The Seaforth News, 1929-01-31, Page 3Sunday School
Lesson
'February 3 Leeson V—The Holy
Scriptures—Psalm 19: 744; 2 TIM..
8: 1417. Golden Text --:Open thou
mine eyes, that i may behold Won-
drous thingsout of thy law. --
Psalm 119: 18,
ANALYSIS
1. TFIE PRAISE' 08' THE ScIurTuRES,
Psalm 19; 7-14.
11. THE PROFITABLENESS OF SCRIPTURE,.
' 2 Timothy 3; 14-17.
INTRODUCTION—It is difficult for us
in this land and age of liberty to
realize, the pr',tilege which is ours in
having an open Bible in our own
tongue. The, Old Testament was
written originally in Hebrew, and the
New Testament in Greek, and for a
long time it was a sealed book to the
•conrno npeople. It, was only after
many a struggle and many a labor
that men were able to get the Bible
translated into English. We believe
that ill these two parts of Scripture,
which go together, we have a faithful
account of the gradual unfolding of
the mind and purpose of God. We see
how Christ is prefigured in the pro-
phecies more and more clearly till at.
last he comes as the word of God in.
the flesh, We sltonld, therefore, learn
to prize this book Augustine said,
"Scripture is a long letter sent to us
from our heavenly home."
I, THE PRAISE OP THE SCRIPTURES,
Psalm 19: 7-14.
Vs. 7-9. The writer of this Psalm
had a very small Bible, only the Law,.
louthe is so full of praise of this that
he puts us to shame when we rem-
ember how greatly enriched our Bible
is. There are three /features to be
noticed in these verses:.
1. Each verse speaks of the law
under a new name,by which the
writer calls attention to -the many-
sidedness of God's word. We should'!
read Psalm 119 to see this same fea-
ture carried still farther. 2. Each
verse selects out one particular qual-
ity of thelaw, such as perfection.re-
liability, righteousness, purity, clean-
ness, truthfulness. 3. Each verse
points out some result which follows
from thestudy of the law. He im-
parts restoration, wisdom, joy, clear-
ness of vision, patience. No wonder
he praises such a book!
V. 10. And he is, therefore, amply
justified when he goes on to speak of
its, value in the highest terms; it is
more valuable than fine gold, its mes-
sage brings more sweetness - than
honey.
• Vs. 11-13. The result of Bible study
is that it drives the mind in upon
itself and reveals the real nature of
the heart. The dark places now be-
come more manifest, and secret faults
begin to show themselves. All of this
impels the reader to pray to. God for
cleansing;, and we have in v. 14 the
very fine example of a prayer such
as a sincere reader of. God's word
would have to make.
II, THE :PROFITABLENESS OF. SCRIPTURE,
2 Timothy 3: 14-17.
V. 14. This is one of the Pastoral
Epistles, so called because they deal
with the 'different problems which.
arise in the life of a minister or pas-
tor. Among these duties an import-
ant place must be assigned to the
right use of the Bible; which is the
authority for our knowledge of the
way; of salvation. It contains a reve-
lation of the mind of God. The true
pastor, therefore, must rest' his in-
struction on the book. Paul' warns
Timothy that he will meet with many
kinds of evil, but if he is sure of his
scriptural knowledge, there will be no
danger of his failure. Ile reminds
Timothy that he has been brought up
in this way. Those here referred' to
are his motherland grandmother, see
chap. 1: 5.
• V. 15. The Holy Scriptures are the
books of the Old Testament, for as yet
the New Testament had not been in-
cluded in the sacred list, The Chris-
tians made much use of the 01d'Testa-
ment, and.' read certain passages sin
their services. Paul often -quotes the
Law and' the Prophets, and draws
many lessonsfrom these scriptures.
At a later time the word scripture
was applied to :the New Testament,
and now "scriptures" means our Bible.
