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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-02-28, Page 7i EHE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE I M ' * MB, , tIGHTNIHu Couch Syrup I WARD OFF INFLUENZA! ■ Thousands are finding relief With . ■ Veno’s Lightning Cough Syrup. Economical T rantfrorfoften IF^Chevrolet! » X3BW t WHISPERING SMGE by -•* Harry Sinclair Drago and Joseph Noel '■ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY il«, LdflU ^he+functay J'chool J&sson By WAliJbES A- W* ’ . f (JEditor of the Sunday School Times) BEGIN HEBE TODAY Acklin and Bodine, rob the Basques of Paradise Valley of their water supply. Jose Assascada, leader of the Basques, is shot and killed from ambush. Mercedes, /daugh ter of Jose, accuses Acklin of the murder, Kildare, one of Acklin’s • * men; is in' • love with Mercedes. Acklin secretly builds a dam and takes the water supply from Bo dine’s ranch. Bodine steals Ack lin’s cattle- and the latter blame the Basques for the loss, Ack lin plans revenge. ,.N$W GO ON WITH THE STONY.. V1 3V»f of A ya i Manter dnUtliCthiiridwiilevet* j>unctur.<\ Mt one in Jive tlidudariil will Wo tv under two ^carn,ofMrvice. .Buck, out of his saddle only some ten’ minutes, had bedn on the point off sousing a pail into the stream at bus feet when the creek that only a minute before had been full to its /banks dwindled to a thin trickle /that lapped the stones old Hank Webster had used for a crossing. Realization of his predicament caused an outburst -of anger; it dulled his ears to the approach of two ' horsemen coming from the north. They rode at a leisurely gait that was in keeping with their tem pers. The two riders were Kildare and Melody. They had almost reached his barn before Bodine became aware of them He recognized Kildare. “Look at that, Kildare,” he cried, pointing to the dry creek-bottom. “Not a pailful left!” ‘Melody and Blaze exchanged a quick uneasy glance. What had happened while they had been in the hills? Had. there been fight? “Goin’, goin’,” Melody facetiously. “Goin’?” Buck roared, mean gone! But I ain’t! another quoted “You I ain’t gone! I’ll get the cuckoos that did this. You wait.’’ . The clatter of his boots on the wooden steps that led into his kit chen drowned his angry words as he dashed for his rifle. “Look at the ground,” -Melody whispered. “It’s all pawed up. He got our stuff. Drove right by Here.” < “Don’t say anything,’’ Blaze cau tioned. “He’ll try it again.” Bodine was back in an instant. “Come on,” he cried.’ “We’ll get inside the wire here and hit it up for the forks. They liain’t no damn Basque goin’ to put this over on % CHAPTER XXIII me.’ J. McDONELL, Hensail OF GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA, about 30 minutes, a good /tire expert can often make a? minor repair which will add ■3000 miles or more to the life i of the tire. Basques Bewildered With a rattle of hoofs they thun dered across the wooden bridge Bo dine had built over the Webster. But even before they were out of sight an echo of the calamity that had be fallen Buck had reached the men toling at the barrier between the two creeks. “Keep your guns handy,” the youthful leader sang out.. “It’s a trap. The fence was left*'unguard ed purposely.” The trees that lined the Webster offered the best cover. Esteban hurried his men behind them. This accomplished, he sent Romero and five or six companions beating through the brush. They were back in fifteen minutes without having seen a sign of the enemy. By the time they had held a con sultation, Bodine and the two Double A men had drawn into sight. ’The road they were following led across an open plain for half a mile be fore it reached the creek. ■ The Basques, were ready. Este ban cautioned them not to shoot. Lying in the heavy underbrush, they were not visible to the oncoming horsemen. The three men were within a hundred yards of the creek before they caught the first hint of ambush. Bodine went for his rifle, hut Es teban stopped him with “Hands up, or we’ll shoot to kill!” The way the rifles began to peek out of the dead brush convinced the three riders that wisdom was better part of valor. “Come on,” Esteban cried, want to talk to you.” Bodine trailed • ibis eyes over (1‘etermined BadtjUeS) “Ortega, Ugat'de, Arrascada— humph! All the social leaders are Oil hand, I see,” he muttered aloud. “Well, why don’t you shoot/or do something to celebrate the cute little trick you birds played on me.” “You meam that you played on Esteban flung at him. “You Take rt look the “w& the *—A hundred miles for every minute's work. Dominion Tire Depot owners are Canada’s leading tire ex perts «— trained in Canada’s finest tire factory. Yow are nc-vcr far away from th DOMINION TIRE DEPOT EXETER.......................................................