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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-04-08, Page 2�- -- — - -- —�-- `-- --- 111. The Chains fall and the neither sell nor buy in fairs or star- as000es 1+H • Iron Gate Opens. --Verses G-10. kets; they are boycotted still, but CURRENT T TOPICS. SECRET OF BEING THE BEST How long was Peter in prison! Till they won't dive in to the League, near the close of the Passover, and theirs is an example of un T1‘e [else logic of the big navy when Herod would have brought couquerabte courage to their hum - propaganda should be clearly rca-him firth. bier neighbors who are similarly fired by every one who had the 'ti Why was not Peter released ear- treated. The other day 1 held in e�000m000pi despatches about the naval debate High Thoughts Only Come From the Frac• tier by the angel 1 For the same my hand a cheque returned to them use of commons. reason that often causes a delay in i,y a Dublin baker (they cannot UNCLE DAN'S BEAR STORY - in the British ho of Nigh Thinking the answer to our prayers—to test get bread nearer than that) who "Well," said Uncle Dau, when ticsThe great military powers mako the our faith and strengthen our char- Gas craven enough to refuse to sup the children teaser! for a story, same claim that their military and plythem at the bidding of the "since you all «ant something dif sclera by the endurance of rtffl'c naval prugramno is one of defense ."Grow in grace." --II. Peter, might learn this business of living tion. This waiting and the bearing League; and another cheque re- ferent, I think 1 shall have to de as easily as they master their bust of trouble, teach us patience, cour- turned by a man from whoin they ride myself. How would you like only. Now it is impossible to dis-xis. 18. age, hopefulness, cheerfulness, and had bought Burne canto which he to have rue tell you about a bear errit spate between them over the No one doubts et to -day that it is nosy of a daily lit,ng. 1that has frightened more people was forbidden to scud forward W question of sincerity. We must Possible to state definitely the laws Many are wasting time looking faith. What school has a nobler them. The' day befare n,y yi:iL than any other iu the world, and under which all cabbages are for imparted goodness, for charac- eurriculutn 1 y that frightened me tuts and lots of suppose that each one is as sincere grown. We know these fundamen- ter by cataclysmic changes in the In what way was Peter deliver they had been waylaid by a mob times] as any of the others, and let us tal laws are invariable, t•hae if wo life. Too many are hoping that, ed 1 He was sleeping quietly, like on the road, and Mrs. McCann „ assume, then, that they are all sin- follow them faithfully, whether in going to bed bad, they will wake !)avid (Pea. 3 : 5) when Absal -en narrew•ly escaped being killed by ••O -o -o -o ! Goody!" cried all of sere. In that ruse not one of them India or in America, we can bo up wholly good; perhaps that is and all his foes pursued him. "F ;r a stone the size of a pear which thein together.Its about a grizzly bear," said qnits sure of the results. Is it pos- the reason so many sleep in church, so he giveth his beloved sleep," or whizzed peat hera ear. year, also l o saew- Lyman. i3 a menace to any of the others. si fused wood to snake a coffin for his "No, a polar bear," guessed t!cblu to state as definitely the laws loping to become saints in their "in their sleep" (Pea. 127: 2). It the man w ►u, En there is no need of defense. �� urder whirl► character grows 1 slumbers. But character grows was in the last watch of the nighe,Lizzie. military force is required only to It is surely vastly more import- naturally; the making of a life letween three and six o'clock,kr dead brother --an old soldier who I think it s a cinnamon bear," strengthen the police at- home or ant that. we should know how to does not violate the unvarying laws Peter was not misss ed re ahathree. . he dhserved inthe Crimea—becauso declal•ed Bob. to afford living and to subjects brig the on than a product of shulife o! life. PUncle Dan laughed. "No," he who are lining and speculating in to perfection than that wo should Tho secret. of being the best is nor until sunrise (v. 1S), when the man. This man is completely ' iso- said, it. isn't a1.y one of those he able to formulate precisely the being steadily with the best. of guards wero changed again. In lated still ; no maa mayeven be weak and ill -governed countries. invariable laws governing the de- you