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Christianity says Be Christ -like, Earthquakes, famine, sorrow, death
give thyself. are as nothing if they bring us into the
Atheism and Light eternity of Divine Love.
From time immemorial electricity has Twilight Hour Story
been with us, around us, in the air wee Chicks and Other Little Friends
breathe. Yet we groped along in the No. 31
darkness for aeons of centuries know-, Last week I told you about Fluffy be-
ing practically nothing of it. There lag so cross at Rover because he came,
came a time when prophets foretold its I into the same room where Mamma
coining but few believed the prophecy 'Lady and Billy had brought her little
until, believing it or not, when the I kitties, She was so cross. she scratch-
ed him, then dumped on his back and
scratched some more so he didn't
know what ever could be the matter,
for you know he came in the room all.
right, but he didn't have a chance to
even see the kitties, so he hadn't the
slightest idea what all the fuss was
about.
After he got chased out like that he
wouldn't come in for a long time. It
was a little while before Mamma Lady
noticed Rover didn't come in the
house. It was really Billy who no-
ticed it first, He said, "Say, Mamma,
do you know Rover won't come in the
house? I wonder why?"
Then Mamma Lady remembered and
said, "I believe he thinks it isn't very
safe for him in here. I never thought
of that, We'll have to coax him in."'"^
So Billy ran out and called him and
when he got near the door he was go-
ing to disappear again but Billy caught
him by the collar and hugged him and
said, "Oh, come on in Rover, nothing
will hurt you."
You see, Rover wasn't a coward if he
knew what was the matter, but he
didn't know why Fluffy jumped on him
like that, so he thought he would just
stay away.
Well, just 'as he was trying to get.
away Mamma Lady came out and was
extra nice to him. Come in, Rover,
Fluffy won't hurt you, now come on,
it's all right, come on in," and she
opened the door so he could see it
really was all right.
Rover looked at her and took a lit-
tle step, then stopped, then another,
and she kept saying "Come on in. It's
all right." Then he looked warily
around and took another few steps.
"She won't hurt you, Rover."
But Rover didn't know whether to
believe'it.or not. All at once he was
going to back out pretty quick, for
there was Fluffy sitting on the cushion
on her chair. But would you believe
it, she just rooked good naturedly at
him as though she had never done any-
thing to him at all.
Wasn't that funny? You know I be-
lieve'there are a lot of people like that.
They get so very cross about some-
thing then forget all about it, and they
want us to forget all about their cross-
ness too, "Which 'isn'tso' easy'to do
sometimes, is it? But ',guess it's just
their way, so it really is best to for-
get.
You see Fluffy forgot. all about it
because her kitties were away offina
dark closet now and she liked Rover
again, so that when he saw her she
was a nice kitty again, and wasn't
Rover a good dog, for he was soon
good friends with her, although often
he looked at her queerly, as much as
to say, "Why did you scratch me?"
Perhaps he'll know when he sees the
kitties when they are bigger.
But whatever are the chicks doing
all this time?
Popular songs are often so popular
that they become unpopular.
time came that the thin edge of the
wedge was applied by the slow pro-
cess of scientific research, darltness.
suddenly opened up into a flood of
light aid power hitherto undreamed
of. The great power was here which
could destroy as ruthlessly;'as it could
belch out light and energy. Yet all at
once it was harnessed in so safely by
skilled human hands that we use it
now without fear, taking it as a mat-
ter of course, even though most of us
know little more about it than to turn
on the switch.
But we must have some appliance in-
stalled in our homes if we wish to use
it and benefit by it, and we must touch
• the button to secure the power in or-
der to connect up and benefit by it.
If this is true,' and we know it is, is
it not comforting that we have been
told by the noblest man who ever
lived, whose integrity was unimpeach-
able, whose truth and magnetic spirit-
uality placed him first among the
greatest of all men, that there is a
power, a God power which is likewise
everywhere. This power is supreme
and above all other powers, bringing
order out of chaos wherever it touches.
This greatest man of all men told
us it was necessary for the Father to
send His Son, to come to this world
in order to teach us how to build up
this spiritual machinery for ourselves
which will give us the eternal life of
light.
At the time Jesus lived on earth
history shows us that virtues were a
mockery. Conditions were terrible, in
fact we have no idea of the wickedness
and consequent sufferings endured by
those early people. This was when
Christ came to apply the thin edge of
wedge. So great was the need of Him
that they killed His physical body in
their ignorance of right thinking. He
found it necessary to die in order to
show them the importance of each in-
dividual actually living the principles
of love, truth, kindness and all virtues
even unto death, the development of
'which brings us into everlasting life
where moth nor rust does not corrupt.
