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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1912-04-18, Page 2) THE WIN( H A a ! 1 i1 ES, A 1'RLT, 18, 1912 TO ADVERTISERS Nstied of eh,•,ngos Unlit be left at this ofilat' not later than Saturday aeon. The copy for changes must be left not later than Monday evening. Casual adv.ertiscia nts lees pte 1 Up to nova Wednesday of each week. e3;al ir,t;at • 1874 ivr!NIIIIAll TIMES. 11. i3 Et,L1O1 T, Pun:,lanitiu Asii Piterii:'rolt. THURSDAY APRIL 101'.4.* SANER REGULATION OF RAILROADS ASKED. A. plea for more conservative regula- tion of railroads, to give them a chance to maks' some money and thereby be able to give better service is contained in a resolution adopted yesterday by the dir..ctor.; of the Merchants and Manufacturer's Association. The resolution says that the welfare of shippers is seriously threatened by the lack of equipment and improvement in railway facilities, for which over- regulation is blamed, Copies of the resolution will be sent to congress, the interstate commerce commission and the state railroad commission. •`In order that these resolutions may not be misunderstood," said the Presi- dent Otto H. Falk, "let it primarily be said that the present industrial depres- sion is, in part, due to the railway situ- ation, "It is a well known fact that railroad building has practically come to a standstill. It is also true that the rail- roads have made only the most urgent improvements, as far as roadbeds and the replenishment of rolling stock is concerned. "This is largely due to wanton and reckless legislation and the activities of unwise railroad commissions. Their work has intimated the investor and prompted railroad authorities into an ultra conservative attitude. "There is no intention to give the railroads more than their just dues. iWe cannot do without them, but more than that, they must be prosperous in ;order to render a good service and prompt them to make extensions and improvements. "Milwaukee is more vitally concern- ed than are many other American 'cities. Many of the local industries are /engaged in the production of railway suppplies. We have a large and well equipped car and locomotive construe- -Owl plant here, known as the West Milwaukee car shops. These shops 'should always be in full operation. A revival in the railway business would !benefit Milwaukee's industries to a !considerable extent. "It also follows that if the railroad facilities of the .country do not keep pace with the increased commerce a severe car shortage may be experienc- ied next year. This will be detrimental not only to the shipper who cannot send his products to their destination but also to the producer, which finally means the working man whose labor must find a market. "I am a firm believer in the regula- tion of the railroads, in order that the service they rendered at a reasonable cost. But I am unutterably opposed Ito inimical legislation, enacted merely to satisfy an unreasonable political tendency or to ornament the toga of demagogues and political mountebanks. "There must be reason and common sense in everything, and while we want the railroads to do what is fair we must at the same time stand ready ;ourselves to do what is fair." -Mil- waukee Free Press, March 13, 1912. The Chinese language is reckoned to be the most unwieldly and intricate in existence. The following reply is given by a Toronto paper to the question - "Is smoking prohibited in post offices by the Department?" "We have made en- quires concerning the matter of smok- ing in Canadian postoffices, and we are informed that the rules of the Depart- ment are very strict in the matter, no smoking being allowed in any pest office." rto gEADAE Seems To Be Habitual With Many People. Sotne are seldom, if ever, free from it, istiffeting continually and wondering why !they can get no relief, Headathts are tfenetally caused by isomt derangement of the stomach or I bowels, or both. Burdock Blood Bitters removes acidity 'of the stomach, improves digestion, fegu- latts the constipated bowels, and pro- motes a perfect ctreulatiolt of pure blood' to all portions of