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Sunday School Lesson
BY CHARLES G. TRUMBULL
(stator of The Sunday School Times)
JESUS FEEDS FIVE THOUSAND
MEN.
Sunday, Jan. 31—John 6:1-71.
Golden Text:
Jesus said unto them, I am the Bread
of Life; he that cometh to Me shall
never hunger; and he that believ-
eth on Me shall never thirst (John
6:85).
We must not underesthnate the
miracles of Christ. Some would deny
them, or explain them away by nat-
ural causes; others are saying that,
even if the miracles were just what.
they claim to be, we have high: -r
grounds for believing in Christ. Bet
it is dangerous to minimize or dis-
count that to which God gives (m-
portance. Christ's miracles were
credentials of His own Person and
mission. John throughout his Gospel
calls the miracles, signs. Of what
were they signs? We have the in-
spired answer in John 20:20-21:
"And many other signs truly did
Jesus in the presence of His discip-
les, which are not written in this
book: but these are written, that ye
might believe that Jesus is the Christ
the Son of God; and that believing
ye might have life through His
name."
Our Lord's miracles of healing at-
tracted a great naultitude to Him, as
God intended, and people flocked
after Him to the other side of the
Sea of Galilee. Jesus was with His
little company of disciples, and He
asked them how they might "buy
bread, that these might eat." The
disciples were baffled, and their an-
swer showed it. All the time, we are
told, the Lord knew what He would
do, and was simply testing His dis-
ciples faith. When such a question
comes into our lives, should we not
look up to God and remind Him that
He has promised to supply all our
need by Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:19),
and then tell Him that we are trust-
ing Him to do so? Any anxiety on
'our part is sin—the sin of unbelief.
Andrew mentioned the presence of
a lad with "five barley loaves and
Iwo small fishes," and at once noted
the hoplessness of that supply. Yet
the Lord took and used that meagre
little lunch, giving a wonderful dem-
onstration of the precious truth He
spoke long afterward to Paul: "My
grace is sufficient for thee: for My
strength is made perfect in weak-
ness" 2 Cor. 12:9). When vse sur-
render to the Lord all we have, even
though it is only poverty and wealc-
nese, He will meet all oar need: we
may safely, "leave the miracle to
God."
It is a striking fact that J,els,
when He had taken the loaves and
fishes, as He lifted His heart and
voice to God in prayer, did not ask
God to de anything; He simply gave I
thanks! The Christian is enjoined: i
"In everything give thanks" (I.
'Moss. 8:18), and if thanksgiving had
a larger place in our praying God
could do a great deal more for us.
We know from the other Gospels
that the disciples had asked,the Lord
to send this great multitude of peo-
ple away and let them find food for
:themselves. In !mite of this ungrac-
• ious and unbelieving attitude, Cheiel
now, instead of giving the miracul-
ously multiplied food directly to the
multitude, "distributed to the dis-
ciples, and the disciples to them"
He let the unwerthy disciples have
the great privilege of feed* the
Multitude. How• many times, by our
selfishness and unbelief, IMAM we for -
* 1) right to give. the Bread of
Life to ()there! Yet Our Lord still
says to us, "GiVe eta the to eat,"
and enables tia, Whenever We Will, to
give the miraculous Gospel to the
starving, dying world about us.
God never only just meets peo-
ple's needs. He is not that kind of
God and Saviour. We do not read
"where sin abounded, grace equally
abounded." What we. do read is that
"where sin abounded, grace did much
more abound" (Rom. 5:20). And so
in this actual historic event that is
bath mkaele andparable, the five
thousand were not just barely fed:
they ate "as much as they would,"
and then trona the five loaves and two
small fishes there were twelve bas-
kets of fragments "which remained
over and above unto them that had
eaten." However great our need may
be, God's resources and supply are
always greater.
