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feptember 13. Lesson XI—Some
Missionary Experiences—Acts 14:
8-23. Golden Text—SI essed are
they which are persecuted for
righteousnesssake: for theirs le
the kingdom of heaven.—Matthew
6: 10.
ANALYSIS
I. A CRIPPLE] HEALED? Acts 14: 7-10.
11. DEIFIED MID non% Acts 14;
11-20a.
III. COMPLETING THE TOUR, Acts 14:
20b-28.
imaonucTrort—In Asia Minor the
apostles' experiences were,. in general
outline, the same; preachng first in
the synagogues, rejected there, ap-
pealing to the Gentiles, received by
them, attacked by the unbelieving
Jews, finally forced to leave. and there-
by carry the gospel farther afield.
I, A CRIPPLE HEALED, Acts 14: 7-10.
Tucked away in a remote highland
glen, twenty-five miles from Iconium,
lay .:.e little Lycaonian town of ..._,ys-
tra. Its people were chiefly native
Asians, enough Greeks and Romans to
have built a temple of Jupiter, and a
few Jews, but not enough to form a
synagogue. This country -side was
sacred to Jupiter. Was it not in the
near vicinity—Phrygia--that he, with
his attendant Mercury, once visited an
old couple, Philemon and Baucis? The
humble peasants alons recognized and
entertained their magnificent guests,
and were by them magnificently re-
warded. The populace, however, were
solemnly warned that another failure
to recognize visiting deity would be
properly punished. Into this primitive
paganism came the messengers of the
gospel.
In the course of his preaching, Paul
healed a cripple, v. 8. It was the im-
pact of a superior and dominating
mind upon a feebler one. The same
kind of thing happens whenever a
powerful will acts upon a weaker one.
What is the transforming power of
God, but the action of Mind and Spirit
in human lives?
n. DEIFIED AND STONED, Acts 14:
11-20a.
The cure electrifiad the whole town.
The old legend flashed into these un-
cultured minds. Slipping into •.heir
native tongue, the crowds cried out,
"The gods are come down to us in the
likeness of men!" Paul and Barnabas,
ignorant of the local speech, were con-
scious only of the enthusiasm. Swift-
ly the news spread. On it came to the
ears of the priest of Jupiter. He was
equal to the occasion. Not this
ould the populace be caught napping
when the gods arrived. Sacrifice must
be made. •
When the apostles heard of it they
immediately stopped the proceedings.
"We also are men of like passions with
you," they said. and Paul began to
preach to them. His address is fine
ex,arnnle of what all preaching should
b'e. He used 'the knowledge which
they posseised. to • bring • them to
knowledge of God.
The work of evangelization was
soon interrupted. The persistent ha-
tred of the unbelie ring Jews followed
the apot.tles, even to Lystra. The new
arrivals had little difficulty in per-
suading the people that these mon
were impostors, The Lystrians stoned
Paul. He, however, must have man-
aged somehow, in the hail of stones,
to protect his temple,. and his heart.
Toward evening, as they watched, his
astonished friends saw the body move.
"He rose and came into the city," v.
20. One would think it was quite the
ordinary thing for men to walk back
t, their would-be murderers! Mist
men would have gone in the other di-
rection. Years after,.•writing to Tim-
othy, whom'as a boy, he had won for
Christ in Lystra, Paul said, "1 know
whom I have believed," 2 Tim. 1: 12.
It was that knowledge that kept him
steady in Lystra.
III. COMPLETING THE TOUR, Acts 14:
20b-28.
"And the next day he departed with
Barnabas to Derbe." Derbe was not
far from the "Cilician Gates," the pass
which, crossed the Taurus Mountains
down to Tarsus. Just around the bend
of the Mediterranean from Tarsus
was Syrian Antioch. It was now
Autinnn. The travelling season wae.
drawing to a close." After their un-
interrupted success in Derbe (v. 21),
what more natural than that the two
men would•head for home?
Not they! Work was still to be done.
Back to the cities from which hatred
had driven them they went, steength-
ening the faith of the 'unsteady Gala-
tians. Paul organized the various
groups under elders, led, commending
them unto the Lord (v. 23), they ma ie
their way across the mountains again,
and down to Page where they stopped
BY ANNEB4LLE WORTHINGTON
Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur-
nished With Every Pattern
Youthful jauntiness perfectly ex-
presses this simple little outfit.
A fascinating scheme made the
original. And unbelievably inexpen-
sive. And to the making of it, you'll
be amazed. The dress is just a straight
one-piece type. It is lengthened by a
circular flounce. The white handker-
chief linen frill at the neckline and
sleeves may be bought already by the
yard. if you choose. However, pattern
provides for same. You'll find the
collarless jacket just as easy. as A,
B. C. to make it.
Silks, light wool and jersey make
up attiactively.
