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LESSON
LESSON VII
GOD'S CARE OF HIS PEOPLE.
Psalm 23.
GOLDEN TEXT—Jehovah is my
shepherd; I shall not want. Ps.
23: 1,
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING
Time—David lived through
most of the eleventh century B.C.
This psalm has no date; some
place it early in his life, and
some late in his life; tentatively
we might say that it could have
been written about 1040 B.C.
The beauty of this little psalm
consists first in its calm assur-
ance of Jehovah's all -sufficiency;
and second in the simplicity, var-
iety and fullness with which this
assurance is set forth. The essen-
tial thought is felt to be one from
beginning to end, and that
thought it sweet. The infinite
God is mine, and cares for me,
provides for me, is with me, Ev-
ery blessing named appears as 'a
personal gift. It is this intense
personality which so greatly en-
dears he psalm. And then there
is a satisfying conclusion: it is
a consummation, which delights
because of the feeling of home -
longing to which it appeals, ana
which it assures of satisfaction.
Jehovah in this psalm is Sheph-
erd, Guide, Host — relation to
whom as sheep, traveller, guest,
is easily imagined by every
quickened soul.
What the Shepherd Does For Us
Ps. 23: 1. Jehovah is my shep-
herd; I shall not want. If some-
one else were the shepherd, I
might want. But when the Lord
is my shepherd he is able to sup-
ply my needs, and he is certainly
willing to do so, for his heart is
full of love. 2. He maketh me to
lie down in green pastures; Ile
leadeth me beside still waters.
As God has clothed the earth with
verdure of green, because green
is the most restful of all colors
for the eye, so God brings the
soul into green pastures — into
places where the eye of the soul
will be delighted with the things
that it beholds, most of all, the
beauty of the Lord, the love-
liness of Christ, the holiness of
life itself, and the resplendence
of the hope which is set before
us — these wonderful truths al-
ways rest the fevered and weary
soul.
Guide and Restorer
3. He restoreth my soul. Christ
-uses may restorative ministries.
Sometimes it is the word of a
friend or minister. Or it may be
some lovely mood of nature. IIe
guideth me in the paths of right-
eousness, for his name's sake. In
the spiritual life, of which the
psalmist is here speaking, the
word "path" is a very simple,
easily understood symbol of one's
conduct, the manner of one's
life, determined by the things
he does and the things he does
not do. 4. Yea, -though I walk
through the valley of the shadow
of death, I will fear no evil; for
thou art with me; Thy rod and
thy staff, they comfort me. Was
the Lord able to recover the soul
from life's wayside weariness and
hanger? He will equally defend
and keep it amid life's deadliest
dangers. "Thy rod and thy staff"
are not synonymous, for ever the
shepherd of today, though often
armed with a gun, carries two in-
struments of wood, his great oak
club, thick enough to brain a wild
beast, and his staff to lean upon
or to touch his sheep.
Spiritual Joy and Blessing
5. Thou preparest a table be-
fore me in the presence of mine
enemies. In the Lord our God we
are secured against the destruct-
iveness of our yesterdays, the
menaces of today, and the dark-
ening fears of the morrow. Our
enemies are stayed at the door.
We are the Lord's guests, and our
sancturary is inviolable. Thou
hast anointed my head with oil.
This similitude is borrowed from
the usage of an Eastern feast,
in which the welcome of the hot
to his guests is expressed by the
precious unguents with which he
anoints thoni on their entrance
into his home. Our anointing 1
ours in the mind and intention of
God; it is for us to seek it, to
appropriate it, and to allow it to
be the one blessed consciousness
of our life. My cup runneth over.
The cup is a symbol expressing
man's capacity for any particular
experiences, as a cup filled with
suffering, or a cup of joy, Here
it seems to speak of contentment.
The cup symbolizes man's desires
and needs, and the overflowing;
cup—the abundant satisfaction rf
these needs and desires, so that
the man who has the Lord for
his shepherd, and has all the
blessing of which the psalmist bass
just been speaking, knows a lige
filled with contentment, peace
and satisfaction.
Assurance of I•lope
6. Surely goodness and lovin -
kiindness shall fellow me all the
days of my life. Net goodness
"Andy Hardy" Goes Fishing Below Bow Falls,
Canadian Rockies
Sure, it's Mickey himself busy casting for trout in the beautiful.
Bow River below tumbling Bow Falls. He hasn't got one yet, but there's
lots of trout in that river and he'll have one before long or that look
of concentration means nothing. Picture was taken round the end of
July when young Mr. Rooney, on holiday between pictures, was a guest
for several days at the Banff Springs Hotel. —C.P.R. Photo.
alone, for we are sinners needing
forgiveness. Not mercy alone, for
we need many things besides for-
giveness. But each with the other
linked—goodness to supply every
want; mercy to forgive every sin.