He has said we should pray. We do
not understand wliY; but in some man-
ileiprayer does, make the circuit com-
plete and for those . who touch the
spiritual switch by following what he
taught a beacon is set out which helps
us along wonderously through the
trials and sufferings on. this niuricy
road of life.
He has. shown us that we are going
through the process of being born
again; we have come up through the
infinite ages; passed through dark-
ness, ignorance, violence and material-
ization and can now see the glimmer-
ings of a great light ahead.
How then can there be annihilation?
Xf thore has been a past how can it be
possible not to have a future? All the
past was future at one time, was it
not? We have come this far not know-
ing what we are or how we move, or
have our being. The world becomes
more illuminated physically by elec-
tricity and immeasurably more impor-
tant, it becomes spiritually illuminated
by good living when everyone will do
as they would be done by.
Oftentimes we think our own suffer-
ings and difficulties, though hard to
bear can be tolerated, but looking at
others for worse off we are often puz-
zled when something seemingly ter-
rible happens. "Well now, that person
is good, and yet see how he suffers,"
and then we are apt to allow the small
seeds of doubt to grow, forgetting
God's words: "Thy dross to consume
and thy God to refine," It is God's
way of malting .us lit to be born again.
After all what is one little life when
gazing into the depths of eternity?
`Did you husband bring home
any fish?"
"No. I understand William had
bad luck on.. this trip. Be got into
a game of cards and lost the money
he took with him to buy fish,"
Sunday School
Lesson
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August 9. Lesson VI --.Saul Convert
ed and Commissioned --Acts 9; 1.9
17-19; 1 Timothy 1; 12-14. Golden
Text -1 was not disobedient unto
the heavenly vision, -Ants 26 19.
1. SAUL, PHARISEE AND PERSECUTOR,
Acts 9: 1, :2; 22 3-5,
II, SAUL CONVERTED, Acts 91 3-190;
22'; 5-16.
III. SAUL PREACHING, Acts 19: 19b-31;
22; 17-21.
IV. PAUL, LOOKiNG BACK, Galatians 1;
11117; 1 Timothy 1: 12=17.
I. SAUL, PHARISEE AND PERSECUTOR,
Acts 9: 1, 2; 22: 3-5,
(a) The Pharisee. Saul's family,
although living in a Greek city, were
of pure Jewish descent, and Pharisees.
They also enjoyed the privilege of
Roman citizenship, conferred upon
them probably for some service to
the emperor. According to Jewish
custom, the boy was taught a trade,
tent -making, Acts 18: 3. In the uni-
versity city of Tarsus he would ac-
quire a knowledge of Greek customs,
literature and philosophy. His edu-
cation in Tarsus completed, he was
sent south to Jerusalem to study
under a famous theological professor
named Gamaliel.
The gentle and tolerant spirt of Ga-
maliel (Acts 5: 34), was not shared
by his brilliant pupjl. Saul` was an
ardent student of the Law. 'When re-
ligion becomes a matter of law and
doctrines,, intolerance is the result. So
it was with Saul.
(b) The Persecutor. When, after
Stephen's death, the authorities took
measures against his followers, Saul
threw himself into the work of re-
pression. Not content with his efforts
in Jerusalem, he secured authority to
go to Damascus, where the Jewish
colony had evidently been influenced
by the new faith.
II. SAU:, CONVERTED, Acts 9: 3-19a;
22: 5-16.
Saul's conversion -..-as the most mo-
mentous occurrence of apostolic his-
tory.
(a) The Preparation. On the lonely
road to Damascus, six or eight days'
journey from Jerusalem, Saul would
have time for reflection. By this time
he was discovering that the Law was
not an adequate religion, Romans,
chapter 7. Failing in his quest for
God, he was steadily sinking into
pessimism. The memory was always
haunting liim of Stephen dying -with
the face of an angel—enrl with a
prayer of forgiveness on his lips. The
joyful courage of the men whom he
was persecuting, their lives for each
other, the calm confidence which told
of an inner peace must have been
undermining his old assurance. His
troubled mind was working up te the
crisis which he was soon to ei: peri
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(b)' The Crisis. As Saul 'and hese,
men were approaching the city a
blinding.. light . suddenly ='buret 'upon;
tiieiii; `the shock of" which threw them
to the ground, Chap. 9: 3. S:anl heard
a voice :saying, "Saul, Saul, why per-
seeutest thou me?" Was it, then,
really true that in harrying the be-
lievers he had been persecuting the
Lord himself? "Who art thou, Six?"
he asked. He did not recognize the
voice. The Authorized Version with
"Lord" suggests that he did. The
answer brought to Saul the trans-
forming conviction that Jesus was, as
his followers had claimed, . the true
revelation of God.
