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Lesson
April 10. 'season Ii—Hew Sitl Beg!ns
.—Genesis 2: 15.17; 3: 1.8. Golden
Text—{Match and pray, that we en-
ter not into temptation.—Mat-
thew 26: 41.
ANALYSIS,
I.. 'iu1 raoriner ens, Gen. 2: 15-17.
II. ¶VII), TLIVIPTATION, Gen. 3: 1-5
in. THE .SIN, Gen. 3: fi, 7.
IV. TIL'i CONSPQ'UENCES, Gen. 8: 7, S.
1NTRoorlc-'rION—From the story of
!creation the Bible p,'oceecis to :he
story of the garden. The connection
between the two accounts is not im-
portant. It implies that God is con-
cerned, not only with !!eating man,
but with forming an ideal environ-
ment for him—an evidence of God's
goodnes and loving care. What an
enchanted garden it i'., with trees that
bestow knowledge and life, and ani-
mals that talk! This garden, like the
fear country in Christ's partible and
the l.oad which Chr> >".ian traveled in
Bunyan's "Pilgrim'; Progress," be-
longs to the map of the soul rather
than to that of the earth. The mo-
tive of the story is to explain the uni-
ersal -but mysterious' fact of 4uman
sin with its dire consequences.
I. THE PetomaITION, Gen. 2: 15-17.
Life in Eden, though pleasant, was
not :dle. There can be no genuine
happiness without a worthy vocation.
So Adam must•tend the trees of the
garden. In his life he was given a
wide liberty of 'choice; ,he :ould eat
of any of the trees of the garden.
Without this freedom he could not
fully express .his personality. But
there is a limit to human freedom.
There was one tree of the garden
which was not to be touched—the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil.
Just as the people of the Middle Ages
-sought for the fountain of eternal
youth, so the ancients believed that
certain trees would bestow knowledge,
as certain waters would bestow life.
Here the forbidden tree is surely to.
be understood as a symbol. It stood as
a divine warning against human pre-
sumption... It said, "Thus far shalt
thou go and no further." Knowledge
of life and the world, which is won by
the sacrifice of peace of mind and pur-
ity of heart, is both illicit and impious,
IL THE TEMPTATION, Gen. 3: 1-5
Never have the stages which lead
to sin been depicted with such pene-
trating, psychological insight and with
such simple, powerful strokes as here.
Even an ideal environment is not
proof against the possibility of sin.
The serpent is not to be understood
as the devil of Christian theology, al-
though it became identified in later
thought with him; it represents situps
ly the agent by which an evil sugges-
tion carne to man. It commenced oy
exaggerating grossly God's prohibi-
tion, as though every tree of the gar-
den were under the ban. It time
sought to create the impression that
man's lot is unnecessarily hard
through the severity of God. The ser-
pent seemed mere compassionate than
God; life, under his management,
Would be less austere. At first the
woman repelled the -suspicion that
God is unnecessarily harsh. She con•.
rested the serpent; only one tree is -
prohibited: Ah, she was made to talk
—and about the prohibited tree! The
serpent now became very bold and
branded God's word as false. "Ye
shall not surely die," he said. God is,
there::ore, a tyrant who lays down a
prohibition, not in the interests of
Adam and Eve, but merely to restrain
them from the happiness that might
be theirs. Further, in eating the fruit
of this tree there is a wondrous 1 •oon
—the opening of the eyes. It makes
one's soul to feel that one is going
through life like a blind pian, missing
its priceless things. These were the
suggestions sown in Eve's heart.
Ili. THE SIN, Gen. 3: 6, 7
The serpent, having done its work,
disappeared. Eve's curiosity had bean
aroused, She looked at the tree and
noticed what she had not previously
observed, that the forbidden fruit was
of pleasant appearance. Next, her de-
sire was kindled. How glorious it
must taste. How mysterious its power
of bestowing knowledge! The fatal
step was taken swiftly and thought-
lessly. Then, as sin Ioves company,
Eve tempted Adam, and when woman
tempts, man is powerless to resist.
"The opening of the eyes aptly
symbolizes the awakening of -con-
science. So Newnan says, 'They lost
Eden, and gained a conscience,"The
innocence of childhood was gone, and
shame and fear came in its place. No
doubt the moral maturity which an
awakened conscience implies vould
have been reached, but more slowly,
by the way of obedience, It is a fa -
fad of life that the unhealthy
growvth is the more rapid. The child
ages more quickly in ways of sin, and
the bad boy usually knows =eh more
of life's good and evil. than the heal-
thy, normal, right-minded boy of his
own .age."
