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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-03-26, Page 2Sunday School Lesson great crisis in our own lives or in the life of the world is, or may be, a coming of the Son of man to •u3, if we Will let him. come to us in our extremity. The. Church plods on its weary tray with doubts •& d deficits and inertia. "baro great hangs for God," said William Carey, "and: exp March 2. Lesson XII -The Use and Abuse.of God's Gifts—Luke 12: 16.21,, 41.48. Golden Text—Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the spirit,- Ephesians 5: 18. ANALYSIS. L A CERTAIN RICH MAN, 12: 16-21. II.' WATCHFULNESS, 12: 41-46. I1i. THE COMING Or "THE SON 'OP ltiAN," 12: 47, 48. L A CERTAIN RICK MAN, 12:; 16-21. • V. 16. This story is not so much a parable as an illustration, but an il- lustration of what? There are two morals which might be drawn from it, and it is not clear which is prim- arily intended. First, the story illus- trates the extreme uncertainty of hu- man life; man who "knows not what a day may bring forth" is always nialdng plans for the future; indeed some men so "live in the future" as we say, that they never enjoy today. Let us make the most and make the best of life while we have it, for. we do not knew how long it will be ours But while this might be the chief meaning of the story it is not prob- ably so. Rather, it seems we are given a pieture of an entirely selfish and unspirttually minded man. He has put together enough wealth to last his own life -tine, and that is all he cares about. For the future he intends to "have a good tine," I•Iis idea of a good time is a life of eating, drinking and merry -making. Itis ideal of life, therefore, is that of one lona, easy, unadventurous and selfish holi- day. He had found no happiness in his work as a piece of human service; his work was a bore, and his life be- gins where his work ended. It has often been noted, in modern times, that men who snake money very quickly and then retire to enjoy them - .elves, rarely live to a fell age. A life that has no real. unselfish interest to feed .: is ant to nicker out. Let a man, then, find his true life and hap- piness in £althfully and hopefully per- forming, each day's task as it conies. . 19. "wood" does not mean here the higher and spiritual hart of our na- ture, but rather the "self." V. 20. The ma:1 has had no real love. for anybody in his heart.' The wealth that he has so laboriously accunulac- ed is useless to him, and so far as he is concerned it all goes for nothing. II. WATCHFULNESS, 12: 41-46. The subject of this parable as of that which precedes it is "watchful- ness" as a duty. Peter here aske whether the duty devolves upon every- body or only upon the disciples. The answer is that it devolves in a special way upon the disciples, for tleey are "stewards of the mysteries of God," and it is their task to "feed my sheep." It seems that the Church of later years understood this parable to apply to ministers and church offi- cials. As the expectation' of the im- mediate second coming of Christ be- gan to fade away, and he seemed to "delay" (v, 45), there was a tendency for the church leaders bout to grove lazy and self-indulgent, and also to "lord .t over" their congregations. The parable isused as a warring to them. "Temperance is not confined to the use or non-use of ardent spirits. It operates in every sphere of life. The lavishing upon self of the gifts of God is intemperance of the highest order. Therefore let us not lee drunk with goods, wherein is es, but strive to be filled with the Spirit." III. TEE COMING OF "THE seer me aMAN," 12: 47, 48. When we speak of the duty of watchfulness, wn aro generally think- ing of watchfulness against tempta- tion; that is not at all the meaning here. Here is a watchfulness for "the coming of the Son of Man' What are we to understand by thr The. 'e"arly Church believed that Jesus would very shortly return to inaugur- ate the kingdom of God in power and glory, but Jesus cad nob come again, at least not in the way expected. The Church as a whole today no longer .expects the speedy second advent of Christ, and this teaching, therefore, presents grave perplexity to many Christian hearts. It is an essential part of the Christian hope that the 1-ingdom of God will surey reme. The day and the hour are known to Geel rl<.nc ; but it 1e far from clear oheth e the old expectation df a physical re- turn of Jetts to this earth on the clouds of heaven is what Jesus really recant. It is clearly suggested in the C =.""1 of elfin that tee routing of the Snirit s the second coining of Christ (Irbn 14: 141, and this may b- near- er to the mind of Meet, Aeedn, every pect great things from God." Tho Son of man is always coming to as, if we are watchful. If this ,does not. exhaust the moaning of the passage, it is at least a truth we can clearly greets, PAVLOVA DEAD (January 31, 1885: January 23, 1931) (From Poetry) Pavlova, will you dance no more? Will the tulip strut, up in the earth? Will the swan forever fold white wings? Will the flute go silent And the ray full of rainbows flicker and fail? Pavlova, your foot is lighter than the perfumes of lilies, Brighter than the sparkle of waves, More musical than the thrush at twilight. Somewhere—oh, softly— Pavlova, will you dance no more? —Harriet Monroe. What New York BY ANi1ABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressn,0Jcing Lesson Fur Wished With. -. --^, Pattern ;r.. ,ruing dress 'with kin,o.