-iota Taylor us and your injunction at that!” Bodine’s eyes followed his as he pointed to the dry* bed of the Rebel above the.place where it joined the Webster* His mouth became just a! great sagging gash as c,ompreheh- sion of the fact that the- Bebel was' as dry as the Webster diiwhod oh him* Bewildered, Bodine rolled his head from side to side, * ■ “Acklin,” he muttered slowly; lie’s fooled us all,’’ “Acklin?” A rumbling murmur passed through the crowd as it echoed Es teban’s- question. The boy turned on Blaze. “It that right, Kildare?” The crowd shifted its attention to the Double A man. Blaze met their stare calmly. “We’ve been up beyond the peak for almost three weeks. We have n’t seen a Double A man,.since we left,” What you been doin’ in the But tes?” growled Bodine. “You ought to know,” Melody snapped back, too late for Blaze to check him. Side by side the two parties mov ed, slowly at first; but as they found nothing to reward them, their pace- quickened until it became a mad scramble, as if each was trying to be the first to find the answer to the mystery. And then, as they rounded the bend where the creek narrowed as it .came dashing out the; truth struck they were but one the chasm before mighty dam, the mass of masonry bathed in the last rays of the setting sun. A heart-rending cry of anguish arose from their lips. They had crossed frowning seas; broached high 'hills and leveled them; they had wrested from the 'desert a grudging foothold, and the fight had been a bitter one. They had faced the loss of their dear ones, wept their tears, and plodded Nothing had daunted Now they looked on Ack hearts It was the cunning of the 1I- of Martin Canon,., them as though man. High across them bulked the top of the solid V/ XL t-Jp j on again, them, tin’s handiwork and their sank. devil that .confronted tliem. Esteban recalled the words the Big Boss had often used to them: “Possession is nine points of the law.” . He had possession now. This gave it to him. A feeling of fatality grasped his cbihrades. This thing of rock and concrete crushed and destroyed their spirit. Like the law and the ways of God, Acklin and his dam were not understandable to their primitive minds. Some of them got to their knees and prayed; others raised their hands to heaven and moaned or blasphemed. But above all round arose the croaking voice off old Or- I tega as he repeated his oracular “It is a visitation of God upon us for our sins’” The astonishment of the Double A men was equal -to that of the Bas ques. To Melody, the dam was only another evidence of Acklin’s abil ity to ‘get what he went after. In Kildare it awakened strange emotions. For one thing, it reveal ed the Big Boss as he had seen him; hard, uncompromising, Ruthless. -But a sense of loss, a feeling‘of sadness, that quite outweighed any consid eration of Acklin filled him. Over and over he asked himself what she was going to -do now. A glance at her brother’s face brought his ques tion home even more pointedly. What would Mercedes do now? He had no thought of himself or of Melody. And yet he must have realized how -desperate was their flight. Out of all this, however, there-came one- sustaining thing; the utter collapse of Bodine. He was through, double-crossed, and in the very manner in which Kent had predicted he would be. Blaze watched him. The man had dismounted and was pacing up and down the dry creek-bed. Every ten or twelve steps lie would turn suddenly and, shaking his fist at the giant wall, pour out a string -of curses and threats that burned the air. He would have killed Acklin on sight in his present mood. When ever ho recalled that he, the blun dering, stupid idiot, had pulled this coal out of the fire for the Double A, he raved like a roadman, Eteban spurred up to the big fel low, the manner in which Bodine had giyeil way filling him with dis gust. ( < “Dry up thill liiHee,” he called out. “That kind Of talk won’t get yon anywhere,” ' Blaze felt a silent adnilffklioit for the young fellow’s grit. Bckfitw al so his ho caught the tone of authority in voice. ‘Well, what are We goin’ to do?’' demanded, ‘You forget who we are, Bodine,” said hotly. “What my any from you,' We’re not forget* EstOban people do, they’ll do without help ting, eon J fool, If you cotti’do*'’ A guttural clients words “Have it wr m TJIE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Sunday, March 3—-Matthew* J6: 13-20; Mark 4:26-32; Romans 12: 4-8; Ephesians 1:15-23; 2:13-22; 4:4-6;. 