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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-05-15, Page 7May ▪ 11. LessonVI—Jesus Acclaimed IAa King -Matthew 21: 1-11. Golden Text—Hosanna to the son of. David: Blessed Is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna In the highest„—Matthew 21: 9. ANALYSIS I. :MAKING PREPARATION, vs, 1-5. '12.• THE 'TRIUMPHAL ENTRY, re. 641. INTROnuemioN—Thee last journey of Jesus ie not described in any detail, 'but we have enough to recognize the places through which he passed. It is the inner struggle in'his'mind that Se of chief interest, to these writers of our drospels, and we are told of the: severe strain and dark forebodings which he had to face. He knew that he was marching towards death: 4i1 :the more worlerful, therefore, is the courage with which he thinks x others and cares for every little detail in the duty he has to pertain. 7. MAKING pREPARATTON, vs. 1-5. V. 1. During the last week, when he city would be c :wdcd with such a multitude of pilgrims, it was neces- sary to arrange for a place in which to stay, and Jesus chose as' Ms head- quarters the home of Lazarus. It lay over the Mount of Olives to the east, and each morning Jesus came into the city. While in that house he was among friends whom ne loved, V. 2. It was a strange request to make, and theelisciples must have been greatly surprised. They could not imagine what it all mean.. It gave no hint of the porn [aid circumstance with whit},, 'in their minds they had 'associated the arrival of their Lord. Perhaps the (Hsi !pies had hesitated in undertaking lids strange enterprise, and may have aslced Jesus what they were -to tell the owner of the ass. It did seem rather unusual to 1 ;y hold of property 'no: belonging to them.i Some have suggeste„; that the owner, of thebe• 2 st was a disciple of Jesus, .arid that there was an understanding on the matter.' However, there is an- other way to regard t: The kings of the east never hesitated to take what-: ever they wished, and manya valu- able possession was seized from reluc- tant subjects. Jesus is also a king.; and his royal cense ousness shines, through this incident. But Jesus did not 'exercise his royal rights as others ‘411,(1. He demanded very few outward things. Once he destroyed herd of swine, and here he asks for an ass, so different from the callous claims of the lords of the world. Yet Jesus was Lord of all. V. 4. This was Iikeh an appiloation made by the lat.r church. After the Resurrection tate disciples tried to find 1 the Old Tes'ament prediction of the different events in the life of .Jesus, and it was natural that the passage in Zechariah should be thus pointed out as a prefigurine,of this incident. Mat- thew is especially fond of calling at- te• tion to thew proo7 passages,' for he was writing for Jewish Christians, who were often attacked by those Jew- ish brethren for setting forth a new heresy, and it was, therefore, import- ant to show that Peps was the fulfil- ment of the Old Testament. Nor is it of less consequence for us to see how the religion of the New Testament is the natural sequel of the prophecies and rev'la,lon oe Israeli In the Old Testament we find the pr e - p: -ration for the manifestation of the truth of Christ. II. THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY, vs,. 6-11. V. 6. The disciples had long since learned that there wer many things gout their Master which they could not understand, and they were coming to see that simple obedience was their' chief duty. V. '7. They had some presentintent that something important wins about to happen. They put their clothes upon th ass and colt in order to deck them out in special festive attire, and they place Jesus on the ass, see 2 Kings 9: 13. V. 8- There is a spontaneous rising of the crowd. We 'would gather from Luke that it was his disciples who were the chief actors in the scene; bet we must also notice the part taken by the multitudes who had corse from all parts of the world. They all feel that some notable event is transpiring. They cut down branches of `Tees to make his journey like that an em- peror. It is to be a triumphal entry into the city. V. 9. Ilow easily the multitudes are stirred into enthusiasm! One moment they cry, "Hosanna!” and efore long the sante crowd will be crying out "crucify!" We cannot trust the emo- tional actions of the fickle crowd, nor can we always rely upon our own feelings, which are apt to carry us away also. Feelings are meant to lead to. action, and this multitude failed in that they were .content to enjoy the excitement, and to assume none of the obligation: Two important facts are to be noted Sunday School Lesson in this incident. First, there is the distinct el, hp. to Lordship on the part of Jesus. He ls• conscious of being the son of David, the fulfilment of the :pro- phecies of Israel. The destinies of all lives rest with him, He does not re- fuse the triumph. Secondly, this tri- umph is quite Inlrke that of any•earth- ly