The Jews were taught to study the
scriptures from an early age, The
regulation was that a child should be-
gin to learn the law by heart when
five years old. Paul says that these
scriptures make men wise unto sal-
vation, by which he may mean that
they predict the coming, of Christ, and
prepare the way for the gospel to be
preached.. Jesus also had said that
the scriptures testified of himself.
But Paul is careful to add that it is
not the mere reading that saves. The
book is net a fetish. It is faith which
i$ quickened by the goading of the
Bible, The eeriptures bring 110 tO
Uhrlat who, etrIfes,
V, 18, Whesa scrippt�ures are here
said; to be inspired, that ia, .hop .are
filled with the spirit of OA and 'be-
come the living oraelss of God, See
Ade 7: 88. We nifty compare the
words of 2 Peter 1. 21, }'Holy men of
God spoke asthey were moved by the
Holy Ghost,"
Peal is thus certain
that the truths of the Old Testament
ar9. not mere human wisdom, bat they
azo the expression of the nand and
will of God. The church Lae always
accepted this position for the New
and Old alike. Thie passage has been
summed up in the following words,
"th8 HolyScripture teaches the ignor-
ant, convicts the evil and prejudiced,
corrects the fallen and erring, and
trains in righteousness all men."
V, 17. The study of the Bible
brings such rich results, that if one
has a well-disposed mind he will be
so strengthened by these inspired
words, that he will be made perfectly
fit to undertake all kinds of Christian
work
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crepe. Style No. 360 is especially
popular, with younger fashionables to
wear beneath fur wrap. It .is also
very smart made of sheer tweed in
purply blue tones, tomato red silk
crepe, black wool jersey, Lanvin green
faille silk crepe, and black crepe satin.
It is unbelievably easy to make, as is
seen in small drawings. Pattern is de-
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40 and 42 inches bust, and requires
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Wrap coin :carefully.
.HOW'TO ORDER PATTERNS.
'Write your name and address plain-
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patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
Pattexns sent by an early mail.
BETTER OFF(
The popular film star, Mr. Adolphe
Menjou, ,remarked recently that he
discovered, quite earlyin his career
as a "movie" actor that film life 'wee
the way to "get rich quick,"
"How' do yen make that out?" ven-
tured a listener. '
"Wall," replied Adolphe: meditative-
ly, "almost the very first film I played
in was a Wird West ono, They mount-
ed me on-abucking broncho. I came
to the conclusion at once that I was
much better 0121"
REDUCING HIS TUMMY
Babe Ruth "Swat King" takes to exercise early to be ready fob` the
1929 season.
Farm Notes
CANADIAN CHEESE SHOWS
IMPROVEMENT'
Canadian cheese has made a steady
advance in quality since compulsory
grading began in 1923. In a review of
grading during the past year Mr, Jos.
Burgess, Chief of the Division of
Dairy Products, in the Department of
Agriculture at Ottawa, brought out the
fact that about 93 per Dent. of the
entire make of the Dominion, with 98
per cent. of the cheese graded, scored
in the classes for "special" and "first
grade."
All of the provinces have shown a
Marked improvement in ctuality, with
Ontario leading in this respect with'
99.7 , ,per cent. In the two highest'
grades, In tite first year of grading
the • percentage of the two highest
grades was only '78 per cent, which,
compared with the results last year,
,shows the value of compulsory grad-
ing in improving the quality of the
output.
Mr. Burgess announces that the out-
put of 787 of the 66 factories opsr-
ating in the Province of Ontario
graded 100 per cent., while the pro-
duction of 488' factories graded be-
tween 93 and 100 per cent. This was
an increase over 1,927 of 51 in the fac-
tories milking perfect cheese and of
1,62 factories making cheese scoring
_93 per cent. or more. Improvement
was also shown -ir. the quality of
cheese made in the other provinces
where cheese -making is an important
branch:of the dairy industry.
