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Sunday. School
Lesson
ellarch 23. Lesson'Xll-Jesus Teach-
ing and Healing—Matthew 15: 21-31
Golden Text -Ask, and it shall be
given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and It shall be opened unto
you. —Matthew 7: 7.
ANALYSIS,
I. A MOTHER'S IMPORTUNITX, 21, 22.
11..T}IE APPARENT REFUSAL OF SEMIS,
• 23-27.
ell. THE REWARD OF FAITH, 28-31.
INTRODUCTION -After the last lesson
She opposition to Jesus increased very
Hauch, and it was getting more and
more difficult for him to escape the
forces that were arrayed against him.
Even Herod, the ruler of Galilee had
been aroused against, him. Accord-
ingly Jesus decided to leave the tern.
;tory of Herod for a while. His visit
to the coasts of Tyre and Sidon were
therefore not undertaken for any mis-
sionary purpose, but in order that be
might be free from political troubles
that might arise. The time had not.
yet come for him to face the author
ities at Jerusalem. Also he wished to
Kaye a time of quietness: with the dis-
@iiples.
1. A M'OTHER'S IMPORTUNITY, 21, 22.
V. 22. 'In Matthew the woman is
called a Canaanite, which is equival
en,, to the Phoenician. In Mark she is
spoken of as a Greek and a Syro-
phcenician. By this we learn that her
)anguage was Greek, while her nation-
fality was Phoenician, and her province
Syria. She was, therefore, a Gentile
without any direct share in the privi-
leges . of the Jews. Her coming to
Jesus was really a great victory for:
I(1) She had all the national prejudice
agianst a foreigner•,, which even still
persists with us: This healer was not
one of her own folks, and she diiliked
asking a favor of such anon. (2)
:Also the disciples wereenot very well
inclined to her. They are impatient
of this interruption and ask Jesus to
send her away, though itis probable
that we are to understand that they
hope that Jesus may Brent her re-
quest, and send her off. (3) There was
also this apparent reluctance of Jesus
to pay any attention to h.r. But in
spite of all those difficulties in her
way she persists. She likely had beard
of the many cures which Jesus had
wrought in Galilee, and -she had hopes
that he niight'be persuaded to de at
feast one more miracle. But above all
else there was her mother love, which
was ready to face any peril and en-
dure any insult for the sake of her
daughter who was so grievously af-
• flitted. It is often the way that trials
and sorrow will drive people to actions
which result in greatest blessing. At
any rate we see in this woman the
value of persistence. Jesus had him-
self taught the value of importunity
in prayer, and this woman was deter-
mined to get her request answered.
II. THD APPARENT REFUSAL OP seals,
23-27.
V. 23. Thus far we have seen Jesus
answering every appeal for help, and
healing all who came; but now there
is an apparent change in his manner.
First of all, he remains silent and
'says not: a word, as if he were indiffer-
ent to what she says. When she re-
peats her request he replied with what
seems to be the voice of extreme na-
tional exclusiveness, "I am not sent
but unto the lost sheep of the house of
Israel." . The Jews had been God's
chosen people, and 'the Messiah had
been sent first to this people. The
earthly life of Jesus wa., to be limited
to this one task, There was no chance
of broadening out his work to include
all the world. Also if he went,to the
Gentiles the Jews would not have
listened to him, But the time was
'Coming when the gospel would be
offered to all the world, and then the
real purpose of Christ would be re-
vealed.
V. 26. The saying about the 'doge ..
inust not be regarded as a sign of thea:,,.
way in which testis regal ded • other
nations. There was no narrow na-
tionalism about him; he was the Son
Of man and revealed God as the Father
of all mankind. It is true -drat the
Jews spoke' of the Gentiles as "dogs;'
land it may be that Jesus her ren>;nds
the woman of the general attitude of
that day. Perhaps, also, there was .a
'smile on his face as he uttered the
words.
III, THE REWARD OF FAITH, 28-31.
V..,28. Jesus evidently saw than the
woman had the quality of faith which
was fit to be rewarded, and purified.
He desired to lead her to a worthier
view of religion, His answer was not
inspired by any harsh feeling;' but he
saw that her faith could be raised to
et higher level. Besides this, Jesus
wished to give the disciples a lesson.
Some day they would be world mis-
sionar.ies, and they pest learn to over-
cone their narrow nationaliern. In
this woman they saw that faith an:d
goodness are found among all peoples,
and he would stir up their pity for
this one foreigner, hoping to educate
them thus in more liberal views. They
were to see that virtue lies concealed
in many in whom it is least suspected.
Jesus speaks of her' peat faith, It
was another foreigner to whom Jesus
said, 'I have not found so great faith,
no not in Israel," Math. 8i 10.
As Printers See It
Sonde Misprints Are So Apt
Yon, Can't Think They
Were Really Slips
Every editor has received, at some
time or other, letters from readers
pointing out printers' errors' which
have appeared in the columns of his
journal. But it is very often the mis-
take which has never reached the gen-
eral public that shows the genius of
the printer at its best.
Nor is that genius always misguided
-there are times when a printer's 00 -
Tor may emeriti the language.. For in-
stance, in one of the great newspaper
offices the other day it was noticed
that the, word "barbarians" appeared
on a proof as 'car•bariana"
The discoverer of the error harden-
ed his heart and corrected it, but later
on one of the paper's leader -writers
offered it to the public as the perfect
word for motoristswho drive to the
public danger.
The Little Lass="
Sometimes, indeed, a misprint is so
apt that one can hardly believe it was
the result of a slip. The compositor
who converted "candid friends" into
"candid fiends" had probably suffered
from the belligerently truthful. Malice.
may also be suspeoted in some cases—
as when an American printer made
"battle -scarred veteran" into "bottle -
scarred veteran."
One letter can make a lot of,differ-
ence. Sir Edmund Gosse has become
"Sir Edmund Goose"; and "the niost
romantic figure in history" been Ten-
dered as "the moist romantic." And
once au advertisement of a firm wbich
specialized in stained glass came out
as follows—and in a Church news-
paper: "Painted Widows Make the
Best War Memorial."
But it is not fair always to blame
the printer when ,an error occurs.
when a certain Admiral was described
as having two sons, one at the Im-
perial College, Windsor, and the other
at Dartmoor , (the great British -penal
institution) -Dartmouth '(the naval
academy) was meant—it was probably
the handwriting that was at fault.
The Optimistic Mr. Thomas
Edinburgh Weekly Scotsman
(Cons.): Mr, Thomas may profess
that the present employment slump
is due to rationalization and reor-
ganization'of industry, but that is not
the whole story. Industry was be-
ginning to lift up fie head with the
prospect'before it of easier rating and
the conviction that unfair competi-
tion would be eliminated; but those
hopes of security have been shatter-
ed and industry reacting again to the.
depressing fear of higher taxation
in consequence of the lavish squand-
ering of money on palliatives' for un-
employment. Mr. Thomas has not
been able to fulfil the frequent boast
that a spoay remedy for unemploy-
ment was in the Socialist bag; and
it Is somewhatpathetic to find Him
trying to be optimistic,
"A sky -pilot is ,still a sole -saver:"
Farm Notes
Frozen -Pack Strawberries
Some rather intereatiug and appar-
ently satisfactory.results are reported.
in connection with recent experiments
relating to the -cold storage handling
of strawberries.
A feature at the Royal Agricultural
Winter Fair last year was the fine
appearance and uality of apparently
fresh Canadian -grown strawberries as
an item on the menu of the All -Cana -
diem Products Dinner. These berries
had been grown in .British Columbia
'in June and had been kept in a frozen
condition in cold storage.'
An Ontario jam factory,.,recently re-
ceived a consignment of the same•
pack of berries, 'which they report
were received in good condition.
The surplus crop of strawberries
was sent by the . ritish Columbia
growers to the Government Experi-
mental Plant, where the fruit was
washed and graded under government
supervision, packed in barrels with
sugar, sealed and then put In cold
storage where they have since been
kept 'at a'teniperature of 155 degrees
F. above zero. Last year's pack
amounted to 2,100 barrels.
