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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1909-06-17, Page 6• • 4 ♦+++++++++s++++++♦+++j' Barbara had occupied in the morn- al, and I can't bear to think of her ► Lesson I. Should a Christian evert 1 To • ing. feeling wretched about it. l'm associate himself with uon-Cbris- ♦♦ "You're looking rather cheap, going t+, the N arrcus' to night, ?fans 1 , : A Romance of : Leeson iI. \Vby aro not All cod's Robert," I ventured. and if she's there Fin going tv "Feel it, old chap," he responded dance as many Dances with her as sal essu i ts delivered i rd1'1 attrea i.ir convertedprisons? ' I'm worried." she'll give ate.' t Cross Purposes + shortly. "Fact is, 1ti excellent ilea,`' I observed. Saul 1 i "Perhaps 1 can help you,- Ire "And don't forget the conserve- Lesson iV. Why are not all our , : rmarked, feeling that things were E • beingmade vas for me. tory." modern churches as vcguruus as Y• * * * * at i 4♦+4+♦♦♦++♦♦+♦♦♦♦4+++t 1 believe you could it you that at n Antioch Why was the gospel would," he said slowly. "Have I went to the Warrens' and 1Paul'ss in •IA a more robust age, when the you noticed something—er—rather danced one dance with Barbara c `1�f1N t,edi1» tui it ut eonlirmedintay, he ► world B•arharaawuuldtghanw broked less uol the strange about Rarl.arct lately i" early in the evening, which was on -Y •' No -o," I said doubtfully. ly half my usual allowance. 1 hard- sante way• to -day 'I hearts of Emperors, s, and wars ly saw her again, or Ilubhie either, Lesson VI. What was the secret between great nations, and altered I believe you have. Look here, for the matter of that, till people of the effectivenesP of Paul's preach the map of Europe. in the effete old man, I'll tell you what I mean were going home. Then he was ar- lag? without any busting about the bush. g t;lesson VII. \\'cold Paul and twentieth century she merely ar-n You know I'm not a conceited sort ranging her in her carriage. Quite in ► regales uldh,profr Il,c buadtttahar d of chap, or anything like that, but �ncAasuifrtlA�erely te lulu" lost millk hands ion- Bag the httas `ave tage ofeen f thjustified stifle !tor bh- that shout , p p y, e ► among half a country full of girls; it's littleust girl this 18 falling fini love with afro uncle. Barbara blushed, look- greater influence The theigospel? f the • is adored—more or less frankly—ed the other way, and quite re ccnutcil was a compromise. \\'hen t by must, of the women. 1 have been m�;I'm afraid so," Bobbie repeat- understood to speak to me; but this I c aro compromises sac wise, and when i an onlooker in many of her affairs ed "Of course she's the jolliest understood when Bobbie came round ' of the heart, or rather her affairs little girl in the world, and I like Wert morning to tell me that I was foolish? oI lesson IY. Is faith possible apart i of other people's hearts. As an on to be(byher special request) stage 1 looker perhaps I have seen most of her awfully, but the fact is she's P' 1 g from works 1 not my style, and Ican't—can't'—" manager of a certain important Lesson X. Is it every Christian's p • the game ; at any rate, I count it function looming in the near dirty to speak fur Christ i 1 an excuse for my existence that she he hesitated. future. 1 calls me her friend and asks my ad- "Reciprocate,"I suggested. e•-_ Lesson pe Have h asst great op vice—not of course meaning to fol -That's it,"he said. "And it's portunities for faith as Abrahamso horribly awkward. R herever I THE SUNDAY SCHOOL tri`! Moses had? low it. go, she goes. I meet her at teas, Vltl. A Peter -Paul Review.— morning I was sitting in my • garden amok- tennis -parties, and week -ends. This form of view would be excel- ing, and not reading the paper, one Then at, the Warrens' the other __-_ mornin when Barbara came in and lent for the department. s gnight, we were sitting out in the Let all the les, ons bo primary depar about r sat down on the grass by the side conservatory. She knew the place 1\TEII\AT10\AI. LESSON, Peter and Paul, the two leading of my chair. She sighed twice with -evidently, and—wet(, old man, I JUNE 20. characters. Make it a review of ► out speaking. Barbara always pre- suddenly found her hand in mine— Peter's life, as far back as his call • fess other people co start the con-, mind, •I don't say she actually put `—' to be a disciple. The beat way, versation.eAfterwards, as a rule, it there, I don't say that—but well, Lesson \11.