch, 6 years Mr L G Lumsden's Custom House, aged Mrs Phillips' Flamingo, 6 years Mr N J Davis' Buckhorse, aged Mr L B Beauchamp's Celtic King, aged Mr L B Beauchamp's Little Wave, aged *Mr Blower's Jerry Gamm, 5 years Mr D Harrison's Watchman, 5 years Mr R Payne's Rosslare, aged THE STEWARDS' HANDICAP HURDLE RACE of 50 sovs. Mr A Remington Robert's Prince Sterling, 5 years Mr Dyke Dennis' br g King Hal, 4 years Mr E J Cox's Thirty Three, aged Mr J W Pullen's Addinstown's Prize, aged Mrs J I Brown's Blackberry, 6 years Mr G Preston Jones' Jointure, 6 years Mr F W Harvey's Lord Bentinck, 5 years Mr W Brocklehurst's g Doctor V., aged Mr J Jardine's Patterson's Independence, aged Mr T Singer's Master Brian, 5 years Mr R B Thornburn's Gentle Fisherman, 5 years. Mr F Bibby's Bantry Bay, aged *Mr L Rooney's Pinkeen, aged Mr L B Beauchamp's B and S, aged Mr L B Beauchamp's Loch Maree, 4 years Mr J Bulteel's Etenebris. 5 years *Lady Esrae Gordon's Topay's Baby 6 years Mr Cliff Berzac's Water Daisy, 4 years Mr H S Harrison's May Mint, 4 years Mr F W G res wolde-Williams' Thika, 4 years Mr H T L Young's Great Captain, 5 years Mr J Rogers' Acutissima, 4 years Mr R W Tilley's Perimac, 5 years Mr G R Lawrence's Santia. aged Mr R Wyndham-Quin's Fair to Middling, 4 years Mr D T W Davis' Atteloigna, aged HEREFORDSHIRE OPEN HUNTERS' HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE of 50 sovs. Mr Gerald Johnson's Captain Farrell, aged Mr A C Hobson's ch g Shiplake, aged Mr A Remington Robert's Ballinagoul, aged Capt. G Paynter's Red Scot, aged Mr A Browne's g Silver Top, aged Mr D Sanday's The Gaekwar, aged Lord Coventry's Up To Snuff, aged Mr J Johnson Houghton's Stellaria, aged Mr P F Dickinson's Firefly, aged Mr E W Paterson's Merriell, aged Mr R Wyndham Quin's Little Brother, aged Lady Bullough's Sweet Tipperary, aged Mr A L Ormrod's Bligh, aged Major Swann's May.Duke, aged Sir Peter Walker's Albeura. aged Mr A Johnson Ferguson's Lady Hackler, aged Mr T Jessop's Rare China, 5 years *Mr H W Langley's Neptune III, aged Capt. Gocch's Clautoi, aged Mr W Silver's Barnacle, aged *Mr Arthur Villiers' Sybil IH, aged *Mr C E Edwards' Elsich, 5 years Mr J Lewis' br g Confidence IV, aged Mr W H P Rees' Celerity, aged Mr G R Lawrence's br g Rosetown II, 6 years Mr Cyril M G Howell's Cadivor, aged THE BARTON COURT MAIDEN OPTIONAL SELLING STEEPLECHASE of 50 sovs. Capt V Beatty's Sauterne, 6 years Mr F Bibby's Steuart, 5 years Mr B Bletsoe's Childlike. 5 years Capt R H Collis' Count Robert, 6 years Mr Dyke Dennis' Heather II., 5 years Mr Dyke Dennis' Knolton, 5 years Mr David Faber's Bene, () years Mr E B Forwood's Pack Leader, 6 years Mr W Grazebrook's Coraga, aged Mr D Harrison's Fashion, 5 years Mr W A Higgs' Dorothy, aged Mr A S Hoare's Miss Lindy, aged Mr T Jessop's Melbourg, 5 years ( £ 50) Mr G R Lawrence's br g Rosetown II., 6 years Mr S Moore's Stargrove, 6 years Mr W M Muir's Wild Friary, 6 years *Mr R C B Partridge's Silken Thread, 5 years Mr E W Paterson's Mennythorpe, aged Capt G Paynter's The Stoat, 6 years Mrs Peel's Hedda, 5 vears Mr J W Pullen's Roden. aged (150) Mr W H P Rees' Irish Mayoress, 4 years *Mr Sanday's Black Watch V., 6 years Mr V A Simon's Bow Street Runner, 5 years Mr W Squires' Soli man, 6 years Mr W H StOPR' Campaign, 5 years Mr E S Wills' Grithorpe, 5 years Mr A W Wood's '45, aged ( £ 50) Mr R Wyndham Quin's