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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1931-11-12, Page 3}u. Sund y School Lesson Wovember 15. Lesson Vii --•Paul in Jerusalem—Acts 21: 27.30, Golden Text—Thou shalt be his witness, unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard,—Acts 22:15. ANALYSIS I. A COMPROMISE, Acts 21; 17-26. IL TIIE RESULT, Acts 21; 27 to 22: 20, III. BEFORE Tees SANHEDRIN, Acts 22: 30 to 23; 11. IV. ANOTHER PLOT, Acts 23: 12-30. INTRODUCTION—After the riot, Paui began to set his face toward Jerusalem and Rome. This section of Acts (19: 21 on) forms a striking parallel to Luke's reeprd of Jesus facing Jeru- salem—and death. Everywhere is em- phasized Paul's farewell to his fol- lowers (20: 1, 36-38; 21: 5), every- where premonitions et impending dis- aster. But Paul, brave soldier of Jesus Christ, determined ' i bring to the Jerusalem poor the collection he had been gathering throughout the churches, still held to his purpose. His pathetic words to the Cesarean Chris- tians are misunderstood if we take "break my heart" (12: 13) in the modern sense of that phrase. It really means "melt away my resolution." He felt that the passionate grief of his friends might do what all fear of consequences had failed to do— 'weaken his resolution to go on. Then he uttered that great word, "I am ready, not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." His friends, recog- nizing that this was no human obstin- acy, but "the will of the Lord," ceas- ed their protests. Packing up their luggage, "taking up our carriages," Paul's company set off toward Jeru- salem and what might befall them Pere. I. A COMPROMISE, Acts 21: 17-26. Arriving in Jerusalem, Paul's appre- hensions were relieved by the cordial Welcome which he and his companions received from the church leaders. The latter were doubtless glad to get the Present, although we have no record of their thanks for it. Next day, be- fore James and the others, Paul told of all the works which God had wrought through him. It was a great story, but meanly received. Paul's bearers, above all else, were zealous for the old law. He was once more confronted with Judaistic Christian- ity. 'Be of good cheer, Paul, You have testified for me in Jerusalem, You must testify for me also in Rome,' " 23: 11. Paul was immortal until his work was .done, IV. ANOTIHER PLOT, Acts 23: 12-30, . Next day, a plot was discovered and reported to Paul's nephew. Under a strong guard, Paul and his compan• ions were sent off to Felix at Czesarea, The story is told so vividly—even to noting that Lysias took the young man by the hand (23: 19)—that it must be the work of one who was there, most probably Luke himself. So, by means which must have been far from Paul's intending, od was anewni2.g his prayer (19; 21) by hurrying him on his way to . Rome. • Beyond the Sun Behold this vast incalculable ray, Brighter than stars, more luminous than suns, Mare distant than all 'space In its beginning, if indeed there be Birth or beginning to that principle Man's mind hath never conjured, nay, nor will Perchance, with all his weighty con- juring This side the glimmering secretive Veil. pace beyond all Behold this ray, ineffable, informed Beyond the .tun, beyond these mea- surements Of sides and firmaments and fashioned voids; This untreated, all -crating volt, This unthought word, this might with- out a name, That shook Old Chaos into rhyme and rhythm, No single atom looted or laid waste Unto this hon-. - What hath God wrought, indeed— Himself, and light and law and life and love, These from the mist that moves be- yond the sun. —Barbara Young, iu The N.Y. Times. II. THIE RESULT, Acts 21: 27 to 22: 29. The result was quite unexpected. Toward the end of the week, some Jews from the province of Asia rec- ognized Paul in the Temple and im- mediately raised a hue and cry, "Men of Israel, helpl Here is the fellow Who has been teaching men to ignore :- the law and temple. xarciier � i- 'orating the Mass in St. Peter's would not have caused a greater sensation. The mob dragged Paul out. The priests quickly shut the Temple doors lest the sacred precincts should be de- filed with his blood. Rescued by Ro- man soldiers and given permission to peak, '.ie told in simple, straightfor- ward style the story of his life and his call to preach the gospel to the Gen- tiles. The racial prejudice of the crowd could not tolerate the thought of a mission to foreigners, and the riot broke out afresh. He was saved from a scourging only by asserting his Roman citizenship. Not a little per- turbed at this discovery, the officer arranged for a trial before the. San- hedrin. The Hand of Scienc In Crime Detectio Seas That Are Salter Would you be able to answer cor- rectly if someone asked you which contained more salt—a quantity of water from the Atlantic Ocean or an equal quantity from the North Sea? You would probably venture the sug- gestion that they were both the same, and you would be wrong. For the At- lantic is more salt than the North Sea. This is one of the interesting points that emerge from the report of the Government chemist which has been issued recently. The work of his de- partment is very varied—it may be asked to determine whether