11-16; 5:22-27; 1 Timothy 3:15. Golden. 'Jppxt So we, being many, are body in Christ (Romans 12:5.) Men make organizations, only God can make fen organism. M has often been pointed out that the’true Church is not ah organization, but an organism. It is- ipade2 not by men, but by God. * Everything that God makes is “good.” “And Gpd^paw; everything that He had made, and&Jwlpld, it was very good.”. (Gen. It becomes evil only'as it is co/riipted by others. And, we may spy k rev erently and scriptual]^, the Church is the most glorious thing that God has ever made or ever/will make, for it is the body of His Son. ‘ The glor, ies and beauties of the true CJrjreh, when all imperfection and druks are purged away, are beyond our earth ly conprehension. Only after the disciples through their spokesman, Simon Peter, had seen and confessed the deity of Christ did our Lord make the first revelation of the Church. When Pe ter said, “Thou art the Chris’., the Son of the living God,” rhe Lord showed him .that no: human being could discover this, but it was re vealed by the Father, then He de clared; “Upon this rock I W/H build My Church,” What was this rock? It cer tainly not Peter. It was not Peter’s confession of faith. It was Christ Himself. Other Scriptures make this plain. “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” (I. Cor. 3: 11). Repeatedly, throughout the Scriptures Christ is c,ailed the rock —“that Rock was Christ” (I. -Cor*. ,10:4); (see concordance for many Old .and New Testament references.) The Church is never* identified with the Kingdom in the Nev; Test ament, and we should be careful to keep them distinct; therefore the passage included'in this lesson from Mark 4:26-32 had better be omitted, as it does not bear on the Church, except that “the Kingdom of God is universal, including, all moral intelli gences willingly subject to the will of God, whether angels, the Church, or saints of past or future dispen sations.” ' ' ■ . x The glory of the Church is the fact that it is the body of Christ. That is, every true child of God, born, again by faith in Christ, is ac tually joined to Christ by the Holy Spirit in a mysterious but literal un ion, just as literally as a branch is in union with the vine. “So we, be ing many, are one body, in Christ, and every one members one of ■an other.” Th.® functions or duties assignedT Uy the Head and Creator to the 4W* ferent members are different, but: all are to be fulfilled gladly faithfully.. What>a glpriojus Chur epi would ibe seen here on earth, if onljf all/members were thus true to theiY Hpjad. / ■ Ephesians is the great ChurcJ|. Epistle, and should he read thr0U£>W as part of this • lesson. The threat ■lesson* passages from this .book art# very rich, God exdr.pibes toward an-I in1 the. Church the sanfht mighty; pow- er.that He exercised when He rais ed Christ from- the dead—could v.'3 ask for mote?4 ’ Jews and Gentiles who 'believe ju Christ ar© made nigh' by His bloody and are made “ode hew man,” so that there is no longer any “middle wall of petition.” All believers are thus built up) into a glorious build ing, a holy temple, - “Jesus Christi Himself being the chief corner-stone and all are thus made “an habitation of God through the Spirit,” God would have perfect unity in the Church, though this has been sadly marred, by divisions and sects;. The seven unities are; one body, one Spirit, one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Fa ther of all. The true Church will never. be completed until* the last soul bn the earth that can be ■ saved" has been saved, and has thus been added to the body of Christ, This -is what is meant by the edifying,- or build ing up, of the body of Christ, “till we all come .... upto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stat ure of the fulness of Christ.” It takes many men, many’human, be- ings,» to complete the body of tho one Perfect Man who is