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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-09-10, Page 3New York Sunday School Is Wearing Lesson •••••••••-••••••••*- 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. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. 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. 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. • Amusing Anecdotes ,100 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 • 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 1�tfl bake together till it be enough (40‘0), Then. (take) it out, and serve fort .0.?" a 11:4-fil8rIrto wa I stt ce * 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. * .* 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. * * * What would modern diners think of a feast like this—provided at .the iu- * • * * 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. * * * 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 ;i 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!" t. , L 4 * 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. * * * ni * * 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"(. * * * 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 NIUr1. AND JEFF— One Good Turn Deserves Another. SIR SNAIL 1 LUG Go FOR A 213aVeft MOST V41010ERFUL. ROADS IN 7 AMER% C A r _TDRIPjapt.G1 zi4 oL-bAve 115ALiNzAZE:S WANTED AMEIMA Leo‘<ct),, t.wa: ( • Z"?•••'; „ x .C,3;:i ,;" •st VIE, oLT) 'Berk: 'oW MA0'1 DETOURS eq,UAL E., (Awe? Beautiful view here. Reminds 1110 so much, of Scotland, you 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. 1170111=1161171117110 Stevia Plant Yields COmpound Sweeter Than Sugar 300 Times 17' 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 - .°414Z=. rid 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' WI SW, 1)0.11" `(0‘3 GGT /2% -ruRv‘svt -rovet. AM 5041S, SOAP Willi TaIS 23Eroup •••••:, ......••••••••••• LATER s. must- MECT- SID AT The CiAlti. GkiT Amti TRY -rt) liteRRow A paitect) 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 1Fattioa,*-ae,...t.-aaaa 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. • 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. i 111'1 M p km, 'Well, old man, how are things?" 'Bad, with skirts lower this year a fellow has a hard time getting a Isqua.re meal." By BUD FISHER DETOIIR BRIDGE MAMMA' our. ...j....„0:77 .', ,,,,,; (1 . r . 7 ..(;7 1"... -.4,;:t....1..... \ }0....Y.W.W. .., ' .. .4' 4/4, 3., A set...„.„, . t /i...1.,,•_., ;d/J,\ • 0,.... . 1 6, ,6,1>... 1,,,,,,,o ; ,., • - • .41) 216_ .Y.0 • as TtPin 1 lko, 71; v•t •-•• 47: ' r: