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Sunday School.
Lesson
January 26. Lesson IV—Standards-of
the Kingdom—Matthew 5: 3-9, 17-20,
43.48. Golden Text—Blessed are the
pure in heart: for they shall see
God. -Matthew 5: 8.
ANALYSIS
1. THE BEATITUDES, 3-9.
II. JESUS AND OLD LAW, 17-20.
III. Tem New LAW OF LOVE, 43-48.
INTRODUCTION --Having seer that
Jesus came to proclaim the kingdomof
,heaven, we now pass on the study
in detaill of some of he principles of
this teaching. The Sermon on the
Mount is the mostfamous of all ser-
mons.: Other discoveries pass and are
foegotten, but this great pronounce-
ment is as fresh today as when it was.
uttered, It contains much of the.finest
teaehinaof Jesus, insomuch that some
people will say that if we can only live
according to the precepts of this Irian,
we shall be perfect. This is, as it
were, the ethical program of Chris-
tianity.
1. TAE BEATITUDES, 3.9.
Vs. 3-5. The beatitudes describe the
kind of blessedness, or happiness,
which the true Christian is to obtain,
and they tell of the conditions which
underlie these blessings, It is not
easy to give a very clear division; but
in a more or less rough way, we may
divide them into three groups. The
first, given in vs. 3-5, deal with the
outward conditions in which men may
find themselves. Many of these to
whom Jesus was preaching were poor
and anxious and destitute. They olid
not belong to the rich or comfortable
liass. Many ha deep sorrow, and
ttle to eefi f5rt theta, These itfght
naturally say that here wad no chance
for then, in the kingdom of God. They
were inclined to regac'd their poor eon-
eition as a sign of divine disapproval.
If Jesus had no message for this plass,
he would not be a world -Saviour; for
the poor and troubled always form a
large majority of the population.
Jesus does not say that poverty is, in
itself, a blessing.Blessing may come
in spite of the poverty and sorrow.
For life does not consist in the abun-
dance of natural possessions. The joy
that Jesus brings therefore, is Inde-
pendent of worldly wealth.
Vs. 6-9. This second group brings us
from outward to inward conditions;
and we are told that there can be .-o
tree happiness unless the heart is
Tight with our neighbor and with God.
There must be righteousness, and pur-
ity and peace. If the mind and heart
be set upon worldly things, and if
there are wrong desires and ambitions,
then there is no divine presence, 'i .o
loee
Vs. 10, 11. We should includethethird group also in our lesson,, since
this is the crown of all. Life without
some great object, some goal some
passion, is not at its best. And Jesus
says that the noblest of all passions
is love for himself. Ile calls people to
sacrifice for his sake, and in the glow
of joy which conies from close friend-
ship with him there is that which tbe
world cannot give or take away. Study
these suggestive words, "for any
sake."
31. JESUS AND OW LAW, 1720.
V. 17. Jesus would inevitably en -
coveter opposition from those who did
not name with much of his teaching.
To them it was revolutionary, seeming
to oppose the traditions of the Fath-
ers, We gather from this verse that
this opposition had become vocal, from
which we conclude that this sermon
was not given until his mission had
advanced some distance. His, enemies
bad said that he was opposing the law.
Accordingly Jesus says that be has not
come` to destroy either the raw or the
for the first time, puts f el one,
n earring
into the law.
V. 10. If any one teaches that the
commandments have lost their binding
fntc., or if any one teaches the bind-
ing nature of the connnandment. l+ut
does not keep then himself, as these
Pharisees were liken doing. the, emelt
could net tel ng to his kingdom.
V. 20. Jesus is wilting to have his
"leaching tested by the .tale of cerulea,:
and if hie followers do not s.how a bet-
ter result than ethers, he will regard
them as unfit for the kingdom. JWe
might put the word "gamine in
place if "rightecusrevs," and thus
understated hie statement as a chal-
lenge to his disciples to show that
their goodness surpasses that of the
scribes.
III. rsza NEW LAW OF LOVE; 43-48.
V. 43. The verses that intervene
are given to specific exannnle.e of the
way in which Jesus reads a new mean-
ing into old legislation; and we now
have the last of these, the law of love.
We, do not find the actual words in the
Old Testament, advocating hatred of
our enemies (sea Lev. 19: 19), but the
rabbis had conetuded from this pan -
age that there were no obligations
concerning those who were outside the
chosen race of Israel. It this nar
ro}v., national spirit' ,which Jeeus at-
tacks. Itis the privilege, and duty of
the dieeiple of Jesus to 'regard , all
classes as his frineds.
