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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1929-04-04, Page 7y Weather-For Every to; iTHE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE WHISPERING Harry Sinclair Drago and Joseph Noel % I He had to put his hand He cupped his her how she he leaping *ent of the ’ the sur- who had The raft, prevent constipation ____ <Jood for alb-wonderful for children Made by The Canadian Shredded Wheat Company, Ltd, The longer you live ■ with it 'the better/ it ROSS-TAYLOR CO.,yLTD EXETER Estimates gladly furnished f Grade of Seaman-Kent Oalj SOW FOR PROFIT STEEIE,BRIGGS' SEEDS To get the most profit, from your crops, seeds must be pure and of high germination. Steele, Briggs’ Seeds have been growing profitable crops jgj for farmers and gardeners throughout Canada for nearly 60 years. They will prove just as success­ ful for you. Purchaitri o] ths D. M. Ferry Canadian Business ? verywhere ’'Canada d for new illustrated catalogue STEELE.BRIGGS SEED CSi “CANADA'S GREATEST SEED HOUSE ** TORONTO-HAMILTON-WINNIPEG-REGINA- EDMONTON THVRHRAT, APRIL tth, .m i. ■ Jhe ^unaai/ School Wesson By CHARLES G, TRUMBUIjL, Ljtt. p. (Editor of the Sunday School Thues) BEGIN HEBE TODAY or, revenge upon Dick Acklin, big boss of the Double A Bauch, Buck Bodine, new owner of the old Webster place, plots with the Bas­ ques of Paradise Valley to blow up Acklin’s dam. Through her little blind brother, Basilio, Mer­ cedes Arrascada learns of a mys­ terious journey taken by her bro­ ther Esteban. Mercedes traces Esteban to Bodine’s ranch. From there she follows the trail until she becomes exhausted and falls many times, scratched and bleed­ ing. N£.W GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVII.— (Cont’d,) To the girl it was an eternity be­ fore the moon peered through the tops of the tangled cedars. Trees and brush began to take shape. Mer­ cedes went on. She found a tiny spring trickling to his right. She wet her lips with its water and fol­ lowed its course. Soon he caught the beat of the waves. She had come out to the shore of the lake. She cried out with new courage. Her voice rolled over the water to the cove where her brother lay. Estebaii jumped at the sound of it, He had already waited long past the appointed time to send the raft adrift. The echo of that cry in the awful stillness decided him to tarry nd longer. He cupped his hands to his lighted match, and the long fuse began to sputter-. The wind at his back was strong and steady. A hard push, and the raft with its deadly load- floated away across the silvery water. He did not wait to speculate on the success of its errand? He had had hours of that. Before long he was dashing for the buttes, intent only on reaching the valley. His going brought no sound to the j girl. Jhe moon had given her her bearings, and keeping ever within sight of the lake,, she stumbled to the north, dragging her tired body to new, tortures. A glo’wing pin-point of fire moving across the water caughter her attention. Its evehy- unhurried flight fascinated her. It as beautiful, unreal, ghostly. But as she watched it, the raft moved out of the shadows of the opposite shore into the full light of the moon. She knew what it was then, even before the wind had sent it close enough to make recognition possible. The truth left her strangely unmov­ ed. She even found herself admir­ ing the cleverness of the men were responsible for it. They schemed well to bbat Acklin! never-halting approach of the the black bulk of the mine rising from its surface, the glowing fuse held aloft as if it were a light at a masthead, brought no cry from her ’z’ This was the thing she had ry-f (— JLhE banking requirements of farmers differ according to location and the partic­ ular branch of farming in which they are engaged Whatever your banking requirements i Will find the Bank of Montreal prepa the particular form of service you need. Established 1817 T O t A L\a S S E T S IN EXCESS OF $ 8 7 0 * T. S. WOODS, Manager Exeter Branch come to stop. #. • It came so close to her that she could hear the sputtering of the fuse An eddy or a whim of the wind caught the raft then and sent it away from the shore. She could not swim a stroke. Just what’ she in­ tended to do she did not kjnow; but she knew she could not reach it, riding along as it was, fifty yards from the bank. She found, how­ ever, that she kept abreast of it as she followed the margin of the lake toward the dam. This was all very well for a while, but as se came to a cove that cut back into the hills she began to des­pair, By the time she ’had got around it, the raft would be far ahead. But without looking back she started on the attempt. She had not made more than half of.the way, when she darted a glance at the moving raft. Her breath actually stopped for an instant at what she beheld. If it had been a liner mak­ ing a port the raft could not have turned more accurately and headed more directly for the little cove on the shore of which she stood. Mer­ cedes ran toward it. She saw its speed slacken. Then came a second When it seemed to stand still. The next minute the current was moving it back into the lake. Without stopping to ask herself what she could do, or how she wotild get back to the land it she were once on the raft, she jumped for it. The, fc”ce with which she landed was im­ petus enough to send it bobbing through the water until the cove was yards behind her.' She scrambled to her feet and with her boot-heel ground the coaj into ashes. She lurched towards the^ centre of the logs, her arms lowered to help herself to a sitting position, when a scream was wrung from. her. The glowing coal that she had stamped into the cedar was gone, but in its place rose a blaze a foot high! A little trickle of oil had escaped back 't'ot where she had'crunched the end of the fuse.