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BY CHARLES G. TRLIEViSULL
(editor of The Sunday Senn.' runns)
JESUS AND NICODEMUS.
Sunday, Jan. 7.—John 3: 1-17
7: 45-52; 19: 28-42.
Goldee Text:
God so loved the world chi 11
gave His only begotten Son, tha
whosoever believeth in Him shout(
not perish, but have everlasting lif
(John 3:16.)
Pharisees as a class had n
sense of need. And Christ canno
do much for a man until he has
sense of need, It was one of these
Nicodemus, prominent as a teache
of the Jews, who came by night t
talk with Jesus. The Lord knew that
there was no hope for him unless a
sense of need could he awakened. So
when he addressed Chrest with per-
haps condescendin gapproval, saying
that he was quite sure He was "a
teacher coine from God," he reeeheei
a startling. reply: "Except a man be
bone again, he cannot see the King-
dom of God."
In other words, when Nicodemus
deemed to be able to discuss divine
matters, Chrit told him bluntly that
he was incapable of doing this, un-
less he had experienced the second
birth. The Pharisee's reply then
showed that he was wholly ignoran
of its meaning.
Christ explained. No human tie-
ing ever enters the Kingdom of God
by his first, or natural, human birth.
, That Kingdom is a spiritual King
dom. The first lesson of this year
(John 1:12, 13) told u that thoee
who believe on Jesus, receiving Him
as the Son of God and their Saviour,
are born again by the supernatural
work of the Holy Spirit in their lives.
Is this a mystery? Most or God's
best blessings are mysteries. We
cannot understand them, but if God
declares them we can believe them,
because we believe Him. The Greek
word for "Spirit" is prieumit, Itlen.1-
ipg breath or wind. And Cheitst
says that the mystery of the new
birth by the Spirit. is like the mys-
tery of the natural wind that blows
on earth; we can hear its sTilihd, hut
we cannot tell "whence it cometh
and whither it goeth." So we tan
see the miracle -result in e human
life that is born again or the Spirit,
but it is a mystery hidden with God.
Nicodemus frankly said that he
could not understand these things.
The Lord lovingly, savingly increas-
ed his hunieliation by saying: "Art
thou a master (or teache.r) of Israel,
and knowest not these things?" '1'111.
Lord then declared that He Himself t
knew that what Ile was saying was
the truth, and that these were "eorth-
le things, that is, works which God
does on earth, and if Nicorlienue
could not believe these earthly, ele-
mental things of the spiritual life,
how could he expect to believe Heitv-
enly things; that is, things that take
place in Heaven, of which Christ
could tell him?
The the Lord stated the stagger -
but redeinneing truth of the sub-
stitutionasy atonement. He remind-
ed Nicodentus of an historical fact
with which every Jewish teacher vvas
familiar: the lifti»g up by Moses, in
the wilderness) of a brazen serpent,
as reeordede in Numbers 21, When
Isreelites who were dying from the
ding of venomous serpents lifted up
their eyes and simply looked in :faith
at that erpent of brass, they wore
healed of the deadly: poison; and fiV-
ed
‘„,•,
Christ said that Ile, the' Son of
aan, must be lifted up like that bra.
eon tferpent, and that any one then
looking On Hirt in faith "shotild not
perish, but beim eternal life."
The f011 eXplatiation of thhf Oltia
given, after Christ's denth and mettr.
neelon, by the Holy Spirit through
; Paul, in IL Cor. 5:21. "For He (God)
bath made Him (Christ) to be ein
, for us, who knew no sin; that we
might be made the righteousnese of
e God in Him."
When He went to the cross, Christ
O not only bore our sins, but was ae-
tually "made sin for us," becoming
O so identified with sin that God the
Father could not look upon Him; and
this explains that terrible ere- tmon
the cross, "My God, my God, why
; hest Thou forsaken Mert-(Matt. 27:
o 46). Christian martyrs die under
the blessing ot God; Christ /lid :tot
die a martyr's death, but HP died
under the neceseary curse of God
againet sin. "Christ hath redemtnd
us from the curse of the law, being
made a curse for us; for it is writ-
ten, "Cursed is Livery one that haeg-
eth on a tree" ( Gal. 3;13).