would realize your ideals you this "darkest hour which is just seen speaking to him, bears. lt'a a kind of bear you never Naval requirements for this latter veluprnent of weeds and Ilutrers, tnust keep yuurselt in the presence before down" an angel of the Lord BOYCOTTED THE CHILDREN. heard of—a bear has very strangehabits, and is different purpose are already far more than Surely we recognize that we are et the ideals, as t.hcy are already came upon him (stood by him),—a Elsewhere 1 come across a milk- from n other bear that the world. satisfied by all the great powers, beet in life for larger purposes than realized in other persons or in other brilliant presence radiating light pian tcho a story is significant. He"In tho first place, this beer is tilling the ground; we are here to conditions. In our friendships, ha -which filled the cell. Peter was has a tiny holding, which Ivo rents Ally one of thein could overwhelm found all over tho country, not only mako lila. bits, customs we trust live in sleeping so soundly that the light froth a "condemned" man and for example, with ain wild lacca in the woods and Vactionaa, If we have al, ..to think of THE PItLSENCI: Or THL BEST. did not wake bin., and the anbcl works with his family and no out- p but even more often smote Peter on the side. mountains, fraction of its present naval the matter at all, we are clear that IV. "The Lord Hath Delivered." side help. Ito is completely out - boy, near log houses and little villages, strength. Any ono of them could the ono great purpose fur which If a man would be a musician, he —Verses 11-19. What die! Peter rotted; no man or woman may buy and especially about old pastures Hien live is to bring character to cannot afford t., deluge his earshis milk in tl:a town; the woes of where you go to drive the cows in overcome the savage and half civil- ;tr fullness and perfection, to learn with discords; if he would paint, perceive, when the angel disap married so'the quartered there the morning and to get them again izod people who live in or on the the lesson of living the life of good -ho must avoid cluumos and color prated L`vs soddenly 1 H© rano at night. confines of its colonies with a small ness, truth, and loving service, to conflicts. Both wsn ill gain ore from :Sri) told that, if they buy it, they to himself, waking from his half will be '►+shed out of their lodg ,.The strangest thing about this army of well-equipped soldiers. find the full life of each in the tom the atmosphere of great oratorios, dazed condition, and knew that he ings, whish they hold on a weekly kind of bear is that you never Bee symphonies, an<i paintings than had redly been released, by an tenancy, and no one else will take him in the daytime or in the morn - angel living of all.an el sent from the Lord. And But it may be said that,sincere,s assum- When we bring this business of they can possibly get from courses 6 them in. He sold a few apples to ing, but only when it has begun character development down to of study ; the study they wi,i Hoed, let us keep in mend the fact• that one poor fellow; he is now buycot- to get dark a little at evening, and ing that the powers are e. pimple, practical terms, it becomes but it will be vain without this prat back of the angel was that prayer ted, too. His little boy was sent c n nights when there is just a tiny moat• admit the need of prudence. area{ thing to each of us, a mat- tice of the presence of the- best. meeting. away from the National School for bit of moon. Some nice question of national ter of daily living, of meeting life's Nowhere docs this law of growth, Where did Peter naturally turn 1 no other than he "When I was a boy I had to take honor might arise, some wrong difficulties, bearing its burdens, op- according to environment and at To the house of Mary evidently a was the son reason "thacotts because His my father's cows to Facture every Y rendezvous for the Christians. The mother then went to the parish morning and go atter them every might be committee!, and these how strnggli 1g outithrough all and iinto ie- n the realm oof personal character. apostle knocked at the door of the priest, who eluded her and left his night. I never met one of these must be an insurance against these THE BEST WE KNOW. And most of all, it holds here in gate, the outer door of the entrance house by the back entrance. She bears in the morning, but some possibilities. 