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Sunday School Lesson
BY CHARG
LES G. TRUMBULL
(Editor of Tho Sunday School Times)
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DAVID AND GOLIATH
Sunday, July 24-1, Samuel 17.
Golden Text.
The Lord is the strength of my
life; of whom shall I be afraid?
(Psa. 27:1).
Continually we find spiritual truth
set forth in the historical events of
the Old Testament. Of the experi-
ences of the Israelites we read:
"Now all these things happened un-
to them for ensamples; and they are
written for our admonition, upon
whom the ends of the world (ages)
are come." (I. Cor. 10:11).
The Philistines were always the
enemies of God's people; they rep-
resent the powers of evil. Their
great and terrifying leader, Goliath,
a giant in size, strength and influ-
ence, is a type of the head of the
powers of evil, or Satan, who defies
God and His Christ. And David is
one of the Old Testament types of
Christ, the Shepherd -King. In the
lesson incident, David ie the only one
who can deliver God's people from
the gigantic evil power that confronts
them, even as Christ is the only ono
who can deliver God's people spirit-
ually.
We read that, during. the fot'ty
days when Goliath was defvelg the
armies of Israel, he kept saying
g
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"Give me a ma
we n, that ma•S fight
together." Insteadgave got they ma a him a
boy—and God.
We must not forget that David
was the Lord's anointed, as we saw
last week. God had long ago chosen
him; he was in the family line from
which Christ in His earthly life was
to come; and the young Hebrew boy
must have been well trained in the
Scriptures, a God-fearing lad of
prayer and faith, All that he seys
about Goliath's defiance of God's
people shows this. "Who is the un-
circumeized Philistine, that he should
defy the armies of the living God?"
"The Lord that delivered me out of
the paw of the lion, and out of the
paw of the bear, He will deliver me
out of the hand of this Philistine," so
spoke the young shepherd.
That was real faith.
With the permission of Saul, the
King whose days were numbered,
David goes against the giant. The
worldly Ring, Saul, tried to fit him
out with his own armor, but it would
not work. It is an ill -fit indeed when
a child of God tries to use the armor
and weapons of the world; they will
fail him both for defense and offense.
"And David put them off him." "11'nr
the weapons of our warfare are not
carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strong holds" (II
Cor. 10:4),
Yet God uses our natural training
and gifts when He is going to work
through us supernaturally. David
was well trained in the use of the
sling, and evidently under God's
guidance he "chose him five smooth
stones out of the brook . . , and
his sling was in his hand; and be
drew near to the Philistine."
What a picture it must have been
as the boy approached the giant!
What a breathless hush must have
come over both armiesi The giant
cursed David by his gods, invited
he.: to come to hint and he would
r . , his ;' •-1' to the birds and beasts.
Dav:d" a• -ply was of God -breathed
words, read last week that when
the la'.i ',; first anointed "the Spirit
of the Lord came upon David from
that day forward." Some one gas
said that many in Israel in this crisis
believed that God could deliver the
giant into David's hands, but only
D:, id believed that God would. That
is real faith.
, David's inspired defiance should
be read carefully in class, and if
possible memorized (verses 45-47),
It ended with the declaration: "The
battle is the Lord's, and He will give
you into our hands." Then the giant
came to meet David, and David ran
to meet him. Goliath's anger must
have been terribly aroused by those
words of the young shepherd, but
he had no chance to say anything
further, for one stone front David's
"ling did the work. And David had
five stones! A. speaker addressing
the recent Student Conference at
America's Keswick called attention
to this as he was speaking on the
five names of Chri t in Isaiah 9: 0;
"Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty
God, the everlasting Father, the
Prince of Peace." Any one of those
five names, he said, is enough to
silence and defeat the Adversary.
Goliath's ell tth helmet shield t and - �hiad ar,d
.word were of no avail. David'; head
was protected by "the helmet of sal-
vation"; he used "the sword of the
Spirit, which is the word of God";
and he took "the shield of faith,"
so that "all the fiery darts of the
evil one" were powerle,es against
him (Eph. 6: 13-17).