In Prince Edward Island there was
an increase of 3 per cent, in the high-
est grades, New Brunswick 9.1 per
cent., Quebec 11.8 per cent., and Mani-
toba 4.4 per cent., compared with the
previous season, covering all the
cheese -malting ',provinces, there was
an increase of 5.7 per cent. of the out.
put that scored about 93 per cent.
CLEAN MILK
The sanitary quality of the "milk
produced on the fdrms has a tremend-
ous influence upon the welfare of the
dairying industry. This view is ex-
pressed. by Dr. Grant Lochhead, Bac-
teriologist to the Dominion Experi-
mental Farms, who credits the pro-
ducer and the methods he employs
with more importance than the barn
and the dairy equipment he possesses.
Elaborate equipment is no guarantee
of Olean milk. Contamination from all
sides must be excluded in the produc-
tion'of the lhigirest grade of milk, and
this means that carp must be given to
stables, animals, utensils, milkers and
the methods used by the milkers.
glean pails, properly scalded, and
'the eliances removed for dirt from the
cow into the pail reduced to a mini;
arum, are two of the main points, and
the best places to commence in clean-
ing up the milk supply, These are
the math sources of contamination,
and any Oars with minor sources to
the neglect of those two main sources
is largely wasted effort. Pamphlet
No. 79, "Prodnciug Olean Milk," pub-
lished by tho Department of Agricul-
ture, at Ottawa, expresses the view
that a clean pail and a clean cow are
the main factors in producing clean
mi1k,
MOULDY BUTTER
Creamery butter which passes soon
after making into,, the hands of the
trade may afterwards develop • certain
defects, One of the most serious de-
fects that crop up in this way is the
presence of mould spots on the sur-
face and on the parchment covering.
Addressing the Canadian Creamery-,
men's Association, Dr. E. G. hood,
Chief of the Division of Dairy Re-
searchin the Dep0rtA•ent of Agricul-
ture at Ottawa, pointed ,"tut that while
trouble from moult is decreasing
from year to yearit still appears at
tines hi both commercial and exhi-
bition -butter, Crearuerymen were
urgedto find out the sources of this
trouble so /as to apply preventive
measures: Dr. •.I:food' pointed out that
mould has been found to enter largely
tion of pasteurized with vat cream;
Prone the -following sources:—Improp-
erly pasteurized cream; re-contamina
insanitary equipment, as holding Vats,
conductor pipes, pumps, outlet valves;
unsterilized churns and packing equip-
ment; improperly treated liners; care-
lessly stored salt; air', infection from
insanitary surroundings.
As an aid to discovering the cause
of the trouble and to decide on the
remedies to apply, cr'eamerymen were
recommended to procure and study
Bulletin No, 48, "The 'Cause and Pre-
vention of Mould in Butter," available
from the Publications: Branch of the
Department of Agriculture at Ottawa.
SEED CLEANING PLANTS
The operation of of cieut seed clean-
ing plants plays an important part in
determining the yield and quality of
the field crops of the districts sowed,
For several years farmers near Ot-
tawa had their seeds cleaned at •a
cleaning plant operating at the Cen-
tral Experimental Farm. The value
of the work so impressed the local
grain growers as to lead them to sot
up several plants in the Ottawa. Val-
ley. At these places seed grain for
both home seeding and for sale are
cleaned,
The Rhineland
London Times (Ind..): Two cardinal
points are constantly forgotten in
the discussion of an early evacuation
of the Rhineland. The first is that
there are certain legal obligations
which can only be set aside by com-
mon consent, The second is that iso-
lated withdrawal by any one party to
the occupation would be 'worse than
useless. And there is yet a further
consideration, which, properly weight-
ed, should mitigate the outburst of
indignant disapproval with which the
German Press greeted Sir Austen
Chamberlain's recent definition of the
British attitude, The very nature of
this question, as also of Reparations,
superficially re-creates the pre-Locarno
distinction .between victors and van.
visited. In spite of Locarno both
problems must to a certain extent set
the ex -enemy on one side and the' ex -
Allies on the other,
Life Insurance; Something that en-
ables a woman to marry again.