Time it was that God's Justice and
God's mercy, or grace, were united
in .the atonement that Christ made
by His. voluntary death on the dross,
Because He is holy and jusi,
must condemn sin, the ;incite, of
which is death. And Owlet gathered
into Himself the sins of all mankind
t and neked God to punish them in
"His own body on the tree" (I. Pet.
2:24). And any sinner, from that
day to this, who accepts Christ's me.
rifiees made in hie behalf is saved
. from the eternal death penalty of
his own sins because Christ became
his substitute.
DJd Nicodemus come to believe on
Jestie.---Wile he born again? Two
very significant and beautiful refer -
re to this Pharisee are given later
in this Gospel, and are included in
this lesson. Some two years areer
his visit with Jesus by night, Nico-
demus defended Him before the
chief priests and Pharisees, and for
this he lost standing among them.
After the death of Christ, Z?ieodern-
es with Joseph of ,Arimatle
atm in taking the body of the Lord
and arranging for the burial, with
costly :spices, in the now eepulehre in
a garden. The plain inference is
that Telcodemus had believed on
Jesus and entered the Kingdom uf
God,
HAS HAD AN ACTIVE LIFE
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Sie John Morison Gibson, fernier
Lioutenent.Oovernor of Ontario, who
'celebrated hie 8.1th birthday 00 Kew • b
a
Year's l)ay,
THE
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Suggests Government-owned 11 1 Here and There 11 e- elected 5 Ilith Pe Mill
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Coking Plants in DominionI lan„, Alberta, is glad he went into 1
- Velseardeon, fernier at
e Heir beet re'Fing. 1li eeured
Fro•.t) vette: feeet three mad uniehele
m the Hamilton Herald), Coke le probably the most eat's- • ,
01 elle-
• Key M. \?, 1)1 President of the factory substitute for lewd eked, and
teeCeying before the royal commis. ,
Belie h Empire Steel Corporation, . if it were produeed in this provizee ,l 1,,,,,,t,.,„. • ..,.. .-4-7. ii, iii,,, lo
skin, whieh is investigating the coal and sold at reasonable priees 0-e.g.,. is- I Q,,,-.1,,'.,:,. :.1,,:."11:' raj] '.,‘'v:lrz.,,4:: ,i.,;,i,
industry in Nova Scotia. suggested a 00 doubt about the deenalid -for it. considetta the Mgt brilliant evasun 1.1.
eel. of any foreign country leer its Pstic fuel. But is is doubtful if the;
»ian fol.. making Canada independ- It would supplant- anthraeito as 11010 at ((Meet:Omen!: for Years .ps..t. I
eeal up lo lie proposiul the can- result could be achieved it' the colt- Hundreds a sport enthusiasts: lied ;
.elletion of tile dricwback on foreign ing industiT 1111e left to imitette in tourists from the New Eneiani ,
coal ueel in steel manufacture and itiative. A a purely commercial en- states, Canede, and ether parts of 1
e :elle duty on all imperted coal. His terprise, m turally, the (lief incen- the .continent are turning up in foto..
expectation is that if the importation Hee in producing and marketh •••
of forelen coal Wero further restrict- yoke is nrofite. The price demandelil at the Ancient Capit:d.
0.1 Ceniblian industrialists would be ee "1111' dud the traffic will bear." We
etimpelled to tree Nova Scotia real— see this in the Mee in price of eolge
a eoesteretien devoutly to be wished in sympathy with the rise in ;Mee of
by Mr. Wolvin for the co-oeeration anthraeite. I1. costs no more to pro-
of whieh he is the chieef executive, duce coke now than it did..a year ago
inc•-ratc, most of the Nova Scotia coal breause the mice of anthracite is
mines. hther. If anthracite went up to
i ts,au „et lone,„,, to rxi,..0 8,;‘, 82,5 a to, we would :inn coke in the
1 !hoettitt te the need:, of demeette eon. l'OT Of a lively "runner-up"—novel7
$...,,,n,:a„. •A ,.ii vet val 1.,,ckpenticeet (mite ontrteking anthracit” t•n Inlen ,
•Qtri,-4,- et fuel fee deeleede eueeesee bet always ,least a shade behind, That
in eeelteee c„,e,e;,. is , ee..„...„-0,51A;,,, is business, Th, coke producer ex-
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acts from the public all .thet he 000
than the evenly :if eeal ror eulustriel make the public pay.
eurnosee. We le•lieve the people of . . . .