V, 45. To do this is to do what God
does, who gives his blessings to all
people.
V. 46. If they love only their friends
they aro no .better than those who were
looked upon as belonging tothe most
forsaken class, the publicans. For
these people also loved their friends.
V. 47. In loving their enemies they
are becoming perfect, since they are
getting mord: and more like God.
News on Africa
Describes Country Where Ant
Hills Are 25 Feet in
Ant hills 25 feet high and as much
as 50 feet in diameter are to be found'
distributed through many parts of
Rhodesia, Dr. J. Austen Bancroft,
formerly Dawson professor of geology
at McGill University and now con-
sulting geologist for a large mining
company in Rhodesia, said in describ-
ing the country In which he is now
employed in finding tremendous de-
posits of valuable ores, The subject
of bis talk was "Mineral Deposits in
Northern Rhodesia." In the course
of the lecture he told many interest-
ing things about the general nature
of the country welch was kept for the
British through the tar -sighted states-
man,- Rhodes, tom whom the coun-
fly 'gee its nanee
Though the fauna of Rhodesia will
eventually disappear, the land is still
a great resort for big game hunters.
Tbougb there are still a large num-
ber of lions in Rhodesia, these have
learned to save their hides by keep-
ing out of sight. One may travel 400
miles across the wildest parts of the
country and not sight a lion, though
their unfinished feasts will be visible,
Dr. Bancroft stated. The buffalo is
perhaps the most dangerous animal.
When wounded be becomes danger-
onsly vindictive, following his attack-
er for miles ready to charge at some
unexpected moment and secure what
is undoubtedly a well-planned re-
venge.
TO BE REMEMBERED
When we realize that every liberty,
every privilege, every advantage that
eomes to us as men and Women has
been bought with a price—that the
dark, subterranean lives of those who
toil day and night in the bowels of
the earth, the perils and hardships of
those who sail to and fro on the
stormy seas, the benumbing weari-
ness of those who dig and ditch and
handle dirt, the endless tending of
Seems and plying of needles and car-
rying of burdens—
the det'ee confederate storm
00 sorrow barricaded evermore
Within the walls of cities—
all this is done and endured and set
fered by our fellowmen, though blind-
ly, for our benefit, and accrues to our
advantage—when we begin to under-
stand this, a nobler spirit enters into
us, the only spirit that can keep our
wealth, our freedom, our culture from
being a curse to us for ever, and
sinking us into the ennui of a selfish
hell. --Dr. H. Van Dyke,
'tli-'icii.;ry—"I've come to do you
good."
Cannibal—"Toa can't do it; I'm on
a diet;'
"S'hoelemeters and schoolmis-
tresses have to deal with Ignorant
children on ern side and with ignor-
ant educational authorities on tee
otber."--Bertrand Russell.
Is it necessary that one should due
ti, Prove that be is sincere; Aristide
Briand.
"It is not neede but markets that
contend theattention of statesmen.'
--Clevence Darrow.
Scene off Montreal, showing old sailing ships used by British,
of Mr. Samuel's collection.
drawn on
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pot by one of aides in 1758, One
Mahatma Gandhi
India's 380,000,000 natives in the hol-
low of hisalm n
P can urea onlyIre
o
,thing—that the National agitation Inas
elements of Indian agitation arm pro-
foundly self -deceived by Irish preced-
ents which could only lead them to
The Stormy Petrel' itself acquired a momentum which theigantic disasters." If the congress
moderate can not now check, says the at Lahore were truly representative
New York Herald Tribune, adding: of all India 'sa
Indian Affairs are Receiving s the London Sunday y
Times, the resolution demanding com-
Serious Consideration plete independence would be the
from the Press the d i gravest event Since the 'mutiny of
World Over 1857, but it adds:
WORRYING JOHN BULL
"In point of fact the Congress is
"A year ago Mr. Gandhi was .plead-
ing for caution; he assented to the
errand for dominion status only to
avoid more radical action. Now he,
himself, is .forced to detrital(' hide
pendence; once more, it is said, to
forestall the more impetuous leaders
who would otherwise take the situm
tion from his hands. It is the old
difficulty of 'nationalistic agitation
that once it is started it can not be
controlled. However narrow May be
The recent bombing of the railway its popular base, however unwise its
train carrying Lord Irwin, Viceroy of claimsmight.prov e, or however dam -
India, we are told, was a feeble ex- aging to the masses In whose name
plosion in comparison to that set off
nothing of the kind. 'It is composed
of some thousands of unrepresenta-
India's demand for self-government, tive Indians whose brains, have been
the correspondents agree, has taken fermented with ideas of Western de-
on a new form that threatens to put mocracy. It is not "even popularly
tbe British Government in' a tight elected. -Even if all shades of Indian
Place political opinion -were represented in
it the Congress would still remain
hopelessly unrepresentative of India,
nine -tenths of the population of which
are illiterates not caring a fig for
politics."
