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Zurich Herald, 1932-02-25, Page 3n5 44.4.•••-•-•44-40-4r!••14-40-4-. •••1I-IP^15,e1 •••••••.'1HP•P*14 • Sunday School Lesson Feler eery 28, Lesson IX -Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Peed - John 11: 32-44. Golden Text -I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, --John 11: 25. ANALYSIS, 1. AT BEREA, John 11, 1-16. 11. AT SiTHANY John 11: 17-32. III. AT THE GRAVE, John 11: 33-44. Iternonucsfoer-The ten precedime chapter of this Gospel tell how every attempt made by Jesus to win the Jews only turned them the more bit- terly against him. Finally he seveel- ed himself as the Resurrection and. the Life.. John makes this the turn- ing point which brings on the arrest 'and death. John tells the story of the raising of Lazarus in the light of what he himself knows of the death -conquering and ever-present Christ, "John hiM- self had been a Laesrus, bound hand and foot in the jgreve clothes of the old life. He had in his own soul head the rnightv. awakening cry of Jesus, 'Come forth,' and in his hand he had • Passed fecitn death unto life." Chriet, he says, can do that for any man. L AT PERIM, John 11, 1-16. Upon receiving the message that Lazarus is ill, Jesus said, "This illness will not end in death -there may Le death -but death will not be the 'final word, v. 4. Did he see his own death. foreshadowed? Teo seneol of affection would hurey him to his friends -he lolled Mart'ta and her sister and Lazarus, but he would not be -Pushed against his better judgment. To go was almost sure (tenth. He must wait for his Father's guidance. Jesus, like ourselves, was deeendent upon a higher wisdom. Why did his Father keep him evaq-- ing, and the bereaved sisters? Why are ourdens not lifted, life's questions no'. answered? .John says that Go:I' &:a, -s -are the 'delays of love. Ife loved Marti -le -therefor 1 --he abode two days still, vs. 5, 6. His duty made plain to him, Jesup announced that he would leave his safe retreat and go into the very teeth of danger, v. 7. Answering the disciples' protest (v. 8) hs told them hat a man committed to God's work is immortal 'until that work is done. Twelve full hours. but only twilyz... Every minute of life, God intends us to use. Walk- ing under the light of God's guidance we are safe. The purpose tee the intended miracle. he told the perplexed disciples, is that they may believe. In the other Gos- pel miracles are performed out of love and pity for the sufferer: here. they are perforMed to increase faith. Thom- as, in no. mood of expectant faith, but in loyal despair exclaims: "Let us also goe -thSt we may die withhim," v. 15. The shadow of the cross is fall- irig upon the story. H. AT BETHANY, John 11: 17-32 information) be burst into tears, v, 2&. It is a touching picture of the 3orrow- shaeing Christ, The Jew, whose re, pulsive .vulga-rity must needs fellow Mary (v, 81), gazed with unsympa- thetic eye upon his tears, How like some of our "large" public funeral's! M. AT THE GRAVE, NIB 111 344. Coming to the cave, Jesus command- ed, "Take ye away the stone." No longer was he the weeping friend, he was new the Lord of Life. But God does nothing for us that we can do for ourselves.. See also v. 44. So cer- tain was Jesus that his prayer would, be answered that he first thanked Cod before all the people, and then cried with a loud voice (symbolic of the last trump) "Lazarus, come forth. . . . Loose him, and let him go." Here the artist leaves his majestic "sign." He has driven home his les- son. God's gift of eternal life is not a thing of tomorrow merely, it is thing of today, Preserve "Old" Frankfurt by Reproduction in Miniature Frankfurt Am Main -The "Ale- stadt"-the Old -Town -of Frankfurt, with its "Roemer" where emperors of the Holy Roman Empire were chosen and its ancient dome where they were crowned, with Goethe' e birthplace and a picturesque maze of venerable build- ings and churches and high -gabled, half-timbered dwellings, is yielding before the sweep of modern nee* but if most of it is doomed to disap- pear the whole of it is to be preserv- 'ed, at least in miniature, for future generations. Two artists, the brothers Treuner, are at work on an .exact model, on a scale of 1 to 200. In 1913 they pro- duced for the Historical Museum a miniature of one Old -Town street which has since been changed beyond recognition. The project of having the whole district modeled was even then, conceived by the late Director Mueller of the Frankfurt Historical Museum, but had to be deferred until a well-to-do son of Frankfurt put up the needed money. The work will take a long time, and the modelers are pushing measurements of streets and structures to have data complete before more of the Altstadt is demol- ished. Volcanoes Active In Aleutian Chain Once more a Volcano in the Alen- tian chain of islands has been reported in violent eruption. This time it was Shishaldin on, Unimak Island that re. eently belched forth clouds of smoke and showers of ashes and lit up the sky "like a huge torch." Such news is to be expected from the Aleutian Islands, for the majority of the 1,600 - mile -long chain stretching between Alaska and the Orient seems to be a volcanic origin, theis,they were formed by volcanic eruptions -M the ocean bed. Such submarine volcanoes are i)e- lieved to be at least as common as those on the exposed surface of the earth. Occasional reports tell of the ocean's bubbling and steaming and throwing up fountains like a huge coffee percolator. Volcanic tinders and dead fish float above the spot, and sometimes those more permanent