HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-08-29, Page 6Sunday School
Lesson
august 25. Lesson VIII•—Rebuilding
the Temple --Ezra 3: 1Q.13; 6; 1416
Psalm sir 14, Golden Text—I was
glad when they said unto me, 1-e
us go unto the house of the Lord,—
Psalm 122: 1,
ANALYSIS.
X. naf,INNINGS AND ADYEt8SARUES, Ezra
3;1to4;24.
II. qui nINa THE IIQUSE, 3zra 5: 1 to
0;,22,
III, LOVE OF THE SANCTUARY,Psalm
• 84: 1-12.
INgramucTION--The temple had been
looted of its treasures by the it vading
Chalde,.ns ii 13,C. 597 (2 Icings 24;
13), and had been totally destroyed
by fire who they took the city of
Jerusalem again in B.C. 585, 2 Kings
24; 9. It was of this the prophet
wrote addressing God in prayer, "Our
holy, and our beautiful house where
our fathers praised thee, is burned up
with fire; and all our pleasant things
are laid waste" (iso, 64: 11). And
again, in bitter lamentation:
'The Lord has discarded his own
altar, scorned his sanctuary,
And let the foe lay hands upon the
ark of the, compact."
Moffatt'e Translation.
hostile. Chapter 4 contains an account
of three occasions on which they op-
posed the enterprisesof the Jaws. The
first was in connection with the re,
bonding
in thepbegt nine; 14.The
rthe
Paige of Ahasuerus (ILO, 485.464)
when there may have been ae attempt
to fortify the eityt of Jerusa'ern, eh:
4; 6. bTe third was still later, In the
sign of Artaxerxes.1 (B.C. 464-424),.
when the 'Jews attempted to rebuild
the city evens, eh. 4: 7.23, In verse
24 the writer returns to tho story of
the temple building,
U. uu:I.QING T$s Ii0WSS, 3zru 5; 1 to
6: 22.
Most probably it was of this tragic
loss the psalmist wrote:
"O God, the heathen are cone into
thine inheritance; thy holy temple
have they defiled; they have laid
Jerusalem on heaps."
"They have east fire Into thy sane -
!Wary" (Psalm 79: 1; 74; 7),
The Jews who had been left in the
land by Nebuchadne-ear had neither
wealth enough nor courage enough to
undertake the rebuilding of their
temple. Many of them had migrated
to Egypt or other lands. Many who
remained had mingled with, and be -
Come depraved by association with the
heathen people who poured in to oc-
cupy the abandoned dwellings and
cultivated fields. These built their
altars and offered their sacrifices
everywhere thr..ughout the country,
reviving some of the ancient shrines
which ,Tosiah had destroyed, and
mingling worship of Jehovah with
that of the other gods. The more de-
vout of the exiles had carried with
them to Babylon their sacred books
and memories of the great past, and
the first desire now of those who re-
turned was to build an altar to the
Lord and prepare for the work of
building the temple.
I. BEGINNINGS AND ADVERSARIES, Ezra
3: 1 to 4; 24.
The seventh month, corresponding
to part of September and October in
our calendar, was probably in the year
B.C. 537. The feast of tabernacles,
which commemorated the dwelling in
s the wilderness, was celebrated in this
month, which was icckoned, and is
still reckoned, as the first month of
the Jewish year, Exod. 23: 10; Lev.
23: 33-06, 39-44. Jeshua, or Joshua
'(Zech. 3: 1), the chief priest, and
Zerubhabel, the prince of the royal
line of David, are named togetter here
as leaders of the returned exiles.
First, they builded the altar of the
God of Israel. The altar was the es-
sential part of the sanctuary. It was
the plan of sacrifice and of prayer.
They believed that by setting up God's
altar they would secure his favor and
protection against the hostile people
round about then, eh. 8: 3. For a de-
scription of the daily burnt -offerings
of the feast (v. 4) see Numbers 29.
For the continual burnt -offering,
offered ell the year round, sec Num.
28: 3ff. The new moons, or new moon
offerings, aro describe; in Num. 28:
11ff. For a list of the set feasts see
Lev. 23.
The skilled craftsmen of Tyre were and their Control."
employed. as in former days by Solo- It deals with two -winged flies, body
mon, 1 Icings 5: 6-11. The timber parasites, wasps, insects affecting
of
b o by ert front the Cyrusussto foodstuffs, clothing, carpets, furniture
whose Lebanon by permission ofbelonged.'
d.to tobacco,books, seeds, and in fact any -
dominions they now belonged.
It was cut in the mountains, dragged thing that creeps, crawls or flies that
down to the sea, rafted along the shire
to yoppa, then dragged up on :he road
to ,Term elem. In the second year B.C.
