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An in'';'.:itien Bono : is t1:•
targe at the '62 Prize Sleeking
at tier'✓dein Collette, whieh I
shall chatty do, for It ie a vine.
dicatioh "f Aot•t.a. I, who was t.1..
ways a bridosnaid, never won a
siteakini: contest in my notable
career, but was the one who, at
the door on the- way out, was
always greeted with, "Yue
shoulda won that, the judges
were puddingheadsi"
It has long been my conten-
tion that Demosthenes, Cato, and
'Cicero, competing in one of our
routine speaking contests, would
finish in 'tenth, eleventh, and
twelfth place, while the contest
would be Won by a squeaky.
voiced young lady who rendered
"The Old Violin" in tearful jubi-
lation at the sonnet of her own
voice. Some of this stem, from
my own firm belief that at
times I did about as well as
any of then), but that the judges
were swayed away from me by
some quirk of destiny I could
never quite overcome.
I didn't have a heavy voice,
Lut expression was my middle
name. I could read lines. Ever; -
body applauded, and 31i,1 I
should hate had the prise. But
1 never got one.
I do thin); "modern education"
is poorer because the speaking
period has been dropped in fa-
vour of something they call
'participation." They telt me
youngsters never nunneries a
piece any more, and never knew
the horror of arising to repeat it
with gestures. before a silent
classroom that eotildn't care ices.
Instead, they get out of seli,ol •
to find how -ill-equipped they
arc; then sign, up for a charm
course, or personality develop-
ment, where they pay - gond
money to learn how to talk be-
fore an audience.
According to present lights, we
never really learned anything of
consequence in. 50 11 o o 1, in Gni
time, but we did know how to
get up and speak a piece. There
used to be books. called "speak-
ers," whieh were compiled with
all the old favourites present.
and from which a pupil could
select something to repeat, For
the most part. these books.; avoid-
ed "humour," which was undig-
nified, and not worthy of public
presentation. Teachers told us •it
would be better, for a contest,
if we avoided anything which
might amuse the audience, and
turn them to laughter. This is
true - I never knew a "you-
mourous" piece to win a prize,
end any tendency toward levity
I{UNUETH OVER -- Boxer pup
Pancras Chocolate Soldier bor-
lows a loving cup bigger than
he is to get away from it all
at a dog show in Reigate, Sur- 1
rey, England.
end the fi'rtnlous was ilt'ingetiete"-
ly. Ignored by the jw es, •
I later found somewhere in
MothC:re the famous observation
that in ng t,'=ullt'iuetr laugh i,
n sur.,es business, and found
that in any rest the clown is
mcees:.ily the beet and most
accomplished in nih.•i'. It's hat -
der, Bet the difficulty of comes
sly was neatly diverted in my
time by the simple ins -tense
that it wasn't worth tryin,.. -
The closest I ever canto to win
nine a prize was. the night I
"gave" The Man Without -a
Country. This was quite long,
and it took weeks to commit IL
I laboured with my little yeller
cow, who W915 always my best
coach, and as the milk strummed
into the pail I would pursue
the lamentable career of Philip
Nolen until my little cow fairly
bawled. There was some amaze-
ment about the village that a
piece of this length should be
ettempted,
There was an awe about Mem-,
orizing things, and• this suggest-
ed a tax on any one person's
mental facility. But the evening
of the contest came, and the
program had it right down there
in black and white. When my
turn came. I arose and faced the
incredible audience.. I knew the
simple question of being able to
de it was• more intriguing to
them than the )natter of how I
did it. They stared back.
My little cow had failed me.
i thoueh1 she had coached me
well, but this was not true. I
stood in front of that audience,
with the greatest opportunity to
make a file impression, and 1
-couldn't remember how The
Man Without a Country took off.
Not a word came to me. 1'01
sure if somebody had just said
the first word - the first letter
I'd have rattled the whole
thing off without a hitch. But
nobody did, So, I did what any
gifted public speaker does when
in such unhappy circumstances
he finds himself, for any reason,
foiled in his plans:
I found myeelf saying, "In
connection with the war in Cuba,
there 15 one incident that stands
out in my mind like Mars at
perihelion;" I then went ahead
and repeated "A Message to Gar-
sia" (which is naturally pro-
nounced gar-sha) and which I
guess is fully as long, and at
least a good deal more uninter-
esting.
