Zurich Herald, 1944-02-03, Page 3THIS CURIO
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SENEOR./ PITS
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THE EYE AND THE
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THE SNAKE TO FIND
A FOE IT CANNOrF
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BY E',4S7' IN 1580, TRUE'.
NORTH iN I665, NORTH
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LATER, 'THEY SWUNG BACK
TO
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THE toLE
CHANGES CON71NUAt-LY.
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ARE
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AND ONE FISH
MAY PRODLir"F AS MUCH AS /.5' A,G.,L) NS -
RATTLESNAKES, moccasins and copperheads belting to the
New World tribe of pit vipers, but only recently has definite prog-
ress been made in determining what part these facial pits play in
the snake's life. Now it seems that they are highly developed sense
organs. responding to heat and air vibrations.
SUNDAY
SCHOOL
LESSON
February 13.
JESUS ON THE MOUNTAIN
AND IN THE VALLEY
Mark 9: 2-29
PRINTED TEXT, Mark 9: 2-8
17-25.
GOLDEN TEXT, — I believe;
:help thou mine unbelief. Mark 9 24.
Memory Verse; t=rod . , , carcth for
you. 1 Peter 5: 7.
Time, Autumn A.D. 20.
Place.—The transfiguration took
place on ?,It. Hermon, far in the
north of Palestine; the- healing, of
the demon -- possessed boy took
place near the southern foot of this
Inott ntain.
The Invited Three
"And after. six days Jesus taketh
with hhii, Peter, and James, and
John. and bringeth them up into
a high inountait' apart by them-
selves. And he was transfigured
before them." Our Loicl took with
Hint the three who also were with
Him in the Garden of Gethsemane.
It was while our Lord was in the
act of prayer that he was trans-
figured. The word transfigured
implies more than a change of
mere outward semblance.
The Transfigured Lord
"And his garments, became
glistering exceeding white, so as
no fuller on earth can whiten
thein." The business of a fuller
in ancient times was to cleanse
and whiten linen garments
The Heavenly Visitors
"_end there appeared tinto them
Elijah with Moses: and they ,were
talking with Jesus." We should
carefully note that Peter did not
selfishly ask that a tabernacle
might be built for himself, but
only for his Lord and the two
visitors who had come from the
outer world. Matthew tells us that
they were so awed and afraid that
they could not bear the glory of
the scene. They tvere amazed and
stupefied.
The Voice From Heaven
"And there came a cloud over
shadowing them: and there came a
voice out of the cloud. This is my
beloved Son: hear ye ltim, And
LEADS CANADIANS
141ajt r General Chris Vokes, 30,
of '\Vanni tcg eats Ottawa is in com-
mand of a Canadian division in'
Italy, Ile is Canada's youngest
general, and commanded the 2nd
Infantry Brigade of the 'Canadian
1st Division in Sicily where lie
won the I),S.O.
•
suddenly looking round about, they
saw no one any more, save Jesus
only with themselves." The repre-
sentatives of the Law and the
Prophets depart. The whole scene
was changed in a moment and only
Jesus, as the .disciples had known
Hint, was seen. As the disciples lay
prostrate and stupefied with ter-
ror, and Christ touctud then: and
spoke His word of cheer, they
were relieved of their fears and
lifted up their eyes agate.
The Disciples' Failure
"_\ncl one of the multitude ans-
wered hint Teacher, .. , bring him
unto inc." We have seen the Sav-
iour's compassion; here we see
how great was His furhearanee—
'how long shall I suffer you?' In
kits words—'bring nim unto inc'—
we hear the note of. love, of
authority, of confidence. He did
not turn away in spite of the
faithlessness of those present, but
confident of His inherent power ,to
euro the -hardest :ease calls for the
love to be brought forward.
The Evil Spirit's Work
".\nd they brought hint unto
hint , , , but if Thou cant do
anything, futve compassion 00 us,
aud' help us," ;This was the work
of the evil spirit within tate youth,
When the tict'ii within hits saw
)esus about to work, he snatched
his potter against Christ's
Faith, Not Power
"And Jesus sato unto Lim if
thou const', All things are possible
to stint that bclievcth." The father
had said. '1f Thou canst clo any-
thing'. Jesus says, '[f thou canst
believe.' The question was not, '.[s
there power', but 'Is there faith.'
"Straightway the father of the
child cried out, and said, I believe;
help thou my unbelief." How can
we fully and freely believe? First
we must confess the faith that we
have, as this than (lid, 'filen we
mast appeal to Christ to he helped
against our unbelief, as this man
did. Finally, we mint bring the
case to Christ.
Christ's Healing Power
"And when Jesus saw that a
multitude carne running together
But Jesus took him by the
hand, and raised ]tint up; and he
arose,"
Christ's words center no more
into him shows the completeness
of the miracle and Christ's ease for
the futtu•e of this youth In the
grip of Christ there was power,
healing power The weak ex-
hausted lad found himself pos-
sessed with nctw life and vitality
when his hand was grasped by
Christ, lee was lifted; but even as
Ili was raised he found himself
able to rise with the new strength
which had entered into him.
The. Book Shell .
The Colonel's Lady
By Helen Montgomery
"There may be girls nowadays
who feel poorly equipped to cope
with Army life, but 1 ate a little
vain of my position of Most rg-
nol'ant Army Bride of ,All Time,
and I have no notion of giving it.
up without a fight,"
This is the way the Colonel's
Lady, Helen Montgomery (Jones)
begins her story of • life as an
Army wife; the most amusing
bookwe have seen in many
year,
3Vlarried in 1924, when Lieuten-
ant Jones was just graduated from,
West Point, they spent a short
time at, their first army post in
the United States and then sailed
for China. Despite domestic
crises precipitated by their lack
of knowledge of the Chinese
lal,guage —• on one occasion they.
were served "fried eggs and
cream cheese" instead of "frogs
legs and green peas" — they were
enchanted with the land and its
people.
After :their return to America
the Jones were moved from one
post to another, struggling al-
ways to snake a lieutenant's pay
do for themselves and their
three children, In 1935 the tide
turned, Lieutenant Jones became
Captain Jones and they started up
the ladder that has ended in a
Colonelcy.
o The Colonel's Lady .. By Helen.
Montgomery ... The Oxford Uni-
versity Press , , . Price $3.00.
Battling Basutos
Basutos who are greatly es-
teemed as fighting men in our
African army, have one big "d '-
feet"
feet" which will tickle niilitar
men greatly. :they actually love
drilling so much that they do it
their spare time as amuse-
ment.
The result is that, to find suit-
able punishment for minor de-
linquencies, C.O.'s have solemnly.
to forbid the offenders to take
part in any drills, regular, extra
or voluntary. It sounds very odd,
but the fact is officially vouched.
for.
Skip -Bombing
The new technique of skip-
bogbombingsuccess
llbin
• was b10 to
1
g
in the battle of the Bismarck
Sea and in the Mediterranean,
says the New York Times. Skip -
bombing is a cross between dive
SHORT-CUT ON THE R
AD TO ROME
At an unnamed Italian port Allied troops file aboard an invasion ship enroute to the surprise landing be -
bind the German lines, south of Route. Expecting a bitterly opposed landing, Lieut Gen. Mark Clark's
forces were themselves surprised when the beachhead was established with very little resistence.
bombing and shelling: Sometimes
the bomb is awned to bounce on
the water and ricochet into a
ship's side, and sometimes the
bomb is dropped earlier so that
it bounces, falls into the sea and
strikes the target below the wa-
ter line. In a third method the
bomb is released at a higher
level close to the ship to strike
before a vertical dropping posi-
tion is attained. At Pantelleria
low-flying planes skipped bombs
into caves which were used as
underground hangars.
The Husky
The husky is a dog native to
northern North America from
Alaska to Labrador. He is usually
wolf -gray in color (indeed, he has
tone wolf blood ha him) and is
much used for a draft and pack
animal.