evi- dences of submarine eruptions -vol- canic islands -rise mysteriously out of the depths. These islands sometimes are made by foldings in the eerthri crust as a result of the tremendous pressure ex- erted by volcanic steam. They may also be accumulations of volcanic ash and lava which have collected under the water, until after repeated erup- tions they make mountains thousands of feet high projecting above the ocean's surface. Practically all of the Aleutian Is- • lands bear marks of such evolution, and the birth of some of them actaally has been observed. An example is the Bogoslof group. In May, 1796, there were signs of volcanic disturbances off the coast of Unimak Island ( where the recent eruption occurred) and a few days later a new island had been cre- ated. It was christened Bogoslof. Al- most a century later, in 1883, another island, which was called New Bogoslof, carne into being -ender similar eireuni- stances, and in 1906 a third appeared. That islands born of volcanoes should themselves frequently be dis- turbed by volcanoes is 6 be expected, for they are only volcanic peaks pro- jecting ebove the water. Estimates of the number of ective volcanoes in the Aleutians runs into scores, and no one can say confidently of the others which are extinct and which are merely dor- mant. Shishaldin is one of the best known of the active craters. Its mast violent outburst occurred between 1825 and 1829, when, together with its twin peak, Pogromni, it erupted fiercely at intervals. Since then the 'elands of smoke it blew from its mouth have warned of hidden strength. Aims Building in Jerusalem The high artistic quality of archi- tecture of Jerusalem's new houses, and the "extraordinary changes" since his last visit to Palestine less than two years ago, profoundly impressed Prof. Leslie Patrick Abercrombie, well- known architect and town planner, and professor of civic design at the University of Liverpool. Many of the buildings he found to be above the average of those going up in the big towns in England, and Mr. Abercrom- bie found in Jerusalem structures a welcome departure from the common- place and stereoSyped. What the city specially needs,, he said, is mere trees to make up for lack of green and open spaces. If Jerusalem cannot have grass, because of the shortage in the water supply it nevertheless can have certain types of trees. Arriving at Bethany, Jesus discov- ered that Lazarus had been dead four days, v. 17. The Jews apparently be• lieved that a soul hovered about the dead body for three clays, but on the fourth, found it unrecognizable 'through decay, and departed. Lazarus was unquestionably dead. Friends are with the sisters, trying • to comfort then by saying the usual things. Martha's greeting (vs. 21, 22) is a gentle reproach, and the expression of a boundless trust. Jesus' answer (v. 23) was disappointing. She has ban enough of that from her Jewish com- forters during the last four days. Jesus made his great declaration, vs. 25 26. The "resurrection" andthe "life" which he guarantees, are not future, but present. The resurrection has already taken place for those who are Christians. They are living the resurrection life now. They are risen in Christ, Col. 2: 12; 3: 1. Accepting this new doctrine through her confidence in him who gave it to her, Martha went for Mary (v. 28) "secretly" -in order not to attract the attention, of Jesus' enemies to him - and to give Mary the opportunity of a private talk with the Master. Jesus, also wishing to avoid the crowd, 'stay- ed outside the village, v. 30. Mary- had lost hope. How soon, when trouble carne to herself, had 3e forgotten the teachings of the Mesta I Seeing her back among the profes- sional mourners, oppressed by the pa- thetic hopelessness of those who sor- row without Christ, his sensitive soul, hurt by the vulgarity of conventional mourning, Jesus groaned in his spirit and was troubled, v. 33. Asking where the grave,was (the only occasion in this Gospel on which Jesus asked for "My poor man, why don't you go forth, and labor?" "I can't find nothing in my line, mime" "And what was your last imsi- tion?" "Oh, it was very responsible, mum, -I was official grass cutter for a polar expedition," 4,- A Foundation Commonsense is • the foundation of man's happiness in his commerce with others. Forgiveness Hath any wounded thee? Soft Ian-' nage dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and. oblivion takes away the scar, - Francis Quarles. It was Julia Ward Howe who once said, when asked for a definition Of what the ideal aims of life were: "To learn, to teach, to serve, to enjoy." A life which misses any of these is in- complete; but as any life can have thein all, the incompleteness is a fnat- ter of choice, not of fate. ENJOYMENT The secret of enjoying life is in being able to get happiness from the simplest resources: WILL A will residing within as, and made free to choose the better part, forges its iron, chains link by link in again and again choosing the WOI'Se. Dullness Dull is, after all a relative term; it expresses only a -want of correspond- ence between the mind or the writer and that of the reader. ---Prof. Seeley. "Does :Maud like dewing?" "She does." "And Skating?" 'Oh, yes! She likes anything that may possibly lead to a pro- posal," 4Ocatral Veru at Macdonald •D al- lege Bantling -oil Bt. An740 (10 Belloyne, 411e. Macdonald College Celebrates ,..saao••••:•••_=•.--===---.---4-"----- Sr 'William O. Macdoora141. ....eeteefk . , .. ... . . . ... CS) elltuaistry Buliding, 314.