water suit- Utale stains. Another wore a overcoat over his other W- and then destroyed the coat. inute traces of blood under his fails betrayed him:. Condensed from Progressive. Ert6: + eju elercr's first impulse Is to wipe An elderly man was discovered by a' ipkands clear of blood, This he policeman. Ills facer was downward �Y does on' his handkerchief, as he lay crumpled in blood-stained ; i, lie later destroys. He invariably drifts. In his inner pocket were papers { 1r, is the lining of the pocket in that identified him. Word was flashed .lx the bloody handkerchief. was to headquarters, and. Robert Paessler, '} ed. Other overlooked places are chemist and scientific detective, tool: ,y `'naterials scraped from around and up the trail of the unknown slayer.': k!;er the fingernails, in the hems and He learned that the murdered than ,his of garments, and around the had been alone the night of his death i, a and seams of shoes. His daughter and her husband had 'pate first. question the detective spent the time with relatives in t answer is: Is it blood? Suspects neighboring town, During the even ':,:often declare that suspicious ing the son-in-law had left the house, "e a were made by paint, coffee, to - and had not returned.until two in thea ,• ' juice, medicine, or some other morning. He declared he had attend-,f1'l liquid. In such: cases the first re- ed a movie, and produced witnesses to fc.is tothe microscope, which may substantiate the story. His alibi was :offal the structure of the red cor- perfect. Duxes. In more difficult cases chem!- Paessler searched the home of the yeagents, such as benzidine and murdered man,. By means of a special sign perb3rate, are added to solu- 1000-watt, nitrogen filled lamp, with s containing blood. So accurately twenty times the power of an ordinary eel ^ chemicals react to the pres- lamp, he found a stain, faint and over- e�;-.,y .ef od that a particle no larger looked. sit a.grain of sand may be identified, After studying the brownish, round -l blood taken from an Egyptian ed imprint on the linolenm of the kit i,em y showed the reaction almost then floor, he identified it as the repro-,tluediately. duction of a rubber heel, which tallied she second question to be answered in every respect with that of a shoe ails it human blood? In deciding this worn by the son-in-law. About the nails ~ hlem, rabbits come to the scientist's was some dark matter that proved up- on chemical test to be human blood. A conviction followed. In France not long ago, some boys.. „, first, fre-:lily-drawn human Wood is wed to coagulate. The watery, cr-colored serum is then drawn 'found a body, stabbed in a score of fogy from the clots. Small quantities places, and showing an odd series of: °4tbis. serum are injected, at intervals wavy, parallel lines in the clotted 'one or two days, into the veins of blood near a wound on the shoulder, Obits. The rabbit is killed, and its At first the detective was deeply food allowed to coagulate. The serum mystified, but finally a possible ex -!,then drained away and preserved. planation occurred to him. The mur- is called "anti-human" serum, and derer had evidently leaped on his vic ",carried in stock by biological supply tim as he fell, and kneeling'.ion his gpses. Suspicious stains are soaked shoulder had plunged his stiletto again ,a very weak solution of common and again into the body. The parallel ,elt. A few drops of serum are added. lines had the imprint of the weave of; •?1• the stains are human blood, white the killer's trousers in his victim's ;*ecipitate forms a ring wihin the blood. Among the suspects rounded.,, up by the police was one whose' trous ers, though carefully washed, had a peculiar weave which matched the lines on the victim's shoulder. In these cases, the clues were clear- ly legible Often there are only single e. But if any other type of blood used the stains, the tiny halo fails {Anti -chicken, anti -cat, anti -deer, and ther serums are prepared in a simi- r way. To prepare anti -rabbit serum, wever, rabbit blood is injected into drops or tiny stains, dried particles 1u;;ruickens, elnce no animal's blood will dirt, or faint blood traces in garments that have been washed over and over. again. Here is where the amazing discov ruse irritation in its own body. Another method of distinguishing aetween types of b_ocd has been. evol red through a series of researches at eries and apparatus of the 'laboratory the Carnegie Institution of Washing - come into play. Astonishing feats have ton, D.C. Dr._ Edward T. Reichert and been accomplished in the detection of,his associate, Dr. ' .s P. Brown, crime by both American and European.have,found that they can tell the blood investigators. It was at the Scientific of different creatures apart and dis- from a certain source of supply is uit Crime Detection Laboratory at Chi `;anguish human blood from that of able for use in pithead baths, or if a cago that I learned something of their pier animals by the shape and angle suspected article- of food contains methods and of the instruments they tof crystals in the.red corpuscles. p;use. There they.,eearch for stains with i Nor can a murderer safely claim that I1p1. o ... -•At...-...stio.+...». ..-.......-..,,.. .. .