ruler, There is no gorgeous display, no military parade. The triumph of Jesus consists in peace, humility and holiness, the conquering power of love, It is as a peaceful ruler that Jesus enters the capital of his nation. Work for All Montreal Le Monde Ouvrier (Ind,): The division•of work will be the salva- tion .of the people; the redistribution of tasks between, a greater number of hands will increase the markets for our products, by' increasing the num- ber of people who' Live the rneane to afford them. This is why the work- men's unions are doing all they canto have the flue -day week, and the eight- hour day adopted, Will they ' suc- ceed? It is our .conviction that un- employment wily only be reduced in ,direct proportion to their' saccese. Give work to : all the members of the. working class and there will never bo any question of 'establishing unem- ployment assurance; with no one, out of work, there will be no need for as- sistange. What New York Is Wearing BY. ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Furnished With Every Patton[ Smart young things are including many silk crepe frocks in their Spring wardrobe to be worn with separate coat to carry out ensemble theme. The youthful 'animation of hem makes this model especially attractive, for it is equally smart worn without a coat. 'The cap sleeves of the yoked bodice are outstandingly chic in pointed treatrnent. It is nipped in at normal waistline by narrow belt. Style No. 2846 comes in sizes 14,`16, 18 and 20 years. Iit the 16 -year. size, 2% yards of 39 -inch material with a yard of 39 -inch contrasting is suffi- cient, HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap. it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 78 Welt Ad'elaide St., Toronto. • TALENT Talent alone can not make a writer. There must be a man behind the book, —Goethe. The ruins of old Fort Prince of Wales, opposite Churchill, at the end of the Hudson Bay Rahway,' Lord'Balfour Basked in a whose intentions are excellent. Through all this he was marching, directly 'towards- his third phase-- Fine succession, to Lord Salisbury and +• . the alliance with Joseph Chamberlain I ini m his uncle, e Sunset he'inherited from e, Two men of every 'diverse minds Old Age Seemed to Develop Rather Than'Lessen His . Charm Tenacity For Office Puzzled His Friends BY AN OLD FRIEND Lord Balfour alone, of the states- men of the nineteenth 'and twentieth 1> centuries — except Palmerston and n d Salisbnry—basked in a splendid sun- set at the close of his life and career. Yet that career had seemed definite- ly closed in defeat and even humili- ation in 1911 when, chiefly through the' persistent worrying of Lord War - .grave and the tariff Reformers, he was driven to resign the Conservative leadership. Then came the war, and gave Lord Balfour from 1915 onwards an Intsn Summer of renewed power. But, glori- ous as, the setting rays of his life Were, it must be remembered that they were not those of his noontide. Old age seemed to develop rather than lessen his charm. And there came with it a tenacity for .office which puzzled both his oritics and his frlerrds. His First Career For instance, his administration et the Admiralty in the Ehret Coalition of 1915 contributed to the discontent 1 which led' to Lord Oxford's fall in 1916. Yet lie took the bait of the Foreign Office offered him by the `as-' .tuteness of Mr. Lloyd George, and s joined tite 'otter's Administration at an hour's notice. Lord Balfour's 'first career—not the afterglow -consisted of three phases,' each to some extent overlapping the other in time., In the firstne is the young man of birth, wealth, ,and In- tellect playing .with , life in many • forms—palities, music, metaphysics, As he moves through a rarified at- mosphere suggestive of the Dolly Dialogues he is admitted to be brit= liantly clever, but condemned as too lazy 10 turn his brains to account. Elected for the 'close borough of Hertford, in 1874, he did nothing in the House until, in 1881, he drifted into the orbit of that fiery comet, Lord Randolph Churchill. Taking up the Fourth Party tactics originally as a game, he was snared into ambition. His speeches began to take on a fire beyond that of the academician or dilettante. He plung- ed With ardour into the political fray. The second phase had been reach- ed of the great House of Commons career. But it was some time before the politicians would realize the trans- formation of the academie into the debater, or the Irish changed "Pretty Fanny" into "Bloody Balfour." It was wrongly supposed that a student of philosophy must be Meat). able of argument, whereas, the whole process of logic or metaphysics is that of setting up a series Of proposi- tions and then trying to demolish them by dialectic. Lord Balfour's opponents were dis- agreeably surprised when the meta- physician started knocking their pasteboard `castles of principle about in a polished but very destructive manner. They had not imagined it possible that a Liberal front -bencher• Might meet an intellectual superior. The Irish Secretaryship was the strongest episode in his career. He exhibited a steely moral •courage. Ile supported his agents through thick and thin. With an intellect that could penetrate the superficial at any time he realized that the Irish prefer a strong Government even when its re- sults are bad, to a weak „Government nraY. work extremelywell together— so l ogether—so' long, as they can keep stop. The diversity of temperament heightens the personal attraction. The wide range et power's and interests cover- ed multiplies the external effective- ness of the combination. So it was for a time with Lord Balfour and. Joseph Chamberlain. And then they made mistakes, or the luck of the political dice turned against them: The Khaki Election, of 1900 was an error, and Balfour suc- ceeded to this bad heritage as Premier in 19:02—a Premiership which left us nothing, except t excellent Balfour Education Act of 1902, which to the great benefit of tbe.youth of the na- tion haS for a gum ter of a century survived every turn of electoral for- tune. Mr, Chamberlain Lord Balfour-shoeld, of.course, have taken the first opportunity for au early dissolution. Unfortunately he decided to hold on against the flow- ing tide, Mr. Chamberlain determin- ed to turn that tide back by the Tariff Reform appeal. Hence followed woe 0n woe to the Tories—a fiscal quarrel inside the party and a crushing de- feat at the polls in 1906. The major part of the blame for all this cannot be laid ••on Lord Balfour's shoulders. It is true that he had a kind of in- curious disregard, part intellectual, part aristocratic, for the movements of popular opinion. On the main point he was right. IIe preserved the thing which :really mattered—the -unity of the Conservative Party re-; gat'ded as a great national 'instru- ment. But atter the Interpol strug- gle of 1903-1906 came defeat, defeat, and defeat at the polls, until the thrice -vanquished leader 'vanished, None could . excel Lord Balfour in personal charm—even when dealing with chance -met individuals. Natur- ally, he was surrounded by an ador- ing coterie of friends notalways to his practical profit. But his political friendships were -colder. At the end his figure grew greater if only as the reflections of the past threw a longer shadow. He had seen the House of Cecil's second predomin- ance since the time of Elizabeth ap- pear and vanish. He had seen the creation and fall . of the German Em- pire. He had been at the Congress of Berlin and at the signing of tate Treaty of Versailles. Ile had known in intimacy all the great men from Disraeli and Gladstone onwards. He hall given a Romanes Lecture and founded the Souls. He had held his own with, even when he had not sur- passed, politicians, metaphysicians, and wits alike. And in a time viten world opinion was so important in the darkest days of the war.— his dignity and faith did more for Britain's cause than tan ever be told. The Eliza- bethian Cecil lived again. "Sire must be jealous of her hus- band-" "Why so?" "She's just advertises] for a plain cook." "What the Socialists dreamed of the new capitalism has made a real- ity"—Edward A. Filene. American Imperialism Quebec Evenement (Cons.): A re- cent address by President Hoover to the daughters of the Revolution, de- livered on the leith April,maked very clear the determination of the United States to become the most powerful country in the world. He celebrated the recent victories of his country in the international sphere. For ex- ample, instead of talking of -the naval parity of the British and American fleete, he declared that, for the first time in history, the Republic of the nited States possessed a fleet at least the equal of the strongest in the world. While putting his faith in the Briand-Kellogg pact as a satisfactory method of preveuting armed conflict, he stated with emphasis that there is one kind of peace that no proudand free people could ever subscribe to. This Caesartsm has been - enthusiasti- cally greeted in the American capital, as not so long ago the imperialistic vows formulated by Mussolini were at Rom e - Canada's Waterpower Sherbrooke Tribune (Lib.): Canada twenty has altogether million horse- power at the lowest water for the whole year sound), whilst for six months in the year it has at least thirty-three millions. Artificial reser- voirs regulating the flow would raise this capacity to forty-three millions Of this total, no more than five and one-half millions, Or' 123 per cent., have been .harnessed. To the extent of one -1141f, the task of harnessing this power has been undertaken in the hast ten years; although for long time the small water -courses of On- tario, Quebec and the Maritime Pro - noes have furnished the motive force for grain mills, and textile plants, such as were indispensable to the existence of the pioneers. In com- parison with other countries, Canada in the nuiuber of its turbine installa- tions. It is aleo In the second