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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-11-14, Page 6unday School LesAm Ilovember, 10. hisser VI --World Peace Through Wittig Understand ing -Isaiah 2: 241 Auto 17, 22.28; John 4: 20, 21, Golden Text—They Shall, not hurt nor death(?), in all my )holy mountain; for the earth shall , be foil of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. e-lsalah 11 t 9. A visfON OV UNrv3RSAL VEA011, isa, 2: 2.4; 11: 6-10; 19: 23-25, III, e'E:D BROTtnennoop 0V'MEN, Acts 17 22-28; Eph. '4: 4-0; John 4: 20-21, XII.A TARIEOr HUMANITY, Eph, 4: 18.19, INTRODUCTION There is mueh about war in the Bible, both in the twayof civil strife, and of war between nations. 'Sotiietitnes engagement in war seerns Lc have been unavoidable, or to have been in response to the highest demands of duty and honor, For example, Abram hears that his kinsman Lot, and his family have been taken captive by bands of raiders' from the 2iast,. and immediately arms his trained servants, follows hard upon the track of the raiders, and recovers the captives, Gen., chap, 14, The Mid- ianite Arabs invade the cultivated lands of Israel, destroying and plund- ering so that they leave no sustenance for man or beast. The patriot Gideon gathers a little army of the bravest rnen and drives them out, Judges, chap. 0. David slays the giant champion of the Philistine invaders, and Saul wages war of defence throught his troubled reign against Anintonites, .Arabs, and Philistines, There were wars of aggression and rf conquest, however, for which it is not ease , from the Christian point of view, to find justification. For example there were Joshua's war of conquest, Sampson's raids upon his Philistine neighbors, the murderous attack by the Danites upon the peaceful community of Laish, Judges, chap. 18, and David's subeetion of the Syrians of Damascus, 2 Sam, 8: 3-8. On these matters we are, perhaps, too far away, and our knowledge of them is too slight, to pass judgment, Our lesson shows us that in the end, both in tee Old and in the New Testament, ideals of peace and international good will prevailed. Many of the prophets saw in their visions of the future a golden age of universal peace, and this was the theme of the angels whose song her- alded the Saviour's advent. L A VISION OI' UNIVERSAL PEACE, ISa. 2: '-4; 11: 6-10; 19: 23-25. The fast of these passages is found also in Micah 4:1-4, with only slight variations. The prophets, or the edi- tors of their books, appear to have 658—Dress ensemble, one-piece dress inserted it from some ether source. It with lap closing below round collar, will be worth while to esntpare other Passages of prophecy in which there !long or short sleeves, separate belt, coat with raglan sleeves and turn - are similar expectations of a glorious future of service to humanity for Jer- usalem and for her people. In Jar. 8: 17, "the nations shall be gathered” to Jerusalem, "to the name of the Lord," and shall do evil no more. In Zech. 2: 11 "Many nations shall be joinery to the Lord," and shall be his people, and God will dwell in the midst of them. In Zech. 8: 20-22 "Many peo- ple and strong nations shall come to see;: the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord." Com- pare .4: 16; Isa. 56: 7;"60: 3; 66: 23. In Zech. 9: 10 the Lard "shall speak peace unto the heathen," and his dom- inion sl_all be over all the earth. And in Ezek. 40: 2 and Zech. 14: 10, there is the same conception of Jerusalem as being "lifted up" as on "a very high mountain." All this has been fulfille i in a re- markable way by the spiritual eleva- tion of the holy city, and by the in- spired teaching of her scriptures ;which have gone out to all the world. Jerusalem has become the prophet of the nations. and those who give heed to her teachings learn the ways of Treace. For verse 3 compare Luke .24: 47. In chap. 19: 23-25, there is a re- markable anticipation of a league of nations. The prophet sees in the fu- ture a highway out of Egypt to As- syria. passing through the land of Israel, and these three nations to- gether serving the Lord and becoming s blessing in the midst of she earth. Religion will be the bond of this per- fect union of nations which hitherto have been at deadly strife. II. THE BROTHERHOOD OF MEN, Acts 17: 22-28; Eph. 4: 4-6; John 4: 20-21. Long before the days of Paul this brotherhood had been recognized and declared by far-seeing men of the He- brew race. In the story of creation God is the maker of all without dis- tinction or difference. All races of Men are declared to be descended from a common stock. Compare Amos 9: 7 and Peelle 100. Here Paul, in his address to a group of Athenians, as- serts the