You may wonder how 1 hap-
pened to know "A Message to
Garcia," and I can only answer
that I have no idea. The switch
confounded the audience, it was
impossible to believe that a boy
who might have forgotten "The
Man Without a Country" would
cover up such temporary lapse
by gong through "A Message to
Garcia." But again, the sheer
physk':'l prowess involved in
this made no impression on the
judges. They retired to the ante-
room, and after three selections
by the orchestra came back to
announce that the prizes had
been won by (1) "The Old Vio-
lin"; (2) "Farewell to Benedict
Arnold"; and (3) "The Psalm of
Life," At the door, everybody
told me I should have won.
When Professor Thayer of
Bowdoin dropped me an erudite
but small note, inviting my pres-
ence to judge the elderlyest of
the' Bowdoin declamation con-
tests (the college still retains a
.few ancient goodnesses) I read-
ily accepted. I may pick out the
obvious loser, and vote for him
enthusiastically, on the grounds
that somebody at the door may
wring my hand and say, for once,
that the prize went where it
should. I may, and then again, I
may not. Only I shall'ever know.
- By John Gould in the Chris-
tian Science Monitor,
Most people don't roped early
hours - they - just sleep right
through them.
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hree on tilts page
DISHING OUT MAiL - Strange letter carriers, these "dishes"
are parabolic antennas set atop Washington post office. One
antenna sends mail by electric impulses, another receives.
Credit union; in Canada a po-
tent force in the rural economy,
continued to expand throughout
1959 and reported a membership
of 2,347,317, or 13.3 per cent of
the country's population.
This was a seven per cent in-
crease. over the previous year,
according to the report of Ver-
non Heighten, Canada Depart-
ment of Agriculture ceonomist.
*
The trend in yroo th was to-
ward the occupational type of
credit union which formed 34
per rent of the total in 1959 com-
pared with 16 per cent in 1949.
Rural credit unions still domin-
ate the Atlantic Provinces and
also the Province of Quebec,
which reported more than one
half of the all -Canada member-
ship. * *
Savings, which include shares
and deposits. increased 13 per
cent to $1,056 million, Quebec
accounting for about 00 per cent
of total deposits and 61 per cent
of total savings. The average
assets on a per member basis for
Canada totaled $492,
a w e
Credit Unions granted 5.470
million in loans, 20 per cent
more than in 1956. Assets also
were up by $145 million to $1,009
million.
The balance sheets show a big
difference in the distribution of
assets and liabilities in Quebec
compared with the rest of Can-
ada.
Quebec credit unions reported
four times as much money in
mortgages (for homes) and four
times as notch in investments as
the rest of Canada.
* *
Rural home -makers are not
being provided with homemak-
ing information through all of
the many ways and means they
would like to receive it, Dr.
Helen Abell of the Canada De-
partment of Agriculture, dis-
covered from a recent survey of
Ontario farms.
The specialist in rural soci-
ology, studying the answers of
352 typical farm women, half
of them members of the Wo-
men's Institute, said the col-
laboration of husband and wife
on a farm as partners in deci-
sions emphasized the need for
educational policies and pro-
grams at all levels. "Economics"
in the Home Economics and
"Horne" in the Horne and Farm
Management programs should
be stressed.
Those interrogated said they
would like more home -making
information through three ad-
ditional media - demonstra-
tions; information on labels of
articles they wish to purchase;
and Home Economics classes for
children in school.
Mediamost employed for get-
ting homemaking information
average one or two for each
housewife queried, These are. in
order of popularity, n1a 1'5 105
and newspapers, television and
radio, and short courses, chiefly
those given by the provincial
Horne Economics Service.
5 5
"The need for continuous ef-
farts to supply farm families
with knowledge and information
relating to both homemaking and
to farming is clearly demon-
strated in this study."
Although few farmers' sons
work away front home as hired
men and there are emetically;
no hired girls on farms today.
