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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-11-15, Page 7by Isabel Ostrander Jhe Sunday Moot Wesson By CHARLES G. TRUMBULL, Litt. D. (Editor of the Sunday School Times) THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE T1WBS1W, NOVEMBER 13, imgF BEGIN HERE TODAY What horrible and mysterious po­ wer' was forcing the three Drake brothers, Hobart, the Wall Street broker, Roger, the scientist, and Andrew, recently returned home from Australia, to place themsel­ ves in ridiculous situations. Some power had forced Hobart to de­ liver a mock speech in. the public square, Roger to burlesque a scientific address, and Andrew to sit on the floor and play with toys Patricia Drake, daughter of Ho­ bart, secretly secures Owen Miles, detective -sergeant, and his col­ league, Scottie McCready, to in- Investigate. Miles is employed as a houseman and Scottie as garden­ er. Miss Jerusha Drake, spin­ ster sister of the brothers, is dis­ covered by Miles in a wildly ex­ cited state late at night (before an open grate in which she was burn­ ing papers of some kind. Patri­ cia disappears and Hobart sends for Miles. RAUL’S EXPERIENCES IN JERUSALEM Sunday, Nov. 18—Acts 21:17 to 23 : 84. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. to this house, to end!" be scared of?" "I’ve seen no- can’t say as Mr. Andrew of the family though he’s "Wells is an old fool!” Andrew continued. "I say, there is nothing any of us can do for Roger; he’ll sleep like a baby tonight and be all I right in the morning. I’m going ’’Tout and I shan’t be back until late but I’ll take my key and I won’t dis­ turb you if you’ll tell Carter not to put the chain, on the door.” He strode heavily from the room and in another moment Miss Drake and Hobart followed. "It’s work for nothing to set the table for them; they don’t hardly touch a thing!” Carter mourned, as he and Miles cleared away the final debris of the meal. “I’m sure I don’t know what’s come nor where it's going “What’s there to Miles asked stoutly, thing barring that fainting spell of Mr. Roger’s today. Is he often ■taken like that?” Carter shook his head. “‘Only once before and that was just a day or two after—after the constable brought Mr. Hobart home when he’d been walking in his sleep. That’s what you heard, ain’t it, Wil­ liam?” He asked the question with almost pathetic eagerness^ "No,” William replied bluntly. “If you want the truth I heard he was either drunk or crazy!” "Not a thing had he touched that night, for I had the only set of keys to the wine cleear!" Carter asserted solemnly. "I’ve yet to see Mr. Ho­ bart in liquor, but I much for Mr. Andrew! was a trial to the rest when he came back, toned down considerable, especially in his language. It was shocking, William!" “1 shouldn’t be surprised,” Miles observed. “Did he bring those fits ifcack with him, too, from Australia? “You mean what happened last Monday?” Gartered lowered his voice. “If you want to know my opinion from what I could get out of Edward 1 think Mr. Edward was shamming, the Lord only knows why!” Miles glanced sharply at the old man but his tone was casual as he remarked : "He was playing a. trick on Ed­ ward, maybe,' but there was no fake about Mr. Roger’s faint today.” “No, and as for’ Mr. Hobart, I’m glad he’s given up the stock market before—before he lost everything, ■though sometimes I’ve wished that •the money never came in place! It was that macle of them act queer long _ though I almost forgot in the first all three ago, and the years ’ 'between, perhaps they’ve been wrong Tn the head ever since.” "How cio you menu •dueer when they came money?" asked Miles. "I remember when the •and though they were seemed really happy about it or even surprised.. Mr. Hobart seemed only .of getting back at other folks for all the years of hardship they’d been through; getting rich by making other folks poor! It gave me the shivers to hear him. You would “Have thought that there was a death In the house!" continued Carter. ’"They didn’t talk to each other any more’n they had to, didn’t scarcely look at each other and it seemed as though there was almost hatred be­ tween them. tMr. Andrew had ugly fits of temper that he’jl never show­ ed before and other times Mr. Roger would break down and go all to pieces right out of a 'dear sky; only Mr. Hobart kept a level head on his shoulders and all at once I noticed that the hair at each side of the; they into acted their news excited I came it ‘Andrew! He here mighty bad, not trusting him- liis companion oil­ key-hole carefully work. He made minutes dragged while the other the door at the end of the hall. As he drew the skeleton keys frow his pocket. Miles indicated the traces of wax which still adhered to