1'or this reason Often in that struggle for the the potency of personality, in the passage leading to the inner court. carried her complaint W the Bishop, bears I would seeo three or four s- in have premiums ranging from $200,- higher life, for the realization of power of other lives through friend -This was kept fastened, and just who asked shy the boy had boon a single evening, and they would 000,000 to $300,000,000 annually' our best lhupos and dreams of char- shtps an<l daily communion to make inside was a small room for the es gilled. She answerexi, Because our lives, to lend them out into maid who tended the door. The p frighten me so that I would run we are 'boy:otic."' „'why so 1" all the way horse." which are extolled as evidences of atter, it must occur to us that i6 fulness, description, according to Tristram, asked his Lordship. For taking "Did they chase you, Uncle Dan, tc wise economy. But what is the would be strange if, as sews to be There aro those in whose Pres shows that it, was a house of the a small pisco of condemned land," er did you shoot them, or scare risk 2 The United Kingdom has not the sease, there should if no definite encs it is easy to think low better class. replied the mo'.her. "Isn't boy cot them away 1" rules of procedure, if character thou his, to cherish ignoble ambi Who answered the knock 1 A ting the penalty they always inflict "No dear, I don't think any of had a war with a first-class power sew bychance er at haphazard. R damsel named Rhexis (meaning for that?' queried the ldignitary of g tions•; there are those with whomthorn ever chased me, 1 ran in fifty years. The Unitoc! ofStates 1812. 'Phe question recurs, is there. any this is altogether impossible, whose Rose). With youthful impetuosity, the Christian Church. The little too hard to Geo; and I thougham sure I has had none since the war 1812. definite plan for growing character.] presence sties the best in us, whose she was so glad to hear the bar thel boy. is still absent from school, but never shot ono, partly because I 1'. is nearly forty years since the It is a question you do not often nobility suggests yet greater, fair tones that she forgot to unbar ro summons has been issued to bad no gun with use then, and part - How war. Further- hear spoken; it is seldom commit- er heights of life. We may not bo door, and left Peter knocking there compel his attendance ;the evidence ly because this kind of bear is so ted to print, but it is everywhere, able always to choose our compan- while she telllhec! into the prayer might be awkward. His little vis- hard and tough that a bullet more, a general arbitration agree Huw can I bo that which 1 know ions, but wo can select our friend,, meet.in to thegood rows:doesn't hurt him at all; nor can went would eliminate all risks and t ought to be 1 Many are the an- g.tors in another school were continu- ' g or at least epee gar lives only to Why were the disciples astonish- ally annoyed by the other children you scare him away. He will not if we are to appeal to prudence and avers given; most of them wholly those that lead us out and uP• cd at this answer to their Prayerai writing boycotting notices on their run from anybody, no whiter how common sense we should work in -disappointing whets tested by use, HENRY V. COP]:. Because they had .tut expected the slates ; with great pluck they much you shoot or how loud a noise ccssuntly for such an agreement. only leasing men wishing that they answer so soon, or in such swell- threatened to report the nuns if Your gun makes. Ho just stays __ derful manner. Some of them, per- this was allowed to continue, and right there." Much has been said of the yellow SCHOOLS if the clirnaa haps, had been praying with little the petty tyranny stopped; but they "How big aro they, and what peril, but Japan is setting a good THE SUNDAYlrrtduges and ht is real faith. err, constantly stoned as they leave ( color?" asked Lyman, whose eyes example at the present time by re -a lung as any of the others, as V. The Open Ivor of Easter. school for home. Nobody will sit were round with interest and ex - "The angel left Peter, hailing ne- next either the father or mother citement. ex - clueing expenses. It is neither agi- eomplivhed his appointment. But in church. "They are all sizes," said Uncle laird nor stupefied by the naval INTERNATIONAL LESSON, there was to bo another time when OUTRAGEOUS VENGEANCE. Dan, "sometimes not any larger programmes of other nations. Its April 11. ,ecutcd them, deprived them of all Peter would want the visit, of such Poverty is no bur to the oppres- than a Newfoundland dog, scat. statesmen are not