•Canadian farm children still
(earn farming and homemaking
at home. In addition a whole
new range of tuition is open to-
day to the farm family through
formal courses at primary, sec-
ondary and university levels, ex-
tension services, 4-H, Junior
Homemaking Clubs and Infer -
metiers Services.
Moss interest in homemaking
information centres around the
technical aspects of clothing and
textiles and food preparation
and, on the farming side, wo-
men say their menfolk would
like more information on live-
stock and crops, soils, farm man-
agement and machinery.
* * *
In most families where there
has been contact with home-
making or farming training, or
experience through the school
system or government-sponsored
rural youth organization and
short courses, the benefit of such
training is recognized. The skills
have been of practical applica-
tion in farm and home operation
and have helped in the personal
development of the family and
made them more receptive to
new ideas.
BIG BUSINESS:
According to a -United States
Agricultural expert you can
make a rough guess of annual
sales in any local supermarket
by multiplying the number of
check-out lanes by $400,000.
Q. What decoration idea will
"lower" an old-fashioned high-
ceilinged room?
A. You can make this room
appear lower by painting its
walls a dark color, the ceiling
very light or white.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
•
Photographs
X11Un alrnin ba.rdis'
11. Gre(tnewalt, wile
morn flit1,000 t� +. g'ar for run-
ning PL 1. du Pont de Nemours
S and Co. with 1 510211 dc'tsktnp etti•
t ency, w.3; 1nsing kept waiting.
moreover, he Was aching for
coffee, mi. Only the hungry and
eolrl can ache
Suddenly this Waiting was over,
r A blue blur nastiest near 11y.
Lalupornis t'l+'nrenciae, a hum-
mingbird no biggerthan a child's
hand, whose habitat is the moun-
tains of Smith Texaco and Ari -
50110, had conte to feed in Ari-
zone's Itelns-v Canyon. And
Greenmail, whose habitat is du
Punt e president's s chair in Wil -
1 mington, D1.l., nae there 'to pho-
tograph hits. It wee, he revelled,
"worth all theagony."
Lampornie rl tneneiae caught
in all its glory, is ono of 100 high-
speed color photo;,. ephs of hum-
mingbirds that Gritenewatt will
exhibit this month at New Y(rk's
American Museum of Niaturai
History. Al n this month, :t port-
folio of his exquisite rioter pho-
tographs with explanatory text
has 1? ten puhlisll'd, titled "Hum -
mine birds."
Many nthi,rs, of celrr3e. have
stalked the bright -plumed hum-
mingbird with c•lmera, trying to
freeze the flashing whir some
hummers fly at 610 wing belts
per ;ecnnd -- in their true hie
descent colors. -But no one. has
ever approached the aulijeet of
humming birds in quite_ the way
thin Greenewalt Iies, Aided by
the tools of modern science,
Greenewalt has solved long-
standing, problems of classical
optics told aerodynamics thleory.
The work, the museum's curator
of birds• Dr. Dean Anladon
writes, "is destined to become a
classic of natural history."
Leisure Fever: For his part,
Greenewalt, a relaxed, white-
haired man of 53. who could fit
into the same shit he wore •as an
MIT freshman in 1910, didn't
intend it that way. In the past,
Isis leisure activities had been
eclectic: Tennis, the clarinet, the
cello, orchid photography Then,
one day in 19;33, his wife, the
former Margaretta du Pont. in
stalled a bird feeder outside the
Grcenewalts' fifteen -room stone
house. He took his first hum-
mingbird photo, stopped the
wing -beat action, end "caught .the
hummingbird fever."
"I knew vaguely that there
were about 300 species," Greene-
wait told a visitor recently as
he leaned back behind that clean
desk in his modest du Pont office.
"I also knew that the best-
known hummingbird illustra-
tions were over a century old
and had been made from dead
skins. Since I am a museum trus-
tee, I wondered if they'd be in-
terested in having Hie do some
modern high-speed humming-.
bird photography.
"I just thought I'd go to the'
bird department and ask them:
'Where do I go?' • Boy, was I
wrong; they didn't know -
they're not field people."