Svetoi, 4 years f Mr R Wyndbam Quiu's Comfort, aged THE COLWALL PARK MAIDEN SELL- ING HURDLE RACE of 50 sovs. Capt. P Baraett's Trebizond, 4 years Capt. V Beatty's Accipiter, 4 years Mr B Bletsoe's g Moonraker, 6 years Capt. R H Collis' Lovegate, 4 years Mr E D.ivis' Deviline, 5 years Mr M Barclay Harvey's Pantaloon II, aged Mr W Slater's Mis Sterling, 4 years Mr H Walkerdine's Digby Grand, 4 years Mr Roger J Watts' The Lynx, 4 years *Mr W E Wren's Prairie Fire, aged THE BRITISH CAMP HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE of 50 SOVB. Mr D Sanday's Guitar, aged Mr Gerald Johnson's Captain Farrell, aged Mr J Johnson Houghton's Stellaria, aged *Mr Jones' Fairian, 5 years Lord Saville's Ravensthorpe, 5 years Mr J W Pullen's Kilballyown, aged Mr H W Ethelston's Elshender, aged Mr E W Patron's Cross my Palm, 4 years Mr F Bibby's Waveepray, aged Capt. Crawshay's Click Clack, aged Lady Nelson's Heather Deere, 6 years Mr G Lloyd's Lady Tibbv, aged Mr A Gordon's Captive Bell, aged Mr H A Brown's E.R., aged Mr A W Cdr's Ballyhist. 6 years Miss M L Shepherd's John Redmond, 6 years Mr H de Trafford's Red Stork, aged Mr W Silver's Ciondalkin, aged -Lady Eanoe Gordon's Rhine-na-Shark, aged *Mr Fenwick-Pahner's Greek General, 6 years Mr F P Gilbert's Spotty, aged Mr F W Greswolde-Williams' Start Away, aged I Mrs Kelly's Dysie, 6 v-arfi Mrs O'ildo's Skylark VII.. 6 years Mr R W.k tit) fi.,ifti-Qiiiii's Comfort, aged Mr J BU N I is' Kolo, aged Entered by tf, and not yet confirmed

MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. I The monthly report of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries for this month, for the counties of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, is as follows APPEARANCE OF AUTUMN SOWN CROPS. Wheat and other autumn-sown crops are strong and forward and generally look well, with a tendency to be too thick in places. PROGRESS OF SPRING SOWING. In a few districts the rain has hindered spring sowing, and very little spring corn has yet been planted in Hereford, and in the east of Gloucester. In Worcester, wheat and oats have been mostly sown, but very little barley; the sowing of early picking peas is mostly completed, and some fields are up and look well. POTATOES. It is estimated that from 20 to 25 per cent. of the potato crop remains unsold in the division as a whole, but in Hereford about one-third remains on the hands of the growers. PROGRESS OF LAMBING. Ewes are for the most part healthy and doing well. With few exceptions, lambing is now becoming general the fall of lambs is about average, and the young lambs are strong and healthy. «

Ledbury Corn Market. The market at the Feathers Hotel Corn Ex- change on Tuesday was very largely attended. There is plenty of stuff on offer, and the markets are firmer. Any amount of clover seed was on offer at from 4d to 8d per lb, but samples were rather neglected. Seed spring beans were from 4s 9d to 5s per buahel peas, 4s 6d to 5s and Garton's Abundance Oats 28s to 308 per quarter. Generally seeds are firm. Quotations :— Wheat (new), 3s lid to 4s Id. Beans, 3s lid to 4s Id Peas, 3s 9tJ to 4s 3d Vetches, 4" 6d to 5s Rye, 48 Oats (old), 228 to 28s per QT. „ (new), 20s to 22s per qr. Flour, firm. Maize, 25s to 27s per qr. English Barley, 28s to 32s. Foreign Barley, 22a to 25s 400 f.o.r. Sharpness. Bran, £ 6 10s per ton.