( The wind had fan-, ned-an> unseen spark to life. The flamed were mounting highex- Xiltcr^iitTfbrTbdirdW OUirgreedy Ton-' gues that licked at her body. In a rage of helpless impotence, she rais­ ed her torn hands and struck and beat tire iron thing, before her.* The cuts on .her knuckles and fingers bled afresh, but she was fast losing the power to feel pain. Salty tears ran into the corners of her mouth. From her lips came a wild, almost insane cry. CHAPTER XXVIII Esteban was coming to the high­ er ground where, his trail turned to the south when he heard a horse wliinney. over his mount’s nose to keep him from answering. The other horse called again; nearer this time. The boy did not wait. He wheeled and galloped back over the path he had just come from. When he had re­ traced his way soine two miles, he turned to scan the lake far below him. His pulse jumped as he caught sight of the flaming logs; now so near the dam that from where he watched it seemed they must strike any minute. What had gone wrong? What had set them afire? Had his companions been caught by the Double A men? Esteban moved, higher up to wait for the explosion. In the confusion resulting from it he intended to make another dash for Webster Creek. No matter where Romero and Bodine were they must be counting the se­ conds even .as lie. And while he waited the’ Double A pien,.froni Disaster Peak, to the Bull’s Head, kept their watch, una­ ware df the danger that was sweep-1 ing down upon them. Kildare alone, of all Acklin’s riders, moved nervous­ ly, about. Blaze had not forgotten his talk that morning with Mercedes. Esteban,*s mysterious, trip, coupled Willi Morrow’® belief "tjiat trouble was brewing, seemed ,to afgpe more thafi mere coincidence. , . He was within a,quarter of a mile of the water When lie caught the first dim reflection” of “the burning raft, From where he stood, the fjre' seemed to be on the other side of the caiibh. Ho could not see the . lake itsdl^ but the faint’red tinge in the slty^ moved. B.V;, tli^.he’knew that’ something was burning on the water. There wasn't any timber df any Sort east of the Mam, He sent My Man into a. gallon. u kaleidoscopic fashion he saw the ,petrolled girl shielding Tom the flames; the dam rds awav called nt ctor —Isaiah 3 8:1-22. Text am I; send we are tomonths Teaching and Leath It is a striking far- I no. rijily ship xii'ar in , al- eon- diets THE .MINISTRY OF ISAIAH Sunday, April 7 th, 13; 7:1-17; 20:1-6; Golden Then said I, Here (Isa, 6:8.) For six “Prophetic of Judah.” the appearance of a prophet, the history of Israel and Judah ways meant that God had som^ troversy with His people, Pimp are God’s spokesmen. Gomel! they predicted future events, si,. times they gave needed spiritual : moral truth for the present moim But always, when they were tr God’s prophets, they delivered message of God in the very words of God to His people. God sent them, and inspired them, in order to warn His people of their sins and to bring them back to God and right­ eousness if this were possible. The six months’ course takes us from Isaiah to the exile and captiv­ ity of Judah, and then on into ex­ ile experiences, and finally the res­ toration of Judah to liis own land again. It is one of the most mom­ entous epochs in history. Seven out­ standing prophets, or .Jewish learn-, ers come before its for study in the six months.- Isaiah, Jeremiah, Eze­ kiel, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Mal­ achi. In addition to these a godly King appears, Hezekiah, and a true high priest, Hi Uriah, under the boy King Josiah. The time covered by the six months’lessons is something ovex- three and one-half centuries, from B.C. 760 to 397. Three of the lessons are from Is- aialx. Note the following from t the Scofield Reference Bible: ‘‘Isaiah is justly accounted the chief of the writing prophets. He has the more comprehensive testimony, and is dis­ tinctively the prophet of redemption. Nowhere else in the Scriptures writ- en under the law have we so clear a view of grace . . . Messiah in his person and suffering, and' the bless­ ing of the Gentiles through Him, are in, full vision.” Four great events are recorded in this week’s jesson. Isaiah.’® vision and commission; the great sign and prophecy of the virgin birth of the Christ; > an object-lesson-prophecy of God’s judgment on two great hea­ then nations; Ah© miraculous heal­ ing of a King’of Judah.-, :. ‘ Isaiah “saw the Lord.” Other- great men-of Bible histor.y..im,ya<-seen the Lord, and repeatedly the effect is the same; they are stricken down by the vision , terrified, and over-. whelmingiy conscious of their sin. Isaiah’s vision showed him the Lord on, a ’throne, high and lifted up, as heavenly beings cried, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory.” God’s perfect and overwhelming holiness had one instant effect upon Isaiah—and we must remember that Isaiah was probably a man whose k, • me- and mt. uly the life was righteous far beyond jwfr men. But he cried, “Woe is me, for I din undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I flwe/l in tfto midst of a people of unclean lips/\ We never know the real meaning of our sin until we have seen the Lord. There followed God’s cleansing of Isaiah by a. live coal of fire from altar; liis lips we thine iniquity is thy sin purged.’’ cleansed of our # been convinced of fesse'd it. God then send to His were, “Here receives God’s divine commission tell Judah of her sin and pronour God's coming judgment upon the J tion, yet not the utter destruction the people. A new conception of- God; a n conviction of sin; a new cleans from sin; a new commission from God; these were Isaiah’s experiences, and these must be our own if we to let God use us as He would. Some, sixteen years later Isarilt is given a message to Ahaz, King of Judah, whose capital, Jerusalem, was threatened by enemies. He was assured by the prophet that the at­ tack on Jerusalem should fail. Then came one df the greatest “signs” amf prophiecies in the entire Bible. Move than seven centuries before the birth of Christ this prophet Isaiah declar­ ed; “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and beai- a son, and shall call His name Emmanuel.” If one has. any doubt as to the unique inspiration of the Bible, and its divine infalli­ bility, this passage should clear away such doubt forever, The Hebrew word here translated “virgin” means, virgin, and not >a young married wo­ man as some destructive critics of 'the Word have tried to show. Pro­ fessor Robert Dick Wilson of Prin-e- ton, one of the greatest linguist of modern times, has settled .this con­ clusively. Almost thirty years later Isaiah, was told by God to walk naked and barefoot before the people as a pro­ phetic sign that Egypt and Ethiopia were ,to be taken captive, naked and and barefoot, by the King of Assyria. God’s prophiecies dealt not only with His own people Israel'and Judah bn* with heathen His people. • Four years Hezekiah, lay Dl^ded, ygth jGpd^|or his recovery- God sent Isaiah’to him with the mes­ sage; “Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy, father, I have heard fby­ prayer, ■ I have seen ..thy .tears; be­ hold, I will add unto thy days fif­ teen years. And I will deliver theft and this city out of the hand of tho King of Assyria.” of the sun dial was. back ten degrees, as of this divinely pro- “Is anything too 11m and and hc- •re cleansed, ‘ taken away, We cannot in until we have it and have con- seeks peopk am J for some one to , and Isaiah ana- send me. nations in the King sick unto He to ICO &a- nf 1W ng* relation to of Judah, death. He The shadow actually turned a miracle sign mised healing, hard for the Lord?” (Gen. 18:14.) it would be all over. Jumping to 1 her rescue would not help, ran out oix the would be killed drowned. He called to __ barely moved hex- head, ed again, come from leagues away; a phantom voice! ' Kildai-e saw-that-she did not move He cried out again. The wind whip­ ped the, sound of it behind him. But the girl looked up. She saw him and raised her hands. Blaze jerked his reata from his saddle-horn and ran to the very edge of the bank. “Take off your skirt,” he cried, “and wet it and wrap it around you. Catch my rope when it drops.” Mercedes nodded Her head. ■ The raft wds.within ten feet of the dani as’ his reata' began to play through his fingers. Seconds—they are hours some­ times;;—were droning by as liis rope, circled lower and lower. There would never be time for another try. He had'to make it now! There was no room for a miss.' An stop.. clbav him. press-train speed; yet even so, mean- iuglbss,, irrelevant’, thoughts iiresenty ed .themselves -in their . entirety. Nothing’ sebmed;.. hurried. He had ■thrown his rope. Iq quite its ac- eustomed way, it leaped out. ; He - Watbhed it now., It was ’dropping. The girl’s hands were still upi’atsed. The rope was falling over them. It Was at her w,aist. He was pulling ■ theft. ‘It was subcoiisMous effort! ■ A scream josh ,frein ■Mercedes, she shot dway from the rafC He could look down and .see the water cascading over her as he dragged her through it. He heard the raft bump the dam. Gome one was calling; Chet or Mel- odyt no doubt. A Second in which to brace his feet, and hand o\o.r hanc he began paying in hi--, reata, lifting | her to safety. She was halfway to I the top of the jagged wall when Kil­ dare felt rather than heard a snap. His hands tingled. Ho had been ,,,( jj, dragging his rope over the ledge, u«- o' and in& for forage. One of If he dam both of them or swept away and Mercedes; but she Blaze call- That voice! It seemed to instant—brief;’ life seemed to Kildafh1 blinked his eye to thenj of the film that blinded Seconds were moving a*t ojt- the strands of the finely woven re- ata had given way-—cut in two by the jagged quartz. His arms trembled. There wlosr nothing to do but risk the chance that the * unravelling reata would hold. He leaned out over the water until Mercedes was a dead weight on him, and pulled. Another strand broke, but he raised her to the ton. His hands caught her arms; a la A lift, and she was beside him. Then it came without,warning­ trembling of the earth. rolled gone, flat! Pieces pea to ite that would have killed had they struck, fell about them. Waif’ splashed down in sheets. Mercedes did not move. Kildare rolled her over and over. The girl’s body was cold; hex’ pulse seemed to have stopped.* Blaze slapped he a am? beat her With the flat of his hands. He continually raised her arms to expand^^r lungs. (To be Continued) ■a Thunder in his ears. . 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