The results of this experiment indi-
cate that the berries kept sufficiently
well to be used as fresh fruit and mar-
keted as a really first-class article.
The Prince of Wales' Exhibit
One of cube feature attractions at
the forthcoming World's Poultry Con-
gress to be held In London, England,
in July of this year will be the exhibit
supplied by .His Royal Highness, the
Prince of Wales.
The exhibit will be essentially a
Canadian feature as it will be a repro-
duction in miniature of the famous
"E,P." o'aneh at High River, Alberta.
The exhibit will employ the latest de-
velopments in exhibition display and
will have unique and novel lighting
effects. 11 still oecttpy a space of
about' 100 Osquare-feet and has been
placed in proximity with the Cana-
dian'exhibit.
The quality of the Prince's exhibit
has made such an appeal to the Man-
agement of the Crystal Palace, where
the Congress will be held, that they
have agreed to let it remain as an ex-
hibit
xhibit for a period of twelve months
following the Congress.
Building Up Bee Colonies
One of the most effective ways of
building bee colonies up to full pro-
duction strength is the importation'
of package bees. C. B. Gooderhani,
B.S,A., :the' Dominion Apiarist, in a
Pamphlet on package bees now avail-
able at the Publications Branch of the
Department of Agriculture, states that
the transportation of beee by package
is proving quite satisfactory, and may
be done safely anywhere in Canada.
With proper care and management
they will build up into strong produc-
ing,colonies the first season.
In the prairie provinces and other
areas where the main honey flow
conies late there is a longer building
up period and package bees will often
equal overwintered colonies in pro-
duction. In regions where the main
flow comes early package bees are
unable to build up to full strength be-
fore the flow starts and cannot be ex-
pected to store such large crops.
A development of lmportance in this
connection is the establishment of the
fact thatit is now possible to ship
package bees withoutcomb, the ad-
vantage of the new method being that
it prohibits the, possibility of the in-
troduction of disease. While the be-
ginner may have a little more trouble
with package bees than he bad with
bees already established on combs,
he is at least certain that his bees will
be free from disease.
When purchasing package bees it
is extremely important that the ]rives
should be ready to receive them,when
they arrive and also that there is suf-
ficient continnons_supply of food for
them until they can gather enough for
themselves,
Increasing Egg Production
The opportunity for the poultry
raiser to meet the increasing demand
for eggsboth for home consumption
and export lies' not in increasing the
number of birds but la improving the
productionability of the birds we
crease in egg production of late years,
closely associated with the, improve-
ment in quality which has followed
grading. In fact the demand foi home
consumption alone. is to -day greater
than the supply and at the same time
there is -a real opportunity for Cana-
dian eggs on the British market.
Repeated tests at the Central Ex-
perimental Farrar show that the pullet
15 morevaluable as am egg producer
than the older hen. It has been found
that the yearly profit for a pullet is
54.34 as compared' with 51,66 for a
hen, or, tceput it another way, that it
costa 20c a dozen to produce eggs
through pullets as compared with 8505
a dozen to produce eggs through hens.
—Issuedby the Director of publieitY,
Dom, Department of Agriculture i Ot-
tawa, Ont.
The Two Rolnes
sianehester Guardian (Lib,): (The
' rapproali:nrent" between the Fascist
and Vatican Governments has been
still further strengthened by the visit
of Mussolini to His Holinessc) Tlre.
religion of the Church and the reli-
gion of the nation -State, in its Fascist
form are incompatible; their natural
battleground is in the school. But
queticns of ultimate philosophy have
a way of being soothed to sleep when
workaday expediency calls. Church
and State in Italy have great need of
each other at present. The prestige
of both is linked' with the success of
the Lateeen experiment. Neither side
eau well afford a breakdown, so that
further conversations will have to
take place to ;remove the difficulties"
revealed by this year's eapereince.
