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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.
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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.
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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,"
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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,'