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PROFITABLE POULTRY CULTURE. BY RALPH R ALLSN, u I Lecturer to the Herts County Council; I Editor of Monthly Hints on. Poultry, Ac. (All rights reserved.) A SUCCESSFUL BREEDING SEASON. I (UONTINOED.; I [Readers are particularly requested to note that this series of articles commenced with the first issue in January. In order to obtain their full value, the earlier articles should be read in conjunction with the current one.] GRIT. Recently much discussioa has taken place as to the functions of grit. Several elaborate reasons have been given for its use. and I am of opinion that scientific research will add to our knowledge in the near future. At present, however, there is only one point on which we are all agreed, and that is the necessity of grit to aid in the digestioa of food. A fowl has no teeth, and grit becomes imperative for mastication. The late Mr Alexander Comyas aptly illustrates a fowl without grit, as follows: A fowl which is deprived of grit is in the same position as regards digestion of its food as a toothless old man who has not even a knife and fork with which to cut his food into minute particles." The food is swallowed by tbe bird and passes to the crop, eventually reaching the gizzard; here mastication takes place, and providing the proper material is to hand (grit) this action is very complete. It has been noticed that shortness of supply has led to liver trouble; entire deprivation would cause ailments innumer- able. I grant you that many farmers boast they never give fowls grit, but in the many cases i have investigated I have always found the birds had free range, and consequently were able to seek their own supply. For penned birds it is essential. It should be given in a box or other receptacle, a liberal supply should always be present, and the birds allowed to help them- selves as Nature required. A capital con- trivance is on the market in the shape of an automatic grit and shell box. It is fixed to the side of the house, filled, and then is self-applying until exhausted. This natur- ally is economical from the labour aspect as well as preventing waste of material. The manufacturers are the Allen Poultry Co., Sawbridgeworth, Herts. The cheapest material for grit is flint broken to the size of peas. It can be pur- chased at about 5s per cwt., carriage paid. Many poultry-farmers purchase their own crusher at a cost of 15s to a sovereign. My experience is that it is a bad investment. I With hard work it is not possible to crack a hundredweight per diem, then there is the trouble of procuring the raw material, and as it can be purchased so cheaply one's time can be far better occupied in attention to the birds. SHELL. Probably birds with free range can perform their natural duty of producing eggs without crushed oyster shell being placed at their disposal, as they are enabled to secure a certain percentage of shell- forming material from the elements in their vegetable food. As already pointed out, clover is particularly rich in lime but to-day there are probably more fowls in this country penned than at liberty, and for them it is necessary to supply crushed oyster shell for the formation of egg shells. From personal observation I might add that even where the birds enjoy their liberty a box of oyster shells is au advantage, as it tends to strengthen the egg shell, thus minimising the risk of breakage during transit. I RESUME. Intelligent appreciation of the matter con- tained in these two chapters will bring you to the time when collection of eggs becomes a necessity. I am not inferring that any divergence from the system advocated will produce failure, though I am certainly of opinion the more closely these suggestions are followed the better will be your results. Many failures occur through trying to follow simultaneously many theories. Decide on a system that appeals to you as a practical and commonsense one, give that a fair trial, and do not be led away from its main issue. Daily you can read of experiments that appear successful. I advise you, unless your purse is a very long one, to abstain from them but when the experiments have definitely proved the success of new theories, reap all the advantage you can by utilising them. (To be continued). [Any enquiries concerning poultry- keeping addressed to our expert, Ralph R Allen, Sawbridgeworth, Herts., will be answered through these columns free, but those requiring a postal answer direct or pending birds for post-mortem examination must remit a half-crown postal order.]