MUTT AND J.—Bud Fisher.
An Army Joke
FiftyKegs of Fine Oki Navy
Burn Vanish in Transit
at' Halifax
Halifax, N.$,' -Ono of the strangeei
dlsaplpearaltces of ihluot' to be I'eptort-
ed to. Halifax for some time Is that
some 30 kegs of flue old ruin front
II,154.8. Dauntless, which is alleged to
have beau "seized" while in lratleport
frons the Riau o' war tit ' the olticei's'
barracks of the Garrison. Neither tate
preventive ser'vlco, n01' lite inspectors
under the Nova Scotia '1`etnperanoe
Act have any knowledge of•the ,solsure
and it le presumed the affair was the
work of hi-jackers.
It is stated from authoritative
sources that the liquor was a gift from
officers of the Dauntless to officers of
the Garrison, who bad entertained
them during 'their long stay In port,,
The military were notified of this
handsome gift ou the part of the jaok
tars and sent an ambulance to the
dockyard to transport it to the bar-
racks. The liquor was loaded aboard
the ambulance and under guard of
four soldiers left for the barracks.
It is at this point the story becomes
somewhat -hazy. It is said that some-
where between the dock yard and the
barracks the ambulance was held up
by two men purporting to be temper-
ance sleuths. The four soldiers al-
lowed them to search the ambulance
With the result that the liquor . was
duly "seized". The ambulance was
left 3n front of Deputy Inspector Steve
Kennedy's residence for the night.—
Paid,
How many of our returned men will
laugh and recall "when the rum ra-
tion went astray." The "Boys" -at
Halifax were no doubt "hard boiled"
veterans and "onto" all the army
tricks.
At the Cenotaph
"'Here are twelve roses. Let me
count them over,'
Before I lay them on the rook-
' washed stone.. , .
One for my -wounded batman, drowned
off Dol-er,
Who got me out of No,Man's Land
alone;
These three for Matthews, and his
mad twin brothers,
Missing at Ypres . . , their names
are en the Cate;
And this for John. . . No, I'll not
name the others,
• They only shared the common, gal-
lant foe.
Let the names go; they let life go so
lightly,
Why drag them down with clumsy
words at fall.
By one'particislar grief? An end so
knightly
Bids us keep silence. Unknown war-
riors all,
They strove and passed, and these few
scarlet roses
Show that a new faith springs where
dead hope closes."
Anon in the Saturday Review
(London).
Capt. Wilkins Plans
New Exploration Trip
New York—Having completed the
first phase of the Wilkins -Hearst ex-
pedition's work in the antarctic, Capt.
Sir Hubert, Wilkins -announces in a
radio message to the New York Am-
erican and associated Ilearst nests -
papers that he will return to America
and prepare for the second phrase
which will be carried ou next year
from a different base.
The announcement was made fol-
lowing a new 600 -mile flight during
which Captain Wilkins searched Gra-
ham Land in the hope of finding a
suitable and more southerly base'
which would enable him to continue
his explorations farther south through-
out the present season. No such base
could be found. •
Tho bedrooms -of England at night
arra the coldest places anywhere in
the world.—Sir Wilfred Grenfell,
It is more important for the young
to know the story of helium than to
be steeped in the tiresome orations of
Cicero: -Ds'. Herbert Levinstein•
The spirit of the Anglo.Tapanese
Alliance still flourishes and consti-
tutes one of the strongest guarantees
of peace in the Far East.—Premier
Stanley Baldwin,
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Mr. Henry F'ord's
Farming Vision
henry Fortl's vision of a rine' coun-
tryside from witicli the small farms
of to -day eliailhave wholly nasead, to
bo supphuthd by gt tue a -
trolled, aril directedreaby corporations;
May have Its unpleasant feature$,•but
itis nevertheless in atria accord 'with
the economic progress of the ago. It
is his eunvlt'tloit that the tithe of the
Individual farmer is passed; The
wasteful and heedless multiplication
of agricultural macl:Iuery au that each
farm will have reapers and thrashers
and gang plows, useful for only a coni-
parattveiy few days throughout the
year, will be supplanted by corpora-
tive and co.operattve methods by
which there will be a wealth of ma-
chinery available ,and all of it kept
busy up to its economic limit. Beyond
doubt farming to -day is the most dis-
tinctly individualistic and therefore
wasteful of American industries. Yet
it is one to which the theories of mass
production can readily be applied,
Under conditions such as these' the
workings of economic law may be re-
lied upon to effect the revolution in
methods which Mr. Ford predicts,
But there will instantly arise t
question, does this portend the disap
pearance of the independent farmer?
