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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1931-12-25, Page 2w,, ''V AFTERNOON 1i?azai•lton, Gock1rioh, Out-) fel Hamilton, Goderieii,' Ont.) 11 reign where'!er the sun • is successive journeys run; dorm stretch from shore to re moons shall wax and wane no More. Isaac Watts. PRAYER r Thy gracious guidance in our es through the year now closing give Thee thanks. May Thy rich arcing be upon us. All for Jesus' Amen. . LESSON FOR DECEMBER 27th Lesson Topic—Review; The Spread :of Christianity in Europe. Golden Text—Revelation 11:15. • October 4th—The Macedonian Call. —Acts 16:6-15; Romans 15:18-21. —Matthew 28:19. St. Paul accompanied by Silas set out from Antioch to visit the church- es they had established. Reaching Troas Paul had a vision in which a span appeared beckoning them to go over into Macedonia. They set out at once for Philippi where on the Sab- bath ,Daythey joined the small com- pany of Jews at worship. Here Lydia gave earnest heed to Paul's words and under the influence of God her heart was opened to accept the gospel. She was the first convert in Europe and thus became "the mother of us all." October 11—Paul in. Philippi. —Acts 16:22-34; Philippians 4:4-7. --Philippians 4:4. Years he preached and cane to hear him. November 29th -.-.1 awl's Letter to Philemon- -Philemon 4:2O. —Galatians 3:28. Paul into -day's lesson addresses a personal letter to Philemon on a very delicate subject and he uses his inti- mate knowledge of the character for beneficence. Philemon possesses to pave the way for the favorable recep- tion of his request. A good-for-noth- ing run -away slave has under Paul s ministry become a Christian and offers to return to his master. To that end Paul pleads for him giving his bona that he will no longer be unprofitable and that the money stolen will be re- funded. December 6th—Rome and Beyond. —3 Timothy 4:6-18. —2 Timothy 4:7. Paul writing to Timothy from his prison house in Rome consoles him on the bereavement that is so near at hand—for he feels sure his release from prison will soon come by way of his death. He not only consoles but encourages Timothy to imitate him in his good fight. He touches on his sorrow at' being deserted by friends and warns him against one who did him much evil. Then he becomes ex- ultant at the thought of what awaits him. The Lord who has never failed him will deliver him and bring him into His heavenly kingdom. December 13th—John's Vision on Patmos. —Revelation 1:4-18. —Revelation 1:17, 18. Even though exiled from his fellow church -members John spent the Lord's Day in fellowship with His Lord and in to -day's lesson is recorded a vision that appeared to him—the glorified Redeemer. The effect this had upon John was to cause him to fall down as dead. But the voice as of a trum- pet roused him and commissioned him to write what he saw and send it to the Seven Churches. The second remarkable conversion through Paul's influence in Philippi took place in a prison into which Paul and Silas had been thrust. Bruised and bleeding and chained they were in no enviable condition yet their spir- its rejoiced in God the Lord and they sang praises at midnight. An earth- quake loosened their chains and open- ed the prison doors. So sure was the jailor that his prisoners had escaped that he was on the point of killing Himself. Paul's voice restrained him and in his fear and astonishment he cried out, "What must I do to be sav- ed?" 'I3is further intercourse with the Apostles resulted in the baptism of himself and family. October 18—Paul in Thessalonica and Berea. —Acts 17:1, 5-11, 1 Thessalonians 2:7-12. —Pslam 119:18. Here as in Philippi opposition met the preaching of the gospel. The Apos- tles escaped but the converts were ar- rested and charged with welcoming into their ,house. "These that have turned the world upside down." On leaving Thessalonica they went to Berea and as usual went to the syna- gogue. Those who heard them "re- ceived the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." October 25.—Paul in Corinth. —Acts 18:1-11. —1 Corinthians 13:13. After leaving ,Athens, Paul went to Corinth and at first preached to Jews and Greeks in the synagogue. When they became blasphemous he left them and turned to the Gentiles. While thus engaged he had a vision in which Christ charged him to persevere in his work in that city for He had much people there. He encouraged him by telling him also that He would be with him directing his work. November lst—World's Temperance Lesson. —Galatians 5:13-26. —Ephesians 5:18. Paul in this lesson makes a list of the sins of the flesh and warns against indulgence in such saying that event- ually that "they that do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Over against this list is one setting forth the fruits of the spirit which come from crucifying the flesh with the affections and lusts. November 8th—Paul in Ephesus. —Acts 19:8-20. —Ephesians 5:11. Ephesus, the seam of the great god- dess Diana, was also at that time the devil's c}fief seat so far as magic art was concerned. Paul made it his cen- tre for three