536, the foundation of the temple was
laid (vs, 8-10) and this was made an
occasion of praise an' rejoicing. The
song of praise (v. 11) may have been
Psalm 136. Some very old people were
present who had seen the glory of the
great temple of Solomon, and mem-
ories brought weeping mingled with
rejoicing. Compare Haggai 2: 1-9.
The adversaries (4: 1) were the
mixed people of northern Israel whose
origin and character are described in
2 Kings, ch, 17. They professed to
worship the God of Israel, but debased
his worship with heathen rites. There
may have been a disposition on their
part to be friendly, but the Jews dis-
trusted them and rejected their ad-
yances. Henecfroth they were actively
It was sixteen years later when the
Prophets Haggain and Zechariah Stir-
red up the people to renew thole une
finished labors, See Iiag, 1: 1 to 2:
9, and Zech, 4; 0-10 and 6: 12, 15,
Opposition was again manifest and
the governor'ef the country west of
the Euphrates took official notice of
what was being done and demanded
that they produce `'heir authority:
When the decree of Cyrus was found
at Ecebatana in Media, summer rob -
donee of the Persian kings (6: 2), the
governor's attitude changed,and he
and his companions did speedily com-
mand of Darius, and set forward the
building. 13y sone accident the name
of Artaxerxes is associated here with
Cyrus and Darius. His reign did not
begin lntil B,C. 464, and the temple
was fntshed in B.C. 516.
III. LOPE OF THE SANCTUARY, .Psalm
84: 1-12.
During the period of the exile, syna-
gogue worship began to take the place
of the services of the temple. But the
love and loyalty of the people, widely
dispersed as they were throughout the
world, were still fixed upon the temple,
and the city within which it stood.
This sonthuent finds arequent expres-
sion in the Psalms (see Psalm 87; 78;
68; 69; 121; 122). Psalm 84 beauti-
fully expresses the longing of the ex-
ile for the peace and security of the
sanctuary,, the divine blessing which
=emirates the p'larims ort -Lair way
to it, the supreme satisfaction of those
whooe privilege it is to share in its
min stries.
The Bacon Hog
And Grading
The more the producer of bacon
hogs kuows about hogs and the re-
quirements of the market to which he
is shipping the greater will be the
satisfaction and profits derived de-
rived from the business.
The standardization of hogs was a
necessary and logical step in the fur-
ther development of the bacon hog
business but hogs cannotbe bred and
grown t0 a standard type unless the
Producer has a thorough knowledge
of the requirements ot the standard.
For this reason handbook on the
"Bacon Hog and Hog Grading" sed
edttin ot this pamphlet has been
printed,
The reason for producing a bacon
enable him to fill market require -
mute no matter how discriminating
they may be.
All breeders of hope should secure
this pamphlet from the Publications
Branch, Department of Agriculture,
Ottawa, and if there is any further
information desired the hog graders
at the stock yards, the live ,,tock pro-
moters, on the Dominion Live Stock
Branch, Ottawa will be glad to an-
swer eutuiries.
Household Insects
The latest bulletin off the press
prepared by the Federal Department
of Agriculture is "Household Insects
No. 162—Youthful Sports Type.
This style is designed in sizes 16, 18,
20 years, 86, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust
measure. Size 36 reuires 27/s yards of
40 -inch material. Emb. No. 11129
(blue) 15e extra.
No. 367 -Shirring Lends Chic. This
style is designed in sizes 16, 18, 20
years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust
treasure, Size 36 requires 3 yards
of 40 -inch material with % yard of
32 -inch contrasting.
No. 821—Sniart Bloom•r Dress.
This style is designed in sizes 6, 8, 10,
12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires 27k
yards of 36 -inch material with 1/e yard
of 18 -inch contrasting and 3 yards of
ribbon.
No. 823 —Practical -Smart This
style is designed in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12
and 14 years. Size 8 requires 1%
yards of 40 -inch material with % yard
of 27 -inch contrasting.
No. 497—Youthful Chic. This style
is designed in sizes 16, 18, 20 years,
36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust measure.
ALL PATTERNS 20 CENTS IN STAMPS OR COIN (COIN PRE -
may adversely affect anything within
the four walls of the home.
The publications is well illustrated
and if you find eitomoligical speci-
mens in the home you do not recogn-
ize, a cmparison with the illustrations
will quickly place the insect, and the
remedy for it will be found.
Every home should have a copy of
this bulletin which will be sent tree
ou receipt of a card by the Publica-
tions Branch, Department ot Agricul-
ture, Ottawa.