pictured as toy on cart y a messenger' And there will be a sten of the League. I saw a poor times as tall as a big man; but they g kingdom heaven, and groat limo when we also shut} want it, old man working on a farm of are always dark-colored—almost some - the leading characters in a soul -Gast d when we shall have to go out from something over 100 acres with a black, and they aro always stand - theying parliamentary melodrama; Lccs:;on 11. Peter Delivered Front What wool 1 the prison -house of mortality, and hit of bog land attached to it. He bining very still. they arc not appalled by the cid- I'rirsou. Golden Text, 1 elluwshlp in ft from the world itself." is cotr.pletely boycotted because he "'Che Place where you are most, They of a thistwo-powerltrap standard. , I ellowshil otic + - has a little inore bog than his neigh- likely to see them is in the shadows Psalm 34: 7. near trees, and in fence corners, `!'hey leave claptrap to the en- bore, and they want it for them- and along the edges of old pas - rived Occident. There is some Introduction.—Between our last to Thv str g } t3 selves. Therefore he ix "drummedhe ," tures." encouragement, however, to be de- lesson and this from four to six of chars and•vvtte1llan "watched" all the time. him; IiExact- man xact "Well, but, Uncle Dan," began years have elapsed. h hat occurred at peace 1'h knowledge !ge of the Rob en ; rl "if you can't shoot rived from the competition in mill- during that time? The founding of coining triumph U r cautc ly the ached treatment is meted out f" y' . tart' expenditures. its very execs- the great Gentile church at .Anti- 1Y 11 ! '" t'r MR ik\ �lAl COl 11 11RI1I d OE t the workmen who have faithful- them and cant drive them away, hl Is stood by Mr. Clarke, of Holy- what can you 't with this kind of ct • count. against it in public opin- ech, and the calling thither of cross; they cannot buy anything in bears? Do you always have to run ion. They constitute an easily un- Barnabas from Jerusalem and Paul }} 1'ri..un aid I'raycr verses the village, and would literally away from thernl I think that is drrtit•md argument for arbitration from Tarsus The famine and the 4 1ti hnt ha i p implied by 1 1cowar<lly." starve if their etoPl°yrr had not ,•Noy my boy," answered Uncle and disarmament which will strong from A»ouch 1�'hy du we 'C},at tl been come delat ('arty of the Country More Dan- opened a store for them in his own with a smile, "there is an - then the moral and humane argil- f 1 difficulty i nrrestutq Peter. ge•rotts 'than `savage Lands) residence. And th' same outrage- Dan,hway. if you bravo enough menta that. aro suggested by the tl Where was Peter confined 1 In Ile Says. oils vengeance is wreaked upon to go right, up aro one of enough horrors of war. history u the famous prison in Herod's resi-three mere mad servants of an- bears and touch him with y eve l 11) r dance, the fortress or castle of An- other friend of mine who is "under our tensa. It was there that some think the ban;'' they go to mass on Sun- hand, ho will never hurt you, batt clays attended by three armed po- gill disappear at once --so quickly Berme!). that you can't sec him go. That is JUDGES AND JURIES KNOW 1'I the only thing to do, but 1 didn't Such area few instances of how find it out fur a lung time—until I YOUNG FOLKS of these heavenly pthree times if our Lord knew that it needed the strongest emphasis. When men re- proached them, reviled them, per- secuted h the • were still to have the ing on1 of o be their rcwar there. <i bo that reward Christ's sufferings. Fellowship in ono another's afflic- tion. The purification of charac- ter. reuin andbeau- tifyingcter. Consciences The now e oflei Christ.'s "Well < one . An eter- IAN , • ' .. nity of bliss unimaginable. REIGN or 'f1:RROR. and 1 5. inn li . the c ause, famine relief sent to Jerusalem when Ice had apprehended him 1 emitzero had. those events fur the presentn and •n order to follow more closely to f l'eter. 1. Days of Heath and ange ,t,--- Verses 1-3. What was that time, Tree plantingrevolutionizes. It when our lesson begins 1 The Christ was arraigned before Pilate, spring of A. 1). 