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The Seaforth News, 1929-12-05, Page 6Sunday School Lesson paoember 1. Lesson IX --The Chris Can Home in a Modern ' World Luke 2: 40.52. Golden Text—Hon our thy father and mother.—Eprex lane 6; 2. U ALYSIS I, THE CHILD IN THE HOME, Nut, 6: 3-0; Luke 2: 40-52; 2 Tim, 1. 5-5; 8; 14, 10. II.:SANCTITY OP HOME Her TIONS,Mat. 19; 3-9; Eph, 6; 1.9, TIT. 8ce8I':9 (3 9o:5 9(8,5 , Luke 24: 28-32. rNTRoDu eemie— Revealing glimpses of home life are not infrequent in the Bible, sometimes unatraetiva and evil, Sometimes rarely beauaiful,: always in- structive. Only a few examples can be iven here, some merely by sugges- tion rather than description in detail. There is Abraham of whom the Lord says, "I have known him t„ the end that he niay command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord," Gen, 20: 19. There is the hospitable tent- home of Jethro in Mldian where Moses, the fugitive, is welcomed, Exed. 2: 20, 21. In the home of Micah, in the hill. country of Ephraim, with his chapel, his altar, and his priest; there is real, though uninstructed, piety. In Samuel's childhood home a devoted another prays for her son. Tlie home life of Hosea is ooisoned by unfaith- fulness, but redeemed and healed by a changeless and self-denying love, Hos., chs. 2 and 3. Very memorable L. the dignity and order of the household of the virtuous woman of Proverbs (ch, 21), whose "price is far above rubies,' and whose children "rise up and call her blessed." In the New Testament, individual character stands out more prominently than social or family life, but we have frequent reference to the virtues which make a good home—kindness, purity, hospitality,humility, dilli- genre, patience, fidelity, charity. It is under the influence and power of the Lord Jesus Christ that the perfection and beauty of home life has been at- tained. Timothy's 'faith as, in seine .measure, aninheritance iron his grandmother, Lois, and his mothe, Eeriiee. Prom a child he had known the holy scrip- tures, and Paul counsels bine aifee- tionately to continue in the Leading and study of them, There is no better definition of the place and valueofthe Bible in the life of a child or it man than that given by Poul bh, 3: 14, 15. II, St1NOTITY 01' f0MA sELATioNS, Mat, 19: 3-9; Eph, 0,: 1-9. Farm Notes • Improving Herds end Flocks Ou lllustratien Stations operated by 'the I)ouilnion Department of Agricul- ture as a part of the 11181101`1111011 011 Farina System considerable attention is being directed to building no dairy Herds 011 the stations and to develop- ing good types of other livestuek. The There is ,good counsel, here regard meeerity of the.etatlon operators are ing three i;uncle:nenta Home relations, tin,ilug purebred sires and many of time that of husband and wife, dint of par dairy and mixed Farmers are keeping individual milk records and making butter -tat cletei•m(irations in order to determine the production of each ani. mai, ordained. The Jews would have in- A steely of the year's production of volved hire. if' they could in one of the milk and fat, on the different stations, controversies of the time, One of has revealed the need of tits adoption their schools, that of Shammai, taught of improved methods, In his report that a man could put away his wife for last year the Supervisor of the 11 - for serious misconduct' only. The other, r the school of Hillel, held that Le could lustration stations, Published by the '410 so for any reason, for example, Department of Agriculture at Ottawa, a spoiled dinner, or a physical defect," it is stated that the average produc, Peako's Commentary. Jesus admits tion of butter -fat varies from 408 only one sufficient cause for divorce, pouuds to 121 pounds on the different and frankly brands remarriage in any stations, Indeed, on ane of the farms other case as adultery, Matt. 19: 3.9. it was found :that the average yield On the part of children, obedience per cow was only 774 pounds of butter and honor, on the part of parents pa- tience and wise instruction—these are fat, These restate show the need, and the homely virtues to whici' Paul ex- possibilities of systematic breeding horts his readers. As for servants, he and selection. counsels honest and single-minded On many of the station the herds service to their masters, remembering and Steaks have been so built tip as to that before all else they are servants make diem valuable souroee of breed - of Christ, who will receive their recons- ing stock for the farmers in the des- purebred cockerels from stack which pease from the Lord. The attitude of tries, During the pastiyear it is noted masters toward those who serve should has produced 200 eggs or more in a be the same, forbearing threatening, by Mr. 14loynan, the Supervisor, that holding all good work in honor, rem-. the operators of Illastation Stations emboring that they, too, are servants sold 266 head of cattle, 310 hogs aud of a Master in heaven, Eph. 6: 1-9. 