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MALVERN HILLS CONSERVATORS. I Canon JamoV Departure. I Monday. Present: Canon S R James, Messrs A Wilesmith, G A Jones, H Ped- lingbam and. W Price. Apologies were received from Dr. Jacob, Messrs Foster- Browne, F A Moerschell, and H W Orr- Ewing, and Lieut.-Col. Thurlow. The Rangers' report was read and adopted. The IS trees given by Mr F A Moerschell had been planted, and on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr Pedlingham, it was resolved to thank Mr Moerschell very cordially. Mr Pedlingham mentioned that there were at Colwall 16 more tree guards which the Conservators cuuld use for tree planting. The Ranger said about a dozen more trees were required. Canon James handed .£1 towards obtain- ing trees to finish the planting on the hills. Mr Wilesmith said the hearty thanks of the Conservators were due to Canon James, as this was not the first occasion on which he had generously given donations towards the requirements of the Conservators. It was exceptionally good of him, especially as he was leaving Malvern. Canon James said it had been a great pleasure for him to be associated with Messrs G A Jones, F A Moerschell and Dr Jacob as members of the Malvern District Council and of the Conservators, and this, he thought, had brought about a good feeling between the two bodies, both of which were working for the good of the town, and he was very pleased to have been one of those who had in this way belonged to both bodies. The hills aud commons entrusted to the Conserva- tors comprised valuable assets to Malvern, which the Conservators had greatly at heart. He thanked the Chairman personally for his kindue88 to him. The Chairman thanked Canon James on behalf of the Board, for the assistance he had given them in their deliberations. Canon James had, although a very busy man, helped the Board considerably. The better feeling Canon James had spoken of which now existed betweenthetwo authorities, had been brought about by his tact and ability while on the District Council, and that of the other members named. They regretted that Canon James was going away, but hoped he would pay visits to Malvern, and that his life might be long spared to enjoy the rest be bad so well earned. Canon James expressed his gratitude to the Chairman for his kind words. Mr Foster also thanked Canon James for the courtesy be had extended to him, and Canon James replied.

I A HEREFORD FRIEND'S ADVICE. I We are indebted to a Hereford contributor for advice which shall surely not be lost upon us. Such evidence is the endorsement of a friend and its earnestness is conclusive, On July ZOLh, 1905, Mrs B Daw, of 22, Grand- stand Road, neat the Recreation Ground, Hereford, said :—" 1 have no doubt it was a chill that caused me to suffer with aCllte pains in my back and loins. They were always worse in the mornings, and when I got up from a sitting posiuou. I had spells of dizziness, and specks came before my eyes, matting it difficult for me to get on with my work. I always felt tired and drowsy, too. I was under medical treatment for some time, but I did not seem to get any better. I then tried Doan's backache kidney pills, and a short couise soon cured me. They proved a blessing to me, and I have felt like a new woman ever since. I can highly recommend Doan's pill's, for I suffe-ied two years previous to taking them. (Signed) B. Daw." On July 11th, 1913-EIGHT YEARS LATER —Mrs Daw said Only on taking a cold do I ever get any backache, but I always take Doan's backache kidney pills, and I am soon well again I never fail to recommend the medicine, from which I have hid so much benefit." Price 2/9 a box, 6 boxes 13/9, of all dealers, or from Foster-McClellan Co., 8, Wells-street, Oxford-street, London, W. Don't ask for back- ache or kidney pills,-ask distinctly for Doan's I backache kidney pills, the same as Mrs Daw had. «

