HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1926-2-25, Page 7Not a Weil Day
Foir Two Years
Heert and Nerves
Were So Bad
you about what Milburn 'e Hoax+ and g\ht for Copt Viincent
others who might be captured, rather
Writes —J LIM writing to-dey to The
"Aiming as best
Mrs. L P. jones, Hingsville, One,
Nerve Pills hew done for me.
I3Y CAPTAIN HEN RY MANSFIELD. than leave them to be tortured.
I am now twenty-three years of age, . Halsey, a seaman, who was a hull-
•'aed have had three children, and I've It was the first mate of the, four- arrow, still quivering from the force were fast bearing (own on US' The ock for strength, and myself slid noise -
hardly seen a well day for the Peat master Osprey, out of New York with of the impact against his muscles. men had all they could do to beat off less'y into the black water and began
two years. keroaenei1 or Hong Kong in 1872. In a flash we had shoved the boat those who c.ung desperately to the "rimming ne
p
eumbemoine eat boreeroekre, P4uss,hinEgvethrye
There eves little of note in the passage into the stream. It was horrible. we whaleboat, and just as the captain was
' My heart hurt me so, at times, that 'o the South Seas, The logbeelt Wee knew not even from which direction being dragged ever the gurtwa7,e a rustle of foliage, every subdued eound,
I felt I Was not long for this world, I mere record of figures and tiresome the bolt had fallen, In blind fury, dozen hands clutched him from. the of the night made me qualm In eache
as I could not sit down to sew; could: computations. °Apt. Vincent 4nd y while we pulled the arrow from poor water and pulled him back. shadow I pictured a lurking savage•
net stand the least noise, or the chil- whiled away hours that ran into Rodgers' back, the captain fired point- We deemed him as good as dead and, who would spoil our de.sign. Every
dren crying, in fact 1 could not do
anything that was steady, and after a,
miserable day I would go to_bed and
get a little rest, but could not sleep
mech.
After 1 etarted to take Milburn's took to quenching our thirst with age climbed to the very top of the
- Heart and Nerve Pills I seemed to liquisr untin we should be able to make wall and, felling, was fitting the ar-
have, niore ambition to work, and my vile of the Kermadec , Islands which row to his bow.
heart and nerves are a lot better in We knew to lie a little to the north-
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every way, so I will gladly recommend in about longtitude 167
west of udegrees west and altitude 81 south.
*a did, from their ;hearTo drink the water meant sure sick -
t or nerves.'t
lies,s and, of course, we could not nor air, clattered to the bottom of the boat. 'Atli the natives Telling behind us, buret, then otfbwenakitnoioksomaenootnhee.r quickly,
.
Ptii up only by The T. Milbura CAN would we, subsist entirely on liquor. My wound was in the flesh, the arrow gained the cove in safety. e
Limited, Toronto, Out, -ge the second morning of our thirst
merely having cut me in passing, and Eight men from the ship were row- Gently, firmly, we pressed against
• -- we Sighted a low bank of land in the I snatched my weapon. with the other ing frantically for the mouth of the the wooden plug. It had been cut
hand, alining as best I could. etream, but as we met them and look- large enough to let the air reach the
ed hack a flotilla of canoes issued from oil so that there would be no danger of
It failing to explode. The rope and
matches in the oilskin cases were dry.
We placed the lases. Everything was
ready.
Fear gripped me. Suppose the other
menevere not yet in pasition, it would
spoil all if the savages had time to
collect themselves after the explosion.
On the other hand, every second of
delay held a thousand chances of dis-
covery.
Simultaneously, Halsey and I struck
matches and lit the fuses of pitch.
They burned fast, sputtering. Ahnost
mad -with fear of failure, expectancy
and hope, we hurried into the water,
and, with only our heads above the
surface, watched* the fuses burn. Just
weeks, playing cribbage in the cabin blank into the barricade. with the natives swarming around us, splash of water against the wooden
and talking polities and news that was With that there Was a yell and a splaihed away down stream, In ca- Wine' sounded to me like the booming
months old and worn threadbare. • shower of arrows fell among us. We noes they followed us and pushed us of surf and I thought we must be
When the water went bad it only could see that they were Coming from hard, but they had not the incentive to discovered.