The Golden Text of this lesson,
printed above, is the key to its mean-
ing. It occurs in a long discourse
that the Lord gave the next day to
this same great multitade who sought
Him out again- They wanted to
"take Him by force, to make Him a
king" (v. 15), but He declared to
them that their greatest need was
"everlasting life which the Son of
Man shall give unto you" (v. 27)•
Then He went on to declare that
He is the living Bread which came
down from Heaven, and that- this
bread "is My flesh, which I will give
for the life of the world.,. .Except
ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man
and drink His blood ye have no life
In you" (vs. 51-53).
We know, from other Scriptures.
that this means simply believing in
Christ as our Saviour, and recog-
nizing that, when we are saved by
faith in Hen, He Himself has en-
tered into us and has taken us unto
Himself. It is the wonderful, pre-
cious truth of the vine and the
branches (John 15), and "Christ in
you, the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27).
THE 01ATEAU FRONTENAC,
QUEBEC
AND WINTER SPORTS PROGRAM
With seasonable weather prevail-
ing and a nice blanket of snow on the
ground, winter sport season in Que-
bec City is now Well under way. The
snow -wreathed beauty and exhilara-
tion of a winter vacation are a grow-
ing need. Winter sports are qui,*
and effective restoratives, bringing
to you the enjoyments of glowing
youth. Up in the spruce country,
where amidst the color, mirth arte
hospitality of old Quebec, the true
winter carnival spirit is to be found.
The recent lire at the Canadian
Pacifees famous hotel—the "Chateau
Frontenae". has caueed no interrup-
tion in the social activities—there be-
ing ample accomodations and public
rooms for guests—•nor in the Winter
sports program arranged by the
Sports Director of Chateau Fran-
tenac and the Frontenac Whiter
Sport e Club. Organized activitine
and interesting events daily, includes
skating, snow -shoeing, hockey, eki-
ing, Mardi Gras Carnival, etc. Vari-
entered costumes present a brilliant
spectacleThe season terminates
with the open championship bob eled
races February 27th,
Hotel reservations arranged --fell
particulars of railroad and sleeping
car fares -gladly ftninished on appil-
cation to any Canadian Pacific Ag-
ent. (2 wits.)
From common swamp cat Utile
scientists have recently made both
feed and sloth.
A read hog is it fellow who Paitleg
you on the highway, no Matter haw
vrefeh tweed you try to put On.
THE
New Member in Parliament
BRUSSELS POST
Themes Mehlillan, M.P., South Huecei
'Under the above head, W, E. Eld before you. The matter lies with
liott, iriVes the following description you. Your decisien shall meet my
of the new member for S'outh Huron I a;:proval. and I shall be found ready
in Tuesday's Free Prose; as in the past, to help elect the can -
South Huron as it stands to -day ,tli,Iate of eout choice.
As between Mr. McMillan and
WUS Croraed by the Iledieteibutien '
of 191-1, and ie. the three subeequent Owen Geiger, reeve of Hensel], the
eivretion decided, in favor of the
elections hes returned to the House
of Commons in ,mccesion a Censer.; fteener, wheeeupon Mr. McMillen
etatie 0 little speech of acceptance
vative, Progreseive and a Liberal,
lie said: '"I feel I know
0(1) 131 of the trust and respell-
ibi;ity you have placed upon nut, and
if I did not enjoy going out amongst
the people of South Huron I would.
oot gece•pf your candidature to -day.
I thank yen from the bottom of my
leart fee the manner in which you
hove used mes in the past and I want
to say that, including .Liberals, Pro-
gressives and Conervatives, there is
not a citizen in South Huron, so far
as I know, who has any feeling a-
gainst me personally. I feel that we
stand on the threshold of victory in
South Huron, and in the pest two or
three months many of our Progree-
sive friends 'have come to me and
sale', "If the Liberals request you to
accept the candidature again, don't
be backward in taking it, because
we are ready not only to vote for
you, but to do everything we cat
for you.'"
Mr. McMillan was one who attend-
ed the Clinton sitting of the Ontinee
agricultural inquiry committee last
year, and there took occasion to in-
form that body that it was wasting
its time trying to find out what was
wrong with the farming industry,
because everybody knew that.