As it turned out, the most
valuable hummingbirds and
hummingbird fanciers were in
South America. Accompanied by
his wife, who "liked the birds
but didin't care too much for
the technical side," Greenewalt
traveled 100,000 miles over seven
years. Because he presides each
Wednesday at du Pont executive
committee meetings, the longest
time he felt he could take away
from the office was two weeks.
The shortest trips were what he
called "long weekends" in Cali-
fornia: "I'd fly there, rent a u -
drive -it, set up, photograph, and
go home."
Through trial and error,
Greenewalt hit upon the best
photography techniques. A
month -or so before a South Ame-
rican trip, for example, feeders
were set up by local friends to
entice the hummingbirds to a
selected spot. The camera is a
Swedish Hasselblad, motorized
so that an electronic circuit auto-
matically moves the film for-
ward, This means Greenewalt
need not reset the camera for
each shot and perhaps frighten
the bird away.
A scientist by profession,
Greenewalt's interest in hum-
ming birds soon went beyond
simple photography. -
"There are two striking things
about them,. he explained, "The
Inlfnlnin,,} .1, lee,: all [I,' a 1;,r.;
et the se t i tn, 141' r (I, °tl t•i
irldisoieet 11(1 i eel is retitled
to the melte,: of bird, • tu, and
erhw.rtt'r, Die I,n4. +=e this c,,,l(1f,8
get :-'1 11500112..' You worry, read
allont it, se, i ;'It to Newton find
relearn opt i,.'.,. The 206045 thing
with this hreering. How in God'a
naive do they do that, you' W011.•
der, So you're tiff 00another
•subject."
Go, rittoe dt ha.' offered seien-
tific explanati"n:t t,f beth pito-
roniena. His solution to the old
iridescent puzzle le - published
this. month in the Journal of the
Optical Society of America, The
Philo;:ophical Society of Ameri-
ea's Tram -tact h11 5 will carry Itis
monogt ;ph on the oscillator the.
ory of hummingbird flight
"I'll tell you one thing I n ''fid,
"I never could have don, tllia
aion' if I had all the money IR
1 the world and all the tine 1 hail
help -all alone - the boyst 1,1boy the
du Pont engineering rcn,ardl
station. wauitl cobble nie ul:, the
equipment I needed. When 1
needed to know something al:ntut
flight theory, I could eel! up :loci
ask (White House Science arivhi-
er) Jing Killi n for this Hann(,: at
aerodynamicistr "
Had Greenewalt's mind ,•1"rr
wandered from corporate :11Taira
to hummingbird., during an e^.:co-
cutive conlmit,'e meeting? He
laughed. 'Tye had an inspiration
or two during work hours, lint 1
can turn my mind otT and On
pretty well. The only bird I set,
from this omen, 1, an eft t ,;,,n tl
pigeon that light; out the win -
(IOW. And so fag, no irate let-
ter:, 11111 stockholders,"
jrront SSE {'t'SWISil..lie
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LESSON
iiy ttev. R. Barclay 51 err,
B.A., 1111,
The Greatest Promise
Isaiah 9:?2-7; Galatians 4:1.7
The Memory Selection, Isaiah
9:6, contains God's Promise of
a Saviour, which is indeed the
greatest promise. "Far unto us €1
child is born, unto us a son is giv-
en: and the government shall
be upon his shoulder; and his
name shall he called Wonder-
ful, Counsellor, The mighty
God, The everlasting Father, Tho
Prince of Peace."
Isaiah, though an Israelite,
saw that the coming '-4lesialt
would bring blessing to all na-
tions of the world. "0f the
increase of his government bud
peace there shall be no esici'
We don't all recognize it, but
this is really the fundamental
longing of the world today. We
want the peace that can corms
only when Jesus Christ rules.
We want security and happy
homes. But to a great extent, we
are trying to achieve the end
without the means. The hum-
ble way of the cross is still des-
pised, We are trying to build a
tower that will reach to heaven.
We fornn organization after or-
ganization and talk in loud
sounding terms. Jesus Christ,,
said, "I am the way, the truth,
and the life: no man cometh unto
the Father, but by me." We must
repent of our sins. And repent-
ance doesn't mean just feeling a
little sorry for them. It means
confessing and forsaking them.
Only when we have made up
our mind to this, can we have
faith in Jesus Christ; faith that
brings salvation.
In the second portions of our
lesson, Paul writes, "God sent
forth his Son. made of a women,
made under the law, to redeem
that were under the law, that
we might receive the adoption
of sons." We have ail broken
God's moral law and hence are
all under condemnation. But
Jesus Christ can deliver us from
this condemnation and restore
us to a sense of sonship. Many
sincere people do not know that
this delightful sense of assure.
ance of sonship can be ours hese
and now. We can experience Lie
New Birth and know that we
have passed from death mate
life. Then we can sing, "Bieected
assurance, Jesus is mine, 0 what
a foretaste of glory Divine."
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DISHING OUT MAiL - Strange letter carriers, these "dishes"
are parabolic antennas set atop Washington post office. One
antenna sends mail by electric impulses, another receives.
Credit union; in Canada a po-
tent force in the rural economy,
continued to expand throughout
1959 and reported a membership
of 2,347,317, or 13.3 per cent of
the country's population.
This was a seven per cent in-
crease. over the previous year,
according to the report of Ver-
non Heighten, Canada Depart-
ment of Agriculture ceonomist.
*
The trend in yroo th was to-
ward the occupational type of
credit union which formed 34
per rent of the total in 1959 com-
pared with 16 per cent in 1949.
Rural credit unions still domin-
ate the Atlantic Provinces and
also the Province of Quebec,
which reported more than one
half of the all -Canada member-
ship. * *
Savings, which include shares
and deposits. increased 13 per
cent to $1,056 million, Quebec
accounting for about 00 per cent
of total deposits and 61 per cent
of total savings. The average
assets on a per member basis for
Canada totaled $492,
a w e
Credit Unions granted 5.470
million in loans, 20 per cent
more than in 1956. Assets also
were up by $145 million to $1,009
million.
The balance sheets show a big
difference in the distribution of
assets and liabilities in Quebec
compared with the rest of Can-
ada.
Quebec credit unions reported
four times as much money in
mortgages (for homes) and four
times as notch in investments as
the rest of Canada.
* *
Rural home -makers are not
being provided with homemak-
ing information through all of
the many ways and means they
would like to receive it, Dr.
Helen Abell of the Canada De-
partment of Agriculture, dis-
covered from a recent survey of
Ontario farms.
The specialist in rural soci-
ology, studying the answers of
352 typical farm women, half
of them members of the Wo-
men's Institute, said the col-
laboration of husband and wife
on a farm as partners in deci-
sions emphasized the need for
educational policies and pro-
grams at all levels. "Economics"
in the Home Economics and
"Horne" in the Horne and Farm
Management programs should
be stressed.
Those interrogated said they
would like more home -making
information through three ad-
ditional media - demonstra-
tions; information on labels of
articles they wish to purchase;
and Home Economics classes for
children in school.
Mediamost employed for get-
ting homemaking information
average one or two for each
housewife queried, These are. in
order of popularity, n1a 1'5 105
and newspapers, television and
radio, and short courses, chiefly
those given by the provincial
Horne Economics Service.
5 5
"The need for continuous ef-
farts to supply farm families
with knowledge and information
relating to both homemaking and
to farming is clearly demon-
strated in this study."
Although few farmers' sons
work away front home as hired
men and there are emetically;
no hired girls on farms today.
•Canadian farm children still
(earn farming and homemaking
at home. In addition a whole
new range of tuition is open to-
day to the farm family through
formal courses at primary, sec-
ondary and university levels, ex-
tension services, 4-H, Junior
Homemaking Clubs and Infer -
metiers Services.
Moss interest in homemaking
information centres around the
technical aspects of clothing and
textiles and food preparation
and, on the farming side, wo-
men say their menfolk would
like more information on live-
stock and crops, soils, farm man-
agement and machinery.
* * *
In most families where there
has been contact with home-
making or farming training, or
experience through the school
system or government-sponsored
rural youth organization and
short courses, the benefit of such
training is recognized. The skills
have been of practical applica-
tion in farm and home operation
and have helped in the personal
development of the family and
made them more receptive to
new ideas.
BIG BUSINESS:
According to a -United States
Agricultural expert you can
make a rough guess of annual
sales in any local supermarket
by multiplying the number of
check-out lanes by $400,000.
Q. What decoration idea will
"lower" an old-fashioned high-
ceilinged room?
A. You can make this room
appear lower by painting its
walls a dark color, the ceiling
very light or white.
Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking
•
Photographs
X11Un alrnin ba.rdis'
11. Gre(tnewalt, wile
morn flit1,000 t� +. g'ar for run-
ning PL 1. du Pont de Nemours
S and Co. with 1 510211 dc'tsktnp etti•
t ency, w.3; 1nsing kept waiting.
moreover, he Was aching for
coffee, mi. Only the hungry and
eolrl can ache
Suddenly this Waiting was over,
r A blue blur nastiest near 11y.
Lalupornis t'l+'nrenciae, a hum-
mingbird no biggerthan a child's
hand, whose habitat is the moun-
tains of Smith Texaco and Ari -
50110, had conte to feed in Ari-
zone's Itelns-v Canyon. And
Greenmail, whose habitat is du
Punt e president's s chair in Wil -
1 mington, D1.l., nae there 'to pho-
tograph hits. It wee, he revelled,
"worth all theagony."
Lampornie rl tneneiae caught
in all its glory, is ono of 100 high-
speed color photo;,. ephs of hum-
mingbirds that Gritenewatt will
exhibit this month at New Y(rk's
American Museum of Niaturai
History. Al n this month, :t port-
folio of his exquisite rioter pho-
tographs with explanatory text
has 1? ten puhlisll'd, titled "Hum -
mine birds."
Many nthi,rs, of celrr3e. have
stalked the bright -plumed hum-
mingbird with c•lmera, trying to
freeze the flashing whir some
hummers fly at 610 wing belts
per ;ecnnd -- in their true hie
descent colors. -But no one. has
ever approached the aulijeet of
humming birds in quite_ the way
thin Greenewalt Iies, Aided by
the tools of modern science,
Greenewalt has solved long-
standing, problems of classical
optics told aerodynamics thleory.
The work, the museum's curator
of birds• Dr. Dean Anladon
writes, "is destined to become a
classic of natural history."
Leisure Fever: For his part,
Greenewalt, a relaxed, white-
haired man of 53. who could fit
into the same shit he wore •as an
MIT freshman in 1910, didn't
intend it that way. In the past,
Isis leisure activities had been
eclectic: Tennis, the clarinet, the
cello, orchid photography Then,
one day in 19;33, his wife, the
former Margaretta du Pont. in
stalled a bird feeder outside the
Grcenewalts' fifteen -room stone
house. He took his first hum-
mingbird photo, stopped the
wing -beat action, end "caught .the
hummingbird fever."
"I knew vaguely that there
were about 300 species," Greene-
wait told a visitor recently as
he leaned back behind that clean
desk in his modest du Pont office.
"I also knew that the best-
known hummingbird illustra-
tions were over a century old
and had been made from dead
skins. Since I am a museum trus-
tee, I wondered if they'd be in-
terested in having Hie do some
modern high-speed humming-.
bird photography.
"I just thought I'd go to the'
bird department and ask them:
'Where do I go?' • Boy, was I
wrong; they didn't know -
they're not field people."
As it turned out, the most
valuable hummingbirds and
hummingbird fanciers were in
South America. Accompanied by
his wife, who "liked the birds
but didin't care too much for
the technical side," Greenewalt
traveled 100,000 miles over seven
years. Because he presides each
Wednesday at du Pont executive
committee meetings, the longest
time he felt he could take away
from the office was two weeks.
The shortest trips were what he
called "long weekends" in Cali-
fornia: "I'd fly there, rent a u -
drive -it, set up, photograph, and
go home."
Through trial and error,
Greenewalt hit upon the best
photography techniques. A
month -or so before a South Ame-
rican trip, for example, feeders
were set up by local friends to
entice the hummingbirds to a
selected spot. The camera is a
Swedish Hasselblad, motorized
so that an electronic circuit auto-
matically moves the film for-
ward, This means Greenewalt
need not reset the camera for
each shot and perhaps frighten
the bird away.
A scientist by profession,
Greenewalt's interest in hum-
ming birds soon went beyond
simple photography. -
"There are two striking things
about them,. he explained, "The
Inlfnlnin,,} .1, lee,: all [I,' a 1;,r.;
et the se t i tn, 141' r (I, °tl t•i
irldisoieet 11(1 i eel is retitled
to the melte,: of bird, • tu, and
erhw.rtt'r, Die I,n4. +=e this c,,,l(1f,8
get :-'1 11500112..' You worry, read
allont it, se, i ;'It to Newton find
relearn opt i,.'.,. The 206045 thing
with this hreering. How in God'a
naive do they do that, you' W011.•
der, So you're tiff 00another
•subject."
Go, rittoe dt ha.' offered seien-
tific explanati"n:t t,f beth pito-
roniena. His solution to the old
iridescent puzzle le - published
this. month in the Journal of the
Optical Society of America, The
Philo;:ophical Society of Ameri-
ea's Tram -tact h11 5 will carry Itis
monogt ;ph on the oscillator the.
ory of hummingbird flight
"I'll tell you one thing I n ''fid,
"I never could have don, tllia
aion' if I had all the money IR
1 the world and all the tine 1 hail
help -all alone - the boyst 1,1boy the
du Pont engineering rcn,ardl
station. wauitl cobble nie ul:, the
equipment I needed. When 1
needed to know something al:ntut
flight theory, I could eel! up :loci
ask (White House Science arivhi-
er) Jing Killi n for this Hann(,: at
aerodynamicistr "
Had Greenewalt's mind ,•1"rr
wandered from corporate :11Taira
to hummingbird., during an e^.:co-
cutive conlmit,'e meeting? He
laughed. 'Tye had an inspiration
or two during work hours, lint 1
can turn my mind otT and On
pretty well. The only bird I set,
from this omen, 1, an eft t ,;,,n tl
pigeon that light; out the win -
(IOW. And so fag, no irate let-
ter:, 11111 stockholders,"
jrront SSE {'t'SWISil..lie
N S11
LESSON
iiy ttev. R. Barclay 51 err,
B.A., 1111,
The Greatest Promise
Isaiah 9:?2-7; Galatians 4:1.7
The Memory Selection, Isaiah
9:6, contains God's Promise of
a Saviour, which is indeed the
greatest promise. "Far unto us €1
child is born, unto us a son is giv-
en: and the government shall
be upon his shoulder; and his
name shall he called Wonder-
ful, Counsellor, The mighty
God, The everlasting Father, Tho
Prince of Peace."
Isaiah, though an Israelite,
saw that the coming '-4lesialt
would bring blessing to all na-
tions of the world. "0f the
increase of his government bud
peace there shall be no esici'
We don't all recognize it, but
this is really the fundamental
longing of the world today. We
want the peace that can corms
only when Jesus Christ rules.
We want security and happy
homes. But to a great extent, we
are trying to achieve the end
without the means. The hum-
ble way of the cross is still des-
pised, We are trying to build a
tower that will reach to heaven.
We fornn organization after or-
ganization and talk in loud
sounding terms. Jesus Christ,,
said, "I am the way, the truth,
and the life: no man cometh unto
the Father, but by me." We must
repent of our sins. And repent-
ance doesn't mean just feeling a
little sorry for them. It means
confessing and forsaking them.
Only when we have made up
our mind to this, can we have
faith in Jesus Christ; faith that
brings salvation.
In the second portions of our
lesson, Paul writes, "God sent
forth his Son. made of a women,
made under the law, to redeem
that were under the law, that
we might receive the adoption
of sons." We have ail broken
God's moral law and hence are
all under condemnation. But
Jesus Christ can deliver us from
this condemnation and restore
us to a sense of sonship. Many
sincere people do not know that
this delightful sense of assure.
ance of sonship can be ours hese
and now. We can experience Lie
New Birth and know that we
have passed from death mate
life. Then we can sing, "Bieected
assurance, Jesus is mine, 0 what
a foretaste of glory Divine."
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