202 sheep for breeding purposes. III. OHaisT AT THE TAR'S, Luke 24: 28-82. The kindly hospitality of the two disciples was richly rewarded when they learned that the stranger whom they entertained vas the Lord himself. Tied to Mother's Apron onts and ohildreu, that of mastei and serva-itLecounsel in which is emulated, up the wisdom of the ages. To the mind of Jesus the relation of husband and wile is sacred and is divinely He May Be Ugly Later On -.:,r2a uae..n :n.' -a. ..,wt•,.a Jh'2U, '-:'* ♦..x..�:.s,;rz°.... s. ,,. ,..,..>,� � .+.- CAPTIVE, ADOLESCENT MOOSE SPROUTS ANTLERS Sent to Bracebridge over a•yoar ago, by T. B. 'Toughs, this moose, calf is kept in the backyard cf the hotel and has become completely domeatioated of the farms. houses have been built to accommodate 250 birds and on other farms old buildings have been remodelled, making needed improve- ments in light and ventilation. The quality 01 the stock is being gradually improved by utilising more and nioh'e I, THE CHIL) ne THE HOME, Deut, 6: 3-9; Luke 2: 40-52; 2 Tim, 1: 3-5; 3: 14, 15. The ancient law preservec. in Deuter enemy requires both that the people shall keep the commandments of God, and that they shall teach them to their children, eh, 0: 1, 2, 7.. With this good law goes the promise of the blessing of God, v. 3. With it also goes the great central truth of reli- gion, "The Lord our God is one Lord," and the summing up of all religious d'.ty in the one great commandment, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." These, therefore, are to be kept a. a sacred inheritar.ce, this fundamental thuth and this comprehensive law, and t tight to the children in the home. Apparently there is to be no excuse for neglect, and no evasion of this duty. All occasions are to be used, and both the parent and the home will be mark- ed by the symbols of its obedience, vs. 7-9. The language of these verses is probably to be understood as figur- ative. but many Jews have taken it literally and have actually worn on the arm and forehead :tripe 01 parch- ' ment on which were written v: orris of of the law, and have enclosed pieces of parchment in metal or wooden cases nailed to th' doorpost (see Matt, 23: 5). There is no doubt that Jesus as brought up in a pious home where the precepts of the ancient religion were strictly observed. He grew and waxed strong in spirit, filled with disdain, Luke 2: 40. At twelve years of ago he was taken by his parents to the springtime festival of the Passover at Jerusalem. In this story (vs. 41-50) •two things seem clear, first that he had become keenly inter,. ted in what he had learned of the temple and its wor- ship, and second, that for so young a boy he had a most devout and real interest in religion. Coming with a fresh mind to the great questions of his religious faith and practice, he seizes the opportunity to learn what he can from the temple doctors who were astonished at his understar-ding, Ab- sorbed :n this higher interest he was, for the moment, forgetflu of the day appointed to return home, +But his parents, he thought, would have known. "Wist ye not,' he said. "that I must be in my Father's House?" v. '49, Itev. Ver, Jesus is resented to us ars a healthy, normal boy, well in- structed, keenly interested in the best things, of unusual mental ability, obe- dient, and well thought of by those who knew him—a good all-round boy, owing much to a good home, We are fortunate in Iearning from Paul something of the early life of his much -beloved younger friend, Tinm- othy, whom, he says, he remeinbers in his sayers night and day. 2 Tim, 3. Strings .National Review: iii every walk of Me the influence of woman has tend- ed greatly to increase the family tie and to hold it tight long after, natural- ly, it hes ceased to exist. Young Hien who should be out in the world earn- ing, or perhaps failing to earn, their own living are to -day living at home, working in a feeble sort of way, per- haps many miles from it, and adding a ridiculously small amount to an in- sufficient family income. There is no greater cheek to emigration than the v:ill of the women of England. So far from encouraging theirr'sons to go out in search of new pastures, they will not even allow them to oto so. Curi- ously enough, woman seems to prefer her son a curly headed darling cling- ing devotedly to her ap?ou-strings rather than a man worthy of the pain with which she bore him. Save the Birds Fertilizers for Potatoes In the growing of potatoes on farms where stable manure is not plentiful commercial fertilizers of proper mix- tures may be used with advantage, To demonstrate the value of