efaltiplied the unoomfortableness t4 the top of' the •barricade now, and the speed that wa.s oars, and we were One moment vve SWarn, the next we
in.ings, We cursed the water, as was captain and I fired at heads when ahead of them -when we reached the. were able to walk, but inch by inch We
proper and nature/ in the tropics, and they showed there. One insolent pave ehonl.• I forged ahead until we rounded the
Those of us who Were able clamber-' last turn which brought us in sight of
ed into the shainew water and pushed the stockade. All was quiet. ,
the boat before as. I clung to the gun- I The savages were probably sleeping
I aimed carefully with my pistol, wale and stumbled along some way, , in drunkenness. Close against the side
but almost in the very act of firing, though I must have been more hut- of the stockade we placed the cask, not
one of the barbed shafts cut into my drance than help. Once in deeper water daring even to breathe. I held my
hand and the pistol, goingoff in the we reeved as fast as we could and,breath until it seemed my lungs ,would
, distance and bore down on one of those
When You Mend Socks. which dot th
e I little coral paradises e
• The men at our house "rag" out the, southern Pacific. Boats were lowered
heels of their socks long before the' and the big water casks were taken
*they parts begin to show signs of ashore: -
Wear. So in order to mend them I For perhaps a mile from the water's
imply cut away the entire heel. This edge the island was flat and shelved
Will usually result in a two -and -a -half- very gradually to the foot of great
inch hole. Then cut a 23 by 5 -inch clirs that towered like citadel walls
strip frern the dotible cotton tops of high over the ocean. A stream wound
worn-out hose and fold into a 2% -inch through the surface of the plain, the
square. Stitch one edge of the five- heavy tropic. verdure of its banks hid -
inch length an the machine, graduedly ing the water from view: except where
• curving in to the fold. Turn the sock the sun, filtering through the leaves,
on the wrong side, slip the heel into flashed back from a riplet.
Dance and stitch it earefully to the The water near' the mouth of the
sock. This method produces heels that stream would have been good to drink,
'freseenble the knitted ones of grand- but there was a possibility that it
Mother's day and that are more com- would not last as long in the casks es
fortable than roughly darned holes. 1 that which we might take from fur -
also mend the children's hose this way,
and my own. -0. G. '
Mittens on a String.
• Im a home where the family is large,
Is quite a problem to keep mittens
andegleves in a place where they can
• be readily found. We have tried the
_ following plan and found it success-
ful:
A length of *trees, cord and ebout
two dozen strong safety pins are need-
,. ed. The pine are fixed at regular
tartervals along the cord, which is
$retched between two hooks in the
H. It takeaonly a second to attach
a pair of mittens or gloves to a pin
and they can be seen at a glance. If
•he weather is wet the whole cord can
be taken and hung behind the stove.
—T. T.
When Frying Bacon. -
When frying bacon in cool weather,
ituiern't we all spent precious time in
pulling the slices apart—often with
great difficulty, and often tearing
them?' Throw the required quantity
en masse into frying pan or baking tin
an/whichever method of cookery you
prefer—and_the slices will immediate-
ly melt apart and can be spread to fry
with no delay or trouble. --F. T. E.
• Easy Darning.
You won't have a bit of troublejet-
ting the needle through the material
when darning a sweater or other
beavy knit article if you use a steel
bodkin instead of a sharp -pointed
tieedle.—W. J. F.• e
:
Then lie Tried Again.
A -man, dining in a fashionable res
teurant and not wishing to exhibit his
Ignorance of French, beekoned to a
ivaiter and, peinting to an item on the
Menu, said:—• .
"Waiter, I think I will try some of
"...' MeV'
s , "Very sorry, sir," replied the waiter,
lest the orchestra happens to be play -
lilac that just at present."
Rodgers was not dead and he lay,
grimly refusing to groan with the
pain, in the bottom of the boat. The
inen churned the water'bending their
oars to shoot the boat forward. The
captain and I did some execution with
our weapons, but it helped little. -
Careening over, almost to the point
of capsizing, we scuttled around the
bend in the stream, out of sight of the
stockade, end there, lined across the
stream, were four canoes, filled with
grotesquely tattooed savages bearing
bows and arrows and spears or asse-
gais. -
Cries and furious yells a the sav-
ages lent terroe to their onslaughts
as they paddled down on ue. Our
men were silent. Strength and breath
ther up, where air and sunlight reach- and alertness to the last degree would
ed it. be neededif any were to come through
the- approaching clash alive. .