years and .by preaching, teaching and miracle working over- threw the pagan practices to such an extent that many who had practised magic art collocted their books and burned them in the presence of all. •'Thus did the word of the Lord in- crease and prevail mightily." November 15fh—Paul in Jerusalem. —Acts 22:27-39, 22:17-22. —Acts 22:15. St. James advised St. Paul on his etrrival in Jerusalem to set at rest the false accusation that he had taught the Jews to reject the Law of Moses. This he did by performing the cere- mony prescribed for the Nazarites. Some of his enemies from Ephesus saw him in company with an uncir- cume3ed Greek and supposing they had been in the Temple together, rais- ed a great cry and the crowd seized Paul and sought to kill him. He was rescued by the chief captain of the Roman guards who proceeded to take him into the castle. When on the stairs he asked permission to speak to the people. He told them of his conversion but when he said God had re�onimissioned him to preach to the Centiles their rage again burst forth. Again the Captain rescued him from theangry mob and for the time being be escaped with his life. %1' ember 22nd—Paul in Rome. Aets 25:16.24; 30, 31. ttJ1t reaching Rome Paul was given lierrriissibtY to lodge in his own hired duSe iliatead id being put in prison Oifitial accusation had been gditYst trim, He himself took i s tie • and called the chief feet; WM and to them. he .: ` They . told hint they *v'urd about him but .acct spoketr againat o +fear hif9t cofteern. bus :qua wad t* taught aj11 that rl THE gURON EXPORT R several days. Then the birds are forced to take to wing in the gath- ering darkness and when they light on the loft are induced speedily to enter it for their feed. In the course of a few weeks the bird learns two things, one that it will not be fed until it is dark and the second that it will be fed as soon as it en- ters the loft. When this lesson has been learned the bird is taken a hun- dred yards or so from the loft, which, however, is visible, and then releas- ed. It flies immediately to the loft, enters and is fed. This is repeated day after day with the distance slight- ly increasing and the bird being re- leased later and later. In a month or so the bird is flying home in the dark from a point a mile distant. The distance is increased an eighth of a mile at a time until . the two- mile station is reached, and then the jumps are of a quarter of a mile each "until the maximum radius of the bird is attained." But what that maximum radius is, the writer provokingly fails to say. The experimenters have found that night -flying birds are extremely dif- ficult to settle in a new loft. Most racing pigeons, if moved a short distance from their old home, are not hard to settle, although some of them are always erratic in this respect and will frequent both lofts. As a rule the better and more in- telligent the pigeon is, the easier it is to establish in a new home. But with these night -flying birds, it is different. The army lofts at Fort Monmouth, N.J., were moved half a mile, and the night -flying birds were bred in them for a season. Then the attempt was made to fly them to their new loft. 'The birds were liberated but did not return. They were found roosting on the ground at the exact spot where the loft had formerly stood. The signi- ficance of this incident is that the birds had obviously no landmark to guide them. They flew not to a building but to a space of bare ground. Moreover when these old birds were trained with their young- sters they induced them to accompany them to the 'vacant site of the old loft. December 20th—The Supreme Gift of Love. —1 John 4:7-19. —1 John 4:11. The greatest thing to be said about love is this—love is grace. What can love do for sin but spend itself in re- demption. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlast- ing life." Pigeons Are Trained To Fly in the Dark Toward the end of the war some experiments were made with homing pigeons to discover what ability they had to fly in the darkness; and so encouraging were the results that most countries, we presume, which maintain military pigeon lofts have continued them. 'Certainly, that has been the cause in the United States and a story in the New York Times tells of the production of what is practically a new strain of racing pigeon namely, one that will fly in the darkness. This we regard as an extraordinary feat, and should inter- est a far wider circle than pigeon breeders when it is appreciated. Hitherto it has been an accepted fact that part of the mystery of a pigeon's ability to find its way to its loft over long distances resides in the bird',+ eye. Blinded pigeons seem to be •vithout the homing instinct and in the dark pigeons are less able to see than human beings. They are prob- ably about the same as chickens in this respect, and everybody knows, if only from the comic papers or the po- lice court news, how easy it is to rob a henroost at night. Similarly, pigeons in a darkened loft can he picked from their perches before they see the hand approach- ing them. A cat or even a rat enter- ing a loft