commercial fertilizers when used singly and with manure potato fields on a number of the Illustration Stations operated by the Department of Agriculture at Ole tawa were treated, in different ways, side by side, with a section receiving 20 tons of farmyard manure. to the acre. Other plots of similar land were treated with 10 tons of the manure; and 750 pounds of the feltilizer, and a third plot with 1500 pounds of chemi cal fertilizer and a fourth plot -vas left unfertilized. The fertilizer used was one made up of four parts each of nitrogen and potash, and light parts of phosphoric acid. These demonstrations were carried on for three years at eleven stations in N5va Scotia, The three year average yields were from the farmyard manure plot 201 bushels to the acre. The plots receiving manure and fertilizer 236 bushels to the acre, the plots receiv- ing only the commercial fertilizer yielded 226 bushels to the acre, while the unfertilized plots gave less than 100 bushels. Ca;ie Argils: Let us, before It is From these tests 11 was shown that too late, do all we can to preserve this the greatest gains were obtained on wonderful bird life of ours by the reservation of sanctuaries and by teaching school children to protect rather than destroy. Let us distri- bute literature in schools and Ito farmers on the economic value of birds. Why is there not a ,Chair of OrnithologY in all our univrsities? Teacher — "William the Conqueror invaded England in 10G6. How do You suppose we know that, Johnny?" Johnny—"By looking in the tele- phone book, I guess." the plots where both manure and chemical fertilizers were used. To ar- rive . at the value of these fertilizers it was calculated that 55% of the cost of tate fertilizer was charged to the potato. crop and 45% to succeeding crops. Oa this basis it was found that the increased yield cost ,4'9.73 per acre or on a bushel basis less than 8 cents. Commenting on this demoustation Mr. C. 3. Moynan, Chief Supervisor of the Illustration Stations, says in his report for 1928 that under wadi - industry' in its initial stages may well cal farm conditions it would appear! year. This work has so improved flocks as to make diem breeding, centres for the districts in which they are situ- ated. During the year under review there were. sold from these stations for breeding purposes 516 cockerels and 489 pullets. There were also sold 1631. settings of hatching eggs. — Is- sued by the Director of Publicity, Dom. Department o4 Agriculture, Ot-' tawa. .,. • The Future of Japan Fortnightly Review: From being a Dominion Status for India customer of the Meetstrinl' countries The Round Table: There are, of of the West, Japan has become a ce m- . course, many minor distinctions in- petitor; from a purchaser of mann- traduced by differences ofrace. featured goods she has become a pro- language and governnteut in tate eart- ciucer; from agriculture she is turning ons parte of India, but these all taste g inferior positions to tee fact that Do- dustiy, and from real occupations more and more to commerce and in -s 1 minion status in India means gov- erninent by Indians, while in Austra- lia it does' not -mean government be native Australians, nor in South There is Music Everywhere O, there is 'Music everywhere, An all-pervading harmony, In every sound that, stirs the air, There throbs a note of melody, ' There rolls thro' every roaring stre'2e`; The rhythm of an epic rhyme; The sounding stream' of human feet Moves on to music's pei•teot time. In every silence there are chords, Subtle end"sett as strands of rain; In sounds; akin :to song, our words Flow from our lips, a varied strain. The soul that tunes the perfect ear, Dissolves all discord into air, And in the.,,heart of thingscan hear Nothing i at music everywhere. •—J,C.IVLD. her people are migrating to the 'towns and cities for a livelihood. The whole Volcano, Quakes Alarm Planters In Costa Rica By WALTER A. oval Preparing F Ash'' Eruptions From Irazu and Mild Earth Tremors Felt Throughout Republic San. Jose, Costa Rica—lesidents o1 Cartago and outer small cities which lie at the foot cif the volcano Irazu, as well as coffee planters and datre- men who live on its slopes, are geeat-1 ly alarmed :be recent eruptiops of ashes Brom tate craters of Poste Rica's' most active volcano, and mild earth tremors which have bee felt in prac- tically the entire republic. These, 1t is believed, are caused by Irazu., Tile volcano rises to a height of. 11,500 feet above sea level, and has three craters, two of which are active. The third, although tem than 'a hun- dred yards from' its mates, has been inactive since 1910, wheneart6i- quakos caused. the activity of the oth- ers. These craters are situated In a bowl more than half a utile across, which also contains a small lake form- ed by rainfall and water draining into it. The lake is situated about tile hundred yards from the crater's. The craters of Irazu can be eached- only by a thee -hour climb ori horse- back over a trail which winds along the slopes 01 the mountain for about twenty-five kilometers, Upon reach- ing a height of approximately 10,000 feet one oats see practically the whole of this tiny republic, Limon, .wliiolt is theOaribbean part, and Puntareuas, on the Paoifio Coast, can both be seen on. a clear day. Also, the San. Juan River, which forms the boundary between' Costa Rica and Iioaragua, aqd a number of silvery lakes in the neighboring.. republic, are visible 'from the peak. Titus the only boundary of the cowl - „try not visible from the volcano is that .of Panama, the view of which is shut off by a ,range of mountains, 'some peaks of .which are slightly higher then Irazu. The. trip to the craters meet be made during the early !tours of the morning to view the surrounding country, because clouds usually form in ,the valley Hud rise to the slopes of the volcano .shortly after sunrise, and because rain frequently falls on the mountainside after noon, 'Frost social and economic fabric of the coon- Africa government -by the negroes; forms practically• every night, ata try is undergoing a process of change, nor in Canada government by Red siringshrubbery and coarse grass are while labor disputes, unemployment, Indians, To put it in a single sen- the only vegetation above an altitude shuns, and alt the other• wrell lei°w•n tewee, while everywhere else, except of 10,000 feet. concomitants of industrial revolution in the Irish Free State, Dominion It is not strange that the inhabl- are taming to .the fore. With emigre status has meant the dominance of tants of cities and plantations in the tion abroad ruled out,however, On ac men who' were originally solonist's, in vicinity of the volcano are alarmed count of differences in economic India it means the handing over of by the recent activity of Irazu. Since standards, and with her own posses- government to the Indian peoples. 1723, when the first City of Cartago slows overseas more valuable to her As.the conditions are wholly Different, was destroyed byeruptions'and strong for development by native labor es- so it is Inevitable that thee Dominion earthquakes, the countryside has sue- sisted by Japanese money and brains Status of Inllia wilt exhibit many fered on five .occasions, in 1756, 1822, than for colonization by her own sur- variations,fr'om what we call' Domin- 1831, 1888 and 1910. plus millions, Japan's main hope for ion status elsewhere. The kind of The sides et the aetive craters are solving the problem of a rapidly in- I government that is in the mind of au creasing population seems to lie in ardent member of the National. Cori-. 1 now covered with a yellowish -green the industrialization of the country, !coating of sulphur which forms from gross when he tulles of Dominion the fumes emitting from their mouths. It is to this, therefore, that she has status is probably something .wholly Inasmuch as a strong prevailing wind turned. I different to that foreshadowed' by the blows from the north, the southern Protecting Infant Industries Englishman at home when he light- ly uses the same phrase. A pntttoi- Pat objection to loose talk about such Sydney (Australia) Review:, While it would be manifestly absurd to iu- presently matters is Hutt these promises,nmoaa and pose a high tariff with a view to at- belies a be held to 5 t and beliefs as to what is to happen im- tempting to raise iu this country an mediately is India will be set going exotic fruit, it is clear that a benficial when we alle know that those beliefs probably cannot become concrete facts for generations. that soils low in fertility eau be re - need protection and au Empire econ- stored to a profitable basis by the limited use of a chemical fertilizer to supplement the necessary amount of plant food which cannot be supplied by farmyard manure, Poultry Improvement Work Illustration Stationer distributed over the country and operated under the I lets will not be closed to it by artifi- tial barriers, direction of the Experimental Farm at Ottawa, are having a fine influence on the improvement of poultry. In the Eastern Quebec stations four years ago there were only 374 purchased birds kept on the twenty stations then in operation. In the Report of the Supervisor of the stations for 1928 Autonomy For India I published by the Department of Agri - New Review: Britain has solved the culture at Ottawa, it is shown that problem of relating Irolaud and South Africa to the Empire on a basis equit- able both to England and to the popu- lations concerned. There is good rea- son to believe that the Indian prob. Rock breed. lens, more difficult because of the