rank is only surpassed by the United States as regards the number of horse -power generated per 1,000 inhabitants, Nor- way alone exceeding her figure. Per capita Canada has nearly live tines as many turbines as the United States. • The Wheat Pool Montreal Patric (Ind.): The initial advances on their crop to the farmers Shine justify the existence of the Wheat Pool, . One ,can imagine what would ;have .been the critical condi- tion of the Prairie farmers at Ate ned tion of the Prairie farmers at the end of their bad harvest year .el 1929 if they had not been able to rely,on the consolidated strength of their associa- tion. Thanks to the Pool, .they found the necessary funds -to page the win- ter and to prepare for a new season of production. They have not been made to suffer because their crop was not sold. Even in spite of the reduc- tion in market prices of commodities since the fall, there can be no doubt that the Pool has had a stabilizing in- fluence on the market. .It is in fact beyond question that the price . of grain would have descended to a much lower level if the farmers, left to their own individual resources, had been. compelled to sell in an unfavorable market. Making the Best of it The New Outlook: Doing common- place things well may at times seem a rather humdrum business, while we are engaged at them, but there is no- thing in all the world that tells more significantly when the whole record of life's enterprises and achievements Is counted up. And to fail in the every -clay life is one of the very worst failureswe can make. The. man who finds fault with life because it does •not give him a place in the front row has not yet come to under- stand wherein life's finest opportun- ities lie. The man who Is doing the ordinary things has quite as many of them as any one ease, if he would see it. Prince Lucky in Aerial Trips London.—. Air crashes follow and precede the Prince of Wales, but he does not seem to mind. .A few hours before he lauded at Windsor Castle from Marseilles on his return from his African trip, Pilot Sergeant W. H. Fern and Aircrafts- man Leslie Charlton were killed in the smash-up of a two-seater fighting plane at the Royal Air Force airdrome at Cranwell. The plane in which the Prince flew from Khartoum to Cairo on his return from the African jungle crashed on the way back to Khartoum, killing two men. "Almost every •problem becomes less hard under the softening infiu- ence of time."—Bruce Barton. • Loyal to Teacher During the summer vacation a Young lady was appointed as asubsti- tute teacher in the Industrial' School. She was quite young and inexperi- enced in reform work, but had a na- turally happy an dtrustful disposition..I When a class of twenty of the older boys was assigned to her she found' that school lessons did not appeal to then, and that it was difficult to ob-' tain anything like order or attention, She asked permission to take the boys on a Nature. Study trip through the: woods, and the Superintendent con- sented, on the promise given by they lads that they world not attempt to run away or give any trouble. They! started off in the morning, taking a' lunch basket with them, and returned' late in the afternoon, a thoroughly happy party. Not one of the lads mis- behaved in any way during the outing. and they had unbounded admiration for the young lady who put her con- fidence in them.—J. J. Kelso. Religious: Persecution in Russia i Dr. John Dewey in Current History (New York) : All the reports from Russia agree that Communist author- ities are unanimous in the opinion that the "religious" drive against the Soviets is but another attempt at capitalistic countries to overthrow the; Communist regime. Anyone 'with a knowledge of Russia could have pre-! dieted that such would be the result. Although many have protested on gen-1 inely religious grounds, nevertheless they have entered upon a campaign charged with dynamite- So far as it has any religious effect in the U.S.S.R. it will intensify* opposition to religion, confirming the belief that the church has at bottom a political and economic aim. It will also arouse the same feelings that would be aroused among us by any sign of foreign interference in what we regard as our own internal affairs. f 'The girl with a yitldish boy friend does all the talking so his arms will stay put." SPRING The green grass is bowing; The mornnig wind is in it; "Tis' a tune worth the knowing, - Though it change every minute. 'Tis a tune or the spring; Every year plays it over. —Ralph Waiclo Emerson. MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER W61.10 t'M Tf'tE Uti3Cl6 Ot'`Iwo ORPHANS. DIDN'T HAVE ANY INCOME LAST YeAR • 'lite JUD66 DUHBISTera 4VG`feED. ED% Nei" PAVIVO A o 1 i • Lle-a IN IS LFA wAdt9N TO Be. cREMAT6b AND HAVE MY A S 1HRbutm Its ' lItifit5TEres cyal . - E 44W. Aswan Me F tF t'tthotS Hottest lteajeseD thdSAieeTY. s Attrr GOT' £.low 1 Prto�iE°p 6uY A 'iwo cin RMS' trl4 art • ` iannatrN4ENR$e Meet a $50,000 a Year Man. E Got A YWAR lid JAIL AM A FINE off' FIFTY GRAhibo W`LL, 1F JEFF ThO *AhUSAl!PNb e1ThCGANNI TY I2AIse •fltG '(R. masa Aki, wiNb�pows w trees 7ti1?eLiGti ,., r• ��lr�(�� a-.t't III ?fes ef0: f NOD Lady Knollys, Aid to Queen, Passes at 95 Alexandra's Confidential 'Sec- retary Dies Unexpectedly rn Her Loddon Home Londpn.