the body, thereby airing the headaches by removing the cause. Mrs. L. Maguire, Kjnraouflt, Ont., writes: -"1 and writing you a few lines to tell you what yout Burdock Blood 'litters has done for tae. 1 used to be greatly 'With ea dacb but bottles of Butdock od Bitters r was completely cured. Tide was tiro years ago and I have bad no return of headache slate." • Burdock Blood b'ittth Is inanuhietuted only by The T. Milburll) Co., I,iinited, Terento, Qat, FOR GARDEN/NG LADIES. April Number of Canadian home <Journal will especially delight those reads ra who enjoy plotting and plan- ning, planting and pruning. It has several pages devoted to flowers, vines, shrubs and trees, which are as practic- al as they are suggestive of attractive results to be obtained, and profusely illustrated. "A Garden From The Woods" tells of many wild flowers that may be trans- planted to grace your garden and how to do it. Graphic pen plans illustrate the article on the borders of annuals telling of arrangements best suited for height, color and time of flowering. Dahlias, astors, carnations, vines, roses, cone flower, are treated of in separate little articles. "My Garden of Ten Dods" tells of how a city travel- ler raised all the vegetables for the family on his back lot, to the mutual increase of his health, happiness and bank account. If you have visited Bermuda, it will be delightfully recalled to you by "Easter in Bermuda" illustrated with photos and sketches of houses and scenery by Helen E. Williams, Shall the Hindu be allowed to bring his wife to Canada? As told by Ethel Cody Stoddard the opposition by British Columbia is due almost entirely to their immorality. Have you ever experienced personally or in your immediate family the power- ful suggestion of the patent medicine almanac which makes every almost un- noticed ache appear a symptom of some terrible disease. If so you will especially enjoy the story "Spring Al- manac," and it may suggest a remedy. Other good tales are "Aunt Mary Ann" a story of everyday life concerning the question of a wifely "allowance"; "The Song of Life" by Katherine Hole, and the serials. And the cover, I almost forgot that. It is one of the most striking and at- tractive of all the April covers. No other part of the Journal shows better than the covers, the very great increase in quality and its present standard. This one shows a young girl seated on a stump with a great bunch of trilliums. There is a hazy Leafy background and the sunlight sifting through the trees gleams on her hair. HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS. Carrots require three hours' boiling; parsnips, from half to three-quarters of an hour; lima beans, half an hour, rice, twenty minutes. To cut fresh white bread use a knife that has been heated, and it will cut smoothly. Fruits or vegetables canned in tins are wholesome if ends of cans sink in. If bulged out the contents are ferment- ed. A small dish of fine charcoal kept in the refrigerator and renewed every week will absorb the odors and keep everything fresh and clean. To clean straw matting, use a cloth wet in clean salty water, washing un- til clean, but wetting no more than necessary, then wiping dry at once. Do only a small space at one time, dry- ing as it is washed, until the whole has been gone over. To clean hardwood or stained floors sweep thoroughly and dust, then rub with an absorbent flannel cloth wet with kerosene. Dissolve five cents' worth of oxalic acid in a glass of water and scrub the hat with a nail brush, after it has been thoroughly freed from dust. Then rinse in clear water and dry in the sun. Black chip hats may be made to look like new by wiping with an old, soft silk handkerchief, followed by a light application of olive oil. In cleaning white felt hats milliners use the soft inner part of a stale loaf of white bread. It does the work per- fectly. The Case of Mr. Gamey. (Weekly Sun.) No rule of popular government could be more wholesome than that which precludes a member of Parliament from taking employment from or contracting with a Government. The reason of the rule is that the member's independence may