Obstinacy
Obstinacy Is an absurd weakness.
Lf you are right, it lessens your
triumph; if you are wrong, it turns
Your defeat into shame. --,Sterne.
MUTT AND .TEFF`
Women's Stocking
Bills Grow Bigger~
Worst Dress Problem in
Britain rites Reporter
Who Investigates
Loudon-fiealiat Is Great Britain's
silts etocking bill Mach Year? Experts
estimate tlt.nt the women of'Engtand,
Scotland and Wales -buy, wear, and
discard aboppt a thoasand ;nittiOt parry
of stockings octal: year. The prices
of the stockings, deal or artificial silk,
very from 26 cents to $10, according
to texture and workmanship,
Each year fashion demands that the
stocking bill of the individual Woman
shall grow larger; each month "oho
iscalled cat to spend an increasing
percentage of her dress allowance on
finer gauged ]lose .that has less dura-
bility and prospect of a long life in its
make,
The silts stocking craze has not yet
reached its apex—Women will wear,
finer and slinkier hose, stockings that
laclk too much like cobwebs to have
been made by human bands.
In a fashionable stocking shop a
reporter recently saw the greatest
triumphs that has been achieved in *o-
men's hosiery—the 100 -gauge stook-
ing, so fine that it had been worked
by one hundred needles.
"The woman who dresses really
well," said the assistant, "wears more
than fifty pales a year. • A. certain
number of them are et extremely fine
gauge, and cost about 58.50 the pair.
Others are fifty and fifty-five gauge,
which are about $6.25 the pair,
"It Is impossible for these fine
stockings to be durable. Some wee
Men wear tbeni only once as: twice.
Women who have to be more care-
ful students of economy confessed
that they wear about two dozen pairs
of stockings a year ,or an average of
one' new pair a fortnight.
"I have three or four good pairs at
about 52,50 each, which I. keep for
special occasions," voluntered a City®®W��es
stenographer, "and the rest of the
dozen I buy for. about 52, a pair, and
keep there for second best. My other
dozen are made of hard-wearing, dur-
able artificial sills, which I wear to
work in all winds and weathers, and
bay for about 51.00 a pair."
All women were certain'of the same
thing—their stocking bills, whether
they walk along the hard paths of life
or ride In motor -cars ail day—are
geowing toner and longer.
Canning 'Vegetables
The following general rules ter tiro
canning of vegetables by tate Bold)
paolc method are laid clown in bulletin.
77 entitled "Preserving Fruit and Yog-
etabto In the Iionia."
Select freshly gathered vegetables.
Avoid using very dirty vegetables,
Can If poseibl0 the day they are acctedeing a sixthsense. I c0110u do
picked, it's partly booause, manic and theatres
Do not use wilted groans for eante
ing; if only slightly wilted let stand
In cold water until UM become, erleY
agahi,
Wash thorotlgltly with a bruslt
such vegetables as beete, carrots, etc.
Oar' only a small quantity of veg•
etabies at a time, especially in hot
weather. It is necessary to carry ou
the various stops tit the canning pro-
cess as rapidly as possible to prevent
lose of flavour, aid the development
of flat sour, which is very injurious
to health.
Grade as to size, shape and degree
et' tenderness and colour. Where
vegetables are sliced or cubed, the
piece should bo of unitome size and
shape.
All ,vegetables should be blended
oe .scalded as described ou page 9.
This must be followed by the cold-dlp.
1t is advisable to blanch such vege-
tables as spinach, swiss chard, best
green in steam rather than in boil-
ing water, as there is loss of valuable
mineral matter. Pack carefully into
tested, hot; sterilized jars and. add ',
teaspoonful of salt to each Pint jar.
Fill to overflowing with boiling water.
Rubbers and cape are placed in poet -
tion and the same method as given
for fruit is applied.
Canning, tickling, preeerviug and
tee hundred and one things that can
be done with fruits and vegetables
are Ineladed in this bulletin which.
will be sent nu application to the Pub -
Mations Branch, Department of Agri;
culture, Ottawa.
Persian Rugs
Whorl you come into a new room,
d0 you ever notice the rugs en the
floor? I never used t0,. I was alit to
notice everything else area Ilett live
in Persia toe a walla, find the course
of your observations will begin where
it formerly ended, It's' Almost like
Size 36 requires 2% yaids of 35 -inch
material with 74 yard of 35 -inch con-
trasting.
Emb. No. 11015—Motifs and Bora-
ers for handkerchiefs, collars, cuffs,
lingerie, etc. Twenty-eight motifs,
one handkerchief with scalloped bor-
der, one with lines for drawn -work
and 50 inches each of three borders—
one of scallops, one of cross-stitch and
one of darning -stitch (blue).'
