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October 4. Lesson I -Tire ••Macedon-
ianr OalI-A.ets 16: 6,15; . • Romans
115:: 18.21.' Golden • Text -Go ye
therefore, and teach all nations.-
, Matthew 28:' 19. ,
• ANALYSIS • •
I. A DISSOLVED PARTNERSIIII',, :Acts
39.-41.
II. G.ALATIA REVISITED:, TIMOTHY, Acts
16. 1-5. •
III.
HO'in PAUL. TURNED •'WEST, Aets'• 113:
• 6-15. ,.
INTRbDUCTION-We come now to`
l'aul.'s second •"missionary. , journey.
Had Paul gone gest ' instead of west:,
• Chinese churches would prob ably be
riding missionaries :today'to even;
elize ,she natives of B.an•dritein ni
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,',erica ;:les jt is,,^into our western hands,
.•• has been communed .th n}zsslona.ry.
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-I A • DIssoLvE 'pARTN .Iteipie; • •A:Cts 15 :
36_41
1 f After si d passage, carefully-
goo'r
ported by Lu e, who is now one of •the.
pa. ty and acquainted with. the sea, the
mi sionaries arrived in J3hilippr''.u'arly
in the week. . Philippi had few Jews
and no synagogue. Pa 1 fMeund come
women holding a prayer -meeting by
the river. Among than he began his
"venture of faith." Lydia became one
of his, famous converts. The evangel-'
cation of Europe had begun. So, by
hindrances, embarrassments, appar-
ently sinister experiences, God "sets
our feet in steps that lead us upward
yet."
• ' After accepting the Jerusalem .em
-`prork►3s..e� the-el�uxe:h ►-_,Antioeh.-halt
peace. �Pau1,'was -again free 'mor. mis_
. ,cion • word, He langed see the -Gall-'
atiari converts . once more, 'v, 36. This
personal affection and concern for his
• converts.:was one of the most attrae-
five features. in, Pant's- character. It
appears in the letters which the wrote
afterwatds.-- :_"With great..deslre."
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+evould • see .their ;faces., (f •T,hess. 2:
17}. "night:and..day ,praying.exceed-
ingly"''tat he inight see them, 2 •Tess.
`3: -1Q. Alsoi he recognized tele im=•
.pentane of•. fo,.lowing np .work lie='"
(: goo• • ' • ' ' •
Then came' the. unhappy. disagree-.
'Merle between the two: leaders. Bar-.
....Babas' 'would take • John Mark again.,
•' Paul, setting .out, upon a' journey 1.i1,
ly-to be -difficult sad dangerous -•-would'
., Enter .the Provost
A new, ecclesiastical title is td,mak'e
its ,appearance'•• -.that of • "Provost"
Which is to be borne by the teeuin-
benks of parish church cathedrals,
such, aa„ Birminghvni, Bradford, Lei.
cestere Newcastle, Portsmouth, • and
Sheffield.
The• title; is to: • ca•rry. , with It' the
precedence accorded to .the dean of a,
cathedral.
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the t tie . of pro�rost fa an d +
1t` is `appl'ieii .to:•the heads of'.certain
colleges,': ;such `asEton :and ..KKing's
College,' Cambridg,e, and to the chief
magistrates of till d' boroughs in
. _ ...: he t-itlee"Is equi -.
ScotTandg�'Yfhere'.t� ..-
lint, to that- of a ::yorein•-•Eegland., and.
.that. pi Lord Proi'ostfto Lord ,Mayor..
There are, five lord provosts --the: :chief
Magistrates of .Edinburgh; Glasgow,
Aberdeen Perth and .Dundee., '••
haee ncthing to do with one: who had
already failed, him. Barnabas, ser
haps: unconsciously' placing his kindly
feelings toward his nephew before:the
'interests of thework, was adamant,.
Unable to agree, they divided ,the field
between them. Barnabas could take
Mark- and go to Cyprus. Paul, select=
i:ng Silas . (15: 22), would go :north'
overland • to the cities previously
visited..