be weakened. The rule which has been long in force in Great Britain is now broken for the first time in Canada by the passage of an Act enabling Mr. Gamey, while remaining a member of the Legislature, to make an excursion into the new country as the paid leader of an expedition to study the now ter- ritory ceded to Ontario. Much has been forcibly said in favor of imposing a more r1e ru rigid that no member of Parliament should take employment from a Government until he has been so long out of the Rause that his ap- pointment to office will not raise a suspicion that while a member he wt's carrying his appointment in his pocket, ande meekly din o as he was ' y g bid without regard to the "welfare of his eonatitu- ents. Perhaps Mr. Gamey's Constitu- ents may not be hurt, but the Legisla- ture will not be better for making a breach of this salutary ruler of inde- pendence. (From the TIME of April 18, 1892.) LOCAL, NEWS. Victoria street, from Josephine to the Diagonal road, has been given a good colt of gravel. Several of the farmers in this vicin- ity commenced seeding the early part of last week. Mr. B. Willson, of this town, sowed wheat on Tuesday of last week. I1ir. Walter Green, of the Union fur- niture factory, gbt one of his legs jam- med pretty badly, one day last week, with the elevator. He is now able to be out again we are pleased to see. The weather for the past week has been variable. On Saturday and Sun- day, there was a light fall of snow, but it has all disappeared under the sun's genial rays. There has been a raw north wind since Friday last, which has kept the air very cool and farming operations have been almost at a stand- still since Friday last. Messrs, Orr & Hiscocks, after having "The Bear" repaired and covered with a coating of coal tar, have had it eleva- ted over their shop door again. On Friday last, Mrs, Stephenson, wife of Mr. J. H. Stevenson, after an illness extending over several weeks, passed peacefully away. For some days previous to her death, hopes were entertained of her recovery, but on Thursday evening she grew rapidly worse and died as stated, She leaves, besides her husband, only one child, a boy nine years of age. The "At Home" given in the base- ment of the Presbyterian church, on Thursday evening last, under the aus- pices of the Society of Christian En- deavor in connection with the church. The programme was a good one con- sisting of several quartettes by Misses Sutherland and McIntyre and Messrs. Scott and Cline; solo by Miss McKenzie; recitations by Miss Cargill; solos by Prof. Scott and readings by S. Gracey. Refreshments were served in abun- dance. Rev. H. McQuarrie occupied the chair. The naljoern:•d :t•tnual mooting of the Win;gi em '1em,•c'ran:�0 Hall Company was h,1.1 n'i Monday -evening last. Thor ,'on i : tt" :donee of share- holders, ii t.' ,r,:•eting was called to order b; s.h.' 1't•esident, Rev. E. W. Iiugbt s, who eeatapied the chair. A. divid•'t?d to ;O pc eent. was declared. After some discussion th•> following directors were el•'cted: D. M. Gordor, W. 1''. Il+•ockonshire, Alex Ross, D. Sutherland and Alex Dawson. A. H. Mu•:gi•ove was elected auditor on be- half of the shareholders and the meet- ing adjourned. Last :taturday's Globe contained a good pfetnre of the 'Varsity Rugby Football Team of 1891, amongst whom we noticed the face of Mr. W. II. Mc- Quarrie, son of Rev. H. McQuarrie, of this town. The annual meeting of the Wingham Branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society Nva; told in the basement of the Presbyterian church, on Friday evening, April 8th. Peter Fisher, Esq, in the chair. The following are the officers for 18412-3: President, Peter Fisher; Secretary, John Ritchie, jr.; Treasurer, Dr. W. B. Towler; Board of Directors -Baptist, A McGregor, Alex Kelly; Episcopalian, E. C. Clarke, A. E. Smith; Presbyterian, Gilbert Mc- Intyre, Alex Ross; Congregational, Robt. Currie, sr., Michael Robertson. Auditors, J. J. Homuth and Alex Ross. BORN. Netterfield-In Lower Wingham, on the 9th inst, the wife of Mr. James Netterfield; a son. Walker -In East Wawanosh, on the 28th tilt, the wife of Mr. Elisha