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The Seaforth News, 1930-02-20, Page 7SundaySchool Lesson February 16. Lesson Vtl—Jesus Heal ing and Helping—Matthew 9: 1,13 Golden Text—Himself took our In firmitles and bare our slcknes.— Matthew 8: 17. ANALYSIS 1. THE HEALING OF, THE MAN WITH PARALYSIS, ch. 9: 1-8, IL THE ,...ALL OF MATTHEW, c 9: 9=23, INTRODUCTION—The' method adopt- ed in Matthew is that of grouping the materials presented to the readers so a. to set forth the greatness of the power and personality of Jesus, After the Sermon on the Mount we come to the different stories at the remark- able works of Jesus, revealing his` compassion and authority. 1. THE HEALING OB' THE MAN WITH PARALYSIS, ch. 9: 1-8. V. 1. Another of the journeys which Jesus had made through Galileo is over, and he returns to Capernaum, which had been his headqualrtees. He 'wishes to find time for rest and for the instruction of his disciples: But the report soon goes abroad that he is back, and there is greater eagerness to see and hear. him. V. 2. The faith which is here men- tioned can be better understood by reading the narrative in Mar' 2: 11, 12, and Luke 5: 18-26. Several of the sick man's friends bed determined to bring him to this new healer, and v :,en the crowd was so great that they could' net enter, they had gone to the roof of the house and Iet down the bed in front of Jesus. This effort was the result of -their firm faith that If Jesus could only meet their friend, all: would be well Faith is trusting the goodness and power of Christ. Jesus looks upon this sick man and tells him not to be afraid, sinse his sins are forgiven. This was hardly the treatment that was expected, since to all outward appeal ance thttrouble was in the body. However, Jesus had looked deeper, and he saw that the rplan wa3 troubled ab,.ut his soul, and that the burden of his sins was rest- ing heavily upon him. His conscience Lad been stirred, and the longing for a better life had been started. How could there be any ileace as long as this inner struggle with si' fives con- tinuing? Forgiveness, and the assur- lance of the divine love, were what the poer man really needed,' and so Jesus gives him this greatest' of all blessings. . V. 3. But Jesus has his foes, who are ever on the watch, and they now. heap scorn upon his winds. They evi- dently suggest that it is a simple thing to tell a man that his sins are orgiven, since no one can test its truthfni,.ess. There is no change in the body to indicate' that a change has taken place. Besides that, it is,'they say, the special privilege of God to forgive sin, and it is, therefore, blas- phemy for a gran to assume this power. V. 5. Jesus reads their sceptical and critical thoughts, and wishes to make everything clear. He asks them whe- ther it is easier to say, "Thy sins be forgiven thee," or to say, "Arise and walk." Of course it is easier to say, "Thy sine be forgiven. since none can tell whethee-it is fulfilled or not; but if one says, "Rise and walk," then, unless the patient does, this the heal- er's reputation is gone. V. 6. Jesus -vorks the miracle on the man's body in order toconvince them that his claire over the spiritual na- ture is. valid. One who can heal thus wonderfully must have been authority to forgive sins. V. 7. We do net wonder that the people -were greatly astonished, but probably they did not realize that the greatest object which Jesus had in view was to give this mangy not only a healthy body, but also a pure heart. I1.: THE CALL OP MATTHEW, ch, 9:..9.13. of Jests, bitterly attacking him for this brealdng of the 'sec' d custom of his nation. To eat with outcasts was an unheard-of indignity. V. 12. Jesus defends his liberal treatment 'of tars c1as, with an appeal to the example.of a physician. It is professional defence. .A 'doctor does not go to people who are in .sdund health, and who have no need of his skill, Those only will take his »deice who are out of health, and who feel their need of a cure. It is so also with Jesus. These Pharisees thitk that they are morally .nd spirittar.'.ly whole. They do not heed , any one to help diem. Therefore, Jesus must go to those who will appreciate the bless- ings which he has to give. V. 13. Jesus further defends him self by reminding them of the scrip ture,which shows that God looks, not for mere ritual service, but for mercy and goodness. The first of all laws is the law of love; and these poor, neg- leeted sinners, are they not.nrost in need of love? To be kind is to win the divine favor. V. 9. This is the call of the man whose name is associated with this gospel, ansi it shows how unconven- tional were many of the method's of Jesus. Matthew belonged to-, S yery nnpepular, class of people, The tart gatherer 1s never very much liked. Out in Palestine, at this period, the burden of taxes was very heavy, and the common people were oppressed by grievous exactions. It is no wonder that the publican, or tax -gatherers were a marked ° class, and that they were ruled out of most respectable so- ciety. The•publicaes were associated with the sinners, see Matt. 11: 19; Luke 15: 1. When Jesus proposed to select one out of this .despised folk for his intimate friend, it called forth the scorn and contempt among the reli- gious classes. V. 11. It 'would seem strange to us • of uninvited guests were. to en x Louse of another man and talk fa- miliarly with those Who are present, Tut this was quite common in the east - The Pharisees evidently came in arid . began to 'converse with the disciples Roseooe W. Ball General .Superintendent of the West- ern Lines, Canadian National,'Tele- graphs, whose' appointment as chief of the newly -formed commercial de- partment of the telegraph company has been announced by W. G. Barber, General Manager of the Canadian National Telegraphs. Mr. Ball will have jurisdiction throughout the sys- tem in regard to commercial affair's. His headquarters will be at Toronto.. The Voices of Our Dead From the depths of the sea there ' cometh a sigh, From the mountains eometh a moan, From the forests of France a frantic cry, From the sky a shriek, a groan. 'Tor what did we die?" these voices ask, "Why saerified life's emprise? ,Must we forever behind death's mask Be mocked by falsehood and lies? "Will never to us come the rest of Peace? Must Time's ` fruition be dust? Will the day never come when hor- rors shall cease, And swords and spears shall gnat? Oh, ye who still hold life's' emprise, And guide humanity's trend, Regard our nroaninge and our sighs, So strife and war shall end." —Oliver Hezzelwood. • "When one ;loses a leather grip it's a case of hide and seek." ADAMSON'S .ADVENTURES—By 0. Jacobsson Science Will Save Mankind From War America's Most Renowned Scientist Says, "It Will Also Keep the Race from Overcrowding • and Starvation" Dr, James Laver, in London Chronicle A prediction that science will save the world from war and its future in- habitants from starvation, was made by Dr. Robert A. Milliken, world- famed physicist, who, it will be re- membered, Is a former Nobel Prize winner, in his presidential address before the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Only a short cabled account was sent to this country and we quote, therefore, the speech as It appears in the New York Times. Speaking on the alleged sins of science, Dr. Milliken took' up one by one the outstanding accusations against scientific research, and to each of them, on behalf of science, pleaded not guilty, He denied that science is materialistic. To the charge that soience has multiplied the .tools of destruction; that she has made war more deadly, more horibie and less heroic than it used to be, Dr. Milliken replied that every scientific advance "finds ten times as many new, peaceful and con- structive uses as it finds destructive ones." "Explosives and fertilizers are basically the same, and even expib- slves find a dozen peaceful uses to one warlike one,' he said, 'Public thinking is misled by the fact that a horror makes better news than a wheat crop. One man blown pain- lessly to atoms gets more news space than a thousand men dying by inches from disease.' Peaceful Arts Exceed Warlike "'Steel does -indeed make bayonets, but it also makes plowshares and railroads and automobiles and sewing machines and threshers and a thous- and other things. whose uses consti- tute the strongest existing diverter of human energies from the destruc- tive to the peaceful arts, "'In my judgment, war is now in process of being abolished, chiefly by, this relentless advance of science, its most powerful enemy. It has existed in spite of religion, and in spite of philosophy, and in spite of social ethics, and in spite of the Golden Rule, since the daysof the cave man because in accordance with the evo- lutionary philosophy of modern science and simply because it