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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1919-04-24, Page 3' rh'ta pep'artinent'le for' the use of our farm readers who Went .'the 'adv1oa isf an expert on any,questlon regarding moll seed, croe, etc. if ydur question is of sufficient general ,Interest, it will be answered through this column.' If •stamped And addressed envelope is enclosed with your letter, a compists .aneWeewill be mailed to you. Address Apronomiot. care of Wilson Publishing • Ltd,, 73 Adelaide Bt. W..• Toronto. When to Spray and What Y'or. All the spray mixtures it is pos- .aible to use on a tree will not' do much good unless the right applica tions are made at the right time, Those. directions will tell just when .to spray and what for. Spraying Apples.—Four or five .apravings are necessary, depending on the Beason and how badly the -orchard .is- infested with insects and ,disease, First, spray: Apply jest after leaf buds burnt but before blossoms open. 'Ilse either 'Bordeaux mixture 4-4-50, or open -a :eta' lime -sulphur testing '32 deg. or 33 deg. Baume diluted 1 to 40. (See next article for direr-. .::tions for making Bordeauk-mixture,) .Add two pounds of lead -arsenate to mach fifty gallons of, the, spray mix - lure. This spray •ie for control of •scab, enrculio and canker -worm. Second,spray: Just after the blos- soms fall use This materials as for first spray, This is for control of .the codling -moth, and must be ap- plied with a great deal of force. A power sprayer is best. Third spray: Two or three weeks later than second spray. Same mat -I •erials fie ter first apray. If blotch is bad 'in the orchard; use Bordeaux 'mixture 4-6-60 instead of time -sul- phur; add two pounds of lead-arsen- -ate to fifty gallons of spray material. Fourth spray:, Nine weeks after the third spray. Use same material as for first spray. This is for con- trol. of scab, brown rot and second brood of codling -moth. Fifth spray: This is necessary only where' blotch, black rot, bitter rot rand outer fungus' diseases are t roublesome. Use same materials as 'for third spray and apply two weeks after fourth spray. Pears and Quinces need the saltie. general treatment as apples, except • that when lime -sulphur is used it should not be quite so strong. Spraying Plums.—A dormant spray of lime -sulphur is applied for 'San Jose scale any time during the • dormant season. During the grow- ing season several sprays are nec- essary. First spray: Just before blossoms open apply Bordeaux mixture 4-4-50. Add two pounds of lead -arsenate to each fifty gallons of spray material. This is for control of brown rot and curculio, Second spray: Just after blossoms fall use same materials as for first a spray.. Third spray: Same materials' es second spray, three weeks after petals fall, Cherries need the same general treatment as plums, How to Make Spray Illixtures. To make Bortleeux mixture take four pounds of copper sulphate, four pounds of quicklime fifty gallons of water. Dissolve the copper sulphate by putting it In a coarse cloth bag and suspending the bag in a barrel partly filled with "water, Slake the lime in a tab and strain the milk of lime into another tub or barrel. Pour the dissolved copper sulphate and the milk of lime into the sprayer tank, or into a supply tank, at the same time. Add enough water to make fifty gallons. For Bordeaux 4-6-50 use six pounds of lime` instead of four. To make selfrboiled lime -sulphur 8-3-50 referred to in the first article, use eight pounds of unslaked lime, eight pounds of flowers of sulphur, fifty gallons of water. Place the lane is a' barrel and add almost enough Water tie cover the lime. When the time begins to slake add the sulphur,: which should bo made into a paste by nixing it with water. : Stir the cooking' mixture and add water as needed to keep it in the form of a thick _paste, which a should 'become thinner as the mixture cooks. In ten or fifteen minutes the heat from the slaking lime will nook the mixture and enough cold water should be added to make fifty gallons.. This is the standard summer spray for peaches. / How To Get a Stand of Alfalfa. , Getting a stand of alfalfa is most-. ly a question of soil. If the soil is right your efforts will be crowned With success. Generally the ,problem is to make alfalfa succeed after you get the stand. Alfalfa requires a moderately dry soil, well drained :even during rainy weather. If the eon becomes water-logged