Style No. 3156 may be had in sizes
12, 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36 and 33
inches bust.
Size 16 requires 31/4 yards 35 -inch
for dress with 11/4 yards 35 -inch for
jacket.
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Write your name and address plain-
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it carefully) for each number, and
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Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
to preach. Back in Antioch they told
how God had "opened the door of faith
unto the Gentiles," v. 27. It was the
door which led into the kingdom, but
not through the works of Judaism.
Many Jews also were converted, 13:
43; 14: 1; 16: 1, Luke. evidently not
liking Jews, did not say much about
them.
Joy
Toalay, whatever may annoy,
The word for me is joy, just simple
joy;
The joy of life, the joy of flowers,
The joy of bright blue skies;
The joy of rain; the glad surprise,
Of twinkling stars that shine at night,
The joy of winged things on their
flight,
The joy of noonday ,and the tried,
True joyousness of eventide;
The joy of labor and of mirth,
The joy of aire and sea, and earth—
The countless joys that ever flow from
Hint
Whose vast beneficence doth dim
The lustrous light of day,
And lavish gifts divine upon our way,
Whate'er there be of sorrow
I'll put off till to -morrow,
And when toanorrow comes, why then,
'Twill be To -day, and joy again.
—John Kendrick Bangs.
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Amusing Anecdotes
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It is curious how sometimes (view of
tion and answer between "grown up" dat
and child entirely miss their mark Th
(reflects Mrs, :'eton Christopher in
"Life's Little Laughs"), For instance;
A lady saying to a little girl
"I tear you were born in India—
what 'part?" received the somewhat
unexpected reply:
"Oh! all of me."
111t� •the broth, on many that the broth
, stiff enough. Then Make fair
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and couoh three pieces or four
,et flesh in a coffin. Then take
and eut there, and cast thereto.
take powdered ginger and a lit-
tle . *ice, and put into the broth and
sit,co ge bake a little with•the' fedi bee
And theu put the broth inalie
fore 'thou put thy liquor thereon, and
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There are, points out john Hix (in
"Strange .As It Seems"), 52 cards in
a deck and 62 weeks in a year. There
are 12 picture ,cards in a deck and
there are 12 months in. a •year, There
are 4 sults in a deck and 4 seasons in
a year. There are 13 tricks in a deck
and 13 weeks in a quarter, The mine -
leers of the cards in a deck total 360
and there are 365 days in a year,
And, he might have added, the odd
trick is the seventh and there are
seven days in a week.
"People who talk about 'poor old
Pepy's," remarked Edmund Goose at
a celebration of •tne diarist's birth-
day, should remember that he was
only twenty-six whoa he commenced
his diary." But what interests me
more is the proeunciation of his name
by the people who talk about Pepye.
There are, to my knowledge, three
variations: Peeps, Peps and 'Pep -is.
Which is correct I do not know.
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However, in south London, in the
Borough of Deptford, which for over
300 years has had close afftliations
with the Pepys family, there is a
Pepys Road. Should a visitor to Dept-
ford ask to be directed to Peeps • or
Peps Road, he would be told "There
ain't no such road." But should he
spell out the name, a smile would
come over the face of the native, who
GENERAL — — — — TRAVISS
would say:
"011,_ you mean Pep -is Road. Why
that is down by New Cross Gate!"
Which it is.
* * *
Li Hung Chang, famous Chinese
statesman, when. visiting New York
some years ago, was taken for a trip
on the subway. Told by his guide
that they had to change from a local
to an express train, the wondering
Chinaman asked why the change was
necessary. The guide replied that it
would save five minutes.
"But," returned Li, "what are we
going to do with the five minutes,?"
The guide didn't know. Changing
was just a habit, he admitted.
"A disease, you mean," corrected IA
Hung.
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What would modern diners think of
a feast like this—provided at .the iu-
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most airmen, Captain Frank
ks, the "Speed King," won't ad -
being superstitious, but On his
"wild journey across the United
si as he calls his record flight
Los Angeles to New York, there
„a rabbit's foot tightly wired to
Irplane. It was the gift of a
d.
amuse I fared so well on that
I have kept it ever since though
not at all inclined to be super-
s,,,sa)eysIa,wics (in the reminis-
s,siery
ether rabbits' feet are effective
a i qts or not, Hawks doesn't pretend
to ow, but he does think they are
no Itch hot luck -bringers to the bun -
that originally owned them.
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ptain Hawks spent five delightful
da with. Will Rogers not so long ago
at the humorist's ranch near Santa
M ea, California.
'T re are two good-sized boys and a
gia
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in addition to Will and his wife
--j a' ho calls her," says Hawks. "My
hp Vs favorite pastime, I discovered,
isetd go out to the corral back of the
hfuse and. put in a half hour or an
nona roping calves. He is a sure-
endugh cowpuncher both on and off
the Istage!"