Walker; a daughter. Willits -In Turnberry, on the 2nd instant, the wife of Mr. John Willits; a daughter. MARRIED. Holmes -Nichol -At the residence of the bride's father, on the 14th inst, by Rev. H. McQuarrie, Mr. John Holmes to Miss Maggie Nichol, both of Turn - berry. GIVE THEM THE FLOWERS NOW. [Leigh M. Hodges.] Closed eyes can't see the white roses, Cold hands can't hold them, you know; Breath that is still cannot gather The odors that sweet from them blow. Death, with a peace beyond dreaming, Its children of earth doth endow; Life is the time we'can help them, So give them the flowers now. Here are the struggles and striving, Here are the cares and the tears; Now is the time to be smoothing The frowns and the furrows and fears. What to closed eyes are kind sayings? What to hushed heart is deep vow Naught can avail after parting, So give them the flowers now. Just a kind word or a greeting, Just a warm grasp or a smile - These are the flowers that will lighten The gardens for many a mile. After the journey is over, What is the use of them, how Can they carry, who must be carried? So give them the flowers now. Blooms from happy heart's garden, Plucked in the spirit of Iove; Blooms that are earthly reflections Of flowers that blossom above. Words cannot tell what a measure Of blessing such gifts will allow To dwell in the lives of the many - Oh, give them the flowers now! Not Honest Enough to be Bold. (Brantford Expositor. Outside the ranks of the thick and thin supporters of the Conservative party there is little disposition to treat seriously the anti -treating proposal of Sir James Whitney. It is generally regarded as being a political move and as being incapable of enforcement if placed on the statute books. It was mistaken tactics to put it forward. Sir James has already rejected a measure along the same lines when put forward by Mr. W. K. McNaught, and is not likely to have faith in an anti -treating law at this time. rrom a purely party point of view, he would have been on stronger ground had he taken the posi- tion that a well enforced license law, With the privilege, of local option, is a much safer position from *temperance standpoint that the abolition of the bar While retaining the shops. By taking this attitude, he would have demonstra- ted that he is "bold enoogb to be hen- est and honest enough to be bold." By taking up with anti -treating the Prem- ier has shown that he is as tricky as politicians are often accused of being, and hue eff8Ced his own trade -mark, Eczema auci Sore Eyes. "My daughter suffered from inflamed eyelids and eczema on her head," writes Mr. H. W. Lear, Port Planford, Nfld. "The child was in a bad state and suf- fered greatly. The doctor failed to help her, and on recommendation of a friend, I used Dr. Chase's Ointment, which made a complete cure. With a grateful heart I write you this letter." Ten Kind of Lies. Dr. Allen Hoben, professor of Soci- ology in the University of Chicago, has been studying this subject for months divides lies into ten classes. 1st -The fairy tale lie, which is told to children, or which the child invents from imagin- ation. 2nd -The vain -glorious or boast- ing Iies. 3rd The defensive lie, told to escape some punishment. 4th -The heroic lie told by one person to save another from punishment. 5th -The white or permissive lie, often told by conscientious people; this consists in hiding the truth while appearing to tell it. 6th The society Iie; under this head probably comes the lady's state- ment -"I am delighted to see you,'' when in reality, she wishes to goodness the caller had not made an appearance. 7th -The business lie. 8th -The pro- fessional lie, practised by lawyers and physicians. 9th --The art lie, by which recently made paintings are palmed off on amateurs as the work of the old masters. 10th -The adulterative lie; this the Professor holds is the most in- jurious and one of the most common of all lies, and results in giving us oleo- margarine for butter, cotton -seed oil for olive oil, etc., etc. • „ 1 LJ-BERO 'r7eek 101.lat owe s". ROOFING 00 Otte longer and more totinplete protection, per dollar of cosi,than metal roofing, shingles or any other ready roof- ing. With aver 300 inntatfons, Ru-ber-oldts still the best. Made In 3 permanent colors -- Red, brown, Green -- end hattual Slate. Look Into It beim* you dctide IIan that new roof eo eSekt eu s petal Ott. 'IIsa'EJrI!>lltM PANNICt- ottaduer,thedek+t,tease eaL J. A. McLean, Wingham. TO WN DIl1VEG'IORY. BAPTIST CIIUReH--Sabbath services at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday School at 2.30 p. Ln, U 'n ?rel prayer meeting on Wedu-'sday evenings. Rev. G. Vic- tor Collins, pastor. 13. Y. P. U. meets Monday evenings 8 p. m. W. D. Pringle, S. S. Superintendent. NIETIIOPIST Outlaw' - Sabbath ser- vices at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday School at 2;30 p. m. Epworth League every Monday evening. Gcneralprayer meeting on Wednesday warnings. Rev. W. L. Rutledge, D. D., pastor. F. Buchanan, S. S. Superintendent. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH -Sabbath ser- vices at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday School at 2:30 p, m. General prayer meeting on Wednesday evenings. Rev, D. Perrie, pastor. Dr. A. J. Irwin, S. S. Superintendent. .ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, EPISCOPAL -Sab- bath services at 11 a. m. and 7. p. m. Sunday School at 2:30 p. m. Rev. E. H. Croly, B. A., Rector. C. G. Van Stone, S. S. Superintendent. SALVATION ARMY -Service at 7 and 11 a. m. and 3 and 8 p. m., on Sunday, and every evening during the week at 8 o'clock at the barracks. POST OFFICE -Office hours from 8a,m. to 6:30 p. tn. Open to box holders from 7 a. in. to 9 p. m. P. Fisher, postmast- er. PUBLIC LIBRARY -Library and free reading room in the Town Hall, will be open every afternoon f„ an2 to 5:30 o'clock, and every evening from 7 to 9:30 o'clock. Miss Maude Fleuty, lib- rarian. TOWN COUNCIL -- George Spotton Mayor; D.E McDonald, Reeve; William Bone, H.B. Elliott, J. A Mills, Simon Mitchell, J W. Mckibbon, and C. G. VanStone, Councillors, John F: Groves, Clerk and Treasurer. Board meets -first Monday evening in each month at 8 o'clock, HIGH SCHOOL BOARD -Frank Buchan- an, (Chairman), Wm, Nicholson, Theo. Hall, C. P. Smith, W. J. Howson, John A. McLean, W. F. VanStone. Dudley Holmes, Secretary. A. Cosens, treasurer. Board meets second Mon- day in each month. PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD. -Peter Camp- bell, (Chairman), Alex Ross, John Galbraith, Wm. Moore, Robt. Alien H. E. Isard, Dudley Holmes A. Tipling. Secretary-Treas., John F, Groves; Meetings secondTuesday even- ing in each month. HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS -J. C. Smith B. A., Specialist in Classics, Principal; H. A. Percy, S. P. 5. Science Master; G. R Smith, B. A., Specialist in Mathe- matics; Miss C. E. Brewster, B. A., Specialist in Moderns and History; Miss B. E. Anderson. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS. -Joseph Stalker, principal, Miss Brock, Miss Reynolds, Miss Farquharson, Miss Wil- son, Miss Cummings, and Miss Taylor. BOARD OF HEALTH -Geo. Spotton, (chairman), Richard Anderson, Wm. Fessant, Alex Porter, John F. Groves, Secretary; Dr. R. C. Redmond. Medical Health officer. FARMERS and anyone having live stook or other articles they wish to dispose of, should adver- tise the same for sale in the Twos, Our large oiroulation tells and it will be strange indeed if yon do notet a customer We oan't guarantee that you will sell because you may ask more tor the artiole or stook than It is worth. Send your advertisement to the Timms and try this plan of disposing of your stook and other articles OUTSIDE ADVERTISING Orders for the insertion of advertisements such as teaohers wanted, business chances, mechanics wanted, articles for sale, or in fact any kind of an adv k. in any of the Toronto or other city papers, may be left at the TxMas office. This work will receive prompt attention and will save people the trouble of remitting for and forwarding advertisements. Lowe rates will be quoted on appltoation. Leave „r eendyour next work of this kind to the TIC 1iE!d OVVICCE. Wingham CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of To make