IV. TIE CONSKIJENCEs, Gen. 3: 7, S.
These early sinners had hoped to
gain knowledge .rf the highest, mit
the knowledge they Won was merely
that they were naked! Sin produces
shame. For they had now to cover
themselves, and they chose fig -leaves.
Sin also separates man from his God.
In picturesque simplicity the story
tells .how God walked in his garden
in the cool breezes of the morning •end
how Adam and Eve could not look into
his searching eyes.
First Spring
Ah it is well that grass now light to
emerald;
That hyacinth's in purple and pink
untold;
That lilies lift in sheer and sudden
' whiteness, •
•While daffodils burst softly into gold.
For soon, across the earth, dull -hued
as parchment,
A message must be written by a
sun—
A message worthy of the fairest col-
ors ---
"The Lord is risen again! Lo, death
is done!"
—Violet Alleyn Storey in. the N.Y.
Times.
What New York
Is Wearing
BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON
Illustrated Dressntokinq Lesson Fur-
nished With Every Pattern
Just another smart frock for "best"
for that important age of 8, 10, 19
and 14 years.
This time a lovely deep blue. with
a sapphire cast silk crepe made the
original. It's an adorable affair.
And it's really quite simple. It re-
flects the Victorian period in its
quatiit puffed sleeves and round lace
trimmed neckline.
Style No. 2622 can be made at a
very small outlay.
Vivid red crepe de chine- is very
effective.
Then again, perhaps you'd like it
fashioned of a lovely cotton tweed in
red and brown mixture. For the col-
lar, cut the material on the bias and
pipe around lower edge with red bind-
ing. Match the belt in leather to the
collar.
Size 8 requires 93's yards of 30 -inch
material with Si. yard of 35 -inch lace
and 3 yards of 3 -inch ribbon.
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 eachs number, and
address your order to Wilson Pattern
Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
• New Breed of Cattle to be Developer
Known as Africanders, a herd of these strauge-looking cattle
has been purchased by the United _States department of agriculture
and will be crossed with Texas beet stock. W. H. Black went to
.Africa to select them.
Blue Predominates
In New York Parade
Waists Uncertain But Neck
Lines Are Definitely
Higher
New York,—There was a distinct
blue note in the traditional spring par-
ade when fashionable New York and
a great many country cousins strolled
down Fifth Avenue.
The blue note was not due to over-
cast skies, but to the whine of the mys-
terious men and women—in Paris and
New York or somewhere—who dictate
what the well-dressed woman will
wear.
If you're still in doubt, the W. D. Wo
pian will wear blue most of the time
this season.
The styles displayed along the
Avenue were emphatic. Bats were
small, tipped over one ear. Rough'
woolen material of a loose weave was
seen frequently and there were many
striped costumes.
The stripes appeared to have in-
vaded every phase of the new styles.
They were usually three colors—red,
white and blue or red white and black.
The hats were mostly blue, and of-
tentimes trimmed with red and white.
Most of the dresses were a pale shade
of blue, trimmed with pearl gray and
with light blue slippers to match.
Black costumes also were popular.
The silhouette was intriguing, broad
at the shoulders and narrow at the
hips. The waistline is still wavering
between its natural level and a slight-
ly higher point of the directoire period.
This trend also has inspired higher
neck lines, and iu the smartest street
dresses the neck line aproached the
collar -bone.
American Professor Urges
Adult Education
Adult education has become not only
a necessity but an obligation, accord-
ing to Professor A. Broderick Cohen,
director of the evening and extension
courses of Hunter College.
In a recent interview Professor Co-
hen declared: "It is an obligation of
all parents to continue their studies,
either by some more or less regular
program at home or by participating
in organized courses given by a col-
lege university or some other educa-
tional institution.
"Such organized study at home or
in an educational institution is desir-
able even for t]te graduates of the col-
lege and the university. For those
lacking college training such study is
indispensable especially if the parent
would fulfill his obligation to his child
and keep abreast of the swiftly chang-
ing scientific and cultural aspects of
our modern world.
"As the child grows older the need
for the parent to continue his studies
in order to keep up with the child is
necessary."