has had' survival valuer "'It will disappear like the dino- saur when, and only when, the condi- tions which have given it survival value have disappeared, and those conditions are disappearing now, primarily because of changes in the world situation being brought about by the growth of modern science: "To the charge against science that 'she has deadened arid routinized la- bor' and taken away the joy of crafts- manship, Dr. Milliken replied: Science Has, Freed Man "'A superficial glance at Mr. Ford's factory might seem to justify it, but to the man who can see beyond his nose it is a different picture that un- folds itself-' "'As I' read history, the machine age has actually freed, educated and inspired mankind, not enslaved it. Routine labor plays a part in all our lives, and an attractive part, too, it it ie not overdone and if there is leisure far something else. "'Even the few routine men who feed the machines in Mr. Ford's fac- tory are less routinized and have shorter hours by far than the dumb. agricultural drudge who hoed pota- toes for twelve hours a day, through all the history of the world before the machine age appeared.' "'Looked at in the large, I do not think there can be the slightest ques- tion that the only hope this world has of maintaining in the future a suitable btiiance between population and food supply is found in science,' "'That, in the last analysis, is man- kind's greatest problem. Its solation alone, and there are the best reasons for believing that in the long run it can be solved, is sufficient to warrant the fullest stimulation of both the biological and the, physical sciences that can in any way be brought about.' "Sub -Atonic" Forces Denied "The charge that science is 'giving Children matches to play with' by pre- paring to tap 'enormous stores of subatomic' energy which weak, ignor- ant, confused, sometimes visions man has not the moral qualities to control and direct to useful ends,' a charge, as he admitted made by scientists themselves, was declared by Dr. Mil- liken to be without foundation,' "'Science regards it as her chief function to deter men from over- hasty conclusions, though she does not always gueceed even with her de- votees; her influence, nevertheless, is' always to constrain men to replace panicky, emotional acting by reflec- tive, informed, rational acting. The great world explosions, including the World War, have been mental, not physical. She would ask you then to Withhold your judgment until all the available evidence is in.' "'Now the new evidence born of new scientific students is to the 'ef- feat that it is highly improbable that there is any, appreciable amount of available sub -atomic energy for man 'to, tap anyway; in other words, that henceforth men who are living in, fear lest some bad boy among the scient- ists may some clay touch oft the fuse and blow this comfortable earth of ours to star -dust, may go home ani henceforth sleep in peace with the consciousness that the Creator has put some fool -proof elements into His handiwork, and that man is powerless to. do it any titanic physical damage anywa•y.' Regrets "Craze for the New" "Dr. Milikan admitted that there is, however, 'one regrettable tendency in modern life for' which science is probably to some extent at least, re- sponsible. "'I refer to the craze for the new regardless of the true, to the demand for change for the sake of change, re- gardless of consequences, to the pre- sent-day widespread worship of the bizarre, to the cheap extravagance and sensationalism that surround us on every side, as evidenced by our newspapers, our magazines, our nov- els, our drama, our art in many of its forms, our advertising and even our education: "Regarding these as 'transient ac- companiments of the stupendous rate of change that modern science and its applications have forced on mode ern life,' and believing that what he termed the present spirit of revolt 'is in part an inevitable reflex of the rapid changes taking place in our times because of the rapid growth of science,' Dr. Milliken said he was 'not greatly disturbed by this' "'The actual method by which science makes its changes is becom- ing better understood,' he said. '"The demand for the I.aner pope - lar books upon it is continually in- creasing. The remedy is, in part at least, in understanding' it better.' "'As soon as the public learns, as it is slowly learning, that science, uni- versally