Some hundred yards from the
mouth of the Creek, which twisted and
turned upon itself, in a ,marvelous
manner, the whaleboat grated on the
The eyes 'of the painted devils, glar-
ing at us, seemed greedy for life. It
was terrifying but it -roused a like
pebble bottom and came to rest. The spirit in us. The oppressive languor
captain 'gat into the dinghy ;with rile, of the jungle had left us. We were
animals, hunted, Init at bay and ready
and four sailors rowed us cautiously
up the stream, where the water soon to fight.
became deeper again. Dim thoughts of safety if we should
• Palm wins, rearing on either side; .gain the ship, our real ohjem.
gave the effect of winding through a ing through the line of canoes, were
tunnel. The darkness and the odor- Jost in the fury of the primal instinct
faden-* heat 'depressed the spirits. to fight, fight,fight!
There Was a heavy -sense Of being ts' we swept toward the enemy I
alone An a vast world of silent vege- leaned far over the side and fired at
table life when we lost sight of the one of the paddlers. He leaped in the
whaleboat around a bend, and we ex- air and fell splashing into the water.
pe,riericed a vague distrustful feeing Capt. Vincent tore the side out of one
of something inimical lurking in the canoe with a shot from his rifle and it
ver,y air. turned over to sink.
Reason warned that the place must The men who were thrown opt
be teeming with :the germs of fever struggled through the water, which
and malaria, but stronger even than was up to their armpits, brandishing
that was a subtle something that urg- their weapons. In an instant we were
ed one to be rid of the place, put one upon them. A big black fellow lunged
on guard, prepared for something un- with an assegai, but our man in the carry a message to the ship he should
foreseen, terrible. I think there was bow raised his oar and the heavyetick have whiskey aplenty, and beads and
not a man among us who did not feel trudded against the head of the save knives in abundance. We then locked
him in the hold lest he should turn
traitor to us.
Briefly, I explained the situation to
the men, who already were aware of
the facts. It seemed the captain, whom
we had left for dead, had been drag-
ged ashore alive and was being held
for a great religious ceremony to be
the creek and' we knew that to fight
was useless. A battered, used up
party we went on board and prepared
for an attack, but the natives did not
care to tackle as on board ship and
paddled away upstream.
The men Were in no condition for
work, and besides there was a lurking
wish in my heart to attempt revenge
for the captain's death, so we did it
pet out of the cove.
Jeate in the afternoon I was pacing
the neck rather stiff-iointedly whea
noticed a blaes: abject in the water
slowly approaching the Osprey from
shore, disappearing, then coming tt
F, urface still nearer to us.
The men grouped at the rail, and we.
soon made out that it was the head of on the edge of the hole they seemed
a sinee swimmer. We had no fear ef to hang fire for minutes, then sudden -
one man and we saw that he could not ly there was a flare, a dull explosion,
be armed. • When we had made signs great banks of smoke swept upward
to him that we -would not harm him and outward, flames ran along the
he climbed into the chains at the bow ground and some climbed the wooden
and scrambled on deck. barriers.
The men regarded him with no In the jungle down -stream there
unfriendly glances, and no sooner was was a din of yelling. The rush of our
he on board than he took a small men for the barricade sounded like
round nut frozn his mouth and handed the trample of a regiment.
it to me as 1 :toed in front of the • 1-11A
other men. With 'a little pressure the sion. Men and women and children
ran from the little doors in the Wall.
Cries and the reports of rifles and
pistols crashed in the darkness.
Halsey and I leaped from the water,
skirted the spreading patch of flames
and climbed the barricade. From the
top I fired at savages who were attack -
The crumpled paper dropped from ing some of our men who had managed
my fingers. The men suspected the to enter the inclosure. A big black
truth. By means of the sign language fellow hurled a spear at my head. I
which is ahnost universal throughout dodged, but fell to the ground, strike
the islands, the savage told us that the less with my knife as I It struck
captain had promised him, by means something soft and stuck fast, being
of the same language, that if he would wrenched from my hand.
-In one corner of the inclosure the
eaptain lay bound. In a eecond I had
cut hie bonds, crushing in a head with
the butt, of my pistol when a savage
interfeeed,
art. the boat—to the peat I" I yelled.
"The captain is free!"
The -natives were 'still struggling in
confused masees. terrified by the ex-
plosion and the flames which were
celebrated the next day.
fast devouring the walls of the stock -
How we cursed ourselves for what ade and spreading. into the forest.
Halsey, who had dropped from the
wall close behind me, helped me with
Capt. Vincent, who was weak and stiff.