God will not break off his kind-
ness, nor suffer his faithfulness
to fail, nor forsake the works of
his hands, for "his mercy endur-
eth forever." And I shall dwell
in the house of Jehovah forever.
I shall be a member of his house-
hold, a member of his .family,
enjoying his protection, holding
communion with him, and subsist-
ing on his bounty. David surely
must be thinking of life beyond
the grave, of fellowship with God
in a heavenly home.
A. commercial treaty was sign-
ed between Norway and Great
Britain as long ago as 1217.
Temper—Your Voice
When angry a person invariab-
ly raises his voice in pitch as well
as in volume. Hundreds of ex-
periments with the human voice
have been conducted by two em-
inent professors, Dr. Grant Fair-
banks and Dr. Wilbert Pron-
ovos, of the State University of
Iowa, in which film and stage
actors as well as business men
and women in all walks of life
have figured. They have discover-
ed that when rage or fear grips
one, the voice goes up a full oc-
tave above the pitch level for
indifference, contempt, or grief.
These three range in the neigh-
bourhood of low C. When actors
portray emotion their voices cov-
er a pitch range •of fully three
octaves.
010 REPORTE
By DAVE ROBBINS
AUTUMN FORECAST
Although this hot weather
keeps us well aware that it is
summer it will not be long until
the cooler fall days, and all the
new programs of the 1941 sea-
son will be making their bows.
This fall will see great changes
in faces and casts, as well as
types of shows, on all the net-
works and major stations.
The public is clamouring for
new radio shows — not some-
thing just done over from the old
pattern, as the Charlie McCarthy
show was. This season will see
Eddie Cantor back on the air
lanes, Fred Allen in a new show
on a new network—and you will
hear many newcomers to radio
taking star parts in the new pro-
grams.
So you can look forward to a
real season of top-notch enter-
tainment this - fall and winter!
A MODEST BEGINNING
Playing stooge to a star is not
always an ignominious role. Nicol-
as Massie is an example. He is
the well-known Montreal tenor
who is frequently heard as guest
soloist with the "Sevillana" pro-
gramme, presented over the CBC
network Saturdays at 8,30 p.m.
He tells this story of his modest
beginning in the world of opera:
He was sitting patiently await-
ing an audition in an agent's of-
fice in Milan. In the sanctum
sanctorum a well-known prima
donna was singing for the agent.
When she cane to her favourite
aria from "Butterfly", she refus-
ed to sing without the aid of a
tenor. The agent knew better
than to cross her, and in desper-
ation he faced the line of aspir-
ants in the waiting room. "A
tenor," he cried—"any -tenor".
Massue answered, sang with the
soprano and when the audition
ended, he, and not the lady, was
handed the contract. The follow-
ing week he made his debut as
the Duke in "Rigoletto."
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS
CBC listeners will have an op-
portunity of following the pro-
gress of the 1940 Canadian Open
Golf Championship tournaments
which are to be played on the
course of the Scarborough Golf
and Country Club. ,The special
events department has arranged
to cover the story in a number
of specially scheduled periods on
three days of the play. Thursday,
August 15, and Friday, August
16, at 1.00 to 1.30 and 7.00 .to
7.15 p.m., EAST; Saturday, Aug-
ust 17, at 1.30 to 200, 6.15 to
6.30 and 6.45 to 7.00 p.m. EAST
are the times announced for the
commentaries, running reports of
the play, and, finally, the deserip-
tion of the Seagram Gold Cup.
T. 0. Wickland and Roy Dil-
worth will handle the broadcasts,
which will be made available
through the use of a double short
wave set-up. Pick transmitters
and Mobile Unit No, 1 will con-
tribute to the technical efficiency
of the broadcasts, so that golf
enthusiasts hundred of miles from
the scene will be able to hear the
top-notch club wielders in their
great moments.
Saving Ontario's
Natural
Resources
(No, 3)
Much has been written about
the passenger pigeon and its dis-
appearance. The best account we
have for the species in Ontario
is by Margaret H. Mitchell in
Contribution No. 7 of the Royal
Ontario Museum of Zoology and I
do not intend to repeat a too
familiar story. But every bit of
evidence we have shows that man
was solely responsible for the ex-
tinction of these birds, In one
year, 1878, at Petoskey, in Mich-
igan, market bunters shipped ov-
er a million pigeons from one
colony. No bird, no matter how
abundant, could stand such de-
struction.
RECORD OF DESTRUCTION
White pine makes the best
lumber of any of our native soft
woods. Formerly it grew in a
great belt across Ontario from.
Lake Huron to the Ottawa. Lum-
bering for this pine started early
in the 19th century. The trees
were made into square timbers
that were floated down our rivers
and shipped around the world.
The only virgin stands of white
pine that remains are in Algon-
quin Park for it took only 60
years to despoil the growth of
centuries.
