HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-01-28, Page 3Sunday School
Lesson
.January 31, Lesson V—Jesus Feeds
The Multitude. --John 6i 1-13, 48.51,
Golden Text; Jesus said unto them,
am the bread of life: he that
cometh tome shall not hunger; and
he that beiieveth on me shall never
thirst.—John 6 36.
ANALYSIS.
�• SYMPATHY WITIi HUMAN NEED, 6:
1-6.
II. GOD AND MAN WORKING TOGBTPtf.'R,
6: 7-13.
IIx. TIIE SOUL'S "BILL OI' FARE," 6: 22-
71,
INTRODUJCTION--John introduces the
story of the Feeding of the Five
Thousand in order to illustrate the
discourse on "Christ, the Bread of
Life." With the accounts in the other
Gospels before him, he selects and
Modifies to snit his perpose. His Gos-
pel is concerned, not so much with
facts, as with the interpretation of
the facts. Like the other miracles in
• this Gospel, the one recorded here is
largely symbolical. But whether one
takes it as the account of a miracle
which actually took place, or explains
i° naturalistically, the spiritual mean-
ing is the same• The. naturalistic ex-
planation is teat Jesus brought order
out of confusion by arranging the hen-
ple in groups,' by suggesting ,
by his own e'wa nple and that of his
disciples to share such supplies as
they might have in their 'lunch bas-
kets (Jews always carried lunch bas-
kets with thein, in order to avoid the
necessity of using• "unclean" food on
their journey). The generosity of
Jesus and his disciples so stimulated
• the generosity of 'those who had more
food than they needed that the needs
of_ all were more than met. Whether
we take it as fact or as-symbol—and
John evidently takes it as fact=the
spirit tal meaning is the same.
I• SYMPATHY WITH HUMAN NEED, 6:
16.
Jesus and ' his company had gone
away for a few hours rest. The rest
was denied him. The crowds came with
Crown Prince of Sweden Children's Books
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of
Sweden broadcasting the . Season's
greetings to the people of the
cation. •
In Soviet RUSsia, or Who edits and the printers who set
IhQak printed hi red and black, full of What New York,
pictures of how .a reporter gets Hewes
d th dl
R
Russia
sen sit by wire of wireless to e edits
and the 'Machines which print, That
Is Wearing
By Ernestine Evans, Associate Editor hook has conte out in several editions. BY ANNEBELL r WORTHINGTON
for .1. B. Lippincott Co., and frequent So much has been written by 7.00 per ' E r
visitor to Russia, in Asia (Nov„ '31). cent. Communists about the danger :ustrated Dressmaking Lesson Ft4r-
Whoever saw the international ex- of letting the old tales and the old 'wished With e y Pattern
hibitton of fine books in Paris .last ideology survive that one expects to
sunnier lutist have remarked hOW the find the folk stories withering away.
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exhibit. Here was . bias in favor of stories of a marked
a whole regiment
visitors .swarmed about the Russian 17µt if ane year there ithe Turksili
sof paper -bound picture tales and print- Railway and the Dnieprostroy Dam,
ers with oue aim only, to educate a you May be sure that the next year
vast public—young people readiag.for will see the publieatiou of some mod -
the first time and old people also learn- ere. hero tale, of the aviator who res.
ung to read for the first time—in A :cued Nobile, for example, and a new
completely new system of life, Into edition of some old Persian folk tale
the books had gone drawings, iii black with its salty moral and its swinging
and white and in color, by many dis• cadences. One policy contradicts' an-
tinguished artists; the type was some- other and over and over again fact
times beautiful and was always used stories of the mountain tribes in the
with a freedom. and a dash, a know- Caucasus become enriched with the
ledge of, without servile respect for, time-honored legends told around camp
all that bookmen .and advertisers now fires on the wild Kazbek trails. Now
know about the display of letters on a and again some old story is so patwith
Page. No wonder the visitors swarm-' Communist moral that it will come
ed. out once more. For example, there is
And no wonder the news stands in the story of the peasant who went to
Russia look like book fairs. Books are pull a turnip, but the turnip was so
everywhere in Russia. Children's stubborn that it refused to come out of
books, in bright red and blue inks and the ground uutil the peasant had sum -
in subtler mauves and purples that moned, in turn, his wife, sou, daughter
show the effect of Chinese painting, on dog, eat, and finally the household
the artists of the Soviet 'Union, are im- mouse to his aid.
portant. They smile beside the samo- Thus, not only the inexpensiveness
var in railway stations; they garnish of Russian books, their color and
the windows of new bookshops ill vil- variety of design, but their special
lages where half the population has emphases are unique. Elves have
learned to read at all only within the given place to cranes, and fairies to
past ten years. electric light bulbs; and in the picture
What you do not see in Russia are books the astonishment is all for man
any expensive books. Not one. The acrd his power to remake his environ -
Soviet Union is designing libraries for ment rather than suffer and bear it.
masses, and masses are poor. The Is it any wonder that travelers to Rua -
Russians think of books as carriers, sia prefer to mail home children's
educators, things of use and illumine- books instead of letters, confident that
tion, but hardly as property. They these are iudeed samples of the U, S.
are content to make paper books that S. R.?
are read and read and thrown. away.