for many days the alfalfa will be- come ,yellow and unthrifty. It needs moisture, . but it likes lo . have the moisture in the air and soil at the. Baine,time. This is the reason alfalfa does better in well -drained soils. . Although drainage is a big essen- tial insuccessful alfalfa growing, an occasional overflow of a creek or river .will do no hnrm if it comes during the winter, or if the water is moving in summer.:. Alfalfa will not thrive, nor even live long, without bacteria helping it- It has become used to 'them and depends upon -.them. .;Alfalfa-pzomot- ing bacteria, will not live in all soils. Carbonate of lime makes the alfalfa or nitrifying bacteria thrive. They do not seem to be able to live with- out it. While it is not known definitely why carbonate of lime makes the nitrifying bacteria do so weli, many alfalfa growers advance the theory that alfalfa plants give off certain substances which are poisonous to the plant. That is, the alfalfa roots give off a poison that is injurious to itself anti to other alfalfa roots. When there is much carbonate of lime in the soil this poison is in some way neutralized and the alfalfa is kept in health and vigor. In addition to making the soil a healthful home for good and useful bacteria, carbonate of "lime con- serves humus and stops a -waste of nitrogen. When plants decay in the soils nitric acid is formed. This is soluble and, unless taken up by the plants, soon _leaches away. If there is a supply of lime present, the nitric acid unites with the lime to form Calcium nitrate. This locks up the nitrogen and holds it. • Since the lime naturally sinks in the soil, it is best to put .it near the surface. It ought to be mixed as perfectly as possible with the soil, as it is, not effective when left in lumps. This is because the lime is not in contact with enough of the soil particles. As ground limestone is harmless, a person may use as much of it as he wishes. It is pleasant to work with and doesn't burry like caustic line when it gets on the skin, nor does it cake together if it happens to get wet. One may put it on the soil at any time. It may he put on with manure, as it does not burn out the humus. Soil acids attack the particles of limestone and are neu- tralized, but the lime itself does no harm, no matter how much is used, The person who feeds swine for the purpose of producing pork should know the ,indications of an animal that will gain weight rapidly and thereby pay a profit to its owner. If the hog raiser is feeding the lard type of hog he should seek in ani- mals for fattening those which possess the characteristics of the fat. hog type which are a short and broad face, wide head, ears well apart, full jo%vl, short legs, wide and deep body' with good full spring of rib. If the fanner is feeding bacon hogs he should look for little less width shout the head and face and ' for good length and depth of body at the same time avoiding coarse- ness. Whether a hog raiser should feed lard er bacon hogs will depend large- ly on the location of his farm. When'; ever possible home grown feedstuffs should be used, because feeding pur- chased feeds is not always conducive to profit. If the farm grows an ebunclance of corn and clover or al- falfa it Will be more profitable to grow the lard typo, while on the other hand, if the main feeds grown are barley, peas, oats, etc., having a narrower nutritive value, bacon hogs can often be raised to a better advantage. By far the greatest number of hogs are fitted for market duripg the summer and early all months. Dur - Mg the summer the rezotb,amentn fAx shelter, maintenance and labor are least, while grains cheapest and greatest. Of these the greater num- ber is fattened on pasture. It is found that pigs fed cord alone on bluegrass pasture make equally as great gains as pigs fed in dry lot on a balanced rhtion. Clover or al- falfa give better returns than blue- grass or timothy when corn is fed in conjunction. Corn .along on abund- ant clover pasture forms an ideal' ration, excelling a balanced ration of corn and tankage or middlings in rapidity of gains and excelling all other ration's on pasture when rate and economy of gains are considered. A satisfactory system of pasture feeding fox pigs farrowed in April and are ready for pasture in May is: The previous fall a field is sown, to rye or winter vetch, furnishing a good crop for pigs when they are turned out; one acre of this supplies 100 pigs and their