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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-10-01, Page 3Sunday Schoir,1 Lesson eeeeeee-44•••••-! October 4. Lesson l—The Macedon- ian Call—Acts 16: 6-15; Romans 15: 18-21, Golden Text—Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.— Matthew 28: 19. • ANALYSIS L A DISSOLVED PARTNEnSiiir, Acts 15: 36-41. II, eALATIA REVISITED; TIMOT}IY, Acts 16: 1-5. 111, 1101A PAUL TURNED WEST, Acts 10: 6-15. INTRoDucTION—We come now to Paul's second missionary j ourney. Had Paul gone East instead of West, Chinese churches would probably he sending missionaries today to even- - gelize the natives of Britain and Am- erica. As it is, into our western hands has been committed the missionary ente..prise. 1. A DISSOLVED PARTNMRSHIP, Acts 15: 36-41. After accepting the Jerusalem com- promise, the church in Antioch had peace. Paul was again free for mis- sion work. He longed to see the Gal- atian converts once more, v. 36. This personal affection and concern for his converts was one of the most attrac- tive features in Paul's character. It appears in. the letters which he wrote afterwaTds. "With great desire" he would see their faces (1 Thess. 2: 17), "night and day praying exceed- ingly" "'tat he might see them, 2 Tess. 3: 10. Also, he recognized the im- portance of "following up" work be- gun. Then came the unhappy disagree- mene between the two leaders. Bar- nabas would take John Mark again. Paul, setting out upon a journey like: ly to be difficult and dangerous, would have nothing to do with one who had already failed him. Barnabas„)er- haps unconsciously placing his kindly feelings toward his nepNew before the interests of the work, was adamant. Unable to agree,they divided the field between them. Barnabas could take Mark and go to Cyprus. Paul, select- ing Silas (15: 224., would go north overland to the cities previously visited. Barnabas now disappears from the record. The church at Antioch agreed with Paul, v. 40. It seems inexpress- ibly sad. Paul owed a great deal to Barnabas, 9: 27; 11: 25, 26. His affec- tionate nature must have been deeply pained. It was a time- when he felt that for Christ he must suffer loss of everything—even friendship, Phil. 3: 7, 8. That friendship, however, was restored later, 1 Cor. 9: 6. Even Mark eventually won his confidence (2 Tim. 4: 11), but the two leaders never worked together again. God makes the wrath of man to praise him; two missionary enter- prises, instead of one, were thus set on foot. H. GALATIA REVISITED: TIMOTHY, A ets 16: 1-5. . After winning his fight for Gentile freedom from circumcision, Paul cir- cumcized Tiniothy. Why? Timothy (v. 1), whom he himself had been the means of converting and of whom he was very fond, Pani would take with him, v. 3. But Timothy was uncir- cumcised. Being part Jew, he could reasonably be expected to come under the Jewish requirements. The mis- sionaries would generally lodge in the jewish quarters of the cities they would visit. They would begin their work in the synagogues. The pres- ence of the uncircumcised Timothy would be offens've to the Jews, em- barrassing to Timothy himself, and a hindrance to the work. Paul, there- fore, since no principle was at stake, had Timothy circumcised, v. 3. After a good passage, carefully re- ported by Luke, who is now one of the party and acquainted with the sea, the rpissionaries arrived in Philippi early in the week, Philippi had few Jews and no synagogue, Paul found 30Me women holding a prayer -meeting by the river. Among than he began his "venture of faith," Lydia became one of his famous converts. The evangel- .zation of Europe had begun. So, by hindrances, embarrassments, appar- ently sinister experiences, God 'sets our feet in steps that lead us upward yet." Enter the Provost A new ecclesiastical title is to make its appearance—that of "Provost," Which is to be borne by the incum- bents of parish church cathedrals, such as Birmingham, Bradford, Lei- cester, Newcastle, Bortgrnouth, and Sheffield. The title is to carry with it the precedence accorded to the dean of a cathedral. Although new in this connection, the title of provost is an old one. It is applied to the heads of certain colleges, such as Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and to the chief magistrates of citi d boroughs in Scotland. There the title is equiva- lent to that of in Englande and that of Lord Provost to Lord Mayor. There are live lord provosts—the chief magistrates of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen,, Perth and Dundee. What New York Is Wearing illustrated Dressmaking' Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON HOW PAUL TURNED. WEST, Acts 10: 6-15. To the Borth lay Bithynia with its populous cities. Thither Paul turned. Agai . the "Spirit of Jesus" (the •or- rect.reading of v. '7) forbade. The har- vest of Bithynia was not for Paul, but for Peter, 1 Peter 1: L The only course left open for the missionaries now was westward to Troas, v. 8. For- bidden to preach ther4—for it was part of the forbidden Asia, they had not much choice; it was either to re- turn home or cross the am to Mace- donia, which iktoday part of modern Greece.. At the critical moment came a turning point in history. Paul's vi- sion was the birth -hour of western civilization and western Christianity. Paul was evidently thinking and pray- ing about Macedonia. Perhaps, as Ramsay suggests, a Dr. Luke meeting the travelers in the hotel at Troas, had suggested Macedonia to him. In any case, falling asleep to the swish of the sea,,Taul dreamed a dream, v. 9. He took it to be a divine guidance. So did they all, -,. 10, A Novel jdea Gross, •a mechanic of Berlin, ha conceived this new idea of a Water riding automobile. With, epe al equipment any auto can be converted An a period of 15 ininiiteVato a sea -going hack. Just the thing for detour. ' • i , •• Destructive Floods Cause of Erosion China's Diaster Warning to Countries Being Denud- ed of Forests One of Chinas greatest scourges— the flood—is egain spreading death and destruction over a wide area, writes Hugh Hammond Bennett in The N.Y. Times. What is the reason for these periodic visitation entailing great loss of life and vast property, damage? In China's recurring mis- fortunes there is a warning to younger civilizations, especially to America;. for although in China with its densely populated lands the flood waters are more appalling in their results, the processes which are there at work are also to be found as a menace to the future of the United -States. China's history of floods is volumin- ous beyond comprehension.After 4,000 years of building levees and dig- ging canals, the great Yellow .River liroke over its banks in 1877 in an ap- palling overflow that brought death to 1,000,000 human beings. In '1852 this swollen Titan changed its lower chan- nel to enter the ocean .300 miles north ofits mouth on the Yellow Sea. layer by unchecked washing, b it, he exposed subsoil which now sibe farmed, or abandoned, is more d cult to till because of its usual high c tent of stiff clay; it absorbs mois- e slower than the mellow loam now gciie and gives it up faster with. the creased baking of dry weather. reover, the washing is speeded up s u ti 'many lee., !" „les; and it is at this ge of lake depletion that gullying ally sets in. Over the less absorp- o eroded slopes water flows away lith increased rapidity ta augment ' 4bds. t uous it takes just seven years under con - corn cultivation in Northern , . :it . tisairP and Southern Iowa for one ,,cli. of„..ae, important type or rolling rn-belt' soil' to wash off land of gent- ,. sloping topography. On steeper Ind, that having a fall of eight feet a linear distance of a hundred feet, e rate of removal is one inch in one ear. In other words, under the pre - 'ailing system of corn production in is region the most productive part Iv the land, the seven inches consti- uting the top -soil, is being washed way within from seven to forty-nine Iars. Here the virgin soil produced trr'good years seventy-five bushels of ern per acre; the exposed subsoil pro- uces at the rate of about twenty bushels per acre. The Yellow Sea, a part of the P,ux; The plant food removed from the chic Ocean, is -colored with silt swell): , elds and pastures of America every down from slopes far up the Yangtsdlyear by erosion exceeds by twenty - Kiang and Whang Ho, whose watenti one times that removed by the crops sheds once were clothed with forests and grass. Stripped of these stabiliz- ing agencies in nature, countless slop- ing areas were cultivated without pro uth Africa's Hippo Passes Huberta, Whose Long Trek Through Town and Coun- try Endeared Her to Thousands, Rests in a Museum Cape Town.—In the Kaffrarian Mus- eum at King "Williams Town there stands a hippopotamus that gave South. Africa, thrill after thrill for more than two years, For this enor- mous stuffed hide was once Huberta the Hippo—the famous roving animal that was looked upon by white South Africans as a friend and by natives as the reincarnation of a great chief. Flags were flOwn at half-mast in Durban on the tragic day when the "assassination' 'of Huberta became known. Four farmers convicted of the deed were each sentenced to a fine of £25 or three months' hard labor. A wave of protest swept through the country, ' and a museum director wrote: "I have entirely despaired of human nature. There are some peo- ple -who cannot see an interesting specimen without itching to take a pot shot at it." How did Huberta the Hippo capture the affection of the whole of South Africa? It is a diverting story. To realize the sensation caused every- where by the appearance of Huberta, it must be understood that South Afri- ca—apart from a few game preserves —is no longer a wonderland. of big game. Thousands of people living in the cities have never seen game ani- mals execpt in captivity. So when, in November, 1928, a full-grown hippo- potamus strolled into the village of New Guelderland, fifty miles from Dur- ban, the event received large head- lines in all the newspapers. Huberta Makes Debut harvested. That taken by crops can be restored in the form of fertilizer, but that. removed by erosion cannot be. estored, because this malevolent tection against the evils of rain -wash, P1'6:-41* takes the whole body of the plant food anti -all. trOge§hicb. has altered the stir.' oil, .