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Uvited—As a newspaper corres-
pondent during the World War—to
a destroyer of the famous Dover
Patrol for a 24 hours' stretch of duty
a S"ea, Cecil Roberts, the novelist,
till's of being on the bridge when a
,
wineless message was delivered to the
skiPper, who, after reading it cram -
110d it in his pocket. Roberts, scent -
Ingo. a "scoop," was curious as to its
centents and tactfully began to ques-
tion the skipper, but to no avail.
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became bold, to the point of in-
viting a snub," relates Roberts (in his
reminiscences "Half Way."). "At last
the skipper yielded. He pulled the
Tipsy' out of his pocket and passed
itch me. Elated, I peered at it. It
rm!'40(11:Iis Majesty's Ship Blank to His
Majesty's Ship Blue; Is the journalist
side yet'?"
Roberts was sick — in. more ways
flip one.
stailation. of Archbishop Neville at •
York in 1467:
A partial listof the food, iool.v.-
C00 quarters of wheat, 300 tuns of ale,
100 tuns of wine, 104 oxen, 6 wild buns,
1,000 sheep, 304 calves, 304 "pokers,"'
400 swans, 2,000 geese, 1,000 capons,
2,000 pigs, 103 peacocks, besides over
13,500 birds, large and small, of vari-
ous kinds.
In addition there were stags, bucks
and roes, 500 and more; 1,500 hot pas-
ties of venison, 603 pikes and breams,
12 porpoises and seals, besides 13,000
dishes of jelly, cold baked tarts, hot
and cold custards, and "spices, sugar-
ed delicacies, and wafers plentie."
It is true that there were said to
have been. some 6,000 guests at this
famous feast, but a slight calculation
shows that the allowance for each
was enormous, says 'William E. Mead
(in. "The English Medieval Feast"(.
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The custard included in the above
menu bears no resemblance to the cus-
tard: of to -day. It was then a serious
undertaking, as will be seen from the
recipe:
"Take veal and smite in little
pieces into a pot and wash it clean;
then take fair (i.e, clean) water and
let it boil together with parsley, sage,
savory, and hyssop cut small enough;
and when. it is boiling take powdered
pepper, cinnamon, cloves, mace, saff-
ron, and let them boil together and a
good deal of wine therewith.
Same custard:
"Whoa the flesh is boiled, take it
from the broth all clean, and let the
broth cool ;and when it is cold, take
eggs, the white and the yolks, and
cast through a strainer, and put them
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know."
"Oh, then you went to that lec-
ture, too?"
Scientists Discover Ancient
City Under Black Sea
Moscow, U.S.S.R.—On the south-
western extremity of the Crimean
Peninsula, near Sebastopol, the floor
of the Black Sea has revealed to So-
viet archaeologists an ancient buried
city which is believed to have t.hrived
between the fourth and second centur-
ies B.C.
An expedition which was sent there
three months ago by the State Aca-
dully of Arts reported recently that
its operations had uncovered the re-
nal= of old Khersoness, the existence
of which has long been suspected, but
never verified.
About 40 feet under the sea, the
expedition's divers and motion pic-
ture photographers found the ruins of
a city in the shape o a gigantic horse-
shoe, with walls, towers, houses ar.d
under -ground tunnels honeycombing
the whole.
Atchaeologistsf here believed that
the city was destroyed by the gradual
sinking of the shores of the sea and
by an earthquake.
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Stevia Plant Yields COmpound
Sweeter Than Sugar
300 Times
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Paris. — A natural substance 300
times sweeter than cane sugar, rival-
ling some of the coal -tar products of
chemical laboratories, bas been shown
by two French chemists to consist of
a chemical Man of common glucose
and another compound whih has little
or no taste. United, they are intensely
sweet; divided, they are not even as
sweet as ordinary sugar.
The compound beam the chemical
name "stevioside," because it occurs
in a South American plant known to
botanists as stevia. The plant itself
was first introduced to the scientific
world about the beginning of the pre-
sent century; it is a close relative of
suck familiar North Americau weeds
as boneset, joe-pye-weed, and the plant
that causes occasional outbreaks of
millcness in. the Midwest. After its
discovery by Europeans it rapidly ac-
quired the name of "the sweetest
plant in the world." A very small piece
sufficed to sweeten a cup of coffee or
tea.
During the past generation several
partially successful attempts have
been. made to isolate and study the
Particular substance in the plant that
Made it so intensely sweet. It has re-,
=tined, however, for tlie French
chemists, M. Briddel and Taavielle, to
accomplish the final Purification.