same truth, and quotes from statement. The quotation (v. 28) is from 8 Poet, Aratus, a Stoic, with whorllno doubt, his hearere. were well i,aggu„uted, pf God the Father of all mien no image of geld or savor, or stone, gee - Von by art and man's device, qan be an adequate representation, v. 29. Bat though invisible he is not hard to end, he is not fair from every one of us. In hitt we live and move and have our being, If this be true, and we believe it is true, of all men, how great the crime, 00 prevalent even today, of hatred, contempt, and scorn for then of other lands and races, and of other ways of thought and modes of life; How necessary it is that we should seek a better and closer understanding of our neighbors! That is the way to. enduring peace. An the bond of peace will bo anally in the common worship of God, whose sre etua y is not in Jerusalem, nor in .dount Geri- ziin, but wherever men approach him in spilt and in truth, John 4: 20-24.: hen will be surely realized Paul's ideal of a redeemed humanity, one body ant ono spirit, and one Lord, Eph•, chap. 4: 4-6. III, A PARVECT IiUMANITv, Eph, 4: 13-19. This is the task of the church of Christ, and of all its workmen, to• build the body of Christ (vs, 11, 12), the perfect man . the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ, a new humanity (ch. 2: 15), cleansed. from all evil ways of thought and con- duct, truly Christlike, back cuffs, convertible collar and patch pockets. For girls. 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 years. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of • such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (eein preferred; wrap it carefully) for each nuneber, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by an early mail, It Hardly Seems Possible That 'lids Can lye an Airship SPACIOUS LOUNGE ROOM IN ENGLISH DIRIGIBLE General view of commodious lounge roma of the it -101, recently constructed one-hundred-pas5enger British dirigible, V era; icebergs where before onle one l make full speed, or nearly full speed, and avoid collisions ley knowing the s yy Imp aexisted, On Ice xs Found Methods of Detection Three different methods of detect. Ing icebergs were tested as the oppor- Van Horne Expedition Under oppor- tunity granted. The first described Dr. Barnes Carries On was that afforded -through the pecu- liar. :plienoinena of warmer water in Successful Study the• vicinity of an iceberg, Contrary to general belief, Dr. Barnes pointed ICEBERG DETECTION out, when tests are made with a mlcrothermometer, as a ship comes Findings Expected Materially In the vicinity of an tcoberg, the tem- perature of the water is found to rise, why the liquor problem In those coun- to Aid in Fight. to Clear while on approaching land the tem - River Channel perature is found to fall. Explauar 'tries is almost non-existent. Surely Dons of this seemingly contradiction our aim should be to attain that hap - Details of the Van Horne Iceberg were given. ter combination eb freedom and 50- Expedition in the vicinity of New - France, shin's navigator might, by talc- so- briety which rules practically all over France, We anticipate, however, that the proceedings of the Commission will turn out to be merely the old dreary farce of a conflict between location of icebergs in their paths, The Royal Commission on Liquor New Statesman (Loudon): It is re- ported that the Commission will visit Canada and the United States to studyAmerian liquor conditions on the spot. If this le true, we trust that they will also visit France and Italy and Germany, and seek to disover foundland last August when Dd. How- ing the temperature of the water at and T.Barnae, internationally -known . the proper intervals and recording ice engineer of McGill University, thee() Endings on a curve or chart, be enabled to avoid shoals and icebergs conducted a series of ex eriments in p by noting any unexpected fall or rise fanatics,. leading to nothing at all but an attempt to free the St, Lawrence' in the temperature in. the water, the a waste of Public money. route from the iceberg menace were made known for the first time speaker said. re•. Gently. Dr. Barnes gave a resume of The second method of detecting tee- the expedition and the results obtain- bergs at eight or during fogs was to 0d before. a meeting of the McGill shoot thermit flares forward In the Physical Society. path of the ship's course and to watch The Uvlra, the boat with which the for shadows of Icebergs. The flare experiments were carried • out, left on the opposite side of the iceberg New York on July 25 for Halifax silhouetted it against the skyline and where the Canadian equipment was the ship's course could then be alter - taken cn before the two -masted ed to avoid a collision, sebooner with auxiliary engine left The obvious weaknesses in such a for St. Johns, Newfoundland. The method of detection with apparatus actual experiments to make icebergs,at present known were' pointed out. visible at nights or during fogs wereThese flares were subject to the cap- carried out in Notre Dante Bay on rice of the wind and were often carr 'Her money is her only attraction " the northeast of Newfoundland. ried far from their objective during ' Then time will surely add interest Important Discoveries I stormy weather. They were most to her charms." effective in calm weather, the speak - In opening his talk which 11 w t c was er said. The "Small Investor" Truth (London): Though it may be an unpopular thiug to say, the plain truth is that a good many so-called small •investors are not investors at all in the strict sense of the word, but speculators, and reckless specu- lators into the bargain. Safety first securities do not appeal to them, nor are they satisfied with the yields of any investment that can be regarded as reasonably sound. They go out for big gains, and when they come to grief throw all tb, blame on the law and the Stock exchange.- Culture Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty, and humane feeling.... In training 'a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call "Inert ideas"—ideas merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh com- binations. Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful.—A. N. Whitehead in The New Republic. See the commercial traveller, How blithely doth he roam! And he le never homesick, for !their own Greek poets in proof of his Heel never long at home, The Unemployment Problem lustrated slid with numerousldes Dr. Barnes stated a film of the trip and Chance Discovery Kappa in the Nation and Athenaeum that perhaps the most important die-, The third method of iceberg deter- (Loudon): Mr. Thomas is uncannity coveries yet made in regard to ice I tion, which was hailed by physicists asute; but neither his training nor his bergs were disclosed during the ex-, and scientists present as being Per- habit of mind are such as to give the pedition, which was made Possible in haps most portentous in possible ap- public much confidence in his power such an extended scale through the plications and future results, was die' to tackle this formidable task ... . covered to some extent by chance. He is, in fact, a lightweight in politics. generosity of Mr, Van Horne, a form- er Montrealer. The object of the trip briefly was to Enda means of detecting and thus avoiding icebergs at night or during a fog. The St. Lawrence route to Europe, the speaker said, was becom- ing ecoming more popular year by year by reason of its beauty. If the iceberg menace were removed, it would pop- sibly be the most popular, dad so bring great advantage to Canada. The scene where the ill-fated Ti- tanic went down, after striking an ice- berg, wasshown in a slide in which was also illustrated the north and south routes by way of the St. Law- rence to Europe. The only great dis- advantage with the northern route through the Strait of Belle Isle, which was from two of three hundred miles shorter to Europe, was the cold Arctic current bringing down dangerous ice- bergs at certain seasons of the year when shipping schedules must be maintained, its said, The route to the south of New- foundland had also Its dangers from icebergs and fogs, sometimes the more so as icebergs tended to break up on reaching warmer waters and so pre. sent the danger of collision with eta i MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER Dr. Barnes explained that icebergs in disintegrating give forth an irre- gular series of explosive sounds. At- tempts weremade to pick up these sounds, carried by the medium` of the water, on the ordinary ship's submar- ine microphone but' nothing was heard. An improvised microphone consist- iny of a rubber hose with a funnel iCi. tacked to oue end and a sheet of rub- ber placed over the funnel to make the apparatus waterproof was then utilized. Within a dstance of six miles of an icebery the explosive sounds were picked up• At five miles these "dis- tinctive" sounds could be plainly heard, while at three miles distance they were quite loud. ' This later finding is now receiving the attention of research workers and shipping men and it is expected that with mre suitable apparatus, but us- ing the same principle, icebergs will be detected at a distance of five miles or more and Chir position located quickly by means of the differential between two microphones :placed at different positions on the bow et the ship. Ships will then