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Sunday School Lesson
(‘_ BY CHARLES G. Tench isULt
(editor of Tho sand 1y school Tor.es)
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JESUS AND SINNERS
Sunday, Jan. 13.—Mark 2:147.
Golden Text
I carie not to call therighteous,
but sinners to rel ent;r::ce. (Mark
2:17.)
The moment we say "Saviour" w:'
declare that there are sinners. if
there were no sinners, there could
be no Saviour. A Saviour must
,save, and it is from sin that the
great and only Saviour, the Lord
Jesus Christ, is able to save, The
human name that God, before His
birth, directed should be given to
Hini proves this: "Thou shalt call
His name Jesus: for He shall save
His people from their sins" (Matt.
1:21.)
In last week's lesson we found
this Saviour dealing omnipotently
and healingly with certain conse-
quences of sin—physical sickness.
and demon possession. No ennse-
quence of sin could stand before
Him; it was triumphantly conquer-
ed, done away with.
In this week's lesson the Lord
goes even farther and deals, not with
sin's consequences, but with sin it-
ee1f. Who could attempt this but
God Himself? Can man deal with
sin?
The encounter of the Saviour with.
reply, but He uttered the. tremen-
dous statement that HIe was now
going to give a de'monetration of the
fact th.tt .He had power on earth to
forgive sins: and He E anmlanded the
helpless paralytic to arise, carry ]lis
bed, and go to his house.
In.tantiy the man obeyed. It
was a stupendous double miracle.
The man's body and spirit were foul
and impotent with sin, and thee, as
hostile critics watched, his body be-
came clean and powerful, his spirit
whiter than snow, as "immediately
he arose, took up his bed, and went
forth before thein all; insomuch that
they were all amazed."
But another significant word is
added just mere, Not only were
they amazed, but they "glorified God
saying, We never saw it in this
fashion." When God is being blas-
phemed, men do not glorify Him.
Had "this man" spoken blas-
phemies? Or had the Cape"naum
crowd seen God the Son glorify God
the Father?
A company of sinners is the ideal
,place for a Saviour. He would rather
be with sinners than with any one
else, for there only can He fulfil
the mission that is dearest to His
heart, Why should any one be sur-
prised therefore, that Christ singled
out a sinner, Levi the son of AI
phaeus, a publican or tax collector.
doubtless a mercenary grafter."
and said to Him, "Follow Me." Why
sin came unexpectedly, sensations- should we be surprised that "`many
ally, dramatically. He was in publicans and sinners sat alio to
house in Capernaum the place with Jesus and His dielples':"
where He had so successfully healed es a self-righteous people of
Multitudes of the sick people that th that day noticed this, and condemn -
whole city had t out toer see ed Christ for it, His answer was, un -
Him. It was not strange, therefore,
that as soon as people learned He
was again in their midst they crowd•
ed together to see and hear Him.
He was preaching "the word" to
them, and there was not room for
another listener, "no not so much as
about the door."
en camee
thrt hnmo
Th al four
friends, carrying a helpless paralytic.
"And when they could not come
nigh unto Him for the press, they
uncovered the roof where He was
and when they had broken it up
they let down the bed whereir the
sick of the palsy lay."
Because of the faith of the sick
man's four friends, Christ was ready
to do everything for them. We are
told that it was "when Jesus saw
their faith," not the sick man's
faith. What a challenge and en-
couragem,'nt that is to us inprayel•.
as we peer for some loved one. God
can reanh one who has no comeione-
ness of deed if tee pray themtr:h in
:faith, end faint not.
Put 'he word that the Lord ::put •
'was um:er^tree 11 ,11,1 nor ill •rl
the 1110e: li • said: Sun, thy stns he
forgiven thee.', net is. He h al, d
)tins spitneene inetl:ad of i-
cally. F. i, is lr to Ole t' t`t,e 'Ii •tirt,.?
Tehe u_:.her..;i;t•s girl a„I',•i.,. dee
&rrihe. vav, w OW, ne ' , , a•
the er. we'r. At one;+. lir ..; : elle ,
in their they aero t •d (:htl •t
of bitemIt' rry "Who t en fee 0
sins het tied nuly?” 11 1 tt'l:<•l
themselves.
They were right in their po itiort
that only God can forgive sin. San
cannot do it. And if this Jean. of
Nazarth 1<.tto only a man, then they
were right in saying that He epeke
blasphemy. Men .try to prove today
that Clu•i.;t eh'r+1 not claim to he God;
but the Jews of' His day knew that
He did. "Mutt i.s why they accused
Him of blasphemy. That is why
they crucified Him.
The Lord discerned suuernatur-
ally what they were saying within
themselves, and He asked them why.
Ile gave them no opportunity to
answer, but asked them another
question: which was easier, " to say
•to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins
:beforgiven thee; or to say, Arise,
:and take up thy bed and. walk"?
Again He gave no opportunity for
answerable: "They that are whole
have no need of the physician, but
they that are sick; I came not to
call the righteous, but sinners to re-
pentance."
If we are conscious of any sin in
our lives, conscious of any weakness,
comcious of any need, let us praise
God. He gave
Son to die and
from the dead,
saved. And He
the uttermost."
His only begotten
to be raised again
that we might be
is "able to save to
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Celebrates
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Birthday
SIR JOHN GIBSON
Celebrated itis Rath. birthday last
Sunday. Although confined to his
holm with a cold, 110 is still hale
and hearty and takes an active ill
teret in his law business and the
many financial and industrial con -
Cents he is connected with.
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FAILURE -PROOF
When making Mayanaise add one
tablespoon of bubbling, boiling water
sifter you have thoroughly mixed
some oi'1 with the egg yokes.
SAGGING SEATS
When cane seats first begin to
sag, nub them until thoroughly
soaked with hot soap suds, Turn
chair! upside down and dry in the
titin,
THE BRUSSELS POST
THE COMM OF INA
LIVE IN BF!lit)'1'l, JUNGLES 01'
HILLY TU; WT.
By Nature They Are Mild t111d Gen-
tle, But )`heir Religious Beliefs
Are Carlow; In the. Extreme ---The
Marriage (Jeronimo 1" Simple.
In the shadow nr the Satpura
Range, India, dwell it primitive pen.
plc, believed 1>, bebintr to 00 un-
'•iviltzed rr :richt of ti"' lira Minn
race, says a writer in the Times of
lndia.
Hidden In remote jungles of hilly
tracts, the Rends live In Ignorance
of the forward march of civilization
and cling still to many of their old
superstitions. By nature the Gond
Is mild and gentle, and in the pres-
ence of strangers, reserved and timid.
His religious beliefs are curious in
the extreme, On the number of gods
he worships depends the special
group or family to which he belongs;
and connected with this are the fam-
ilies into which] he may marry.
Worshippers of seven gods may
• not marry into their 0111 group, but
must select partners from among the
six -god, five -god, or four -god fami-
lies. Bbera Pen, also called 1laha-
deva, is recognized as the creator 01
the world. As, however, he is a
kindly being, he Is seldom wor-
shipped.
The gods the Gond has to reckon
with are those malignant spirits
whish are always on the alert to take
offence and do him harm. These are
the spirits that must be propitiated.
and hence it is obvious that the main
religious acts of the Goads are in-
spired by fear.
In olden days human saerlfices
were not uncommon. As lately as
1842 when the Rajah of Baster went
on a long journey, twenty-five human
victims were sacrificed to secure for
him an undisturbed journey, If a
woman Is suspected of being a witch,
she is thrown into the nearest tank
or pool. If she remains under the
water, while a man shoots three ar-
rows in the air, she is innocent, but.
if she comes to the surface before
that she is proved to be a witch. Her
two front teeth are then knocked
out; her head shaved; and she is
banished from the village.
One curious thing all over the
Gond country in its wildest regions
is the setting up of a clay image of a
tiger to mark the place where a man
has been slain by one of these wild
animals. The idea is that the image
of the tiger called "Waghoba" is
indwelt by the soul of the dead man,
who, in hatred of his slayer, w111 act
as a village guardian,
The belief in totems is everywhere
found amongst the Gonds, and many
are the plants and animals which are
regarded as "sacred." The rout -god
Gonds regard the tortoise and cro-
codile as their totem; the five -god
Gonds, the iguana, the six -god Gonds,
the tiger, and the seven -god Gonds,
the porcupine.
The position of women is one of
equality with the opposite sex, the
woman being free to marry the man
of her choice. Among the Maria
Gonda there is a bachelors' quarter
in every village where the young
men are shut up at night. After a
short time the parents and village
elders step in, and a bethrothal 1s
arranged. The bridegroom's party
then plant a spear in the courtyard
of the bride's house. If the bride's
party consent, water is poured over
the spear by the girl's father, Should
he fail to do this it is regarded as
an insult, and he is fined heavily.
The marriage ceremony Is ex-
tremely simple. A platform of cow -
dung cakes is built, on which a
blanket is spread. On this the young
couple stand and exchange vows.
The bridegroom puts an iron ring on
one of the bride's fingers, and the
ceremony is over.
The marriage of widows Is per-
mitted. The ceremony in this case
Is that the couple stand under the
eaveea of the bridegroom's hut with
an upright spear between them. Tu-
me,rfc, mixed with oil, ie poured over
the bridegroom's head and on the
spearhead, and the bridegroom ties
a string of beads around the bride's
neck and conducts her as his wife in-
to his hut.
The Coeds elt.her bn•y or burr:
their dead. Their burial ground or
burning gflat ie generally- to the t:•ast
of the village. Their dead are some-
times belled with their feet towards
the north; the explanation of t111s
practice beiu•. 0 tradition that their
!tome was 0110e in the ,forth,
'1'hr belief In tree to ration in
now gaining 7a011771. When a (fond
is dyln_ he is 1, i, nv, dr from his siin-
iib b; -d and laid on ,h,• ;;,o1nd, Un-
der his head is pit 'd :1 meell quan-
tity of t '-,iirt. After Ids death, when
the bo.iy is removed, an inv,.t'ted lias-
k-1. i;; placed Over this latae or main,
On the following day the village
eldest examine it, and the wire
amonest thorn believe that they can
deter.t the footprints of the 011111101
intro which the soul of the deceased
has entered.
Spirits Of the dead are regarded
0104'- wlt.h fear than with. veneration.
Especially are those dreaded who die
violent or unnatural deaths, The
spirit of the woman who Iiad died in
childbirths, or of the plan who'has
been Kish by a wild beast, are often
regarded as specially malignant and
dangerous.
Another Terminal Iiillova,tor.
The Alberta Wheat Pool is build-
ing a terminal elevator at Vancouver,
which will cost a million d flare,
have a capacity of 2,500,000 b ishels
and will be Toady for the 192: crop.
Around the World in 1927
UNITED STATES
The Miselssippi valley was swept
by ilk: trot's floods . Crop and
material hares mounted unto the
billings; thousan is of families were
driven from their Immo: anti scores
died in the Pool i 11'010rs.
President"Coolidge annoum',,'h he
would not he a candidate for Pre-
idert in 1928.
Congress late 111 the year struck
from the nation's tax bill emu:.
ti'1bo,0nn.00o.
Crops, with the exception of cot-
ton were as good as. 1926, textile
industries showed improvements, the
steel industry materially V
increased
ser
l
its production, as did the
motor
industry, there was a decrease in
unemployment, and imports and ex-
ports kept pace with those of 1926.
FRANCE
On February 7, Poine:u'e announc-
ed France would increase her war
debt payments to Britain
On April 1, the strike of French
miners was settled by government
intervention.
On May 2, Poincare made en an-
nouncement against stabilization of
the franc and on June 8 the presi-
dent deflated the currency by 10,-
000,000,000 francs.
France and Unitech States- ex-
changed notes on France's refusal
to grant the United States favored
!nation privileges, unless reciprocal
concessions were made by Washing-
ton.
The Poincare government put the
new budget through the chamber
and senate by a safe majority.,
The year brought France its most
stable government since Clemen-
ceau's retirement. Unemployment
was reduced.
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GERMANY
Riots in Berlin on May 1, when
60,000 monarchists paraded.
Hindenburg's birthday on October
2, brought further monarchists de-
monstrations and militant speeches.
Stresemann presided at the open-
ing of the council of the League of
Nations, on March 7.
The coal miners strike, involving
80,000 men was settled October 16.
On October 1, the reichstag pass-
ed the compulsory insurance bill,
affecting 16,000,000 people,
Canada's Tonrlst 'rias
The Dominion Bureau of Statis-
tics finds tourist trade steads y grow-
ing from $88,784,000 spent •y tour-
ists in 1020 to $190,402,000 in 1926.
,7
(chile\',. budget, amounting to
more than 3,000 000,000 marks, one.
third of width was for (11:1': reparatiotee
l]• sets l the reit i stag in the ::ring.
ITALY
On June 2, the Mussolini govern•
rant stabalized the lira at its then
value.
The treaty, signed by Albania and
Italy, under which Albania came
under Italian prostwti al aroused re-
sentment in Jut'o Slavin.
De Pifedo made iris five continent-
/ flight
The yeer brought inow:teed pros-
perity, and made the Fascist grip on
Fascist or-
ganization
s
Italy more firm. The Fa.
in October counted
1,000,000 active men members in its
ranks:
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RUSSIA '
Rnseia celebrated ten years of
Bolshevik rule.
Joseph Stalin, secretary-general,
and Nicholas Bukharin, his chief
lieutenant, maintained a firm grip
on government reins, and Trotelry
was expelled from the Third Inter-
national on October 18.
The Soviet signed a .uroaty with
Latvia on March 11,
Russia accepted' the invitation of
the League of Nations to attend the
disarmament session at Geneva, and
proposed "complete abolition of all
armies and navies."
Relations, broken by Britain, May
12, after .the Areos raid, remained
severed at the end of the year.
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SPAIN
Spain's budget, aanonnting to over
$500,000,000, was the largest in her
history, and her deficit of $10,000,-
000 was the smallest in many years.
On May 17, there were national
celebrations in honor of Ring _ll-
fonso's 25th anniversary of his ac-
cession.
On May 8, Rivera announced that
the work of the dictatorship would
continue, but on October 10, after
many delays and postponements, the
national assembly met.
Under Rivera it is a consultative,
but not a legislative body.
BALKANS
Ring Ferdinand died in July.
Crown Prince Carol was passed
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over in and esion e t] e use Ina six-
s
yeas• -old son, Michael, was proclaim-
ed king, under a regency.
There were rumors Carol intended
to roturn to claim the throne, but .
Premier Bratianu was adamant, and ,
Carol remained in Paris. In Novem-
ber Bratainu died suddenly and was
succeedd by his brother. Carol is
still in exile in Paris.
JAPAN
Japan obtained valuable conces-
sions of oil and timber in Northern
Sakhalin from Russia.'
A disastrous earthquake in March
killed 2,275 people and injured more
than 3,000 in the province of Ryoto.
A new government under Premier
!Tanaka was formed in March, fol-
lowing disastrous bank failures.
TURKEY -
On January 14, a treaty with So-
viet Russia was signed dealing with
disputed questions of the rights on
waters in the Caucasus• region. '
On March 1 Kemal announced
that he would abolish the old sys-
tem of ealis territorial counts, and
this was approved by the assembly
of the League on Maroh 7. Turkey
signed a commercial treaty with
Germany on June 22.
On October 14 Mustapha - Kemal.
broke all records by delivering a
five-day speech.
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IRISH FREE STATE
Kevin O'Higgins, ;strong man in
the Cosgrave cabinet was assas-
sinated July 10. De Valera's fol••
lowers, after announcing they would
not take the oath of the Dail, swore
allegiance, "in the prescribed form,"
on August 11, and took their seats,
'1Cosgrave gev-
Au xs the
On
August 17,
c in
gov-
ernment was saved from defeat
the Dail by the casting vote of the
Speaker. On August 25 Cosgrave
announced dissolution of parliament
and a now election.
The election was held September
15, and the government was sus-
ta.ined by a slightly larger majority
The by -electron early in. October
brought the government majority to
seven.
,011 December 9 it was announced
Tim Healy, first governor-general of
the Free State, would leave office on
completion of his statutory term.
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AUSTRALASIA
Canberra, the new federal capital
was opened by the Duke of York,
on May 9.
An 'important agreement was
reached by the prime minister' of
the Commonwealth of States by
which the Commonwealth will take
over all state debts on July 1, 1929,
and a compulsory loan council will
be created to supervise the payment
of present debts and the construct-
ing of new loans.
In May Premier Coates announced
bhwt New Zealand would make vol-
untary contribution to the naval de-
fence of the Empire, amounting to
1,000,000 pounds.
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TO REMOVE GREASE
Cornstarch will remove ' 'grease
stains from cloth. Rub a little dry
cornstarch into the soiled places and
It will at once begin to absorb tin
grease. Brush bile first used off
carefully and .proceed in the salve
way until the spot disarmers.
,FIRST AUTHENTIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NEW FORD CAR
The six body models and chassis of the new Ford car
are shown above. The new car has graceful, distinctive
lines, exceptional power, unusual speed and getaway.
It has been driven at more than sixty miles per hour;
accelerates from 5 to 25 miles per hour in 8tz seconds
in high gear; travels 40 miles per hour in second gear;
is fitted with three -speed transmission of Lincoln
design and is completely equipped, Each model is
offered in a number of bright optional color combina
tions: No. 1 is the new Tudor; 2 the new Phaeton; 3,
front view of the new Tudor; 4, the new Chassis; 5,
rear view of the Phaeton; 6, the new Sport Roadster;
7, the new Sport Coupe; 8, the new Fordor Sedan and
9, the new Coupe.