They have discovered, to their sur-
prise, that the sweet crystals of device
side, upoa chemical treatment to re-
move a part o ftlie combined water in
them, break apart into about 60 per
cent, common glucose and 40 per cent.
of a new stuff which they called "ste-
viol." The latter has no taste, but com-
bined with the glucose it produces a
most poignantly sweet substance.
del and Lavielle made aa -
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other interesting discovery, the sig-
nificance of which is not yet dear. It
they freeze a 50 per cent. solution of
the intensely sweet steviodide they ob-
tain a mat of line needle-cryetals,
which contain more chemically com-
bined water than the original sub-
stance, and which are only faintly
sweet. The sweetness of stevioside
seems to depend on the presence of
an exact amount of water in combina-
tion with the glucose and steviol; a
trifle more or a trifle less spoils the
effect.
Analysis Reveals
Rain Falls Cycles
Existence of wet and dry cycles is
revealed by mathematical analysis of
the rainfall records of California, Dr.
A. F. Gorton.of the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography reports to the Am-
erican Geophysical Union.
"Fluctuations of rainfall," he says,
"occurs at intervals of from two to
three years, five to six years, and
twenty-two to twenty-six years, the
first being more noticeable in the rec-
ord of the northern stations and the
second in southern California. Los
Angeles shows successive wet and dry
periods eleven years in length, with a
total cycle of approximately twenty-
two years. In addition to these there
is evidence of a longer cycle of fifty-
five to sixty years.
"The most important for forecast-
ing purposes is the five -and -a -half
year cycle, especially marked itt the
records of the southern California sta-
tion. It is brought out by computing
the frequency of occurrence of seasons
with two or more consecutive months
of decidedly abnormal rain—the San
Diego record containing thirteen such
seasons in seventy-two years."
The twenty-two year cycle, he points
out, appears to be universal while the
others may be more dependent on local
conditions.
The Summer Goes
Bow swift the summer goes,
Forget-me-not; pink, Toga.:
The young grass when I started,
And now the hay is carted,
And now my song is ended,
And all the summer splendid;
The blackbird's second brood
Routs beech leaves in the wood;
The pink and rose have speeded,
Forget-me-not has seeded,
Only the winds that blew,
The rain that makes things new,
The earth that hides things old,
And blessings manifold.
O lovely lily clean,
O lily springing green,
o lily bursting white,
.Dear lily of delight,
Spring in my heart again
That I may flower to men.
—John Masefield, The Everlasting
Mercy.
When Hope Lies Sick
When hope lies sick on bed of fear,
lAnd clouds are dark and days are
drear,
Faith waits with cup of loving cheer,
To hasten Hope's reviving.
And Love comes with a .golden bowl,
To warm and heal her sister -soul;
She steals a snails past Sorrow's toll
With winsgmest contriving,
Ah; Hope look up! Arlie! Partake
Of these sweet ministrations;
Thou must be.well for their dear sake,
Who bring these inspirations.
Faith's cup of Peace, Love's bowl of
grace,
Shall bring the smile back to thy
face.
—Charles H. Hunter, in Echoes from
the Hill'
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Summer Quarters
of Blue Goose Found
Discovery of a second breeding
ground of the mysterious blue goose
071 Southampton Island in Hudson Bay
is reported in the Auk, organ of the
American Ornithological Association,
by Dr. George M. Sutton, of Cornell
University.
The blue goose is very abundant in
winter about the mouth of the Missis-
sippi but, until two years ago, its sum-
mer quarters were unknown. It seem-
ed to disappear entirely over the
northern horizon. Then a large nest-
ing ground was found in Baffin Land.
On Southampton Island, 600 miles
to the westward and with an area of
19,000 square miles, Dr. Sutton found
an enormous summer bird population,
ling with their close relatives, the
many thousands of blue geese ming -
lesser snow geese. The whole island
has only about 140 Eskimo inhabit-
ants, so the birds are little molested.
Their nests are scattered through. the
lakes, generally close to the shore. As
grass ranges between the numerous
soon as the young are able to take
care of themselves the geese move in-
land in family groups, feeding until
late August, when all reassemble for
the migration southward.
The blue goose family, Dr. Sutton
found, is a, rather stable organization,
the male and female remaining de-
voted to each .other and their young
through the summer. Whether these
families are broken. up after the. me
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Power
Man has one power in particular,
which is not sufficiently dwelt on. It
is the power of malciug •the world
happy, or at least of so greatly dimin-
ishing the amount of unhappiness in it
as to make quite a different world
from what it is at present. The power
is called kindness. --F. W. Faber.
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Truth
Truth is always consistent with it-
self, and needs nothing to help it out;
it is always near at hand, and site up.
on our lips, and is ready to drop out
before we are aware; whereas a lie is
troublesome, and sets a men's inven,
tion upon the rack. --Tillotson.
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