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'THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
LESSON IL --JANUARY 12
Baptism and Temptation of Jesus.—
Matthew 3:1-4: 11.
Golden Text. Thisis any beloved
Son, in Whom I am
well pleased, --
Matt. 3:17.
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING.
Time.—Ministry of John the Bap-
tist, begun in the summer of A.D. 26.
Baptism of Jesus, January, A, D. 27.
Temptation of Jesus, January -Febru-
ary, A. D. 27.
Place.—John preached in the Wild-
erness of Judaea. Baptism of Jesus,
the fords of the Jordan near Jericho.
The temptation, the Wilderness of
Judaea, southeast of Jerusalem.
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS ,
Then cometh Jesus from, Galilee.
The carpenter's shop was the will of
God for Jesus, and therefore He ab-
ode in that shop and did the work
incidental to it. To the 'Jordan unto
John, to be baptized of him: It was
a journey on foot of about sixty-six
miles, for -John was baptizing at the
ford of the Jordan near Jericho not
far from. Bethabaia (Bethany); the
place where the , 'Israelites under
Joshua crossed miraculously into the
Promised Land, and where Elijah and
Elisha miraculously crossed just be-
fore Elijah was taken to heaven,
But John would have hindered him.
Jesus :,had quietly presented Himself
as a candidate for baptism. "I knew
Him not,"' said John afterward, clear-
ly implying that this was his first
meeting with his cousin, Jesus, a fact
.
easily accounted for by John's s soli-
tary habits and the distance between
Nazareth and the wilderness of Jud-
aea where John had dwelt.- But the
Holy Spirit had instantly revealed to
him the divine nature na a of the Nazar-
ene. Saying I' have need to be bap-
tized of the; and comest thou to me?
John cannot understand how the sin-
less Messiah should seek the baptism
of repentance at the hands of a sin-
ful man, nor how the Messiah who
baptizes with the Holy Spirit should
seek John's symbolic preparatory bap-
tism.
But Jesus answering said unto him,'
Suffer it now; for thus it becometh
us to fulfil all righteousness. As a
good man Jesus should do this
righteous act commanded of God
through John. 'It was true that He
had no sins to confess, as John had
instinctively . realized, nor., did Jesus
confess any. ' Baptism in the case. of
Jesus lacked therefore its full sym-
bolic significance: But not to be bap-
tized would be to put one in the posi-
tion
osition of the Pharisees and Saducees,
who rejected John's baptism; As the
Messiah it was appropriate for Jesus
to give this sanction to the work of
His forerunner and herald. Then he
suffereth him. To protest- further
would be for John to exalt his own
wisdom. above Christ's,
And Jesus, when he was baptized,
went up straightway from the water,
He went upon the bank of the river,
and Luke 3:21 tells us that He was
praying as He went. A'nd lo, the
heavens were opened unto him.
What ever veil of sense kept our
Lord in His earthly body from seeing
the glory of the. Father and the heav-
enly home from which He came, was
removed. And he saw thea Spirit of
'God.'' John also saw Hinz; as he af-
terward testified. Descending as a
dove, and coining upon him Not des-
cending in a dove -like way, but "in a
bodily form, as a dove." The dove
symbolized gentleness, meekness,
tenderness, love, purity, peace.
And lo, a voice out of the heavens,.
This was the first 6f the three record-
ed occasions when a voice from a-
bove spoke to. Jesus, the - other two,
being at His transfiguration, and
when the Greeks came to Him in the
temple shortly before His crucifixion..
Say,' This is my beloved Son, in
whom I am well pleased. The same
testimony was given at the transfig-
uration.
THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS
Then was Jesus ' led .up of the
Spirit. In the prayer which Christ,
gave us as our model we are taught
to pray Godnot to lead us into any
temptation but such as He will de-
liver us front.. Into the wilderness,.