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ACROSS THE TABLE. While rumours are current of a June General Election, it may be noted that, his- torically, precedents are against a June elec- tion. There has been no summer election since 1895, when July and August were the months of contest. In 1892 July was the month, and June and July saw the fight in 1886. The 1885 election was in the winter; April was chosen for that of 1880; February for that of 1874; and November for that of 1868. From 1832 to 1865 July was the most favoured month. Spring was chosen for the 1857 and 1859 elections, and the depth of winter for those of 1832 and 1835, as well as for those of 1906, 1910 (January), and 1910 (December). The notorious Welshman David" of Sir John Simon's allusion was the son of Grif- fith, brother of Llewelyn, and leader of the Welsh national revolt which broke out in 1282. David led off by burning Hawarden Ca-stle on Palm Sunday, during a time of peace. Edward, greatly incensed, hastened into Wales to take reprisals, and David, after long resistance amid the wilds of Snowdon, was captured, tried at Shrews- bury, and most barbarously executed on October 3rd. 1283. With him ended all seri- ous attempts at rebellion in Wales. Whale steaks on the menus of fashionable hotels are predicted in a letter received by the National Geographical Society at Wash- ington, says the Ncit? York American. "Steaks from the sulphur bottom whale are delicious," says this communication. The cry of Divide, divide! which aroused discussion as to its legitimate use in the Commons the other evening reminds one of a country view of the words, as noted in Sus-sex Folk and Sussex Ways." The can- vasser was trying to persuade a voter that every Member of Parliament did not make money in the Hon>e. but the voter could not be persuaded. Come," he answered, "I am not going to believe that. Don't you see in the paper often enough cries of 'Divide, di'de!' Now, do you think they'd cry Divide if they'd got nothing to divide? No. no; they just take the taxes and divide them amongst themselves, that's what they do." Not so very long ago a Pressman went down to Leigh-on-Sea, where Bombardier Wells was training, to take his photograph. Wells was getting rather famous, and so one of his suite thought fit to rub in the fact. Oh, no," he said, you can't photo-graph Wells. No, cer- tainly not. You can have a shot at that fellow over there if you like." "Who is he?" asked the man with the came'ra. Some adjectived Frenchman," was the reply. It was Carpentier! Late in the evening, says the Glasgow Herald, a guest at a dinner obtained permis- sion to propose what he described as a more important toast than He's a jollygoofla." After some preliminaries he said The toast I am about to propose is a toast that many of you may have heard before. (Hear, hear.) How do you know you have heard the toast before you have heard what it is? Silly— very, very silly. The toast I am about to propose is Absent Friends, and I wish to cu- cu-couple it with the name of the Wine Waiter. He hasn't been near this table for twenty minutes." Here is an amusing football anecdote from Pearson's Magazine: "Nowadays, of course, the goalkeeper is the best protected man on the field, and may only be charged or hustled when actually playing the ball, but it is only comparatively a few years ago that Foulke. then of Sheffield United, an elephantine goal- keeper, and quite one of the biggest men ever seen on a football field, became so exasperated over the tactics of a certain Liverpool forward that he seized an opportunity of picking the offender up and standing him on his head in the goalmouth! G. O. K." What is "G. O. K."