He is for better trade arrange-
ments with the United States, for one
thing.
just to see which variety it likes beet.
Duncan Marshall, Liberal organizer,
hist ra emphasized the advisability
of more farmers being sent to Parlia-
ment, and South 'Huron may, have
Paid some heed to this point. At any
rate, Thomas. McMillan is not only 0
practical farmer, but has had senno
speeial experience which will. un-
doubtedly prove valuable to bit. As
befits a newpomer, he has spent the,
time 40 far in listening and watching
but one of these days the House is
likely to get an "earful" from Mr.
MeMillan, N.Vhiell will be worth lieton-
ing to, all about the rattle trade ef
Canada.
Thonme McMillan, M.P., farms iu
Hullett township, near Seaforth, on
the homestead where his father, John
McMillan, settled limey years ago,
and where he himself was born. More
than 40 years ago he and his brother.
Robert„ were extensive Importers of
Clydesdalehorses, and from 18-82 to
the present time Mr. Thomas McMil-
lan has been engaged in greater or
less extent in the cattle export trade.
He pays close atteetion to the finish-
ing of his stock, and in the rush fol-
lowing the lowering of the British
embargo was one of the few Who
managed to break even or a little bet-
ter. He has vigorous views on the
matter of ocean rates, which may be
ventilated in the House later on.
The genesis of Mr. 1VieMillan's par-
liainentary aspirations might proper-
ly be traced back to the time when,
at 15 years of age be was persuaded
to join a debating club. For 10 suc-
cessive winters he took part in those
debates, and when the Farmers' Ad-
vocate, of London, offered prizes for
esssays on farm topics Toni McMillan
committed his oratory to paper. F.
W. Hodgson, then on the Advocate,
was later appointed by Hon. John
Dryden as first superintendene of
farmers' institutes, and Hodgson ask-
ed young McMillan, then a youth do-
ing chores around•the farm, to go on
the road lecturing. Eventually he ac-
cepted the offer and eccompanied
Prof, Penton from time to time dur-
ing the next 15 or 16 years all over
the province and even into Prince Ed-
ward Island, Nova Scotia and the
West. Even during the Conservative
administration in Ontario, when Hon.
Nelson Monteith was minister of ag-
riculture, Mr. McMillan's services
were retained, and he went on his
way addressing the institutes on soil
cultivation, underdraining, care of
live stock and all the other topics on
the curriculum. Under the same min-
ister he also served on a special com-
mittee to inquire into the number of
pure bred horses in the province, and
the need for importation of stock.
More recently he was member of
the rural credits committee formed in
1920 and headed by Prof. Jackman,
of Toronto. Out of the reeommenda-
tions of that body grew the legisla-
tion under which the farm loans sys-
tem of Ontario operates to -day.
Front 1902 to 1908 Mr. McMillan
was reeve of Hullett Township, an
office in which his father 'before him
had Served. He never received an
acclamation, but always got there
just the same, surviving the storm
which arose over the Summerhill
School controversy and the local op-
tion by-law..
Always actively identified with the
Liberal paety, Mr. McMillan- was for
80 years ehaieman of his township
organization, and in 1917 was the
party's choice as candidate for the
Commons. J. J. 'Werner, who had
been elected as Conservative member
in the reciprocity election foe th.e old
riding of South Huron, had no dif-
ficulty in carrying the south riding hi
the war -time election, and Mr. Me -
.Millen had to bide his time. The Pro-
gressive wave engulfed South Huron,
with many other Ontario ridings in
1921, and William Illack, a farmer
near Seaforth, was sent to Parlia-
ment, with a majority of only 44.
Last fall the Progressives changed
candidates and eelected Robert Mc-
Millen, brothel' of the Liberal candi-
date, and a ,director of the U. 'F. O.
Co-operative, thus precipitating a
campaign of a unique character, J.