—lieview Sunday.perhaps, is to draw on the blacjC- • she attends to it thoroughly. I think she expected too to pro - Golden P P board tars large sheets of paper) "Hadn't you better tell me all pose to her—and—I didn't. I felt Golden'fext, Acts 4: 33. a series of frames, each to hold a about it i" I remarked. an awful cad when she stood up and "picture" s" of one scene in Yold a "I am so unhappy," she began. said in a quaky little voice: 'I Gulden Text.—What great power life or Ynuof This "picture" will "I have never been so unhappy be- think you had better take me back gave the apostles witness of the be indicated by a few words written resurrection of the Lord Jestts.— s tore. to my chaperone. as the children recall the scenes, "Surely," I exclaimed in some "H'm," I said. Acts 4: 33. allcll as "Peter walking on the concern,Now, you know her so well,"he A variety of forms of review is waves," "Peter by the fire in the "you are not in love, pursued, "she talks to you so freelygiven here, in order that teachers +�' Barbara? P , courtyard, 1 aul luting Elymas, —I know she does for she's told mo may select the method best suited"jam"' courtyard," s ," ."Paiting his epistle, "A "\o," indignantly. "I am un- —that you might—" to the age and ability of their classes. recession of heroes." happy for somebody else." "Give her a hint, eh t" I said Sometimes it will be best to unite P "T•ell me," I commanded, and rather snappishly. two or more plana, or to take parts 'p Barbara settled down to a full out,- '" Well, why not? Think of of several, or to make other adapta- pouring of her sorrows. all the pain it would save tions of these suggestions. TRICOLOR WENT FIRST CLASS. • "It's Bobbie," she began. us both. I should hate to make• I. A Progress Review—.To carry ' Now if there is one amongmythe pour little girl miserable." out this review, request the scholars' Ensign Relayed to Allow Flag on a week in advance to go over all the Second Class Train. friends less unworthy than the rest "Bobbie, my boy,"I said, "you o to love and be loved by Barbara, ask no light thing. Yet such is my each of lessons of the quarte and in advance A truly Qilt ertain scene is re r Bobbie is the man. friendship for you—for you both,wastep orted to have taken place at Equally with her, he makes me in facthat I will see what can be ample, s aken by he marks the begor in- Marseilles. ' the confidant of his troubles—so I done."g Soldiers had been sent, under i listened eagerly for further revels- "You're a brick, old man," he Wing of the broadening of the church command of an cosign to take a / tions. muttered huskily as he wrung my to take in the Gentiles. Lesson 1I. ; , marks a strep theuin of the flag to Rice during the Presidential r "I can tell you because you area hand. I think I noticed a tear in g g 4vts.t. On changing at Mar - the friend of his,"said Barbar. "The his eye as he turned away and bur- church s faith in the power of pray-1rveilles a second-classntrainsiage was y boytied down the path. er. The event of Lesson III. gave to ief sill • has fallen in love with P the church itsgreatest leader,atl put, at the disposal of the ensign. me." She paused dramatically. I saw Barbara again a day or He refused it, that the Tri - lists "Quite right and proper," I ob- two (a_er, and I told her I had Persecutor. The me winning will mits ake color could only sayingt lush- Tri- served judicially. "That leaves on- spoken the word of wisdom to Bob- leers of scholars steps" and' The station master of Marseilles ly the policeman and the butcher bie, and that he had said she was not these lists thesewi"forward be cum tared in the! !tad orders fur a second-class car boy in the village who haven't." to worry ; that he hoped time would class, takin one lessc n ata time riage, and refused tocls "It's nothingto be funnyabout," heal even a heart lacerated as his. g giveway. said Barbara, and I coulsee she "How splendid of him !" she a d t.hus eviewin i fent its chief Dints ; '1 he officer t; c declined ei to go. room He re - for was real! serious. "You know I said softly, and a tear fell into the P three hours with his detachment Y middle of a pink geranium she was Fur this review each 'ichular may perfectly him. lHe'sora the dearest boy and make an outline map showing the and the fog, and finaliy went on by rtectly adorable. But I don't like wearing. I wish, —she began. various countries and laces that a slow train. but first-class, and "What do you wish?' I asked P him—in that way. And it's