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All hail to Daniel's band! Many mighty men are lost, Daring not to stand, Who for God had been a host . By joining Daniel's band. P. P. Bliss. S. S. LESSON FOR JUNE 9th, 1929 Lesson Topic—The Story of The Rechabites. Lesson Passage—Jeremiah 35:5-11. Golden Text—Jeremiah 35:6. 1 What can we learn from Scripture of the origin of these "Rechabites"? They were the descendants of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses, who, when he left Sinai on his wilderness journey, invited him to go with them saying, "We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it to you; come thou with us and we will do thee good." Later on they under the name of Kenites "went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilder- ness of Judah." There they remain- ed for long years until the days of Saul when the word of the Lord was brought by Samuel to Saul saying "Go and smite Amalek." When about to do this Saul said unto the Kenites, "Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites lest I de- stroy you with them; for ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt." One of these tribes of Kenites became known as the Rechabites and later on had as leader Jonadab who lived in the days of Jehu, king of Israel. He must have been a strong character for he gave his people some very strict rules for their mode of life. Centuries afterwards in the days of Jeremiah a band of these same Ken- ites had taken refuge within the city of Jerusalem and is used of God to teach a lesson of obedience to the in- habitants of that city. Jeremiah was told by the Lord to "Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink." This the prophet did and when he had them together in the chosen place, he set before the sons of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups and I said unto them, "Drink ye wine." It was a severe testing time for these descendants of Jonadab. For over three hundred years they had made it the rule of their tribe to "1/ve in tents and to obey and do according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us." One express command was "ye shall drink no wine, neither ye nor your sons forever." Their obedience was given to one long since dead. It was a perfect obedience for they said, "We have obeyed the voice of Jona- dah the son of Rechab our father in all that he hath charged us." Then their obedience was not by fits and starts. It was a constant thing. It was "all your days." This object lesson was used, to teach Judah that obedience was bet- ter' than sacrifice. No doubt Judah had many more rites and ceremonies to their credit than these wandering sons of Rechab, yet they were more loyal to the word of their ancestor than the chosen people of God were to Him, and Jeremiah was used of God to bring this home to the men of Judah and Jerusalem. God told Saul that "to obey is bet- ter than sacrifice." Jesus told his disciples, "If ye love me keep my commandments." It is obedience all through the Old Testament and the same in the New. What then does God require of us in the matter of abstaining from the use of wine: IA Romans 14:21 we read, 'It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak." Let us pause and ask how many, many thousands have been made to stumble because of the wine cups and let us resolve that "If drinking make my brother to offend, I will drink no wine while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend."—'(1 Cor. 8:13). c- o:ligheet 9Made in Canada E.W.NO ALUM GILLETT CO. LTD. TORONTO, CAN. WORLD MISSIONS The Fight Against Drink By R. Walter Wright Just now in the Dominion of Can- ada a strong effort is being made to enlist the boys and girls and young people in the fight against the use of strong drink. This fight has been going on for a very, very long time, and in many countries. In the Bible we read of many who abstained from the use of liquor; the Rechabites had a prohibitory law, and some of the most emphatic warnings are given against the drinking of wine and strong drink. In India Manu, a great lawgiver, decreed that no one should have any- thing to do with a drinker, and their religions, Buddhism and Brahaman- ism, bound all to abstain from drink. This was likewise the law of Moham- med, who spread his religion over many countries and who has so many millions of followers to -day. When Christians went to India, it is said they took with them the Bible and made five. million converts, but they also took the bottle and made five million drunkards. In ancient Per- sia, Egypt, Greece and Rome, drunk- enness was fought against, often with little success, and great evils were the result. In Canada people have been trying for a long time to save the country from the ruin caused by intoxicating liquors, and many different laws have been made. What is called government control is now being largely tried; it surely is not a sue cess, and we must have something latter if the are to ,really control the evils of drink. There is one thing every boy can do, that Is, resolve never to drink Mmee% or encourage others to do so'. If all boys and .gMe and young, ,people Would do this, a would soot be a ober nnatioie:nil Mee — , As fpr Tod, to use his owe wards, "ho strutted his own stuff." Tad be. � gnu hi shriliiuxat career as a $5 -a -ween office boy in the oiiice of the San Francisco Bulletin, and like other people lee went to New York. He was more interested in sport than iii arty other human activity and the ring was his special hobby. It is said that there was no better-known man on Broadway. 