Up from the valley of We. Jordan to
the little village • of Bethany hard by
Jerusalem, stretches the Wilderness
of Judaea. To be tempted of the
devil, Our knowledge of the tempta-
tion must be derived from Christ
'Himself, as He was there alone, so
that this account testifies (as do many
other passages in the Gospels) to.
Christ's belief in a personal devil,•
And when he had fasted forty days
and forty o y nights. Both Moses :and
Elijah fasted for forty days, and mod-
ern fasters, in hunger strikes., or for
scientific purposes, have equalled and
even far surpassed this record, and.
survived. He afterwards hungered.
The onset of hunger after a long fast
is a terrible experience, amounting of-
ten to a frenzy. It was the severest
possible temptation on ' the physical
side.
And the tempter came and said un-
to him, If thou art the Son of God.
'This, it must be remembered, is the
essenceof the entire struggle in the
Wilderness, Satan seeking, at the very
outset of Christ's ministry, to plant
in His mind such doubts as to .His
divine origin, power, and mission as
would render all His work futile, 1 he
devil has no more effective weapon
than an "'if." Command that these
stones become bread. The place fur-
nishes many round, flat pieces of
stone looking much like the round,
flat cakes which were the "loaves"
of Palestinian bread. To Christ's
famished body the very appearance
of those stones would furnish a temp-
tation.
Buthe answered and :said, It is
Written. Our Lord knew His Bible.
He was always ready with a quota-
tion 'from it, for comfort, for exhor-
tation, for rebuke, or, as ' here, to.
meet the wiles ofthe devil. Man
shall not live by bread alone, but by
every word that lirocedeth out of the
mouth of God. Thus spake He who
was Himself the Bread of Life.
Then the'depil taketh him into the
holy, city. Matthew is the only writer
who names Jerusalem thus. The jour-
ney may have been made in body or
in mind.' And he set him on the pin-
nacle of the temple. "Pinnacle, lit-
erally 'a Iittle wing' is an architectur-
al term for a wing -like projection."
And saith unto him, If thou art
the Son of God. Again tie devil's
"If," insinuating doubt as to the fun-
damentals .of Christ's nature and.
work: Cast ' thyself down. Probably
not into the valley, but into the tem-
ple court, where a great crowd would
witness His safe descent and acknow-
ledge, the miracle.- For it is Written,
He shall give his angels charge con-
cerning thee. Taking his cue from
Jesus, the devil shows that he also
can quote Scripture—but he wrests
it from its purpose and meaning. And
On their )lands they shall bear thee
COLONEL J. S. DENNIS RETIRES
Colonel J. S. Dennis, C.M.G., Chief Commissioner
of Colonization and Development, Canadian Pacific
Railway, will retire January 1, after.. 28 years with
the company, according to the recent announcement,
made by E. W. Beatty, chairman and president of
the system, and the department will then be divided
into the Department of Immigration and Colonization
and the Department of Development. J. N. K.
1VIacalister; at resent assistant chief commissioner
p com tsstonei•
of Oolonization and Development, will be chief com-
missioner of the Department of Immigration and
Colonization and Major G. G. Ommanney'will be the
director, of the Department of Development.
Colonel Dennis, or "J.S." as he is known to old
timers, was '73 years old last October, and has had
as colorful a career as any .man in Canada. He went
west in 1.872 at the age of 16 on survey work and in
1885 saw service against Loni's Riol as commander
of the Dominion Land Survey lntelli .ence Corps
which during the rebellion was known as "Dennis'
Scouts".. A'tnong the outstanding, work in which he:
was engaged was the laying out of irrigation systems
later eonstructed in the Lethbridge ' region and in the
great Batman) Darn irrigation projeet of the Canadian
Pacific Italiwa , east of Calgary, His unrivalled
knowledge
Canadian a n
of a n ecnnann a, and agrarian level -
°Orient has caused Colonel. Dennis' Dame io be placed
among the' foremost of rtt ire builders, Although
,retiring as active head of the Colonization and Devel.
oprnent of the Canadian Pacific Railway system, to
will still participate in the future development of the
department since he will act in an advisory capacity'
to the company's directors.