J. Mernerran again for the Conserv-
ativesi and it was a pretty close con-
test, but Thomas McMillan came ont
on top by 268. -
At the convention -which chose him
as candidate, at Hensel', on May 21
last Mr. McMillan made- a speech
whieh was at least e model of brevity,
The Writer's .hoteboak reveals the fol -
bowing:
"At the instance of very Many
Mende I again allow My name tol"ge
"If we could only get across into
that market with our live stock, it
would be a Godsend," he said in con-
versation with the Free Press. "It
is short-sighted for any Government
not to encourage freer trade with the
United States. As far as manufac-
tured goods areconcerned, our ex-
ports to the United States are in-
creasing more rapidly than our Im-
ports, even under present condi-
tions."
Mr. McMillan is a Presbyterian-- •
even since church union. His frater-
nal connection had been with the
Canadian Order of Foresters. Mrs.
McMillan was formerly a Miss Mc-
Lean, member of a family well known
in Huron County. Their family con-
sists of one son, farming in Hulled:,
and a daughter, attending high school
in Seaforth.
Mr. McMillan's room mate on Par-
liament Hill is Dr. W. A. Hall, South
Bruce, whose election also represents
a Liberal gain last October, and who,
like Mr. McMillan, takes the place e
a Progressive member.
ASKS FOR MEMBERSHIP
Friends of Mine. Cutis, co -discov-
erer of radium, are campaigning in
favor of ber election to membership
in the French Academy of Science.
She was a candidate in 1911 but was
defeated.
C.hangein NumberS
THE POsT 1st
Telephone numbers are
now
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Please Remember These
APAT RADE FRE !Britain's Great Rubber Trade
W
How uvHsTociiOBADED AND Sprang From a Jar of Seeds
SOLO ,IT TORONTO.
Bogs Are Grailed Under Government
System But Buyers' Seek Quality
In Other Classes 118 Well.
(Contribined o) Ontario oepartinent of
Agriculture, Torunt0.)
A eluiracterLd ic feature �iall agri-
cultural moaned I te0 is t he wide var-
iety itt IM COMatiUll and quality
among articles of tile same kind.
This condition Is most marked in live
stock, There is such a confusing
variety in respect to age, type, Ka,
quality and condition, that u spclal
grading service must be perfermed
just prior to sale in order to establish
00 uederstandabla money value for
the stock offered and to facilitate
and speed up sales so that they may
be effected at the least cost. Mar-
ket practice and experience, there-
fore, have established certain grades
in the live stock industry into 0110
of which each animal will fall. No
two animals however are exactly
alike, the quality of the animals
Varies with the season and in the
various sections of the country; with-
in the grades there is a.diversity of
sub classes.
Though It is not the purpose of
this article to enter into a full dis-
cussion of any of the technical
phases of the animal industry (that
is the field of the animal husband-
man, breeder and. meat packer) still,
at this time, a short schedule of the
various grades and market classes
into which all animals are sorted is
not amiss, particularly as it is the
comparative fewness and simplicity
of the grades of hogs and the uni-
formity with which hogs genera*
conform to these grades that make
the marketing ef' hogsa different
problem to that of cattle and sheep
in these two vital respects, viz.,
first, the services of the market are
not called into use in the marketing
of 60 per cent, or more of Ontario's
hogs, these being shipped dii•eet front
producing centre to packing plant,
and, secondly, the Government has
felt impelled on the solicitation of
producer, breeder and packer to step
in and interfere with private enter-
prise to the extent uot only of arbi-
trarily laying down exact standards
for the grades of hogs, but the more
radical departure of establishing ac-
tual price differentials to be made
between the various grades. To no
such extent has there been interfer-
ence by public authority in the nat-
ural working out of competition and
custom in establishing the grades and
price differentials between grades
with other classes of stock. '
Grades and. classes of stock on mar-
kets are determined in the last
analysis by the varying consumer de-
mands, and the varying supplies of
the different products of the animal
es.rcaSs. The grades are the inter-
pretation of this demand and supply
as appliedto actual animals by men
(sellers and buyers) skilled in such
interpretation. Certain terms come
by custom to bo used in describing
the various grades intowhich all
animals fall, and the grade is deter-
mined by the size, conformation, sex.
age, condition, finish and quality of
the animal. The following terms
adopted by the Markets Intelligence
and Stook Yards Service of the Fed-
eral Government may be considered
OS fairly descriptive of the grades
into which llve animals are sorted
in the marketing process:
Cattle—
Steers, 1,200 lbs. and up
" 1,000 to 1,200 lbs. .Good
Com.