be able to There is grave doubt whether ... . in Mr. Thomas we have the strong man we need for the job. His first step, the holiday visit to Canada, and its ludicrous results, have left a bad impression. There was n0 need for Mr. Thomas to go to Canada; but the lure of Empire was too much for him. A° would have been far better em- ployed at home, where, if at all, the job must be tackled and done. PROTECTING,• TREES FROM RABBITS Rabbits have in past winters done considerable damage to trees planted in shelter-belte on prairie farms. Au effective method of protecting the trees from the pest has been found in lightly smearing the trees to a .suf- ficient height with axle grease. BLESSINGS Great blessings that are won by prayer should be worn with thank- bniuess,—Goodwin• The deepest depth of vurgariem is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.—Thomas Carlyle. r 1 Two Tools Devised The New, TTy e That Will ° Pierce Farmer Best Bank Vaults The steady decrease of out farm — 'population gixes the average man a "Fluxing Rod" and "Oxygen souse of, ttneasiuOss about agriculture. Lance" Can Be Used By But One Dozen Safe • Experts Not ,even a laillion.dollar vault would be proof against burglars arm - Many farmers are actually ceasing to faring and are moving to swell t11e. ranks of city workers and maters. let it would seem that, as the nation's mouths increase in number, the term population should also increase, 'Some- thing witlt''the latest and most powerful thing inust bo out of joint. Scientific gutting tools -the "fluxing 1910 now -type farmer is the joker rod" or the "oxygen lance" =with in the logia This farmer nae learned either` one n orlminal could cut to increase his wheat and butter with. through 'a steel wa11 a foot thick In out increasing the number of hands fivo'ntlnirtes, to do the work. Ice "knave how"— which is to say, lie is sclenttiic. Tho Work. .of the new -type farmer WO been gradually revolutionizing the farm, suet oven remodeling the man behind the plow and ate herd.. The new -type farmer struck up a 'very friendly acquaintance with the soils of hie farm; he jollied the sour ones with lime, jacked up ()there with. ealts, fed them legumes, and then egged his perked -up soils on to itis corn, wheat, and potatoes. He bash- Mixed ashhoned a bettor kernel on the cob and a better ear on the stallk. Ile learned what made winter wheat good, and at the last moment .threw a double dose of protetu into the head, He hit upon a standard fancily step potato that the housewife liked, Tie want after bugs, beetles and borers with poison and gee. He seemed his pigs and shaped them for the selling sorties, He turn, ed eyes and testing tubes on his dairy herd, slashed it here, petted it there, fed it according to formula, and then watched the butterfat roll up. In fine, whatever the crop, what, ever the animal, this new type of farmer knows how to breed it, feed it, and sel it, His theory is" that neither luck, tradition, nor old wives' tales can take the place of knowing how to farm. No wonder, then, that he discards hand tools and puts in ' the machine—the 'tractor, the come bine, the milking machine, and so 'on. Moreover, the more he knows his job, the better he likes it. Getting ()lose to his problem stirs his brain power into action, and the farm job takes on al the aspects of a°challenging busi- Against these potential tools pt eats brealcers no absolute defenceis, known, The flnanolal world is wait- ing to see what super-erlminee. will use them, tor • to date none has, -tiered to employ. either, So expert must, be tate men behind time tnsruments, .writes Henry Mor- ton Robinson in the November "Pepe - lar Science Monthly," that only a dozen men in the world are capable of breaking into a vault with them. Fortunately these men are not crim- inate. They are vault experts who Have gaihod their "dangerous" know- ledge by exhaustive experiments with. torch, rod and lance upon metal tar- gets, and their 0aluee are wel known, But so cautious is the financial world that it must even take account of the possibility that one of these men may turn criminal. A torch and a "fluxing rod" can cut through any known combination of elements, Solid granite a foot thick can be pierced in ten minutes and crumbles under the rapid heating. Armor plate burns up in half that time. Tills magic rod is steeply a stick of soft steel which the expert oper- ator holds against the metal to be burned. Then he applies the oxyace- tylene flame to the tip of the fluxing rod, which oxidizes so rapidly that the temperature can be raised to un- believable heights. The "ogygen lance" has been known for 'fifteen or twenty years to a few blast furnace experts. It consists