That the Liberal party of India, at
least, has no use for the radicalism of
the Gandhi Nationalists is indicated
by a dispatch from Madras to the
New York Times, December 30, say-
ing.
"The National Liberal Federation
here to -day denounced the policy of
independence advocated by tbe Na-
tionalist Congrss at Lahore. The
Liberals passed a -resolution cordially
welcoming the Viceroy's announce-
ment regarding India's ,future,"
Fortune of War
Ethel Mannan in the London Even-
ing Standard (Ind, Cons.): It is far
easier for women to get jobs and to
make money today than for men to
do so. For men jobs of any kind,
by Mahatma Gandhi when he an-
nouuced before the Ali -India Nation-
alist Congress at Lahore that he and
the claims are raised, the agitation
takes on a reality of its ewn, end the
leaders are hurried down the steep
slope of measures which It »tight be
other Indian leaders had abandoned difficult to justify on any rational
their stand' for a dominion status, and basis of policy."
would henceforth be satisfied with
nothing short of absolute independ-
ence for India,
The next day the executive com-
mittee, by a vote of 134 to 77, voted
to submit to the conference a resolu-
tion demanding independence from
the British Empire, And when the
2,000 native delegates assembled for to reporton the degree of sellgov-
their first full session on December eminent that might safely be entrust-
29, they listened with tumultuous ed to India's medley of races and re-
cheers to a speech in which the fiery* ligions, but the report of that com-
young president, Jawaharlal Nehru,I mission bas not yet been made public.
announced: "We are now in con- ThI's investigation was started by the
spiraey to free India"—by peaceful. last Conservative Ministry, but the
means, if possible, he added, but by Labor Government of Prime Minister
war if necessary. ( Ramsay MacDonald has renewed all
Thea big tent where this occurred preceding pledges and reiterated' the still less remunerative poste and big
presented a wonderful sight, the cot: promise that India shall have domin- appointments, are desperatelyscarce,
respondents declare. 'Phe event had, ion status in time. But the Nation- whilst for women they open up on
drawn eighty thotfsand visitors to La-,alists, becoming impatient, have now every hand, and the number of wo-
here. Thousands squatted outside adopted a policy which, as one lis- men .earning g salary, or making in
on khaddar or homespun cloth spread'
over straw on the ground, and the
sides of the tent were decorated with
manners bearing mottoes such as
"Swaraj (home rule) will drive a nail
in the Boffin of the British Empire."
When the national flag 09 green, red,
and white stripes was ran up on the
sixty -foot pole before tee tent, the
Associated Press tells us, the throng,
shouting "Long live the revolution!"
broke through the police cordon and.
swarmed toward the platform, caus-
ing such a crusbi that several Hien
fainted. On the same authority we
read:
"Mahatma Gandhi, long a leader of
the Nationalist movement, lea the
flght against the proposed dominion
status in rhe British Empire, and in-
troduced non -co-operative measures to
enforce the Congress party demands
for independence. These included
refusal to attend the round-table'con-
ference called to tweet in London to
discuss the political situation in In-
dia, and avored boycott of the Cen-
tral and Provincial legislatures with
authorization fee as program of civil
disobetlience and non-payment of
taxes when the committee thinks it
advisable."
The altered attitude of Nr, Gandhi,
who is supposed to hold one-third of.
The All -India' Conference last year,
the Associated Press reminds us,
adopted a resolution calling for a
campaign of "civil disobedience" it
dominion status was not granted to
India by the end of 1929. The•Brit-
ish Government sent a distinguished
oommission'headed by Sir John Simon
patch puts it, "seems certain to (teal
a crippling and perhaps a fatal blow
to the whole British policy of con-
stitutional reform in India." Accord-
ing to a United Press correspondent
at Lahore:
"Mahatma. Gandhi's program in-
cludes the calling of an extraordinary
session of the Congress next Febru-
ary, with attendance limited to 1,000
influential delegates sworn to pro-
claim 'civil disobedience' of British
rule, Such action, it is expected, will
force the Government to declare the
Congress an unlawful body, and ar-
rest tree delegates. Thereupon
Gandhi will mobilize another . 1,000
with the same result, continuing the
program until the Government or the
Congress breaks."
