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Lesson for December 19
SAMUEL TH E JUST JUDGE
L ESSO N T E X T — I Sam . » 1-1». I l l -
W.
G O LD EN T E X T — P r e p a r e you r n e a r t
u n to ih a L ord and a erva H im o n ly .
PR IM A R Y T O PIC — G od H elp» tha
P e o p le a t M izpah.
JU N IO R TOPIC— T h e V ic to r y at M is-
pah
IN T E R M E D IA T E A N D SE N IO R T O P
IC— W h at S a m u e l D id fo r Ilia P e o p le
YOUNG P E O P L E A N D A D U L T TOP-
1 IC— H o w th a L ord H elp s.
I. Samuel Called the People to For- '
eake Their Idols (7:1-6),
Under the administration of Eli, the
nation rapidly deteriorated. For their
sins, God permitted the nation to be
bitterly oppressed by the Philistines.
Samuel promised them dellverauce on
the condition of repentance.
MaJ. Mario de Bernardl of Italy on board the Macchl seaplane with which he woo the Schneider cup race at
Norfolk, Vo. He set a record of 240.4 tulles.an hour for the course.
Try For Wealth
in Land-Claims
Washington Deluged With
Demands for Tracts Now
Immensely Valuable.
Washington.—No better Illustration
of the great wealth to be acquired
overnight can be found than the del
uge of claims filed recently with the
general land office of the Interior de
partment to the ownership of valuable
parcels of real estate located In the
business centers of the larger Ameri
can cities. The basis of these claims
Is that the property was once a part
of the nation’s public domain and that
a distant relative of the claimant had
once settled upon It in the early pio
neer duys of the republic. Although
the title has long since passed to
others, the original settler either
had never conveyed It or it had been
transferred through Inheritance, It is
claimed.
All of the claims are filled with
romance of the early history of the
nation. Some go back as far as the
time of the old land grants to the
Spaniards In California. The drama
of others Is laid in the dnys Just fol
lowing the Civil war. Among the
many thousand soldiers who fought
to preserve the Union In the Civil
war was a private named Peter T.
Johnson. At the end of the struggle
Johnson returned to his home In Illi
nois.
Shortly afterward he received
a military land bounty from the Fed
eral government as a reward for his
services. Under this military bounty,
Johnson had the right to select 160
seres of public land anywhere In the
United States, have It surveyed, and
then receive title to It.
Johnson's land warrant was the
basis of one of the claims recently
filed with Commissioner Spry to the
ownership of metropolitan property
ttf tremendous value. The land claimed
consisted of 160 acres located In the
vicinity of Erie, St. Clair and Illinois
streets along the shore line of Lake
Michigan in the very heart of the
city of Chicago. This section Is now
built np with large warehouses, sky
scrapers and other Imposing struc
tures on almost priceless ground. The
building Improvements alone repre
sent millions of dollars of invested
capital
house for a dip In the cool waters of
Lake Michigan during the hot sum
mer months of the late sixties and
early seventies.
Later Johnson is
supposed to have disposed of the bath
house and the land surrounding It.
the present claim to ownership being
based on this alleged transfer.
An Investigation o f this claim re
sulted In the discovery that a military
bounty warrant had at one time been
Issued to Peter T. Johnson. It was
found, however, that he did not locate
on the site of his bathhouse on the
shore of Lake Michigan. Instead he
had transferred It, and a tract of pub
lic land to cover It was taken up In
Florida to satisfy the warrant. A de
cision was rendered denying the claim.
With this rejection the dream of these
claimants to sudden acquisition of
vast riches went up Into thin air.
Another claim more comprehensive
In scope and Including a much larger
area, was recently filed In which title
to over 30,000 acres of valuable land
was claimed. This real estate, also
worth many millions, was located on
the outskirts of the city of Los An
geles.
It ran from the municipal
limits of this California metropolis
to the Rea harbor of Los Angeles,
known as San Pedro.
Instead o f a
single claimant, there were 159 per
sons who Insisted that they had been
homesteaders on the tract a number
of years ago and were, therefore, en
titled to deeds covering the lands they
had settled upon.
Once a Spanish Ranch.