a barnyard sanitary and dry, says Hoard's Dairyman, the best thing to do is to drain it. Whether this should be done by raising it so the water will flow off naturally or by open- ing some ditches or tile drainage de- pends, of course, upon the location of the barn and the yard, Cinders and soft coal ashes are very good materials for filling in a barnyard. Sand mixed with some clay will also make a good yard, and so will gravel. There are, of Course, cases where none of these substances are available, and it becom- es necessary to concrete a portion of the yard in order to keep it dry. OVER C VEARS' EXIPERIENCtk PATENTS 1 4 1 nMARK$ �gog �,�rdt� COPYh,QMrls &C. 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ELLIOTT, Proprietor and Pablisher DRS, KENNEDY & CALDER Olreents-Corner Patrick and Centre tats. PtloNas: Offices Residence, Dr. Kennedy Residence, Dr. Calder 48 - 143 161 Dr. Kennedy specializes in Surgery. Dr, Oalder devotes special attention to Dia eases of the Wye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Byes thoroughly tested. Misses properly fitted. DR, ROBT.O. RBIDMOND, 111. 11.0.S. (Eng) L. R. O, P. Loudon. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Offioe, with Dr. Chisholm VANSTONS, BARRISTBR, SOLICITOR, RTC Private and Company funds to loan at lowest rate of interest. mortgages, town and farm property bought and sold. Offioe, Beaver Blook. Wingham J. A. MORTON, BARRISTER, aro. Wingham, Ont, A. L. DICKINSON DIIDLIY HOLMIDs DICKINSON & HOMES BARRISTIIRS, SOLI JITORS Etc. IYIONNY TO LOAN. Oman: Meyer Block, Wingham. ARTHUR J. IRWIN, D. D. S„ L. D 8. Doctor of Dental Surgery of the Pennsylvania Dental College and Licentiate of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Moe in Macdonald Block. Wingham. Office closed every Wednesday afternoon from May Ist to Oct. 1st. • Wingham General Hospital (Under Government Inspection) Pleasantly situated, Beautifully fur- nished. Open to alt regularly licensed physicians, RATES FOR PATIENTS -which include board and nursing), $3.50 to $15. per week according to location of room. For further information, ad- dress Miss L. Matthews. • Superintendent Box 223, Wingham Ont. RAILWAY TIME TABLES. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM, TRAINS LAAVI NOR London,. m-. ...._ 6.85 a._ 3.80p.m. Toronto &Haatll.00a.m.. 0.45 a.m.. _ 2,80p.m. Kincardine -11.59 s.m.,, 2.3,1 p -m_._ 3.15 p,m. ARRIvI !MOM Kincardine _-6.80a.m_II.00a,m__ 2,80 p.m. London ..... .-.-.....__ 11.54 can 7.85 p.m. Palmerston.... 11.24 a.m . Toronto 86 $est,. ,. _ _ ... 2.80 p.m- _ 9.15 p.m, G. L t.MO.i1 , Agent, Wingham, O9.NADTAN PAOIirIC RAILWAY. V TRAINS CLAM NOR Toronto kindliest. _.. _ 6.40 a.m.. _ 3.10 p.m. Teesweter-......... 12.52 p.m __10.27 p.m. ARRIVI NRoat Teamster_.•_..._...-.,p85a,m.. _ 8.05 p.m. Toronto and Bast.. ,-.•12.41 p.m_ _10.17 p.m. J. EI,M11131101, Agent,Wiughate. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, Lesson Iii. --Second Quarter, For April 21, 1912. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, Mark ill, 7-19, Memory Verses, 14, 15 --Golden Text, John sot, 16, R. V. -Commentary Pre- pared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. The first part of this lessou is found In Matt. xli, 15-21, as well as in Mark, and the record of the choosing of the twelve is found in Matt. x and Luke vi and in our lesson verses, Our medita- tion is upon the record as found in the several gospels, When Jesus knew that they had determined to kill Mtn lie withdrew With His disciples to the sea. When people resist the gospel and wilt not hear of our Lord Jesus our in- structions are to let them alone and withdraw from them tMelt. x, 14; Acts sill, 40: 11. John s, lir. As then multi- tudes followed Jesus because they needed what Ile Lind to give, so there are multitudes now hungering for they know not what, but it is Himself they uee(l. in those days they heard what great things He (lid, and they came to Him from nil parts, even from Tyre and Sidon, as well as from beyond Jordan, and Ile healed them all and c'nst out unclean spirits (Matt. xii, 15) amid c'hurged the healed ones not to wake him