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e hatl the repueetion of being a
specific remedy for the relief, of all
bowel troubles elide as
- Diarrhoea, Dysentery,
Colic, Sto ach,Cramps„
Summer Complaint,
And Other Looseness of
Tile Bowels
Mrs, Norman Heal, R.R. No. 3, Sar -
Me, Ont,, writese--"Last Summer I
glad a very severe attack of ;simmer;
complaint. I took a few doses ef Dr.
Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry
and in a felie house r got eelief from
the severe pains. •
.Poieler"s',is tho only medicine
I have ever talten that will give relief
-so quick1y.,1
When you ask for Dr. Fowlee's Ex-
tract of Wild ,Strawberry,, bo sere you
feet -what you ask for, es 'eortfe oedthe
cheap imit.afions may prove to, be dan-
gerous to your health.
• "The seiane to begin feeding a pig
Is about six months before he is born."
That's the way one of our neighbors
put it the other day. Meaning, of
course, that the mother ehould be put
in condition and kept in. condition to
farrow and raise a profitable, litter.
It is esleing too much of Nature,
to keep a sow in a dry lot on a ration
, of grain and water and expect sizable
-littere ef husky pigs.
Good forage—alfalfa, clover, blue
grass in season, rape, Sudan --a light
ration of grain, some tankage, free
access , to a mineral mixture and
plenty eof water and a dry bed
solve most of the pig troubles.
One Cause of Missing.
Somethries the engine of the faxen
uck or car will miss intermittently.
It Will l'un all•right for a period and
thee suddenly develop a spell of miss-
ing. Often we go• to, the trouble and
expense of having the valves res
geler ground, new spark plugs installed, ,Cir
having the carburetor readjusted, Quiet
to discover later that the trouble is in
the ignition. However, when trouble
of "this kind occurs there is n simple
and• effectivd method of determining
whether -it Is in the ignillon oi ot„
When one cf the.missing spells be-
' gins,. renedve the high tension wire
from any one spark :plug and with the
engine runniiig bold the end • of this
• wire one -sixteenth of an inch away
the end of the porcelain to which
it is normally.. attached, so that in
.eieddition to the spark gap inside the;
etTeeiinder. the spark will also have to
jump a-orie-sixteenth Inch gap' in the
outside air. If the spark continues to
jump regularly the ignition is all
right in that cylindee at least. On
the other hand, if , the spark jumps;
eight or ten times and then misses;
once, only to jump reghlarly ter six;
or seven times -andthen miss again,{
It is a positive:indication that 'gelation
Ls at fault.
• Test all the plugs,
Sort Them Up.
. 1, have- marketed some vegetable,
crops -and other products. I found;
that coninion stuff put _up in the coma
• mon eilay, such as is popular with•
most; farmers, we„n sell slowly wheel'
, .
good products assorted to a uniform=
tt wili eon much better. They told,
• me my tomatoes would not sell, bet'
SUMMER CARE OF BREEDING
STOCK. '
Manx poultrymen, as soon a the
hatching seasen is over, begin to ne-
glect the breeding stock. This is a
serious mistake. Much of youe suc-
cess the next year depends on the
good condition in which the older
birds are kept. Often the feed is re-
duced at this time as well as the variety curtailed, This is also a mistake.
Any one feed alone will not keep the
breeders in the best a condition. If
they are made to forage for a part of
'their feed, be sure the Y have a full
feed at night cOnsisting of at least
twb 'mine, preerab1y corn and
wheat or corn and oats. Corn, if fed
alone, is too fattening, and overfat"
birds are not in good condition and
are suscePtible to disease.
It is just as important to feed regu-
larly at this time of the year as ever
if you wish to get a good egg produc-
tion during theisuintheienionth,s, epee
cially the forepart before the birds
start to molt. '
- •
The health of the fowls reqUires
plenty of water during the hot days
Of SUI11,111er. Don't oveilook cleaning
the .driekeeg vessels each day, inside
and out, and scald with boiling water
once a week.