• /ace of the-earn:L-7=m. "ak.n.-,tio.--ooxa"= "Notyrittrstaftdriiii the wastcontinuing bined activities, of volcanoes„ earth- losses caused by erosion, we are not quakes, tidal waves, tornadoee and all Yet on the verge of a land shortage. the excavations of mankind since the In spite' of the appalling wastage, we are confronted with the anomalous situation of having on our hands large crepe surpluses., With increasing use of fertilizers and soil -improving crops, together with the abandonment of worn-out land for land still retaining speeds on at accelerated pace. Under some of its top -soil, we continue to To be just right, the clothes of tite growing miss. must have a bit of dash. The jacket dress, so splendid for school wear, has a definite smartness and practicality too, for it is equally beginning of history. , Every, rain heavy enough to cause water to run downhill carries its toll of suspended soil, eating away the substance of the land down into the less stable sub- strata, where the destructive process nature's stabilizers of forest, shrub -Produce abundantly. In many locale bery and grass, erosion works slowly; ties, however, yields have dwindle d. with these removed by man and his do- markedly. Wit' all the improvement mestic animals the Wastage is vastly which has been made with corn varie- ties and the widespread betterment of -cultural methods, our acreage yield of corn has not increased. This means, obviously, that we are still cultivating .much land of inferior quality. • The United States Department of Agriculture, co-operating with the States, has recently inaugurated a na- tional program of soil conservation. Already mueh has been accomplished with field terraces, and experiments tinder way indicate that strip -cropping --that is, the growing of soil -saving crops in strips along the slopes, alter- nately with the clean -tilled crops --will prove tremendously important. A soil - saving culttivator recently devised at one of these experiment stations digs 10,000 holes to every acre, while oper- ating as rapidly as any practical farm impleraent. These excavations hold& on each acre of Ianaproximately 50,- 000 gallons of water, thus preventing rut.ffand erosion from numerous ra Grey—"How long has Meekleigh been married?" "Greene --"For twenty awed years." tided that she was coming too closely Indians and natives working in the fields of sugarcane were the first to raise the alarm. They heard a snort- ing and a bellowing, and ran for safe- ty. The hippo remained until hun- dreds of people were staring wide- eyed with astonishment; then retreat- ed into the thicket. Undoubtedly this adventurous beast had wandeyed from the Umfolosi sanc- tuary, near Lake St. Lucia, Zulaland —the last known breeding place of the hippo within the borders of the Union. At first she was named Billy by correspondents who rushed to the spot, but it was as Hubert the Hippo that she became a national character. It was not until after her death that the mistake about her sex was dis- covered, and she was renamed Hu- b er ta, From the day of her first appear- ance until her death Huberta was a marked hippo. Atter she had startle& the plantation workers at Guelderland she quickly achieved notoriety. An enterprising eress photographer went out among the sugar -cane, but when he leveled his camera Huberta charged him. Curious crowds flocked to see her. As they grew larger they annoyed Hu - beta more and more, and finally she moved off. From that moment began her journeyiugs, which were to last two years and make her the most fa- mous hippo that ever lived. She moved first in the direction of Durban. As she approached the city she passed through areas which grew more and more thickly populated with every mile. Naturally, the sensation she caused was enormous. As she approached Durban, which is one of the largest cities in South Afri- ca, the excitement grew. "Hubert on His Way," said the headlines (they thought she was a bull then), and peo- ple waited eagerly to see where the animal would make its next appear- ance. Of course, had it been neces- sary, an organized hmt could have put an end to her career then and there. But by this time Huber'a was a public character. She '- ad roused the amuse- ment, even the affection, of the entire