Always in every land the farmer has
been looked upon as the mainstay of
the nation, To him the ancient Eng-
lish phrase still adheres, and we speak
of the sturdy yeomanry of the farm-
ing belt. It may be questioned whe-
ther the farmer, 'up to his eyes in
debt, possesses all the 'independence
with which, orators like to iuvest him,
There are those who have preached
the doctrine that It was better to own
a mortgage on a farm than the farm
which is mortgaged. There are others
who assert that in the time of the
five-day, forty -hour week, the farmer
still works from dawn until late at
night, and finds 1118 work never done.
But even with these facts before us,
there is still a. -disinclination to see the
day of bonanza farming, that Is to say
great tracts farmed by corporations,
established unlversally throughout the
United States. Yet it is a system al-
ntnst sure to be established unless
' some means Is speedily devised for
ameliorating the present economic
' condition of those who till the farms.
I Mr, Ford refers to co-opeartlon,
This has already been developed to
some considerable extent among fruit
growers, particularly in California and
Florida, In the latter State, too, a
'very prominent owner of a system of
(chain stores has sought to establish a
system of chain farms. Each of these
farms is under the direction of a man-
ager, who has a financial interest in.
its returns. But the necessary sup-
plies, and the machinery and capital
ueeded for its operation are furnished
by a central company, which also di-
rects the marketing of the produce.
How well such a system will work out
in an extended area It is perhaps too
early to determine.
In the end, however, the farmer is
llkely to find in such projects as these
a enduring cure for his ills than
any he can obtain through political
agitation. Which conclusion does not
at all preclude the necessity for some
political action to be taken as early
as possible by the Congress of
the United States.—Christian Science
Monitor.
THE LITTLE NIGHT CLUBS
Ten little Night Clubs running good
and plenty,
Nine were closed down, then there
were twenty.
Twenty little Night Chubs keeping
open late,
Nineteen raided, then there were
thirty-eight.
Thirty-eight Night Clubs running
bold and free,
Thirty-seven stopped by law, now
there are four hundred and
seventy-three,
(Including the original ten.)
—Brooklyn Eagle.
It is one of the most profound and
important of exact psychological
truths that man in the mass does not
think, but only feels:—Herbert 0,
Hoover..
I've sold nearly everything in the
last six years except myself.—Alfred
E. Smith.
Mutt Ought to Pay His Debts.
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Bats That ,'13
Late at Night
Halm are the Indy litatlnnl: that
really fly, null this they 110 to pe'r-
fection. A thin, rubbery membrane
is st'i'tched over this lengthened lin-
gers and slung the sides of tete 4041
to the legs and ta11, 'giving these lit.
tie mouselila+ anlnutla .Great liglttnes3
and power in the air,
They also have such, ii well-gtevei-
aped sense of tallith that they dao fell
objeete hu their flight and dodge them
without actual contact. Delicate bairn
0,1' their wings aro. affected by the
n'iw.ht rebound of air from such ob-
jects, and the 000neetlrl4 nerves re-
spond at, 005e. I have heard men' say.
that they could "feel" the tranke of
troee on a dark night in time to avoll
them
Some very large bats of the tropics
feeds upon fruits, but our, bats are all
insect feeders and deserve 'protection•
as do our song -birds, When they first
come out at, twilight, they are hungry
and one sees them darting about very
actively in pursuit of mosquitoes and
other !needs on the wing: The first
to appear is the big brown bat, then
the red bat, the silvery bat, and the
bete- hoary bat. .