'But when he walked a- long Broadway he was combining business with pleasure. Winsor llla- cay, who shared a room with him in the Journal office, remarked to Lou Skuce that Tad was the hardest working cartoonist in the business. Nevertheless he always seemed to have time to talk to anybody and to entertain visitors. Over his desk was an electric fan, with three blades each bearing a number. Tad called it his roulette wheel. He would set it go- ing, then turn it off and take bets as to which blade would be on top rwhen the fan ceased revolving. To suggest the temperamental affin- ity 1?etween Tad and Lardner, Mr. Seldes, an acknowledged authority on what he called the lively arts, quotes from Lardners' "The Big Town," the following passage describing life at a summer resort: "Saturday nights ev- erybody puts on their evening clothes like something was going to happen. But it don't. Sunday morning the husbands and bachelors get up earlier than usual to go to their real busi- ness, which is golf. The womenfolks are in full possession of the hotel till Sunday night supper and wives and husbands don't see one another all day long, but it don't seem as long as if they did. Most of them's ap- proaching their golden jubilee and haven't nothing more to say to each other than you could call a novelty. The husband may make the remark Sunday night that he would have broke one hundred and twenty if the caddy hadn't of handed him a spoon when he asked for a nut pick, . and the wife'll probably reply that she's got to go in town some day soon and see a chiropodist." CARTOONIST FAMED AS SLANG CREATOR "Tad," the•famous cartoonist, whose name was Thomas Aloysius Dorgan, died recently, and we think that the Hearst papers, for which he had work- ed for many years, will find it a good deal more difficult to replace him than if they had to mourn the passing of Arthur Brisbane, his discoverer. Gil- bert Seldes compared him with Ring Lardner, in The New Republic. A sardonic irony was at the heart of this genius who was generally rated as a mere wisecracker. His drawings were from , the life but the people whom he lampooned were in ignorance of the fact and laughed heartily in- stead of becoming furious or covering themselves with becoming blushes. There must be Toronto newspaper - readers acquainted with his work, for we believe it has been published in the Star, if we are not mistaken. "In- door Sports" was, perhaps, his most famous comic. It dealt with a couple of central figures making pompous asses of themselves in a restaurant or a barber shop, while observers in the background made the humorous comments. "Silk Hat Harry" and "Judge Rummy,"' the later inspired by the Thaw trial, were notable con- tributions to current newspaper hum- or. But to those who do not know Tad we shall introduce him, no doubt sensationally, as the author of such phrases as "Yes, we have no banan- as"; "23, Skidoo"; "Nobody Home", "Solid Ivory," "Chin Music," "Whad- dyamean, , ya lost your dog, "You tell 'em," "You said it," "Apple sauce" and "The first hundred years are the hardest." He is also credited with having coined the phrases "Cake Eat- ers," "Drug •Store Cowboys," "Storm and Strife," "Dumb Dora," "Nickel Nurser," "The Cat's Meow," and the "Cates Pajamas." It was Tad who first asked, "Who cares for the care- taker's daughter when the caretaker is busy taking care?" It was Tad who made popular the word a Benny," meaning overcoat; "Skimmer," mean- ing hat; "Cheaters," for glasses; and "dogs" for shoes or feet. Of all the billions of people who have inhabited this earth it was Tad who first said, "For crying out loud." We do not vouch for the fact that he was the actual coiner of all the words and phrases we have mentioned, though he is credited with them, but undoubt- edly it was he who popularized them. We do not suppose that any of them will survive. Some already have passed into the limbo of outworn slang. Nobody now says, "Yes, we have no bananas," though the phrase may be remembered because it was the name of a popular song which in turn was a brazen plagiarism of a notable piece of classical ullusic. We no longer hear of "skidoo" or "23 for yours." Ex -Governor Smith, in the course of his presidential campaign, did something to abolish "applesauce" by showing his preference for "bol- oney,'%which is a synonym. But we set forth the it}ventions of Tad to show the exceeding fertility of his mind. He invented more slang phras- es than any other man in his genera- tion. His drawings, too, were always original. Even on those occasions when they did not score, or, as he would say, did not click, it was Tad wb'o failed to click. It was not some- body failing to click in his effort to imitate somebody else. He did not, like Bud Fisher, for instance, send his time and annoy his readers by drawing comic pictures for some- body's else's Jokes.' Underneath his drawing was sound craftsmanship, al- though the maiming of his right hand made it necessary for him to learn to draw with his left. He left it to others to imitate him. ete unaches on ones Absorbime will qulckly and thoroughly deem oft a bunch or bruits on your horse's ankle,hock,, stifle knee or throat 'tlrithout laying him oil work during treattnent. This