(c) The Result. Saul innnediat ae was: "What you want to be you can
placed Christ in complete control ' be, Will it then, and will it with all
his life, 9: G Brought to a believeitO ',,r might." Modern psychology
tells us the same thing. Character
a matter of right will. Holiness
is a will set toward God and His
righteousness.
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i^Enhance our charm by
ei=ing jacket costumes.
'lit is a season of jackets!
The one sketched is in the green and
',,rte printed sportsweight linen. in
6oiinbination with plain green hand-
drehief linen.
'The skirt shows slenderizing line in
ointed hip yoke treatment. The
jacket is in popular hip length.
:Style No. 3436 comes in sizes 14,
, 18 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches
gi:ist. The 16 -year size requires 4
yiards of 39 -inch figured inaterial with
1% yards of 39 -inch plain material.
It is stunning with the dress made
of chiffon print in hyacinth blue color-
ing with the jacket of flat silk crepe
en matching shade.
T Yellow and white sportsweight linen
with plain yellow sheer linen for sim-
ulated: tuck -inn bodice is very chic.
Dusty pink flee silk •crepe, white
shantung and cdt eWth silk striped
shirting are swaggerg"t4'
HOW TO ORDER 1?,,QTTERNS
Write your name and address plain-
ly, giving number and size of such
patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
'stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
it carefully) for each number, and
address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
Will
Ignatius Loyola was a great leader
and master of men. One of his rules
house in Damascus, he remained there
three days, blind physically and spirit-
ually, overwhelmed at the collapse of
his past life and dark as to the future.
Ananias, divinely prompted, found him
and showed him that all that had hap-
pened. was God calling him to his ser-
vice. Saul, now healed in body and
spirit (9: 17), was baptized, and thus
admitted to the fellowship of the be-
lievers.
i III. SAUL PREACHING, Acts 9: 19b -lilt;
22: 17-21.
After some days spent with the
disciples, in. Damascus, Saul retired
"into Arabia" (Gal. 1: 17), probably.
some quiet viltage near Damascus•
where, in seclusion, 'he could pongee
the -meaning of his great experience
and determine his future course of
action. Not only the words of Anan1'
ins' vision (22: 14, 15), but his own
nature made action of some kind in-
evitable. He returned` -"to Damascus
and began to preach controversially,
9: 22. Not yet, refined through suf-
fering, mellowed and enriched by love,
could he utter 1 Cor. chap. 13. A plot
against his life forced him to leave
the city. He went to Jerusalem, where
he endeavored to make the acquain-
tunce.of the apostles. They, however,
tgere eafraid of him and, had it not
beeerefor Barnabas, his visit would
pwhably have been unsuccessful. His
bold• preaching aroused antagonism.
yhe "brethren," fearing persecution,
brought him down to Ciusarea and sent
hi*, 'home to Tarsus,
IV.'PAUL, LOOKING BACK, Galatians 1:
11117; 1 Timothy 1: 12-17.
His Testimony. Looking back ,ver
the ears of his Christian life, he grate-
fully testifies that the Power which
saved him at Damascus has always
stained hint. The arrogance of the
Pharisees has become the humility of
thb'•chief of sinners, 1 Tim. 1; 15.
Carbon Monoxide Takes
Heavy Toll of Bird Life
Washington,—A never-ending gas at-
tack from the exhausts' of automobiles
is taking heavy toll among English
sparrows and pigeons, says Austin H.
Clark, biologist of the -United States
National Museum,
These two birds, which formerly
were common in the cities of Eastern
United. States, have been disappearing
rapidly.
They feed largely on Street refuse,
which brings them into contact with
carbon monoxide gas from motor ex-
hausts. It is a heavy gas that tends
to cling to the ground when there is no
wind.
It takes very little carbon monoxide
to kill a bird or weaken it so it is
easily caught by cats, hawks or other
enemies, Clark explains;
This is because birds lives "at high
speed:' Their bodies transform Oxye
gen into heat much more rapidly thali
human bodies,
They must have plenty of otygen at
all times. Anything suck as gas that
tends to block the oxygen supply from
their lungs has a bad effect almost at
once.
English sparrows were imported
from Europe before the days of .mod-
ern sprays and insecticides, to eat the
canker worms that were infesting the
American elm trees.
