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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-11-13, Page 3Sunday School Lesson November 16, Lesson Viii --The Be- Iieving Centurion (A Gentile Whose Faith Jesus Commended)—Matthew. a 8: 5,13. Golden Text—And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from'thesouth, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.—Luke 13: 29. ANALYSIS I. A GREAT NEED PELT, vs. 5, 6, II. A GREAT FAITH RECOGNIZED, Vs. 7-13. INTRODUCTiO11 Jesus' ministry. in Galilee appears to have lasted about, two years, front December of the year A.D. 27 to November, A.D. 29. A' great deal of intense and untiring activity was crowded into hose two years, and also _nisch of his teaching both by parables and otherwise. The y,ospel narrative tells us of the multi- tudes which thronged about him, or followed him 'from place to ir'lace, at- treated by the freshness and power of his teaching and by the wonderful works of healing which he did. But even more interesting to us than the multitude are the individual men and women, disciples and others, who meet him sometimes in the midst of the throng, more often in his hours apart, whose spirit•aal attitudes and needs were so much like oar own—the fish- ermen by the Lake of Galilee, the. mentally afflicted and the lepers who drew so heavily upon his compassion- ate tenderness, the paralytic borne, by his impetuous friends, the aublican drawn from the place of tolf by the magnetic power -of a new affection, the Pharisee not, wholly insincere with his quibbling qusstions about custom and fashion, the followers John the Baptist, his owr, brothers, the Jewish magistrate distressed by the desperate illness of his little , daughter, the Canaanite woman in similar distress whose pitiful pretence that she was a Jewess Jesus put aside that 1 might minister more directly anu fittingly to her own as well, as to her daughter's reed. Of esrecial and extraordinary interest is this military officer whose character and whose faith in Jesus are so attractively presented in the less°- before us. I. A GREAT NEED PELT, vs. 5, 6. self under authority received from God he believes also that : he has at his command unseen agencies and powers that will :do his will. Com- pare Luke 7: 8. As 'a well-known. modern writer 'puts it, We see "the wisdom of his faith beautifully shin- ing out in the bluffness of the soldier." Jesus is represented here as using a figure di4 wn from the ancient pro phets- of Israel who conceived the glorious future age of salvationand universal friendship as inaugurated by a great feast of all good things. To it all people of the world would be invited, and in it the people of the past and the future would have equal share and part. 'See Isaiah 25: 6-8; 26: 19; 2: 2-4; ;Daniel 7: 14. More than once Jesus saw in the coining to nim' of people other than Jews,, of o(h,r races and nations, the dawn+ng of that new age. Compare Lulce 13: 29 and John 12: 20-24. One of :the hardest problems which the early Christian church bad to solve was that of the admission of Gentiles on equel.tormr, with"Taws by the way of fath in Jesus Christ. At first there were individual eases received by spe- cial favor or because of some extra- ordinary experience of divine grace, later in unrestricted numbers through wide open doorsin the missions o4 St. Paul who saw that th;s was in har- mony with the mind of Jesus, Romans 9: 22-30. Jesus was again in Capernaum, his hone city (Matt. 4:13), where so many of his great works of healing had been done. The centurkil, prob- ably a Roman officer in the employ of Herod Antilles, had been an admirer of the Jewish peop'e, and through them h .3 come to know Jesus and to. believe in him. It is very much to his credit that he thought so highly of his servant. Luke says that the servant "was clear unto hint" Luke adds also that he did not himself pre- sume to go to Jesus but "sent unto him elders of the Jews," thinking perhaps that a Jewish teacher would bo un - 'Willing to consent to tho request of a Gentile. He was to learn by what followed the large human sympathy that was in the heart of Jesus, over- stepping all barriers of race or nation. Indeed the coining of this man in his need to Jesus was one of the very first indications of the power that his per- son and teaching were yet to gain over the Gentile world (see v. 11). It is possible that the centurion may have known personally the noble- man whose son had been healed by Jesus, according to the story told in John 4: 46-54. He was held in high esteem by the Jews of Capernaum, who. said to Jesus, "Ile