If during ,the; breeding season the
birds have been Xarded, it is best to
let them out on free range until next
breeding season,
Oyster shells and grit are as neces-
sary now as ever. One peund of
oyster shells will furnish enough lime:
for the' shells of about eight dozen
,eggs. In some sections of the country
where limestone is present, the grit
obtained by the fowls on range is not
sufficiently hard to meet their needs
and commercial grit must be supplied.
Grit composed of quartz or granite is
the best. Oyster shell should hot be
used as a substitute for grit as it is
not hard enough.
when_ they were assorted into even
, sizee' and color; each spechnen looking
like its neighbor, they appealed and;
sold,e Apples assorted to size and.
.eoloy wifl beingemoee than the same'
tipples mixed. 1 always put up my;
radishes, asparagus, or onions in
buncliee, of as like appearance as if
could, andit:naid.---A. EL
Heart .So Bad
Ndt•SLeep
Popped Up in Bed
Mvafl McLeod, .Portago
Prairie, af an., NY i tee :es,' • \ -rtes. hong
eerl "The idu" 1 was bothered with
a Vitrybnd heert and my fleeter cleinted
that it would be five yen; e before it
got ney bettera wa.s so bad, et times,
I collie not lie down in sleep, but had
to be propped up en bed, lie 1 world
feel ati if feevere going to sir -millet, end
sometimes, my heart would beab eo fast
-it neide eta ,feel ;sick.
My Mother Advised Me To Taio
Pa LBURNPS
HEART' AND NERVE
WAYSIDE
DELICATESSEI.,,
%ft 41.1
Something out of the ordihary can
be tried oiet with success, if you are
anxious to get the very top price for
the produce you have on the farm.
Every' one is familiar with the
"stands" along the country roads
where you can 'buy fresh vegeta-hies
or fruit, eggs and poultry, but it- is
only recently that I came across two
farm girls who are trying out some-
thing new.
• They explained that they osaerheard
'a man who was in the ice cream busi-
ness and who was abotit to sell out,
tell the percentage of profit in every
gallon dt ice cream which he sold.
"Well it is the same thing with any
made-up product," he a'ded, "you
make up your eggs into ,salad dress-
ing and put the finished product out
for sale and see what year eggs will
bring you.".
"It gave us the idea for a wayside
delicatessen," said the girls.
"What time of day •do the most
people drive past here? What are the
cooked commodities that .people want
mostly in the summer?, What:would
our farm supply us with most con-
tinuouslede, • W‚hat'.' quantities should
prepase?,. „These were some of the
cities flocs. •
POTATO CHIPS. CRULLERS, ern
"We found that the greatest number
of peo,ple passed between the hours of
four and eight in the late, afternoon,
so decided to keep open at that 'time.
We advertised,- our location which
was .a mile and a half from town and
on a graveled road, and advertised a
few made-up dishes such as salad
dressing, apple pie, cakes, potato
chips and crullers, as well as fresh
tomatoes, etc.
'We placed a ,qeestion box at Our
.
gateway and people were asked to
write their wants, and suggestions as
how we could fill them, and then place
their requests in the box.
"Our trade commenced.* We were
careful to study store prices on cooked
foods, and kept in touch with market
prices on garden stuff, butter and
eggs. We counted the time .used ie
making cake, salad dressing, or apple
pie, besides the actual•cost of mater-
ials used. We also figured on our
• overhead of advertising, service in l
constant pply of charcoal in,.
granulated form Biould be available
s
to the fowls. -
Birds on range findenough green
feed for thelr needs until the ground
becomes frozen.
As a rule one need not furnish beef
scrap or ether ianimal feed in the
spring or early summer ae the birds
can generally secure a sufficient Sep.':
,ply of bugs and worms. Late in sum-
mer and in' fall it is advisable to fur-
nish something in the way of meat;
feeds. If you have plenty of rieilki
give them all they will drink as it
ivill take the place of beef scrap,
If some of the heavier breeds are,
.kept such as Plymouth Rocks, W..ya.n-'
clottes and Rhode Islands, some pro-
vision shouldhe made to break teevthe
hens' that lecozne broody. Broody bene
rarely if ever lay and therefore hens
that are being fed for egg production
should be broken up 's soon aspos-
sible. Broody hens should oe removed
immeclieeely from -the laying house
and Wiped in a coop consiating of a
slattedrbott'om, the coop raised off the
'ground from six inches to a foot BO
as to allow -the air to•circulate freely
underneath.