at night would have no dif- ficulty in seizing a bird. Even when it is light enough for the pigeon to see a moving object it manifests the strongest dislike for leaving its perch, probably because it cannot see where to fly, and probably, too, because it does not trust itself to fly up again. But in the war pigeons were trained to fly several hundred yards back to their movable lofts. We have al- ways taken it for granted that they distinguished the loft because of some colored light or other landmark that would be visible in the darkness. But the American pigeons apparently are able to fly through the ( darkness without seeing the loft at all, and this they can do over a distance of several miles. The article in the Times is vague on this point, but we have no hesitation in saying that if a pigeon can be trained to fly ten miles in the dark to a loft it can- not see when it takes to the wing, it can be trained to fly 100 miles. In this respect the pigeon is like the legendary saint who, according to trustworthy accounts, was able to walk a hundred paces with his dis- membered head tucked under his arm. A skeptic once said that he believed all the details of this story' except the first step. Now a year is a gen- eration so far as a pigeon is concern- ed, and a young pigeon in the year of its birth is capable of flying 300, miles or even more in favorable conditions. So since the war the experimenters have had twelve generations of pig- eon at their disposal. A lot can b, accomplished by skilful breeders in the course of twelve generations. If they began with birds that showed any special aptitude for night flying they would certainly intensify this ap- titude until it became almost an in- stinct in the twelfth generation, and one would expect to find the distance flown correspondingly lengthened. That is how the pigeoneers of the United States Army Signal Corps worked. By selection they have pro- duced birds that will perform feats that even expert pigeon men would have declared impossible a few years ago. The training of the birds begins when they are about a month old. At dusk they are permitted to walk but of their coop and then are sum- nie ed in for a feed. This process. alt l+ tieated evening after evening for One Famous Battle Won By Officers Is anybody interested in learning why the southerners gained their earlier victories over the northerners in the American Civil War? No? Well, then we must be considered as talking to ourself. It is a historic fact that the first important battle of the war. Bull Run. ended with a Northern defeat, and the report of this fight, when it was cabled to England by Dr. W. 'H. (Bull Run) Russell, sug- gested that the southern force.•: would soon over -run the north. It also placed a stigma upon northern valor that took years to remove. The theory was, of course, that the real aristocracy of the nation was in the south and that, naturally enough, the south would defeat the northern clodhoppers and counter jumpers if opposed to them in anything like equal numbers. But we gather from an article in The American Mercury by Lloyd Lewis, that the victory at Bull Run and whatever other victories particularly the earlier victories, that the confederates won, was due to their generals. The article in question deals with General Winfield Scott who had seen considerable military service when the war broke out and was, as a mat- ter of fact, commander-in-chief of the American army, Scott seems to have suffered from sex inhibitions and other horrors which did not permit him to take a realistic view of every- day affairs. Apparently he did not realize that a break between the :states over secession was bound to come. He continued to make appoint- ments and promotions without re- gard to this probable clash. The fact that he was a southerner'himself had no doubt something to do with his partiality for southern officers and his staff was overloaded with then. But politically he had no particular sympathy- for the doctrine of states' rights and at no time had any notion of throwing in his lot with the south- erners. But the fact is that when the war broke out nine -tenths of the best military officers in the United States were .southerners by birth or sym- pathy. A greater natural aptitude for wasting their time in a military career among the southerners may have been responsible for this to some extent. Scott's favorite were Lee, Jefferson Davis, Twigg, Braggs, Beauregard, Ringgold, Van Dorn, Jackson and Pillow, all of whom re- signed from the United States army and fought for the south. Such of- ficers as Grant, Sherman, McClennan, Burnside, Slocum, Hooker and Hal- leck, all of whom were later to dis? tinguish themselves as northern com- manders, had as young officers left Scott's army to see a brighter future in civil life. They felt that only a southerner could aspire to the high- er posts. The war might have been over much sooner had Scott not been blind to political developments, and had he seen to it that only officers of proved northern sympathies were placed in all posts of authority. 