The differences are so great that a
successful issue must. remain In
doubt, but-the.Vatican 'could have no
better spokesman than Cardinal Pac-
elli, who became Secretary of State
on Monday. He has just concluded
a particularly difficult concordat with
Protestant Prussia. If any man can,
he sbould succeed in Rome.
The Conservative "Party"
London News -Westminster (Lib.):
Sports Dress
Accents Youth
Of •FYearor=Pique Collar and Cuffs
Contribute Interest
•
By ANNETTE
It's true beige with just a dash of
The Conservative Party is now split brown in rough 'surfaced woolen that
up into three separate fratricidal is extremely light weight. The belt
that marks the noruxal waistline is
leather in the brown shade, that
matches grosgrain ribbon tie of neck-
line.
The brief bodice is decidedly youth-
ful fashion and is emphasized by flat
groups: the Baldwin group, the Bear-
erbrook group and the Rothmere
group. It could scarcely be describ-
ed as a trinity in unity, though its
incomprehensibility is only too mani-
fest. Lord Bgaverbrook stands for
a Big Stomach Tax and a modicum hipline of circular flavin skirt.
of Mr. Baldwin; Lord RothmereP g
stands for High Protection and to the It's unbelievably easy to make, for
guillotine with Baldwin; Mr. Baldwin it means you practically have a two
stands for Mr. Baldwin and a bit of
both the other two policies and yet
not precisely one thing or the other.
The country will thus have a very
pretty einice at the next Election.
Success
London Eerening.News (Ind. Cons.):
Whether a man is successful or not
in life is not nearly so important a
question as we sometimes think.
There are easy successes that are
merely the outcome of puny aims;
yet the applause that followssuch
successes is often tremendous in a
world like Ibis. it often happens
that a man is mvsled by that applause
into thinking he is a fine fellow who
has done something really worth do-
ing. That delusion may last for life,
though here 'and there one sees
pathetic eigns of an inner bitterness
and distress in a certain type of suc-
cessful man whose eyes are open at
last to the littleness of the things
to wbich he has given nearly all the
years of his life.
The Last Stage of Free Trade
London Observer (Ind,): Neatly
every considerable Protectionist coun-
try has recovered from the Way'
while eve welter. The initiative and
responsibility rest, for the presump-
tive two years or more, with the Gov-
ernment ami with their Liberal allies,
or rather associates, as we may 1101v
call them. The last chance foe the
free -importing system depends upon
the utmost endeavor of Liberalism
and Labor in the present Parliament
to prove what can be done by "ra-
tionalizing," by Imperial enterprise
on the guarantee of British credit,
and by deliberately diverting the pres-
ent vast .and growing cost of unem-
ployment.to the ereation of re-em-
ployment.
have, is the opinion of Mr. F, 0, III -
ford, Dominion Poultry Husbandman Prison Visitor—"And what are you
of the Federal Department of Agricul- in here for, my good Haan?" Prisoner
ture.- • —"Flattery, madam; caught imitating
eliere sae' been e remarkable in- another man's signature on a cheque."
aassonamr
piece skirt to be seamed and stitched
to a two-piece bodice.
This sportive model Style No. 236 is,
designed in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36,
38, 40 and 42 inches bust.
It is very striking in woo jersey
in dark purple shade with collar and
cuffs of beige faillesilk crepe piped
along edge in Ind -dahlia shade crepe,
and worn with a red -dahlia shade lea-
ther belt.
Printed silk crepe, plain silk crepe
and canton crepe appropriate. Later
for resort, it can be made of men's
shirting, shantung, silk pique, silk
broadcloth, printed cotton pique, linen
or Ohinese silk damask.
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelaide St, Toronto.
"Did you have any thrilling experi-
ences in the Alps last summer, lift.
Brown?" '
"Oh. yes, Miss Jones, 'On one occa-
sion I was forced to act as the chauf-
feur of a snowslide."