Care should be given • to rid the
poultry houses of mites as, they breed
freely during warm weather. They
will be found in and around the nests,
'under the dropping bop:ells and on the
;roosts. An application once a week
of k.ercseria-oil -Or „crude petroleum
sprayed thoroughly throughout the
house will rid it Of these pests. Body
lice also must be lcept doyen by a
good :dusting of sodium floride. This
should be repaate'd in three, weeks' so
as to kill the lice that have hatched
from eggs that were on the fovv1e:'
Another method of killing body lice is
to grease around the vent with soina:
good lice ointment.
Remo'ire the male birds from the
flock after the hatching season is oyer
so as ,to produce infertile eggs.
end 1 must • meif 'thee they dal me a
world of good, es ip it very sheel time
felt ley:ellen:le beano° einse steonger
and could •10 my OWil 11011,501VOTii. without
that tired, \milieus feelitig. I will al,
ways ieceoeireen(li teen,'" to' all tildse
from hs rt eroubles.'' •
atillann's are for sale ,
at ell dniggole id lCalOi PLL ;up
oply ley Ties ta atilleire Coe Limited)
TOreato• Oet.
1
selling, and the price of cartons and,
Containers used in putting air ma -I
trials up for sale.
"Figter;:e out, if 'you cen, how much
you. will reacive from a bushel of. po-
tatoes if you sell them in the forni of
potato chip,' -Qt. count up the price
•
,of a peck of apples ir sold' in
, . -
Deduct, too, the; time it would tako.
in gettieg- these, to market and the
westo you• might have you were
leet selling. to a town Btore, ,
rielere LENCHES. .
• "We begantto develep new ideas as
soon as our trade began. 'Can't' You
:put ihdividnal picnic lunches?'
steked a girl who often Weld, with a
eltowd oil young people to the grove a
Tile, fed:tier 00. 'Yee,' we told her,
'if -the 'theler is give e the day. beeoree
Thus, we built up a picnic trade. We
also leareed :filet pie, sold in, tectiene
brings even More than a whole pie.
tut we. kept our service holies strictly
from feel' to eight, fee COUid /10 t
afford 10 take timei from prepso•ing
our 'dishes' to wait on trade which
came at any time.,
"'rime our signs are effeetive. Our
house ie in the centre of out. feont
lawn aisdnt the boundary lines of our
faern we have signs reading: 'Way-
side Delicatessen Ahead.' It gives the
transients a chance to slow up and
investigate at least.
"You will not be long engaged in
this work until you•are•able to deter-
mine what you will event to grow next
year, what produces the best profit,
what dishes sell best and what things
you will have to avoicee"—M. C. 'R.
•
Gentle Bulls, Like Unloaded
Guns; Kill Most.
"The gentlebull—there's no such
thing," -
Says my geed neighbor Fraeklin King.
"The gentle. bull, like the unloaded
gun, * -
Kills the most, when all's said and
done.
The bull that's ugly you give wide
berth,
Wouldn't go near. him for all the
• •
earth.
Unless you're tired 9f your bed and
board,
Unless you want to be trampled and
gored, •
Don't trust your bull—that's the
safest plan.
Keep away feom ,him as far as, you
When you lead him, use staff and
ring." • .
That's sound atlevice .frOM. thy neigh-
bor King.' —M. G. K.
Tlipse Oily Rags May Start
a Fire.- -
Cotton rags which, are moist with
linseed -et_ arid tuiipentine, and espe-
cially if damp ,with water, if left
overnight in a wad eve ideal for ,caus-
ing spontaneous eonibustion. When
you are' doing painting or having
painters at works rags or wstste ae-
used, and very often the paint is mix -
to ripe vegetables after they lie in
ed in the cellar. Some of the waste the pan ready for cookingwill make
or cotton rags are likely to be left el -em large and of a delicious flavor
around. if they have been grown in emeriti-
vated soil.
