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.1FORTY4OOT GIFT FOR RIDEA..LT .HALL
This totem pole is one of the finest 'examines of Indian art: Right Their ieellenoie-; Viscount grad Lady Willingdon enolthe
c.P.s.s."Princess Norah",on which the first vice -regal tour of the west cot of Vancouver Island was made.
When Viscount Willingdon, Gov- mmailon of has voyage that 1t 'the council hall, and • Chief Jack,
would not be the last occasion o o �
Lady Willingdon visited the West
Coast of Vancouver Island on the
inaugural cruise of the new Can-
adian Pacific steamer "Princess
Norah" two new epochs were mark-
ed for that far-flung corner of the
Dominion.
It was the first time that a Can-
adian Viceroy had ever seen, and
in turn, been seen on the rugged
c? oast that is now `looming as one
of the nation's important industrial
and tourist regions; further the
arrival of the Norah brought .the
most luxurious passenger' steamer
ever to ply in regular; service in
West Coast waters, now to be the
permanent run of the staunch little
Clyde -built vessel. •
The West Coast had decked.itself
in gala attire for the visit of the
great white chief from Ottawa,
tremendous excitement prevailing
among whites and Indians alike at
the various ports of call. Local in-
terest was heightened by the fact.
that Their' Excellencies cast for-
mality to the four winds, and en-
tered into the spirit of the many
receptions and celebrations with a
zest not exceeded by any tourist
on the coast Incidentally Lord.
Willingdon intimated after the ter=
ernor-General' of Canada, and
1 n another of the . Nootka Band
which he would see that particular mounted the pedestal to deliver an
part of Vancouver Island. impassioned pee oration in his na-
Loyalty of the Indians, evident rive tongue.
at alloints touched, was partic- His Excellency stood .attentively
ularly pdemonstrated at Friendly' 'until the Indian Chief had finished
Cove, historic sp'bt discovered` by his speech, tilting it, probably, for
Captain Cook in 1778, when a the usual honeyed words . of .wel-
lineal descendant of the great come, Ills astonishmoi t and that
Chief Maquinna, who first saw the of ninny of the chief's hearers was
white man, gathered his tribe, the great when "Billy" Lord, well-
Nootka Indian band, in the great known industrial leader on the
council hall to greet the vice -regal. West const, acting in the role of un-
party. It was here: that Lord and official interpreter, told I3is.Excel,
Lady Willingdon were recipients lency that Captain Jack had pre-
of one of the most valuable gifts in sented:'the big forty -foot carving
the bestowal of the coast Indians, as a gift.
a huge forty -foot totem pole that Significance of the gift lies in
has stood for years on the sandy the tremendous valuewhich the
shores of Friendly Cove, the envy Indians themselves place on their
of collectors from many parts of historical totems. It would have
the world. been a somewhat parallel case, one
Presentation of the totem was of, the men familiar with west
touching in its simplicity yet itscoast customs said, if a white man,
significance was not lost Chief on being visited by vice -royalty,
Napoleon, bead of the Nootka had with one. magnificent gesture
Band, descendant'of Maquinna, was given away his home and the
first to extend the Indians' official greater part of his fortune.
welcome, elaborate ceremony which Their Excellencies, sensing this,
included the famous dance of the accepted the gift with delight, and
Thunder Bird, marking this part announced' that plans would be
of the rites. Later, the Indians led made to have it removed from its
the vice -regal party to the site of present historical setting to Rideau
a huge totenipole standing near Hall as soon as possible,
MORRIS.
Master 'Stuart Elliott,': of Bluevale,
spent the week -end at Mr. Will Ab-
raham's.
Miss Florence Haines, of Toronto,
spent the holiday with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs; John, Haines,
Mr, and Mrs. Will Robertson and.
family, of Belgrave, were visitors at
Mrs. T. Abraham's on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Holmes, of
Turnberry, were. visitors : at Mrs.. E.
Gray's on Sunday.
Mr. and 1'trs; Whitney Stewart and
daughter, Jean, of Bluevale, were vis-
itors at Mr. Will' Abraham's, on Sun-
day.
If?s. Robert Johnston, :of Blyth
visited at Mr:, Andrew Caselnore's
last week.
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LESSON M. --JUNE 2
Later Experiences of Jeremiah—Jere-
Euiah 20: 1-(; 37: 148: 28; 43: 1-7.
Golden Text --Blessed are ye .when
men shall reproach you, and perse-
cute you, and say all manner of evil.
against you' falsely, for my Sake,—
Matt. 5: 11.
THE! LESSON, IN ITS SETTING,
J'iu1e.— Zedekiah became king,
1 1.C. 597. Jerusalem was burned, 13.
C. 580. The flight to Egypt was
11iobably the same year.
flare. -.-j crusalelit. Taphanites, on
the bcircler of Egypt nearest J:'ales-
tine.