mothers for about a month; also a ration of corn meal tankage or skim -nine is fed them. About the first of June the pigs are weaned and placed on clover or alfal- fa, which furnishes green feed for the next five or six weeks. About the 16th of July they are turned in e pasture of field peas and oats, time supplying part of the grain ration; the acreage is larger 'because the pigs are larger. Green. sweet corn ie also fed at this time but not 'be- fore it reaches the roasting ear stage, e'paringly at flret, being gradually increased, With this there is little or uo need of corn meal ration,' until --- ATEST SONG r' 7 for - Kissable Child Nobody Hllse. Will Do Red Crone Girt et Mine $1.00. Sometime Between Midnight and Dawn Alabama Ball. Virginia from Virginia Wait For Me I Want to Soo if My Daddy!e ComeIibtne. The whole seven ammo will be sent prepaid on receipt of price together with our complete Ilat of popular muolc. Wo will also place your name on our mailing Ilet to recoj.vo, notice of the new songs ae they come out. Send the dollar noW and get,the muolc by return mall. Ideal $ o Pu17 A'DELa,YDE ST, :7 ��� . gyp' ��� ��.a Toa.uriTo shortly after the green sweet corn is ready to be fed. This is'aiso fed: In the roasting ear stage and when bottom of the stalks become woody. only the top portion is used. The, pigs are kept on pasture, and corn which becomes . more mature is fed; until fall or early winter, when they are ready for market.' ;When pos-, siblo it is a very profitable: plan to hog the corn down, thus saving a great deal of labor. In this case a self feeder with tankage should be before the 'hogs. The feeding of hogs for market will be found to be one of the most profitable departments of the farm. Apple Bud -Moths, and Their Control in Nova Scotia. The apple is attacked by a number of different insects. In Nova Scotia the caterpillars of the bud -moths are probably the cause of more loss than all. the ,other insects combined. The -Entomological Branch . of the Dom- inion Department of :Agriculture has just issued Bulletin No. 16 entitled "The Apple Bud -Maths and Their; O0ntr91 in nova.. Scotia," by G. E. Sanders and A. G. Austen. This Mil letin of. 29, pages gives an ,account. of the life -histories of the four des- tructive: bud-onoth;e whish wear • in that province. The chapter on the control of these insects discusses re- sults obtained from spraying expeti- ments, following which 'definite con- trol measuree are recommended. Useful information is also included on parasiticl,inseets a'nd other natur- al enemies, Vpgrteeti 'illustrations appear in the 'bulletin. These show injured blossoms and fruit, various 'stages of the insects, eta This pub- lication will be of Much value, to ap- ple growers in eastern Canada. It can be obtained free of charge on application to the Publications' Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. A technical edition of the bulletin giving scientific descriptions, etc., has also been published. This will be of special interest to econ- omic workers. Enquiries regarding insects in general should be address- ed to "Tho Dominion Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ont." Three bushels of oats an acre—• and be •sure to sow red clover, sweet clover, alfalfa: or some other legume with it. , Mustard plants shouldbe sprayed with a twenty per cent. solution of iron sulphate as soon as possible afterthe plants begin to appear. This makes them homesick enough to die and not hurt the small grain at all. VI EN CHILDREN CANNOT ATTEND SCHOOL By JANET THOMAS ORMSTO\. There is scarcely a district in the country that has not some child, or children who, for some reason or other cannot attend the public school. It may be that sone physical disa- bility makes it impossible for him; perhaps mental deficiency debars him from entering classes with other children, or, if he is a very little child, it may be that he is too far from the school to walk there and (back. Whatever the cause, the child who does not attend school witi''be seriously handicapped all through Ilife unless an adequate substitute. for 1 the. school education is provided. In. that cane his present misfortune may eventually prove to be his good for- tune, provided the home instruction is made all that it is possible to make it. • Mothers may feel that it is out , of the question to start him in .the paths of learning themselves. But advanced knowledge is not so neces- sary as is an