BY children's rights, them we mean,
• a thorough training for life, and they
must receive this trainiug ingoed
homes—homes which are good for
them. °
• What does the home evhich is good
Coal oil and liee don't seem to mix
any better than do coal oil and water.
Where one is the other isn't, at least
for long. A neighbor has just put
into use a, rnetheid that seems to have
effeetively checked the advance guard
ef this pest. ,
Some 2x8'were sawed up into
2x4's, these being as long as the roost
platform. With an ordinaey rabbet
plane, grooves were cut a quarter inch
deep and a quarter inch wide and in
each was laid a thick eord of soft cot-
ton one end protruding three to four
feet from one end. The other end was
placed two inches from the end of the
groove and the remaining. portion of
the groove filled with a wooden plug,
en on top of this, with the cord
in place, a strip two" inches wide by
one inch thick was tacked and the top
surface rounded off with a plane.
The roosts were then placed in po-
sition, all the cords which had been
left extending at one end. At this
end a three -gallon tin ,pail fas set on
a support nailed to the wall and the
free ends of the cords run up over
the top and dropped inside, Then tho
pail was filled half full of coal oil.
The surplus from the saturated cords
soaked into the wood, forming roosts
which were practically louee-proof.
About a quart of oil a week was used.
es.
Foot and mouth disea.se has peeved
to be one of the most stubborn and
elusive contagions that science hae
everstudied, but in Germany two bac-
teriologists working in collaboration
have succeeded in isolating the organ-
ism of the•disease and have prepared
both liquid and solid enitures from it.
The way 10 now clear for experiments
that hitherto have been impossible,
and in time a cure for the disease will
be found. The discoveries are too late
to help either England or the western
States in the present epidemic, but
will probably save countless cattle in
the future.
-T;
DYSPEPSEA
Relived By UsEng
Mr. Hugh B. Miller, Hubbards, N.S.,
writes:— "1 suffered for a long time
from dyspepsia, and indigestion. I used
doctor's medicines end tablets of all
description, but got very little xesults
from them. I started taking Burdock
Bleed Bitters, and after using- three
bottles, E can gladly say that I am
better, and can eat most anything with-
out having any bad after effects, I eau
highly recommend B. B. B. to all who
suffer as I dia." •
B. B. B. is inanufactured oxily by The
T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont..
Canadian Dairying.
""The year 1923 will be looked back
upon as a milestone in the progress
of Canadian dairying for the season
that systematic grading of all butter
and cheese for export was, inaugur-
ated in that year. The work has been
carried out with less difficulty than
was anticipated, and in the light of
the past year's experience and with
some irnprovemene in the regulations,
we have reason to believe," states
Commissioner Ruddick, "that in fu-
ture the grading system will run even
more smoothly thall it has Clone so
far. It is too early yet to talk much
about results, and yet evidence can
be produced to prove that there has
been decided improvement in the qual-
ity of the cheese and butter in a great
many cases, and that it was due to
the grading is freely admitted by those
most concerned."
- Does Your Child Get His Rights?
BY HELEN jOHNSON KEYES.''
This Age of the Child iseeria-king
people think. .Wise men ised women
are studying him, writing books about
him, making laws for his protection.
The World is determined that children,
the men and women of the near 'fu-
ture, shall be given -their rights.
•By this, however, is not meant a
training which -will Allow them to do
as they please—to rua wild. Such an
education would •not ensure their
rights, but destroyetheme Their rights
are not a.ets of license, bet a thorough
training for life.
,01 course,,at all timeaegood parents
have sought to prepare their bo.ys•and
girls for usefulness in the world; but
there is a decided difference in the
way we do it and the way it used to
be done. This difference,. I believe, is
a good one It lies in the fact that
we try to create favorable conditions
in which .a child may grow naturally,
whereas, of old, people didnotthink
much about conditions, but attempted
to. shape and mold the child himself
by constant instruction, punishment
and rewards.
• Our idea now is to make the -soil—
that is, the home life --as rich and
fertile .as possible for our youngsters.