-o sleeves tele. can be easily 1 made in an hour or possibly two. The small cost will :rove a revelation. The fronts cross and close at the left side creating a charming slender-. izing effect. Style No. 2953 is designed for sizes 1 18. years, ,",6, 38; 40, 42, 44, 40, 48 and 50 inches bust. The 36 -inch size re- quires 4111 yards of 39 -inch material with 11 yard of 18 -inch contrasting and 21_: yards of ribbon. Rayon novelties, printed batiste, linen, printed dimity, gingham, men's cotton shorting and tub silk appro- priate. The tiny vestee is 'removable. It is merely fastened at each side with snappers. The skirt cuts in three sections and is stitched to the bodice ..=tiler the removable belt. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giring number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in ,tamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, aitd addre s your order to 'Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.. The Salic law was the old French law that prevented succession to the Crown by 00 through a woman. Two Celebrities. An informal snapshot of Charlie Chap;in, foremost screen cau.ea- ian, strolling with Ramsay MacDonald, premier of Great Britain, about latter's estate at Chegtters. A knighthood for Charlie' is runt- tired. The Control of the Apple Scab Experience itas shown that good commercial control of the apple scab can be obtained by proper and timely use of any standard fungicide, whether in solution or dust. Form- ulas for lime -sulphur, bordeaux mix- ture, copper dust, and sulphur dust, four of the moat popular sprays and dusts used for apple scab control, are given in a new pamphlet oii the Apple Scab, issued by the Dominion Department of Agriculture. In order to be effective all control' measures must be taken before the injury or disease commence to shoal on the plant. The growing leaves and fruit must be protected as soon as possible after they are formed The first ap- plication should bo made when the leaf buds are in the "green -tip" or "mouse -ear" stage of development, The second spraying' or dusting is applied when the flower 'buds are showing pink and are separating from the clusters, and the third is given when the petals have mostly fallen. From ten to fourteen days filen it is necessary to protect the developing fruit during periods of prolonged wet weather. Dusts may be applied on wet foliage but - 'yr •' said , aepltetl only oe ; age. If it is consideeel ne •s •1,. _ i :a,r full r, i:,>ur should be used, .A special ::- tion of fungicide about a m0,, .. or sixweeks before harvest is air:s- able. The pamphlet may he obtain- ed from the Publication Branch,. De - Pertinent of agriculture, Ottawa.— Issued ttawa—Issued by the Director of Publicity, Dom. Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa," Easter Animals Tile date of Master depends upon the moon, It falls upon the first Sun- day after the fourteenth day of the moon that happens to be reigning at the time of the spring. equinox. This is the reason why Life Mare is always associated with Easter. For many centuries the hare has been re- garded as the symbol of the moon. The hare feeds by moonlight, and its young, unlike those of most other warn blooded animals, are born with their eyes open, Indeed, the old fable is that the hare never closes its eyes. In the P0gyptian language the word for hare meant also a period of twenty- eight days, or that of a lunar month. Other creatures are associated with the geat festival of spring the ass because it was upon an ass that Christ rode into Jerusalem; and the hall called the dory, for this is the creature from whose mouth the silver piece was taken, and upon either side of whose head are said to he the marks of the sacred finger and thumb. An Aberdeen lady was suggesting to her husband. that it was time she possessed a Motor --car. "lea, na," he replied, "eel' jilt be content wi' the splendid carriage nature has given Ye.' Belgium's Gift to Britain guPert Brooke's dream , of a little corner of some foreigu field that ehoild "be for ever England" has re- ceived a striking fulfilment. Over in Belgium, in the Ypres