Just as we were crawling through
two halves of the shell panted and
found a tiny scrap of paper rolled into
a pill inside the nut. Tremblingly I
unrolled the paper and read, scrawled
in
"Feast to -morrow. Torture. For
God's sake, Come."
the mysterious sense of approaching
danger, and yet we determined to push
on until we should find water „.that
bubbled over rocks and was made
healthful by the action of air and
light. Besides, none would have given revolver, then used it as a club.
in to the feeling of strange dread. A pair of sinewy arms twisted about
• Suddenly, rounding a graceful bend the captain's throat, but as I dodged a
in the stream, we came upon a stock-- thrust from a spear I smashed the
ade built of great trunks of palms and tuft of my pistol onto the crinkly
loge, dose to the edge of the water. head of the savage, who dropped into
The men rowing could not see it, but the water. One of our men was drag.
the captain andel• in the stern of the ged from the boat and trampled into
boat faced it, squarely on the oppo- the stream. Then, as the natives of the men.
w'
site hank to the one we were skirting. climbed over the sides, the dinghy cap- "Boys," I said, "the finest skipper one of the loexits a savage dashed
An unmistakable sign of permanent sized and we were all thrown, thrash- that ever paced a deck will be semi -'out Halsey's brains with a heavy club,
I
habitation, looming unexpectedly in ing and, kicking, into the creek. ficed to -morrow to a heathen god. Who caught up a spear a native had drop -
that waste of ' morass, it startled us Of how others fared I know nothing. of you will go with me to rescue him?„ ped and felled the man With a stab in
and our faces must have shown our It was each for himself and we were One by one the men stepped to nthe side,vy
consternation before we spoke for all kept busy. • Dodging, struggling, side, silently, grimI do not grimly, and shook my know how the ethers made
the men let their oars rest and darned half drowned, we fought there in the hand. It meant that fifteen men would their way back to the boat. I saw two
to stare where we were lookirfg. Tete water,” When I dodged a blow ,my leave their bones to rot in the jungle of our men drag the body of Halsey
was to reason to believe thateratives -head would go under and I would gasp or Capt. Vincent would not grace the with them as they fought their way
would be anything except friendly. in the water and rise again only to feast to some South Sea idol. through the forest. Smile one helped
The inhabitants of such ialands owere strike out desperately' at some head We lost no time in preparing for a me with the captain. It was a con -
usually disposed to be kind. and to bobbing near me.
night attack on the stockade. Mann fused, kaleidoscopic whirl a blows
You Can. Get Relief trade unless they had suffered recent There was a shout. In a second of the head of a large Cask of kerosene and Parries. Fighting for every step,
f we finally gained the boat. The half
I saw the whaleboat rounding the catipenter cut a c.ircular piece
outrage from some unscrupulous respite 0
age. He sank beneath the surface.
Then the crash came. The canoes
closed with us, and it was knife and
rifle butt against assegai. I dropped
one savage with the last shot from my
we called cowardice in leaving the
capbain to such a fate. There was no
need for me to work upon the feelings
From Constipation crow.
•• So we argued among ourselves, and men had got out into the water to push
• I the next curve. I learned that the Wood arid planed the edges so that it drunken; muddled savages were an
was too loose to be repaired. . about us, but they were obliged to turn
This we Inserted and made fast to saving themselves and their dwell -
with paraffin, which made the cask illgE4 from the fiarnes,
air -tight again. e Several bits of rope
Halsey was dead. Two eaf the other
lay irelp.,ess after the light, but
,pabitocuht atnhdreethfeeeset wl7rge wseewreedsoinaltt:doiiin. 'nen
even the one death was counted better
pitch. in
than that the captain should have died
skin packth
eges, sealing e seams with torment. We knew that Halsey
then decided to approach the stockade it ahead of thorn as a proteetion from
By Using•
•• and SOO if any, natives wore there. the enemy's weapons, and when they
MILBURN S Through hie trumpeted hands the cap- had forded the shallow -place • and
tain helooed and received no answer. foand the stream deepening had climb
-
From the denso forest echoes rumfiled ed into the boat again,
back at us confusedly. From way, way . In no time, the reinforcements were
off in the distancecame the sound of a down upon us, smashing with their
bark. ,oars, slashing with their knivee, and Then we sat down tse wait. Toward would have thought it so.
. 1
Constipation is one of the most pre -
Valent teottbleti the human race is sub-
ject to, and is the greatest eause of
limey oS our ailments, for if the bowels
eil to perfoem their functions properly
011 the other organs of the 'body will
beeomo deranged.
Xeep your bowls working naturally
gesitly tho tine 'oft Itlilburnis
•Lima -Lives, Pills, and thus do, away
yrith the constipation and all the other
troubles caused by it.