Barnabas now disappears from the
record. The church at Antioch agreed
With .Paul; ;v. 40. It seemeeinexpress-
.. . ._ • _.ill owed^ .reat .deal :.
rbdlr-sail: -Pa g
Raxoabas,,9: 27; 11:,25, 26. His affec-
tionate nature must nave.' been deeply
pained. It was a time when he felt
that for Christ he must suffer loss of
everything -even
7, 8. That friendship, however, -.4-as
• restored later, 1 Cor. 9: 6. Even
Mark eventually wen his, confidence,
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(2 Tim. 4: 11), but the two: leaders
never worked together again. '
Godmakes, the wrath•of man to
praise him; two= -missionary -enter-
prises, instead of one, were thus: set
• on foot.
11.. GALATIA. REVISITED: T{'MOTIIY, Acts..
16: 1.5.
After winning his fight for •Gentle
freedom • from circumcision, Paul cir.-
cumcized, Timothy.. Why? 'Timothy
(v. 1), whom he himself had been . the.
- _nt Bans -of _converting and of whom he
was•very fond, Peet would take with
him; -v.-3. But Timothy -was -incite
cumcised. Being part Jew, he could'
reasonably be expected to come under
• the Jewish 'requirements. 'T,he mis-
sionaries would generally lodge: in the
• °' Jewish quarters of the cities they
would visit. They would begin their
- work in the synagogues. The pres-
ence of I the 'uncircumcised Timothy
would be offens've to the Jews, em-
barrassing to Timothy hiinself, end ,a
hindrance. to ,e work. Paul, there-
fore since=•-n=n'ol-principle_ was at stake,
had Timothy circumcised, v. 3. l
III. HAW PAUL TURNED' WEST, Acts 16:
6=15.
popo.;the'north lay Bithynia with its.
ulous cities. , Thither Paul tur;ied.
Agai . the "Spirit of Jesus" (the • or-
rectreading of v. 7) forbade. The her-
vest of Bithynia was not for Paul, but
for Peter,' 1 Peter 1: L 'The only
course left open for the missionaries
now was westward to Troas, v. 8. Por-;
bidden , to preach there -for it wag
part of the forbidden Asia, they lied
riot muchchoice; it was either to re-
turn home or cross the. sea to Mace-
donia, which ;is toda3 part of modern
Greece. At the critical moment came
a turning point in history. Paul's vi-
sion was the birth -hour of western
civilization and wester. Christianity.
Paul was, evidently thinking and pray-
ing about Macedonia. Perhaps, as
Ramsay suggests, a Dr.Iuke meeting
the travelers • in the hotel at Troas,
had suggested Macedonia to him. In
any case, falling asleep- to the -••swish.
of- the -sea, .Pail dreamed a dream, }.
9. He- took_it.toebe..,a divine guidance.
So did they all, ..10.
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BY ANNE,BELLE WORTI'IINGTON
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converted in a periotd of„x,15 -minutes into a sea -going hacii._,`Just~; ;:
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Destructive Floods
use �of �r_osion:
China's Diaster. Warning to•
Countries Being Denud�
. ed. of Forests
One .of China's gr atest scourges-
;the . flood -is ",againspreading death
and destruction over a wide' .areae
.wines_";_Hugh' Heininond' Bennett
The N.Y. Times. What is the reason
for these periodic visitation. entailing
great loss •'cif ' life and vast property
damage? In China's recurring mis-
fortunes there' is a warning :to younger,
civilizations es recielly`to America,.;
for although in China' with its densely:
pd?pulated lands. .the flood waters are
more appalling in • their results, the
processes which. are there at work are
also to be found as a ;menace , tee the
•fixture of the United' States.
Chine's 'history of floods is volumin
layer removed• by unchecked. weeg,
but the exposed subsoil which now
fungi's iye-farnied; or -abandoned, is mofo
,dlillcultto till. because:of. its'.usape high._
content of stiff clay; it'absorbs moil
ture slower than the•mellow !oam.now
gone .and. gives it up faster with the
inereased . baking . of dry. weather.
Moreover,•. the washing is . speeded up
in many lotalitie's; and it is -7g this
stage•' of land depletion 'that gullying
usually •sets in. Over. the less absori
live, eroded slopes water lows away
-with • ',,inereaeed xapi.ility ,•-to. augmei
fiobds..