Like the farmer who, when he has
aultivated, watered, and drained his
garden, feels confident of a good crop,
so we, when we have made home what
it shoeld beefeel pretty sure that the
characters which we have -planted will
,
grow into sturdy men and women.
If, however, we are careless of tho
florae garden and let our children
•greer-up in shallow or unsympathetic
surroundings,, not all the, 'teaching,
preaching, and punishing in the world
will make them strong and fine, any
more than water and suns inc given
It is besieto burn these rags when
the day's work is done. Springtime
generally brings a lot of cleaning and
painting—remember about those rags.
In „fact, any oily rag is likely:to cause
a ffre, especially -et in a bundle.
Oil mops ought to be kept in tin_ cans,
and •away from paper and other corn-
,. .
eeustible materiel. •
ValEN YOUR BACK ACHES
'WINK OF YOUR KIDNEYS
Many people fail to understand: the
significance o,e a lame, weak, sore or
aching bade. ,
When the heck a ca es or bee° m es
weak, it is a searning that the kidneys
are affected in some way. „
Take llotiet of! this warnene• eelleve
the backstehe and dispose of any
shalIcee se'rioue Icianey. troubLee.
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TC1I010 111i 111C, tOrribiCI ii111138,131 lIa iYa0k.
errs. A. :Hebert, Point (hi Chive,
N, 13., Wri t es two eeers '1 was
eareetly troubledivite pa;ne in ley 1,30 11.
3 tried 11 keels of Iliernionts and plus,
tors„ lait got' no 'relief. until E tople
Done 'e le -Taney Thiis 37 he ve tiles n.
islied 1130 010011(41)05, and now the paine
liare 3311 (Ilan ppeared,',
Put up oely by "lite L. etilliiire‚
Limitedi Torolito, Get,
for children .bay.e?
• It hies a -spirit 'of partnership lan
this gives children the training in
lift:dpeulness and in the Tower. to ‚co-
operate which is their right., ,
Al: children older thenthree or four
years can perform eertaln daily tasks
of real usefulness. Mothers shhvid
kstudy the powere of their' children and
't give them lie do {het of: which they
, Inc capable.
,
11 10 at this tender age' that liiLia
people are most anxious to help. but
because their effeete are slow ,etie
blendering 11 18 natural to check them
and perform the labor one's 'self,. Then
they grow •up with the habit of liol
doing, and when they aije oldee, we
blame than for selfishne,ss.
. There ought to be A TaMily COHnell
in/which are diseussed the best color
for the V.BW barn sold the best fenehor
•
Tor the fe'ilds: The children Must ex-
presS their 'views; end be shown the
reasons wh ich gu i de 111 0 ir elders.:
Thus they will feel that; ,the hon is
theies endworta making seenificee for.
The honie \Odell is good for chibirtin
iallowe' the young ecople to (IWO All
•
d ()V clop property, ,Coeteo.eeci,cultivated
SOnSC of respell:a-11.de-, peneeption
Of the Manion in whit h \ve icap what
we sow, ad ecspect for contracts,
Give them a garden plot, or a calf,
Sunday
Lesson
Reforms Under Ezra and Nehemiah, Ezra, chs, 7 to 10;
• Nehemiah, chs. 5, 8 and 13. Golden Text — Rehirn
'unto me, and 1 will return unto you, saith the Lord of
,hosts.—Malachi 3: 7.
• The reign of ArtAxerxes I, king a
Persia (Ezra '7:1), began in B.C. 464,
more than seventy years After the -re-
turn of the exiles under Zerubbsibel
and Joshua, and fiftY:two 37eare after
the completion of the building of the
temple. It was early in thie
about B.C. 468, that Ezra, a learned
and pious man, of one of the old
priestly familiess, came fro: Babylon
to Jerusalem with a large company,
Ezra, ch, 8. He had made a. epecial.
study, in his liabylonian Jewish home,
of those books which the exiles had
carried with them, and 'especially of
the ancient lawe a Israel. "He was
a ready scribe in the law of Moses."
In the king's decree which authorized
his journey he is called "the priest,
the scribe of the law of the Ged of
heaven."