Love Not Lost Art
Get Out Or Govern
The greatest change for the worse, By Lieut. Commander Kenworthy, M.P.
that has taken place in•the world in I Visiting India during an important
this generation is that 'people have ,period of her political History as an
stopped talking about love and start- I independent observer, I have endeav
ed talking about sex, Love between 'Deed to view tiie situation objective-
ly,
b)ect ve•ly,
to throw over preconceived be-
liefs, and to obtain a picture of the
situation as it
That the: problem of India is diffi-
cult no one will deny. No doubt the
Christmas meeting of the Indian Na-
tional Congress, held at that season'
because the Courts are closed and
most of the delegates are lawyers,
with its resolution in favor of com-
plete independence, non -co-operation,
refusal to pay taxes, and civil dis-
obedience, shocked the general pablic
in England.
Nevertheless, writing . with a full
sense of responsibility, I give the con-
sidered opinion that these Cong ese
resolutions must not be taken too seri-
ous enough. But we still have
plenty of frielyds in India, among all
classee and sections.
There are half a dozen distinct
movements in this great Empire or
India, of which the. Congress is only
one. The Indian Liberals, : small in
number but eminent in personnel, are
now completely divorced from the
Congress. They are just as patriotic
as any other Indian politicians; but
they do not beUeve it is the interests
of India to break away from the Em-
pire,
mpine, and they frown on mere Anglo-
phobia.
Looking to Moscow,
A third section are the Moham-
medans who, as a powerful, minority
of eighty millions, are determined 20
uphold their rights. The Sikhs, a
comparatively small group of two or
three millions in this vast sub -contin-
ent of huge distanced and teeming
populations, are just as determined
not to be snowed under by the Hindus.
Cutting across ail these communal
interests and sections is the League
of Youth. Up to a few years ago
British Parliamentarianism was the
ideal and the goal ofathe politically -
once a sprawl of fire everything is minded Indiana.
still gas. Bnt uow this new movemfrank
The Mistake We Make ly and openly looks to Moscow.ent
What comfits is not the material I had an interesting conversation
origin but the spiritual result. If 1 with a very intelligent exponent of
affection and loyalty and self-sacrifice , Luis view, a graduate of Bombay Uni-
have in some way developed cut of \er.i:y, and a subject of one of the
that it has been, or will be, killed by self-governing Indian States. When
sex equality. That sort of conten- ( asked whether rte and his friends were
tion Ss based on a popular nriscoueep-; prepared to face the inevitable chaos
that would follow the withdrawal of
the British Raj, he admitted that
there would be confrsion and blood-
shed, but said that if the Russians
could get over these troubles so could
the Indians.
Too Busy for Politics
the sexes 1s a sexual phenomenon, It
did not need the wisdom 'of daring or
even the youngest oovelist to inform
m
the world of that. But what 1s
equally true,.and far more important,
is that love is sex and—something
more. It is the something more that
matters most.
We live in an age of abolitions,' and
the latest thing to be abolished. I
gather from my reading, is Romantic'
Love. (But reading is one thing, and
the reading of life another. Fiction
has a habit of ignoring fact)
Not only fiction writers are guilty.
The psychologists and•tbe sociologists,
and for all I know, the other variety
of '01ogists,'have lifted up, their voices
about sex; too many' of them clave for-
gotten about love:
The Mainspring of Life
A German Count has just told us
that Romantic. Love is dead M the
United States. I am expecting a
Dutch Uncle to tell us that it is dead
in Britain.
I know very well that Romantic
Love is not dead in the United States,
any more than it is dead in Siberia, or
in. Papua, in London, or in Wigan.
There are certain basic impulses
which' simply refuse to be abolished,
If they were to die, humanity itself
would die with them. And of all
the impulses of life, love is the most
central and vital. Love, mind you--
not
ou-not simply' sex. It is love, the romance,
not sex,' the instinct, that makes the
world go round. When the young
man falls in love with the young wo-
man he is not conscious solely or
primarily of sex; he thinks of beauty,
and service, and ideals.
It is fashirnable nowadays--especi
ally among the 'ologists just mention-
ed—to asseverate that "everything• is
sex_" It would be just as true to say
that because the solar system was
i.
tion of romance. The idea is that yeo-
man cannot be admired as a comrade,
but only as a doll or a drudge; that
she is remote and mysterious and ador-
able when huddled up in the absurd
flounces and fur-belows of the nine-
teenth century, but cocmmonplace in
the common-sense clothes of to -day.
Yet what a very poor romance it
would be which could be destroyed
by the shortening of skirts or the
shingling of hair.
Cries the Clock!
"Tick -tock, tick -tock," cries the clock,
"Seize each passing minute;
Take the chance "-,fore it goes
To pack some eood things in it
Sixty seconds passing by -
Never r- .e returning,
Do yo- - wus k, and do it NOW
Wi,,ie the light is burning.
"Tick -tock, tick -tock," cries the clock,
"Bv'ry hour is flying,
In the market -place of life
Wares you should be buying.
Sixty minutes full of fun,
Full of work and sorrow,
There are duties to be done
Ere we greet tomorrow.
"Tick -tock, ticktock," cries the clock,
"Day to night is giving,
Do not think of years to come,
NOW'S the time for living.
Do not wait for better days,
That hope may delude you,
Use the minutes as they come—
They cannot .elude you,"
"Taking the conceit out of one is
a good thing and golf does that."—
John D. Rockefeller, sr.
"To brand the liquor buyer as equal-
ly criminal as the seller is now of
prime Importance."—Bishop Cannon.
Enthusiasm is the Ieaping lightning,
not to be measured by the horsepow-
er of the understanding. --R, W. Enoer•eon.
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The League of Youth is looked at
askance by the older generation et
politicians, the Left Wing of which
has captured the Congress. But.
there m yet another Left Wing ele-
ment in the so-called Association et
Workers and Peasants which looks
upon the League of Youth as a bour-
geois party and wants to organize the
Indian masses on a class basis.
The Congress politicians aro wor-
ried by the League of Youth, and the
League of Youth is worried by the
Workers' and Peasants' Party. `But
all these movements` and sections y
voice the opinions and suspicions of
the politicalleerainded. What per-
centage of the population they speak
for n0 one can tell. But it le cer-
tainly only a fraction of the 311,006,-
000 inhabitants of our Indian Empire.
The vast majority. both in British
India and in the Indian Sip Les. aro
cultivators or those assn, ,.1. ed wait
them. They are the leneh,,lber,,
great and small, but mostly email. tee
laborers they employ. end r L•::: r
artisans who build their z
their wells and rnpply t:.c -:ns:
wants.
They are usually loo but i .'T'' r
about politics. What tronhe 01
whether the mon,00n vein te , ,,.,d
ane and will bring enoug l voln -0 en-
able them to cultivate flush- atlas dur-
ing the dry season. Seer-- of thous-.
ands of villages right off the beatetl
track are engaged in a ceaseless .etre
gra against a dry climate an nsaffii-
cielt rain fall and the nc c arty of
producing clop \\Timm t being ahie to
afford up -to -slate iin piernen e ain't ferti-
lizers. Education is slowly mal,:ng
its way among t,u•s. tillers or the soil,
and political awakening is alineso as
slow.
In the Frontier Provinces there 10
another problem altogether. Here the
civilization of the plain -dwellers
comes hard up against the hunger`
driven barbarism of the mountaineers.
If the watch and word on the frontier
'were withdrawn for a week the hunt
gry, hardy hilltnen, with nothing mod-
ern about then) except their magazine
rifles, would sweep dowry into the
plains with one object only—loot.
We Must Play the Game
•There are many difficulties 'ahead
of es, but eve nntst nrt allow our-
selves to be deflected., an inch from:,
our path. We have plenty of friends,
In India, and they will. increase in:
number if we show that, we intend to
play the game as Englishmen know;
how to play it, and no amount of viol-
ence, whether ofspeech.- or action,,
must 138 0.11o10ed to deflect us fronm
the path of duty
Beatrice- "How doss my new dress
look? Betty—"It looks, ,t'a me like
t)rree weeks' salary.",'.;
Dental hygiene service is only re-
pair work on the door through 'which/. .:
nearly, every ill enters. • t