Official records of the general land
office In this case showed that the
30.000 acres were once a part of an
old Spanish ranch known as Itancho
de Santiago. It was one of the early
land grants made back In the eight
eenth century by the Spanish crown
to one of Ills subjects. Later similar
grants were made by the government
of Mexico to Its citizens. When the
United States won Its war with Mex
ico In the late Forties of the last cen
tury and acquired the territory now
comprising the states of California,
New Mexico and other contiguous land
the treaty of peace between the two
nations specifically provided that the
United States should recognize and
protect these old land grants. As a
result ownership of all the old ranchos
held by Mexicans and Spaniards was
Basis of a Chicago Claim.
not to he distributed.
In presenting their petition to es
In the case of these claimants to the
tablish their ownership to this valu 30,000 acres, which were shown to be
able property, the claimants submit Included In one of these ranchos, thp
ted a mass of documentary evidence. general land office was compelled to
They related that In 1609 Peter John reject the claims on the ground that
son squatted or settled on the land, the tract was never public land, hut
which was then on the outskirts of* private property, and had never been
Chicago, through the use of his mili open to homestead entry to citizens of
tary bounty warrant.
According to the United States. Thus another air
them, he established a bathhouse and castle vanished before the eyes o f Ita
operated It for a number of years. beholders.
The dreams of the white man to
Many former prominent citizens of
Chicago visited the Johnson bath become as wealthy as Midas through
HOME OF LONDON MILLIONAIRE
IS MADE UNHAPPY BY CUPID
Daughter Living In Poverty ae Result
of Unhappy Marriage— Two Sone
Sent from Home.
London—Winning world fame with
Its riches and by occupying a place
high In the foreign social and sport
world, the house of Solomon Joel has
been wrecked by an equally famous
figure known as Dan Cupid.
For
Joel's greHt wealth sent two sons from
his home, one to die In Egypt's des
ert heat, and bla favorite daughter la
now I d poverty following an unfortu
nate marriage.
Joel Is known as the one big South
African mine owner. He owns dia
mond mines, gold mines, platinum
mines, street railways. South African
office buildings, collieries, steamship
line«, and cattle ranches. Hit worldly
possessions gave his family everything
they could wish for—except happiness
The Drat shock cam« when Joel was
told by Arthur Walter, young London
stockbroker, that he had married
Doris Joel seven months previously,
despite Joel's opposition when per
mission was asked at that time. The
angry father told the daughter, once
his favorite, never to appear In his
sight again. The young lovers lived
happily for a time until their baby
died. Then she won a divorce on mis
conduct grounds. Without funds, she
wandera about England with friends
who recently saved l.er from prison
by paying her taxes.
Then came the second grim blow.
Solly Joel left his home and hied to
Egypt, where he met Lord Carnarvon
and filmed the historic opening of
King "Tut's* tomb. Soon afterward
Solly died.
And now Stanhope Joel baa fol
lowed his sister. Doris, Into arousing
the Ire of his parents. Without their
consent he has married Mlsa Gladys
some windfall dwindle Into Insignifi
cance In comparison with those of the
red man. Scarcely a single month -
passes that some Indian or group of
Indians do not appear at the Interior
department to present a claim to
ownership of land and demand that It
be recognized. Like the white man,
the Indian invariably selects real
estate of almost inestimable value on I
which tf> base his claim.
f
A typical example occurred when a I
delegation of Indians representing the
Pottawatomie tribe living near May
etta. Kan., called at the office of the
secretary of the Interior on a recent
occasion. The delegation was com
posed of two of the oldest Indians now
living. One was named Nunnemuskuk,
who gave his age as one hundred and
thirteen years. The other’s name was
Sklneway, and he asserted he was one
hundred and ten years old. They had
come to Washington to press the claim ’
of their tribe to the ownership of a |
strip of land on the Lake Michigan
waterfront In Chicago, now valued at
approximately $35,000,000.
II. Samuel Prayed for the People
(7:7-14).
Moved by fear of the Philistines the
people besought Samuel to cry unto
God for them. In response to his
prayer God miraculously delivered
them from the Philistines.
III.
17).
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Samuel Judging Israel (7:15-
Bethel. Gllgnl, Mizpah and Ramah ,
were his circuit, to each of which he |
made annual visits
These centers i
were for the accommodation of the
people.
