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December 29. Lesson Mlle -Fellow-
ship Through Service—Psalm, 122:
119; Hebrews. 10: 22-25, Goldeit
Text—As his custom was, he went
into the synagogue on the sabbath
day. -.,Lukes 4; 16,
1, COMMON WOrSUIP, Neh, 8: 1-72;
Psalm 122; 1-9; Heb. 10" 194,25.
IT,
TUN MISSIONARY aS'S, Micah 4; 1,
2; Matt. 28: 18-20:
Preset1ce. Ho: eXharts, therefore, that
with pure hearts, and ill, cont'ittont
faith, they +tlraev near to Oxud in ttdora••,
Owl Itnd praise, and that they hold
without wavering their good hope of
salvation in Christ, for, he save, "rite
eau :rely on hint who ;ave ue, the prom-
ise." And, he continues, Flint tris eon -
shier how to stir up one another to
love and good deeds—not eett4tti'g to
meet together," (Moffitt). Like many
others its the latter part of the first
century he believed that "tate dad*," the
greatthey of Christ's return, was
drawing near, and the opportunitiesfor }helping oue another and confirm,
ing one another in the faith were,
therefore, feat,
IL rube mseeiCelaelen TAM, Micah 4: 1,
3; :Matt. 28; 18-20.
Prophets of the Old Testament fore-
told a time when the naliott.s would
come . to Jerusalem to learn the ways
of God, Ise,. 2: a-4; Micah 4: 1-3. Our
Lord sent his apostles out to carry the
truth of his gospel to the nations,
Matt. 28: 18-20. The expectation of
the prophets and the commandment of
Jesus are in essential agreement. The
precious truth committed to Jerusalem
must be made to all men. That is the
duty of Israel, as Jehovah's .s oi•vant,
to be at "light to the Gentiles," and
"salvation unto the end of the earth."
It is the fulfilment of prophetic teach-
ing in Jesus Christ that his apostles.
are bidden to preach to all the world.
And with the commandment there
goes his gracious promise, "Lo I am
with you alway.
It was from a coinpi1 y of Christian
people in Antioch that the first design-
ated missionaries of the .cross went,
forth. That which they had discover-
ed to be of so greaa value to them-
selves they desired to share with
others. Through them the Holy Spirit
spoke, and Barnalme and Saul were
sent, "recommended to the grace of.
God for the worn." A true Christian
fellowship is inevitably missionary in
spirit (Acts 13: 1-3; 14: 26), as was
the church in Antioch.
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INTROIMICTION—WorShi;a is origin•
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ally "worthship," and is iso spelled in
some of its oldest forms. It is the
recognition, of worth or value, In a
re]igio,s sense, as it is used here, it
means doing homage t r God, our Lord,
our ling, our Father in heaven, in
whose lower, goodness, and love we
see the highest and the best of which
our minds have, or can have, any
knowledge. It is recognition in the
Divine personality as revealed in our.
Lord Jesus Christ of the highest
values.
The Christian church began as a
fellowship—a group of disciples; some-
times . alone, son'Setimes with others,
gathered about a MViaster, whom they
came more and more to admire and
love, until ;admiration and love grew
into worship. It continued, after he
was parted from. them,,as a company
a# disciples and friends of Jesus, with
others whom they drew into their
circle, who kept alive his memory,'who
were conscious of the presence of his
spirit with thein, and who "continued
stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine (or
teaching) and fellowship, and in
breaking ofbread, and in prayers,"
Acts 2: 42. From Jerusalem they soon
spread abroad, and similar companies
of those who believed in. Jesus and
endeavored to follow his way of life
were formed wherever. his gospel was
preached. The ideals of ouch a fel-
lowship are present in many passages
of the letters of Paul (see Rom. 15:
1, 2; Gal. 6: 2; 1 Thess. 5: 11-23).
I. COMMON WORSHIP, Neh. 8: 1-12;
Psalm 122: 1-9; Heb. 10: 19-25.
Each of us alone may come to God
ill worship, bringing our thanksgiving,
our confessions, and petition for our
to
such
private
needs, p
individual In
prayer we need not, and do not, for-
get the needs of others, but pray to
God for them as well as for ourselves.
But there is no doubt that in the
company of others, like-minded with
ourselves, our worship seems mere
satisfying and more complete, we are
more conscious of the presence of God
and the power of his spirit. That there
are exceptions to this experience is
true, but it seems to be generally the
facts that in fellowship God seems
most near. The discipline of common
• worship is necessary for all who would
enter into the fulness of the Christian
life.