After hanging up by their hind feat
all day asleep In some. dark place',
bats are not only liungryy but,thlrsty
• when they wake up, and they drink
a great deal of water, because they
are so active, They do not use it for
bathing, however, but lick themselves.
all over idea a cat and wash their
faces with the front part of the wing.
if their fur is rumpled, they comb it
out neatly with the 'sharp claws on
their hind feet.
Our commonest and largest species',
Is the big brown bat, Which ranges
over most of' the continent from La-
brador to Alaska southward to Florida
and California, It ie very fond of
caves, being abundant in the Main-
moth Cave of Kentucky. During the
winter, many of these bats migrate
from the north to the warmer parts
of the south, where they hibernate.
The youngof t'tas species, one or two
In number, are born in June, and are
carried abont by the mother for about
two weeks. When three months olds
they can fly about and catch. their,
own food.
The red bat, which is of very wide
distribution, may be recognized at.
once by its glossy, orange -red fur. It
is four inches long and has a lying--
spread
ingspread of a foot. It begins its hunt
for insects -in early twilight; and, in-
stead of hiding away in coves during
1 the day, it hangs to the twigs and
!leaves of trees in the fall glare of the
sun.
Early in the summer, the mother.
gives birth to three or four young,
an unusually large number far bats,
and carries them around with her for
' a time in her Rights, In the autumn,
they migrate 'southward Iike birds.
When caught, the red bat will fight
viciously, snapping its needle-sharp
teeth like a weasel; but it can be tam-
ed, and makes nn interesting pet.
The hoary bat. also widely distri-
buted, is closely related to the red
bat, and resembles it in many ways.
• It Lives in the open, hanging up by
day on any convenient tree;' it ml-
gratos'during the winter; and it,bears
tate sante unusual number of young
and carries them about in the same
peculiar way. It is even more sell"
tory, however, than the red bat; le
scarcer; and less knowu because it
hunts !nigh in the air and rarely be-
gins work before dark, It is also.
an Inch longer and of very different
color from the red species.
Among the interesting kinds of bats
in South America are the little
vampires, which live rupon blood.
If a man leaves his toes uncovered at
night, they may be attacked by one
of these little creatures in search of
a meal. But no harm will come of
it if the visitor is undisturbed, because
he neatly seals up the wound and ad-
ministers an antiseptic before leaving,
which prevents infection.
Memory
3, C. Squire in the London Observer
find.): Somebody defined modern
war as "years of intense boredom,
punctuated by moments of latense
fear"; and, for some time after the
war, the ordinary soldier was doubly
bared if he was asked to recollect
his boredom. Time has passed.
Nerves have settled down. A new.
perspective has been achieved. Dis•
tante has made the retrospect toler-
able. Long periods of boredom can
be telgtpped and days of enjoyment
Feco' erect and' treasured. Incidents,
lite memory 01
yvl.Ich neod to �luae
bitter angor, 0015 (law bo taticea C�
calmly, i1 ironically; horrors from the
recreation of which the miud shrank,
eau now be staled objectively, The
soldiers are at last able to talk about!
those things which most gravely bore
upon their sanity, and are at last able
to be sentimental about their past as
soldiers as we are all sentimental
about our pasts. They eau never be-
come so anecdotal or so sentimental
as the _survivors of other wars; the
proportion of horrors, agony, strain
and activity to relaxation Imas bean lar
too severely increased; even • the most
plegmatic cannot forget the domin ,
ance of misery, the sense of purpose•
lessness, and the images of certain
individual arenas which obstinately
refuse to lose their clearness,
Let the' Now York orooks try to
Dome to Chicago -we'll send thein
back In cofrius.-I'olico Commission-
er Wiltiaa E, Reseed at Chtemo.
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