Mr. Macalister has for more than 22 years given
close attention to colonization problems. Since 1906 he
has been immediately interested in opportunities of
development and colonization in the west and entered
Canadian Pacific service in 1907. He has done much
work in the United States drawing attention to the
unparalleled opportunities offered by the Canadian
West, He was appointed assistant commissioner of
the department in 1926. His ability in his chosen
field .was recently recognized by colonization experts
from all parts of the continent when they elected him
chairman of the immigration committee of the Am.eri-
can Railway Development Association.
Major Onnnanneajoinecthe Canadian PacificRail-
way in1907, As qualified cvil engineer he
had
previous to that date done work all over the. world.
In 1914 he was appointed special engineer to the
president, and from 1915 to 1910.was overseas with
the Royal Engineers linperial units On his return:
from the war he was appointed to Colonel Dennis
department as development engineer, to bring. the
natural resources of territories covered by the Can.
a,a#n• Pacific Railway into comtr.Pxeial use. FIe was
appointed Director of Oenelepitent trench of the
Department of Colonization & Development in ;fans
hitry,1928r
41.
up, Lest haply thou dash thy foot
against a stone, Satan is quoting,
Jesus said unto hint, Again it is
written. Thou shalt not ,make trial
of the Lord thy God The conclu-
sion of the command in Deuteronomy
is, "as ye tempted him in Massah,"
which goes back to the incident of
Num; 20:7-12, when '.'doses claimed
for himself the credit of the miracle
of drawing water fro Ohe rock, and
therefore was forbidden to enter the
promised land. Christ refused to fall
into theit
s n of Moses, making a tg a di-
vine providence an occasion and ex-
cuse for His own pride,
Again, the devil taketh him pinto
an exceeding high mountain. Mount
Hermon visible from all parts of the
Holy Land, is the loftiest summit in
Palestine; but of course there is no
mountainfrom whose top all the
worldcan be literally seen: It was
"not ' a , geographical mountain, but a
mountain of the spirit," And show-
eth him all the, kingdoms of the world,
and the glory of them, It was a tem-
ptation for a king. Remember the
Saviour's one ambition, to establish
on earth the kingdom of heaven.
And lie said unto hint, All these
things will I give thee. Well did the
devil know his power over the hearts
of men. If thou wilt fall down and
worship me. The ` third of Satan's
fiendish "Ifs,"
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get
thee hence, Satan. The devil, by this
suggestion that Jesus worship hits,
had revealed himself in his true na-
ture, in his most repulsive and crafty
form: therefore our Lord repels him
with extreme indignation. He will
not listen to another wordtfrom him..
For it is written. In Deut. 6:13. Thou
shalt worship the Lord, thy God, and
him only shalt thou serve." By that
worship and service, and by that a-
lone, can the real kingdom of God be
established on the 'earth. All wor-
ship and service of Satan will end
only in disappointment and ruin.
Then the devil leaveth hint. "For
a season." The struggle had lasted
through forty days, with innumerable
temptations. Those that Christ selec-
ted to tell about were only typical
ones, and there must have been many
others. Satan had done his utmost,
and had, to admit his utter defeat, And
behold, angles came and ministered
unto him. Probably supplying Him
with food, as an angel administered. to
Elijah in his flight from Jezebel. The
miracle Christ would not work for
himself is accomplished for Him after
His victory.
GLENANNAN
Mr. Alex. Baird of Flint, Michigan,
has been visiting during the holidays
at the home of. Mr, Edgar Baird.
Miss ,Mildred Stewart of Howick,
spent a few days last week at Mr.
Richard Jeffrey's.
Mr. and Mrs, Melvin Willitts and
•fanii:ly, also bar. and Mrs. Hugh Ed-
gar, spent Friday' evening at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Wnn. H. Marshall.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil McNeil of Bel-
more visited on Saturday with Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Culliton.
Mr. Robert Muir hasreturned to
Ft: William after spending the Xmas
holidays here.