recognized as the basis of our civilizaztion, knows no such thing as change for the sake of change; as soon as the public learns that the. method of science is not to discard the past, but always to build upon it; as soon as it discovers that in science truth once discovered always remains truth; in : a word, that evolution, growth, not revolution, is its method,, it will, I hope, begin to banish its craze for the sensational, forthe new regardless of the true, and thereby atone for one of the sins into which the very rapid growth of science may have tempted it." MUTT AND JEFF By BUD FISHER Tasty Recipes Artichoke Soup Required: Two pounds of arti- chokes, three onions, one' pint of milk, and one. pint of water. Wash well,.peel, and cut up the artichokes, then boil for one hour with three thinly sliced onions. Season with pepper and salt to taste, add one tea- spoonful of sugar, then put through a sieve. Add then the pint of milk, a little whipped cream or a knob of but- ter, Heat up again in readiness to serve and add some chopped parsley before serving. Celery Soup Required: One good hear] of celery (only use the otter sticks, keeping. the heart for table use with cheese), three small onions chopped uii 'fine, about a teacupful of cold potatoes, one pint of nijlk, and, one pint of waters Boil the potatoes and celery till tender enough .to put through. a sieve. Add some celery salt, pepper, and about a teaspoonful of sugar when you add the 'milk, Potato Soup Required: Six onions, six large po- tames, one pint of milk, one pint of water. Cut the onions and potatoes into slices and boil together until they are wel pulped, so that they are tender enough to put through a sieve. Add the pint of milk just before they are put through the sieve, then sea- son with parsley, pepper, salt, and sugar. Last of all, as an admirable supper dish or nightcap on a cold winter's night, comes the onion soup. For this boil your onions in salted water, strain and cttt up. Save half the water they have been boiled in, add as much milk again. Thicken with a dessertspoonful of cornflour and a knob of butter. Season With pepper and salt to taste and serve piping hot. To Prepare Crumpets There are two essentials to observe. One is that the buttering must be done before hefting, and the other. that while they are getting hot in the oven they must be completely cover- ed so that none of their own steam can escape. Never toast crumpets: Place them in little piles of three or four, with the allowance of butter on each one, 'upon large puttered sauc- ers. Cover with grease -proof paper and put other saucers on the top of, each -pile. The moisture thus kept in will keep them soft and the butter will soak in evenly. a TRY TURPENTINE A little turpentine mixed with whitening will remove dirt and grease from marble. Allow the paste to re- main on the marble for a few min- utes, then wash off with a warm, soapy lather. Rinse with clear cold water. A few drops 0f turpentine added to the rinsing water when washing china or glass wile give it a brilliant polish. Black stockings will not lose any of their color in the v;, sh if they are allowed to soak foe several hours in warm water to which a little turpen- tinehas been retied. b n ,d d. A Useful Polisher Get an old broom, cut away any hairs that may, remain, and bind sev- eral pieces of old cloth round the broom head. Finally, finish with a covering of old, soft velvet, and fasten into place with headed nails. This saves you a lot of back aching moments. Cooking Cakes 'When cooking small buns or cakes in the gas 'oven, you will find them less likely to burn if the tins are well sprinkled with ground rice instead of being greased. "Yes, my daughter eloped." "8 suppose you will forgive the young couple?" "Not until they have located a place to board An Hour of Classical Statics ifrU'1'T, INTEI2FER14IG AMERICRi• TiIE N�5S YouR'BRoADCASTING ST-H-1'tOW Ib' "!'I' WlTh EVCRY 5TA'1'ION IN i WE PROTEST A6AIN$i o :;• � WHAT'S WRON ;. f -.,,,s` '. NOW, 6GNTS'. 'MON '' 'OU BRC' P -. 6F AuTO,PiORN5.Td6SUAYYOU.FEATuR�D A MOToi2 cyC4E To.Aceo WeDNESDAY YCuR STATIoN BROADCAST A Howe GALLOPING ON RTINROOFe AO pRIDAY You HAD A TENOR 5044 wily Pt CON.ePeTE :.` srtc :: o.. is i ' 0li CLASSICAL MVStC _.ONLY•»' OR WE'LL R�l+ol�er Pi LdMd t, IJVILt. STlai< to oft'cNESTE'/ib.e C14® V ic"'1 ODYe YOU W Ill NOW ., ,,• „ LISTEN Po TtIE SIUEET� BIRD -LIKE, ^ "' c ��. { Mu51 of Ti1F 6114W oRctIESTRA �< r ., rrl,. of BASS DRUM iN91iE WcsRLb. 