44, while the and there Paul was taken when mobbed in Jerusalem. It immedi- ately adjoined the temple, on tno northwest. How was Peter guarded 1 By four quaternions (bands of four) May I be allowed to set down i; is far worse than it was twelve of soldiers, each quateruiun being some personal impressions of coy iiionths ago. If your space permit - oh guard through a three-hour recent visit to Ireland. They in ted 1 could glee as many more, and watch. Two of the soldiers were cline me to sympathize with the bit- so could any inan who. having the chninecl to Peter's arms, one on ter reflection of a boycotted far- true prosperity of Ireland at heart. tither tide; a third was outside mer u hen he said to me : "Vets would go over and look into the the door, and the fourth in the pas- rend your missionaries and your question for himself. This much 1 Page leading to the strong outer armies to the ends of the earth to will say, that the United Irish gate. Doubtless Her• d knew how convert and pacifs heathen tripes, League glories in its work and the apostles had escaped from the 1 ut the tau abiding people of Ire- makes nu cffe rt to hide it. The prison of the Sanhedrin (.lets 5 : , land you leave to sutler-- alone.' baser nature is that which has the 1e). and meant to keep Peter se- Of many of these sufferings 1 power to crush it, but dares not cu rely this time. have been an eye -witness, of others do ho: and this poster belongs in - Why was Peter imprisoned, and I have been told by their victims. 'd rect.ly to every voter in the Unit- • rr thepresent e. Ceder not executed at once? Because it The misery of the aged family of;eotl hingd ru would have offended the ,sews whom Dunstable (.oldr:ck, who was mur•.Government I venture to assert de- llo was trying to please, if he exe- dered a fortnight ago near Craughe liberately that certain part% of Ire- euted Peter during the Passover well by British subjects, bears els- land are more dangerous. and dif- (that is Easter). quent testimony to the terror! fienit for a loyalist to live in than Peter in l'rison. Ilemrn:her the , wrought by the v l olc•ale traffic in, any part of the Empire, however free ontd.,or life of a fisherman that f reerttia permitted by Mr. Birrell,' savage and uncivilized. and 1 have Peter had always enjoyed, his im-:Secretary far lieland, against the' visited mane of these. Mr. Rirrell )stoops character that yr luld not advance of every authority in Ire-. knows it : Lord Aberdeen knows rook restraint. and the probabil- i land respon,iI,le for the maintcn- it : the Irish judges know it : and ity that he was the oldest of the ,ane of law and order. the juries ' del'ght to have it so. apostles. imprisonment is bitter i doubt} grievous to him. And yet, But the terror of a ]tying death' eath 1,.1«' ISPO1►: }:111.}:S Means hilt. it, is only rebellion that to any man: it must have heti pays. and terror stalks abreastthrough the land. doubtless he rejoited in this upper-, by, boycotting is almost more *gun- ___,e-_..-__— tunity to prove his loyalty to the'iring than the fear of sudden death I.ord whom he has denied. 1st the hand of a niaak•'d assassin. Some men are too lazy to kirk What is it to ' pray w ithout The law of the United Irish League when they get the short end of it (easing- O. . Thes. 5 : 17) ' We are 1 enforces it ; the law of King Ed- itold that wr are net. heard for our I ward VII. is powerless to prevent A negro, was under suspicion for 'uch speaking (Matt. 6: 71; but tit and the statutes of Edward 111. chieken stealing. He was called that is simply a warning against are mocked at and derided when- before the pastor and deacons of long prayers for show. ('heist's eser they aro inyetted. 1 have his chapel. and evidence was given parable of the importunate widow within the past fortnight paid & se to character The parson in - (Luke 18: 1 't) shows his approval number of visits to boycotted pee- quired of one of the w,tsesses of impa•sienrsi. determined prayer, pie in the most disturbed districts "Now, de you think that Brother that will not let the angel go with- it- Ireland. and the tale of their Rambo i• the man who would be out. a blessing (Gen. 34: 2G). sufferings is entering in a ettilired likely to steal chickens 1 • '•Well,' (I,rist's own example in (tethse- land.. A year age 1 wrote in sour said the witness+. "1 would not lice mane shows how inevitable are re- columns. Sir. ah,.ut the Met minus to say that, pastor. but if i was a peated prayers when the heart is in ce enty Loom? .rd. Then they chicken and Brether Mambo was strongly stirred. v ere boycotted 1u that they could about 1 should roost high Y' BOYCOTTING IN IRELAND Mr. Ian Malcolm. who spent sonic weeks in Canada during the regime of Levi Minto, re^eptly has pub- lished several letters in The Lon - den Times o11 conditions in Ire- land. The last of these letters reads as follows: is an article of faith among fruit