IVliss Olive Me wen and Mr. Har-
old 'Foxton were guests at the home
of Mr, 'and Mrs. Oliver Stokes.
12th LINE HOW1C'K
Mr. Wes. Underwood has treated
himself to a driver, for a New Year's
gift,
Miss IVlargtret Montgomery return-
ed to her home after spending a few
weeks with Mr'. and Mrs, Robert
Hays, -
Mts. James L'tiderwood treated the
young folks of this vicinity to a New
Year's party which was a great sue
cess.
Mr. Henry and Sterling Finlay vis-
ited Tory. Cornets this week,
Mr. John Finlay was an Orange -
hill visitor this week.
Mrs. William Hays •.has 'rctiri•rred
to Tory Corners after visiting friends
nds
here.
The Chinese' minister, in London,
Dr. W, Chen, tells amusing stories
in perfect :English ' One that he is
1 fond of relating concerns a well-
known society woman who started to
patronize a 'Chinese laundry recently
established in Soho. One day site
called in person to lodge a mild com-
plaint and thinking the e owner only
knew pidgin English she tried it on
hits,
"Me no likes my washes blotrght
home "Pliday," she said, "Why you
no blingee washee Thursday?"
And, the native`Chit salt
a ail replied:
"Madam, 1 wa regret it
� S not eoIty
venyent,"
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roxet�r
GORRE
Mrs. Robt, f•Iastie is visiting with
her daughter in Kitchener.
Mr. James Shera was in Moore-
field this week attending the funeral
of his uncle,
Miss C. Evans is visiting with
relatives at Beaverton,
Mr, C. Pritchard has rented Mrs,
J. Bingham's store and has commenc-
ed work as a practical shoe maker.
Norman- Craik returned to Belle-
ville on
v leMonday, where he is attend-
ing Albert College.
Mr. Geo. Wylie returned to Kings-
ton on Tuesday after spending:a cou-
ple of weeks with his mother, George
is attending Queen's University,
Miss Jean Sparling has returned to
Stratford where slie is attending Nor-
mal School.
Communion service will be observ-
ed in °the United Church next Sunday
morning at 11 a.nn. Members are urg-
ed to be in attendance at this im-
portant :service. .alt the evening ser-
vice the ministee x !,vill .give the sec-
ond address in the series -Quiet talks
on vital themes; subject—"God is now
willing; are you?"
The monthly meeting of the W.
M. S. will be held at the horse of
Mrs. Max Abram on Thursday after- :
noon at 3 p.m. The roll call will be
answered with a New Year thought.
Miss Bessie Wylie has returned to
her studies at Toronto Normal.
Mr. C. Pritchard preached an ex-
cellent sermon in the Presbyterian
church last Sunday afternoon, taking
the place of his brother, Rev. John
Pritchard.
Mr. A. Brown of Elora commenc-
ed his duties this week as principal
.,�`' rr'
._.o ie school.
The village trustees for 1930 are:
Dr. L. N. Whitley,: Mr. John Hynd-
man and Mr, Ben. McGuire:,,.
Mr. and Mrs. Bast have located in
Gorrie, moving in from the farm near
Mayne.
Mr, and Mrs. Thos. Bradnocic leave
this week for anextended visit to
California. Their destination is Los
Angeles, where they expect to spend
a couple of months with their son,
TO DRAIN 3,000,000 AUR10!6.
South Australia to Convert Griezing
Tracts Into Samna Farms.
By, raising a special loan in Lon-
don, and carrying legislation to com-
pel owners to subdivide their large
estates, the Government hopes to peo-
ple the unused, but wonderfully fer-
tile, bands in the southeastern portion
of the state, v rites a correspondent
of the Chistian Science Monitor from
Adelaide, South Australia, The area
is subject to heavy rains and, being
low-lying, becomes so waterlogged in
thewinter w n et that cultivation is impos-
sible. Efforts to drain the land hith-
erto have not been suceesseul but now
the work is to be placed in the hands
of a;'body of engineering experts, and
aityn ewillxtensiveresultand prosperous commun-
.
