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Zurich Herald, 1932-08-04, Page 3Sunday School Lesson August 14. Lesson VII—The Ten Commandments—ll. Exodus 20: 12-21, Gelden Text—Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, Leviticus 19: 18. ANALYSIS. 1. RESPECT FOR 1IUi4IAN VALUES, JS. 12-14, 16. II. RESPECT FOR MATERIAL VALI'Es, Vs. 15, 17. III. TH'E FEAR OF THE LORD, vs. 18-21. INTRODUCTION --It is usual to think of the first section of the Ten Com- mandments (vs. 1-11) as declaring our obligations to God, and the sec- ond section (vs. 12-17) our obliga- tions to man. This distinction may be invidious. It may draw a line be- tween religion and morality which does not exist in fact. Israel certain- ly never thought of such a distinction. They knew that God was behind all the commandments, whether religious or moral. Their ;neat motive for keeping the commandments was that God is the unsleeping Guardian of +he obligations man awes to man. These obligations are singularly compre- hensive. They suggest a moral order which has its source ln the righteous- ness of God. The thought which underlies them all is e, worthy respect for great values. Jesus lifted them from the level of duty to that of love —"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." I. RESPECT FOR HUMAN VALUES, Vs. 12-14, 16. house is the domostie establishment generally, including the wife, the, slaves, the domestic animals and all the persons and thingsbelonging to it. III. TIIE FEAR OF TIM LORD, vs. 18-21, During the delivery of the law, God had come down in the fulness of his majesty upon Mount .Sinai. Moses remained in his presence for forty days, During that time nature, in awe of his holiness, was disturbed on a stupendous scale, v. 18. A psalmist has put this poetically: "The earth saw and trembled; the bills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord," Psalm 97: 4, 5. The first impulse which men feel when confronted with the holiness of God is to escape from it. So when Moses returned to them they declared in a very human way that they preferred his familiar voice to the voice of God, v. 19. Moses, however, rightly interpreted the fear they felt before God. God had re- vealed himself in this awful way upon Sinai to put their obedience to the proof, and to inspire them withsuch fear of him that they would be saved from offending hire, "The fear of the Lord" is one element in religion's re- demptive power, v. 20. After Lausanne By Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minis- ter of Great Britain, in a speech be- fore the House of Commons. I should like it in a:. brief a time as possible to report on the. proceedings —at any rate in their main features— of the conference at Lausanne. Let me begin right away with the claim I make for the importance of the confer- ence. I make this claim: That the conference and its results can lead to a settlement of this question of re- parations which lie somewhere about the root of every economic trouble which has 'overtaken the world, which have falsified national budgets, placed in the centre of Europe a country whose financial position Is a menace to the whole world and have done much to throw national economy out of gear. While reparations last there can be no complete industrial recov- ery. It is very difficult even to form sen- tences upon this subject which won't be misunderstood on the other side of the Atlantic. No American will have any sort of misunderstanding about this—that the mere putting of Britain on its financial feet is not enough to put Britain on its industrial feet. Our payments may be reduced or abolished. But that is not all we want. We are now facing the problem of trade, markets and international exchange. Parents are entitled to the respect : their children with all that that involves, v. 12. In view of the low esteer in which womanhood was Held in ancient society, it is remarkable that the father aid mother are placed on a level of equality before Hebrew children. • Both alike are 'deserving of respect. In other passages the duties of the parents towards the children are stated. They are -responsible, for instance, for the training and educa- tion of their children, 12: 26. Parents represent and wield authority—file m:rtl.ority that ..omes from a wide ex- pe_ience in life. To honor than is therefore to show reepc.t for author- ity, leep-rooted in life. When pro- per respect is shown to such author- ity then society • is well -ordered and stable. It prolongs its days upon the land. For sound, social well-being there must be respect shown for hu- man life. "Thou shalt do no murder," v 13. No reason is assigned for ob- serving this commandment; it was re- garded as self-evident. If reason were sought, however, it could be found in Genesis 9: 6: "for in the image of God made he man." Murder in any ' form is a defilemen5 or destruction of God's image in men. Next, the well- being of the family is guaranteed, v;••14. The marriage bond is sacred; husband and wife must ;bn faithful • each other. If theta be unfaith 'Many snot e"r ancl'gnt society) did not decay with the canker of immorality, is that there were stiict enforcenie`its against all man- s, of impurity. The ninth command- - . ment (v. 16), :"ems at safeguarding the reputation of