The story of the great service, or
rather series of services, of worship
conducted by Ezra ` and Nehemiah
(Neh. 8: 1-18) is full of interest. The
Bible was not in those days, as it is
now, in every man's hand. Many of
the people of Jerusalem and Judah
were ignorant of their own history,
and their own laws. Ezra had' come
to them from the .schools of Babylon
as a teacher. Now ao the assembled
multitude he reads in "the book of the
law," and his companions help him in
explaining what the people could not
themselves understand. There was,
therefore, in the service, reading of
the scriptures, instruction, thanksgiv-
ing, confession, the celebration of holy
days, and in the intervals, remem-
brance of the poor.
Psalm 122 is one ofthe so-called
Pilgrim Psalms, composed for, and
sung by, pilgrims on their way to the
city of Jerusalem to take part in the,
annual festivals. The psalm gives fine
expression to the gladness of these
holiday excursions, and the warm at-
tachment of the Jewish people to the
city and the sanctuary. The word
"compact,' in verse 3, should rather
be translated "federate." Jerusalem
was the federate, or federal, city,,be-
longing equally to all the tribes and
people of Israel. That seems to have
been tai the mind of David when he
chose the Jebusite stronghold, :and
made it his capital. city, 2 Sain. 5: 6-9.
The coming up of the tribes to the city
is a testimony to their unity, as is also
the high courts, the "thrones of judg-
ment" Therefor i,. will the pilgrims
"pray for the peace of Jerusalem," for
their own and their brethren's sake,
and for the sake of their common
sanctuary.
The passage chosen in the Epistle to
the Hebrews (ch. 10: 19-25)'contains
an earnest exhortation to Christian.
fclloweliip and worship. Tho writer
a.sniue., that he, an those to whom he
writes. have come through Jesus, as
t 1 t thehely s
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Penguin Island, Believed Lost,
Still 'Above Sea, Paris
Learns
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Paris.—One P
the French government recently.
The news came to the Ministry of
Colonies that St. Paul Island, more
commonly known here as Penguin Isl-
and, was still standing in the middle
of the Indian Ocean, continuing to
make a part of the French colonial
empire.
Its fate has been worrying M. Tar-
dieu's government and Paris public
opinion, since nothing had been hears
from St. Paul's inhabitants for more
than two mouths. The suggestion
was made that the island had •been
swallowed up by the ocean as a result
of an earthquake.
It is true that news from that tiny
bit of rock, somewhere between Cape
Horn and Australia, never had been
frequent. No boats called there ex-
cept in case of •emergency. Monthly
radio flashes were the only contact
with the outer world for the Breton
fishermen living there.. •
But two months hacl gone, and no
flashes had , come through. The
French authorities asked, therefore,
that a steamer bound from Cape
Town to Australia go somewhat out
of its way to •see what h.ad happened
to St. Paul. The'Euripides found the
isiend still rising out of the ocean
on 38.4 degrees latitude, 77.3 degrees
longitude.. All the fishermen were
alive, indulging, as usual, ill fishing
for lobster, cooking it in the boiling
springs and getting the tins ready to
be carried back to South Africa and
Europe.
The only trouble was that the radio
apparatus had ceased to wo,k.
Old Town On the Thames Suffers Heavy Loss
HALF-MILLIPN DOLLAR BLAZE SWEEPS•CHATHAM
Ali the furniture that was saved from the Garner Hotel, Chatham, after the fire of December
in the history of the city.
Street ,Crash.
Fall
"Something Subtly Harmful to
the Spirit of the Nation Oc-
curs When So Many Peo nisch trade. Such a vast amount of makes of its surplus foods
plc Make So Much Money energy and credit utilised in oustiinf mast be a good deal of
3 OU � a phantom om camzo to b isnot hope to suppress the lbu-
ductive Labor • anything else than economic waste, 1i'e ea
i stinet to gamble, blit ave may
portant. Something subtly harmful i limit its capacity or harm in a realm
to the spirit fo the nation occurs which is so closely associated with
when se ninny people make so much the life of the nation.. 'We may do
as r , money without earning it by product something to 'make the stock market
o00 on October 1 to x814,350,400,000 tive labor. Senses of values are up- serve the purpose it, is supposed to
on November 1, a decline of £3,070; It is erhala•,inst];luble to de- salve,
879, the worst
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How Baden-Powell
Was Neary Killed
Ma�tabele Up T Missed Boy.
'13.5out Founder by Hair's
Breadth
leonclon,—Otte of London's mast
teresting December visitors to Major
Frederick Reuel' Burnham; once do -
scribed by Lord Baden Powell as
"the greatest scout alive,,' and re-
ferred to by Sir Richer Haggard as.
"more interesting than any of ray ..
heroes of romance."
'."itis American holder of a British
D,S,O:, and chief of scouts under Lor,t
Reports during the :Sb}ith African
War, telt the hitherto undisclosed
story of how a _single Matabele war-
rior, in 1896, nearly prevented the
creation of the Scout movement.
