Christian herald and signs of our times . upation. After a year he received a letterfrom the girl, who had quarrelled with her newlovers, telling him that if he would come backshe would marry him. He promptly crossedthe ocean but by that time the girl had madeup her quarrel and declined to marry him un-less he could find suitable employment. He didhis utmost to get work, but failed. Then thegirl told him finally that he must give her up,for she was to be married the next week to abank-clerk. This broke him down completelyand in his despair he killed himself. His in-fatuation must have blinded
Christian herald and signs of our times . upation. After a year he received a letterfrom the girl, who had quarrelled with her newlovers, telling him that if he would come backshe would marry him. He promptly crossedthe ocean but by that time the girl had madeup her quarrel and declined to marry him un-less he could find suitable employment. He didhis utmost to get work, but failed. Then thegirl told him finally that he must give her up,for she was to be married the next week to abank-clerk. This broke him down completelyand in his despair he killed himself. His in-fatuation must have blinded him to the truecharacter of the girl or he would have beenglad at his escape, instead of being driven todespair by her rejection of him. Many who ,would despise him are guilty of similar the race for wealth and tame and power theywho succeed as well as they who fail discoverwhen it is too late that neither has broughtthem the happiness they expected. (Eccles 2: 11.) 358 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. June io, CAPTIV1TY^)F JUDAH. S. S. LESSON FOIC JUNE 21, BY MRS. M. KINGS. 25: 1-12. (iOI-UKN TEXT, HOSEA. 6 : 1. Sin Cherished Turns to Chastisement—Gods Law of Retri-bution—The Tyranny ot the Pampered Appetite—ElevenYears of Wrongdoing—The Kings Oath Broken—A Des-perate Irremediable Condition—Judah Pre-eminent inAbomination—The Innocent Involved in the Calamity. ^HE sins which we tamperwith become our own way, when weseek it, rather than Godsway, becomes a prison-house to us ; we cannotescape from it when wewould. Israel and Judahhad played with idolatry,and coquetted with theheathen nations ; theyhad adopted heathen customs and heathen wor-ship ; and now, by way of just retribution, theywere delivered into the hands of the heathen,and forced to do what before they did by choice. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he alsoreap. The same rule holds good with Israel, it might be unpopular to worship thetru
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