understanding of the child, ,and who should understand a childbetter than his own. mother? Nor does it take a great amount of time. Once a mother gets well start- ed in the teaching. of her child site will not find it difficult; very likely she will become fascinated with the work. It is a wonderful thing to watch the daily mental development 'of a child. The pity of it is that so few mothers have the best oppor- tunity for observing it. The thing that will bother most the mother who knows nothing about teaching is the method to employ. The old a, b, c method has been al- most desearded, because a, _b, c means absolutely nothing to a little child, The "work and play" method shows the best results according to mothers who have tried it. It would doubtless be best also for schoolroom instruction were it possible to em- ploy it under present conditions in the schools, However, it is not schoolroom education in which we are interested just now. The work and play method is really nothing but guided play. All of the child's amusement is made an aid to his education. He isnot told that ho is learning things, no set task is given him. He absorbs knowledge by the use of the games which he is led to play, by the answered gees tion, by the suggestion here and there, as a sponge absorbs water. The instruction that goes with the genies all seems incidental and A part of the play. Even a tiny child can learn "the names -of, colors, learn them under- standingly as he looks ,at a ribbon, at the 'grass, at the sky. This will train the eye and .the powers, of ob- servation. If he knows, for example, the color red, and mother some day writes It on the blackboard in red chalk it will take him only a little while to recognize the written word as readily as he does the color itself. If she helps lain when the is playing with his blocks it will soon be an interesting part of his play to spell the wordrxed. Games will teach the numbers. Let a child play with a box of tooth- picks and have him sort then into piles of two. That is nothing but fun. But he learns how many 'two are. Later on he is delighted to be- come acquainted with the figure and the word two. He Iearns what one- half is when he divides his apple evenly with his playmate and he will soon understand the figure one-half. Pictures of birds and animals in the natural colors are of great edu- cational value. Children learn the names of these because they want to and they are eager to have stories told about them. The reading of stories and verse to children and the telling of stories is one of the leading helps in this method of education. There is no limit to what a taste for right litera- ture may do for a child, and especial- ly for one who is any way handi- capped in life's race. In time, the mother may have the children read to her for her entertainment, not in the recitation of a lesson.. They will forget themselves and do their very bust in reading for another person's pleasure. There are a hundred suggestions that might be given, but in so brief an article only an idea of the method can be presented. Every mother who takes up the work will find sug- gestions continually coming to her and she will herself develop, al- though in a different way, almost as rapidly ,as does the child. A word about the child who seems mentally deficient. In too many eases no effort is made to educate such a child. This is a culpable mis- take. If he had an atrophied muscle it would surely be given nourishment and exercise in the hope of develop- ing it. Very often a child "not bright" can be drawn out little by little until finally he ceases to be subnormal. And he is far more likely to respond. to any such efforts right in the home circle than he is if placed among strangers. Colors and bright pic- tures of animals, birds and flowers often appeal to such a child more than anything else. But it will rest with the,mot'her-teacher as ascertain what ,particular thing is most likely to interest the child and start the raising of the curtain that obscures the mind. Something will probably do it and infinite patience must be exercised until that something 3s found. It is interesting' and inspirational to know what mothers have actually and easily accomplished by this me- thod, " A little girl, now five years old, had lost the power of speech through illness when she was a wee baby. Her mother began teaching her by the work -and -,play method while she was still a baby and gradually