rid'- . were the scenes of the quarter's arrived with his precious burden colons of him and inconsiderate." I and I couldn't help smiling n little. q ' Fix hours after President Fallieres "I wish," she repeated. "O}t lessons. Let each lesson be locsttd I nodded sympathetically. with a figure. When a lesson in.. had left Nice. "But what can I do? If I go to never mind—and it's perfectly her solves more than one place, repeat a dance, he's there. He turns a rid of you to be amused." + P "By the way, Bobbie," I said the figure at each locality. Then at every tennis party within twenty ., let the scholar make a iist of the SENTENCE SERMONS. miles that I go to. If I go anywhere next time I found him alone. 1 laces, by names and number and for a week end, he travels by the had a chat with Barbara the other write opposite each a brief state- All great facts are due to some same train." day. She wants me to tell you not ment of the principal lesson to be great forth. "Perhaps he'll get over it," I to worry—that she quite under learned from the event that occurred Tact without, love is only a lotto suggested hopefully. "Other men stands that it needn't make any there. For example: ''Jerusalem: of diplomacy. have, yon know." difference. She wants you still to the first church council, teaching Men who give up nothing give be friends with her. up everything. "He's going to her head. the value of frank and brotherly "He's to propose," she said "Poor little girl,'' he murmured discussion of differences." It is better to blurt out truth • despondently. "And then when sentimentally. "Poor little—" he III. A Characterizations Review. than to set a lie to soft music. I've refused him, of course, things broke off savagely.Oh see it's —This review will take up the vari- There is no blessing t+. any bread will never be the same again. He very funny, I know,"and threw nue persons that have entered into until it is broken and shared. won't be able to forget and neither himself violently out of the room. our quarter's lcssun�. Each scholar Only the doctrines that make I suppose I must have smiled.deeds are worth working over. shall I. And we've had the very * * * * will be asked to write brief char- Preaching w dthtetica is always the jolliest times together." acterizations of all these persons. forte of those who are out of bread. "Are you sure he'll propose?" I didn't see quite so much as usual These will be rend and compared in The child who gives all gives more I 'He's certain to. He tried the of Barbara or Bobbie during the the class. one character at a time. than the riches who gives only a other night. It was at the War- weeks that followed. o\r did they, They should be quite brief, often •• rens' ! I was very tired, and in a so far as I could make out, see hardly more than a sentence. For part. e most desolate lives ore those utak moment I sat out a dance with quite so much of each other. example: "John Mark, a man of • that are lived for life's furniture him in the conservatory. It was a But at last she came to see mo good impulses but weak determine- only. , lovely place—I'd found it three looking quite unlike her usual radi- tion ; he made one great failure, but Many a man feels that his indorse - 0 dances before with Captain Jack- ant self : and she actually began he Also made a great recovery." ment of a religion gives it its prc- son—and so long as Bobbie was the conversation. V. A Central -Text Review.—Ask eminence. content to sit and flirt quietly like "Bobbie seems to be looking ver•y the scholars to go over the lessons It's better being n hand car on ' an ordinary man, it was jolly. But ill lately, don't you think 1" at home and select for each of them he got serious, and said 'Barbara' "He does," I said shortly. the right road than a private one • the verse that they think best stn- on the wrong. • two or three times as if he was "la it—" she began and caused. bodies the spirit and thought of the When a man re.'illy gets a truth he t peaking out of his boots. Then he "lilt? afraid au," I replies ranged. lesson. Tell them in every case to ceases to be afraid either of hell ' Kot hold of my hand, and as I saw always seems go depressed and use the entire lesson, and not mere- ly the verses that are printed in the or of heaven. / a proposal written all over his face wretched nowadays."It were better to suffer from (Barbara is thoroughly conversant "I wish I could do something," quarterlies and lesson -leaves. For eternal justice than to enjoy