The name husky is said to be
derived from an Algonquin Indian
word. for eskimo. In the early days
the white Missionaries called the
Labrador natives "huskemaws," a
form of the word esquimaux. Cu-
riously enough, the name husky
Iva) first applied to the natives
the selves and only later on came
to a identified with the eskimo
do s.
CESINICLES
of GI GER FARM
By
Gwendoline P.
*
Clarke
TH E
If this war teaches us anything
at all it certainly should crake us
realize how interdependent every
country, every race, every indus- ,,
try and every individual is upon
the rest of the world. It is true
from the highest to the lowest.
No titan—or nation—can live unto
himself alone. 'We find evidence of
that every clay—in the home, on
the farm, on the battlefield and
on the sea. And so often it is the
little things that count — little
people, little jobs and little boats.
Yes, especially little boats.
* 0
Do you remember the scene itt
"Mrs. Miniver" where the little
boats rescued the men from Dun-
kirk? Little boats—not battle-
ships or destroyers, but small, un-
important pleasure Yachts., and
fishing smack;. And do you real-
ize how dependent we still 'are
upon the little boats for the safety
of our loved ones and for the ship-
ment of everything they need on
the battlefront. No, it isn't the
little boats that carry the inen
and supplies, but it is the little
boats that Leake it possible for
the bigger boats to ride the seas
with their precious cargoes,
0
All these thoughts have come
to me as a result of some verses
I received last week, They were
sent by a roaster of this column
who, apparently, wishes to remain
anonymous, Isere is the poem:
"THE HOUSEMAIDS OF
SEA"
By .David B. Cunningham
The little boats of the fishing
fleet,
Emily, Susan- and Jane,
Sail out with steadfast hearts to
meet
Danger and death and pain,
Not theirs to battle the great Graf
Spee,
But they nu:st Softly tread,
As they keep the mine -strewn
lades free
From, Penzance
sea
to Malin Head.
They proved their
ago,
'When Drake was
Spain,
And now from
Flow,
They prove it
As, out where
mine floats,
They gamble with
life --
The little salt -lipped fishing -boats
Iri•otn Grimsby, Hull and Fife.
They seek their safety on bonded
knees,
For they see their duty plain,
And sweep the floors of the coast-
wise seas—
Emily, Susan and Jane.
That poem almost makes me
hoittesick. I ran see those little
boats -not as they aro new but
as they used to be. 1 can see the
valour long
matched with
Devon to Scapa
once again.
the lurking sea -
death • and
herring boats along the quay at
Yarmouth . . . trawlers coming
into the dock at Harwich and
little boats with red sails off the
coast of Somerset — "red sails in
the sunset."
*
Oh well, this is 1044, and we are
a long way from England — and
on a farm, and we do find a fete
little things to keep us occupied
front daylight to dark. Last week
it was things like cleaning stove-
pipes and chimneys. You see we
have finally come to the end of
that soft coal I have done so
much talking about so we really
went after those pipes in a big
way and then while I was clean-
ing flues and stoves Partner was
scraping the cltinuiey. I wish you
could have seen the pair of us
when we were through'. And ac-
tually, we didn't have any Callers.
Three times I went over the din-
ing-room
in-
ine room floor on my hands and
knees—twice to wash it and once
to wax it. And after that I 'scrub-
bed the kitchen floor. The next
day I wouldn't have gone down
on my knees for a fortune. That
job done I set up, a quilt for the
Red. Cross and invited some
friends in to help with the work.
We didn't get it finished so that
will be another job for this week.
* * *
We are still enjoying the most
marvellous weather. It almost
seems too good to be true — we
keep wondering what has happen-
ed to Canada—"Our Lady of the
Snows". Some farmers are begin-
ning to shake their heads—there
is a water-shortage—and what is
going to happen to the wheat and
clover? That is what every farm-
er would like to know, but what-
ever is likely to happen, worrying
about it won't stop it.
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