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Should the members take part in a' council which makes• the budget? Should they help keep the household account? Should they keep account of their own. expenditures? Is' it of any servioe for the family; to keep the cost of their living? If the child is given an allowance, what items should it cover? Should the wife know more about the income and the husband about household expenses?' Are the standards of living' in your home enough to make for wholesomq development? Are they extravagant and wasteful and likely to make "spoiled" and discontented people; og are they wise, yet adequate? The Perfect Cake Theperfect cake is attractive in appearance; is of uniform thlcknees;I has a cruet which is a delicate brown and is thin and tender and daintily crisp; is light; tender; agreeably moist; even -grained in texture; and has a delicate flavor. The five necessary steps 'in the making of a perfect cake are: 1. Hee, good ingredients; 2. Measure occur•. ately; 3. Mix carefully; 4. Bake care, fully; 5. Handle carefuly after bale ing. The ingredients should be fresh and of the best quality. To•guess at mea- surements is taking risks. You may, have good "luck," and you may not, In n'teasuring Sour, lift it lightly and level it off with a knife, 1)0 the same' thing with other measurements. In mixing, use the beating or fold- ing motion. In beating, the under part of the batter is continually lifted to the surface and this incorporates air into the mixture. To stir a cake batter, with a circular moton,'breaks the cells so that the air which has been carefully beaten in is lost. The temperature of the oven should be even, in baking, not con- tinually ontinually rising and falling. To fre- quently open the door is one cause of temperature fluctuation. To bake well, the cake should begin rising in the first quarter of its baking period. In the second quarter, it should con- tinue ontinue rising and begin to brown. In the third, it finishes rising and con- tinues browning. In the fourth, it finishes baking and shrinks from the sides of the pan, The cake is done when it has risen to its full.height and has a delicate brown crust; when it stops "sing- ing"; when it has shrunk slightly, from the sides of the pan; when it springs back if touched lightly with: the finger; when a tooth -pick, if in- serted into the middle of the cake, comes out dry. At the end of each baking quarter, the door should be opened to see if the cake is baking properly. Regulate the heat to make it bake according to rule. If it is. baking unevenly turn the cake around. It may be safely moved af- ter the first ten minutes in the oven. Set the cake to cool, where there will be a circulation of air around it. This will prevent soggy crusts. Let it cool gradually, in a place slightly, warm. Canada and Trinidad Trinidad Guardian: Now is a fitting moment to plan more recipr'oc'ity. Both peoples need a new and still more amicable agreement. If Great Britain has too many tropical 'out- lets, Canada has not, And if the vol- ume of our imports from Great Bri- tain are an unappreciable drop in the ocean of English exports, it is a drop that progressive Canada will not des- pise. , .. Though public opinion is slow iu forming, and though it is not easy always to see just where our steps are leading us, it is becoming increasingly plain, that if Mr. Snow- den rejects the earnest plea not only, of West Indian colonists, but of all the other partners in the Empire, then we, who have no direct repre- sentation in the Imperial Parliament, must look to each other for' mutual Hid and support. The War showed that . the word British still means something, Australia's. Defence Brisbane Queeuslander: Mr. Saul - Tin's announcement that steps will be taken to suspend compulsory training and the holding of military canape is Phe beginning of the end of Aus- tralia's preparation for defence, , ()nee the compulsory system has gone there is only the voluntary system Co take its place, and the Labor Gov- ernment is not likely to offer murk encouragement to volunteers. Labor is decidedly weak where na- tional defence is concerned. It thinks of internationalism, of the days when war shall be no more. It whItiles down expenditure on defence and makes ridiculous 'gestures",;of peace ;to foreign countries who merel9, laugh. .. .• �, -