Steers, 100 te 1,000 lbs. Good
Com.
Heifers Good
Fair
Com.
Cows Good
Coln,
Bulls Good
Com.
Canners aud Cutters
Oxen
Stockers, 460 to 800 lbs. Good
Pair
Feeders. 800 to 1,100 lbs. Good
Fair
Calves—
Bcef
Dairy Heavies
Grass Ls Sows
Stags
Lambs—
Sheep -
0001 Reavy
Ooto. Light
COM
*tinder quite similar grade tonne
does the Market Intelligence Service,
operated by the Federal Govern-
ment, repert the marketing day by
day on all Canadian markets, along
with the price ranges for the day
for these grades. Mao the market
sections of the press use similar
elassifications in their publicity of
the market,. With cattle, sheep and
calvee the market practice is to allow
theexperionee and skill of the ,com-
mission saleinnen and of the buyers
to determine into what gradee par
ticular animals shall fall, but with
hogs the interests et the whole trade
appear to have justified a .more arbi-
trary and artificial grading put into
effete by GOVOrtiMOnt actien.—A.
Leitch, Dept. Fleonomies, 9. A. Col-
lege, Guelph.
Winter nye.
The rye crop in Ontario is grown
on approximately 100,000 acres. It
Is not an important crop when com-
pared with oats and wheat on an
acreage basis. The increase in acre-
age as ar grain crop has been very
slow, due to the diffleulty generally
experienced in harvesting a heavy
erop. At the Ontario Agrieultural
College the variety known aa Pothue
ha e headed the list for productive -
nem The average yield per acre per
ennuin of the Petkus winter rye sur -
Passed the next eigheat 'variety by
four bushels in a seven years' teat,—
Dept. of Fatensleu, 0. A. 0., Guelph
We shall have fewer aud better
sews when Ire bubrove our dahl
herb,
illy R. IL Batson, in the N ew York Evening World.
British rubber growers are now get-
ting 00 cents a pound and last July
the priee of the raw product was
$1.20 a pound. It is enriching tbe
Empire by between $400,000,000 and
$500,000,000 annually,
The man who made this possible
for Britain was Sir Henry. Wiekham,
a scientist who evidently had except-
ionally rare business actin= and
vision. Sir Henry went to Brazil in
187a to do a lot of scientific work.
He -became intereeted in rubber grow-
ing. Brazil even then realized the
trineneloue potentialities of her pra-
etleal monopoly Or raw rubber, and
guarded it zealously. But Sir Henry
0-,1013' urbane selentist„ andevi-
dently was somewhat of a diplomat.
He WitS seized with a consuming de-
sireto attempt to cultivate seede of
the rubber plant in his native Eng-
land. Brazil had placed an embargo
on these -seeds, mid it, was rigidly en-
forced. But Sir Henry did not con-
sult Out Brazilian Government.
When he was leaving Para, Brazil,
nearly a half century ago,SirHenry
frankly told the customs guard on the
dock that the glass case in his lugg-
age contained some of the seeds. He
explained with great politeness and
net without a touch of deference that
he simply wanted the seeds :for botan-
ical speeiments. He, Sir Henry, was
not in trade, he explaine4,but was a
ecientiet and :Wired the little eeeds
merely for scientific experimnt. The
eustoms guerd wag impressed, so
much so that his bow of acquiescence
was a little more formal and polite -
that that of Sir Henry when the lat-
ter sought permission to tate the
seeds.
Whether the scientist rekly know
that he was carrying away .with him
the seeds Of another tremendous in-
dustrial empire eat only be guessed.