district, where SO ninny of our dead lie buried, about six hundred British people are en- gaged ngaged in caring for the cemeteries. There is, in fact, a little British set- tlement at Ypres, a community which is in some ways unique. It has been granted legal status under the school la:v. It has its own church and par- sonage, a school -in which about one hundred .children are being educated as British citizens, and a rest room for pilgrims. When he introduced the hill to regularize an entirely British Community in a foreign country, the Belgian Minister of Justice said that his government had framed it "in re- menibra=ice of what we owe to tite British natior. and in homage to the soli':t that inspired the creation of these establishments in the Ypres district," Needless to say the British, people everywhere are pleased with this evidence of continued friendship and good -will between the two coun- tries, --"The New Outlook" (Toronto); Owner of "Soundproof' ' Farm Cleared of Murder Sydney, Australia.—Because his lit- tle farm was 111 the "sound shadow," or depression to which outside noises did not penetrate, a farmer was acquitted here of the murder of his father. When his wealthy seventy -nine-year-' old father was found battered to death within 200 yards of the farm, Cecil Charles, fifty-two, was arrested. A material, factor against the ac- cused was his steadfast denial that he heard his father's cries for help al- though farmers' on the other side of tho ridge heard them distinctly. Then, by accident, it was discovered that the farm was in a "sound shad ow." Men shouted, gelignite was ex- ploded and bombs burst at the spot where the old man hall been killed. The soOnds could be heard all over the surrounding districts but not on the farm. March Miracle Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-dey the glint of green is there To -morrow will be leaflets spars; 'I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will next be there! —L. 11, Bailey. The weekly crop reports of the county representatives of the On- tario Department of Agriculture would indicate that the majoritf of the farmer$ have sufficient supplies of feeds to bring their livestock through the winter in good Condi "tion, A greater number of cattle will be carried over for summer P marketing. qlome Chats 6y• ,. mpg!AHP4 HEST A Prayer (The following is 'to be found in Chester Cathedral). Give me a, good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; Give me a healthy body, Lord, AIM sense to keep it at its- beat. Give me a healthy mind, good Lord, ' To keep the pure and good in sight, Which seeing sin, is not appalled, But finds the way to set it right. Give me a mind that is not bored, That does not whimper, whine or sigh; Don't let exe worry overmuch, About that fussy thing called "I." Give me -t -sense of humor, Lord, Give me the grace to see a joke, To get some..happiness in life And pass it on to other folk, Windows Very `often do we not find .that houses express the personalities of the peepli living within its walls? This -question can best be answered by asking another. Did you ever no- tice the different look a house puts on when anotherowner or tenant. dwells within? Perhaps you have had occasion to go back to your old home after a_loig absence. The house is occupied by strangers and as you look over the old familiar rooms somehow. they are familiar no longer. It seems so different one might almost think the plan of the house had been changed. Sometimes, even thougls it were our own loved be •e, we must admit •the change is for the better. The furni- ture may be more suited to the differ- ent rooms some of which are newly painted and pi.pered, A window alas be draped in a manner untliought of by you and be much more artistic; so that thinking magnanimously, we are glad the o:d place has blossomed out. Then agar' it may be everything has deteriorated. The walls are smoked up, the once carefully kept floors are scratched enc: dull and the rooms cold and nnillY1tIOS. So each house reflects unconscious- ly the pereonelitie.: Within. The win- dows :mile their welcome or look dingy and forbidding and it doesn't matter if the home is large and com- modious, or small and commonplace, those windows with curtains plain or gay and silky, sparklo and shine, tell-' ing of the cheery housewifely care within or 'are dull and uninteresting. The windows are the eyes of the home. And the personalities within that Name mirror from tate human eye the window of the soul. The cheerful look expresses the bright personalitY within and gives glimpses of thought and purpose. Character is revealed and all 'inrcnsciously we tell what we c1.0,' found nearly frozen on the Perch two morninge ago? Well, all•day .oeg it, stayed on 'the Window very quiet In. its little corner. It'•'didn't seem to be