But it is queetionable if it be good
Cesetrel Cenede would welemne any
elan wheel woold guarantee them a
stifficiect mld der-E•imile i•uriply
(lornestee feel from Cape:lien soure••
el. But. eithough that lute been talk-
ed about for years, the problem dee.;
net $eem to be any mayor eolution
then it ever was. Parliumem. at the
instance of Hon. Charles Stewart.
has affirmed the desirability of devel-
op!ng a plan for producing coke in
great quantities at eentral points in
this country; but nothing has been
done. Resolutions adopted by honor•
able gentlemen do not, unfortunate-
ly, help to produce heat in winter,
husetess to leave nroduetion of
coke to private enterprise. Rs retail
distribution might in! but what should
be done is for the Federal govern-
ment to install large plants d central
points in Central Canada for the con-
version of bituminous Canadian coul
into coke, the gas generated in the
process to be sold direct to mane-
faeturers for industrial purposes and
the coke to lie turned OW? TOtail
dealers for sale as domestic fuel. By
such a plan the people could be sure
of an adequate and steady sunnly
of good fuel at cost price or little
more,
Clerics as Senators
(From the Hamilton Herald)
Hon, Rodolphe Lemieux' s sugges-
tion that the character of the Do-
. •
entatives were chosen for appoint-
ment from only a few denominations
m..mon se there would be sure to be protests
nate be improved by the from those denominations that were
appointment of eminent eelrgymen trim ed.
does not appear to have met with However, although it probably is
public approval. the general opinion that no clergy -
The suggestion appears to have man should be made a senator be-
. e wt a %Jew to having
in, cause he is a clergyman, it ought not
senate conform MOM 0105013, 0thf! to follow that no citizen of Canada
British house of lords, in which the should be considered. ineligible for a
bishops as "lords spiritual" have senatorship because he is a clergy -
seats. But the contitution or the two' man. We have had great clergymen
in Canada, men of statesmanlike
nund, who would have brought
strength to any. deliberative political
assembly. Principal Grant of Queen's
was one of them. Archbishop Bru-
cleisi of lllontreal is another and a
third and fourth were Dr, Egerton
Ryerson and Bishop Strachan. Their
profession ought not to be sufficient
to debar men of their calibre from
seeving the country as members of
the upper chamber of national legis-
lature.
And indeed their profession need
As we have no national church in not debar the. There Is nothing to
Canada, eo Canadian clergyman, how prevent Premier King from filling
ever eminent. could have a prescrip- all the vacancies in the senate by the
tive right to appointment as a mean- appointment of clergymen, if he sees
ber i.. senate. One of the most d .
obvious difficulties in the way of act- The Herald believes that the sen-
ing upon Mr. Lemieux's suggestion in ate would be greatly,strengthened if
the difficult and extremely delicate each of the Canadian Universities
task of selection. Clearly it would were represented there. And the
be inmossible to appoint representn- fact that the official head of Toronto
tives of each religious denomination: University, Sir Robert Falconer, and
if that were attempted the clerical the °Meal head of Queen's, Dr.
senators in number. But how choose? Bruce Taylor, and the official head
All religious denominaions are equal of Laval, are all clergymen, should
before the law in this country; none not operate to keep them out of the
enjoys rights or privileges which are senate as the chosen representatives
denied to the others, and if relives- of their universities.
chambers are quite different. The
presence of the bishops in the house
of lords is a survival of ancient cus-
tom—of a -time when the administra
tion of national affairs was chiefly in
the hands of clerics, High dignitar-
:QS of the- national church have been
nuenbers of the national parliament
from the beginning of paeliamentary
instetutione. They are there as dig-
nitaries of the national church, re-
presentatives of no other religious
body having a right to sit in parlia-
ment
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Hope for Uslam
(Prom the Montreal Witness)
A century ago the churches of New
England sent devoted missionaries to
Turkey and.Persia to call to life the
Ancient Armenian and Nestorian
churches which were dill faithful to
the forms and traditions of Christ-
ianity. These were approachable so
bong as there was no meddling with
Moslems. The Turks tolerated all
religions to a degree that was un-
known to many contemporttneou
Christian powers. They had no ob-
jecting° missions among Christians.