is 'worthy that thou shouldst do this for hint; for he loveth our nation and himself built us our synagogue (Luke 7: 3-5). It is interesting to learn that in recent times the ruins of a synagogue have been found at Tell -Hum, believed to be the site of the ancient Capernaum, and that an effort Is being trade to rebuild it. The word "palsy" is an old English "shorter form of the Greek "paralysis." It means the loss of power to move, whether wholly or partially. Since, in this case, the sufferer was "griev- ously tormented," it has been conjec- tured that the case was one of acute spinal meningitis. Luke adds that he -was "at the point of death." Il. A GREAT FAITH RECOGNIZED, VS. 743. So simple, so direct, and so great is this man's faith in the power .,f Jesus that he believes him able to heal by Speaking the word only. He is, he says, not worthy that Jesus should come under his roof. "But onlysay the word and my servant shall be healed." Moffatt renders verse 9 as follows: "For though I am n man under auth- ity myself I have soldiers under me: I tell one man to go, and he goes, I !tell another to conte, and he comes,' I tell niy servant, `Do this,' hnd he does it." Believing Jesus to be like him - What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated .Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern Peddler's Song in. Autumn. (From the Spectator) Ah, 'tis well, enough roving in a world, of summer skiee! A peddler might be merry then, and not be sore at heart, With gold and silver trinkets for to match with laughing eyes, And a little gi-dy donkey and a high wheeled cart. A peddler might' be merry then—aye sure, as I'have been,. A -questioning down the country when hills are starred with flowers, And all the woodland singing, and all the meadows green, And never a lamplit window for to Mutat his evening hours. For then he'd walls with 'Wonder, but now 'tis Sorrow old, A far faint voice that follows him, that goes, with him along, And mocks hint on the hillside, and in the valley's gold, And sweet in roadside gardens filled with autumn robin-soug. 'Tis all but hint have dwellings, over all the shires, Oyer all of England, from sea to ntiaty sea; And men will come at twilight to their own hearth's flres, And mien will build their winter nests beneath the wild rose tree. School girl smartness is expressed in a navy blue wool voile with vivid, red pin dots. It is a dainty fabric that has a bit of warmth that is so necessary for early fall school wear. It uses white pique for its rolled collar and cuffs. The bone buttons are in matching red shade, Another smart idea is shepherd's plaid in blue and white with white linen and solid,blue crepe de chine tie. Featherweight tweed, wool crepe, jersey and heavyweight cottons are darling suggestions. Style No. 2681 may be had in sizes 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires, 134 yards of 39 inch material with ;a yard of 32 -inch con- trasting and a leather belt. 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. Tireless Executive Ad old Scottish woman, who had haver been known to say an ill word about anybody, Was one day taken to task by her husband. "Janet," he said ,impatiently, "I do believe ye'd say a gold word for the de'il himself," "Ah, weel," was the reply, "he -may na be sae gold as he inicht bo, 'but he's a very industrious body."—Mont- real Star. Aye! 'tis well enough roving when the land is bright, A peddler might be merry then, be- fore the swallow's flown, With never a laniplit window far- to haunt him through the night, • And he and his little donkey on the dark road alone. Hamlett Maelareu. Headlight Glare Often Overlooked Royal Auto Club Member Gives Reasons For Trouble • Montreal,—Among the more import- ant safety aspects which are often overlooked is the question of the glare of headlights and its cause, George McNamee, secretary of the Royal Automobile Club of Canada, recently declared in referring to a letter sent, to the Club by a member who has made an exhaustive study of this mat- ter. The letter. follows:— Early 3u the summer I had my lights adjusted by a competent garage to glue tate maximum range with a mini- mum of glare, but shortly afterward noticed many cars which were ap- proaching me at night signalling me to dim, even though my lights were in the "tilt position." I lowered the beam until the spot of light reached the road 50 fent from the car, malting it impossible to drive with safety. Still the compaints were signalled, and since one of these drivers stopped and criticized me, I decided I would. look at my lights through another man's