of a long pipe about a quarter of an inch in diameter, through which axygen gas is forced under pressure. Tito business end of the pipe ie heated red-hot- by a cutter -burner. The hot iron ignites in the oxygen stream and flares fiercely. IIeId against any ob- ject it burns its way straight through Blast furnace men use the oxygen lance to free "row" tap holes in fur- naces. The best types of vaults now in ex- istence are not designed to be proof against the fluxing rod and the oxy- gen lance, for that is impossible. They are engineered simply to delay en- trance by an arch thief as long as Possible. Every hour spent in vault breaking increases a criminal's risk of Bing caught. One of he strongest vaults in this country might be proof for six hours against the attack of any one of the world's dozen super- riminals. And although vault men fear the potentialities of the new scientific tools, there are praetical.ob- jections to their widespread use. They require an immense amount of equip- ment and enfpert technical imowledgo. Moreover, the oxygen lance generates such intense heat as to be dangerous to use without cumbersome shields. It generates billows of black smoke when it meets cast iron, leading to probable detection—a risk that few criminals would care to run. Wifle—"Do you like my new ()oat?" Hubby—"'Yea, but I'll bet I won't be able to say the same for the bill," The Queen's English Is What Jeff Desires. /`-Yes, S'Nt GONNA P1d0NI Mob TOLL Mtli 5C1•IVLTZ -lovas A nMAtzltt0D MAW: L! t S1•e N: `-(7)?"-f\ ;Ay `(o'J'L1, ,,Ei!.. M C 1 Be M0(Ze SPECIFIC: pll'ai .sPCCtFte? IiI*0 Y65:,JGtNct_GRs'FIX• wATOtics:°FIX; FIX:! Bic MoRG SPGCIEIc: USG GooD G7lGhtS(-t' wNAV Yom GorJNP% D0 tP t YC -LL '0 eLL, IN PLAIN WORbs S:Lt- CROWN `(0 u: 11\.• ll�'Iti111111111� 1111111111111110119 E1;—> \Nik't:\ 0058. Now it Is nothing new that. science is thus striking out into farming, -But not every one Lias yet realized the`' meaning of this movement—that the old 'farming with ordinary skill" will soon be passing into history as a tale that is told. This no discredit to the old farmer; he was a fine type of man. But one of these newer farm- ers knows . how to produce twice as much as the old farmer, Moreover, ho has the iugenuity to improve his products, making them more desir- able to the buyers. The "ordinary skill" farmer produes only mediocrity. Will the been population, thea, con- tinue to decline? Undoubtedly it will continue to decline to a point where the effective scienliflc machine farm- ing will produce all that is needed. Is this the end of the story? By no means. The recent revolution in farming has concerned itself with crops. Bu the progressive farmer is convinced that the same scientific methods he has learned to apply to running his farm can be used in conuering his other difficulties. The farmer's living conditions, for instance — community institutions; social status, opportunity for enjoying -life in equal measure with persons in other occupations — have always had points of serious de- ficiency. Another revolution may oc- cur here. Science- wilt penetrate and ramify through every phase of farm life. The new -type farmer is learning that men make their own living conditions, and that human elements can be cone blued to make needed institutions. He is not going to listen to the people who tel him that farmers can't get social amelioration. Does the farmer want facilities within reach for the health of the family? Yes, and he is going to change the health organiza- tion of his section and have doctors and a hospital. Whatever he wants that average town communities enjoy he will learn to get. When science was put into the hand of this new kind ob farmer he was given a far-reaching talisman. And it anyone thinks that the fermi will confine his Aladdin'e lamp to wheat, cotton, and milk, he will be gravely disappointed, for the mea who are coming to dominate farming are bound to know how public bust' floss is managed, how sound economic, institutions are built, how living 10 made better--ln fine, how things, tee done by humans to bring we esee irate being for themselves. lie -is looking 'for selene to see aim through and, for one- 4 oelleve not In vain.—"The .eoatttry Gentleman:" AMBITION No ordinary job for me, 1 To great heights I shall climb. Yes, far above our new M,P: e And rninieters, though Prime. For I'll have opportunities That other people lack, Of getting high up in the world, When l'nt a Steeplejack, • EDUCATION Witilat we beacon that education lit the greatest gift that can be center• red on a batman creature, we aro /tot sanguine enough to expect that its more general diffusion will Mamie the number of men of genius.—P. J. B. Bucher,'