num- The securing of these better birds her and different kinds of people it has induced a number of the operators involves, can also be solved withoutand adjoining farmers to improve disrupting the Empire. their housing accommodation. On omit conference such as is proposed by Lord Passfield might well decide where the line should best be drawn between these two extremes, enabling each portion of tai: Umpire to produce that for which it is, by naturd most fitted with the assurance that. its mar - last year 1050 of the 1900 birds kept one twenty-two stations 'in the same part of the country were purebred and principally of the Barred Plymouth rim of to bowl is approximately 500 feet higher than any other side, caused by ashes which have settled. Trees and vegetation to te south of the crater for a distance of more than five miles are withered by the coat of volcanic ash and sulphur fumes carried by' the wind. Of all living ereatui•os mart Is the Most " ogo,tistioal, I d'on'e know whether he is the wisest and most in-. telllgent or ,..pot, but he certainly thinks Ite•is, He observes tate bloody struggle for existence among the sow called lower exam:0e with pity or eon - tempt, believing that he has 'oveT- conte that sort, Of tiling, forgetting that his own wars aro the most Hind• derous and senseless of all, Proud litst nd L,s l000fk aheadimuginaiIntoiot;liteaftituti'e, iieability conto- eiders .himself' wiser than"blue crow. more far-sighted that the ant, more , provident thlatl the bee. I wonder Is. he really is. Lately mankind, remembering, that colli weather is dile in a few weeks, has !Veen busy preparing for it, though never a. thought mayhave been given to it in August. With the first frosty days there came a feverish anxiety' to get ready for win- ter, Wardrobes were.overhauied• and furs and ovrcoats wore taken out of the oamphor trunk, Expeditions were made to the shePe for thicket' under. clothing (for the sturdier sex). New gloves and slices were purchased. Stoves and furnaces were' over- hauled, and those who had not .been sufliciently 'thrifty to lay in a supply" of coal Iu early summer began urging an early filling of their orders: Farm, ors have been getting' In their cord- wood and, the song 01 the power saw is heard in our land. The housewife has been hurrying through her late canning. Potatoes, beets, turnips,. carrots, cabbages, and onions have been harvested and stored: There are pumpkins and. winter suash is the bins and barrels of apples in the cellar.. Screens have been taken down and put away and storm win; (lows brought out, Olt, man Is quite wonderful about all this. His memory is good ands he has learned much Prom ancestors *Ito, through hardship, had to acquire this knowledge for .themselves. But he is not justified in thinking that be 10 tete only animal' capable of prepar- ing for the gold. We have, been so busy with it all that many of us ,have. failed to notice the activities of other creatures just as wise and as provid- ent as we. Long before we thought, of storm.. doors and double windows the beav- ers were filling their storebodses with edible twigs and roots and the musk - rate were busy at the brooksides and in low, swampy meadows, building their domeshaped houses. Very clever houses they are, with exits into open water and- tunnels under- groiind where -`succulent roots` furnish winter forage.. Or' they have mined long galleries and built warm nests in the river bank. A noise like the breaking of waves on a may coast is heard inside the craters, evidently aroused by the boil- ing lava. Farming on Business Lines The volcanic ashes which have set- Nineteentft Century; It is to be tied aa eke southern rim of the crat Hoped, perhaps to be expected, that- ere are packed by daily rains, whie have washed gullies in' the sofa mss r.osembling the topography of the sur ioundiug mountainous and broken countryside. improved marketing is the first stet/ to the changes necessary to bring prosperity to the countryside. For un- doubtedly "From Farm to Consumer" is the slogan of successful agriculture, not undertaken In the manner of the individual:,supplying in small quanti- ties, uanti ties, for in that wil rest no salvation. The fernier .must supply direct to the public in the cheapest way—through the shops—taoviug leis produce at the low rates used by the organisations which at the moment do this partiou- Iar work 'for him: Until tho farmer takes over : the selling and, like the successfal manufacturer, Can some- what control the price of his goods, the farming situation must remain an "Yes, indeed, is London I was pre- "agricultural crisis" constantly become sentett at court." ing mors and more serious, with brie, "What did they charge or with?"' intervals of better days, MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER h s "Does your wife object to your smoking?" `Yes' slue says we both can't afford to.' Mutt Feels a Little More Sleep Won't Hurt. The field mice, too, have been get- ting etting ready for winter. Some of them, and their cousins the white-footed wood nice, have found their way into • barns and houses, where they have been laying in stones of grain, acorns and wits. The short -tailed meadow mouse has been burrowing .clown be- low frost line and building there a nest and. storage cellar. In the woods ,Whitefoot often makes his feather -lined nest in a hollow "tree, and occasionally one will appropriate an abandoned bird's nest, which lee . roofs over and makes snug. If worst comes to worst, ' he canalways von. ture forth over the snow and harvest weed seeds or gnaw the hark of young saplings. All the squirred tribe has been In- dustrious,. the, 'chipmunks making their tunnels and subterranean dwell- ings under old stone . walls and in such protected places. They began storing oats in August and have been harvesting nuts for a month. The red squirrel or chickaree bas also been liniwg his nest, sometimes under a dead tree stump, and though ho has seemed to play more than he worked, he has managed to store plenty of hickory nuts. The big gray squirrels, however, have been corrupted by mall. ,They are ,more inclined to, live from hand .to mouth and to,. depend' on what they eau pick up -around fire farms and towns during the in They are ingenious and accomplished thieves, , The raccoon has been putting 'Ott. a few extra layers of fat to help him. through the frozen months, but he often wakes 09 and goes hunting.' over the ;snow. The same is true of. the skunk. The woodchuck, blow ever, fattens himself prodigiously and then goes to sleep in his den un- til Michaelmas Day. Very busy they have alt been, and /their fur has become fine and thick. Next spring th will come' forth a little thin and hungry, but no more eager for the now growth than we are ourselves. We are very much.like these other auitn.ies after all. It is but on()callus ore evidence of thio kinship that ts between us and the nest of creation, Egotistical man, niay Ignore talose humble kinsfolk hut` they exist nevertheless. 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Some of them, and their cousins the white-footed wood nice, have found their way into • barns and houses, where they have been laying in stones of grain, acorns and wits. The short -tailed meadow mouse has been burrowing .clown be- low frost line and building there a nest and. storage cellar. In the woods ,Whitefoot often makes his feather -lined nest in a hollow "tree, and occasionally one will appropriate an abandoned bird's nest, which lee . roofs over and makes snug. If worst comes to worst, ' he canalways von. ture forth over the snow and harvest weed seeds or gnaw the hark of young saplings. All the squirred tribe has been In- dustrious,. the, 'chipmunks making their tunnels and subterranean dwell- ings under old stone . walls and in such protected places. They began storing oats in August and have been harvesting nuts for a month. The red squirrel or chickaree bas also been liniwg his nest, sometimes under a dead tree stump, and though ho has seemed to play more than he worked, he has managed to store plenty of hickory nuts. The big gray squirrels, however, have been corrupted by mall. ,They are ,more inclined to, live from hand .to mouth and to,. depend' on what they eau pick up -around fire farms and towns during the in They are ingenious and accomplished thieves, , The raccoon has been putting 'Ott. a few extra layers of fat to help him. through the frozen months, but he often wakes 09 and goes hunting.' over the ;snow. The same is true of. the skunk. The woodchuck, blow ever, fattens himself prodigiously and then goes to sleep in his den un- til Michaelmas Day. Very busy they have alt been, and /their fur has become fine and thick. Next spring th will come' forth a little thin and hungry, but no more eager for the now growth than we are ourselves. We are very much.like these other auitn.ies after all. It is but on()callus ore evidence of thio kinship that ts between us and the nest of creation, Egotistical man, niay Ignore talose humble kinsfolk hut` they exist nevertheless. He may ,15- nore thole, but if he does he mt , es a wonderful feeling of relationship withal! life, te claritYing sense of his own place in the universe, a better realization of what life is and west it means, I cannot help fooling. 80tn0- tluics that the mai wile closes 1110 eyes and'atops hie ears hi the pros - once of all bh,ls marvelous life, and thinks of himself as the sole %te11t+ ^'Ant and sentient inhabitant of "the; wfJt'ldd is nom Onr �+nehoW shutting a door betwneeumn. b h1Aul6imllats. slid rile Creator.--