? An anecdote is told of it. In the London hospi- tals." says an American writer, "the ailment of the patient, when he is admitted, is denoted by certain letters, such as T. B.' for tuber- culosis. An American doctor was examining these history slips, when his curiosity was aroused by the number on which the letters G. O. K. appeared. He said to the physi- cian who was showing him around: There seems to be a severe epidemic of this G. O. K. in London. What is it, anyhow?' 'Oh, that means "God only knows, replied' the English physician." I had just left the office about noon, Writes a correspondent, and, following my usual habit, pulled out my watch to compare it with my favourite public clock, whose face for years has cheered me sometimes, hurried me sometimes (always for my own good), and made me apprehensive occasionally, but never has it deceived me. But now there surely w a.% something really wrong. That most trust- worthy timekeeper, exalted as an example- to all men, was just an hour behind my gun-metal watch. At least, it was when first I looked, but when 1 glanced again it was an hour ahead. I pinched myself and looked again. Once more the clock was differemt. I became more and more alarmed; watch and clock would not agree. Excuse me, mister," said a voice at my elbow, but I should wait a bit. They're just a-winding it up." A would-be smart student, says the Windsor Magazine, thus accosted a Jap recently in London What sort of a nese are you- Chinese or Japanese?" But the Jap was not to be caught napping. Well, what sort of a 'key' are you—a Yankee, a monkey, or & donkey?" Solomon's 300 wives were credited with be- stowing superior wisdom upon that monarch by an American clergyman before the mid- winter Bible Conference at W. shington. "The wisdom of Solomon was net in the spontaneous thoughts of one mind, however great," he said. Each of' his sayings repre- sented a personal experience from which he had drawn a lesson. We must not forget that Solomon had 300 wives. From a recent scholarship examination the London Tearlier culls more schoolboy howlers. A question as to the uses of ships was respon- sible for the following answers "To go to foreign countries and teach savages how to dress." "To poets, who can get their living writing about ships." If there were no ships people could n-jt go and see models of them." Ships do not wear out the bottom of the liea because they can't." An incomplete knowledge of geographical names led to the following: Ships go to lands like russner. orsetralier, and cander." The best story in Paris now. so a friend just back from the Gay City tells the Daily Mirror, is of a "Surprise Party" during the Mardi Gras carnival. A party of some twenty revellers, all in costume cr disgu^cd, dccided to call in upon a friend and his wife who they knew were dining simply at home t::at night. At eight f/cloek the noisy party arrived, cashed furiously up the stairs, and rang the flat bell. After a little delay th. maid ap- peared and assured the jesters that nobody was at home. "But we know they are." cried the jesters; we've come to dinner, and we're coming in to search." For the next ten minutes a boisterous game of hide and seek was played by the revellers. They searched the flat throughout, looked in cupboards, chests, everywhere, but no sign of their quarry was fouitid. The joke was falling flat, and they reassembled in the hall with doleful faces, prepared to admit themselves fooled. Then, when the whole party was about to troop away disconsolate, one of the noisiest of the .searebel's, a man in an amazing dis- guise, began to laugh. Instantly the others recognised the voice of the master of the invaded house. He as well as his wife had realised the joke as soon as the party arrived. They wp-" already in costume for the carni- val, and ad skilfully mingled with the jokera in their wild search from room to room with. .ut. beiri^ noticed..