At present the G.overnnient has
under survey in other parts of South
Australia 370,000 acres but the state
does not contain a very large area
suitable for closer settlement. The
southeast offers a splendid opportun-
ity to increase South Australia's 20,-
000 primary producers and her pop-
ulation of nearly 600,000. Root
crops grow luxuriantly in this favor-
ed district but too much country is
held for purely grazing purposes. The
Government -hopes to break up these
Iarge holdings,
The success which has already
I marked the Government's afforesta-
tion scheme is proof of what the soil
of the southeast can do. Extensive
planting is going on under agreement
with the development and migration
commission which ' has authority to
recommend expenditure in connection
with the £32,000,000 advance prom-
ised by the British Government.
If the scheme is approved it will
be one of the largest of its kind in
Australia as there may be 3,000,000
acres involved;
Mr. Harold 13radnock.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G, Strong intend:
to leave in a few days time for Cali-
fornia, where they intend to visit re-
laitves for some time.
Church services were well attended
last Sunday as was also the Sunday
I
School. Awards will be given in the
United Church Sunday School for
1930. Get the church -going habit for
the coining year.
ONE TREE -25 BARRELS
In Mr. Kenny Cameron's orchard,
near Lucknow is a Northern Spy tree
which has a record to be proud of—
if a tree could be proud of anything.
This tree was planted away back in
1859 and when every boy and girl,
was hungry for apples and wagon-
loads of fruit were not left to rot on
the ground as they are this year.
Well, this 70 -year-old tree is not
quitting work by any means, but con-
tinues to add to its record. This year!
there hung on its branches •at pick- I
ing time 25 barrels of apples. Twen-
ty barrels went into the first grade,
three barrels were fairly good, and ,
there were about two barrels of poor
or damaged apples on the ground.
Li the past 12 years this old tree
THE VILLAGE HERO.
Alsatian Dog Was Disliked 'Until He
Saved Child front -Drowning
Probably England's' proudest dog
Just now is Luke, an Alsatian that
not very long ago was the most dis-
liked occupant of the village! For a
long time Luke struck terror into the
hearts of all the children around, just
because he happened to be an.Alsa.-
tion, the type of dog that has manag-
ed to make such a . bad name for
itself of late years, Now he is the
hero of the village, and this is how
the transformation came about.
Luke was out for a walk with hie
master, and whilst crossing a canal
bridge he saw something that made
him hasten from his master's side.
In vain he was called and coaxed—
he simply did not return. His mas-
ter,
aster, puzzled and slightly annoyed,
hurried off in the direction the dog
had disappeared, and there, on the
bank of the canal, he found Luke
standing over a small child whom he.
had j
ust rescued from the water!
From that day the little girl and
retire have become the very $rmeat of
friends, and all he other occupants
of the village treat Luke as all heroes
should be treatu.i--with admiration
and respect. -
CROSSINGS O1' tR 7NDJ MMEES.
Made Voyage from Australia to Ire-
land In 93 Days.
The four -masted barque Archibald
Russell, which rer:,c',ntly carried a car-
go of wheat from Melbourne, Aus-
tralia, to Queenstown, Ireland, in 93
days, was compiiteented on making
a fine voyage. An old tar commenting
on the trip, said : "We should not
have thought much of it in the old
days, when there were regular sail-
ings from Londir,o and Liverpool to
Melbourne, No w':ndjammer exceed-
ed 90 days, and the Lock Line clip-
pers frequently did the passage home
in 65 days, and less."
On the other hand, lee admitted,
"I have a recollection of German
sailing vessels (old British sailers,
etc., sold to foreign owners arms re-
registered) taking 140 days from
Melbourne to Hamlet:1g,"
has produced 169 barrels of good. ap-Astray.ples and in the eight years, 1918 to
1925, it produced 120 barrels.