JEREMIAH PRESERVED,
'Thee the princes." --The leaders- of
the clans, probably' the group Froin
which the. Sanitcdrin was later evolv-
ed, "Said nttto the king, J. ct this
man, we pray thee, be put to death,"
--lJp to this time they had gone no
farther than closeimprisonment; nci w
they charged Jeremiah with treason,
punishable by death, "Forasmuch as
he weakened the hands of, the men
of war that remain tin this city." --7
This. indicates that many had already
'taken Jeremiali's advice and crept out
of the cit to surrender to the invest-
ing •artily; see also v. 19. "And the
Bands of all the people, in speaking
such wordsHrinto them." --The attitude
Of, Jeremiah during the siege must
have been, to say the least of it, a
great trial to those responsible for
the, defence, and his only jtrstifica-
ticrn wais the consciousness:that he
was not expressing his own private
opinion,. but what he felt to be the
reVealed will of God, "For or this Bran
seekcti not the welfare of this pec, -
plc, but the hurt,"—They:took no ac -
sloes bia1isclf what 11e permits an-
other to do, .'°virhutn they have cast.
11,11) the tlttrigecrn,'" etleki:tli �i tts
lr•obaby ignorant of these details.
"And he is like to die in tlhe place
where 11e. ht" --The Hebrew is very
vivid; "He is dead." He Was snre to
die and that speedily. "Because of
the. :famine; 'for there iS 00 more
bread in. the city," --"This is an ex-
aggeration showing the eagerness of
the speaker, and pardonable as certain
to be understood by the king If 12
had beeu absolutely true, thele could
have been no object 111 freeing Jere -
As it W a&, the. Sense was only
that there was so scanty a supply of
provision that tclul.re was little or. nu
chance of any reaching -,J t'erniah in
the. place wiier•e lie ' was then con-
fined."
"Then the king commanded :I:bed
rtreloch the Ethiopian, saying,
from thence thirty rML'11 with t116L`:"--
Some,' scholars conjecture chat' thirty
is a scribe's error and that the o ig-
ir:a1 has "three." If"thirty", is cos-.
rest, the king must have feared that"
the princes twonld uitt:rliose 'to prt:-
yent the "Wen 0. "And take tipJere-
111i2111 1111: prophet-ont of the dungeon,.
before he di e: bell -in tach had
said; literally, "He is dead on the
spot.,".; but; the king knew what he
meant,
• "So Ebcd-Sacks} took. the glen
with tern, and heart into the douse of.
the king underthe treasury.'—A ltin'1-
ber-room under the ti 0111tre chamber
ofthe, royal palace. Even -palaces, it
seems, have their collections of rub-
bishl-. "And took thence rags Shirr
worn:out gars eats." -'Literally,. rags
of 'torn gar•mlents and rags of 'worn
out garments.' " "Avid let thein down
by cords into the dnngcon to Jei•.e,
see in the care with
which these minute' particulars are
recorded liow deeply.the- Negro's
kindness touched Jeremiah. The pro-
Phu- was afterwards bidden by John
ccannt of Jeremiah 's motives,: proved 'vat to promise Ebed-ruelech thatin
to be unselfish through so glassy return fur this decd he should be
years of self-sacrifice; nor did thea''' preserved in the corning, fall of Jeru-
believe in his 'prophetic, inspiration.
Their own advice was plairily bring-
ing down ruin on city and nation, and
in theirpride and despair they sought
revenge on the clear -seeing prophet 111111e armholes under the cords. And
whose words, if heeded, 'would leave' Jeremiah did so." `'Nothing could
been their salvation: show the acuteness of the prophet's
sufferings more vividly than the
precautions which the thoughtful
Kindness .of the eunuch thus suggest-
ed. The pit was so deep that ropes
were needed to draw hien up, 115 they
had been to let him down, and lest.
theshould cut into the flesh of Jere-.
l,rophet, but was, ready to deliver tingles emanciated form; improvised
hall to death'rrlthcr than resist the , cushions had 'to befastened- to the
powerful princes. He was like Pon- ropes, that he might rest his arm -pits
ties Pilate, procurator of Judea, who on thein." •
acknowledged that Christ was an in- "So' they drew up Jeremiah with
nocent! man, and yet delivered ];Iiia
up to be crucified rather than oppose
the cruel will of the Jewish mob,
"Then they took Jeremiah, and cast
hint into the dungeon of Malchijah
the king's sore, that was in' the court
of the guard:''*—This court was part
of the palace, and the dungeon was
evidently a pit used for the storing
of water; :but. now, as the siege had
progressed so far, the water was ex-
hausted. 'The bottom of the pit, how-
ever, was deep with mud and slime,
and the princes evidently expected
Jeremiah to sing therein and be suf-
focatccl, or failing this, to be starved
salem.