Resting Under Tree
The the Major Baden'Powell was
resting with his • officers ander a big
tree—"where he learned the lesson
that a scout must look up as well as
down,» said Major, Burnha' t, who
•continued:
That morning the 1liatabele warrior
had seen the last great attack of his
nation to ce,}tture Bulawayo and de-
stroy the )bated a hate. man end-. in
utter rout° and disaster,, 'To avoid the
chi ;e of mounted white men he had
• climbed with his big gun into this
teee, and they bad swept by him. But
strangely the white indunas incau-
tiously chose Phis particular tree to
t' end under while they rested their
tired horses:and gathered their scat
tere I men.
'Suddenly the thought must have
come to this Matabele—I hold the life
of any one of these indunas in my
hand, They are only a few feet be-
low me, my nation is lost, my race is
constantly defeated by the white. 1
will Select/the most commauding in-
cluna, kill hint, and. die.
The Chief Scout was the one select,
ed to die, but the Matabele missed his
victim by a hair's breadth. The next
instant the' Matabele lay crumpled at
the base of tate tree. Let us hope
that as his soul 'sped from the black
body some angel of solace relieved
his despair. ]'or, if he had but
ng known, had he killed that inciuna he
]holdings in order to protect their the issuance of securities more close -
Shares. ]y to the real needs of industry, not
"Many business mere deserted their allowing it to depend on the profits of
normal occupations because they the promoters and stock -selling iw
could snake so much more so cash,' stitutions must be some social control
by speculation. This must have_ar_I "There tprivate business
fected the total of useful production: Of the use whichp Theis
popular educ
Without Earningit by Pro 1 t t bethought of as anon concerning the whole matter.
"It was announced by the Stock Ex-
change that the total market value:
of all stocks listed on` the exchange
h declined from about a t7 4i 4 600 -
"The tangible losses ,are also tui-; man n
•
200,000. A high record value was Set p 1
fend our material` culture an the
reached. ori September 1st, with
933,800,000.''
£17 s H
—Daily Telegraph New 'York -
r ground that a competence of material �' u
[ tltiitgs is necessary as a h:tshs for leis-
$ 1#.
theIs In
R3.
Y 1 Cortes rare, security and an'treciatinn of the " "
'pendent, finer flowers of t t a
I
,
. , ut n effort.
The weekly reviews of America,
would have destroyed an idea that in
"But conn is not net cultural gain clue time will 'assuage even such hat-
concerned about recent happenings in ]n .an economic
xitain Out to l egain. Trade red as he and his people had for the
Wall Street. The "New Repnlblic,» untold wealth into the hand's -of hon- Lost to U.S. in South •whites.
dreds of thousands who happen to Scouting will' enable his people and
in a searching article, says:— }guess right and gamble well, but who Alneri'Ca all his race to live without humilia-
tion
"Is there anybody who would argue
do not thus create a single object or 1 tion and have their proper place in
London William Caraham, Pres'•
that the behaviour of the stock ex -
idea. And esaen the wealth is as sur- destroy the white
change during the past year has`bee 111 withdrawn, a gaping stole is
a useful element in the nation's life?; de y
What good does it do for wealth -1
left. prow' 'much might this ingenu
-even paper wealth—to be won and ; ity not have accomplished, if it had
not been applied so single-mindedly- the fernier trade position in South
lost so quickly?•to evanescent personal fortune? America, with all friencliness toward
"While the market was going alp, "This argument does not, of coarse,! the T7nited States, and to imp ce }•
the successful bulls and those who lead us to advocate ether abolition of on it' it possible. ' I
profited by their over-confidence!the stock market of personal lennu
He stated t a i
the organs of serious thought, are c noetic order, which
dumps 1
I
dent of the Board of Trade, at a din- the sun, yet not
ner to diplomats of three South man.
:\merican •countries., said that it was
the immediate British task to regain. .
c] h t Creat Britain had
all
critics i'
loudly proclaimed, despite
a ; ation of speculation, on moral grounds. held important positions in the mar
the virtues of speculation g fetcr hes 1 In theory, the stock market is ata use- j kers of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
rise, but many .of these same fol institution ]n a capitalist order: before the war, but found after the
now console the speculators or their j It is supposed to furnish a place conflict that the United States had
losses only by pointing out their ; where those who want to buy or sell largely stepped into his shoes. He
folly. The question is insistent, !'shares of ownership in procluuctive re -,referred with appreciation to the
what could have.been done to prevent sources can do so.- Such buying and i manner in which a recent British
what :has happened? What can be ,
clone to prevent its happening again?:
selling is'essential, as long as Pri trade mission was received in those I
"Some of the luxury trades will of i vete ownership exists. An industrial countries
• or anrz'ttioil let us say, needs capital; The Brazilian Mian
course be hit, but they do not con-; o ,gi it 1 taz' Ambassador, Urugna-
to enlarge its production. It offers' veil Minister and Argentine Charge
statute the' backbone of production shares of stock. 1
and trade. Industry may now de ,! d'Affaires were the guests of honor'
cline, but if this happens it will be "People who have saved -ahem.; in the crimson* and gilt banqueting
largely as a consequence .of tenclen-; Taut to put it to work for -them. room of Lancaster House. In addi-
tioncies which would have been injurious; They buy shares. It is con' eliielit to Mr. Graham, Foreign Secre-
even if the market had retained its to have a central market where this tary Henderson, Lord D'Abernon and
self-possession. The disturbance ; can be done. It is useful to have e Sir Ronald Lindsay, recently appoint -
which the vagaries of stock specula place where the interplay of buyers ed Ambassador to' Washington, ware
tion cause, in so far as it is economic, and sellers can determine the values among the distinguished leaders pre-
occurs as much during the rise of ; of what is for sale. sent.