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JDALY,SQId by Seaf ®rth Edmund Daly, Service Manager Phone 102 ies, which was more than a third the total force and included not only most of the higher officers but most of the promising youngsters. It in- cluded also the three best field mar- shals—Lee, Joseph E. Johnston and Albert Sidney Johnston. This was a terrible blow to Scott in view of the fact that he had recently+ urged Lin- coln to appoint Lee commander-in- chief of the Union army. So the southerners started with this tremen- dous initial advantage. Every expert knew—which was news to us—that the army whose officers were held in greater esteem by the men would win the first important battle. There was not time for other soldierly qualities to be developed. To most of the men engaged at Bull Bun fighting was a new thing. The experienced men were, as a rule, the officers. And in the northern army at the time there was no such thing as discipline. In many regiments the officers were elected as if they were aldermen. Naturally the authority they dared to exert was slight. Col. Sherman later reported that h i s troops were in virtual mutiny. Nev- ertheless the first rush of the Federal troops drove the Confederates back a mile. It was then that the train- ing of the southern officers asserted itself. They were able to rally their men and make a stand behind Jack- son's division. The Union troops, thinking they had won the battle, broke ranks and many of them went hack to Bull Run to get a drink of water. This, too, gave the southern commanders time to rally their troops. But the northerners were also rallied after a time and made another attack which, they believed, would clinch the victory. Then another southern divis- ion was thrown against them and the retreat toward Washington was be- gun. It was a most disorderly man- oeuvre, but the southerners them- selves were too disorganized to take advantage of it. But Bull tin was a southern victory and credit for it goes not to the soldiers but to the superior discipline that the southern officers were able to impose. Later on when experience had benefitted the Northern leaders they became the eq- uals or even the superiors of those who had taught them about war at Bull Run. The Age Of Ingenuity Travellers in Pullman cars are now being offered "radio pillows," con- taining miniature broadcast receivers that enable them to tune in without disturbing their fellow passengers.— cocktail: an appetizing color that ev- eryone associates with refreshing bev- erages, clear and sparkling appear- ance, easy blending.—Business Week. * * * You may have a new book read to you, while you rest your eyes and take it easy. A reading machine to be put on the market by Radio Corp. of America uses, a strip of talking picture film on which the reading of a complete novel can be recorded on 30 feet of ribbon, art opera on 15 feet, or a symphony concert on 3 feet. You turn the knob and listen to a chapter or two out of the best book of the month, or some of the classics, if you prefer. Next evening, at the same receptive period, the reading may be resumed where you left off, and you take it as slowly or as rapidly as you like.—Mid-West Review. * * * Public Utilities Fortnightly. * * * Coin -in -the -slot typewriters f o r public use in hotels and postal and telegraph offices have been designed by a German firm. Putting money in the slot, a depositor may make 1,000 strokes with the machine. Attached to it is a device counting strokes as they are made, showing the user when he is approaching the end of his n*imber. When 1,000 have been ma& the machine automatically locks until another coin is deposited. --Pop- ular Science. * * * Now comes the electric carillon, a device developed in the workshop of the RCA Victor Company. It con- sists of a series of small steel chimes like those of a household clock. These are struck by tiny hammers actuated by a piano keyboard. The tones are scarcely audible, 'but the vibrations create feeble electric currents which are then amplited millions of times by a vacuum tube. Played from a church tower through giant 1pud speakers, their sound is more power- ful than that of the largest bells in the world. Runs or trills can be play- ed even more rapidly than on a piano, something not possible 'with the old- style chimes, and the notes can be varied to any desired intensity.— World's Work. * * * A company in Louisville got the idea of carrying the manufacture of baking powder biscuits lu.p to the point where they are cut out of the dough; leaving the baking only to be done, as needed, in the home. It sounds fantastic, doesn't it? Yet the idea has succeeded so well that branch factories are being established in several cities. You buy the biscuits (two or three kinds) in vacuum tins, open the can, peel them off, bake them — and have fresh, hot biscuits with no work and almost in no time. --Postage and Mailbag. * =r * The tomato -juice cocktail, popular as a before -dinner or between -meals beverage, is to have a rival in cocktails made ',from cranberries. American Cranberry Exchange, co- operative organization of cranberry growers, has launched