others. Due respect must be shown a roan's good name, which represents bis very life. From time immemorial Oriental :aw courts h.. been notoriously corrupt; lying ant. bribery have been taken as a matter of course. Israel was not free from that corruption; on many an oc- casion reputations were blasted and property and life imperilled by false evidence. Hence the importance of telling the truth. II. RESPECT FOL MATERIAL VALUES, Vs. 15, 17. Provision is made in the command anent, "Thou 'shalt not steal," for the - safeguarding of property. God's po- ple are to be an honest society, in which no meitiber is unjustly depriv-d of his possessions. The great prophets carried this principle far. They ap- plied it against the greed and min- ting, the injustice and oppression by which men try to . exploit their fel- lows. The last commandment (v. 17) leaves the field of external cond• :t, sand descends to the heart. Hence it may be regarded as the deepest of :' the commandments in this second group. Covetousness is an inner state; out of it come robbery, extor- tion and oppression. The desire for ghe property of another leads often to the steps by which that property is 'wrongly acquired. A catalogue of the more important parts of the neigh- bor's property is given. It is all sum- med up in the word "house." The She—"We had an expert on in- tensive gardening before our club last evening." He—"Sounds interesting." She—"Yes, he read a most con- structive paper on how to raise a .clip in a tomato can." Closed is the Day The air's like cherry, the night's like plum, The moon is a yellow chrysanthe- mum Asleep is the mouse and the salam- ander. Folded the blooms on the oleander. A -nest is the lapwing, a -nest is the lory— Closed is the day like a child's bright story. Curled is the rabbit and the wood mouse curled, Asleep is the lilac and her blue buds furled. A -nest is the pewit, a -nest is the plover— Closed is the day, like a page turn- ed over. ---Bert Cooksley. The 3000 -acre tract along the inter- national boundary between the United States and Canada is appropriately called a "garden," since it is to be used for the cultivation of better un- derstanding between the nations. MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER ''hat New York Is Wearing Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Ji'urnishe'd with Every Pattern 3059 Quaint pretty breakfast pajamas with tuck -in blouse shows 'smart femininity in its gathered ruffle of the deep open V -neckline, both front and back. Style No. 3059 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. Size 36 requires 3% yards of 39 -inch material with % yard of 35 -inch contrasting. An interesting idea too for vaca- tion for beach year is a blue and white linen print with plain sheer linen ruffling with picot finished edge. Tub silks, plain or polka-dotted cotton pique, linen finished cottons and terry cloth are lovely for this youthful ma«el. HOW TO ORDER PATTERN. Write your name and address plainly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin pre- ferred; wrap it carefully) for each • number, and address your order.tr, Wilson Pattern Service„ 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Thumb Value Oue has only to grasp a pen or a tool of some sort to realize that the different fingers are far from having the same value in regard to their use- fulness in performing work. The most important is the thumb, for with- out it seizing or holding would he very imperfect. The hand is no longer pincers, but merely a claw, when de- prived of the thumb. It may be es- timated that the thumb represents fully a third of the total value of the hand. The total of the thumb is es- timated by competent authorities as fifteen to thirty -live per cent. for the right and ten to fifteen per cent. for the left band, except for workers art, when forty to fifty for the right and twenty-five to forty per cent. for the left hand comes nearer the value. The total loss of the index finger causes an incapacity at from ten to twenty-five per cent. for the right hand and ten to fifteen per cent. for the left. The middle linger Is less im- portant than the index. The ring fin- ger is least important, and the little finger may be compared to its neigh- bor, except in the professions in which it serves as a point of support for the hand. Mose w Gleanings Migration to the "Oaoha" Late spring and early summer wit- Pees a huge migration ,of Muscovites to the "dachas," or summer cottages, in the surrounding countryside. Local trains an the various lines which radi- ate from Moscow are crowded, especi- ally on rest days, and the inhabitant of a dacha may often be identified by the amount of luggage and packages which he or she carries, because the task of provisioning and supplying dacha is rather formidable. The stores of the dacha villages are considerably barer than those of Moscow, so that all sorts of things, from household articles and kerosene, to meat and butter (when the latter is obtainable at all), must be carried from Moscow. In past years the problem of obtaining a dacha has been complicated by the fact that many peasants were afraid to rent all or part of their cottages for fear that they might be denounced as kulaks and heavily taxed or sub- jected to still more severe penalties. This year the Moscow Soviet authori- ties issued certain rules in this con- nection which are calculated to reas- sure the peasants and hence to make easier the annual overflow from the city during the summer months. Frag- rant pine and fir forests and conveni- ent bathing streams are among the main attractions of the "dacha belt" which surrounds Moscow. Moreover, the Soviet capital in summer is apt to be unpleasantly dusty, because of the amount of new. building and street re- pairing that goes on at this time. Life's but a word, a shadow, a melting dream, compared to esseu- tial and eternal honor.