After striking the Philistine down
into unconsciousness, David took the
giant's own sword "and slew him,
and cut off his head therewith." This
is a striking type of Christ's victory
over Satan consummated by the very
weapon of Satan himself. The devil's
great weapon is death; and the Lord
used that weapon against him "that
through death He night destroy him•
that had the power of death; that
is the devil" (Heb. 2:14),
COOLED AlR
On stifling days, cool the house by
evaporation by hanging over each
open window netting which rests in a
pan of water. The water is drawn
up into the cloth and evaporates.
COMPLETE ENSEMBLE
The well-dressed woman when
travelling now adds to her en,emble
a handbag fashioned from lizard, pig-
skin or whatever the leather is that
fashions her shoes, purse, etc.
FLANNEL BOUTONNIERES
For those who have acquired tha
habit of wearing flowers and feel
they must wear them even on wash
dresses, there are some lovely bou-
tonnieres made of flannel. In .stripes
tyle effect is startling, especially when
the wool stamens are in a color to
match the stripes. Other flowers for
wear with sports costumes are made
of muslin in tinted shades to match i
tli2 natural blooms. Large floppy
roses of cretonne are seen perched On
the shoulder of a 0p04 coats .•.r
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tRidgek,y e''d ad
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C"i1A11LE r E. BAX'T'ER
THE BRUSSELS POST? 1
MAILS AND MANDARINS
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It was tbu nu ':f h'.au is the
tIs. (rust .,;i:,;'.+.1; stud the miaee-
ea. 'suite deserted. Ne I r:te time
217171 hate• been t•2111,1.3, ;MI] no bet -
t,•1. "'r•,i�iou, fW ilio tr'u•t e"utpany
11.211 �1".nn,r 1.1.:211>' lar .,.(10nt h, ibo
. „ ' l , TOY', ,ic, t 113 u'hber Melt Meetly' been ri0Jre of this,
carefully eovt ring Itidgeley, the
num Peeved round the cage and
'meted the door,
"Veit _it burl: there!" he ordered,
'melte:ltlg with his autoltl:itie towar'1
the big '12'2 in the ,',,riser, "And If
you 'neve a finger 1(r let out a sque;d
you're guile:"
Covering itidgelo;; with his tight
11;131, he swt3fg open lire till with his
left, se loping up a few packages of
ones anti twos. Growling, he crossed
to the safe.
"aeon 'e1.!" he ordered.
Itidgeley, shnklu0, obeyed Mut.
\oft' stated against that dur!" the
robber ordered. 'Anel keep 'ant up!"
.and, shifting the automatic into his
left hand, and keeping the muzzle
pressed against the e•asbie•r's waist -
1'1t, Ito began to mall open the in-
t,'rlor compa. 2•tu,e:as of the safe with
his right
1t was like a hideous nightmare to
11i'I0eley-. It was a Saturday morning
teal liar had been ahem to leave 101111
fur1.loeitek end On a ier
hung.
Ills
e0 ta,i(a tile 0Mr W118 IS
trey.
'ling bag. HIis hard hat, which had
Leen dented tont 821(10 cullcllssiou,
seeua'd 10 grill knowingly at hint.
Ile waited in a cubs sweat while the
lam, uttering growls of dissatisfac-
tion, went through the compartments.
But the safe was itriwtte:My empty.
"Where is it?" demanded the rob-
ber, turning on iltdgeley with a sav-
age snarl,
"Ree shipped it an hour ago,"
Itidgeley answered.
"Damn you, you're lying!" shrieked
the other.
Itidgeley shrugged his shoulders.
Through the grille he saw the blonde
head of Miss Baker, the president's
secretary, as the girl came up the
steps. He saw lier stop, saw her eyes
contract—then site was gone,
"You scutn 1" roared the robber, los-
ing all self-control. "I'll croak you if
you d,'n't—"
Footsteps sounded outside. IIe hesi-
tated, turned, whirled out of the cage
as the porter came running toward
him. There was a report, a spit of
fire, Olesen fell, got up again, and
stood looking with a seared gnze at
Ids left hand, which was running
blood.