windshield, To my astonish- ment any lights seemed to glare badly, but I also found out that his wind- shield was very dirty, which led me to .make some tests which in turn in- spired this letter. Even the most carefully adjusted lights will glare badly if the observer is behind a dirty windshield. The light becomes diffused over the wind- shield by the minute particles of dust, so that it is impossible to see as far as the radiator cap. I do not believe that this point can be too carefully stressed and further this effect is not counter- acted by the titled windshield, There is another effect of night driv- ing that causes a lot of trouble. It is never wise to watch too closely the lights on an apprgaching car, because all unconsciously the tendency is to drive towards the on -coming lights and unnoticed ono finds oneself in the middle of the road, It is far better policy to watch the right hand edge of the road and drive as near as seems advisable to the shoulder. Smallest Egg Asbury Park, N.J.—An egg so tiny it would take 1,135 of them to make a standard dozen, won a prize recent- ly as the smallest egg at the new Jersey Poultry Fanciers` Association show, It weighed six -tenths of a gram. Holds Record Mrs, •Keith Miller, British woman flier, who set new women's transcon- tinental air record in recent New York -Los Angeles flight. Vitamins May Prove Cure For Leprosy Japanese Scientist Makes Ex- periments With Rats Whicn Strengthen Theory Washington—Food and not medi- cine may be the weapon with whitlt mart finally conquers his ancient and much -dreaded foe, leprosy. Experiments in Japan indicate that development of the disease may be Prevented by the presence of vitamins in the diet, which increases the indi- vidual's resistance. Important studies supporting this theory have been re- ported by Dr. K. Shiga, bacteriologist and dean of the Imperial medical faculty at Seoul, Korea, Other scientists audphysicians have placed much reliance on cliaulmoogra oil as a treatment for the disease. In fact, too much has been claimed for this medicine, Dr. George W, McCoy, director of the United States Isa- tional Institute of Health here, de- clares. There is still no specific treatment for leprosy. Many people have been misled by optimistic state- ments regarding the value of chaul- moogra oil and its derivatives. Dr. McCoy believes. Dr. Shiga found that when he in- jetted leprosy bacilli in normal healthy rats, they did not develop die - ease. Later, after their food had been deprived of vitamins, they soon had leprous sores. From this it ap- pears that lack of vitamins in the diet accounts for susceptibility to leprosy. If this theory is proved to be true, leprosy can' be prevented by proper diet, and the cure for it may also be accomplished by dietary meas- ures. Earning Their Keep "How are you getting on keeping- bees?" eepingbees?" "Very well. We have not had much honey, but the bees have stung my mother-in-law ,several times.' Born Showman "But, darling, 1f your ear ache is better, why do you keep on crying?" "1'm waiting for D -Daddy to c -come hone. die's never s -seen rue with an earache!" A thing of beauty is a joy for ever— and usually a great expense, lIome Chats ay WANE ANN BEST The Lone Guest Years pass so sw ftly one hardly realizes how time flits along 'mitt la birthday reminds youthe fifties are approaching or perhaps fifty nes ''al- ready passed into the land of yester- days. Have you had a tugging at your heart strings to go back to visit the town of your childhood days?. Remin- iscences make eyes dreamy and per- haps misty until the day comes when you really go. But what is wrong? The little town is yours alright, but it has surely taken on a veneer Of strangeness, which slowly conveys a lonely feeling. Strange people walk your streets, the children laugh and shout who main tentionally have no smile for you and oh, the blank feeling of looking for the old home to find it isn't there, A new bright windowed structure seems to want to welcome you but you hesi- tate to go in and a lump rises in your throat as memories crowd in with pictures of the past: But it may be as You feel your worst, your eyes absent-mindedly rest on a lovely maple tree. tI has grown to maturity and Is flaunting cheerful exquisite autumn aolors, while its leaves insistently whisper "Don't you remember me?" and through the haze of years comes the realization that this is the tree good old Dad and I planted when I was only ten, grown to maturity along.with me. The old gnarled oak is there too, the same as ever, time. is kind to it. But the old elm is gone and brings a