Whereas in America two dollars is an
average price and 2500 the average
edition, more and more the Russians
try out all their children's books in
editions of 32,000; and miracles of
color printing can be worked for ten
cents when the big edition distributes
their vulgar curiosity—it was nothing Jesus was confident that God's pur- the load of initial cost. Even ten cents
better, v. 2. There was no trace of pose in sending him into the world • is cousidered too high to make books
impatience as he saw the prospects of would be accomplished. "All those available to everybody, and the news
his q:uet afternoon disappear. It was (and only those) will come to me who stands of the LTkraine in particlar car -
with love and understanding that he are the Father's gift to me," v. 37. ley hundreds of little five -cent books,
turned to them. They would soon be That is, it is only a divinely inspired tales, expositions of fact and news
-••- �^ nu, -^fist those
hungry, he thought, and he began at impulse which can to
once to prepare for their needs. "who coupe to him." The one who has
He accepted responsibility for the the responsive will (the individual
welfare of others. will plays its essential part in "elec-
So Christ, says John, anticipates tion') and acts upon the divine im-
human need•. He thinks of everything. pulse, and comes to him will be sure
"Had I thought of it, I should have of a welcome, v. 37.
been glad to do it for him," said some In v. 51 the thought passes from
one who did not think of doing that
kind deed until he saw another doing
what Christ is to what he gives- In
his incarnation and in his sacrifice on
the cross he is bringing life to all
•
stories simply and graphically told of
life in the new Russia of to -day.
The Soviet Union is a world in itself,
a league of many tribes and nations
that are being linked by Soviet struc-
ture—and books are often translated
into 20 or more languages (pictures,
happily, need not be translated; they
it. Christ like people "think" in Bute• are understood iu Babel). It is politi-
II. GOD AND MAN WORKING TOGETHER men. The reference to his death :s cally significant for the rest of the
6:- 7-13 clear in vs. 53-56 where "blood" ine world that the Russian government is
There may have been a touch of plies a violent death. This whole unci- now welding a natioual sense through -
humor behind Jesus' question to dent is best understood as we renten; out the laud by such simple means as
Philip, v. 5. Philip lived by figures ber that at this time Jesus knew him- tales of the life of children in all the
rather than by faith- He believed -what self to be a marked man. Herod Antis far corners of the Union. Books are
Anti -
he .could see. If he could work it out pas, who had cut John the Baptist also being used to develop a seuse of
on paper, he would believe it possible.
His calculations (v. 7) left out the
chief factorp Jesus himself. The
small boy with the big lunch (v. 9)
is the only possibility that coupes to
Andrew's n.ind. "But what are these
among so many ?" Many a worth-
while achievement has been frustrated
by the "but" of timidity. Christ can
produce mighty results from the
slenderest possible means,
So it happened here. Undreamed-
of resources became immediately
available. Twelve baskets of food were
left over, v. 13. The baskets would
be the "traveling wallets" already re- strive. s i
ferred to. If we give our best in appetite, so the one who lives the
Christ's service, be that best what it simple, wholesome, serviceable life of
may, we shall discover that we have Christ never becomes sated, bored.
ft d powers and strength which Life is too interesting, and too useful.
to death, was probably preparing the
same fate for hint. We have here,
probably, the reflections of John, writ-
ten after the event.. Such advanced
teaching as we have here would he
beyond the understanding of uncultcr-
ed Galileans. It is a discourse based loving accounts of black and yellow
probably tpon scattered utterances of of earth, with short captious and an
Jesus preserved by his disciples and gild brown people, all the "exploited"
understood long after- L occasional jibe at the white overlords,
The central teaching is that Christ but, on the whole lovely pictures of lit -
provides real nourisment (symbolized
by the common barley bread) for the tie children and their mothers, of the.
human soul—as contrasted with the day's work, of grain -sowing and har-
unreal food for which hien so often vesting, bread -making, ships and car -
.
A U cad never Halls upon the riages and houses. So the average
Russian child grows up knowing a
great deal about his own country and
about Africa and Asia as well.