*C4414 ilatveraity. (3) '3t'aic BuUd4ut, McGill -retraltr. (4) Macdonald:On- ghteering ItaHdlag, SLeGIU"uniyersity. (5) Mactionaldnan, Onelalt, Ontario. Tlie Twenty Fifth Anniversary of Macdonald College with par- ticular emphasis on Founder's Day, February 10th, focuses attention on this institution and its founder, the late Sir William C. Macdonald who built, equipped and endowed the entire institution at an expense of more than six million dollars. Founder's Day which this year, marks the 101st Anniversary of the birth of the late Sir William C. Macdonald, founder of the Mac- donald Tobacco Company and Canada's greatest benefactor, once more draws attention to the tre- ecknd.ous scope of his benefactions th McGill University with which the Macdonald College at St. Anne de Bellevue is affiliated. These bene- factions total more than twelve and one half million dollars, $10,690,166 of which was given during life. While the Faculty of Science and of Scientific Agriculture was possibly Heat and Power to be Generated From Sewer Gas Some new featuret,. mark the sue- , .?„1 t r 41,q pik7 of Plainfield, New Jersey, to utilize eee... see eee..d.on t.t fl -r, auti the dve1opnieiit of powel'. The plan. is thus described and ex- plained in the Plainfield Courier - News: "Sewer gas, never very popular, gained for itself a particularly tine - enviable notoriety early in October, when an explosion destroyed a part of the Woonsocket, Rhode Island, sew- er plant and caused the death of two men. . Engineering publications throughout the coentry have carried columns of reports and discussions en this explosion. "At the local joint sewage -disposal plant the heating power of this gas, which is 50 per cent, greater than that of manufactured gas, has been har- nessed and put to useful purpose dur- ing the past five years by means of a safety collective device developed by the supervising engineer, John R. Downs. "The organic matter or the solid portion of the sewage is destroyed, and the remainder of the solids rendered innocuous, by a digestion process. This process is greatly accelerated by heat, the dearest to Sir William's heart, every faculty of the McGill Uni- versity benefited during his life and after. The Faculty of Law received $232,500. The Conservatorium of Music $300,000. The Faculty of Medicine was bequeathed $500,000. The McCord Museum Building was purchased at a cost of $142,000. while the Macdonald Park site now occupied by the Stadium, and the Student's Park was purchased at a cost of more than one million dollars and presented to the Uni- versity. Student's activities came under the beneficient scope of Sir William as the McGill Union testi- fies. Sir William spent S219,000 on its erection and equipment. In addition to the wonderful equip- ment at St. Anne de Bellevue, those buildings at McGill which hear the Macdonald name and those donated by the late Tobacco knight, stand today, as the greatest monument te his memory. Macdonald College was founded by the late Sir William in 1907. It was designed to include three schools -one for agriculture, one for household science and one for normal teacher training. 'The gift included the grounds, almost 800 acres in extent, the complete equip- ment and endowment. The college itself was incorporated with the University of M eGill as the Faculty of A gri culture, although the teachers' training feature is possibly' his best known contribution to life in the Province of Quebes. Other sections of the country have benefited by the late Sir William's benefactions, the Mac- donald Institute and the Macdonald Hall at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, being among the Meat important. • so that the time necessary to compI et e the proess is cut down from five or six months to a period of from thirty to forty days. When we consider that about 2,000 cubic feet of these solids f:ach the plant daily, the saving in the capacity of structures to hold the sol- ids until the process is completed, be- comes obvious. "The Plainfield Joint Sewage Plant was the first to apply this principle by- using the gas given off during the I process to supply the heat necessary! for acceleration. The more heat that is supplied -within certain limits the: more gas is produced so that there is always an excess quantity of gas. "Part of the excess gas has now , been piped into the office and labor- atory building where it is burned in the steam -heating plan. A visit to this building will rouse the envy of any coal -shoveling householder. An absolutely uniform temperature of 70 degrees can be maintained night and clay without shoveling coal or remov- ing ashes. "Power has also been developed from this gas, one horse -power being available continuousler from each 1,000 persons connected to the sewer system, or fifty horse -power at the local plant. "A very interesting development is that both the power and the heat ran be recaptured from the same gas. The best gas -engines made are only 25 pee cent. efficient, therrna.ly speaking, the other 75 per cent. of the heat value a the gas being given up to the cooling water in the engine jacket or lost 11 e the exhaust. By water -jacketing the ! exhaust and using the cooling water ! to heat the sludge or buildings, 75 pee cent. of this waste heat can be re- covered." Prospective Tenant --"How is thia Bat heated?" Tenant --"By lipping the janitor.' Hubby, ---"You didn't have a rag Oa your back when I married you." noWife.-"Anyway, I've plenty a tlitena MUTT AND JEFF- By BUD FISHER Gus Geevem Seems to Have Mutt's Pedigree. ........-..., I TELLING 'you THAT rC t5 A 1,16- 600p m. fic HS NoNe Gee- k) E-M,\10k-). 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