drew her'out until she could speak. She recoveresi fully the power of speech before elf was four years old and is ahead 'of the always normal child in every way. The three-year-old brother of this little girl can write on the type- writer. While this may seem pre- cocious, still is it any more so than when • a child of the same age can spell words with his alphabet blocks.? It is simply a different method of playing very nearly the same game. The three-year-old' ton of Mrs. Wright knows every color and can read many word's, while his big sis- ter 'of ten has been writing' verse for several years—and the verses are good. Mfrs. Wright has used the work and play method with both' of these ehildra.. Dr. Huber will answer all signed letters .pertaining to. Health.. If your question Is of general Interest it will be answered through these•colurnns; if not, It will be answered personally if stamped, addressed envelope 'IS. en- closed, Dr. Huber will not prescribe for Individual casco or make diagnosis. Address Dr. John B. Huher, f/I.D., care. of Wilson Publishing Go., 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto • Stomach Ulcer. Stomach or gastric ulcer .may re- sult from a blow on the abdomen, or from chronic hyperacidity : (ex- cess a ox-cess:a acid on the stomach), chronic catarrh of the stomach, blood pover- ty (anemia), heart or kidney disease: It is the most common in women be- tween twenty aid thirty, especially housewives and domestics; among men shoemakers and tailors are most frequently attacked. The usual syrnptotn is pain be- tween the breastplate and the nayei and in the back, usually sharp, in- creased at once by food intake, and relieved by vomiting. And when the stomach is empty there may be, : if not pain, a gnawing and burning ,sen- sation which pressure may relieve. Then later comes spitting of blood which has a ground coffee appear- ance, gradual Ioss of flesh and strength, dyspepsia and serious ane- mia. We have to fear perforation of the ulcer into the abdomen, with grave shock or hemorrhage, or the development of cancer, or death, from starvation. A yet a patient well at- tended to may get well, the ulcer healing with emir tissue in the stom- ach wall. Some people who have gastralgia (neuralgia . of the stom- ach) may imagine they, have ulcer. Sufferers from peptic ulcer ought to give up all work and rest in bed most of the time for several months. Their diet at first should consist practically entirely of plain milk or buttermilk (half a tumblerful every two hours), with the white of eggs and beef -juice. After several weeks eggs, chicken, cereal ,and scraped beef may be added.'They should take thirty grains of bismuth subcarbon- ate three tines a day. For the pain sweet spirits of nitre, a teaspoonful in water, or chloroform water, in tablespoon doses. - For vomiting cracked ice is preferable to water (a teaspoonful every fifteen minutes) or a mustard plaster over the stom- ach. For thirst of any kind cracked ice is preferable to water. For hemorrhage the doctor imperatively and at once. No food until he comes; in such cases the surgeon may have to be called in. Questions and Answeru. Freckles, -What is the cause of freckles on tile -face? Is there any- thing I. can do totake thein off? Answer.—Preeleles appear mostly in fair-haired women with delicate skin. They are caused by exposure. to strong ,winds :.and to strgng sun rays. , Their temporary removal is not difficult. Permanent removal is almost impossible. Those who have freckles are likely to consider them blemishes. This is an erroneous point of view, They are really signs of a good complexion and good con- stitution and they ought to be con- sidered "beauty spots." Local prep- arations often contain corrosive sub- limate and other substances, which may endanger the real skin -the derma. In any event the susceptibi- ity of the skin varies with the indi- vidual and what may not hurt one might severely injure another. The following ointment (to be had of any druggist) may at any rate be pro- nounced "harmless. Ammoniate of mercury, bismuth subnitrate, of each one dram; ointment of glycerine one ounce, to be .applied every other night. Psoriasis. -1. Is Psoriasis in the blood? 2. Can it be cured? 3. Is it hereditary? 4. Are such people otherwise healthy and strong? 4. Will it„ turn to Bright's Disease? 6. Is it contagious? Answer. -1. Psoriasis is not a blood disease. 2. Yes, but the cure is very difficult, 3. In some cases it is hereditary. 