—J. Fletcher. Westminster Abbey Chapel To Serve As war Memorial In the lofty chamber beneath the southwest tower of .Westminster Ab-. bey and not far from the grave of the Unknown Warrior a new place of pil- grimage has recently been opened to the British public. With as little damage to the medieval structure as possible, and with all due ,reverence for the traditions of the historic ab- bey, a chapel in the nature of a war memorial has been constructed—the first new chapel to be opened in the abbey since the dissolution of the monastery. The Warriors' Chapel, dedicated by the Prince of Wales in a solemn cere- monial, is to serve as a place for rest and meditation for the constant stream of visitors to the shrine of the Unknown Warrior. It has been the acknowledged purpose of the authori- ties to endow the chapel with a de- votional atmosphere and this char- acter is implicit in the design and decoration which have been carried. out in tha project. The idea of the chapel was the conception of an un- known benefactor who is said to have given half of his life's savings toward defraying the cost of the project, the Soviets Turn to Baseball Baseball has been imported into Russia by American workers and specialists and seems likely to be- come widespread, if a decision of the Supreme Council of Physical Culture is carried into effect. This decision calls for the introduction of baseball in Soviet sport clubs, and Americans here have been invited to teach the fine points of the new game. The Soviet Union will begin to produce baseball bats, masks, gloves and ohter equipment, using American samples as models. Baseball games will be played this summer in the Park of Culture and Rest, Moscow's chief summer amusement center. Soccer is quite widely played in the Soviet Union; but tee physical culture auth- orities have vetoed a suggestion to in- troduce ntroduce American football on the ground that this sport is too rough. rest of the $ulu being raised by "widows' mites" offerings. The .cost of the project is placed at about 44,. 000 (;20,000). More than four centuries ago tlio great room was enclosed on two sides by stone screens, one of which still stands; the other was removed 200 years ago to make way for a menu-, went which has recently been trans- ferred to another spot. One side of the new chapel has been closed off by a bronze screen of Renaissance In fluence—a light grille whose frieze bears a gilded scroll -work continuing across the face of the old stone screen. Across the medieval screen an arcade has been erected and elab- orately wrought in gilt and red on ala- baster. A gilt bronze crucifix occupies the centre of the arcade with lesser figures of the Virgin and St. John. The old altar which has stood for centur- ies has been replaced with one of solid concrete. Facing the crucifix is the war mem- orial, an.. illuminated panel, whose in- scription ascription begins: "To the glory of God and to the memory of one million men who fell in the great war, 1914-1918." Pitter-Patter • When Amelia Earhart Putnam land- ed after her trans-Atlantic flight, she received a radio from her dry cleaners in America: "Cougratultaions. Knew you'd make it. We never lose a cus- tomer."—N.Y. Herald Thibune. * * * The late Justice McKenna, of the United States Supreme Court, once took up golf in a serious way. He had a series of lessons from a pro- fessional, and was told he must prac- tice assiduously. So one day he went out to the Chevy Chase course, near Washing- ton, to practice. He eet a caddie and walked to a far -away tee. The caddie teed up the ball and the justice took a swipe at it. He missed it a foot. He contemplated the ball for a space and then had another try. This time he hit the ground 18 inches behind the ball. "Tut -tut!" said the distinguished justice. "Tut -tut!" "Mister," said the caddie, "You'll never learn to play golf with them words."—Saturday Evening Post. * * * At the death of Edward MacDowell the American composer, a certain lady whose musical aspirations sadly out- distanced her abilities, undertook to write an elegy in his honor. After an arduous stint at the piano she pro- duced an onus which, she felt, struck just about the, last note in American elegy -writing. For her first audience she pounced upon Josef Hoffman, the eminent planist, who chanced- to be Vacationing in`the neighborhood. Gra. ci'ously, Hoffman agreed to listen. Against a backdrop pf rose lights and curling incense the lady "rendered." the piece with her own hands, then turned eagerly to sop up Hoffman's praise. "It's really quite nice," murmured the pianist defensively, "but don't you think it would have been better if — if---" "If what?" wheedled the elegist. "If you had died and MacDowell had written the elegy?"