�;.,i` .!�.........-.-....se-fir ::..,:..,v.. _. n-. w.- . .r '"k%P+n at Eve >.•• .S :: fox �.x.., a known - it have Scientists Another 'cpii'estion put 'to the'depart glasses; utilize testing. reagents of a own blot3d; Se e dozen kinds; carry on researches in twenty-five years that all human blood the mysterious realm of colloid chem- 'alis "into one of four groups. In one instance istry. They work with rare, colorless, where a suspect claimed a serums, reacting strangely to the mac- nosebleed had caused the stains, the roscopic red discs that contain the blood- was found to belong to Group hemoglobin, or red coloring matter, of Four, while his own blood fell into Croup Two. Not only does the blood itself tell a dramatic story, but a number of crimes have been solved through ma - A Jolly Sailor Ginger Rogers has all the ap- pearance of enjoying her visit aboard this battleship, but is she laughing or calling for help? Here and There The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.—J. 5, Whittier. Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves,--'. William Pitt . Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being prominent:. Jonathan Swift. There are no fewer than 130 dif- ferent religions in the United States of America. When some moments elapsed, the specialist said. "Do you mean to say you cannot read letters of that size?" "Oh, I can see the lettersall right,” replied the patient, "but I can't pro- nounce the word." Some parents are mare than a re- sponsibility to their offspring—thele are very nearly a handicap.—Mr. Andrew Soutar. A philanderer is a person who gives money to charitable and needy institutions. They gave William IV. a lovely funeral. It took six men to carry the beer. "There is an age of susceptibility to crime as there is the danger per- iod for disease."—Lewis E. Lawes. "Do clever men make the best hue -j bands?" "Clever men don't become husbands." Tlie more things a man is asham- ed of the more respectable he is. George Bernard. Shaw.. The Moon Thy beauty haunts me heart and soul, Oh thou fair Moon, and 1 opportunity for doing good deeds is bringh; ever with us. Thy beauty makes me like a child, It is a useful accomplishment to be That cries aloud to own thy light: The little child that lifts each arm, To press thee to her bosom warm. ment was why certain films of nation- al importance were deteriorating, and how they could be restored and pre- served. This problem was tackled in a very thoroughgoing way, with results that may make historic films a much more permanent record.—"Answers." His Turn Two taxi-drivers stopped for a chat. "How's business, Bill?" asked one, who was seated in a smart -looking taxi. "Terrible," replied Bill, sadly. "All this week I've hardly picked up a shil- ling. The other looked his taxi over. "Well, Bill," he said, "I don't see as how you can expect to get fares with an old crock like that. Why don't you do what I do, and go round to ----• He'll fit you up with a nice turn -out like this, and then you'll get all the fares you want." Bill took the advice, and started next day in a brand-new taxi. After a week, however, the proprietor of the vehicle sent for him. "Look here, Bill," he said, "you've had this taxi a week and done nothing with it. What's the matter—why don't you get fares? Don't people signal to you?" "Oh, yes, they do;" replied Bill; "I see 'em waving all right. But they wouldn't wave when I had an old cab, and I'm not taking any notice of 'ens waving just because I've got a new one!" III. BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN, Acts 22: 30 to 23: 11. The trial before the Sanhedrin end- ed in another riot. He had scarcely begun his defence when Ananias, the high priest,, angered at something Paul had said, had the prisoner smit- ten on the mouth. This was - illegal, and Paul, casting diplomacy to the 'Winds. This was C contempt of rebuked t court. m aPanlyapolo- i ed. Seeing that no justice could be ex- pected there, he resorted to a clever ruse to divide his enemies. Some were Sadducees, denying a resurrection; some were Pharisees, believing in it. Paul suddenly threw a bomb among them by saying, "I am a Pharisee. It nd resur- erect on of the dead on account of e that elaam canoe io account" This threw the crowd nto a tumult. Some of the Pharisees sided with Paul, 23: 9. Once more the Roman power had to rescue and safeguard the Christian missionary. That night, in prison, what must have been Paul's thoughts! Was his day's work for his Master done? - "And the Lord stood by him and said, Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a differ- ence of purpose between the Almighty, and thein.—Abraham Lincoln. Since the creation of the worldl there has been no tyrant like interne perance, and no slaves so cruelty treated as his.