the new bever- age, and expects it substantially to increase consumption. Important ad- vantages are claimed for the new "Seaweed Bread" has just made its appearance on the Pacific Coast. Made from the giant kelp plants that grow 50 feet long in beds along the Cali- fornia coast, and recently introduced for the first time upon a commercial scale, it contains iodine and a number of other minerals declared to be use- ful in correcting diet deficiencies. Its odd flavor is said not to be disagree- able. Previously seaweed has been used for feeding cattle. --Popular Sci- ence. * * * The Biological Survey of the De- partment of Agriculture at Washing- ton has developed a rat poison which is not poison to anything but rats. So far as I know, it is the only case on record of a poison being specific for just one thing. The stuff would kill other things but for ,two reasons: In the first place, nothing else but a rat will eat it, save in minute quantities. In the second place, when eaten by anything but a rat the poison acts first as an emetic. It acts so quickly and so vigorously as an emetic that not enough of it is ever absorbed to do any damage. A rat, however, has no facilities for getting rid of anything he has once eaten. It ine of the few animals un- able to vomit. This rat remedy is known as Red Squill.—F. Sidney Cates, in Country Gentleman. * * * Thousand of dollars may be saved annually for pear growers of Oregon and Washington by the use of cop- perized paper, a discovery of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Used to wrap pears in storage while they are awaiting shipment to the consumer, it prevents the spread of "gray mold," a troublesome and costly type of decay. Ordinary paper wrap- pers are impregnated with a liquid copper solution developed for the purpose by the plant pathology bu- reau of the Department of Agricul- ture.—(Popular Science. * * * Elven goldfish skins can now be used to cover evening shoes for women. The result is a glittering pair of slippers of unusual brilliance. A tanning process developed by a Ger- man scientist, George Ahrenreich, preserves the tender skins of the New Zealand species of goldfish which are used. --Popular Science. * * * "Mudguards" of thin light rubber which pull on over stockings may now be had to protect silk hosiery on rainy days.—Nation's Business. * * * A new occupation open to women and girls is that of "air maid" or social hostess on passenger planes. Most of the big air transport lines Of the United States now have an "air maid" on each plane. England and Japan also are installing them. Women who know how to get along with all kinds of people are preferred. They make themselves agreeable to passengers, -see that they receive re- freshments at proper,times, answer questions, make a hand at playing bridge or other games.—Wall Street Journal. * * * 'Women who have pale grey or blue eyes can have them darkened to any desired degree by contact glasses," Prof. Leopold Heine of the University of Kiel has reported to the Lancet, ,British medical journal. Con- tact glasses are thin shells of optical glass which can be worn under the eyeballs in contact with the ejreball. They cannot be distinguished, which gives them a cosmetic value very pleasing to women and to actors. --- Science News Letter. • * Unbreakable spectacle lenses are a: recent innovation. Two pieces of glass with a piece of celluloid between them are cemented together under pressure, forming one solid piece - This "glass sandwich" is slightly thicker than ordinary glass but it is just as transparent, the celluloid be- ing invisible. Unbreakable glass has for some time been used in auto wind- shields and airplane and factory goggles, but this is believed to be its first use in spectacles. — Popular Science. * * * Westinghouse have announced es' nofuse load center which replaces present-day fuses and their attendant bother and danger. The invention is simply a switch, similar to those used at present. When too much electric - current is going over the wire for safety the switch merely shuts off, instead of a fuse blowing out. When the extra load has been removed from the circuit, an iron, heater,. cooking/appliance, or whatever it may have been, then the switch auto- matically utomatically closes and the current is again turned on. There will be no' more burnt fingers or cobweb' covered heads with this switch in use.. —Mid -West Review. * * * Traffic policemen in Paris are tb' have their hats illuminated with phosphorescent paint so that they may be seen by motorists on a dark night.—American City. ,* * * A liquefied lead coating for meta. has been developed in England. Hav- ing a positive amalgamation with iron or steel, one coat is said to -make mental permanently rustproof. — Na- tion's Business. * * * 'Waitresses in the 'Stevens HoteI,. Chicago, no longer kick open the kitchen doors; in passing an electric eye, their shadows interrupt the beam, actuating a mechanism which opens the door. The Studio Theater, in Hollywood, 'California, employs the same device to open doors for patrons, turn on drinking fountains,. and so on. 4 v', (11 i