famous antiseptic liniment des not blister or remove hair. 62.50 per bottle—at dri* stats or general merchants. A Booklet on the horse sent free. , 76 W. it Young, glee Le/Glee ffildd., Montrdti BOOK LOVERS' CORNER (By Marjorie M. Powell) "Forever Free" A novel of Abraham Lincoln by Honore Willsie 1VT'orrow. Those whose knowledge of Abra- ham Lincoln and the Civil War is meagre, will find in this book a pleasant and easy way of adding to it. While it covers only two years of Lincoln's life—two years in the White House—a deep insight into his character, that of his wife and his as- sociates is given. The man is made very human and the woman more human than in many accounts. The early love af- fair of Lincoln and Ann Rutledge is dwelt upon so often in other accounts that it is interesting to know what a satisfying and happy life he had with Mary Todd. She was a constant inspiration to him. He neglected her, admitted it, 'but loved her tenderly. And she understood him perfectly. Once she says to him: "You have no illusions about yourself or anyone else. There lies the basis of your great strength." • He, too, realizes and understands his wife. "No one of all the human beings that he knew had finer possibilities than his wife or less chance for happiness." It will come as a surprise to many that the emancipation of the slaves was not a moral issue as much as a military and political one. It was a sop held out to England and France to remain neutral and also to incon- venience the South. "That as Lincoln saw it was his task—to focus all the quarrelling or indifferent forces of the North on one purpose—that of saving the Union." A southern gentlewoman who goes to the Lincoln household as a spy ex- presses the southern attitude toward slavery: "If I go into this thing I shall do so for just one reason. I believe that the institution of slavery is seriously menaced. 'I want to keep my slaves and all that slavery gives to the South. I believe in slavery be- cause I think it produces the finest type of civilization." It is difficult to realize that this was the attitude of thousands of people in the United States 68 years ago. We are given many penetrating glimpses into the mind and charac- ter of the man. He had a Marvellous capacity for admitting himself in the wrong and facing issues. "Those long wrestling matches of the spirit were milestones of his maknificent but em- inently human growth." Pettiness was not in him. "I've made it a rule all my life," he said, "if people wouldn't turn out for me. I'd turn out for them. You avoid collisions that way." No one was more conscious than Lincoln of the weaknesses of his char- acter. His "malice toward none" is rather overdone in his tolerance of the insubordination of McClell the head of the army. Lincoln sa ." "I don't do the important things till circum- stances force me. I reckon it re- quires a convulsion of nature to get me going"; but once started no con- sideration could stop him. His wife says: "I can influence his manners; I can rouse his ambition; but in twen- ty years I have never ll'een able to get him to revise a moral decision, once made." It is glimpses such as these that make the great historical character a living personality to us. The authoress worked seven years on her subject and consulted inhum- era'ble books, diaries arid documents, thus giving us a great deal of his- torical accuracy in a very pleasant form. The Four Feathers. By A. E. W. Mason. Although this book was published in 1902, it is as absorbing in its interest now as then. Harry Feversham, son of General Feversham, and descendant of a long line of soldiers, is himself a soldier, and 'while he has always discharged. his duty faithfully, has always been obsessed by the fear that he Might at some time fail and play the con'nrrd. He receives unofficial ipnfoririat$on that hitt regiment is to be orde' ed out to South Africa and before this know- ledge is made public he scan& in We o. ora of resignation. Ant silt this time he has become engaged to Ethne Eustace, a charming Irish girl. At a ball at her home in Ireland, mail is , handed to Feversham and he opens in her presence a box. Three white feathers flutter out with the cards of three members of his regi- ment. When Ethue realizes their sig- nificance and Feversham does not spare herself before her, ' she breaks off a feather from her fan• and adds it to the other three. Feversham goes about redeeming these feathers and one 'by one the senders gladly take them 'back, for Feversham goes through such mental and physical suffering, performs such acts of courage and valor that a111 thoughts sof cowardice are dispelled— it has never really existed except in Feversham's own mind; but it is con- quered there too. The story of the redemption of these feathers is very thrilling. "The Four Feathers," by A. E. W. Mason, is published by Macmillans. A uxuFry Tire? Yes and No I If you drive a car for one year only, Royal Masters are an extravagance. They last too long. If you drive a car as long as the average man does, Royaii Masters are a positive economy. One set will see you through.. The' Royal Master is the best tire ever made — built with deliberate disregard for costs. The tread is double thick. Side-walls are made with extra plies of web fabric, guarded agar scuffing. Not one Royal Master in a thousand will ever pare - sure. 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