It takes • just seven years under ton-
tinuous corn• cultivation • in. Northern
Missouri .and Southern Iowa 1' or one
inch-o,E_an_important •ty se 'or: rolling
corn -belt pelf to wash off iand.of gent-
ly sloping topography. ori steeper
land, that having a fall., of eight, feet,
in a linear.distance of a hundred feet,..
the .rate of• removal is one. inch in one
year. In other 'word's, under "the pre-
vailing .system of .eorn production in
ons beyond comprehension: ' . After this region the most productive part
of the laid„ •tiie Seven inches consti
4,00'0 -years Of building levees and dig
ging canals; the great :Yellow -Raver
broke •over .its banks in.1.877-in an ap-
peep). g overflow that brought death to
ele0,0n,AOA--human,4 sings,,-In4$52 this,
swollen Titan changed its.toewer chan-
nel to enter the ocean 300 miles: northsl
of its mouth on the. Yellow Sea.
The Yellow Sea, a part of the Pa-
cific' Ocean, is-cofored-with siltt
down from slopesfar up the Yangtse
Kiang and Whang Ho, whose water-
sheds once were clothed with forests.
'and grass. Stripped ofthese stabiliz-
ing ageecies in nature, countless slop
in'g areas -were cultivated without pro=
- -, tection against the evils .of rain -wash,• .
a process which has altered..the sur -
1 face of„the• earth more than the com-
e bined activities of volcanoes, earth-.
quakes, tidal waves, tornadoes and all
!the excavations of mankind since the
beginning of history. Beery rain
heavy enough to cause water to run',
-lowulrille-car'rie-g" its "toll eolesusperded'`
soil. eating away the substance of the
land . dawn into. the . less stable sub-
' strata, where the destructive process
South Africa's
° HippoPasses.
Huberta, Whose Long Trek
Through. Town and fl
t'.ry Endeared ; Hem to
Thousagds, Rests iii' a .
• Museum
Cape Town - In the Keffrarian
eum at , Kitg Williams Town , there,
stands a • hippopotamus' that gave
South Afrida thrill after thrill for
'more than' two years:., For this enor-.
mous stuffedhide 'was: once Huberta
the Hippo -the falrious roving animal
•t:h�t was looked Upon by. white South•
Afrieaas, as a.friend and by natives as
•the reincarnation ,of a great chief.
Flags were flown • at ' half mast i
Durban o:tn, the iragie day when
"assassination' 'of,'Iiuberta ' ,became.
known, paurfarmers convicted; of the,
dee • wen
d e etch sentenced to a fgn'e;of':'
£25 or three menthe hard labor.,. A
wove of '-protest swept: through;.the
.eoiintryt r ;sand a `.niuseein director,
wrote ' "1; ;have en',tirely, despaired' .of
human nature. -There are some' pee=
pie . who cannot-see._.an eeint'er-esting_
specimen withont- Welling to take a
pet eho.t at it.” - :.
• How did Hilbert* the Hippo capture
the affection of the.whole of South.
Africa?, • It IS a diverting story. To
realize the sensation, caused every-.
where-by..the appearance-of.•'Huberta,•
it must be understood that. SoutheAfri-,
ca -apart from a• few, game preser`1ves•
•=is [no -longer 'a wonderland of big
gable. Thousands of. people living, in
-the'cities have'•neeer-seen-�game--•ani
male execpt'in 'captivity, So when,. in
November, •1928, a fulegrown hippo.
potamus . strolled:•• into the village of
New Guelderland, fifty miles• from Dur-
ban, the -event- received 'large head-
lines in alt the. newspapers.
Huberta' ,Makes' . Debut •
_toting the ,-tgp-soil, is,being washed
away' "within. 'from .seven to forty-nine
years.. Here..the. ergie peii,,•produced •
in -genet years, seventy-five "Bushels of
bernep'er. acre -the=e'zpose leau°bsoriepro
duces .eth.e rate -a -of abeut--•-twenty-
teishels per acre. • '' '
' The plant food removed from, the
1ielde and. pastures of .emerica .every
year by.; erosion exceeds by ,twenty-
one, time• that .removed .by the crops
harested. That taken by crops can,.
be •.restored in the form' of fertilizer,
but that 'removed by erosion cannot
be., restored, because this ;malevolent
process takes• the whole LbOdY of the.,
soil,..plant food and• all. •
Indians.and natives. working :in the
fields of sugarcane were the first to
raise, the alarm ., They heard a snort-
ing and a bellowing,., andran for safe-
ty. The'hippo remained', until •hun-
dreds of people, were staring wide
eyed; with_asxonishment; then retreat=i
ed into the thicket. '
Undoubtedly this adventurous beast
had wandered from the Umfolosi sanc-
titary, near Seek a -St- LuczaT a -
••--the-•last-'known-breeding; plaee•-ef
the hippo within the borders of •the
Union: At first she was 'named Billy
by correspondents w.ho _ushed_..teethe
spot, but it'was as Hubert the Hippo
that she became '�a'national character.