Those most ancient Christian com-
munities were regarded as a very
hopeful "field" and splendid \vas the
work done in the planting of Protes-
tant Congeegational Churehes. The
missions would have preferred to
have converted the old churches as
they stood; but found the door shut,
Still the whole atmosphere of Turkey
was changed not only by the pres•
ence of churches., but of colleges and
hospitals of a high order. It is not
hnpossible that the separation of u
generation ago from Turkey of Bul-
garia, Rumanta and Serbia was the
necessary, though unsought, :result
of the culture and feee and progres-
sive spirit thus impressed on the
youth of non -Turkish peoples, large-
ly at Robert College at Contantinop-
le. Lest the same thing should re-
peat itself, the Turk—first the Sul.
time and later the usurpers—set to
work to exterminate the Armenians.
Phis process, hideously successful,
seemed to have practically wiped out
the great work of a century. • But
mark what followed. The Moham-
medans themselves, who were treated
as unapproachable, had also bean un-
derwoing a geeat change. Education
otI for men and women had become
demand and a necessity and many
chools practically of Western learn.
ing had come into being in Constan-
tinople, end lied thrown the morning
beams of ktiowledge on the smoky
Janie of the 1(oran. The invisible re-
ault has beeil 'that the Mohammedans
have been throwing off their ancient
bondage, The ,defeat of Turkey 15
The telephone girl waa on her
ation and fishing. Someone 011 511 -
other boat called, "Honor' Just then
she got bite, "Line's busy!" aim
an/Meted,
the Great War was largely looked
upon by the fatalist Moslems as their
kiinet—the fated doom of their sy-
stem. The Turks, under Kemal, while
unrepentant of their crudities, are
being galvanised into an imitation of
Nurepean life. We are intrested 80
hearing of the abolition of the cali-
phate, and of the Pee and of the dis-
appearance of polygamy and women's
veils. These are undeniable indiea•v
tions of the moribund condition of a
system which has swilled too much
entrenched in prejudice and custom
to be assailed by Christianity, and
withal so full of vitality as to be ir-
resistibly and rapidly spreading upon
all ies borders. While it is a crime
to be punishable with death, to ob-
Ject to wearing a hat instead of a fez,
it is still apparently no crime at all
to massacre an unprotected Christian
village that might vote against Kem-
al, and auction their girls. On the
other hand, what gave Mohammedan
ism its unity and ferocity was its re-
ligion, and the religious reaction a-
gainst nese reforms will weaken
Kemal's agp,ressivenede, perhaps give
hint more than he ean do to retain his
power at home.
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Miss Isabel Coursier, only nine-
teen years of age, is the world's
woman champion $ki jumper. 'She
created a world reeord at Revel-
stoke, B.C. at the ege of sixteen in
1522. This winter, taking"' part in
the winter snorts at Quebec, Miss
Coursier made a jump of 83 feet in
the International -Intercollegiate Ski
contest.
A report from Smiths Falls, On-
tario, is to the effect that a train
was stopped in order to avoid a col-
lision with an automcbile making
for the tracks over a crossing. The
train was stationary when the au-
tomobile struck one of the cars.
The occupants of the automobile ee-
caped uninjured.
Tourists on the Canadian Pacifle
liner Empress of Scotland were at
the famous King Solomon quarries,
beneath the walls of Jerusalem, on
Christmas night. Many of them,
aceording to a table received at
C.P.R. head offices, bought gavels.
made from the stone of the quar-
ries, with olive wood handles.
According to information at the
headquarters of the Canadian Pa-
cific Railway, holiday passenger
traffic this year from points west
was the heaviest since 1920 in the
past few weeks and represented a
fifty percent increase over the
amount handled over Canadian Pa-
cific Railway lines last year. Spec-
ial arrangements made to take
care of the Christmas and New Year
rush worked efficiently.
Canadian Pacific Railway earn-
ings for the month of November
were $19,294,184.37, an increase of
$1,193,239.12 over the same period
for 1924. Net profits for Novem-
ber show an increase of 6218,153.80
over the month of November -of
1924. Net profits for the eleven
months ending November were p5,-
327,983.83, an increase of $1,830,-
043.32 over the corresponding pe-
riod for 1924.
According to Johannes Borge,
journalist, of Bergen, Norway, who
is visiting the Dominion to rec-
ord his impressions of Canada,
silver fox farming has become a
very imporbant industry in pats of
Norway. There are now about 150
silver fox farms in the Sondmore
district of Norway. Last autumn,
about 120 silver foxes, estimated to
Ise worth 1,000,000 kroner, were
shipped from the island of Norway.