—Contributed. * * * The distinguished English states- man and historian, John Morley, had just returned to London after a visit to America. It was a dinner party, and a lively young woman said: "Mr. Morley, you have seen this wonderful man in Washington (Theodore Roose- velt) about whom all the world is talking. Now what do you think of him?" - Rather ponderously Mr. Morley be- gan: "You may take every adjective on every page of the Oxford Diction- ary, good, bad and indifferent, and you will find some one to apply—" "That's too complicated; can't you tell us in half a dozen words?" the young wo- man cut in impatiently. "In half a dozen words," Morley repeated. "Half St. Paul, half St, Vitus."—Busbey, Uncle Joe Cannon. When Bret Harte was editing a lit- tle paper in a mining settlement in California the wife of the leading citi- zen died and it became his duty to Making Rain to Order Not content with their efforts to plan in advance the output of coal, iron, oil, textiles, shoes, books, cin- ema flims and many other objects, the Soviet authorities are embarking on serious experiments with a view to controlling that most variable and fickle object, the' weather. The first machine in the world designed to pro - , it -rain artificially has been set up 'in Leningrad. It is an electrical ap- paratus with a power of 75,000 volts, and the general idea of rain produc- tion is to burst clouds by transmitting electrical currents into them. A sec- ond machine with a power of 200,000 volts is in process of construction. These machines will be mounted on a specially constructed high tower. It is stated that experiments with arti- ficially created rain have yielded fav- orable avorable results, and the significance of this discovery for agriculture, if it should prove practicable on a large scale, is obvious. • New Museum Building An architectural competition has just ended for designs for a new and much larger building in which to house the Museum of the Revolution, which is somewhat cramped in its present location in the 'former British Club, on the Tverskaya, one of the main streets of Moscow. This museum, which conveys through the medium of paintings, sketches, newspapers and documents a bird's-eye view of various phrases in the development of the Russian Revolution, is visited by 300,000 people every year. The new building is planned on a scale calcu- lated to accommodate 1,000,000 visit- ors a year and some of the most dis- tinguished Moscow architects, such as Mr. A. B.Shusev, designer of the Le - nine Mausoleum, and Mr. I. V. Zhol- tovsky, one of the prize winners in the competition for the Palace of Soviets, are participating in the competition. write au editorial obituary. This he did quite to his satisfaction, conclud ing the eulogy with the remark, "She was distinguished for charity above all the other ladies of this town." "I dropped into the • office later," said Bret Harte, "to look at the proofs. I found that the intelligent composit- or had made me say, 'She was dis- tinguished for chastity above all the other ladies of this town.' I crossed out the insulting s, put a big query mark in the margin and went home. To my horror in the morning I read, 'She was distinguished for chastity (?) above all the other ladies of this town'."—E. P. Mitchell, Memories of an Editor. * * * Just before Will Rogers first met President Coolidge, one of Will's friends said, "I'll bet you can't make Cal laugh in two minutes." . "I'll bet he laughs in 20 seconds," answered Will. Then came the introduction: "Mr. Coolidge, I want to introduce Mr. Will Rogers." Will held out his hand, looked very confused, then said, "Excuse me, I didn't quite get the name." — Con- tributed. * * * Governor Franklin Roosevelt tells of a young Navy ensign whose marks in navigation had not been all that ' might have been desired, and who was once set at the task of shooting the sun to determine the ship's posi- tion. The vessel was on cruise, and was somewhere west of Penzance. After a while the ensign delivered - to the .captain the' result of his caicit- •lationsa Shortly afterward, the captain sent. for the ensign. "Young man," said the officer seri- ously, "remove your cap. We are now upon a hallowed spot." "Beg your pardon, Captain?" "Yes, sir," said the captain. "If you have calculated accurately we are now . right smack in the middle of West- minster Abbey."—CoIlier's. UTT 14AS FAUX:. 63 AT LA'IT F OR SAME, SC -MALT E'S GOh1E, FoR H1 cis LI Ke ALOlBP,MFs WW1" FOR ugoe12W00'D TAN al~ out VoTE.,S. -NUT 11GARD NeR Ews-r: tk`6 aole- 00 sale, LO' Q5. e•nc MOST -'t GO-I- r>it 'BIGGrc.ST "Then you don't believe in busi- ness men getting together." "I don't say that. But I do be- lieve that one inch of advertising avill bring in more business than four banquets." - Wife—"Oji, I'm so sleepy! Is every- thing shut up for the night?" Rue, band—"That depends on you. Every- thing else is." Dentist—"Will you have gas before I pull your tooth madam?" She (in- dignantly)—"You don't suppose I'm going to let you tinker with my teeth in the dark, do you?" The End of a Beautiful Friendship. ydttGu ti �1�� � oGcoi d „. Ito R''f �.1i 0 nea \� r=: ii.:"I'1111111111111111 Irl • 4 vi .44 4