4. Usually they are healthy and strong but of a nervous temperament. 6. It will not turn to Bright's Disease. 6. It is not con- tagious. • Good results can be obtained with chicks by feeding rolled oats for the first week, about five times each day. Then fine chick scratch feed can be substituted and used until the chicks are large enough for whole wheat, cracked corn, etc. Plenty of sour milk induces a rapid growth. Little chicks cannot eat too much bran and it can be supplied to them in hoppers from the first day. Green food is important and can be given in the form of sprouted oats or cub clover until the birds can range and collect their own green food. Fresh water, charcoal and grit are needed, On stormy days a little fine chopped on- ion helps to stimulate young chicks. Pullets need a good range and plenty of dry mash before them at all times so that they will make a steady rapid growth and be ready to lay at their normal time, which should be about six months for the Mediterranean breeds and eight months for the American breeds. The pullets should be separated from the cockerels as soon as the sexes are easily determined and pullets should not be compelled to rano with old liens, as the hens will drive them from the feed hoppers and interfere with their growth. Pullets are raised successfully on about the same rations needed %for laying hens.. When wheat can be used for feeding it pays to use about two parts of wheat to one part corn in the scratch feed. Broilers can be fattened on sour milk and corn meal mixed into a sloppy mash. The main point is to reduce the exercise and increase the feed that the broilers will consume. I7t growing broilers, it is important to keep them developing rapidly and evenly :from the day they are hatch- ed. Broilers cannot be half starved until eight or ten weeks old with the idea of making up for lost time and finishing then properly on a ten-day period of fattening. Twenty to thirty per cent. of beef scrap Inas been used successfully fib some fattening ra- tions. Usually broilers can be sold with very little fattening if they have been well fed from the hatching time and are in good flesh. Fatten- ing poultry at a profit requires care- ful management and good vigorous young birds for the fattening crates. Many good pastures have been ruined by turning the stock on them' too only in the spring. Wait until the ground is firm and the grass well started. Marls the stock before turning out to pasture. Lime does not take the place of othee' fertliliarers or manures, 'bit supplements them. When the use of lime in .aux form ie tozntiiiued alone, and nd adequate provisiulr t mails for maintaining the supply Maid o fertilizers and organic matter, crop yields cannot be kept up and the returns from the use' of lime in such a system becomes less and may fin- ally drop below that of 'land untimed. It will not be ground wasted to set out fifty or sixty raspberry canes this spring. PHBTILIZE32 ARD ENS, LAWNS FLOWPIRS. Compiets Fertilizer. Write George Stevens, Peterborotlith,. Ont. ,. RS;, v PING sLe.BATSL017 BRAND Ready Roofing, Asphalt Slate Shing- les, Wail Board, Building Papers, Roof Pointe, etc. Write for prices and samples. Save money by buying direct tiliDDERMID 131103.794o=ontost, RAW URS ewin.„.y high- st market price for 241711222sATIll and Gineeng Root. 28 years of reliable trading Rerereaoe--'Untoo Banit. or Canada Write Tor Taira. Pi. 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Prlaes as follows:— Mongols- 50 lbs, and over 56e lb, 1000 40c. 2000 `- " . 45c, " swede Tutnlps- 50lbs and over 86e, 1,13, 200 ,t,.�0.a, 1000 „ .141 s�T1it i: '70. Field Carrots -- 6 lbs. and over 90c, ib. 25 , 100 80c. 200 a : ,,, , 700, #relghl paid and finks free. Nat payment bank draft 60 days from date Of Invoice and 65 al owed. for cash 10 days from date of invoice. Partlonlars about varieties on -appli- cation. DR, M O. 1M1aL'ro, ,Centre'1 '61xperimental Ferin, Ottawa, Ont, INTERNATIONAL LESSON APRIL 27, LessonThe IV. The Holy Spirit Our. Helper—John 16: 7-15; • Acts 2: 1-8. Golden Text, Luke 11: 13. The Proinise of the Spirit. John 1@ " ". 7-16.. is expedient, , Jeans says that. if He remained with His disciples the Holy Spirit, the Cof- forter,.'would'iot come, wb- ter that lie should go awItay.as Whilete 14 remained those who believed on Him sought to be with Him and bung upon His words. When He went away from them they had to act and think for themselves, butnot alone, nor without Iiis "aid. For it ,ryas as though, I -lis Spirit entering into thein, each one of them became a liv- ing embodiment of that Spirit and went out to live the Christlike life among his fellows. Thus Christ was reproduced in thousands of lives, and is being reproduced in- continually increasing slumbers of those who love Hine and seek to be like Ilim. Christ in the flesh lived in Palestine long ago; Christ in the Spirit goes with His Gospel to every land, and lives through every age. Christ in the flesh was a Master whose words men' repeated 'and' sought to understand and obey. Christ in the ,Spirit be- comes the inspiration of all true pro- gress, both intellectual and social; He enters afresh into each new age of human experience, and challenges each new generation to a fresh inter- pretation and applicatiosi. of His life and words. - "And -every virtae we possess, And every conquest won, And every thought of holiness, Are His alone." The most significant word that Jesus speaks hero regarding 111e ac- tivities of the Spirit is that in verses 14, 15, "He shall take' of mine.. and shall declare it unto you." The Spirit arouses our interest in Jesus Christ, draws us into sympathetic attention to His words, and sits us in under- standing the meaning of His life, nod stimulates us to follow in His steps. The Promise Fnlfi.led. Acts 2; 1-18, "The day of Pentecost" was the fiftieth day after the Passover Sab- bath. During forty days Jesus had been with Elis disciples, manifesting Himself to them from time to time and in various places. Then He had bade them farewell, commanding them to tarry in Jerusalem until they received from Him a sign of, power (Luke 27: 43), Fox ten days they waited, meeting daily for conversa- tion and prayer. Then came the sign, and the whole company was moved as by a mighty wind and by tongues' of flame. Just what happened when they "began to speak with other tongues" we do not now understand. If it means speaking in foreign languages which they had never learned, then • that gift not present in the Church to -day. Our most devoted mission- aries, men and women of .faith and prayer, have to get down to hard and patient labor in learning the langu- ages in which they must preach the Gospel. Neither in the early Church nor since has there been placed on record any instance of such a gift of tongues having ever been used to preach the Gospel to the heathen nae tions. Certain interesting phen- omena of ecstatic speech have 00 curred:fronn time to time in Christian communities, but they have been of doubtful value. Paul discusses the matter very fully in 1 Cor. 14, and declares that he himself has this gift, but gives it a place of altogether. secondary importance in the exercises of the Church. • We must remember, too, that Jews from all parts of the world, such as those assembled in Jerusalem at Pentecost, were acquainted with the Aramaic language, which was spoken in Palestine at that time. The differ- enees between thein would be differ- ences of dialect or of pronunciation, but they were able to make them- selves understood to each other. It may he (I make this merely as a sug- gestion) that the inspired company spoke in such exalted terms of praise and devotion that their meaning wits conveyed to all the mixed throng that listened. But St. Paul's testimony is that, when exercised in ordinary as- semblies of Christian people after- ward, the meaning of what .was said was unknown unless some one inter- preted it, and the power to interpret. was 'also a gift of OA Spirit. The healthy -minded Christian of to -day will not crave for or be disturbed by these unusual or extraordinary ex- perienees "Peter, standing up,""preached the gospel of God's saving grace in Jesus, Christ to the multitude, and declared that this extraordinary event was in fulfilment of Joel's prophecy, which he quotes in verses 17-21. This is a declaration of the great central fact of Christianity, and of the supreme nrivilege of idle :,ollowers o£ Jesus �"hriet, Whicls js to he possess: u :,1' His Spirit. "'If any man," said Paul, "has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His." The Sprit does not always or often express 'Himself in such scenes as that of 'Pentecost, but. His power is the same whether in the call to service, thefaith to follow, the courage to endure, or the love and patience which wits others to the sane high privi1 ge of salvation in Jesus Christ.