Ezra came to Jerusalem on a
sion of reform. For he had prepared
his heart to seek the law of the Lord,
and to do it, and to teach in Israel
statutes and judgments." The king's
decree authorized hirn• to appoint
magistrates and judges who would
enforce the law, Ezra 7:25, 26. • To
the etask of teaching and reform he
set himself with prayer and with zeal.
The journey from Babylon was begun
with a solenm fast that, he says, We
might afflict ourselves before our God,
to seek of him a right way." He ad-
mits with refreshing frankness that,
having said to the Persian king, "The
band of our God is upon all them for
good that seek him," he was after-
ward ashamed to ask for a military
escort on the long and dangerons jour-
ney, but God brought his company
safely upon its way. He inaugurated
his mission in Jerusalem by prayer
(Ezra, ch. 9) and his earnestness and
deep feeling made a profiled impres-
sion upon the people.
Neh. 8:1-3. The last verse of the
preceding chapter should be read with
this chapter. The of this assem-
bly is the seventh month of the twen-
tieth year of Artaxerxes, that is the
year B.C. 444, fourteen years after
the corning of Ezra. Nehemiah, a
Jew of high official rank in the Per-
sian court, is now governor. Like
Ezra, he came to Jerusalem with a
or a pig, or same 'poultry; let them sincere purpose to help the people.
have the care of these and the profits His first task had been to rebuild the
from them, minus rent for the land walls of the city, which seem never to
or the price of feed which you have thin
have been restored since the destrue-
5upplied. B C
Make . . 586, unless., the, story told he
Of the city by Nebuchadnezzar in
your agreement before they; Ezra 4: 7-23 represents an atterept at
engage in the work, and then be true; rebuilding earlier in the reign of
to it. If you. take from them the' Artaxerxes. This gave the people re -
1 ._ the milk, or the eggs whichielewed courage and hope. The walls
they have produced withcalt•
„aeine,, provided security and a means of de -
them, you perform an act of injusjtic6el, fence against the attacks of jealous
enemies. The goveirior rendered an -
which will teach them, dishonesty and' other great service to the people when
lead them to conclude in their hearts he persuaded rich creditors to release
that "might is eight" in this life. You; the mortgages. which they heldeon the
will -deprive them of the -training in fields of their poorer brethren, to set
honesty which is their due. free those who had been sold into
•
exact usurious inierest on loans made
as far as is possible. When children eh, ee
own,' to those who were in distress. : (See spirit of reverence and humility. We
clren giVes them rooms of their
do not know from night to night inl, The book of the law of,Moses was,
what room. they are to sleep, when( the same, or almost the same, as the
they keep their ethings in "any old Pentateuch. It was a collection of
place," sharing closets and drawers the encient law codes, together with
the history of The beginnings of the
helter-skelter With other members -of -
Israelite people, revised and adapted
the family, they miss their rights---.. to the needs of this later age Ezra
the right to a training in neatness ;neer b.i.ought the. law before t.he can -
and refinement which it is -our duty gregation. He read in the ears of all
to give there. • who could understand, standing in the
You do not need to do much fur- broad place (Rev. Ver.) or public
square, inside the city gate, upon a
nishing. If you give the girls an
high platform which had been erected
empty room, liberty to take what they . ,
I like from the attic, a few dollars and
for min.
The home which is good for chil- slavery•
iigeo anai by
ye 'ew taa, shte sPa ee vr tv ea zit( cgoefromits; r Scotlandabroofdr vao Wesley.s
swept by the Reformatien doctrine,
If we are to be preserved from the ,
ravages of war in the future, it will
be chiefly by means of the common
convietion on the part of Christian
people -in all lands, that war is a vio-
mxic;atetVeitoehntoioodnorifab nroedaf ti srpi thboile:dsal. spirit and
Ye a come
ottibtt8e-
1. Our study Mese ,be intelligent, d
We read (Neh, 8:8), "So they read
in the law of God distinctly, and gave
the sense, and caused them. to under.,
stand the'reading." Here we discover
the key to our study to -day. We are
to read understandingly, in snch
way as to rea.clnehe "sense" of the
Bible. In the margin of the Revised
Version the translators have ineerted
an alternative reading for the word
"distinctly." It is "with an interpre-
tation." That is very suggestive. We,
too, need an "interpretation" of the
Bible. But why? Here are two or
three reasons:
(a) The Bible is not one vdielmc.
written by one author, but a library
of books or pamphlets, dating froth
many different times and circum --
stances. Would it not be well to learn,
how it all came about that theae par-
ticular pamphlets were finally sewed
togethernbecause they were concerned
with the one subject of religion?
(b) There is a great variety a
literary forms in the Bible. If we
interpret myth or poetry as sober
prose, we shall miss les meaning. Just
reflect for one moment on this fact,
that we have in. the Bible, such liter,-
ary forms as the following: proverb,
drama, epic, elegy, history, chronol-
ogy, legislation, sermons, apocalypse,
letters, etc. These need to be "inter-
preted."
(c) The Bible sprang out of religii-
ous experience, but not out of the
religious experience of one man or
even one nation. The Old Testanient
tells the story of the religious develop-
ment of Israel for twelve hundred
years or so. The New Testament grew
in the Graeco-Roman civilization. So
we need to study every book of the
Bible in the light of the age in which
it wee written, just as we need to asis
ourselves for example: 'Why did Paul
write his first letter to the Cheeistian
converts at Corinth?" or, "Why did
John write his first Epistle?" Peoole.
do not "know their Bible" simply ees
cause they can quote unrelated texts
from different parts of the Bible. No,
rather, we must learn the meaning of
any verse or text as a part of the
narrative to which it belongs. Who
would think of tstings one sentence
from a private letter -written to -day,
without reference to the circumstances
behind the communication as a" whole?
While we must seek to study the
Bible intelligently, it is just as impor-
tant that we should study with the
have in it the story of man's search
after God,—a long, toilsome, prayer-
ful story it is. It is the narrative of
man's spiritual pilgrimage. On the
other iside it is the •attempt to picture
to 3.IB the divine effort to bring man
into fellowship with God. That is the
Bible. Let us study it with desneee
minds and chasteir.d spirits.
Vs 8-12. They read in the book."
some free time, they evill create. '
1 The scene as ;described was an an_
cozy place of it. And this cozy place;
pressive one. When Ezra opened the
may make the girl of disorderly habits; book all the people stood up. When
neat, and the giel of irritable temper, he invoked God's blessing upon thein
sunny and •good humored. It is at they all answered "Amen," lifting up
least woeth a trial, • I theirshhiandsThanend hoEzVangaitihdeihrilieadsin- A decent mirror and good wasning;
associ-
atesworread and explained to the people
arrangements will make a sudden dif- the meaning of what they read. They
ference in your boy's manners; and probably cliVided the people into come
good manners are the right of every; panics, which, after -listening to Ezra,
child, for 'without them nobody ac- assembled in, different parts of the
complishes great things in the world. square with their respeceiee mstruc-
.
tors- They "gave the sense, so that
The home which is good for chil-
they understood the reading."
Much of the language of the ancient
dreneinust have a -welcome for the
boys and girls of neighb,ors. There'
law was probably strange and limn -
are certain lessons which our young
telligible to these people. The lan-
people need to. learn in order to be g.u'age was slowly ehanging. Old terms
successful in life which they ran lettere, had become obsolete, old customs had
only from otheit boys and girls. Thee? passed away, and old laws were re -
must measure ,their strength against -Lathed, but with a new interpretation
that of playmates of • their own ages,I to fit the present need. Ezrai.and hie
ie order eo leeen sou -control. They fellow teachers'thus - :did. a great
"Your father's n,ot as strong as mine.
My father breaks the thickest twine,"
Said Eddie Jones to Jimmy Black.
Jun glared. at Ed and answered back:
"Twine? That ain't nothing! Mine
breaks rope!
Now you won't brag so much, I hope."
"Rope?" Eddie laughed, and said thai
wire
Was often broken by his sire. '
"Dad yanks it once," he eaid, "and you
Should see how nice it breaks in tevoe'
"I once saw father snap a chain,"
I then heard Jimmy Black maintain.