I N
IV. Samuel's
Farewell
Address
t P r e p a r e d b y t h e N a t io n a l G e o g ra p h ic
business for Its citizens. It owns Ita
S o c ie ty . W a s h lfiR to n .
C .)
(12:1-28).
EW ZEALAND, more than 6,- water works, electric power and llgtit
When Saul, the new king, was
ooo miles from America, comes plant, Ice factory, street railway lines,
crowned, Samuel turned over to him
spiritually closer as a result cemeteries, public bnthg, slaughter
his authority, and gracefully retired.
of a recent speech of Its pre houses, and hns a municipal monopoly
1. Samuel's challenge to the people
mier In lAindon. He declared that to for the distribution of milk.
(vv. 1-6).
Auckland "Lonely" but Lively.
New Zealanders the American Revolu
(1) A reminder of the way the king
Auckland, which was called "Last,
tion seems a beneficent thing from
had been given (v. 1).
He showed that they were directly j which New Zealand's present freedom loneliest, loveliest," by Kipling, may
still seem lonely to those who never
responsible for the change In govern- i flowed.
One needs hut to see the two princi visit It; hut with Ita 160.000 Inhabi
ment. Though keenly feeling the re-
flection upon himself, and their In pal cities of the far-away Island com- tants and all the trappings of a mod
gratitude to God In their demand for | monwealth to realize that America ern Amerlcnn or English city It has
a king, he had not restated their wish. i and New Zealand have very much In Interests and activities of Its own
which make the average Aucklander
(2) Review of hla own administra I common.
"As hilly ns San Francisco or Rio give scant thought to his geographic
tion (vv. 2, 3).
Owned by Pottawatomie«.
a. Walk from childhood (v. 2). Sam de Janeiro,” "ns land locked ns Seat Isolation.
There nre other factors that work
According to their statements, the uel's was a remarkable life; from tle," “as windy as Chicago" are
Pottawatomie tribe had occupied the childhood to old age he had lived an ' phrases used by travelers to describe to banish thoughts of loneliness from
J Wellington. They will help Americans the minds of Aucklanders. The port
land from Its earliest history, the In upright and pure life.
b. Career as Judge and ruler (v. 3). ’ to construct n picture of the cupHiil hns become the busy center of trail«
dians making their living by fishing.
with the South sea Islands; and the
He boldly challenged them to show i city of New Zealand.
Then the federal . government re
Wellington has the best situation ships of some of the chief Pacific
moved the entire tribe to Davenport, where and how he had ever oppressed
■ geographically of all New Zealand steamer lines from San Francisco and
Iowa, under guard of United Stntes anyone.
(3) The vote of confidence by the I cities for Its harbor opens on Cook Vancouver put In at Auckland on their
soldiers, where they remained three
1 strait, the natural water roadway that voyages to and from Sydney. As a re
years. Later the Indians were taken i people (vv. 4. 5).
It was Samuel's right as he laid splits New Zealand's land roughly Into sult of tills service Auckland theater«
to Connell Bluffs, Iowa., the govern
and concert halls are supplied with
ment keeping them there over nine down the reins of government to have j two parts. Situated on the southern
the theatrical talent and musical ar
years. They were again moved, tills his record vindicated and to have hla tip of North Island, the city Is almost
tists who are Interesting the rest of
time to Mayetta. Kan., where the tribe 1 Integrity established beyond a doubt, exactly at the geographical center of the world.
has remained ever since .on an allotted so that no evil-minded man should I the dominion, and In a position from
Auckland gives another example of
reservation under guardianship of the ever be able to cast reproach upon which steamers enn reach the porta of the lavish way In wjiich nature has
j
both
Islands
by
the
shortest
voyages.
him.
United Stntes.
2. Samuel reviews God's dealing Becnnse of this strategic central situa dealt out wonderful harhora to Au»
Under the law executive depart
tion Wellington took from Auckland trnlasla. The main Auckland harbor,
ments have no authority to negotiate from the time of .Moses (vv. 6-15).
opening to the east—Waitemata har
’ In 1604 the capital of the dominion.
He
reasoned
with
them
concerning
claims of Indian tribes against the
Although Wellington undoubtedly bor- furnishes about six square miles
the good hand of the Lord upon them
United States. This power Is vested
from the time of Moses. Though they hns the best location with regard to of deep, landlocked water; and thia
exclusively In congress. On this ac
with Ingratitude turned from the ' New Zealand, It has not yet overcome opens upon Ilaurakl gulf with an area
count the secretary of the Interior was
Lord and demanded a king like ttie Auckland's advantageous position for of hundreds of square miles. A ship
compelled to refer the two old Indians other nations. He had acceded to their the South sen trade and the fact that must steam 80 or 40 miles north from
representing their tribe to congress, request and set a king over them.
both the big New Zealand ports enn Auckland before It meets the swell of
and they were Instructed to present
(1) National pro«|>erlty conditioned he reached with about equal ease from the Pacific.
their claim before the Indlnn affairs by obedience (v. 14).
In addition Aucklnnd has a back
Sydney. Wellington's population Is
committees of the senate and the house.
Though they had displeased God short of 120.000, hut It Is growing with door harbor In reserve. The city la
This claim of the Pottawatomie 1 In choosing a king. If they would fear great rapidity and may yet overtake built on a hilly isthn.ua only six miles
tribe Is modest, however. In comparl
the. Lord and rendpr obedience, na that of Ita larger sister city to the wide, with Its main harbor on th«
east, and an almost equally commodi
son with the latest one of the Chip tional prosperity would still he given
north.
pewa Indians of Michigan. On the
As Is the case with Sydney, Auck ous protected body of water, Msnukan
(2) Disobedience to God meant the
basis of having originally owned half nation's ruin (v. 15).
land. Hobart and Melbourne. Welling harbor, on the w est. The slte^of th«
the entire state of Michigan, this j It Is folly to ask God’s blessing upon ton owes milch of Its prosperity to Its city la the narrowest point or North
Chippewa tribe Is planning to file a a nation while it Is living In rebellion excellent harbor. Shipping enters Islrnd, one of the two large land
claim for property valued at several against Him.
through a relatively narrow bottle masse« of New Zealand; hut to trans
billion dollars. Their demand consists j 3. Samuel's own vindication (vv. neck to find n great, broad Inkellke fer ships from one harbor to the other
—six miles apart—would necessitate
of compensation from the United 16-19).
body of water opening out beyond.
n trip of more than 400 miles. At
States not only for all the islands In J This was such a critical hour In
Spreading Over the Hllle.
Lakes Michlgnn, Superior, Ontario the history of the nation that Samuel
The city of Wellington lies on the present Auckland's back door hurbor
and St. Clair, but 16 feet of land on ■ought to Indelibly Impress Its mean I southwestern side o f the harbor. Only la used only for coasting steamer«
each side of every creek, river and Ing on their hearts. This he did by j a narrow atrip along the coast Is level along the western aide of the Island.
Auckland's business section Ilea
stream In the state and 90 feet around means of the thunder and rain out and a considerable part of this has
the shore of every lake. This will In- 1 of season. Harvest time was not the been reclaimed by filling In a part of along the water front on the sonth
elude the «hole waterfront of the city season for thunder and rain, so when 1 the harbor. On this level plot near the side of the harbor, and along Queen
of Detroit. The claim of the Chip It came at the call of Samuel, the peo water Is the business section of the street, whose well paved, level surface
hide« a creek bed of early days. Sub
pewa Indians «III be filed in the ple were affrighted. They saw It as city and the government buildings.
Wellington obviously has been stantial business blocks, some six and
an example of God's mighty power,
United States court of claims for ad
se< -n stories high, give the streets an
Judication under a special act passed which If directed against them, would cramped by Its hills: but Just as obvi
as)iect of an Amerlcnn city of a dec
ously
It
has
struck
out
to
conquer
destroy
them
In
an
Instant.
by congress. Any award made by the
ade or so ago.
them.
Few
cities
have
had
to
go
In
court will not affect the titles of the
4. Samuel's gracious response (vv.
Old Volcanic Conaa.
I so deeply for engineering enterprises
present holders of these lands In the 20-25).