dead, but it wasn't very nuich alive either. So she just let it sit there because it looked so pretty. But when she name down this morning to get' breakfast it was on the' curtain- with i its wings tightly folded together. Good old Mr. Sun had kept en shining, on its cold' stiff little feet and dainty wings to matte it well as fast as he; could. But today, when Mamma' Lady touched it and said "Good morning" 1: really answered her and said "Good morning" by spreading Rs delicate; Wings out an back, out and back, out. and back, slowly and gracefully. All at once it fluttered its wings and flow onto a plant in the window, then bo - fore Mamma Lady knew what it was doing it flew over onto her shoulder and stayed there while she got break - seat I won''er if it was, asking for some breakfast. It had to ask in a different way because it couldn't talk. It couldn't say "l$eow," like thekitty cats, or "peep, peel,," like the chicks 0r ",Bow -wow" like Rover, or "I'd like some breakfast; Mamma, please,' like little girls and boys can. However, Mamma Lady teas sure it was asking for some breakfast. She looked at it very closely, but she could not see that it had a mouth. It had two big eyes alright, but she wondered how It could eat, what to feed it,' for two long days since she found it was Along time„and it didn't have the yel low of the egg in its tummy, like the wee chicks hadatfirst, either. Then Mamma Lady thought she of- ten used to see thesd dear little but- terflies lethesummer on lovely flow- ers that have honey away inside the blossom, but she never noticed how , they got the honey out. Do you think, perhaps, if it liked honey it would like sugar? Well, Mamma Lady got a pinch of sugar and put a drop of water on it in a saucer on the window, then gently she lifted the butterfly off her shoulder, when it had its wings closed, and then she watchedto see what it would doe I knew you rail never guess ]tow it ate the segared water. But it did drink it and 11 drank for' a long time too, for it was pretty thirsty. This is what it did: Right id between the eyes it had a little curled up whistle, the kind that when you blow in tite end the curl flies out straight, only this little curl was so very small, not any bigger around than -a tine thread. Mamma Lady often noticed that curl on the butterflies, but slte didn't know what it was for. Now as soon as it saw the water and sugar that little curl unfolded long and straight. It felt around for awhile with the point and then it dipped it right into the middle of the sugar and water and kept it there for a long time. Do you know what it was do- ing? It was sucking it up just like you do when you have alt ice-cream soda and you drinlc up that good creamy juice through the straw. At - ter it was through eating it grew pretty lively and started whirring its wings. Do you know what that is like? It means it stands Still but m;..ltes its wings go so fast you can hardly see them. I wonder what it did that for - just because it felt good, I suppose. Next Week—"Tlte Chicles Again." Rearing Chk!ka There may be too much dogmatism 'regarding the proper methods or chick reeding and, rearing. Given well hatchedchicks from good, vig- 000us,`'a:altlly parents and almost any system offeeding, where ordi- ivary common sense, is used, good results are likely to be obtained. In many instances there .is' too Much - time wasted uch-time-.wasted in fussing with- cheeks. feeding tests at the Central- Ex- perisnp,itel Farm have indicated that equally 'good results can be obtain- ed where e good mash is fed -in trop- poi's kept constantly before the chicles from the time they are ready to feed -(about 48 hours) --as where regular ,feeding five or six times per day is practised.' In conjunction with the tnaslt feed, of course, water, milk, fine grit and oyster shell and green feed are given. When the chicles are about ' ten' da.ys.. of age a light toed of 1 scratch grain is given daily. When ( the chicks are a mouth to six weeks of age the chicle mash is replace,' by growing mash and whereat about two , months of age, a hopper of crush- ed oats in addition to' the 'growing mash .is kept before them at all times. This system cuts dawn great - lythe labor of attendance.. See that the chicks have suflicieat heat to enable them to warm up any time they feel like it but avoid keep- ing the houses closed more than is necessary. Allow the chicks outon range as neon as weather permits. Prevent crowding in the brooder houses to stretching pieces 'of wire netting across the corners and put in low roosts and encourage .the chicks to use them ' as early as poe- sible. Separate the sexes and dispose of all cockerels that are not to be re- tained for breeders as soon as they can be satisfactorily marketed. Good chicks to start with, given” good foci, kept in clean, well ventil- ated not overcrowded houses on clean, .fresh, green range venni strong, vigorous pullets In the fall which are the only elnd that w111 satisfy the up-to-date, successful poultry keeper. Berlin Ea'--alI..!'