known. The crowd so thronged [Lim that Ile bade his disci- ples to briug Iiim a boat that from It He might he able the better to teach them. We are vessels also, and Re de- sires frotn and through us to make the glad tidings known,. but few seem willing to give Iiim the vessel. The quotation from iso, xlit, 1.4, in Matt. xii, 15-21. must be understood in the light of the context, and thus it is Wein ,that the bruised rood and smok- ing flax represent Elis enemies. whom He might easily break in pieces, but the time is not yet. Compare 11 Hinge xviii, 21. Sotne see in the reed and flax a suggestion of the weakness of Ilia own people with which He will not deal severely. That phase of the truth is found in Heb, ie. 15, 16, but here we are pointed onward to the time of judgment upon His enemies, and after that the winning of the nations to Himself through Israel, now meekness and submission and suffering, and then the glory. Llil:e vi, 12, 13, tells of Ills spending all night in prayer to God and then, when it was day, of Elis choosing twelve of His disciples, whom He named apostles. 1 often wonder if we understand prayer as practised by Iiim. Think of our prayers, a few mo- ments of confession and petition, and contrast this "continued all night in prayer to God." He had nothing of sin to confess, so It must have been an all night of communion with HIs Father concerning the things of the kingdom and concerning these men whom He was about to set apart specially for Himself. Verse 13 of our lesson says that He called unto Ilam whom He would and they came unto Him. On the last night before be was crucified He said to them, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have ebosen you and ori dallied you, that ye should go and bring• forth fruit and that your fruit should remain." When he called these men He had In mind not merely the few years of ministry in a mortal body, with much weakness and (allure on their part, but He saw the kingdom and the twelve thrones on which •they would sit ruling the twelve tribes of Israel (Matt. xix, 28; Luke rail, 80). It was not the time to talk with them of that; but, though He did speak of it before He left them, He niso said, "I have yet many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now" (John xv, 16; xvi, 12). He called them that they might be "with Him," He want- ed them not only in His company, but to be wholly one with Him, seeing things as He did, having His mind about things, as far as such mortals could; but ob, how they failed, and how we fall, and how we must grieve Him by our unbelief and our own thoughts instead of His! He wanted them with Him that He might sent them forth to preach and to heal. Whom He blesses He desires to make a blessing to others, and 'He has left us here in His stead, saying to 1115 Father, "1 am no more in•the world, but these are in the world.' Be else- prayed lsoprayed that through us the World might believe and know (John xvil, 11; xxt, 23). He not only prayed for the apostles, but for all who should be- lieve on Him through their word (John Yvil, 201, 80 we are included in His primer. and He ever ltveth to make in- tercession for us. In the order to which we have them in our lesson, the one who[ den ed film Is first, and the one who betrayed Him is last, and it is the same in Matthew and Linke, while the order of the others verles just a little. It tnbst be for a putlrose that the weakest And the Worst begin and end the list, the one a true disciple, olio at the Inner three,t and after ren eros t t used more than either of the others; the other a devil. "Yet fnfflJte wisdom did the choosing, and Hie way is always perfect, ao we are dumb gild can only wonder that Ole ever chose us. "chogd tut before the 'foundation of the wbrld that we should be holy and Without blame before Him in lore" Mph. 1, d), With the exception of Peter and John. holy little we know of any of tbenitt Philip and ,Andrew are to the front, not in the 'most favorable light, et this feeding Of the g,0O0; ,tames and John desire drat places In the ktn'ttder ai t'hol8Se is troll to beiteve itt fila R4 1st tYtti lie toyed tile4e Nile . t