The robber turned rind ran. Shouts,
the sounds of a confused struggle
reached Ridgeley s ears, There was
more shooting,
••My (eel:" said liidgeley feebly.
And, suddenly nerving idntself, he
stooped and opened his traveling hug.
It was <'r11111nled with packages of
bills, Hurriedly Midgeley began shov-
ing then into the safe. It was not
until the last one had been restored
that lie desisted from life frantic 10 ,1e-
ments, Then he leaned hack. against
the door of the safe and wiped tbe
sweat c q., from his forehead.
t chi nc
1.
"ily GOdI0 he whimpered twain.
Only ten minutes before, with the
twelve thousand dollars safely stowed
away 1n his traveling bag, lie ]tial been
contemplating slight.
He had laid all 11114 plans with the
utmost skill, and In a few hours would
have been safe from pursuit. And be
he El not dreamed how hoe v3' a load
lay on his conscience.
Now It was as if a terrl!'te burden
had been removed from him; he
breathed freely again,
The I'resident, the secretary, and
two polleenen (111 111e running in,
"Did Ile get it, Ithlgeley T the pres-
ident shouted.
For answer Itidgeley swung open
the door of the sine, showing tite bills
in their place.
The president shouted in his de-
light, "Good boy!" he yelled. "The
fellow gut clean away, but we'll have
him in a few hours. We've got the
number of his car. lint—you opened
the safe for him?"'
"I did," smiled Itidgeley, "but I'd
taken the packages out end put them
in that cupboard behind the corre-
spondence paper. I—I had a sort of
Isunc'h•something would happen."
Essential Assumption.
"Why don't you go out hefare your
people and tell them you have earned
this great oflice and yon want it be-
eaur'e you are entitled to 16?"
,"rnat procedure," rejoined Senator
Sorghum, "would be extremely ama-
teurish. No polished politician thinks
of neceptIng public responeibtllty ex-
cept with relu'tunee eta es a great
favor to his fellow man,"
Anyhow He Knows Better Now,
The I'hrenologiv/•-FT-ml-mem ! Very
unusual condition presented here,
Bump of knowledge se.selels abnormally
developed. And yet there is not the
necompent'ln'g mental acumen nsnal)y
attendant In such eases. I caon't ac-
count for it,
The Subject -•I can, professor, That
Is whore me old lady bleed me with
rt skillet when I talked back to 'er
this morning"
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Here antd'There
Canada's net debt was reduced by
$42,000,000 during the past fiscal
year, a reduction in the national
debt larger than any in its history.
"The Royal York" is the name
chosen by President Beatty for the.
new Canadian Pacific hotel to be
erected at Toronto. It associates
the new hotel with the early history
of that city.
Canadian Pacific Railway en-
gineers, now busy with their pre-
liminary survey of the projected
railway to Chicoutimi and the Lake
St. John district, are at present
studying the question of a terminus
site.
An aviation field available to
commercial flying is to be prepared
at Lethbridge, Alberta. The new
field, which will be wide enough to
allow ten planes to lie abreast, will
also be used for aerial mail service.
A large party ofProfesslona1 men
will leave for a tour of the west
over Canadian Pacific lines, on the
third annual tour conducted under
the auspices of the University of
Montreal. The party will spend
about two weeks in the Rockies.
The second regular jou:nay to
Canada of the Canadian Pacific
steamship "Empress of Australia,"
will be distinguished by the pres-
ence on board of that ship of the
Prince of Wales and Premier Stan-
ley Baldwin, of Great Britain.
Col. J. S. Dennis, chief commis-
sioner of the Department of Colon-
ization and Development, Canadian
Pacific Railway, erect; is a much
larger immigration movement to
Canada this year than last. He ex-
plained that the reported congestion
of farm workers do the western
towns was transient and not likely
to recur.
What is said to be the first
instance of Canadian -made machin-
ery being shipped out of Canada
into the States — manufactured in
Canada to American order -- is that
of nine large wood pulp grinders,
of an output of 100 tons of pulp
a day, now ready at the plant of
the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co.
for consignment to the St. Regis Co.,
Watertown, New York.