We suggest that when you send for
this pattern, you enclose 10c additional
for a copy of our Fashion Magazine.
It's just filled with delightful styles,
including smart ensembles, and cute
designs for the kiddies.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving numberand size of such
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.
Patterns sent by an early mail.
FERRED). WRAP COIN CAREFULLY.
"A loud dresser always wears bangs
and noisy wraps."
Here lies the body 02 poor Peter
Brand,
Who departed tike life late one
night,
When a lady driver put out her right
hand
And immediately °turned to the
right.
WISE IGNORANCE
A great art of life today is the cult•
vation of selective and discriminating
ignorance. Every morning, newspap-
ers deluge us with a Niagara of infor-
mation. The wireless is eternally
pouring out a mass of things to at-
tract the attention. Books, especially
books of fiction, come forth from the
presses of the world in a Nile -like
flood and tends to distract attention
fro mthings of major importance to
things trivet. The only kind of
knowledge worth having is the know-
ledge that can be used in solving the
important proble msot life. All others
'knowledge is excese baggage, It is
surplus weight. The man who tries to
absorb all the miscellaneous and in-
discriminate interests 'which modern
life thrusts upon him is sure to be-
come intellectually and spiritually
obese. To be educated installs to know
how to be wisely ignorant. —Henry
Nelson Wioman.
and other forms of diversion that ab'
sorb surplus energy at bottle still
shun Teheran and outer Persian
towns. Whatever tiro reason, you sooty
become engulfed in the at nospbero
of ruge, and you must watch your-
self, or 'else when you conic home
you'll be thought to leave acquired a
tntsplaood' sense cf humor or down-
right bad manners, For in Teheran,
while welting to go in to dinner, let
us say, one may stoop, quite; casually,
throw back a corner of the rug ono.
is Standing • on, finger it critically,
and at dinner start canrersaticn by
asking one's float its otigitt and 90100.
No cffanoe is taken,' and it is done,
I assure you, iu the best circles. Ruga
are as recurrent and mort interest'
ing time the weather as a topic of
sacral conversation. "Have you got,
a new rug?" is the ,most natural of
queries to address taciturn neigh,.
bora and loosens tate tautest silence.
When you move from most localities
yon don't ask your friends if they
care to sell you this or that which
takes your saucy; but when You leave
Teheran it is not amiss to tell your
neihbor 02 your admiration for his
Yoramin or Turcoman, and ask
whether he cares to sell it. ltntese
he's got an especially warm spot in
his heart for it, the answer Is as
likely to be "Yes" as "No," And after
You're' gone he'd have the fun of get-
ting soutething else to put in its
piece.
Now I don't pose as a connoisseur
of rugs... , But It's not easy to re-
side in Persia without getting swept
into the current. It doesn't matter
whether you're rich or poor, only in
the former case your're a bit more
likely to waste Your money.
For which there are various rea-
sons, You need rugs to caner your
floors, tvhiolt in most cases aro of
much or sun-dried brick. Teheran's
stores don't carry linoleum or ma-
elane-matte carpeting. 'Your servant
buys strips of straw matting in the
bazaar, but neither comfort, cleanli-
ness, nor the dtaess of things allows
You. to stop there, hugs must cover
Mu. floors as they do those of all
Your friends and neiglebcrs. Getting
rugs is part of the atmosphere.. .
Yost 111015 up much informattOlt of
a geographic kind through this play-
ing wills rags, which is usetul, for
Persian rugs are usually given the
name of the region where tiroy are
woven. Only don't be too sure. A
13alnoh rug Is not woven in Baluchi-
stan,
aluchistan, but by nomad Balucltis far to
the north ot Kborassan; a Kerman-
shah
ermanshah 15 not woven in or near the city
of that name, but in ICermau miles to
the east; and a Beecham, a nue dept.
ed by western trade and familiar at
home, Is made by Turcoman bribes,
rarely, I ant fold, in the political stet°
of Bolchara.—Copley Amory Ir., in
"Persian Days"
Living within the income means
living 'without the worry. As well as
without a large number of other
things.
It has been tea years since Prohibi-
tion was adopted by Uncle Sam. And
You've seen the way some adopted
children aro treated.
French and World Policy
Wickham Steed Ili the Review of I Ottawa.