He pulled t once or twice—and, lo!
It came apart like baker's dough)
Then ,Eddie.gaye his friend 'a jar
mustunderstand What thenee ise woe ‚e.e rendered a ser- By saying 'that a 11031 bar
. , conse-
e
cense_ vice both to religion and good. citi- Had , once insen heoken by Ins dad.
que
/lees of ects are 'when theee
zenship. :.
quencee are not produced by the sup -
The governor, who ie called by hie
,gisior atithority of grown-ups, but by Persian title Tirshathat associated
the judgment, of equate. himi
self with Eera n this important
The home which is good for ehil- task, and joined with him and his
di.en insists on lots of rest, sleep, play 10,aey-v,itaensdin,apdeao3ciiaoini.henigo.icthirlisg.daTyhae eo
hpols:
and fresh air. Every parent ought to
r
read a feeV Simple books which tell ple had wept when they head the
great arid inspiring story of the days
fairly be exPeeted of of Moses and of Sinai and the wil:c1-
, .
how much may
children emt different ages. I aafraidemess ae w
t , d ei. ,ea they rea ized how
e
f at' they had departed feom the law of
the- tendency on the farm is to work
them too hard, just as the tendency in their God. • tut the injunction ofstheir
; ,
the cities is to give them too' little leaders was "Neither be ye sorry; for
res[4110 joy ef t,lie, Lewd is 3500T stresigth,"
Iptortissiab,iitietix.:tibie thing to eteid little' APPLICAITON.
boys out to -plow; it is cruel to fill the
early moreings so full of ebores"ihat
the ,beye anti girlf( 's go osehool,
tired. 'itanents must learn hove 'much
eines* play, and food is necessary at
-different etagee of growth.
Jt will avail liothing to extend the
0 , the earni, toe f ,t 1433 inort-
,geges and put ep fine huildings, 11
the beet erop tail farm—the 01111-
"deen,--lose -their 33013 15
• We ,love, what is lovable, what le
jolly and juet, and heed‚ lf we do not
meke go' homee jay end eirst and
kirel, we need riot expeet our chlideet
to love them when thee ei iv, at the
age oe independence.
!, There is soinethirtg very instructive
' and inspiring in the narrative of the
leeson paeesige--"the children of Is-
vael," gathered together es ote cern-
1 munity to 1104011 to thci expocitiono
the Law, under the guidance of Ne-
hemiah and Errn. These eveke deed
leiter" daye therely (toad ells. 8 and
1 • "
and at the close cisme the signing
o,e
the solemn) leagueaild covenant as
• be faithful to the Law, We eee here
the value of R eointrion „filigiouts
Im-
ttise, Princes, Levites, priests lends
the people generally, ,were ahl moved
by the desire to aecertain the divine
; will and con ferm to it, A mass move -
meet, or Ole lsind ie of incalculable
,e-elue. Vol` example, the elganization
l of the early charch began after the
"He pie,k,edi,deelared the lad,
• •
And broke t right across his knee.
It sure was wonderful to see."
rhy tp- 11 up f�r Inill an hou
Until their dads, with all thet power,
Had broken everything in sight
(Including chunks of anthracite.)
Ed's dad, as 1 vitae leaving, broke
barik vault with a single poke,
(For which 1 hope he won't be placed
Soneewhere an prison and disgraeed, )
• '
Jie asI have said,
lior 1131140 11 wide, did Jim ,md *
That both their dads evere pretty
•,Ct weet 4Clover High.
chideet clove
,
die 0114
if etit'low irgehe epringi 'following ita
seeding. • /My eei,ghbor wanted to get
a Bret; 'hay. (rop 'off tiled :thee a eeed
cropfie had the, blaekstieith attach
a gauge mil -feel fronl 31 sil1glc os- a one-
horee.cultivator to, his reowen,
held the cutteng bar high entiegli to
eeete the Jl1Jtl14L r,1;,his made She sickle
out. three nr:fotir iiminee Above the
erowe arid did the job j-ost Aght.
is ;is, le