The present Soviet idea is to initiate
responsibility for and commou cause
with the millions of China, India and
Africa. There are many series of
books on what we in the West would
call the brotherhood of man, lively and
flints to Motorists
Evidence of Leake Traced
Many a motorist who professes cow
plete surprise when he discovers that
leakage le responsible for the loss of
lubricant from the transmission or dif-
ferential has just been liguoring the
evidence. The evidence may be soat-
tered all over the boor of the family
garage without the car own r having
paid any attention to it.
Short Memory Imperils Motor
"Apply a few drops of light oil to
the front end of the starting motof
every 5,000 miles." That sentence is
in many of the inetruotion books Al
many cars. But the 5,000 -mile inter•
vats being so,far apart, the job is
more often forgotten than remember-
ed,
Ammeter Becomes a Guide
In adjusting the idling speed of the
engine of a free -wheeling car the am-
meter may be used as a guide. The
carburetor should be so set that the
ammeter will register two amperes
charge when the engine is tuning slow-
ly.
Importance of Reflector
Small daughter will be thrilled with
this cute jacket dress.
It's the cutest thing to .make, and
the skirt is just darling in wide box
plait effect. It buttons on to a straight
Explorer Visualizes Antarctic little bodice. The separate jacket has
As Fashionable Resort a smart buttoned sleeve. A novelty
Brisbane, Queensl.—The antarctic woolen in navy blue with vivid red
plain wdoleu made the original for
ablaze with light from many hotels, a school wear.
fashionable resort and the playground Wool jersey in brown with vivid
of Australia, was the picture drawu by yellow is another effective scheme.
Capt. Frank Hurley, photographer of I Tweed like cottons, wool crepe, wool
the Douglas i\Mwsou antarctic expedi- challis and crepe de chine are also
thou. •l suitable. every 5,000 miles is advocated as a
Capt. Hurley described this futuris-' Style No. 3479 may be had in sizes
minimum of attention even for the
The importance of a clean and un-
marred headlight reflector will be
clear to the average motorist when he
realizes that the reflector's job is to.
increasb the natural illumination of
the bulb several hundred times.
Knack in Release of 'Tires
.A. great many car owners, tire men
find, still do not know all the tricks
of getting a Sat off the wheel. One
generally missed really is quite .im
portant if it happens to • be a heavy
tire l That is the trick of pulling the
tire`•free at the bottom—while the
valve is at the top—and then rolling
the wheel around to allow the valve
stem to drop free naturally.
Horn Silence Is Explained
The first place to check when the
horn refuses to blow is the connec•
tions at the horn itself. If they are
tight the next point of inspection
should be the connections at the am-
meter.
Remedy for Roughness
Any noticeable difference in the
comfortable riding of the car should
remind the motorist that the shock ab-
sorbers may be low on oil. Refilling
tie vision in answer to au interviewer l 4 6, S and 10 years.
best of them. The warmer the weather
who asked of what value would be the ' Size 6 requires 11/4 yards 54 -inch
large area of land that had been for- material and �'� yard 35 -inch con-
mally taken possession of by the ex• trasting material.
pedition. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS
With the improved methods of trans-
port, he believed, the antarctic would I Write your name and address plain-
he within 20 years at the very doors ly, giving number and size of such
of Australia—the object of week -end patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in
tours. The methods of fast upper air stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap
travel foreshadowed by the •Junkers' it carefully) for each number, and
seratoplaue would presumably bring address your order to Wilson Pattern
this territory within six or seven Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
hours' Sight of Hobart. No longer 1
ould people regard the antarotic as
a mysterious desolation to be tra e Now the dim relief has come:
versed only by supermen under con -
Out Out of the dark orawl,
ditions of extreme vigor and hardship, Haggard and still, and some
but rather as an alluring playground. Are motionless along the wall.
The weather there was easier to fore- i
cast than in the more tropical regions, We do not speak a word until
and summer in the Ross Sea was slmi- We form on a firmer road and dawn
lar to the winter at Mt. Kosciusko, oue Reveals a length of quiet hill
of the best known tourists' resorts in And a house farther on.
Australia.
Beneath the winter scow and ice,1 Some one is crying, but there is
suggested Captain Hurley, there prob- laughter:
ably existed untapped mineral re -
which one whistles something old,
sources the exploitation of 'which And some one staggers drunken after
would enrich the manufacturing world. So much death and cold.