Reviews (Loader"): In no respect In this Dr. Shutt says that wood
has French policy been less clear- ashes contain also 2 per cent phos -
sighted titan in regard to the United Iphoric acid and from 20 to 30 per
States. Crious incapacity to under- cent carbonate of limo, enhancing
stand the America point of view has their fertilizing value and making
seemed to afflict_ French statesmen. them, in a sense, an all-round fertiliz-
Equally remarkable has been their er for supplying the mineral elements
want of perspicacity upon Anglo- required by crops. Ansi, further, they
American relations. If any country correct acidity, a condition detrimen•
en the Continent of Europe would be tal to the thrift of most farm crops.
likely to profit by the removal of alt Muriste and sulphate of potash are
misuderstandings between Great Brt- or no value for neutralizing acidity.
Min and the United States it is Naturally, genuine wood ashes acro
Prance. somewhat variable in composition,
For Potash
The use of wood ashes as a fertiliz-
er Is historic and their use for clover,
grapes, fruit trees and leafy crops
generally is recognized the world
over.
CannIug, pickling, preserving aid
jest of Pamphlet written by Dr. P, L.
had on application to the Publications
Shutt Dominion Chemist, which may
be had on application to Publications
Life's Debtors
Lifeis only puzzling to be person
who gives nothing to it. The doctor
tending the sick does not wonder why
he isealive and what it is all about.
The mother bringing up her children
to strong and clean citizenship is not
worried by the futility of life: It is
life's debtors,those who take every-
thing and give nothing, who find
themselves faced with. a sick per-
plexity of the soul.
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Table Land?: Idow did you feel
wl en the mistress extinguished you
last night?'
Bridge Lamp: I felt very much put
out.
Back came the reply; Madam
I see no reason why I should pay
Your rent. I debt pay my own"
depending partly on the nature ot the
wood producing them and partly on
the care with which they have been
collected and stored. Wilful adulte-
ration of a gross character has been
occasionally detected to commercial
sempies, addition of sand and other
inert matter and leaching being the
most common forms o4 adulteration.
There is a general belief that ashes
from hard woods, as a class are rich-
er in potash than diose from soft
woods but our analyses scarcely con-
firm this impression. As might be
expected, woods differ very consider-
ably in their potash content and the
ashes of twigs and boughs are much
richer' than those of trunk woods.
Pine and other soft woods as a rule
contain less ash than the hard woods.
and are much lighter in character
and it is this latter quality or proper-
ty we think that has given rise to the
common belief referred to. Accord-
ing to our results -we 'cannot find that
weight for weight, the ashes of soft
wood are much, it any, poorer than
those from hard woods.
The pamphlet also deals with com-
mercial sources of potash, manure,
seaweed and the Mica of_potash,
Goodness
We must learn to see good in the
midst ot much that is unlovely. --
George
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St. Bernard Dog
At the St. Bernard Pass, writes a
correspondent of "Die Raise" of e'ol-
ogne, Lite wind blows strongly. 'You he ou
see the big St. Bernard doge,
ons saviors of mon lost in the ice..
rtuuitng about tame. If you stroke
their soft fur they grow friendly and
20110w you. You can buy dogs that
are a month or two old. They are
like little bears. They lie in the sad -
shine and like to play. They don't
pose and are not annciyed by the tour-
ists who take snapshots of them. The
big dogs sit or lie about witlhout
stirring. When the current of tour-
ists is strongest, at noon, the monks
close the dogs up behind a fence ie.
the open air. Until recently the
dogs ran about freely. When the
motor cars drive down again things
grow quiet on the mountain. At
night the dogs run 'about the lake,
jump easily over the rocks and glide
down on them ]rice lions.
The monkswear a long black garb
with. a narrow white strip of leather
around the neck. ht the valley,
whore the monks act as priests, title
narrow strip becomes an ornament
and is crocheted, After the meals
the monks promenade about in groups,
either down on the road or a little
farther up into the mountains. As
soon as the monastery receives word
that srhnebody le lost In the mune
tains a monk immediately, starts out
with a dog and a first-aid bag in the
direction where the tourist was seen
last
Hospitality in the monasterY used
to be great, but nowadays it would be
impossible to offer a bed to all the
ttlurists that come, so roottta are oi'
fored only to a tete prtviteged per
eons However, the honks have
opened a hotel near tate monastery
witere rooms can be had for payment.
One monk attends the meals In the
betel and entertains, the guests. Aro-
other mc010 ,takes ears of the read
and ships thousands of picture cards
every clay to all parts of lite wol'ld.
Personal!Relations.
All personal relations are intonaoly
personal, have to do with subtle condi-
nous—unexplored,
onditons—unexplored, but inexorable aim{'
instantly perceived. The soul puts eat,
as it were Its invisible antennae,
knowing tho Soul that is kindredto
itsolt,—H. It, Hawets.