Excellent progress is being made
with the branch -line programme
projected by the Canadian Pacific
Railway for the three Prairie Prov-
inces this season, according to D.
O. Coleman, vice-president in charge
of western lines. The work of Con-
struction, he Said, is progressing
rapidly and every, effort Is being
made to have the new lines in
operation by the time the fall crop
movement begins. Keeping pace
with the rising tide of land settle-
ment the company expects to open
the line from Lloydmineter to Clan
Donald on July 15, This branch is
of partieular interest as it serves
the colony of llebrideans located in
'the Clan Donald district. These
settlers are doing remarkably well
and hare forty per cent. of their
land breben.
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lasulit,n' d in Chines. . re, t d,: Melee
bac:]' 11, arty 11,11 Oil y.tr:s. I.a1,': In
addition to this cllite, a tare. imm-
Is 1. of private peat ,'(lire' elart'•(1
iu.•+iness, 111(11 they warp 1,1 be 1'2,2211,1
in all the !mottoes pruvinc'••1, ('arry-
iug letters and parcels and issuing
1(31(1 11(11±65.
A little arrange.nen t, which may
strike dwellers in the homeland as
c'nricus, was that hair the charge
was Paid by the sender and the other
half by the addressee. If the ad-
dressee appeared a little too anxious
to get possession of his letter he oc-
casionally had to pay a little more
than the 1..gelation 'hall,,' for he
was told; "The roads were rough,
the weather stormy, and there has
been much extra worlc in carrying
this letter here!"
Early. In the 'sixties of last century
the postal organization was hantl.'d
over to the Customs, and In 1011
control of the postal service was as-
sumed by the ministry of Communi-
c.atilns in the Chinese Government,
Many were the trials and tribula-
tions of myself and my fellow -work-
ers in those early days, but, fortun-
ately, these were well interspersed
with humorous situations and inci-
dents, Even to this day, money is
often found loose in letter -boxes, a
number of capper coins having drop -
271 in with an unstamped p ed let ci,
p t .
Sometimes an elderly lady would
come and complain that a registered
letter had nut reached its destinattou.
Asked for a receipt, she would pro-
duce a slightly crumpled two -cent
stamp train an inner pocket. She
had bought the stamp, put the let-
ter In the box, and kept. the stamp
OA her receipt,
Then there was a vociferous dame,
who would come to the couuter and
rate the °Metals because she had not
heard from her son in a distant part
of the country.
"We cannot help that," was the
reply.
"But I registered my letter," sbo
would retort triumphantly, as if that
put the possibility of her eon not
writing right out of the question.
But the Chinese employes of the
postal service are a fine body of men,
although undoubtedly it is the pres-
ence of the foreign element in this
highly -centralized organization that
enables the service to bo maintained
as it is throughout the country. The
Chinese run their little businesses
upon purely family lines, and this
restricted outlook is the bane of all
purely Chinese official institutions.
The native courier Is possibly the
hero in this vast organization, He is
often absolutely illiterate, but he is
a study, honest worker, He carries
anything from fifty to eighty pounds,
slung on a pole, and covers thirty
miles a day on foot,
Without a doubt the Chinese pee -
pie bave taken the modern Post Of-
fice to their heart, and they make
use of its facilities to the full. When
a Chinese traveller moves from one
place to another he often carries his
cash in the form of a money -order,
bought by himself at the point of
departure and made payable to him-
self at his destination.
Postage stamps are made to serve
somewhat the w at tic s1(
me2 1(t n
p P
s and are
often remitted in't
P ymcmL of goods.
The position of postal assent in a vil-
lage is greatly sought after by the
native shopkeepers. It confer* a cer-
tain immunity from possible high-
handed action by the local "satrap"
and brings much custom to the small
shop.
The Bahama Islands.
The Bahama Islands consist of
about twenty that are inhabited
and a large number .of islets and
rocks, comprising an arra of about
4,404 square miles, and a population
of 56,854, the most part being de-
scendants of liberated Africans.
The climate is salubilous, and in
whiter tbe capital, Nassau, which ,is
outside the tropics, is ft'egncnted 1)y
many vlsitors, The chief industry
of the islands is sponge-gal.herings,
the export of sponges having a value
of about $$50,000 a yca1r. Bananas,
cocoanuts, tomatoes and many other
vegetables are exported, Mahogany,
iignum-vitae, mastic, ircbwood, log -
wood, ebony, and satin -wood are
found throughout the islands. A fibre
industry Is largely established, the
annual exports of hemp having a
value of $250,000.
Protection of Drunkards.
The special providence whielt is
said to take care of drunkards is
assisted In Amsterdam by a society
founded for the protection of the in-
toxicated, The soolety works on busi-
ness lines, and has a tariff of
charges.
A reveller who has lost control of
his legs is led home for 15 cents.
If finable to walk he can be conveyed
in a portable chair at a charge of 36
cents, or In a wheel -barrow, Pick.
wiekian fashion, for 45 cents. A
cushion is 4 cents extra, but when a
patient requires a wheelbarrow he is
generally beyond worrying about
cushions.
A Blind Codfish.
In a recent catch a Lowestoft
trawler caught a well-fed codfish
which was totally blind. Naturalists
suggest that it found"food. by running
its barbel, or beard, along tine 'floor
of the sea and so catehing small erne-
taoeans, worms, and s0 Ona
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JULY 24—THE REPEAL OF Tl -1E
WINDOW TAX
Seventy -rix years ago, on the 24th
of July, 14it the Window
Tac
which had been in operationin Great
Britain for over a century and a half
was repealed. This tax had been
levied upon the owners of hours
which had more than six windows,
provided the rental value of the
house ryas over five pounds per an-
num, :old the amount of the assess-
ment was based on the number of
windows in excess of rix,
The British people had regarded
the tax as a great hardship, but it
was really a blessing when compared
with the curse from which it had
been the means of rescuing the mat -
tion. The tax was originally imposed
in the reign of William III to cover
the deficit caused by a much-needed
readjustment of the silvercoinage,
which was then the standard cur-
rency of the realm.
Up to the time of the Restoration
of the Monarchy in 1600 the British
coinage had been made entirely by
stand, and the state of each finished
coin depended largely upon :he skill
of the workmen who first cut it out
with the shears from a strip of metal
and then shaped and stamped it with
a hammer. The cons varied in
weight and intrinsic value, very few
were perfectly round, and there was
no marking around the rims, so that
the paring down of coin by, dishonest
persons was an easy matter and dif-
'icult to detect.
In spite of severe penalties com-
clipping was one of the most preval-
ent crimes, and at the time of the
Restoration it had assumed such pro-
portions that the
majority of the
money in circulation had been re-
duced to almost half its original face
value. Earl in therein of Charles
Early g s
II hand labour was superseded ny a
crude mill worked by horses, ltd
the coins thus produced were not
only perfectly round and regular in
weight, but they born an inscription
around their riots, which precluded
any possibility of the edges being
pared down without detection.
It was thought that this new coin-
age would gradually displace the old,
but as fast as bhe new coins were is-
sued they disappeared from circula-
tion. In those days there were no
banks except a few operated by the
goldsmiths, so that the persons who
saved money usually stowed it away
in some secret place; and they nae
turally hoarded up the new and more
valuable coins, while large quantities
were melted down or sent abroad.
The condition of the currency went
from bad to worse, its purchasing
value steadily decreased, and very
few contracts involving tate exchange
of money were made velthout a stip-
ulation as to the quality of the coin
to be tendered in payment.
Numerous schemes to remedy the
evil were proposed, but all were re-
jected, as none could be found in
which the whole loss would not fall
upon the unfortunate holder of light
coinage, Finally in 1095 the Gov-
ernment announced the issue of a
new coinage, which would be of
standard weight and fineness, and
fixed a time limit within which light
money would be exchanged for its
full face value in new coin. At the
same time the Government imposed
the Window Tax to cover the result-
ant loss, and in the first year of ite
operation the tax produced a re-
venue of over a million pounds.
When the tax had served its origin-
al object it was decided to retain it,
and use the proceeds for other pur-
poses, and,uutil 1x51 it provided the
Government with a steady source of
revenue, which in the year pribr to
the repeal of the tax amounte.1 to
nearly two million pounds, In all
parts of Great Denali.' are to be seen
old re-idences with many of their
tvindow-openings bricked-up—a visi-
ble reminder of the method universal-
ly adopted by property .,ween to re-
duce the amount of their assessment
for Window Tax.
('1riARIB OF 0'1'^t1 'E WAS ms.
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speedy Vessels Twice the I'htee of
Slow -Moving craft.
The once 1-0111antle site of Venice,
Italy, experts say, is d 117 In the
old days 1oth1110 '111'1,•'1 its (71111.10
waters but the sweep of Go. con-
doli<.+rs,
According to an arli']e in the Kan-
sas City Star, by Pietro Fe: n, itius-
trinus 800 er an liner- at•• i line of
famous gondoliers, the wu:,l' and dis-
turbance of the Heeler/1 meter boat
in undermining the Veneti::12 p'lltioss,
washing out coml. sLm •s, 111111 many
of the rarest hufld.in;:s are 511.31), but
surely sinking out 2f
Pietro owns and rots; a gondola in
which queen \'irio110 of England
Once rode, later, Vistas 1?rnmanut'!
TIL, King of Italy, 2x-i1i1t s roe Wil-
liam and itis sort, the 1ternan crown
prince, were rowed 1(1112:, the "Can-
als Grande" by Pietro, who also
claims that sine'the war 110 has
numbered nm,ng hie tektite the
Shah of Persia and other notables.
'1'o Pietro, however, it Makes little
difference wltottwr his passenger be
prince or pauper; his i'oiit'Ie(y• is un-
vtu•ying. Nor does natiennlity enter.
into ronslderation 11 the tourists is
willing to admire the beauty of
\'enter• without restraint.
Done are the Jaye tvllen slow-
mervin:; craft, propelled by man-
pnwer, glided out of the smaller
canals and into them htthorough-
fare Without don1.r
of being " r•tmtnecl
by t craft speeding aimed. erten fast-
er than a horse can gallop,
Nor are the canny of Venice any
longer the haven al' love whleb they
were of yore, when fond couples
spent much of the night whispering
their 21(7111(1(1±111 falsehoods to one an-
other beneath the Bridge of Sighs;
for in those days, when the gondola
still was queen of the Venetian la-
goons, steam whistles which break
the silence of modern nights had not
yet been invented.
For these reasons, and lx'eause in
1927 tourists demand to see Venice
in a day, as they visit Ike Louvre
Museum in an hour, Paris in ono
night, and England, Ireland, Scot-
land, and New York on the fallowing
afternoon in a London cinema, the
picturesque gondolier will soon be -
00111e, as rate a find on the Venetian
canals as Is already his nearest to kin,
the old-fashioned coachmen, on the,
streets of mainland Cities.
Already tliey have dwindled to less
than 500, from the 600 they 'lum-
bered before the war. Some, of
course, were icilled in the t:onfliet,
the others are the victims of
Venice's modernization. But regard-
less of its cause, the gradual dis-
appearance of the gondoilers'is final,
for the descendants of the lest re-
maining 'Venetian boatmen will, in
all probability, forsake ' the gondola
for craft more •up -to -data, unless
something 1s done to convince visitors
that speed is to Venice *bat leisua'e
is to business.
An exceptiap to tits rule, which
Pietro Hever fails tffr mention, con-
corns the gondola races which are Pe.
Venetian 2'0((018 at different times e
the year, On those days rapidity is
cheered by Venetians themselves, as
they eagerly weteh their favorites
strive to win one of the prizes award-
ed the four swiftest gondala teams
in Venice, writes Henry Testi Russell
in the Graphic, London.
The speed limit of new cars should
be strictly observed, The parts of a
new motor must be worked in, and ii
they are abused in the first weeks of
service, they are bound to suffer for
fit in the end,
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