They accomplished their purpose
but aroused complaints among bird
lovers because they drove away other
birds from birdhouses and feeding
places,
To a Locomotive in Winter
Thee for my recitative,
Thee in the driving storm even as
now, the snow, the winter—day
declining,
Thee in thy panopi, thy measur'd dual
throbbing and thy beat convul-
sive,
Thy black cylindric body, golden brass
and silvery steel,
Thy ponderous side -bars, parallel and
connecting rods, gyrating, shut-
tling at thy sides,
Thy metrical, now swelling pant and
roar, now tapering 1n the dis-
tance,
Thy great protruding head -light fix'd
in front,
Thy long, pale, floating vapor -pennants
tinged with delicate purple,
The dense acid murky clouds out -belch-
ing from thy smoke -stack,
Thy knitted frame, thy springs and
valves, the tremulous twinkle of
thy wheels,
Thy train of cars behind, obedient,
merrily following,
Through gale or calm, now swife, now
slack, yet steadily careering;
Type of the modern—emblem of mo-
tion and power — pulseof the
continent,
For once come serve the Muse and
merge in verse, even as here I
see thee,
With storm ane buffeting gusts of
wind and falling snow,
By day thy warning ringing bell to
sound its notes,
By night thy silent signal lamps to
swing.
Fierce -throated beauty!
Roll through my chant with all thy
lawless music, thy swinging strongest and most effective mental -
lamps at night, spiritual force that we can possess or
Thy madly -whistled laughter, echoing, grow.—Ralph Waldo Trine.
rumbling like an earth quake,
rousing all,
Law of thyself complete, thine own Argentine Grain
Vote or Be Arrested
Aim of Bill in France
Paris.—A law compelling all French
citizens to vote, under penalty of
fines, has been proposed by a group of
conservative members of Parliament
Voting, they declare in the hill they
have laid before the Chamber of De-
puties, is a duty and not a mere pri-
vilege.
rivilege.
The . Chamber of Deputies and the
departmental and communal elective
bodies are, they maintain, composed
too largely of the representatives of
minorities because the other fellows
shirked their duty at the polls.
In France, as in most countries, the
well-to-do citizens are inclined to fore-
go their right to vote. It is with the
purpose of getting out this portion of
the vote that the backers of the bill,
led by Louis Marin, have moved for
the reform.
Fear
Fear and lack of faith go hand in
hand. The one is born of the other.
Tell me how much one is given to
fear, and I will tell you how much
he lacks in faith.
Fear is a most expensive guest to
entertain, the same as worry is: so
expensive are they that no one can
afford to entertain them. We invite
wha we fear, the same as, by a differ-
ent attitude of mind, we invite and
attract the influences and conditions
we desire. The mind dominated by
fear opens the door for entrance of
the very things, for the actualization
of the very conditions it fears.
Fear is, so to speak, the direct oppo-
site of faith, and faith is perhaps the
track firmly holding
Atli) sweetness debonair of tearful
harp or glib piano thine),
Thy thrills. of shrieks by rock and hills
retutn'd
Launeh'd o'er the prairies wide, across
the lakes,
To the free skies unpent and glad and
strong.
—Walt Whitman, in "Leaves of
Grass."
Maternal Instinct
It is a mistake to suppose that the
maternal instinct is universal on the
one hand, or that it is developed only
by personal experience on the other.
Even women who are mothers may
be found wholly destitute of it, with
not a ray of natural feeling for their
offspring; and some who are neither
wives or mothers in fact are all the
latter in feeling. These are the wo-
men who are the chosen friends of
both sexes and all ages. To them
flock all who have troubles, sure of
a patient hearing and that sweet sym-
pathy which of itself heals the wounds
laid bare to its touch.
Wisdom of the Foolish
The foolish think that they can
escape punishment; but every wrong-
doing carries its own punishment,
Punishment is not always something
that happens to us, but rather some-
thing that happens in us. The great-
est of all punishments is the loss'of
our humanity. What is more terrible
than to lose the open countenance --to
be forced to wear the fox's eye and the
wolf's mouth? ---Markham.
Output Grows
Buenos Aires. Argentine wheat,
corn, linseed and oats shipments this
year show a considerable increase,' pri-
vate
rivate statistics of cereal exports reveal,
A total of 1,928,752 tons of wheat was
shipped from January 1 to May 22, as
compared with 1,291,104 tons for the
corresponding period a year ago; 2,-
480,795
;480,795 tons of corn, against 1,2265,482.
tons; 951,045 tons of linseed, against
683,378 tons, and 301,963 tons of oats
against 162,457 tons a year ago.
Impossibilities
Nearly everything that is worth
while, that has been accomplished by
men, has been considered impossible
by many others. Every roan who has
ever done anything great has been
ridiculed and advised by others to let
it alone.
' Yes, I fitted up my fiat at a
i : ticulously low price. In fact, it
cost me but a song."
"How's that?"
"Well, you see, I started up a solo
on the back fence at 2 a.m. and the
donations I received in the shape
of furniture, etc., just filled the
Bill.'
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