un - 1 with the symptoms) I got up quickly said Barbara earnestly. instance, for Lesson I. some may ending bliss on a crooked des). and said rather nervously : 'I think "Do you think if I saw him and prefer v. 15; others, v. 23 or 34 or you had letter take me back to my talked to him, it would cheer him v. 35 or v. 45. The discussion of +- chaperone.' " up i" these different choices in the class, TENTHS OF A SECOND. (Berbera rolled this out with in- "Wouldn't that be rather danger- and the fixing on a final choice, will describable relish. She so seldom oust Besides, the wound might to constitute a thoughtful r�cicw• It is not common to find a per- uses one:) be nearly healed by now. it would VI. A Christian -Life Review, son who can correctly estimate, the "But. unless you can help me, he cruel to open it again." Each lesson of the quarter lute some lapse of a single second. But as it's only postponed," she went on "I am not so sure," said Bar- strong teaching on the conduct of an English writer remarks, in these dismally. "If he doesn't do it this bara with an entire lack of logic. ' life. It will make an inspiring re- days of speeding automobiles, the afternoon after tea. he'll de it to- "And do you know 1 clon't think view if you set the scholars to form- exact time when each of two col - morrow after the tennis tourna- you can have (liven him that hint ing lists, at home, of these teach- tiding vehicles must have occupied merit." very diplomatically ----and 1 par- ings, at least one for every lesson, particular spots may bo a matter "How can 1 help y,.0 i•" I ex- titularly asked you to be very kind and then compare the results in the ot. great importance. In a recent claimed in dismny. "I can't tell and careful . Did I hear class. For example, the Christian- experiment a car took nearly two Lint----" you say anything?" lite teaching of i.esson V., Pant in seconds to flop after brakes were Not tell him," pursued Barbaro ''Er nothing particular," I said Cyprus, wcnitd Ire considered by applied, and in that time it moved insinuatingly. -Oh no, just give hastily. some to be the duty of missionary 19 feet. So even fractions of a him a hint. I'm sure you can do "\Nell, 1 believe you wore hormid activity ; by others, the folly Of op- second aro important One can it. Arthur, you are so diplomatic to him, and I'm going to r.it out posing Christian work ; by others, train oneself to estimate even and so --so discreet.'' two—ar, three dances with him at the blindness of the smut, like Ely- tenths of a second. Try it with a "I won't," I declared flatly. the \ .arrens' to -night and be awful- mar's physical blindness, which watch. and it will be found that I. And yet when half -an -hour Tater ly nice to him just to make up. comes upon all that set themselves, i.s just. possible to count 10 in the Barbara left me to my pleasantly And i don't care .. it open% the in reposition to the truths of the'lapse of a single second. But one disturbed smoke, such is the weak- wound again or not. So there." g,,.pe!. musts count very lest to do it. Hess if my nature, or the strength 1 made a point of seeing Bobbie \'I1 1 Problems iicview.—'thief of hers, that I was pledged to ad- quite casually that afternoon. wotild be a good torn, f.+r the review minister in the shape of a gilded ' Alter saying the usual things abnnt to take in adult cines. Let the! UNENTERPRISING. ISING. pill Inc inforttmati.:n that my poor the weather. i',reached my subject. teacher draw up a list of problems! fried Bobbie's passim ene a hope- "ilathara isn't looking hnlf the connected aith the various lessons, A woman who visited the Brew, lea one. girl she was. Seen her lately "' perhaps one for each lesson. and museum et London. recently in - It was that seats day. I remem Bnhhie scualed• preferably the problems that arose quired of an attendant : ' Have you her, shat Bob!.:, dropped in unex- "Yes. end 1 must say, old chap• in the elms discussione and Were not no sk+:l1 of Oliver Cromwell? 1 Ipettedly to see me. it was after it seems to me that eo u m.i+t Inc satisfactorily settled at the time. i have been leek ing all around for nner.. and I gas in the garden been beastly clumsy what i asked Read the list In the class slowly,'n sk+ill ..f (!liver ('rnmwell." seem. you to tell her . . . \Nell, you caleng for volunteers to a;eume the ' No. ma:la'n." replied the at- 11:1.I for it." 1 greened as i raw needn't sweat. Of course, 1 don't respv+nsihility of lending the elnss, tcncinnt, "we've never had one•,,' 1,:,.,,., +.ring down the path. and 1 doubt you did your best. ' on the next Sunday. in t►+e diaeits-. ''Nos ten odd she exclaimed. �r.