—The kion. Charlotte Knot- lys,-for many yeas the friend and can- ildential secretary of the late Queen Alexandra, died decently at her home in Landon. Although she was ninety- five years old, her death was unexpect- ed, as only a few days ago she appear. ed to be in good health: Lady Knollys was a daughter of the late, Sir William Knollys; but years ago she was raised' to the rank of a baron's daughter in recognition of de- voted services. She first joined the royal household at the age of eighteen. as an extra woman of the bedchamber to Queen Alexandra—at that time the Princess of Wales—who was only a year older than herself. The post was created to give the young princess a companion of her own age. Thereafter the two were in- seperable, Charlotte Knollys soon be- ginning to serve ber royal mistress as. a secretary. Itis said that Charlotte Knollys re- fused marriage in order to continue to ' serve Queen Alexandra, who showed her gratitude in many awys. Most of Lady Knolly's life was passed in vari- ous royal palaces, but after the death of Queen Alexandra, in 1925, she re- tired to the small fiat in Mayfair, where the last years of her life were passed very quietly. In court circles Charlotte Knollys enjoyed a reputation as a brilliant con- versationalist, and this was the rea- son for the nickname of "Chatty," which was given g en to her by King Ed- ward VII. Ninety-one Years in Royal Palace Lady Knollys [pronounced Knowles) was born in Windsor Sastle, and for ninety-one years she made her home In royal palaces. In 1926 she had to leave Marlborough house to allow the Prince of Wales to occupy it. With her brother, the Iate Viscount Knollys, she '.vas reared at court and became a page of honor' 'as soon as she was old enough to bear the royal trains at corm::tions, weddings and other pub- lic funetlons• Hei' father, Major Genera' Sir Wil- liam Knollys, had a prominent post under Queen 'Victoria. Queen Alex- andra was so fond of her that once she refused to follow the time-honored custom of passing Christmas at Sand - because her "beloved char- lotte" was 11I in London. Four years ago, when rhea Pt to _ r of Wales was to move into }larli)oro+t.•h House, a suite was offered her in Ken- sington Palace or Hampton '.;aura Pal- ace, largely inhabited by aged and not too wealthy court offiehtla hat Lai;y Knollys preferred to take a Ino:lest apartment in South A tr ley etteeet, Mayfair. Mr. Ludwig Looks at Lincoln "Lincoln," by Emil Luchr c i±;ne- Jated from the German ly Eit n an,l Cedar Paul, (Putnam -1 '•MIr. Ludwig prefaces his shrewd book by a shrewd disclaimer. He has no new Information about Lincoln to impart, as he says, .and he 11a' n:) new interpretation of L neoln's cher- peter or his role in history," writes Mr• -Allan Nevins in the Saturday Re- view of Literature. "What he doge have is a bographical method of his ami. As he studied a mass of eon- flicting materials to produce his Goethe and his Napoleon, so he has gone through a wide variety of books about Lincoln to disengage an iulpres- sion of the man. "Its great e t usefulness( will pee - haps be in Europe. Mr,Luning has the attention of a cnsmopolitt,n audi- ence. and Ills Lineolo should be veil - mined and studied. 'I see him' he writes of Linco n in his p efece, 'liisO one of the Shakespeare's Ohoraetprg, absolutely original, eonri-e:able( to none, inrmemorably unique.' Tf he ,-an awaken large numbers of TLn•o- pean students to the dramatic interest and the grandeur of Linenin's esrcei his facile pen will have perfornrec one of its best services." "Herr Ludwig has given as a new and brilliant variation on one of :Me greatest themes that history bee in offer," says Mr, A. G. Gardiner in the Star. "Herr Ludwig's Lieroln will Inire- duce thousands to theexterior his- tory of one of the greatest men." "Lincoln's life," says the Times, "is an inexhaustible inspiration to those Who govern and to al1 who cherish the love of noble living. It cannot be told too often. And herr Ludwig has told it well." France and England_ Spectator (London); It. is the inter- pretation of France to England and of England to France, that matters profoundly to -day. For centuries they, have lived In contact always in eon - tact — sometimes giving and taith,:; blows, but far oftener giving and tak- ing influences upon one another's lives, Influences of all sorts, liteter-y, .philosophical, artistic, political; and yet, at the end of the centuries, thru•c • aoemS to be a peMehological gull still stretching between them. It Is a pity, a pity, of pities; for the penes of Europe and the peadeable develop ment of the System of lOuron° IMO clown in 1919, depend q "''their undue standing and co-everta'ti,en.