At any rate, he kept his word with the
customs guard. .He took the seeds to
the botanical garden in London for
experimental purposes. And during
the experiments, and to Sir Henry's
great eatiefection, the seeds sprouted.
These sprouts were sent to Ceylon
and planted. They soon began to
thrive. Other sprouts were sent to
practically every other tropical coun-
try under British dominion and con-
trol. And they, too, thrived. Borneo,
Cey,len and several other coun-
tries soon began to be great rubber
producing countries. To -day Britain
produces more than 70 per. cent of
the' rubber that is grown in the world.
South America produces less than 10
per cent. Dutch colonies account for
the major part of the balance of pro-
duction, and these Dutch rubberin-
terests are largely financed by Bri-
tish money.
LACK OF INFORMATION
"Am I descended 1 rom a monkey,
ma?"
"I dare say, but I'm not sure;
never met any of your father's peo-
ple."
+ + +
THE IDEAL
Guest (iii library) -1 see you've
bought a new set of Shakespeare with
notes.
Newrich—Notes nothing! I paid
cash on the nail f or it.
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REASONABLE DOUBT
Lady—There is no need to be
frightened, my little man; my little
dog is only wagging his tali to show
how pleased he is.
Tommy—But that is not the end
I'm afraid of.
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THE 'WILY WAITER
"Waiter. b ring mu two fried eggs,
some ham, a cup of coffee, and aroll,"
said the first "commercial."
"I3ring me the same," said his
friend, "but eliminate the eggs."
I The man on foot often overtakes
happiness, while the man who pur-
sues it at high speed often passes it
by.
Put two perons in a room, one
with a toothache and the other in love
and the one with the toothache will go
to sleep first.
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'Twas not an act of chivalry,
Nor yet the fear of scorn;
He offered her his street car seat
To keep her off his corn.
4-
"I hope Pm protruding," apologized
the fat man as he butted in on the
Private party in the dining room.
Prof. teacock's Campaign
For Cancer Research
McGill Professor, Moved by Death of
His Wife, Will Devote Pen apd
Money to Fight Disease.
The cancer problem, the greateat
one faced by medical science today
and which so far seems to baffle all
attempts at solution, is to be attacked
with greater force as the result of
death from the dread disease of Mrs.
Stephen Leacock, wife of the well
known professor of economics and
i literature of McGill University.
i When Prof. W. Blair Bell, of the
University of Liverpool, was in For -
onto last November he was called on
• to visit Mrs. Leacock in Montreal,
and administer to her the lead solu-
tion treatment of which he is the
discoverer, and which he presented
to the Canadian Academy here, show-
ing the results so far obtained.
• "Yessir."
in a moment the waiter came back,
leaned confidentially and penitently
over the table and whispered:
"We 'ad a slight accident just be-
fore we opened this mornin', sir, and.
the 'andle of the liminator got busted. •
off, Will you take yer eggs fried,
same as this 'eve gentleman?"
.2.2.2.2
The mate who catches cold on a
fishing trip gets no sympathy from his
wife until he dies of pneumonia,
+ 44 + +
Succeed and you'll be hated, fail
and you'll be pitied.
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Prof. Leacock
Professor Bell shortly afterwards
returned to Liverpool, and there ho
was followed by Professor Leaceek,
who wished to have Mrs. Leacock
continue the treatment. Her death
occurred there shortly after her ar-
rival.
Professor Leacock, moved by her
death, has undertaken to forward
with his pen and his fortune a stren-
uous campaign in the research field
in quest of the secret of the cure or
prevention of the disease that carries
off 100,000annually on this continent.
The British Society for the Control
of Cancer which has branches in all
the Dominions will likely be the
agency through which Professor Lea-
cock will direct his efforts. Prof.
fOrInOrlY of 1VIeGi11 University
and a fellow professor of Prof. Lea-
cock, is new at the head of the Path-
ology Department in Liverpool Unl-
vereity, and ie thus associated with
Dr, William Blair
The society is also represerited 111
McGill and it connection With the
University of Torotto.