fleeting sad thought.' The reverie is broken by a voice from a passerby, "Well could this by any possible chance be my old school chum of long ago? Do you remember me?" and after a good look there ap- pears trom behind the' folds of good uatm'ed increased' weight and silvered hair the outline of a familiar face. A cordial invitation to come up to her old home for a sociable cup of tea when old days can be talked over, is given. Since the welcome is sincere loneliness pelts away and the lone guest is lonely no longer, Children Enjoy Surprises The School Lunch Sometimes it seems very difficult to keep up the appetite of the kiddies who find it necessary to take their lunch to school. Here are a few suggestions. Each child enjoys a hot cup of cocoa which can so easily be supplied if a vacuum bottle is supplied or it may be filled with hot soup. A Good Lunch Box Salad 1 orange, 1 tbisp, cottage cheese, 1 tbisp. chopped fruit (figs, dates or raisins), one tblsp, ground nuts (pea- gt,",, nuts, almonds or walnuts) and' Lettuce. Peel the orange and cut the pulp In small pieces, draining it from all extra juice and removing all membrane. Mix orange pulp, cottage cheese (drained dry) and chopped fruit. Pack in glass jar ora'jeily glass which has been lined with lettuce, cover with the ground nuts and put on a tight cover., Sandwich Suggestions Spread one slice of sandwich with orange marmalade, the other with cot- tage cheese or peanut butter. Chop hard boiled eggs, moisten with lemon juice, season, spread over let- tuce in a sandwich. Mix ehoiiped dates, raisins, dry figs and ground nuts with orange juice and a little cream. Spread generously on titin slices of bread. Slice a banana, marinate fu lemon juice, spread on one bread slice, spread th@ other`slice with honey and cream, mixed. Mix ground carrot and celery and nuts with lemon juice and boiled dressing. Cut open a roll, remove some of the bread, fill with dressing and fit half together again. Since winter 18 beginning to show its teeth and the warm days of fall are coning less and less frequently it seems hard to accustom ourselves to the cold and until we do become 'ac- customed to it coughs and colds are frequent. Au old domestic remedy that has been successfully used for croup is the vapor from salt and vinegar. It seems to have the power of dissolving and loosening the tight membrane which has lodged in the throat. Beat a quart of strong vinegar to which a pint of salt is added, then saturate woolen cloths with the solution and .held it to the patient's mouth. Keep the cloths hot constantly so that the vapor and heat is inhaled steadily. Old Leather Furniture i Lid you know that leather can be very successfully lacquered. It can be done in any of the new shades, per- haps true lacquer red looks the best /for most purposes Have the furniture renovated and put into good firm shape, missing but- tons replaced and all sags eliminated, Then take same mild brand of soap I flakes and make a suds. Wash with a soft cloth. Dry carefully and apply some good vegetable oil such as lin- seed. When the leather has soaked up ail the oil it is soft and pliable. Do I not apply the lacquer until all the oil is absorbed. Lacquers dry very quickly so work fast, allow it to run on rather than brushing as with ordinary paint. It really gives you a new colorful set of furniture, The Song of the Aviator Earth has her highways. Her byways and triways; But nine are the skyways -- The skywards for me. To the ocean her seaways. Her wind and her leeway -s; The skyways are gleeways. Wide, open and free, The motor and railways, The steam and the tallness. Are naught to the galewa; Above earth and sea. The highways are ground,. : The seaways are boundway.; The skyways, profound way,-, The best of the three. Farewell to earth's highwa:. The sea's far and nigh way's; Tho skyways are my ways, Anil ever shall be, —Donald Baht. Upside Down Record Berlin—Werner Weichelt, chief pilot of the aviation scho ti at attester, claims the world's record for flying an airplane upside down, In an ordin- ary plane above the stheol's field he succeeded in flying in an inverted po- sition for 46 minutes and 53 seconds, • Synthetic Sapphires Detected, by Rays Synthetic gents are real gems, so far as chemical composition is con- cerned. To detect them from those found in nature has therefore been difficult, But The Scientific Amera can (New York) now tells us that synthetic sapphires can be told readily ' from the natural stones by means of the cathode-ray tube, We read: "The use, of the tube in this work is the first commercial application of the apparatus