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Traffic on the Great Lakes this
season compares well with that of
last year as far as Canadian Pa -
elfin earnings are concerned. M.
W.D. Duff, manager of the Great
Lakes Steamship Service explained
recently that while grain tonnage
fell below that of the 1924 season,
passenger traffic and package
freight business was considerably
better, making the total well up to
the average.
A party of Mennonites, bound for
western Canada, mostly to Mani-
toba, arrived in Montreal recently
with the report that those of their
seet who had gone to Rosario, Mex-
ico, were far from satisfied and in-
tended going north. It is under-
stood that 1,000 Mennonites have
emigrated to Canada within the last
two months and that about 2,500
mere would be coming in the siring.
Hens Seidler, in charge of the
party, said not one of theni thought
of going to Mexico, •
• PERTH COUNTY
William Hodge,. of Russel:Dile, was
attacked by au enraged bull and
thrown into the ainovel the animal's
neck, but escaped with severe body
b irises and general shaking up,
Geo. and Mrs. Weight, of Mitchell,
eptletly observed their 55011 aneiveta.
my, Mr, Weight is neer 80 years of
age and still continues to look after
the growing department of Procter
Son.
After 16 minute:3 deliberation, a
-Jury on Timrsday night, brought in a
verclict ei •accidental deeth after re,
v'ewing 1 tie protfeediege Of the in,
quest held in Stratford by Cor -
oiler M. Mager to iequire ieto the
olveorm bemire attending the fetal ac.
01(0) to Or late MPS, V Si, Snell,
511 nok and killed instantlY on Mo*i.
day night at 0 118 o'clock, hy the la1
bound iSoffelo-Goelerleh train lb
charge of Milton 0ootz,
nt
Hon. Redo phe Lendose who was re-elected
Speaker of tl o 1(th ParllementSbf 0 anada,
iy a unanimous vote as.
Says Honey Bees
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Myth lodge, 13013, A , end A. 51., re-
een tly, as : 1 1) 51 , Rt. Wor.
'fire, Gem go 041,e1, ; W, 11,, Brie John
sleet •5 eV., Sm. ja.11t.•4 51101 3.
W„ biro. S A. Popple', :
l do, Bev. fi flawk seesetury,
Wi». Bre, Pale ; 111•01,111e1',
Ha Wee, Hee. j R. Tea es..t• ; 8. D.,
Bro. C. Fiat:land ; 11 , Bro. A. Mo-
lt:wing ; S. S„ 1i'm 'too Certer ;
8.. Bro. Dee. Brewe ; 1 04 , Bro, R.
Neweembe ; tyler, ED, Mouton,
Another elusion is sleet:wed with
the information that the bee, that
model of Uneft and industry, is not
above executing the "shimmy" and
other curious dances in the privacy
of the hive. Perhaps it Is because
the bees live on honey which is chock
full of calories and viMmines, that
they have to blow off steam every
now and then by a. community hoe-
down. We have the -word of Profes-
sor Noland of the T-TaiversIty of Wis-
consin, that bees aro accomplished
dancers. "I have already observed
this many times," he says, " and any
one, who has a bee hive with a glass
wall, can observe this fun of the
bees quite often with Ills own eyes,
and convince himself of it. A single
bee forces herself unexpectedly be-
tween three or four other quiet bees,
puts her head do -w -n, stretches out
her wings and shivers with upturned
abdomen for a little -while, The bees
next to her do the me, putting
their heads down arid turning them-
selves in unison through a little mare
than a half circle, mor/ to the lett,
now to the right, to and fro five or
six times, thus executing a regular
circle dance.
Dance on )3r1glit Days.
"Suddenly the damn mistress will
go away, associate herself at sonic
other place with another group of
quiet bees, and do the same thing as
before, and, as bef ore, the bystand-
ing bees dance with lam The dance
mistress repeats her dna often four
or -five tinies in diluent place. I
observed this dance usually on bright
cheerful days only and ln strong
hives; on the con-trary, in dreary
weather or in weak Or queenlese
hives no will never NO it. What
this dance really means I cannot fig-
ure out; whether it is perheps a live-
ly kind of amusement end, mutual
encouragement, for thent or whether
it takes place for some ether and un-
known purpose the fliture must tell
us."
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