—William Lloyd Gar- rison. If you fall, dismiss it from your mind altogether, and you will have{ all the better chance of starting afresh. The opportunity of doing great deeds may never conte to us, but the the blood. With super -power microscopes, they study infinitesimal crystals within red corpusclesonly three -thousandths of an inch in diameter. With blood -test- teerials found in dry stains. A tiny ing spectroscopes, they note the gases thread matched a murdered man's a life -stream carries. In a case where leyjamas, a torn Huger -nail led to a ar murder, a minute bone proved that a murder had been committed, and a single drop of blood set the sleuths on the track of a slayer. The: expert to -day can tell by the shape of the blood -drop whether or not the victim was moving; he can read whole stories into a single splotch. Clever indeed is the criminal who overlooks no possible precaution p against these man -hunting, blood -trail - color of the material upon which it ing sleuths.—Magazine Digest. rests, in any case, it furnishes a foun- dation upon which the scientific de- - tective may establ'te. the identity of the murderer. Stains on polished furniture, often a reddish brown, are particularly diffi- cult to see, and often only a photograph will reveal the differences that are not visible to the human eye. In =agues -one case a photograph made by tum light revealed some spots on the mud -crusted rung of a ladder. spots so close "If a man smashed aloak, could he be accused of killing time?" "Not i he could prove that the clock strut f t" firs . MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER JEFF, I'M EtRoKE-z Need 1>0\SC,1.4-x THANK Go OVGR NIAGARA FAILS Ih1 THIS IiAI REL - a murder had been made to appe like a suicide, the veins of the woman proved that she had been dead before the gas fumes with which the room was filled, had had time to act. Most people think of bloodstains as always red or brown. Heat, moisture, cold, and chemicals affect them so that they are found in every imaginable hue. Light olive green, light rose, tactically colorless, or assuming the lc Though there are birds that sing this night With thy white beams across their throats, Let my deep silence speak for me More than for them their sweet- est notes: Who worships thee till music fails, Is greater than thy nightingales. —From "Collected. Poems," by Wil- liam Henry Davis. which were otherwise invisible. Various means have been r dopted able to say No, but surely it is the essence of amiability to prefer to say Yes, when it is possible. An oculist was examining the eyes of a patient and had requested him to read the top line of a test card, the letters of which ran H P R TV ZBFH China's population now stands at 474,787,000, although the figure is more or less approximate as internal disorders interfered with the com- pletion of the census. Another one of Junior's illusions is Odd Frescoes Discovered '700 -year-old ch nrCh —In a ue. Pra Prague.—In the village of Drautz, Slovakia, three frcecoes have been found under an old wall nhich are believed to be the oldest existing pictures of the life of rt. . uihonv. The pictures, which are in Byzan- tine style, represent St. Anthony's meeting with Paul, his martyrdom and death. The pictures are about 12 feet wide and 41/2 feet high. The frescoes have been restored by a Hungarian artist. The village of Drautz was the seat of the Order of St. Anthony in the thirteenth century. From a Train Sunquick and gloom, The engine's windy wake, { Wi Hillsweep unfreckled as a frosty An t acre InVeruer* a..,,..tmayed when Tem•.. get a television set, and"lee 'nulls `out Ma there isn't any Kiugfish or dame Queen. Seven ex -monarchs living in exile are estimated to possess between them £15,000,000. Of this total, the ex -Kaiser, who is the richest Ger- man owns £12,500,005. Over two hundred and fifty varie- ties of cheese are made in France. Holland produces over forty varie• ties. Switzerland about forty-five, Italy two hundred kinds, and Den- mark sixty. Harvest Now, in the waning of the harvest moon, 1 The year draws richly on toward afternoon, th golden airs that swoon, d In deep orchards the late cuckoo's croon, peach, Rock -torrid ploughland river's lace, Rich grass pollened with buttercup, Elm -terraces Broidering purl on purl, A. station jagged and flown Like a leaf torn from a book, The stretch of plain, on, on —So many things pass by— All a landscape spinning on a wheel .Below a tranquil sky. —G. W. Stonier, in the New States- man and Nation. An international convention of all the aviators who have flown the At- lantic is being projected by the Inter - by criminals to outwit these blood- First Fish—"Will the lobster do national Federation of Aeronautics. It trailing detectives. One man stripped ) all in at our poker game?" is hoped that this meeting can be held himself naked before conimitting the Second Fish—"Yes. In a pinch" in Rome next Spring. b crime, so that his clothes would eat LitUSti btSC%�TlON" Ttl+r MONY - .— a v r Ll :i'r -tJ - N Ose'O11`t MS EVCR GORJ O1lEe, LIVED The grass waves like a surf upon the hill There is a plaintive the rill; The katydid is shrill, While Maestro Cricket, strums, and then is still. A sense of dream lies over all the land, And if you would taste fruit—reach out your hand! —Clinton Scollard in New York Sun. For Motorists' -Books While schools are re -opening is a good time for motorists to renew thele studies—of safe driving. -The Chris- tian Science Monitor, murmur from He'll Be On Velvet Either Way. 69 '% iiaa ry aitta Et WE. atika ENT ' AsidOI it/t fel ‘, t6 lrltlrOtt ;rP, i:. fr!'4'r, '!�y!ltra . \litl11ilr(\ri uu lth(11r1i.'7 'tl�i Irtrr00l+.