The residence sections of Auckland
state of Michigan, as the government
(1) "Fear not—serve the Lord with In order to expand. The hills rise
I steeply to heights of 700 feet and ramble up the sl<qtea of hills that rise
will pay the claims In money. If grant all your heart" (vv 20-22).
ed In full, they will make every mem
Samuel did not minimize their sin ! more. For years the city builders of a short distance from the harbor. The
ber of the Chippewa tribe ■ multi- I but assured them that If they would ( Wellington have been carving and ter enllre Isthmus la covered with old vol
millionaire.
serve the Lord wholeheartedly He racing their slopes, filling In gullies, canic cones of various sizes, the high
would not forsake them. The ground ] tearing away ridges and building In est. Mt. Eden, reaching an altitude of
of their hope was the faithfulness of numerable retaining walls and bridges 640 feet. Thia eminence la a favorite
and the work still goes on. Streets objective for atghteera, dividing [>opn-
McFerden, of Philadelphia. Heated God In keeping Ills covenant.
words were the result, and Stanhope
(2) "God forbid that I should sin outside the level plot wind snakily larlty with One Tree hill, which la In
lias departed to earn his own living. against the Lord In ceasing to pray along slopes, working ever higher and cluded In a magnificent 300-acre park.
| higher. As In Klo de Janeiro one From either height one gets a magnifi
One son and one daughter remain for you” (v. 23).
i man's house looks down upon the roof cent view of slopes covened with cot
at the hearthslde. If anything hap
The people had rejected Samuel, of his neighbor’s below, mid In turn
tages and gardens, the hualneaa sec
pens to either of them. It Is freely yet he had such magnanimity of soul
la looked down upon by his neighbor’s tion. the busy wafer front, the great
predicted "Solly Joel will crack.”
that he did not allow their Ingrati above. On some of the hills houses
harbor dotted with forest-covered
tude to cause bis Intercession for
have been built all the way to the Isles, and beyond the Inner water gat«
them to cease. He assured them that crest, and each year sees on other to the Pacific. To the west one may
Law Bar« Repayment
In spite of their sin their one concern
of Loan« by Official should he to fesr the Lord and aerva hills a revision upward of the "high see entirely across the Island and
house mark." Special cable and elec make nut the blue waters of the sea
Boston.—A town treasurer who paid Him wholehearttslly.
tric tram lines run up several of th« that stretches off to Australia.
town bills out of his own pocket can
I hills.
Auckland la almost the exact antip
not legally be repaid by the municipal
The stains of Wellington as capital odal point of Gibraltar, and has a cli
P leasu re
ity. state authorities ruled. In conse
The paator saya: To expect ad» of New Zealand has brought a consid mate not unlike that of Runny Spain
quence A. N. Gurney, eighty-year-old
erable group of public buildings to the at Ita best. The temperature seldom
retired treasurer of Plainfield, may gnate refreshment for the human
city. At first these buildings were of rises higher than 62 degrees Fahren
not recover $5,100 which he advanced spirit from mera pleasure la like gath
wood due to an earthquake scare near heit In summer (December, January
ering
dewdropa
and
blowing
upon
while In office.
the middle of the Nineteenth century. and February) or falls ir.nch below 40
them
to
keep
them
moist.—John
An
Theodore N. Waddell, director of
The old government building la one degrees Fahrenheit In winter (June,
accounts In the state department of drew Holmes.
of the largest wooden structures ever July and August). The maximum tem
corporations and taxation, announced
built. In recent years brick, atone and perature In Auckland In August la
R e p e n ta n c e
hia ruling In the Plainfield case. But
concrete have been used to a greater about 60 degrees. Palms grow In tb«
he coupled with the announcement the
Repentance Is a hearty sorrow for extent In erecting large structures. parks beside the trees common to
statement that he would not take an ear past tnlsdewla. and a alncera re» The new buildings whldi house parlia more northern dimes. Grass remains
active stand against repayment to olutloo and endeavor, to the utmost of ment and the town hall are monumen green the year round, and Auckland
“t i e man who made a good fellow of our power to 'Oulorto our actions te tal buildings of marble
ers carry on their outdoor life through
himself sod dipped Into hit own pock tha law of God.
Tb« city of Wellington Is deeply In winter and summer alike.
et to pay towo bills.”
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