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(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] BIBLE STUDIES CONDUCTED BY PASTOR RUSSELL. LAW OF THE SABBATH. The Lesson:—Luke xiii. 10-17; xiv. 1-6. The Text:—"The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Mark ii. 27. Much confusion prevails amongst Chris- tian people respecting the Sabbath day. Few realise that God's arrangements with Jesus' followers are totally different from those which he made with natural Israel ui'd' r the Law Covenant. Everything under that Law Covenant was a type and eon- taiiifd a valuable lesson for Christians; but to mistake the type for the antitype is to confuse our minds and miss the force of the • antitype. There was no Sabbath before the Jewish. Law, except that Ged rested on the seventh great Day, or Epoch, of the creative week- Abraham, and others pleasing to the Lord. knew nothing about the Sabbath, even as thev knew nothing about the Atonement Dav sacrifices, or other matters appertain- ing to Israel's Law Covenant. The Israelites were a House of Servants, under Moses; but the Church is a House of Sons. under Christ. (Heb. iii. 1-6.) Gcd » method of dealing with the House of Ser- vants would very properly be different from His method of dealing with the House of Sons. Commands are given to the servants without explanation why or wherefore. But to the true Christian the Heavenly Father makes known His purposes, His arrange- ments, that His sons, who have His Spirit, may sympathetically enter into thoee plans, by obedience to the extent of self-sacrifice, not because of command, but because of joy to do the Father's will. Jesus and the Apostles were Jews, under the Law Covenant, up to the time that. Jesus by his death became "the end of the- Law for righteousness to every one that. believeth." Since that time Jesus' followers are in no seiise bound by the Jewish Law. They are interested in the Ten Command- ments, because those commandments in an outward way indicate the will of God. which all the sons of God are anxious to- know, that they may voluntarily do it. But God does not address the House of Son "Thou shalt not kill," "Thou shalt not steal," for so surely as they have been begotten of the Holy Spirit, they would not wish to kill nor to steal. In dealing with the House of Sons, God, through the Hea-d of the House, has set up a new Law, which means much more than the Law of Moses was previously under- stood to signify. It is the Law of Love. As the Apostle declares, "Love is the f111- filling of the Law "—love supreme for Goo and love for our fellow men. Jesus declared "A new command I give unto you, That ye love one another as I have loved you." THE SABBATH OF REST. Early in the Gospel dispensation Jesus* followers began to meet on the first day of the week. Jesus rose from the dead on that dav, and a ppeared several times to his fol- lowers, and again on the first day of the- following week. Apparently it became custom amongst the disciples to fellowship on that day, not that it was commanded of the Lord, but because of their desire to re- member the Master and to fellowship with each other. Quite probably they kept the- Sabbath and the first day as well, for a. time. Although Christians have now abandoned the observance of the seventh dav, many erroneously think that God authorised the change. But not so; the Christian is not under Law, but under Grace. It was from privilege that the early disciples met together on the fir-t day, not by instruction of God. So it should be still, and so it is v/ith some. True Christians cannot have to much opportunity for fellowship together for the study of the Heavenly Father's Word, and for offering Him the worship of their hearts. Israel's Law provided two sabbaths. every seventh year, found its multiple and fulfilment in the fiftieth year, the year or Jubilee and full release. The other weti. every seventh dav, and found its fulfilment through its multiple on the fiftieth day- II P{'nt,eo.t-wh;di foreshadowed the rest into which the people of God may enter even now. The Apostle refers to both of tlie,e in Heb. iV., I-IT. The Sabbath day has its fulfil- ment in the rest of heart enjoyed by thft- antitypical Israelites. They rest from all hope of commending themselves to God by works of anv kind, Sabbath keeping or otherwise. Tli -y see that God has provided ill Jesus the help necessary for all; that they are "complete in hill1." This rest is. theirs so long as they abide by faith in Christ.. But. as the Apostle points out. -there re- maineth a rest for the people of God "—rv future rest. The Church will enter into that rest when they experience their resurrection change. That will be the complete rest. So far as the world in general is concerned. Messiah's Millennial reign will be their Sabbath, in which they will enter into rest bv comin g into harmony with God. .Tefms did manv of his miracles on the Sabbath, partly "no doubt to emphasise the fact that