That John Bull is somewhat dis-
turbed—especially by the threat of an
Indian boycott on English goods-
was indicated by an immediate waver-
ing the price of cotton at Liverpool,
wtdch in turn affected New Rork.
J. L. Garvin, writing in the London
Sunday Observer, declares that the
Nationalists of India are deliberately
copying the methods used by the Sinn
Fein leaders In Ireland a dozen years
ago, even to adopting "The Wearing
of the Green" as their fleeting song.
I3e acids, however: "'Phe Sinn Fein
businesses of their own, a thousand
pounds a year: and mote is steadily if
slowly being .added to, botb here and
in America, . . . It is especially
embittering for men that all the op-
portunities for moneymaking and
commercial success generally, which
have resulted from the upheaval of
the war, have gone, not to the mon
who fought, but to the' women who,
stayed home, and those not the wo-
men who were calledeupon to sacri-
fice sons and husbands either, but to
that younger generation of women—
my Own generation—who were school
girls in 1914, and whom the "lar
touched but lightly.
,Cldpop—"How did you sleep bast
night"
Newpop—"Between walks."
British Empire is !Sir William Clark
League in Itself
Success of Commonwealth
Proof of Practicability
$ays Smuts
New 'York—The British Empire as
a precedent for the League of Na-
tions was held out by General Jan
Christian Smuts, former Premier of
South Africa,- speaking at a monster
dinner here:, In the Empire, he
pointed 'out, one quarter of the pgpu'
]anon of the world, representing all
races, colors and creeds, were living
together in pease with no army or
navy required to enforce it.
Ile asked •why this condition could
not .be extended to the whole world.
The dinner was a part of the: cele-
brations arranged in the United States
for the tenths anniversary of the
founding of the League. Some 32
organizations interesting themselves:
in securing the entry of this country
Into the League, participated.
The British Empire of to -day, the
General said, was nothing else but a
League of Nations in itself. The only
way to secure perpetual peace was
by applying the same idea on a larger
scale. The success 09 the Empire is
proof of its practicability.
General Smuts said bre mission was
not to engage 1n propaganda for the
League, but merely to lay the facts
before thepeople in the United
States. In not more than ten years
he predicted . the whole human race,
including Russia, would berepresent-
ed at the Council table of the League.
"It would be a- very serious and
very tragic •thing," he went on, "if,
when all the nations of the world
gather there, the seat of the founder
and inspirer should remain vacant."
Tribute to Wilson
In this and other references he paid
tribute to the late President Woodrow
Wilson as one of the main forces in
bringing the League into existence.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson occupied a
seat of honor next to General Smuts.
The United States, he pointed .out,
was bound to enter into international
conferences whether within or with-
out
kithout the League, The pact of Paris
required it. In this way the method
of conference for disposing o inter-
national disputes would become itui-
versai and once this carie about
peace would be guaranteed without
fail
A gradual disappearance of opposi-
tion to the League in the United
States was noted by John W. Davis,
who presided. 'Tbere was not one
responsible person in the country
MOW, he said, who would say the Lea-
gue was dead, was a failure or should
he revised, •
Russia and Religion
London Morning Post (Cons.): To
resume relations with Soviet Russia
and to give free entry to her repre-
sentatives and agents has always
seemed to us a monstrous folly from
a political point of view. There is,
however, a considei'atioa far stronger.
Soviet Russia is the avowed and im-
placable enemy of the Christian faith
-of any form of religion whatsoever.
The intention is clear and unashamed.
Religion must be destroyed' not Only
in Russia bet throughout the world
in order' that the social, economic and
political theories of Bolshevism may
take root and flourish. Religion is
first to be destroyed in order that the
world rovo1utlon may follow.
In h strialized Western
Canada
Victoria Thnes (Lib.) : Throughout.
the West during the year 1929 there
has been a very satisfactory expansion
in industrial development covering all
lines of manufacturing which pertain
to the West, and it has been a year in
which new industries producing
articles not hitherto manufactured
have been estabiished—another year
gf investigation into trade possibilities,
bringing ihto the West many repre-
sentatives of important. organizations,
from which have resulted' new agen-
ies, new expansion and new and at-
motive prospects for the future,
"Theman of fifty has usually come,
to terms With the world and the devil
and is suffering from fatty degenera-
tion or sclerosis of the conscience."—
Dean Inge.
MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER
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11-7
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Asks Co-operation
High Commissioner Urges
Study of Empire Trade,
by Manufacturers
AVOID COMPETITION,
Hamilton, Onto ---Study of the ques-
tion 'how manufacturers in different.
parts of the British Empire can best
work together, was 'recommended by,
Sir William 'Clark, British High Com—
missioner to `Canada, in addressing .al
dinner at the Canadian Club here re
d'ently,
Although no one expected the Do-
minions deliberately to retard their'
own progress in the interest of Great
Britain -it would not be to the n-lti
mate Merest of the Mother Country
for" them 50 to do—Sir William'
thought Empire manufacturers should
study how they can best avoid um,
necessary competition with 'one
another's special products; ' how,
they can eo-operate for getting the,
best out of the markets of the Em-
pire and, "beyond' that, for joint at-
tacks on markets in other lands."
"Co-operation is not perhaps quite•
so difficult as it may sound," Sir Wile -
Ham said. "No manufacturing conte
try, however diversified its production,.
is ever wholly self-supporting. Ger
many, before the war, then our most
dangerous Industrial competitor, leas
also the second largest importer of
British goods. The United States,
now I suppose the largest 'industrial
producers in the world, is ' also our'
third best customer to -day. Every,
country has its special aptitudes, its;
special .facilities; much of ,their re-
spective production can dovetail, eo•
to speak, lute one another's without
conflict of interest, It is a question
which requires expert study by those
who know industry from within, a'.
study in rationalization on a large
scale with the "'hole Empire as tbe
basis:'
Sir William said he noted the busi-
ness men of Canada bad formed a
committee to consider the questions at
Empire trade in relation to the Fortin
coming Imperial economic conference,
anil British chambers of eommerce
bad taken the same step. "There
should be no better guarantee for
the success, of 'tbe conference," be
added, "and I hope in one form or an-
other the subject of which I have,
spoken will receive some oe the con
sideation of those committees, whieli
are committees of experts in the fulls
est and best sense of the word."
Declaring men were taking' a' larger
and broader viemy, with. less self -inter
eft than prevailed during the last cen-
tury, Sir William said no good could
come to codntry or to Empire by run-
ning a business into losses or throw-
ing away good trade. tut it was
possible too to look beyond the limits
of the immediate affair; to think in
terms not merely of ovhat was easiest
and perhaps ac little more profitable
now, but to recall, as he had endeavor-
ed to show, "that in the long run front
the purely business standpoint each:
one of our peoples is deeply concern
-
(I in the prosperity of the other mem-
bers of the commonwealth; and bear-
ing these things in mind, to try in
the every day wont of businese man-
agement to do a little ErPlre heed-
ing as well." .
Trial Careers or Marriages?
Regina 1, Woody in Plain Talk: I
feel sure that trial careers would
avert many more divorces than com-
panionate marriage ever will; and
that the resulting knowledge of what
she was actually worth in dollars and
cents to the business world would
more surely convey the yet unrealized
knowledge to many a frivolous eve -
man who threatens to leave home foe
a "career" that business is not all
pleasure and that the odde in mar-
riage for women always have been,
and always will be, two to one in `
favor of her happiness. . It is
the false glamor of ease and excite-
ment surrounding success which so
often blinds the uninitiated to the
actual amount of work involved andl
whieh leads manyan immature young
wife into believing that a "career" is,
all play, while marriage, due to her,
own disillusionment, seems -to her,
merely a dreary round of hard labor.
Prev,ous contact with a career would
most surely teach her that in both
business and marriage work is fairlee
evenly divided, and lead her to real;
ize along with Stevenson, that "to
travel hopefully is better than to ar-
rive, and that the true success is te
labor:'
English Manners
Mary Borden in Harper's Magee
zine (New York) : In England people,
care' less about good manners than
good form. The English people are
in general too insensitiveand too
lacking in curiosity to have really,
'geed manners; for the lack of cunt:
carry means lack of sympathy and a
wide indifference to what othersfeel
or think. Being very modest people,
or, what is 'the same thing„ exces-
sively proud but not vain, and with,:
an intense positive dislike for shove
ing off, their manners on the whole
are better than one might expect; for
though they don't care a rap abort
pleasing, they don't care either about
showing thou' displeasure, and sq,
probably they show little or no sign
of any kind, Indifference is than
prime social quality; that t(lees not
make for the 'gaiety of nations' goes
witbout saying,