WE CAN REPLENISH
The record of the destruction
and waste of many of our natural
resources can be duplicated every-
where on the continent. Looking
back we can see the mistakes but
our forbears believed that the
wild life, the forests and the fish-
es would last forever. This was
quite understandable but we
should endeavor to avoid similiar
optimism. We can replenish many
of our depleted resources but it
will take a long time.
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THE SPRING WHEAT THAT
CAME THROUGH
Winter -killing of Fall Wheat
is one of the commonest argu-
ments against seeding this im-
portant crop, writes Pref. Henry
G. Bell, fo the Ontario Agricul-
tural College, Guelph. Winter -
killing may be occasioned by poor
drainage, continued drought in
fall, dessication or drying out due
to cold blistering winds in late
winter and early spring, or star-
vation due to deficiency in plant -
food. A well-nourished Wheat
crop will usually survive low tem-
peratures and drying winds of
winter and early spring. .
Ten Fall Wheat growers in the
Niagara Peninsula reported little
difference in appearance between,
fertilized and unfertilized Wheat
last fall. In spring they reported
an average winter -kill of un-
fertilized Wheat amounting to
24%, but only 8% winter -kill of
adjoining fertilized Wheat.
AN OUTSTANDING SURVIVAL
One outstanding survival oc-
curred on the farm of Mr. Mor-
tison Comfort, St. Anns. Last fall
as winter set in, Mr. Comfort re-
ported the unfertilized Wheat
about 80% normal, and the un-
fertilized about 40%. His soil
test showed the field to be acid
in reaction (5. Op H) medium
well supplied with nitrate nitro-
gen and potash, but very low in
available phosphoric acid. Fertil-
izer was applied at 250 lbs. per
acre to half of the area. This
spring the Agricultural Repre-
sentative of Lincoln County grad-
ed the fertilized area 90% norm-
al, and the unfertilized 30%.
The average yields and weights
per bus. for fertilized and unfer-
tilized Wheat in the 1939 tests
were as follows:—
Fertilized-43.9 bus. per A.
weighing 59.0 lbs. per bus.; Un-
fertilized -33.1 bus per A. weigh-
ing 58.0 lbs. per bus.; Gain from
fertilizer -10.8 bus. per A. and
1.0 lbs, increase in Wt, Per Bus.
One -Sided Beings
Limbs on the right side of the
human body are nearly always
bigger than those on the left.
Camp Hair -Splitter
The Americans claim to turn
out the finest machine tools azid
is George G. Webber, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, whose steel blocks are
finished so perfectly that when
placed together they stick as
though welded, and must be slid
apart. Recently he was engaged
in a job whore he had to work
to eight millionths of an inch, a
measurement so fine that it is dif-
ficult to imagine. It is like split-
ting a hair, and then subdividing
it eight or ten times, When work-
ing to such limits, Mr. Webber
takes into consideration the heat
of his body and the light thrown
off by the electric bulbs in his
workshop.
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SEA PRESSURE increases at the rate of atton to the square inch
with each mile of depth. Off the island .of Mindanao, in the Philip-
pines group, soundings of 35,400 feet have been reported.
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HORIZONTAL
1, 6 Pictured
screen star.
10 Device for
tracing.
12 Father.
14 Star.
15 Behold.
16 Minute
organism.
19 Nut covering.,
20 Argot.
21 Mohammedan
nobles.
23 Wrath.
24 To perturb.
26 Membranous
bag.
29 Transposed.
30 Going before.
32 Sound of
pleasure.
33 Bulk.
34 Uncommon.
36 Eternally.
37 Fashion.
39 To careen.
40 Scolding
person.
42 Height of a
pei son.
GLAMOROUS STAR
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45 Distinctive
theory.
47 Stream.
49 Ampitheater •
center.
50 Tennis point.
51 Italian river.
52 River
obstruction.
54 To card wool.
56 Measure of
area.
58 She is
by birth.
59 She is a —
or skillful
actress.
VERTICAL
2 Right (abbr.)
3 White fur.
4 Stain of
disgrace.
5 Land
measure.
6 Grain (abbr.),
7 Road (abbr.)
8 Stair post.
9 Aroma.
11 Eatable grass
growths.
disposition,
17 Pool.
18 Amidic.
19 Small nail.
22 Repeated,
24 Accented
syllables.
25 Growing out.
27 Lava.
28 To captivate.
30 Wages.
31 Three.
33 Wise men„
35 Poem.
37 Distant.
38 Payment
demand.
41 In. a row.
43 Berets.
44 Chestnut.
46 To close with
wax.
48 Queer.
50 Eucharist
vessel.
51 Postscript.
53 Sloth.
55 Above.
57 Note in scale.
POP—If It's a Matter of Age
By J. MR.LAR WATT
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