the great Sabbath, the seventh' thousand-year Day of earth's history, will be the time of his kingdom, in which all mankind will be privileged to be healed from sin, sickness, sorrow and pain, and brought to the full perfection of human nature, lost in Adam and redeemed at Calvary. I DO GOOD ON THE SABBATH. Since Jesus according to the flesh was a Jew, and therefore bound by the Jewish Law, he could do nothing contrary to that Law. Nor was it proper that he should ex- plain to the Jews the real meaning of tho Sabbath. All that knowledge would come. after Pentecost, after the begetting of the Spirit; for "the natural man reeeiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." But Jesut, corrected certain misapprehensions of the Law which had crept in through the teaching of th(.ir Rabbits, Doctors of the Law, and the Pharisees. In to-dav's lesson we have two instances of healing' on the Sabbath. A woman had an infirmity which had bowed her down for eighteen years. Jesu* healed her on a Sab- bath dav. He laid his hands upon her and said, "Thou art loosed from thine iufir- mitv": and she was made straight, and glorified God. But the ruler of the syna- gogue was indignant and said unto the people, are six days in which yon can come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath dav. This was intended as a special rebuke to Jesnfi, as intimating that he was not as holy and as careful of the Sabbath as he should he. but was a violater of the Law..Testis replied, "Ye hypocrites: Doth not each of vou on the Sabbath loose his ox or his from the stall, and lead him away to water; and ought not this woman, whom S, ti; I li,), t li lund these eighteen -ear. be from this bondage on the Sabbath day: Then his adversaries were put to shame. The other case was that of a man trouo.od with dropsy. Jesus, knowiiig their attitude- of mind. discussed the subject in advance on this occasion, asking the Doctors of the Law and the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal en the Sabbath dav, or not? They made no answer. Then he healed the sick man. and inquired of the critics, "Which of you hav- ing. an as3 cr an ox fall into a pit would not straightway draw him out on a Sabbath day? But they could not answer. A proper understanding of the Sabbath. the rest which God has provided for His people, is a great blessing. "We who be- lieve do enter into rest "-a perpetual Sab- bath. Without regard to which dav, the Apostle suggests that we forsake not the assembling of ourselves together, as tho manner of some is; and so much the more as we see the glorious Day of M-ssiah's Kingdom approaching, and the shadows of night and darkness, of ignorance and super- stition passing away.—Heb. x. 25.

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I TRAGIC DEATH OF A BROMYARD SOLICITOR. I Supposed Suicide In Motor Car. I I Petition Filed Against Him. I On Saturday a receiving order was made in Worcester Bankruptcy Court, against Francis William Nicholl, residing at Down Cottage, Norton. Herefordshire, and carrying on business at Bromyard as a solicitor. He was also the Registrar of Bromyard County Court. Later in the day Mr Nicholl was found shot in a closed motor-cab. He had hired this at Bromyard and been driven to Worcester. When near Knightwick on the return journey the chauffeur heard a loud report, and stopped the car, thinking a tyre had burst. He found the tyres in good order, and proceeded. When within two miles of Bromyard the petrol pipe went wrong, and the driver again stopped the cab. He went to the door of the taxi with the intention of apologising for the delay, when he found Mr Nicholl had been shot. There was blood on his face and a revol ver in the cab. The ehauffeur immediately drove to Dr Lewis's surgery at Bromyard, where Mr Nicholl was attended to. He wa& afterwards taken home, where he expired a few hours afterwards, after an operation had been performed. He was a son of the Rev D Nicholl, Vicar of the parishes of Edwin Loach and Ted- stone Wafer in that Union. Mr Nicholl was an articled pupil to Mr J H Yonge, of Worcester, and was admitted a solicitor in 1894, and has practised on his own account. Mr Nicholl, besides being Registrar of Bromyard County Court, was clerk to the Urban Council, the Rural District Council, and the Board of Guardians. He also held the offices of Clerk to the Managers of the Bromyard Council Schools, and to the Managers of the Brockhampton Schools, and was the Registrar of the County Court at Tenbury, also Secretary to the Btomyard Cottage Hospital. EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY. I At the meeting of the Bromyard Brother- hood, on Sunday afternoon, Mr W L Frost (secretary) referred to the tragic end of Mr F W Nicholl, and it was decided to forward a letter of sympathy to the widow, and also to the Rev David Nicholl, the father of the deceased gentleman. His wife was a daughter of the late Rev J H Brierley, a former Rector of Whit- bourne. «