£a r.:...::: :71-t. i3g Fisk! Berlin—Eeri;n now has a rocket flying .flea wi.tlt anarea of about two sq,aale miles, and experimenters- hope xperimentershope the tray will come when regular poe,al rocket service costing 37 cents for •an ordinary letter can be estab- lished bo.weeu:here and New York, while a flying time of half an hour. Present experiments deal with the ' perfection of a gas which can be do- veloped as the rocket flies, as the creation of gas in exact volume to the rate of speed is an essential tea ture of determining a racket's capac- ity to tall at a given destination. It is believed that mathematical exact- ness of line of flight can be obtain- ed when a rocket is able to trnvel in the .thin•air zone, six or eight miles above the ear'tlt. References in the German press to the precision of the' "Big Bertha" shells, in discussions of the possibili- ties of rockets, suggests the extraor- dinarily dangerous character of the experiments now being carried on at the Bertin rocket flying field. Salisbury, Eng-, Seeks Stones From Salisburys of .America Salisbury, Eng.—Stones from every town in the world named Salisbury are to be sought for construction of a new bridge across the River Avon here. These towns will be asked to send saltably lettered stones, Among the American towns are the Salleburys in Connecticut, Mary- land, 1MIassacllusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, New Hempshire, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont. A point may be stretched to include Salisbury Mills and Salisbury Center in New York and Salisbury Cove in Maine, These Are Good — Seafoam Candy 3 cups brown sugar, ?4 cup boiling water, 1 tb sp v Hegar 1 w boil till it halve from the spoon in a long hair. Beat the whites of 2 eggs, then beat syrup Into whites of eggs. Add 4 cup nut meats if desired. (This can be wide with white sugar as well when a little vanilla improves the taste). Butterscotch Pie Put 1 cup of mills in double boiler to scald. Combine '3 level tblsps. cornstarch and ,, teasp. salt with % cupcold milk. Then add to bot .milk, stirring until -smooth and thick. Cook 2 tblsps. butter and 1 cup brown sugar until sugar is well mixed and bubbly but do not cook to caramel. Stir sugar into cornstarch mixture, Then add 2 yolks of eggs beaten light first diluted with a little of the hot mixture. Tttru the filling into a baked pie crust and cover with a meringue of the white of the two eggs and ',, cup white sugar. Let bake slowly 10 minutes. Serve when partly Or wholly cold. Twilight Hour Story — About Wee Chloklea and Other 'Little Friends Chapter1.4 ' Do you remember about the lovely black and gold butterfly Mamma Lady March 13y, Mary Carolyn Davies March is the month for suoit won- • derful things! The winds are white eagles; we feel their great wings. March is the month when the whole earth is making, Sleepily, drowsily, ready for waking. April Is conning, and May, and ort, soon It will be June, Stine, Iota! The courts have ruled that a col- lege can compel' its students to get vaccinated. Wo wish the same ruling could be extended to getting them educated.—"San Diego Union," F,v RI 1!) FISHER - \c,,�'N, GewG To GGT .IF'n tiAV YESI 1 THiete ro!. `!OU R[B-f2.M9ER- WILL THAT ,J THAT ELCVGN Dot-t_A2s START A s owe Yoy'. FIGHT? weLL, t'M GONNA twt yOV -nose ELEVEN 5t.1 oweveS- I`M A JOINT BANK AccooNT GONNA START r `V::T„al tT'�-t ` No Check Is Good On A Hat. rwNAT's _atm.? —Tr (NOW,z PUT MS EICVCN l0) THE BANK Aieeh THAT GIVC-s Us A FINANCIAL RATING° WUPP-WUPP- JUSTA Z MINUTE LOT'S WRONG' (,SHIER vI Doter Pur Nome or My MONEY IN BANK WHG-cee 1' C CASHIER. !«EFS alts HAT r--' OM. Belongings (From Voices) Why can;lot our things die, too, When we do? I hate those beads and locketa" That lasted longer than eyes or sockets. A flattened thimble That outlived its finger. Such fragile cups, with chips, That yet endured longer than lips. --Gladys Nolan. Whalers estimate that the average whale can cover a distance of about 12 miles in an hour. Australia's sheet population this year is about 100,000,000, which is 10 times the number of human inhabit- ants. The total gross value of the prod - legs from the furniture factories of 'Canada in 1929 amounted to 544; 130,176 as compared with 54L825,- 534 in 1928, according to'a report of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. There are 367 establishments in all, 213 being located in Ontario, 71 is Quebec, 28 in British Columbia, 21 in Manitoba and the remainder Itt the other provinces. Capital in- vested in 1929 ,alnounten to 541,851,- 682 as ,compared with 530,529,474 in 1928. -