population. It had ken proved that she was quite harmless. Occasionally sheuisicthivaer.ged people who were too in- ciAn Unwelcome Visitor Her greatest escape ' followed. She called at a hotel just outside Durban one night, appeared suddenly and gave some of the habitues a severe nervous shock. After this, however, she de - increased. There have always been floods anti carded attractive when the jacket is dis- there always will be. There is ev ' deuce, nevertheless, that no mighty flood ever before marche down the Mississippi as the one of four years ago. And now the Yange is reported to have surpassed its on long record of deluges, covering more than 4,000 years of recorded history. What Wasteful Erosion Means This jaunty model is delightfully carried out in yacht blue linen. And to be ultra -smart, it trims its jacket with blue linen overplaided in deeper shade. The dress repeats the trim in bows at the front, and for the modish cap sleeves. The skirt is so cute in box -plait effect at the front and cir- cular at the back. Numberless fabrics are suitable for this swagger outfit as rayon novelties, Jersey and supple woolens in tweed effect. Style No. 3145 may be had in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. • 'Size 8 requires 331 yards of 39 -inch material with % yard of 35 -inch con- trasting. 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., Torbnto. When soil is washed out of fields it cannot be hauled back, nor can. It -be restored with fertilizers or soil -im- proving crops. It can be improved, to be sure, but soil like the virgin surface layer, which averages only about nine inches deep over the uplands of the country, cannot be built back to its original condition. With some of the important agricultural soils of the country it has taken nature not less than 40 years to build one single inch of this productive huraus-charged sur- face material, the principal repository of available plant food and the abid- ing place of incredible hosts of bens - tidal micro-organisms. Not on' is the more productive MUTT AND JEFF— That's His Story—He's Stuck With It. Amer to PLAVIOG ADM*. A HeLE AM X PAC ts -6R— 1 ovnetrte eRtomous : IN AtS JABULArttotu! Wolfhound Entry Mrs. Osborn of London, Eng- land, enters her Trish wolfhound in the Richmond champion dog show. into contact with civilization.. She made a wide dour and. was not heard of again until she reached the coast twenty miles south of Durban. Jour- neying on, she came to the mouth oi the Umzimvubu. River near Port St, John. There she settled down for a time and lived happily in the river. But again her fatal curiosity got the better of her and one night she visited the village of Port St. John. A town counselor, so it is said, was crossing the square to a meeting. He flashed his electric torch in front of him and saw the yawning mouth of a hippo. He did not attend the meeting! Huberta sat down M the square and soon the entire population of the vii lage turned out to see her. It was the most exciting thing that ever hap- pened in Port St. John or is ever like- ly to happen there. Huberta bore the shouting of men and women and the barking of dogs for hall an hour. Then she left Port St. John never to return. Her 'wanderings had begun again. Huberta's odyssey now became a less pleasant one. The Bloemfontein Zoo had. sent a party out to capture her alive. They were hard. upon her trail. But Huberta by this time had lived upon the fringes of civilization for nearly two years. She had de- veloped amazing cunning. She passed through areas inhabited by natives and they saw not the least sign of her. Then one day a farmer reported to the magistrate at Peddie, near King William's town, that he had seen a dead hippo in the river. Men went to the spot and, with eighteen oxen and chains, hauled out the body. It was Huberta, with bullet holes above her eyes. She was a full grown cow hippo 9 feet 2 inches M length and with a girth of `8 feet 1 inch. She inust have weighed nearly four tons. Every paper in South Africa pub- lished an obituary. • Museums quar- reled for the right to preserve her hide. There was a popular outcry against the unknown marksmen who had shot her. Eventually, four men made voluntary confessions') They were charged under tho game laws and fined $125 each. Huberta will always be remembered with affection M South Africa. To the natives the stuffed carcass will remain on object of awe for generations. While she lived they quickly turrOund- ed her with legends. To many of them she was the reincarnation of one of the great chiefs of the past who had come back to earth to .ead the Bantu Nation to the greatness that once was theirs. Wheelbarrows should have lege eighteen inches long, according to British experts in industrial health research. By BUD FISHER 'envie " elettiett- .)01111i1t4 tiST SialtAG A TAT/v.44iSWORN ilefe'D WtTNESSCt)-.• . ' • • rut 4'