It • was not until after her `death' that.
the mistake • •about her sex was dis-
covered, 'and she was ,renamed Hu-.
bertak _:. . _. , •_.
From • the day of. her first appear-
ance .until her death Huberta' 'was a
marked. hippo. After she had -startled
the plantation workers at ,Guelderiand
she _ quickly achieved , notoriety. An
enterprising _ ress photographer went
out hmong the sugar -cane, but when
he leveled his . camera .1liuberta
charged tum �._ e_ __
Curious crowds flocked to see her:
.4a tine, egi'e'orla'rger"they_anuoyed Hn-
berta more and more, and finally she
moved off. From that moment began
her journeyings, which were to last
twoyears and -intake her the most fa-'
mous ,hippo that ever lived.
•She moved first' in •the direction of
Durban. As she approached the city
she passed throughareas which grew
more and more thickly populated with
every mile. Naturally, the sensation
she cpeed was entrntous
As she approached Durban, which is
•one et the largest cities in South Afri-
ca, the .excitement grew, "Hubert on
His Weyer said the headlines • ,(they
thought she was a bull then), and peo-
ple waited. eagerly to see where the
animal wouldmake its next appear-
ance. ' Of course, had it beenneces-
sary, an organized flint could have put
an end to her ,career then and there.
But by this time Rebore was a public
character. She '•ad roused the amuse-
ment, even
musemen.t,even the affeetI,n, oVthe entire
population. It had b: en . proved that
Sher was quite harmless. Occasionally
she charged 'people who were too;. in -
mealtime.
An Unwelcome Visitor
Her greatest escaler ' followed: She
called at a hotel just, outside Durban
one night, appeared suddenly, and gave
Grey -"How long has Meekleigh• some of the habitues" a severe nervous
been inarried7" shock. • Atter alis, li'awaver, Aire -de-
' "Greener"For twenty awed years:" tided that she was coming too closely
• Notwithstanding the ,vast continuing
losses caused: by erosion, we ate not
yet on the verge of a land shortage.
In spite of the appalling wastage, WQ
are confronted with the M malous
situation of'having'on our hands large
-trope_surpluses With-=-incr-easing-.use-
of fel tilizers and soil -improving crops,
togetherwith the • abandon en 1sf
worn-out• land for land still retaining'
speeds•on:at accelerated pace. Under some of its top -soil, we continue to
To be just right, the clothes of the nature's stabilizers of forest,- •shrub•rsroduce ebundantiy.. In many locale
growing'mise must have a bit of dash.
The: jacket 'dress, so splendid fr;r
school wear, has a definite smartness•
and practicality too, for it •is• equally
cket is lis -
.attractive•. _rvhen.'_the,.. j.>r - There'ave allays been floods and
carded.' . • - • there al+aye will •be. , There; is evi-
elPhis- javmty==model-piseedelightiuily_eeence;.: -nevertheless,. _that ..no sneh..
carried out in yacht blue linen. And mighty • flood ever before marched
bery and grass, erosion works slowly; . ties, 'however, yields have dwindled
with these removed by man and his de- :markedly. Win. all the improvement
.mestic animals the wastage is vastly which has been made withcorn varie
increased. , tiesand the widespread betterment of
cultural methods, our acreage yield of
corn has 'not"• increased. .This means,
obviously, that we are still cultivating
mucheland of infer rq`uaIity. •:
The United Stales Department of
Agriculture, co-operating •, with the
States, . has recently, inaugurated a nay
tional program of soil conservation.
Already much, has been accomplished
with field terraces, and experiments
under way indicate that strip -cropping
-that is, the growing of soil -saving
Crops in strips along the slopes, alter-
nately with the clean -tilled crops -.will
prove tremendously important. A soll-
saving culttivator recently' devised at
One of these experiment stations digs
10,000 holes to every., acre, while. oper-
ating as, rapidly as any practical farm
implement. These excavations hold
on, each acreof land 'aproximately 50,-
000 gallons of water, thus preventing
run-off and' erosion- 'from . numerous
rains. •
to be ultra -smart, it trims its jacket
'with blue linen •overplaided.in deeper
shade. • The • dress repeatsthe trim in
bows at the front, and for the modish long record of deluges; covering more
cap sleeves. The skirt is so Cute 'n than 4,000 years of recorded history.
box -plait effect at the front and cir. What Wastefrli Erosion Means '
titian at the back.' When soil is. washed out of fields it
Numberless fabrics are•suitable for cannot be hauled back, nor can it be
this swagger outfit as rayon novelties, restored with fertilizers or soil-im-
�eersey and- supple 'woolens .in tweed proving crops.. It can. be improved, to
effect' be. sure, but soil like' the virgin surface
• Style -No, 31.45 m'ay be had in sires layer, which averages only about nine
6, 8, 10; 12 and 14years,inches deep over the uplands of the
Size 8 requires 31/4, yards of 39 -inch
country,, cannot .be 'built back .to its
material •with'% yard of 35 -inch con- original'conditiou. With some of the
tra'sting. • important agricultural soils of .the
HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. country it has taken nature not less
W'rite•your name and address plain= than' 400 years, to' build one single inch
ly, giving number and size .of such of this productive humus -charged sur -
down the Mississippi as the one of
tour years ago. And now the-Yangtse
is reported to have surpassed its own -
patterns as you want, Enclose 2.0c i'i
stamps er'coin (coin preferred; wrap
it e`arefu1Iy}= for eachnumber;- and
addess. you order to Wilson Pattern
Ser zee, 73 e.4- dela.de-St.,-Td onto-
facematerial, the principal repository
of available plant food and the rebid-
•ing•-place-of incredible-hosts°'of ben&.
ficial micro -organic ms:
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MUTT . ANJ JEFF— That's 'His Story—He's Stuck With It.
Wolfhound 'Entry'
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land, ',enters . her 'iris•h• wolfhound
eein. the_ Riehmon4.-_charepi.on.- dog_•.
show.
into' contact with civilization. • She, • ;
made a wide detour and Was not hear{d
of again until •she reached e{the. coast -
twenty' miles south 'of Durban,' Jour-
peying on, she came to the mouth of
the Umzimvubu River near Port St,
John., There she settled down for a
time and lived happily •in :the river.
But again herfatalcur,fostty got the
et of her and: one night she visited .
the village of Port St. John. A town
counselor; so it 'is .said, was crossing
the -square to a meeting.
liis electric torch ion front :Of ,him and
saw the yawning mouth of a hippo. • .
=Ile dr -n . era %d_the enieettnga_- _ •
Huberta-sat .downjn-th.e-siivare' an
d'- __
'soon the entire population of the vat
lage turned out to •see :her. • It was
the most exciting tau that ever hap- .
ripped in Pott St. John pr is ever like- '
ly to happen, there. Huberta bore the
shouting of men' and women and the
barking of dogs for half an hour. Then
she left Port,St. John never to return.
Her wanderizrgs hadbegun again, '
Huberta's. odyssey, now became '
less pleasant one. The Bloonifonteii
Zoo[ had sent -a'party out to.capture
her alive: They were hard upon her
trail. Hut Huberta by this time had
.lived upon the fringes of civilization • '
-for nearly two years., She had de-
veloped amazing cunning. She passed •
through areas inhabited by natives
and they•saw not the least sign of her.
-=-Then one --day -a- farmer-reported_to
• the magistrate at Peddie, near King •
William's' town, that he had seen a
dead hippo in the river: Men went to.
the spot and, with eighteen oxen and
.chains, hauled out the body. It was
Huberta, with 'Millet toles above her • -
eyes. 'She was a full' grown cow hippo"
9 feet 2 inches in length and with a
girth of 8 feet 1 inch. She must have -
weighed nearly four tons.
every ._Paper ,in._South ..Africa:• pub•
lished an ,obituary. . Museums quer ' • .
reled for the right to preserve her •
hide: There was a popular outcry
against the unknown marksmen who
had shot her; Eventually, four. men •
'made • voluntary conf-ssions. They
were charged under the game laws
and lined $125 each.
Huberta will always be remembered
with affection in South Africa. To the
natives the stuffed carcass will remain*
an object of awe /or generations. .
While she lived they quickly surround-
ed her with legends. To many of them
she was the reincarnation of one of
the great chiefs of' the past who had
comeback to earth to ead the Bantu
Nation to •the greatness that once.waa
theirs.
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