Your nearest duggiet or dealer
iendles them. nut ap (rely by The T.
buea Co. unite; Toronto, Ont.
'We'll go ashore, ' said Copt. Vin- firing when they saw the OpportunitY, evening we heard barbaric music and
chanting from the island, and knew
that the natives were drinking and
dancing in preparation for the mor-
row's orgg. We did not fear for the
captain then, for we knew they :would
cent, "and see if we can roase any One by one they were fighting us
" • free from the savages. and dragging
None too -willingly the men started us into the whale boat. All would have
to padCe to the beach. With a gentle ,gorte well had not another band of me.
grating, the boat elid onto the; bank -lives appeared at the edge of the
and the captain rose to step out. The stream and, producing canoes frorn*4
the proper death, hilt it seemed houre
that we avaited there fee eilence to tell
us the natives had drunk therneelees
into stupor.
Our precious cask once in the whale -
mon were in the act of ,shipping their somewhere, paddled to assault us.
oars. So quietly was the whole thing Three of Our men were lest and three
1 dope that there was an air almost of More were disabled. There wore at
' mystea•y ebeat ,it. • least fifty of the natives With the re
-
While they Were bending over, Rod- inforeements, and flight Was our only
; .
ot,rs one of the seamen, just groaned hope.
, 1, 1 .,
deeply and slid forward on his face.' I was cut and wounded in a dozen
1 With the 'rattle of the Oars we had tom oil the boat. The taptain was the
. There had not boon a sound. plaeoe and lay -half dazed in the bot-
, not even hoard n soft whirr, but there last man to be pulled over the side.
I hi the beck at his ahouldee etuok an The savages it tho canoes -from &ore
•
keep him until the finale memerit for
AS Vre rowed out to the ship, the
I fleme..s swept upward and lapped
about the tops of some of the paints.
The sky was red and the black smoke.
swirled in great rolls. The scene Was
one of beauty, one that would have
beet, admired but for the poor
mangled body that had paid for It!
Wann Hands for by, ,
On chilly days when rev baby's
boat, WO rowed cautioesly to the hands are cold I fill the hot-water bob.
mouth of the creek, There the lea tie with quitewarm water and give
the bottle to the baby to play with.
whispered eensultation was helde No
one, was to be left alive in the clutches This amuses him for a long time and
of the savages. If our scheme failed 111$ hauds 51,ro8001 warm from handl-
.
3r . 4e
we -were to kill the captain or 'an ing. the bottle.—R. J.
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13Y SUN LIFE
It le selelotrt that Euencial
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monts as thoee Mule at the enattal
pleating ot th,e Still, Life Assurance
Cernpany qf Canada: At the meeting
th Question, President IVieeautey wes
able to announce that the aSSUran.C8 hi
foree of the San Life Company le now
coneldetebly exceee ef one billion
deitare—o level liever before reached
by a Canadian oomensnY.
In the same addrees he stated thot
although, owing to tbe ra.pid expartsiou
of lausineee, it had been found necese
eau to greatly extend the head office
Mr. T. B. Macaulay
President, Sun Life of Canada.
building accommodation (the formal
opening of welch followed. the anrina
meeting itself), it was evident that
still farther space mutet at once be pro
vide -d. This in spite of the fact tha
the new Sun Life Building is one of
the finest aad most commodious 4n
Canada, is devoted exclusively to the
;use of the Campany, and houses about
eleven hundred of a staff.
The fifty-fifth annual report, which
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the enterprise whieh has marked the
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,one of the outstanding fLnancial insti-
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with one or two of the banks and
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February 28, Jesus Teaches Respect
for Law, Matt 22: 16-22. Golden
Text—Think not that 1 am come to
destroy the law, or the prophets: I
came not to destroy, but to fulfil.—
Matt. 6:17.
Ireenorescume—The enemies of
Jesus had been foiled in their attempt
to entrap him on the question of his
authority, so they now resort to other
ineane -to accomplish their criminal
designs. As is frequently the case,
those who 'belonged to opposite parties
unite. The Pharisees and Herodiane
represented different interests, but
now they agree in order to place Jesus
in a dangerous light with the rulers
of the land, They fancy they can
M. Arthur B. Wood,
Vice -President and Actuary, Sun Life
of Canada.
transportation companies the ,honor
of being one of Canada's best known
institutions abroad. Its ramifications
now extend to forty-four countries and
states, and its branches girdle the
globe.