Captain Hurley who was the official —Edwin eathMorgan iu "The Common-
photographer
ommon
photographer to the Australian Im- weal'.
perial Forces,, considered Antarctica.
one •of the most beautiful parts of the Mercury Discovery
world. Added to Diamonds
Murfreesboro, Ark—Pike County,
southwest Arkansas, claimed to be
the home of the only diamond mine
in North America, has a new claim
to distinction. Cinnabara (sulphide
of mercury), a valuable ore, which is
reduced to mercury or quick -silver at
a comparatively small expense, has
been discovered here.
Oddly, it was a farmer who found
the new ore in Pike County, just as
John Huddleston, a dirt farmer,
found the first diamonds in this sec-
tion:
grow as we use them." the child,almost from the kindergar-
III. THE SOU'L'S "BILL OF FatE," 6: 22- The Weed -Killer "Special!ten, into a sense of social organization
'71, Weeds are the railwayman's enemy and to make all literate in commercial
The day following (v. 22) the poo- • as well as the gardener's. If left geograpltr at a verse -early age. Actual-
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found him in Capernaum (v. alone they would choke th.e perman- ly, to a Russian child the chances are
24) • nd who understood "the pleat eut way as effectively as, in the •cur- : that a tiger hunt in India exciting to
which abideth unto eternal life" (•v. cumstances, they would do to our iiow- read about, will be no more exciting
27) to mean some details of external er-beds and gravel paths. I than the story which tells him every
conduct which would win merit for But, of course, they aren't left step in the history of the manufacture
them, asked testis, "What must we do of cotton cloth.
that we may work the works of God?" left alone, though} weeding by hand
In reply he called upon them for faith is apt to prove both laborious and There is a constant stream of such
in himself as God's ambassador, v 29, costly. { stories—books that answer questions,
They then asked for a "sign." There Now, however, a new way of doing books about clocks and time, the story
was a prevailing belief that the Mr.'s this job has been discovered. Tine of printing how glass is
•sigh would feed God's people with S tl Railway in England has the history of presses, pottery and the story made,
bread from heaven as Moses had
done, Exod. 16: 4, The bread
ou tern -
res , made a special weed -killing train by .'what makes dynamos go. A whole nap ."Senator, you promised me a
15 b d coupling two old tenders together tion, old and young, is asking how to lob:'
which Jesus had given them yesterday and fitting them with spray pipes do things for itself and why this and "But there are no jobs."
was only earthly food. Jesus replied, "I Hoed a job, senator." to be because many have great faith
3 and tanks. that are so.
"I stn the bread of life,"v. oat He A special forret et liquid weed -kill- i. - Oue of my own favorites among Rus-' "Well, I'll ask for a commission in thee, and, therefore, i admonish
had been leading oupd 1 this declare-48,1er is used, and the spray pleas elan children's books deals with the 1 :o investigate why there are no thee to lie nothing less than people
tion• He reasserted it in vs, 43, 51,
58 have an effective range of about ten
making of newspapers. It is a lively I lobs and you can get a job on that." . hope of thea—Francis dss ss
i.
In spite of their unbelief (v. 36) feet.—London "Answers".
Relief
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the more likely the oil is to evaporate.
Just like that of the engine,
When Throttle Is at Fault
Maybe the throttle is at fault, not
the carburetor idling adjustment, when
the engine shows an inclination to
stall. The throttle adjustment is easy
to increase, easier than to reset the
carbureter.
Goodness
Try to be as good as all thiuk thee
MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER
MUTT, 3EfF rC.LI:s Me You'12E
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Return to Fruit Culture
Urged on Peru's Farmers
Lima, peru.—A. campaign to en-
courage
ncourage Peruvian farmers to grow
fruits once more and end this coun-
try's large annual importation of
oranges, apples, bananas and pestes
from the United States, Ecuador and
Chile has been started by the gov-
ernment.
Before the World War, large orch-
ards in the fertile valleys of the
Andes kept the country supplied
with practically all its needed fruit,
at prices affording reasonable profits
to the growers. However, when
the price of cotton sky -rocketed dur-
ing the war thousands of fruit trees
were torn up to retake room for the
more profitable crop.
Now that cotton has declined in
value from more than 20 cents a
pound to around 6 cents, Peruvian
farmers again are giving their atten-
tion to the planting of orchards. The
climate is suitable for the raising of
all tropical and many northern
'varieties of fruit. Plans under con-
sideration include the establishment
of several fruit conserving planta
which government officials believe
will afford a steady year -around
market for the growers.
BEAUTY
For the beauty of each hour
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale, and tree and flower,
Sun and moon, and stars of light:
Father, unto Thee we raise
This, our sacrifice of praise.
—F, S. Pierpoint,
The Great American Slang.
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CEIE,I;SE. IS AN INSULT. BUT- TO
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