which was developed in the research laboratory of the General Electric. Company, by Dr. W. 1). Cool- idge about' four years ago, "Sapphires, next to diamonds in hardness, are . used by the company at the rate of more than a million and a half a year as jewels for bearings in meters and other delicate electricalin- struinents. "Trays' of sapphires, both nature! and synthetic, ars exposet in a dark room to the powerful rays of the tube for a iew seconds, All glow` or radiate colors while expoeed to. the rays, but when the rays are turned' off, the na- tural stones 'cease to glow whereas the synthetic stones continue to glow In addition to sorting the natural front the synthetic sapphires, the rays also help determine where both the natural and factory -made gems come from, an important advantage, according to en- gineers. ngineers. "Should sapphires from Montana be mixed with stones front Australia, we could find this out with the cathode rays,' B. W. St. Clair, of the cam, pany's laboratory, explained. 'In the case of synthetic stones, in most cases we can determine which factory made them by the different hue or the glow while the rays are on. We have one Particular kind of natural sapphire which does not glow at all. In this case, the lack of glow under the rays immediately tells us its origin: "Tests have been made with dia- monds, and it has been found that synthetic stones turn decidedly brown when placed in the rays, whereas there Is no change in natural stones. However, these tests have been but meager., and no definite conclusions have been reached." Spreading the Gospel .1 new record has again been letup by the British and Foreign Bible Society. According to its annual re- port, just issued, the number of copies of Scripture circulated during the year 1929-30 surpasses alt previous records. The total figure was 12,175,292. Even among those who profess other faiths, the value of the Bible is recognized more and more.- The story is told in the report of how a eolpor- teur, conversing with a Moslem school- master, said that he wasn't a preacher. The Moslem laughed. "The Book you sell speaks more than a hundred preachers," he replied, "lir a; preacher speaks to the ear, but -iris Book speaks to the heart:" All sorts aid conditions of men act rs the society's colporteurs. One 15 an ex -bandit. He is now risking his life to sell the Scriptures, Geodetic Survey of Canada Apart from its work in triangula- tion and levelling, the Geodetic Sur- vey of Canada has the important func- tion of co-operating iu the determina- tion of the size and shape of the earth. The greatest geodetic mathematicians in the world are attempting to solve the problem which is of great scien- tific importance, MUTT AND JEFF- By BUD FISHER •SLK 86LfS:.y'M GONNA • GGT t)P ANI) GO iNTNC– cluil Gere ANA • SM0t WHAT A NIGHT, RITC' l ?J : me SNeut b Pur SouND" PROOF CC- ILI NG S IN TRESc- Be(vTNs: Goob Mot2NIIUG,' SIR: HOW DID) You sLGG9 Sm? TCIZR18Le: Taiosia MIDGGTS tN T G uPPete. BeRTR KGPT MG AkkAkc WALKING ARoLJNb UP THERE ALL The Little Parade. it - Simple Things I like to fling the doorway wide and bid a friend tome in, I like to have a blazing fire in which my dreams to sphi, I 'like an easy -chair at times and boobs to read at night, A little garden space outside with blossoms red and white, A bowl of soup and home-made bread, a yellow bird that sings, For happiness, it seems to me, is born of simple things. We weary of the fame we win and sicken of our gold, The joy which once we thought they had they do not seem to hold, But mau can sit with friends to -night and !watch the faggots burn And want them all to come again and wait for their return, And when October tints once more an old familiar tree There's none .so bored by beauty but will turn his eyes to see. No pian grows weary of his fire, his books and easy -chair; The roses Im has brought to bloom to him are always fair. The more familiar joys become the deeper grows his love, Who wearies of a lovely moon and all the stars above? So mindful of tate thrill of power and all that money brings, It seems to me the lasting joys are born of simple things. Edgar A. Guest, "When yon treat a girl to a steak dinner don't talk chop." Milkweed Doss the golden autumn gale Soon the milkweed seed will salt, Will go drifting, drifting, Toward a port without a hail, Like the ship of ancient marque Upon which we all embark, Will go drifting, drifting, Toward the deep and unknown'darks Like the milkweed seed are we Upon life's autumnal sea; We go drifting, drifting, Onward toward eternity, —Clinton Scollard• iii the New !orlt Sun,