TWINS ARE BITTEN
ON FACE BY RAT
Harriston, Dec. 29.—Seriously . bit-
ten •on their fares by a rat was the
experience of the five -months -old
twin sons of Mr .and Mrs, ,George
Reid, residing in an apartment above
the Jackson garage in Elixtira.'
Saturday morning one of the child-
ren awoke with a number of ntarlcs on
his.facc which could not be ac.cotinted
for by,the parents, who thought they
might havebeen causedd,'by scratches.
Later in the evening,tlte parents were
awakened' by screams of the little
otters and upon investigating found the
1 tt c boy bleeding from some 18
wounds upon his face about the eyes,
The first child attacked by the rat
had some nine marks of teeth on his
face. ; 1)r. Wagner was appealed to
and does not consider any further de-
vclopments,' The, parents had not
known of the presence of rats ,on the
premises, but ' upon investigating
lo -
sated a lode, which has since been
Sealed up.
Wife, (studying paper): "The horse
I backed is marked with a star, dar-
ling. What does that mean?"
:Husband (studying time table) :
"C)nly runs on Saturdays, dear,'
They say stow that an error of 85,-
000,000 years was made in comput-
ing the age of the dinosaur eggs
found last year in the Gobi Desert,
Manchuria, by Dr. Roy Chapman An-
drews, of the .American Museum of
Natural Ilistory. While the explorer
at first estimated thein to be only
10,000,000 years old, other physic-
ists, geologists, and paleontologists
employing the latest scieutidc meth-
ods, have now helped Dr. Andrews
to make a new estimate of the age
of the eggs a;. about 95,000,000
years.
The Answer,
The famotis actress, Miss Marie
Tempest, said recently that the 'cub.-
niest incident in connection with her
stage eareer ` oeeurred at a certain
theatre where she was . playing in
melodrama.
The heroine had just said: "Poor
forlorn creature that I aml Nothing
to eat,'tio shelter tor the night!, Not
a farthing in my pocket) Who will
help me?'
Then a Voice from the pit shouted:
"Old Ma round the, corner will lend
you something on the gold bracelet
you're wearing."
;A little. girl was acting;• as a brides- +
maid at a wedding. When the sere.
Imlay was over' she asked the bride
if she were very tired.
"No," reply.
the was r
tt c c.,l. y.
:
"Well," answered,
the small
Mother said the other, day that ytati
had bcett running after lb, )ones for `.
two years!'
WROXETER
The December meeting of the Wr -
men's Institute, was held at the home
of Mrs, Stocks. The President pre-
sided,' and the usual business items
were gone over, among inierestins;'
repf,is, was a letter from Northerrc;t'_
Ontario, withthanks for a valuable
bale having been received there Xmas
eve, The Handkerchief contest was
carried out, the prizes for the dainti-
est hand -made kerchiefs being award-
ed to Mrs, MacNaughton and Miss
Davidson, An auction sale of the ker-
chiefs realized a ,nice amount of mon-
ey for the work of the Institute, Dr.
MacLeod was the speaker of the day.
His subject of "Good Health" was
interesting and beneficial. A paper,
"Country Life, its ` advantages and
possibilities" was given by Mrs. Mac -
Naughton. The Roll Call-- Happy
Memories of Christmas in Childhood,
brought some amusing stories. The
January meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. Munro when Mrs. Bol-
ingbroke will speak on "A trip to
England." Miss Kate Hazelwood will
give a paper on "Canadian Authors,"
Roll 'Cali -Winter Salads.
BELMORE
We sincerely hope that all our gen-
tleman friends read Timothy's reso-:
Iutions in Last week's issue,
Monday, being election day, an un-
usual stir was in the village. Some of
our ladies were lucky enough to get
a cutter ride.
Wm. Edwards, jr., who has been i1l.
for some time, is not gaining in
strength.
The December meeting ^of the W.
M. S. was held at Miss Elizabeth
Hackney's, with an attendance of 14.
Meeting opened by singing, prayer
and Scripture reading. A number
in Canada" by Minnie Jeffzay. Col-
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