"And Ebed-}nelech the Ethiopian
said unto Jcreinialt,.: rut now these
rags and worn-out garments under
"And Zedekiah the king: said, .Be
hold, he is in your hand; for the king
is .not that 11e can do anything a-
gainst you."—The weakness of the
king is here. conspicuously shown.
Zedekiah evidently respected Jere-
miah, and even revered hint as God's
the cords, and took him„ up out of
the dungeon; and Jeremiah ,remain-
ed in the court of the guard,"— In
that position lie was near the king,
and the two may have had more con-
versation than
onversationthan the one next recorded:
For the king arranged to meet Jere-
miah in a hidden chamber of the tem-
ple which may have communicated
with the, palace by a secret passage,
and once more he asked for a mes
sage'from Jehovah,' as Nebuchadnez-
zar'sforces were pressing - the siege.
aird the city, was in terrible distress.
Jeremiah refused to :give Jchovab's
words; till the king' had promised not
to ;death. , "And they let down Jere to kill him or deliver hirer to his en.
:Mali with cords," -The pit was so envies; and thenlie strongly advised
deep that they. could not let him Zedekiah to deliver himself ;up to the:
clown with 'their hands. "And in the
dungeon there was no water, but
n ire and Jeremiah sank in the hire."
—"In Lam. 8:53-55 we, have probably
a reminiscence of these days of hor-
rible suffering. They probably
shrank from the odium of a public
execution, or thought, with the:
strange superstition of the Eastern,.
mind, tllrtt in this way they could es-
cape the ,guilt of shedding the pro-
phet'sliloodi
"Now when Ebed-rneieeh the Edo.
ic•p1an, a eunuch, who was 'in the
king's house, heard' that they had put
Jeremiah in the dungeon. "(It vias
the castom to use Ethiopian slaves,
eunuchs, to guard harems, and the
women of the palace may have ob-
served the' lowering of Jeremiah into
the cistern and have told Ebed-nlel-:
ech," (The :ling then sitting in the
gate of Benjamin.) ---This gate being
in 111e northern wall, which was Most..
exposed to attack, the ling may have
gone there to direct the defence or
in event desertion. ,
"Iibc:d-nieleclr went forth out of the
king's house."---Solomt 's palace was
next, to the temple, .bat it is not
known where Zedeklah's was situated,
evidently at Loune distance from the
northern wall. '`And spakl: • to the
king." --The Ire; 1 1t iopian was plainly in
high favor with the king; slaves wore
often honored and trusted officers.
"My lord the king, these men have
done civil in all that they have dour
to J'cr .ittiair the; prrlpltet."--'1 bt'd 111e
le elt tactfully implied that. 1edeklah
w ter 11.1)1 1i11nself 1 c1lionsible for the,
decd; (11011111 01' course he was, hay-
ing r;ivcln 00, purse' 11211)0)1 to (10
as they pleased, and well knowing
Chaldeans. Zedekiah said lie was a-
fraid of the 'Jews that they were al-
ready 'with the Chaldeans, for they
would be angry that he had not ta-
ken that wise step long ago and so
saved great misery; but Jeremiah pea-
sisted in his advice; foretelling the:'
worst of disasters if Zedekiah refused
to surrender; The Icing did not say
what lie would do, but showed • still
further his ''cowardly .nature by beg-
ging Jeremiah, if the princes learned
of the interview, to tell them that he
had been begging the king not to put
hire back into the dttngcon. This the
prophet did, for tilt princes approach-
ed him as Zedekiah had forseen they
would, and so satisfied the : princes.
Therefore Jeremiah was allowed to
remain in the; court' of the guard 011
111 the, final capture of the city.
"A kind, helpful '.decd is such a
bcaautiful picture that it always ought
to be well framed, Even the black
hoed-mclech remembered, when he
was going to do so groat a deed as
to save a man's life, that it was Worth
whklc doing it in a kind. and gracious
way, My fiderids, in, the greatest of
all work which God. ever puts in our
'hands, the privilege of helliiirg to res-
cue leen and women front, the deep
dungeon of sin, from the shits and tars.
clay of tllcir wicked habits and their
wzuful passions, 'c ought to sandy
and devise ways by which we cart
roost: tenderly life; them, mit oftile
dark. depths of iniqu,,'ity.
Station .10. 11.1'. r3r"i11 present the:
trlec music and p1•er1,•1'rf11111e. from the
•W inl;,lia 11 Arena each Thursday
sday 11 '
1.0 to Al o'clock. Each `111111•x(1 ty
n)1(111 ,a prtltt'ra1111110 (it recordingp ,gill.
their murderous (12',t,'llS. A man be broadcast st 1r'ting at 12:30,
Thursday, May 30th, 1.929
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