•.,nt 4 again re- he settled hits- "It was a ti.kiish jeb." Pion of Ihpe(' problems. Here is al "They have a fine one in the rouse- tree. Thereupon the men placed ec.i ...t tee./ inches (rum the spot "That's no excuse for being brut suggested list : 1 uw at Uiufurd." their poles, and spears were stuck WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? Any One Who Accepts as His Guide in Life the Ideals of the Man of Nazareth "Whoever doth not bear his cross and come after ate cannot be my disciple." --Luke? xiv., 7. Nothing is easier than setting up small tests in great matters. Chris- tianity has suffered from those %v hu have reduced their intellectual selves sufficiently to worm through some verbal knotholes and who then choose to regard that particular orifice through which they have come as the universal and eteruul standard and gauge for all who would be religious It is true that the gate into the life that is truly Christian is a nar- row one ; but it is not constructed out, of verbal bricks; it is not con- structed and rendered torturous by legends of mystery. The strain it makes on us to enter and hold its way is not an intellectual one, not a ?natter of menta' contortions and squirmings; its demands aro so severely practical that they con- stantly call for our best efforts. A Christian is any one who re- gards the man of Nazareth as an inspirtion and his life as 'dually imitable, who takes life in the terms that this Jesus took his life. This is not a matter of slavish imitation ; it is a matter of being animated by the same spirit that compelled that life of long ago; it will not lead to doing precisely the same deeds, it will lead to following THE SAME IDEALS. It will not mean repeating his words; it will mean thinking the same kinds of thoughts and follow- ing the sante life aims. Nothing more and nothing leas than this makes the Christian, that one lives his life in the spirit of this leader. Apart fr ,m this yonr views of that lender aro without value. No matter how exactly they may conform to existing standards, no matter how minutely youmay he able to analyze the mysteries of his birth and death, no matter how much satisfaction you may find in classifying his teachings and des- cribing his deeds, without his way of living you are not his. Such a test sweeps away many an ingenious standard, manufactur- ed for all because it was found easy for a few. It asks, not what do you think cif thing in the past., nor what do you drown of the future, nor what do yet" hold that others ought to thit:k i it, asks w,,at do you live fur? How do you livel What are you worth to your world? The man of Nueareth has inspired millions because he discovered the only absolutely and eternally satis- factory motive fur 1.fe. He answer- ed, uitn his life of failure and seem- ing folly, the great question, what is it that makes living worth while 1 And his answer is: The opportunity to give ti'q to the world. To hint and to those who make him their teacher and gi.ide life is just the chance to make the most of ourselves for the sake of hav- ing the more to give to our follows. LIFE IS WORTH WHILE for the work one may do and tie life he may give to this world. That one of long ago interpreted life in terms wlech declared that selfishness is the worst form of sui- cide and that service and sacrifice are the largest way of living. His followers are those, wherever they may be and whatever name they may bear, who live to give life, who seek fullness of liv ng in order to render fullness of love and duty to their day. Other lives have caught that. spirit. Our great who shine as the lights of yesterday on the road of to -day are those who have lived in this way. Their day called them fools, as his dey called him. They were not astute enough to get ahead. But they were wise enough to choose the life of self -giving and to endeavor to reader service that was really worth while. The matter for us all is not whether we can fit ourselves into the forms and fixtures of organized Christianity, not whether we can agree to this or that of its state- ments, but whether we are taking our lives in the terms of that life, whether we are willing to pay the price of his ideals, whether we are governed by its motives, whether life to us is a business of gathering in or of giving out, of making a liv- ing atone or of making our lives such that they are worthy to give life to the world. HENRY F. COPE. ON ALTARS OF THE GOD` thetlpelatform. Then round in a cDatto ircle around g, chief of the sacrifice, de livered an oration. Thus he spake : WIDOWS SACRIFICE WRETCH- "Oh, Mandarangan, chief of evil ED SLA t t.