growers that a fruit, tree trust be planted in properly prepared soil, u large, wide, shallow hole, the toots carefully spread nut in all directions and arranged near the surface with a slight upward bear- ing tit the ends. Small quantities of the finer soil are first worked in among the roots. hollow places caused by arching, in the stouter roots are filled up, the remainder of the soil is put in. trodden care- fully down, noel the whole left to the compacting influence of the e b• The is supported d 1 ice tree rain. PPu 3 stakes until it is firmly established. But Spencer 1'. Pickering. uith Ids recent res -arches. declr.res that proper tree planting meati% a small hole, roots doubled up anyhow, the trees `tuck in. the soil thrown in And rammed down as for a gate T„ -t With extensive experiments bsf per cent show in favor of the mew simple method. 27 show no dif- ference. and 14 per cent. show against the sew was. By whatever criterion the trees are gauged the new method is said to give better re•t►l(s than the orthodox. Al- thoiigh an antagonistic cry has been raised against the revolution events described in chapter i1 were occurring at Antioch. Who was ruler then 2 Herod Agrippa I., grandson of Herod the Great, who unordered the innocent% nt Bethle- hem, and nephew 4.1 Hertel Antipas (son et Herex! tho (treat), who murdered John the Baptist. It was his Fon, Herod Agrippa 11., be- foro whom Paul made his famous defense (Acts 2e; : 2'+). What was the ]history of Herod Agrippa I.? He was born B.C. 10 and educated in Rome. Amies a rash and adventurous career, he rose through the favor of the Em- peror Caligula. Ile helped to set the steak Claudius Caesar on the throne of Rome (A. U. 4t), and in return was made king of all Pales- tine, whore he reigned 'only abint three years before he cane to a horrible end, as related at the close of this chapter. What was the policy of this Versed toward the Jewel Ile tried to do whatever plenetel the Jews (v. 1). He lived in Jerusalem. He took pains to observe the minutiae of Jewish ceremonials. He hung lip in the temple the gold chain whish Caligula had given him. He was only part Jew, and part Edo - mite. and greatly feared the people would hate him as they had bated Herod the Great. At the feast of tabernacles in A. 1). 41 he had read tt the people the whole of 1•euter- °norms bursting into theatrical theory, no practical man has been tears when he came to the words, aide to give any reason kr the old Then to*vest net set a stranger faith that is in him beyond the fact ..ser thee. who is nut thy brother.” that it is sanctioned by establiehod Therrnp.,u the obsequious pepu- curtom. Examination prose• that lace bad cried. "Don't weep. Agrip- ramnming has lead to a copious de- aelopnient of fibrous roots. in slanting the important thing is to helmr (re'b root forinativn, and r'ntn-ing (*eel this mere rapidly 1 ie 1 the 01(1 eal. pa: You are our hrether. The Blessings of l'erse'cntion. The early chureh had many oppor- tunities of rea{iting the 1)1esainge 01 perrcc•utiun promised by Christ. That is the last of the Beautitudes, the terror has sprend in Ireland was almost grown u} during the Past few months, for "But what is the strange hear :" asked Lizzie, with a puzzled look on her face. "What is the uan.e of it 1" "Why, they call it the stump bear," answered Uncle Dan, laugh- ing. "and. as 1 said, he has fright,- reed more persons, especially sivail boys and girls, than any other kind of animal." And Uncle Dan laughed. Fur a second the children did not know what to think. Then Lizzie burst into a joyous laugh. "1 know what it is:" she cried. "It isn't a hear et all: it's just an old stump that yon think is a bear. like that one near the spring. up at grandpa's "Yes," admitted Uncle Dan. "that is what I meant. I knew Feu had seen them, too'" ---Youth a Companion. _- i;I.F.('TRiC 111AIR-I:ROM\G. fixe Greet' Due to %-rays red High Frequency ('urreete. At • recent selling of the Aca dewy of Medicine. at Paris, Pref. Hallopeau introduced a young man of twenty-seven. with a splendid crop of hair. The professor ex- plained that eighteen months ago the young man had been completely held, Let 1)r. ('hieotet had tried esperi: ents on him with astonish• int s• -,cess. The treatment consisted solely of the a'ternate u►e of X-rays and of .1e eetc h4gh frequency cermet,. Ur. ('hicotot claimed se settee,, f'r his method, and had toerel} un- dertakes the experiment to ethos wh*` weeders could be worked by electrtea s cash e'. Wilds/se s 1. i ,r) 1 1 ai