Christ Him self. When that shall haye .been completed the Lord will return for His Church, the Head being joined visibly to the body, even as they aro already invisibly and spiritually ono. The marriage relationship is a. type of the relationship between Christ and the Church, Wives ai*o to submit to their husbands as unto the Lord, “for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church.” And “hus bands” love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and.’ gave Himself for it.” What & won derful thing x every marriage on earth would be if it were true to this patten and invitation and command given by Christ, Divorces would he as impossible, as a divorcee "between, th© true Church and Christ Himself. ,We must not forget that the vis ible Church, including man-made or ganizations of many sects .and^cjonL- munions, includes, many individuals who are not true believers, and who therefore are not members of ’ the Body of Christ. Within this great visible Church on earth is the invis ible or true Church, thougji, of course, there may be individuals who are true believers yet who are’ not concerned with any visible Church, fellow roared. “I’d ’a’ lined up with you; we’d, -.’a’ give Acklin -a taste of his .own .medicine. He couldn’t lick i|s all. Ypu go ahead, and see*where you get off at, ' You .got two of his pets right here. What you goin’ to do with them?”. Bodine was playing to the crowd now. There was a quick movement toward the Double A mem Blaze and Melody backed up against the stone wall. Esteban got in front of them. He faced his own people with his gun raised. “Firms amigos!” he cried to them in their own. tongue. “This man let me get away the night I first came around the wire. I had a bullett through his shoulder, there was no reason this side of hell why he should have let me go, but he did. It is nofr our way to forget. He and his friend go free.? Melody followed Blaze as the Bas ques opened up to_ let them through. The poet had begun to understand many things that had been a closed book to him up to now. His fond ness for the man grew. He marvel ed at the unconcern with which his friend led the way down the little avenue of hostile guns that could have blown (hem to pieces with a touch of the finger. Shut-mouthed, silent. Kildare won the respect of all of them. Bo dine smiled contemptuously, Este ban surprised the expression in hi.3 eyes. (To be continued) WON. HEAI>TH CONTEST s (Grove, Fqtterson, .in Chicago Eve ning Post) : A 17-year-old Dakota, girl won the national health contest recently conducted' by the 4-H clubs of the country. She is a blonde and blue eyed girl of Norwegian descent from North Dakota, a freshman at collego. The champion among the boys is W. Tobias, a Sa‘ginaw County,” Mich., lad in the eighth grade. It is to be observed that neither boy noy girl has any regular routine of exercise or diet. It is discovered they are ac customed to get plenty of sleep, are only moderately fond of meaf. and drink no tea or coffee, but lots of milk. While on the subject off health one is reminded of the old quotation from Fielding that: “a good countenance is a. letter of re commendation.” A good counten ance is much dependent on health. All night hours, five hours of sleep, dissipation, make a bad countenance. Aiid in this world of competition the young man of bad color and droopy manners cannot expect to go far. you double-crossing stool pig- j Adklin bar played you for a' but you’d have driven us approved W' the out his biS A K1NI> WORD How little it COSlSt If wo give it it, thought, To make happy some kdftfft each day Just one kind word, or a tender smile. As wo go on our daily way. t’eroiifinoft a look will suffice t<> d’eSff The cloud fffotii a neighbor’s face. And the press' of a hand in sympathy A sorrowful fear efface. It costs so lit'fle- i \vonder v;hy We give so little Hiddght? A smile, kind words, a giar.co, a touch What magic with thew: is wi’nught?” Large Pimples Game Out on Hets Back aHd Shoulders 4 Mrs. James Park, Moose JW, Saak., writesx*"-"Last’summer my blood be came very impure * and largo pimple* ■ camo out tni my back and shoulders. ; X tried all, Jdnds of ointments, but to | no avail.. At Ia5£ ft friend advis'd tn* which t did, and the chni’Sft of » ifrftitr all the pimples had di** appeared. Manufactured only hy The T. Mil burn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont