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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-3-21, Page 34 THOUGHTS FOR FASTER -TIDE Many of the Psalms of David are filled with beautiful and great thoughts; the recognition of God's love, mercy and the greatness of his works; but, beautiful as these are, they do not move us so much as those in which the soul of the man cries out in agony of body or mint]. here we find common ground. David is no longer a Icing, who reigned hun- dreds of years ago, or a poet who wrote some of the greatest poems the world hes ever known; he is rather a suffering human being, who, in his distress, feels that he le alone in the world, with no help in sight, He feels that God has either forgotten him, or else is punishing him for his sins. "Thou hast laid me in the low ,st pit. Thy wrath lieth hard upon me; Thou hast afflicted me with all Thy waves. Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?" All these are real hu- man cries, cries that go up from the souls of men to -day when pant and sorrow press heavily upon them. There are other passages in the psalms that come to us when the pain is lifted, or the trouble is less poign. ant; then we share in the psalmist's gratitude, in his praise to God, "who forgiveth all his sins and bealeth all his infirmities." When the pain is over we may be willing to agree with the great Bur- geon who speaks of it as a blessing. Our joy comes in the great peace that usually follows great pain; there is weakness, but such a wonderful sense of freedom. To rest quietly, know- ing that the suffering is past, is a great joy; enough for the present. After we have been through an ordeal of pain, anxiety or sorrow we are very likely to realize, as we never have done before, that our life here is an incomplete one. We may have thought quite differently until one of these things came upon us so sudden- ly that our whole outlook upon life tions changed, Sometimes the years go by with only a few outward changes. Blessings may abound, and but flew trials come to us; yet even if we are blessed in this -way, our neighbor may 1. i starer, and in viewing his troubles our 'hea.rts rnay be sorrowful. In sone way the realizatiopeof they !limitations of human life is brought to our knowledge. No one can live; on selfishly; all must recognize that life cannot he one broad glare ofI sunshine. There are lessons to be learned, however, and joys to be' known, even in the incomplete life, and they have never been better ex- presed, it seems to me, than in a more I or less familiar poem, whose author is, I regret to say, unknown to me: If none were sick and none were sad, What service could wo render? I think if we were always glad, We scarcely could be tender. -- Did our beloved never need Our patient ministration, Earth would grow cold, and mies, in- deed, Its sweetest consolation. If sorrow never claimed our heart, And every wish were granted. Patience would die, and hope depart— Life would be disenchanted. • The peace that follows pain—that seems to me to be a thought especial- ly suited for to -day, the day after Good Friday, the day before Easter, a halfway station between earth and heaven. How well we remember the expressions of peace upon the faces of those who, having m suffered, g s d, have been releaeed from further pain! Our first thought upon gazing at those quiet countenances has been the right one—a feeling of thanksgiving that the pain wee past and that peace had taken its place. Such a thought may have been in the minds of Christ's faithful friends when they laid Him away in the tomb in the garden. They may have for. gotten for the time being all the promises He had made concerning His resurrection. At that moment they could think of Him only as a dear friend, the, best they bad ever had, who had undergone a bitter and painful death, and was now released from all suffering. They, too, may have been grateful that peace had fol- lowed pain. INTERNATIONAL LESSON MARCH 24. Lesson XIL—Jesus Ministers to the Multitude—Mark G. 32-44. Golden text, Matt. 20. 28. Verse 32. A desert place—The boat is their refuge when the pressure of the crowd becomes too great, and now, on some distant part of the shore, they seek quiet and relief. They have opportunity for conference con- cerning the results of their mission- ary tour and also to pl anfor their future work. Luke says they went to Bethsaida, the city on the east side o£ the lake, but he calls it a "desert place" (Luke 0. 10-12), 33. Sato them going . ran to- gether there—seeing which way the boat was heading, they ran around the shore at the head of the lake, cross- ing the Jordan flows into the lake not far from Bethsaida. 34. Came forth --When he disem- barked from the boat. Saw a great multitude—They would not be avoid- ed or put off. They determined to be where he was. Two or three miles in the dust and heat around the lake shore were nothing if they could only be with him^„ The purpose of Jesus to secure quiet and rest was de- Easter Waiting. feated, and now at hand was the ever- Waiting pressing throng eager to see and hear' g for the glorious coming and to be helped by him. Had corn- 0 the angels' glistening band. passion on them—No word of impati- ence or annoyance, but a feeling of compassion. The word used indicates a yearning toward them. Sheep not It was greatly beyond their means. John tells that Jesus himself had his plan all thought out—"Ire himself' knew what he would do" (John 6. Gl— and that his purpose was to test Pbilip, 38. How many loaves have ye? , , . Five and two fishes—It is John only who says: "There's a lad here, who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes," and he alone shows the ab- surdity of attempting to feed the peo- ple on this ridiculously small supply: "What are these among so many?" 40. Sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties—Literally, they reclin- ed, "garden beds, garden beds," that is, in regular formation, like sym- metrical garden beds: two long rows of one hundred and a short row of fifty persons, 41. Looking up to heaven, be blessed and brake—Probably the Hebrew grace before meat, as the father sur- rounded by his household was accus- tomed to do at the Passover feast. 42. They all ate, and were filled— As the disciples distributed the food it increased in the distribution. Means which are to us inadequate may under the blessing of God suffice, only they must be first placed in his hands. 43. Twelve basketfuls—The small wicker baskets commonly used by the' Jews for carrying their food. There must be no waste, even of miraculous power. 44, Five thousand men—Matthew adds, "besides women and children" (Matt. 14. 21). Waiting for the herald angels To reach down to earthly land; Waiting for the rising Saviour having a shepherd•—"The people who To delight the faithful few— do not know the law is accursed," Holy saints, with Christ behavior, said the Jewish leaders, The massos The bidding of the angels do, found no place in the thought of the Christ on earth again is breathing scribes, who called them Am haarets, Peace and health and joy and love people of the earth, The formal and ; freezing Pharisees repelled the multi_ Gracious truths are seething, seething, tude and labeled them "publicans and Waiting for the dawning dove. sinners." IIs begm ave of 'Heaven, on earth alighting; ;many things—He spokean to fromteachhis hoarttheD'Hl g g> to their hearts. Patience and tend- Chanted hallelujahs ring— erness must have combined these cam- There can be no sorrow blighting; passionate messages. Angels. hallelujahs sing, 30, 36. The day is now far spent; Saints on earth are ready, ready send thein away --In their eagerness To clasp close the blessed truth; to be with him all gnestiott of supgHes To hearts are ateady, steady; had been :forgotten. The aituation Saints now, forsooth. was a perplexing one—the late hour, ts arc artrge the Hungry crowd, and means of pro. Messengers are chanting, chanting curing food, for the place was des- To the world from nvisdon's store; art, that to the country That tines. Sleesed truths are panting, panting; may go into the country and villages' the What is now has been of yore. and buy --This seemed 'the. only thing to do. There wa,s food 'rhe angels of earth and the angels somewhere in that. region of the coon -I above try, and if the people scattered about A they a ould find it, gain shave recounted the' story; 37, Give ye thein to eat -Certain- ly a strange request in the face, of the &neonti fact that no .food was on hand --so they must have thought, They Gloel hath proclaimed the truth; all is love, To earth will descend all the glory. inferred that it :multi only mean they C11Glorory toaorraeslwitlrttlne risinromise Sofulfilled; were to hay it. Shall we buy two Y g ; handles: smile", worth oe-breed?--s Clod and Hie angels and earth so have Only ,Mark alai John apeeify the sum willed, .. n „1 1 •-tn, h to lr : demon, The a n •' "oil and Ills ur iosc has c cl u oar nus G c watt. I p 1 was rr Manan coin worth about seven- teen cams. It is hardly correct F to call it a (armry, , It represents the FERTILIZER PAYS waace for one clays work. 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Easter, the anniversary of Our Lord's resurrection„ from the dead, is one of the tiree great festivals of the Christian year—the other two being Christmas and Whitsuntide. Front the earliest period of Christianity down to the present day, it has al- ways been celebrated by believers with great joy, and is accounted the queen of festivals. In primitive times it was usual for Christians to salute each other on the morning of this day by exclaiming, "Christ is risen"; to which the person addressed replied, "Christ is risen indeed" or else, "And hath appeared unto Simon"—a custom still retained in the Greek Church. The common name of this feast in the east was the Paschal Feast, be- cause kept at the same time as the Pascua or Jewish passover, and in some measure succeeding to it. In the sixth of the Ancyran canons it is re- ferred to as the Great Day. Our own name Easter is derived, as some sup- pose, from Eostre, the name of a Saxon deity, whose feast was cele- brated every year in the spring about the same time as the Christian fes- tival—the name being retained when the character of the feast was chang- ed, or, as others suppose, from 'Oster, which Signifies rising, If. the latter supposition be correct, Easter is in name, as well as reality, the feast of the resurrection. Through there has never been any difference of opinion in the Christian) church as to why Easter is kept there has been much as to when it should be observed. Indeed the controversy last- ed for many centuries and it was not i until the Council of Nice in 325 de- finitely settled the matter by decree- ing the observance of Easter on the Sunday following the Jewish passover that thele was any harmony on the subject. * Even this did not last for long. The date, so far as, we are af- fected thereby, was decided at Whitby, England, in 664, when the centention of Agilbert, Roman Catholic bishop of Dorchester, who upheld the cus- tom as it was observed at Rome, pre- veiledchester, who upheld the eus-1veiled over the plea of Colman, bis- hop of Lindisfarne, who represented the native branch of the church. On Easter Day depend all the move- able ecclesiastical feasts and fasts t throughout the year. The nine Sun days before, and the eight following c t ,Easter Myths and Menus The word Easter is derived from the Saxon word Oetara or Bastree, the Goodess of Spring, which signifies the return of life to the earth after the long death of winter. This goddess was dearly loved by the Teutons. From old heathen times tomes' the custom of exchange of presents of colored eggs, the egg be- ing the symbol of life. In Germany the collection of eggs is still observed. Many colored eggs are hidden about the premises. These are way is to use a candy thermometer. A greeting to the, dawn supposed to be laid by the Easter rale Cook to 298 degrees Fahr., then take. Of what we hope and pray may be bit. Both young• and old hunt the fronn firs, pour on a slightly buttered A happy Easter morn. eggs. Then amid great shouts of joy platter. When enol work together What the Crocus Heard. and hilarity, feasting and dancing from the sides to the centre. As the day is concluded. soon as it starts creaming use ynur The crocus Iifts its purple bead The Russian eggs bear the inscrip- hands io knead like }woad. Set in a To meet the dew's cold kiss; tion "Christos Vokress," which means bowl, cover with a napkin rung farm I Spring zephyrs stir the garish bed, "Christ is risen." When a Russian cold water. Set aside for twelve And whisper softly this: preeerrts these eggs to a friend he hours to ripen. To use, hea: In a "Oh, they clothed my Lord with a pur repeats these words with religious double boiler until you can hardly pie robe, fervor. Many novel and attractive bear the finger to touch it; beat con- Crowned with theme the head divine; dishes are served on this occasion; gently, Now tint anti dip in eggs, And a purple pall they include fancy cakes, pastry and holding them by the piece of string. God spread over all, When they slew your Lord and mine." Pendant for Dipping Eggs Two cupfuls granulated eugar, three -fourth cupful water, one-fourth teaspoonful cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonful glycerine, two tublespoon- fula corn syrup. I'lace the mixture in order given in a clean saueepan. Stir well until sugar is dissolved, then wipe the aide of saucepan with a clean, damp cloth to remove all loose grains of sugar. Cook until it forms a eoft ball in cool water. The beet Easter, 1919. The Easter bells are ringing in The old, old church at home, And bearing in their joyousness A greeting 'croas the foam, Where many lads in khaki dwell With daily tasks on hand, To help the Empire in her stress And guard their native land. Ye bells! in cadence, ring again, Ring onl Proclaim your voice, Give welcome sound of minstrelsy To those—our dearest choice; Aye, herald all your forces for sweetmeats. In many parts of Hungary the boys eprinkle the girls with rosewater, and then the girls in turn present the boys Melt bitter or sweet chocolate un - with gaily colored eggs, til barely warm, adding one table - In France the Easter festival is spoonful of butter to every one-half observed with great joy. Easter has pound of chocolate. Chocolate must always been a grand affair since the be stirred carefully while heating, days of the kings, when all Parisian Neglect of this important point will nobles paid a visit to the king and re- cause poor results. ceived a royal egg. This egg was Easter Rabbit decorated in gilt. Boys, too, had Use the egg mixture, mold into rab- their fun; they rolled eggs down bit forms and dip just the same as the Montague street, St. Genevieve, Paris. eggs were dipped. Easter chicks Later many boys nicked the eggs for may be made the same way. "keeps." ManY students stilt seek eggs from the householders. Deco- rations and ornaments on eggs date from the thirteenth century, England is rich in Easter lore. In many parts of England, especially in the shires, names are written on the eggs and they are then stored from one year to another. This cus- tom is second only to the custom of writing the name on the flyleaf of the Bible. In many homes great quan- tities of these eggs are to be found. 'Tis said that even the sun dances on Easter morn. Put to dry on a waxed paper. To Coat With Chocolate Two Easter Menus Shoulder of spring lamb Mint sauce Mashed potatoes Creamed carrots Easter cakes Coffee Vegetable soup Stewed chicken Scalloped potatoes Mashed turnips Easter balls Coffee Easter Cakes Make a sheet of butter sponge To the great new world of ours the cake, using a pan one and one-half early pioneers brought many of the inches deep, in which to bake the cake. Old World customs and festivals. In Cream well and add yolks of three various parts of the country cele- eggs, one cupful sugar, four table- brations can be found which typify their origin abroad. Easter Goodies Faster eggs can be very easily made at home. Gather the family around you and have them all help. ,,The pleasure and anticipation will surely be a reward for the trouble. Eggs may be made with or with- out cocoanut, dipped in fondant, which may be tinted, of chocolate, Use a deep tablespoon to mold the egg, making two halves, which can be put together. Before putting together, lay a piece of string through the centre of the egg from end to end, letting it ex - end sufficiently so that it may be held while dipping. Take one-half an grated cocoanut, sufficient sugar o mold. Press milk from the cocoa- nut, then work in the sugar, knead- ing well. Mold, putting the two halves of the egg together. Stand aside to dry for twelve hours, then dip in white, tinted or chocolate fondant. after, are all dependent upon it. The nine constitute the six in Lant and Quinquagesima, Sexagesima, and Septuagesima; the eight following are the five after Easter, tate Sunday after Ascension Day, Whit Sunday and Trinity Sunday. Easter is best kept by a rising from some dead past into newness of life, Meat of young animals is more tender but not so nutritious as that of maturer animals. E 'PETE) STERNAL YEARS .R S Transcendent light, with Easter born, rill with' thy glow the battle -torn; "Seek the living anong the dead," Awaken those whose blood was sired; DIM with thy glory ennnan'e flame, Cleanse humankind of all its shame Erse day is done. Awake, O nations of the earth! Cones morn of hope, of life, new birth, Heed ye the Resurrection call, Rulers of kingdoms, foemen -nil; Let strife be o'er, the tfamrlt cease, Crown hitt anew the Prince of Peace Sire day is done. The crocus lifts its snow-white head To catch the shower's warm tears, And these are the words that the rain -drops said, Which only the crocus hears: "Oh, they wrapped my Lord in the linen white As the life He freely gave, And robed in white The angels bright Kept watch in the silent grave." The crocus lifts its golden head Tohe z t blaze of the sun's first ray, And quickly the dew's cold tears were shed When it heard the sunbeams says "Oh, they crowned my Lord with a golden crown Who slew death's majesty, And the gold harps rang While the angels sang 'Where, Grave's, thy victory?'" —Gordon R. Munnoch, TO CONTROL FIRE WASTE. Campaign to Make Saskatchewan a Fire -Proof Province^ "An oance of prevention is worth a spoonfuls butter, four tablespoonfuls pound of cure." The old proverb is as a milk, one cupful flour, two teaspoon- fuls applicable problem of waste baking powder. Mix well, then as it is to scarlet fever, or small pox, fold in the stiffly beaten whites of or any other disease. Carelessness with three eggs. Bake as directed in fire long ago assumed the pro. moderate oven for forty minutee. Cut portions of an epidemic in Canada and into squares. Ice with orange was there are no signs that it is being con. ter icing and decorate with section of trolled. In spite of the world shortage of food and the fact that the Empire is fighting for its very life, Canada permits to be burned, millions of dol- lars worth of food and other vital re- quirements each year, The problem of greater production is of first im- portance, but not less important is that of conserving products already in existence. By far the larger percent- age of fires occuring in Canada are the direct result of carelessness, which, in time of war at least, should be punish. ed as a criminal offence, In an effort to stamp out the fire evil in Saskatchewan the fire commis- sioner, Mr, Arthur E. Fisher, is carry- ing out a vigorous campaign to "make Saskatchewan fireproof." By means of bulletins, pictures in movie theatres and with the assistance of the press, Mr. Fisher is pointing out the way to ban the fire fiend from that province, Such work, especially in the rural sections of Canada's greatest grain - growing province, will doubtless be the means of saving large quantities of food products from the all too com- mon fate of destruction by fire. The effort is a commendable one and should receive hearty support from every organization and from every person who is able to lend a hand. orange. Orange Water Icing Two tablespoonfuls orange juice, yolk of one egg, sufficienticing sugar to spread, Easter Balls One-half cupful sugar, one-half cup- ful flour, one-quarter teaspoonful cream of tartar. Sift three times, then carefully fold in the stiffly beaten whites of three large eggs. Bake in ungreaaed custard cups for thirty minutes in an oven. Ice with plain water icing. Plain Water Icing Two tablespoonfuls water, sufficient icing sugar to spread. Jack-in,the-Pulpit's Sermon. All of an Easter morning, Jack-in-the-pulpit cried, "Gather, oh, gather, and listen, From all of the countryside! Hither, my congregation! Hither, ye flowerets gay! Hither, ye bouncing bunnies! Listen to what I say!" Over the hills they hurried, Out of the field and wood, Bunnies and blooms of April, Whither the preacher stood. There were the yellow jonquils; There were the pansies blue; There were the stately lilies; There were the tulips, too. Then to his congregation Jack-in-the-pulpit said, "Lo, it is Easter morning! " Lift up every head! Tell to the world your gladness! Show it the while ye sing Songs of the vanquished winter, Victory songs of spring! "Lo, it is Easter morning! Go to the world, I pray, Bearing the glorious message Born of our Easter Dayl Tell ]tow ye lay imprisoned Deep in the mould and the night! Tell how ye burst in beauty Into the warmth and the light!" So oto an Easter morning, - Over the hills mud afar, All of the flowers of April Carry wherever they axe. Messages fair and fragrant• - Do you not get them, pray? Telling the world the meaning Flooding OUT Mester Day. Whisiters the yellow jonquil. Whispers the pansy blue, Whispers the stately lily, Whispers the tulip, too: "Low did we lie. imprisoned Deep in the mould and the aright; Then we burst in beauty Into the warmth ami the light!" Easter Day. The brook's faint ripple. The forest hush, A pale green bud on each vine and bush, A bird's low note on the waking air, A fragrant lily blossoming there, A band of children softly singing Till far and near joy bells are ringing, And over all the Springtime glory While lips repeat the wondrous story Of a risen Christ, Death speeds away In the clear bright dawn of Easter Day. The Easter Robin. — n The World's Gethsemane. This is the world's Good Friday, Civilization in sackcloth undergoes its A sweet legend of the Greek paseion, pours the full measure of its Church tells us that "Our Lord used sacrifice that the earth may be set to feed the robins round His mother's free. The eternal flame of freedom door when a boy; moreover, that the flickers amid the surrounding dark• robin never lefiethe sepulchre till the nese, That light was faint at Chalons, Resurrection, and, at the Ascension, yet it blinded Attila the Hun. It wav- joined in the angels' song." ered at Tours, when the fate of the Another popular story, however, re. Aryan race hung in the balance, but lates that when Christ waa on His still it burned, and its subtle potency way to Calvary, toiling beneath the rolled back the Moslem hordes. burden of the Cross, the robin, in its To -day still mightier powers of kindness, plucked a thorn from the might invoke even more poignant crown that oppressed His brow, and sacrifice. The agonies of the tragie the blood of the Divine Martyr dyed garden where liberty must be teetered the breast of the bird, which ever and nurtured with the tears of mann since has borne the insignia of its will be deep and bitter, But the charity, A variant of the same radiant sequel of Good Friday's legend makes the thorn wound the .martyrdom in Easter --anti Easter bird itself and its own blood dye its means redemption. breast. Yeast cakes are said to kill mice Easter for the world, and does it and rats, if left around where the rod - rise from the dead at morn to glorious ; cuts can eat them. skies? Easter for the world; and Since the first Easier, there is no who today from the tomb's portal real reason for fearing. Death. He rolls the stone away? Easter for the is only the slave that opens the door world; /and mourners stir, like ghosts,! to the King's presence. Surely We about tiro sepulchre. Eaeter for the. need not fear for the coming .of the world; Golgotha's cross lies heavy Maeter's servant, when he is sent with on its griefand loss, while weeping' a amassma from the. loving Master women, sore in pain, wring helpless' himself, hands and cry in yain, Easter for blaster is the day of triumph. It the world; and. Olivet, with tears of tells of stones rolled away, of ob. millions now 's vat r v Easter f e for 's aro h alas n c mu of i the' to sin and the env , R 0 world; ite agony recalls again Cloth- mastered, and of the great victory semane. Easter for the world; beyond which is synonymous with life. The the gates of death its resurreetiot eternal defeat of the :forces of darks waits. Pester for the world, unjust ness arid death is celebrated at this ly tried, shackled and scourged and amrivereary. CluIst has won in the crucified. blaster :for the world, an d: WI:rem ennflict, end henceforth it at not unfit, bather, hast thou .forgot. tp,ossible for the Ieaet of ue to live to ten It?—.W. J. Lempton. !conquering and eongfnt lifts. Easter.