The assurance in force was in -
erased last year by $149,460,644,
bringing the grand total up to $1,021,-
097,101. In keeping with this the as-
sets were inereased by nearly $29,000,-
000, making the total assets, now $303,-
056,145. Payments to policyholders
and beneficiaries of $35,441,582,
brought the total amount co paid -since
the Company was organized to $219,-
239,710. The total net income for the
year was nearly $70,000,000.
Policy holders will share in another
inerea.se in profits—the sixth consecu-
tive inerease of this kind.
Bad lood
is the muss of
os and Pimples
What you need when the blood gets
out of order is a good tonic to tom)
and build up the. system and put tbe
blood into proper shape, and when thli
is done you will ha.ve no more boils ;
or pimples.
We know of no Malady that 8431
equal
or this purpose, as during the pest :
47. yearseit hiss been on 'the ]nerket
we have received thousands of testi.
Menials from those who have 'been t
benefited hy le) use
Put, up otdy by The T. Milbure Coe
force him to make a pronouncement
which will involve him in ruin. If he
sides with the cause of Rome, he will
alienate his Galilean supporters, if he
takes up the cause of the revolution-
ary party, he will come into conflict
with the mighty power of Rome. Jesus
had silenced th,ern with a dilemma;
novr they attempt to use the same
method against him, little knowing the,
wisdom and resourcefulness of Christ.
THE PITARIFF718 AND HERMAN% VS. 15,
16.
The Pharisees sided with the com-
mon people and were out of sympathy
with R,omazi rule. The Herodians were
loyal to the cause of Herod, belonging
to the government side.
V. 16. We know that thou art true.
They proceed to flatter him, praising
his knowledge, insight and independ-
ence. Thus they hope to disarm eriti-
cism and blind him to their evil de-
signs. But it is usually the flatterer
who is blind.
V. 17. Is it lawful to give tribute
unto Caesar? • The word for tribute
• en et Viacer
stood for the poll -tax which had to be
paid to the Roman authorities, to be
distinguished from the property tax.
;This poll tax went directly into the
coffers of the Emperor, for Judea was
an imperial Province, It had to be
paid in the coin of the empire, and
this caused great resentment to the
extreme political party of the Jews
called the Zealots, who believed in the
use of force in order to drive out the
hated Roman. • These people looked
upon this tax -payment as an evidence
a bondage: and if Jesus could be
made to express approval of it he
would at once alienate all the sym-
pathy of this class. He would be re-
presented as a renegade to Rome. It
is probable that his tempters wished to
drive JOSUS over into the camp of the
Zealots in order that he might become
implicated in their plots and thus be
treated as a political agitator.
V. 19. Shew nae the tribute money.
Jesus sees through their plans. He
would not possess any Roman coins
himself, nor would his followers, since
they were not commonly employed by
the people. Mark expresses it more
vividly, suggesting the pause while
they went in search of the coin.
V. 19. A penny; rather a shilling, a
silver coin called a denarius which had
to be used for the payment of this tax.
The Jews had coins of their own.
V. 20. Whose . . . image and super-
scription? Probably the image of Ti-
berius the Emperor was there in relief
with an inscription round the edge.
V. 21. They say. Caesar's. They
admit it without thinking, and ere
they know it, have lost their case. If
the coinage is Caesar's they should
render him his due. The Jewash teach-
ers had a law, "He is king whose coin
passes current."
Reeder . . . unto Caesar. Jesus
seems to argue that since God had
allowed Rome to exercise dominion
over Judea, it therefore becomes the
duty of the people to acquiesce in this
rule and to submit to the laws of the
empire. Jesus was no law -breaker, no
agitator. He had no sympathy with
the extremists like Judas of Galilee
who, in A.D. 6, had tried to throw off
the yoke ef Rome. Jesus Maintained
the •constituted authorities and it is
passible that his refusal to eanction
the extreme party in Galilee led to the
sudden turn of events when the crowd
who had called "Hosanna" soon cried
out "C,rucifY" and asked for Barabbas„
And unto God. Jesus does aot draw
a line between secular and eaered, as
if these two things were distinct, for
he would have them know that fidelity
to the earthly rulers was also a reli-
gious duty. But be would remind
them that there are higher obligations
than those of the seate, arid no earthly
ruler should be allowed to interfere ,
with these. We owe to the state the
coin which beers the linage of thee one.
perer, we owe to God our very self
which Was made in the image of God.
• It has beet estimated that the earth
cau staintain a papulation of 6,000e
000,000—a total which 4111 bo nulled
about 21.00, at the present rate of
Tondo Ont. increase,