Shift in 'opulation
Noted in Dominion
Ottawa.—Rural population to -day re-
presents 46.20 per cent. of the total
for the Dominion of Canada, compared
to more than 50 per cent. in 1921, ac-
cording to an official report based on
the census taken last year.
The rural population to -day is 4,802,-
138 and the urban population 5,572,058.
Comparatively figures a decade ago
were 4,435,827 and 4,352,122 respec-
tively. Thus, during the ten-year
period the urban population increased
by 1,219,936, or 28 per cent., and the
rural population by only 366,311, or
7.6 per cent.
In the ten years the population of
Canada increased by 1586,247, or 18.05
per cent. to the total of 10,374,196.
During the same period the gain in the
United. States was 16.7 per cent. and in
England and Wales somewhat less
than 6 per cent.
Generally speaking the most pro-
nounced movement from the country
to the city is found in Eastern Canada,
and in particular the industrial areas
of Quebec and Ontario, although the
tendency is spreading westward. Since
the census was taken, in June of last
year, governments in Canada have
been giving attention to a back -to -the -
land movement which has been instru-
mental in settling in agricultural em-
ployment on. their own land or as em-
ployees, some 45,000 individuals who
required, no financial assistance but
only some advice and guidance.
Royal Family's Taste in Books
Extends Over Wide Range
Loudon.—Prince George's confession
that he has a keen appetite for novels,
but is tired of their incessant Harping
on sex, is a reminder that he is the
book lover of the royal family. He is
as interested in first editions as his
father is in stamp collecting.
The public life of the Bing and other
members of the royal family leaves
little time for light reading, although
the King's partiality is toward the old-
er novelists—Dickens, • Thackeray and
Scott, and occasionally Conrad. Biogra-
phies and historical romances are the
Queen's favorites. The Prince of
Wales likes Kipling, P. G. Wodehouse
and Stephen Leacock, The Duke of
York turns to serious and economic
problems of the day.
Percy—"By
idea."
Betty --"Be kind to
stranger."
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Latest Advances of Science
Electric Plows. Tested in Europe
Pills of Fertilizer—Germans Speed Cooking—New Radium
Field To Be Developed in Canada
Some 200 electric plows are success-
fully operating in Europe. They are
expensive but efliclent. Costing as
they do from $15;000 to $20,000 each,
they are beyond the reach of the aver-
age farmer, In France they are rented.'
Community utilization seems to be the
practice so that the power company
by which a plow may be owned makes'
the most of Its Investment and the pos-
sibility of selling electric energy.
An electric plow travels along at the
rate of about three miles an hour and
covers as ninny as thirty acres a day.
The cost of electric current at 2 cents ,
a kilowatt-hour amounts to only 60,
cents an. acre. A oontiractor who owns ,
a plow and hires himself out to fann-
ers charges from $3.50 to $6 a day.l
Allowing the usual rate for interest on
the investment depreciation and oper-•
ating costs, he ought to make money.
There is nothing resembling the;
usual gasoline tractor. Two portable
drums ere set up at opposite ends of;
the field along a straight line. A steel
rope from one drum is fastened to the
rear of the plow and paid out as the
plow travels along; a similar rope'
from the second drum is fastened to!
the front of the plow and does the
actual hauling. At the end of the fur-
row the plow is turned around to be-
gin the return journey and dig a new
furrow. What was the paying -out
drum now becomes the hauling drum.
There is no overhead trolley. Current
is supplied by cables paid out from
reels.
Pills For Plants
Fertilizers are scattered over the
laud. it would be better if they could
be drilled into the ground like seeds.
,Convinced that this is the correct
principle, a Southern research organi-
zation has devel.sped a method of mak-
ing fertilizers iu an entirely new way.
The process was described by B. G.
Klugh before the New York chapter of
the American Institute of Chemists re-
ntly.
At first pellets about the size of
homeopathic pills were considered, but
thecepharmaceutical equipment re-
quired to produce then was too intri-
cate and expensive. It was decided to
form a paste and to extrude it through
very small apertures. Spaghetti -like
strings came out, which were dried
and then cut into granules an eighth
of an inch long. Pills are thus obtain-
ed which can be forced into the ground
in any desired dosage by means of a
farmer's ordinary drilling machine.
They are very hard and dense, and uni-
form in size and shape. The perfectly
smooth outer surface presents so little
area to the atmosphere that the ab-
sorption of moisture is slight. Even
after four months there is little ten-
dency of the pill to cake.
Speed Cooking
For all their easy-going ways, the
Germans are speed -conscious, and for
all their tradition, they are as much in-
terested in modern home comforts as
Americans.
Not only are they speeding up some
of their trains, but there are signs
that they want to cook in a hurry.
What else would explain the market-
ing of a new "electric kitchen" with
which, it is claimed, afull-size meal
for five persons can be prepared in 45
minutes? The device, which is also
said to make cooking cheaper consists
of stewing pot, frying pan and coffee
percolator, all of which operate by in-
sertion of au electric plug. It was ex-
hibited at the Leipzig Fair recently.
As for the home comfort, there was
displayed at the fair a "central heat-
ing mange" which can be used not only
for cooking but for heating the eutire
house, doing away with the necessity
for separate fireplaces or stoves in the
various rooms, which is still a wide-
spread custom in Germany and other
European countries. This special range
has three grates, one over the other.
Only the top grate is used for cooking:
the middle grate is intended far use
in milder weather when the house re-
quires only slight heating, and the bot-
tom grate, where the flames are most
intense, is for the winter.
Radium Refinery
The Canadiau pining company,
which sought, near Great Bear Lake,
to find gold worth about 222 an ounce
and discovered radium valued at well
over $1,800,000 at present :prices for
the sante ainount, is planning to estab-
lisp a refinery at the scene of the .dig-
ging.
This will further reduce the great
cost of getting the valuable pitch-
blende ore, containing the radium, out
of tliei wild area by airplane. In con-
nection with radium extraction, the
company has engaged the services of a
Belgian expert, Mr, Pachon, and on hie
return fromEurope in June plans will
be considered for a refinery. The plaint.
will 'include crushing and grinding nia-
chinery, as well as the chemical equip-
ment for readium extraction:
The Department. of Mines at Ottawa
is lending all possible assistance to-
ward working out ways and means for
the treatment o1' the radit;rn bearing
ore. So far the government leas re-
ceived 60(1 pounds of ore far expert
mental purposes, and tin- company pro-
poses to ship twenty tons of ere, now
stored at Waterways, Alta.. to Ottawa
for further test purposes.
Water Power in
I Central Electric Station;
About 98 per cent. of the output of
� central electric stations in Canada ac' -
cording to the Dominion Water Pu twPI
and Hydrometric Bureau, Department -
'
of the Interior, is generui.ed from
hydraulic installations. The propar-
tion of hydraulic installation available
for public use is steadiy growing to
keep pace with the increasing demand
for domestic, commercial and indus-
trial energy. In all three of these
fields new adaptations are increasing
the demand. The development of the
alternating current radio, electrical re-
frigeration, therapeutic appliances and
general household devices in the do-
mestic field; of improved commercial
lighting and advertising in the sena
mercial field; and of electro -chemical
and electro -metallurgical processes ie
industry constantly increases the de-
mand on the central electric stations.
At the present time there are 325
hydro -electric central stations in Can-
ada with a total installation of 5,734.-
491
,734:491 horsepower. Of these totals, 226
stations with an installation of 609 tur-
bines of a combined capacity of 4,241.-
838 h.p. are owned by commercial or-
ganizations while municipal and other
public organizations operate 102 sta-
tions which contain 242 turbines aggre-
gating 1,492,653 h.p. The average in-
stallation of the commercial stations
is 18,769 h.p. and the average capacity
of their turbines 6,965 h.p., as corn.
pared with 14,634 h.p. and 8,168 h,p.,
respectively, for the municipal sta-
tions. Individual turbines vary in size
from the 10 h.p. turbine used for ham-
let lighting to the great 65,000 Inn.
i units of the Chute a Caron develop-
ment on the Saguenay river.
Progress on the Big
Bend Highway
Considerable progress bas been
made during the past year towards the
completion of the Big Bend highway,
the connecting link in the western halt
! of the trans -Canada highway which fon
, lows the course of the Columbia River
in British. Columbia for almost 200
miles. On the eastern end, which is
being constructed by the National
Parks Service, Department of the In-
terior, sixty-two miles of road from
Golden have now been graded and sur-
faced.
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a hypocrite?"
Henry—"Yessum, it's a kid wet
conies to school wid a smile ou hls
face."
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