fall.y "Even speculators may contribute, In proposing a toast to the prosper- l 'Neckers who
prices as after the according to theory, to the usefulness ley of the three South American coon- j ence should be
"The diversion of savings anti; of such an institution. • By buying ; tries, Mr. -Hendee"sou referred to thole
credit to operations in stocks has had'''. j ark.
unfortunate results. Anyone depend -
of or selling according to their estimates' gigantic strides made by thele during
ant on bank credit for normal opera- ; future value, they shoulder many the last century in agriculture, indits-
h s been having a hard time ; of the,_risks inherent in such a mar try, and education, and expressed the
tions a lies, They help to stabilize prices. keen British interestin.these develop
for at least six months. There are Theuse of credit for lending to in- men+fs.
on the safest , 'ustified. It helps to carry new recur-'
� visit on a trade mission- and, with
WHAT IS DUTY?
What is duty? With regard to our-
selves, it is to be independent of the,
senses, and with regard to others, it
is to be untiring in giving help and
support help to live well; help by
agreement and 1)1 opposition, by.giv-
ing and by withholding, by firmness
and by compliance,' by praise and by.
blame, by silence and by words, by
what is pleasant and by what is pain-
ful. Dwellers on the same earth, tra- the stocl. crisi
yellers of the • sante hour, and coin- farmers a body blow during their 1 "Nobody is entitled to say, without
the same road, we chief marketing season, first because exhaustive investigation and discuse� I OUNDATiONS
oughtt along I ' hat 'n particular can be clow
ht t help one another and when people with money could use it i i control of Human society rests on
localities tubera even first mortgages, ;
vestors or speculators can. also be Lord D'Abernon told of his recent
granted to home -owners afest
of security., have been called or nog!! Ries until they own be absorbed by reference to the $45,000,000 trade answer to the question, "Opportune
renewed, where building operations f investors. It smooths over the agreement negotiated with Argeutiva, ties for what?" He never allowed us
are stagnant because of a shortage of ` rou h laces. If the stock market, quoted Sir Malcolm Robertson, a to plead the existence of a difficulty as
g p
an excuse for leaving anything un-
done, nor .were we permitted to hope
to survive our trials in place of over
coining them. Probably this is why so
many of his pupils have found a high
place in every sphere of life, He was
to sloe, what i p r inscrutably
inflexibly opposed to the modern ten-
we •o e p toi the gaps in soe a cot l
1;
don't want an` a all -
carafe where t ley
OPPORTUNITIES
"Difficulties are opportunities," my.�
old schoolmaster used to tell us, but
he Wisely left us to discover what he
meant and to find for ourselves the
loanable funds, a. operated according to theory, there former Ambassador to Buenos Ayres,
"If it had not been for the uioueo went(' be little complaint—until we as saying that this order was not only
which the Farm Board was able to i could devise better ways to accoin' valuable in itself, but represented the
lend, for ding, wheat and cotton, , plisll the same result. beginning of "an enormous thing."
' 's would have hit the ,
,y.
we shall greater advantage in buying stocks p uI le seri cheep foundations, w*hieli ha is of all deuce, to Make everyti;ing easy and to
we reach the resting -place, e nic processes a -hi ch then 1 banish the bleed of efforti, With its dis-
have. first to render an account of or lend l , o of the past months has reveal others the
what' each has done for :the happiness
lending n security collateral than' ec 011ot most mistaken who fancies
in financing crop operations, Next be s•ellce must be he has explored to t1ie'bottytn,-•Car-
Cl 1 hon ever there m
A the rest—fora .joy, it for goodness, n llodit exchanges liquidated their found some means which w]11 adjust lyse..,
A kind loos:. will win its reavard, commodity y -.
cause many of those rlealinas on the ,eat' y,
estrous effect of robbing us of the
power to conquer circumstances,
heir I igh Priest, into t° y pre -
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