$. spirits and all the other spirits, come to our feast and accept our sacrifice. Let this sacrifice ap- pease your wrath and take from us To Appease Spirits of Spouses Who our misfortunes, grunting us better Frowned on Their Attempts times." to Remarry.SPEAREDBY WIDO\VS. Sacum was led forward. They From the far -away village of placed him against a small tree, tied Talon, in Mindanao, in the Philip- his hand{ above his head and his pine Islands collies the terrible body to the tree with bejuco strips. story of a wretched slave boy, deaf, A spear was placed to his right dumb, crosseyed and afflicted with side. The widows, Addy and Obby, other defects of vision sacrificed grasped the lance and exerting all to the god Becalm' by two women their strength, they drove it through of the tribe Ilagubo, that they might the child's body. Then the body secure souther husband. was cut in two lit the waist. It was SIU` OF SEVEN STARS. those chapped into hits, each of those present taking a entail piece Bacalad is by the Bagobos held as a souvenir, and the remainder to be the god of the spirits ; Aga- was buried. The slave boy. deal p:u,ntole Manobo is the god of good and dumb and almost blind, did not sad Dee ate is his wife; Mender- realize what his fate was to he un- angan is the god of evil. To the til the last moment. He cried out latter ail sacrifices must be made, but once. in order that his wrath he averted. RELIGIOUS ('CSTOM. When a Bagobo dies and his widow Rumors of this deed reached Allen is unaole to secure another bus - Walker, the Governor of Driv no. band, she too 'oust offer sacrifice. tie made an investigation. Ile set And these sacrifices are to be held out for Digos, not far from Talon, not more t` -an once a year, at ouch and after his arrival there sent for a time when a collection of seven the Bagobos of Talon. They all stars, three at right angle to the came, sumo 150 of them, including other four, can be seen in the heaven the children. Uattn Ansig made no to the cant at seven o'clock in the secret whatever of the oc•0urrenre. evening. This phenomenon is not He explained it all. He had corn- ed early in December ; the con- stellationno is called the Ba{alit— out a religious custom practised by the Sign of the Sacrifice. themselves and their aneestors from TO APPEASE THE SiHAOOWS. time immemorial. He, himself, in When the %Wows, Obby and Addy, placed their ease trustfully before the great end good Datto Ansig, the latter called a meeting of the old men of the tribe—him- self, Oling, I'andayn and Ausing. They decided that as they had not had a human sacrifice since the time of the great drought in 1905, and as many evils had since be- fallen them, a sacrifice should he made before Addy and Obby could resume a state of marital life. Having decided on the sacrifice, Angoon, a henchman of 1)atto An - sig, purchased a Bilan slave boy, named Sacum. about eight years old, paying for him five agongs. THE SACRIFICE. Thr.e days later some eighty members of the tribe met at Talon, on the !fiver Inolia. nut far from Ansig's house. Sarum was strip- ped naked. Upon a low beech of bamboo a smell basket was placed, made of the bark of the Bonga tree; in this each person present placed a bit of betel nut ; over this the men int their handkoichiefs, and over these the women laid straps of the hark of the palma his life of sixty years, had Afton '- eel altogether at fifty human 'aeri- fires. more lir less. both among the Bagobos and the Bilanes. ----+ WEATHER HiNTS. A bright yellow sky at sunset means wind. When the sky is particularly full of stars, expect rain. Three foggy mornings are usually followed by a heavy rainstorm. A rainbow in the morning is a sign of more rain coming, but one in the evening indicates fine weather. .1 morning fog ',waily clears away before noon ; an afternoon fog heel set in for the day. A red sunrise indicates rain, and so does a grey. lowering sun'et, or one where the sky it green ur yellowish green. The twelve days immediately fol- lowing Christmas are said to rte - note the weather for the roming year, one day for each month. Instead of feline ing at 'nmebndy c'ue's heel. get busy and set the pace.