the .lock, then whispered wanted to get in didn’t he?” Scottie nodded, -■•elf to speak, and ed the lock and before setting to no noise but the out interminably watched and listened tensely for a possible interruption. The key clicked faintly in the lock and the door swung slowly inward. “Wait till I close the door,” Miles commanded; then as a tiny light gleamed out: “Good! There’s a bolt in the inside and we can’t he surprised. Andrew may come horn© at any time and I have a hunch that he'll try to finish then what he start­ ed this afternoon.” “It looks as though pretty thorough job of : tion was his object,” mented dryly as the thrust of light played about the dense blackness of the room. “May the de’il take us if we’re not in a museum! ” They were in a huge, low ceiling­ ed room which had evidently1 been long unused for human occupancy. On the left trunks and packing cases of all shapes and sizes were heaped pell-mell with broken hasps. From their depths a hetehogeneous mass of relics and manuscripts had been scattered in all directions. Haughty, though fragmentary Idols and humble cooking pots, fear­ some weapons, bits of crumbled carving, and among them all roll after roll of ancient parchment to­ gether Avith notebooks modern day. Scottie approached a lined box and after one in promptly retreated. “It’s a mummy,” Miles gazed briefly down ■ at the small, tightly swathed form and then turned in­ differently away." If Andrew found what he was’ looking for this after­ noon, we are wasting our time, but I don’t think he was successful. Those note books must contain the result of years of. study and classi­ fication and see how th© pages are torn out and scattered around!" “Then it was writing that Andrew was after, and modern writing at that, for he’s only thrown the parch­ ments aside!” Scottie gathered up a handful of th© loose sheets examined them critically. “But what was That’s what we’ve What would Roger carted all around him that 'his brother would want badly enough to steal? Mr,? Wells told me that the three brothers Aver© devotedly attached to each other, but 1 have seen small evidence of af­ fection on AndreAV’s part for any of them.” "Do you see all these odd baskets of metal and carved bone?" Scottie was playing his torch over the an­ cient relics which- littered -the floor. “Perhaps we can find one or tAvo that isn’t broken open." It Avas long past midnight Avhen they desisted at last and Miles re­ marked Avith a shrug: “I guess we’d better give it up, old man. If there was anything here bearing on our problem Andrew must, have made off with it, all." Scottie suppressed a sneeze icallv as the dust which still ed in the air assailed his nostrils, and relied in a strangled voice: “The mould from the ages is eat­ ing into musty, s my—” “The hands one place we never thought of, Scot­ tie! Were not beaten yet!" he’d made a, it if destruc- Scottie com- t rapier-like of a more long, metal­ glance with- and for? out. he looking got to find have written and the world with Golden Text Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. (Eph. 6:10.) Our lesson continues from the point where we left Paul three Sun­ days ago, when we studied his last journey to Jerusalem, He was re­ ceived by the brethren there, and a of strange experiences follow-series ed. We saw from the scriptures that Paul evidently .mistook God’s guid­ ance when he insisted on going to Jerusalem. He went contrary to the revealed word of the Holy Spirit. Acts 21:4.) Now almost his first act after reaching Jerusalem is to lis­ ten to the mistaken counsel of Jew­ ish Christians there, who urge him to "stand in” with the Judaizers and try to clear his reputation by tak­ ing a Jewish vow and offering a Jewish sacrifice. This seems un­ thinkable, from the chosen apostle, to whom was revealed the full mean­ ing of grace and the Gospel, and the sufficiency and finality of the sacri­ fice of the Lamb of God. Paul had already written the Epistle to the Galatians, with its glorious declara­ tion: “There is neither Jew nor Greek . . . for ye are all one in Christ. Jesus , . . Stancl fast there­ fore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not en­ tangled again with the yoke of bond­ age.” (Gal. 3:28; 5:1.) But this Jewish vow and sacri­ fice by Paul did not apparently, al­ ter the savage opposition of the Jews. His seven days of ceremon­ ial purification were not ended when an open attack was made upon him in the temple. The whole city was aroused; Paul was dragged out of the temple, and lynch law would have taken his life had he not been rescued by the Roman chief Captain and his soldiers. Then the Lord gave Paul an ex­ ceptional opportunity to proclaim the Gospel in Jerusalem 'before an immense audience of Jews and Gen­ tiles. The chief captain, learning his identity,tas “a citizen of no mean city” let him speak from the castle stairs to the crowd. It was one of the geat orations of the Bible, and that means of all history and literature. In cultured Hebrew, which commanded silence as the Jewish crowd listened in re­ spect, Paul told his life story. I-Ie showed his zeal for the law of God, concerning which he was then under suspicion. He told his record as a persecutor of Christians. Then he told of his sight of the Lord Jesus Christ on the way to Damascus and of his instantaneous conversion. Fearlessly he told how his sins had been washed away as he was bap­ tised and calling on the name of the Lord. But ■when he came to bis commission, in which the Lord told him he must be sent "far hence un­ to the Gentiles,” that was too much for his Jewish hearers. They shout­ ed: "Away with such a fellow from the earth; for it is not fit that he Should live.” .So he was taken into the castle by his Roman captor to be scourged and examined. But Paul’s quiet question, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a mau that is a Roman, and uncondemned?" startled the cen­ turion and the chief captain; the scourging was omitted, the prisoner wm* treated with proper respect, and was brought before the Jewish Sanphmlrin, their highest council.’ The Apostle, knowing that some of the council were Sadducees, who denied any resurrection, and others Pharisees, or orthodox Jewish be­ lievers, made the challenging state­ ment: "Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead j am called in question.” A great cry from the council w’as the response; the Pharisees at once took Paul’s part, -while the Saddu- C(?f", turned against their fellows in the council. The chief captain, fear’ug for Paul’s life, had the sol­ di-cs take him by force from the exc?ed religionists, and he was ag In imprisioned in the castle. 1 'nt- of the great prison exper ictc'es of history followed, as the Lord Jesus appeared to him the next nig it and said: "Be of good cheer, Paul; for as thou has testified of Me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear wi’y.-'ss also at Rome.” Whatever mistakes in guidance or action Paul may have made, the Lord Jesus Christ stood by him. Our Saviour’s love and protection do not depend upon our perfection, but upon His. Paul could have no doubt after this tha*- he would live to see Rome and preach there. But more than forty Jews took an oath, binding themselves, under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they planned to bring Paul lowing day, on the way. Paul’s nephew hearing of it: went to his uncle in prison and told him. and then, at Paul’s advice, went straight to the chief captain and told him the -story. I4 did not take the Roman mili­ tary commander long to decide. He believed in fair play, and he was in­ terested in this prisioner. Before the next day dawned he had start­ ed -his prisoner on the way to the Roman Governor at Caesarea under an escort of two1 hundred soldiers, seventy cavalrymen and two hun­ dred spearmen. With them he sent an official letter to Felix, setting forth the facts about this Roman citizen prisoner, and committing him to his charge. It is to be doubted whether the forty conspirators starved to death when they found they could not keep their vow by killing Paul. had killed Paul. They ask the chief captain to to the council the fol- and they would kill him This was foiled . by he when you buy a radio Actual Size of Tube tube give You tube that give The A/C tube is the heart of any electric set and the Kogers is the only A/C tube in Canada has proven its ability to maximum service for years. 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The Times-Advocate 11 AGED TUCKERSMTTHEgyptian hieroglyphics, Scottie, knoAV that much!—Egyptian picture­ writing in the Avrappings of a Peru­ vian mummy!—Get me a piece of that parchment from the floor, will, you?” Scottie complied and held both his torch while tqres dl’GAV old man with shining “I can’t read a Avord of it, as you say, but by the Lord Harry, I think we’ve .got! There are professors in toAvn who can decipher it for us and b© depended upon to hold their ton­ gues .aftenvards, and avc’II see that ■ it reaches on© of them to-morrow! I "But it can’t be Avhat AndreAV was looking for!” Scottie expostulated. "He- certainly cannot translate hiero —what you said!” "Nor would he have known that it was AV'hat he wanted if he had found it!” retorted Miles. Cant ; you see, old man? That Avas the in- “''He dart«l"overtoUie long, coftln- tention »r « like ease and 'his companion follow- there. It is something that had to ed somewhat reluctantly. i be preserved and-yet must be unde- ,' cipherable to anyone not a student “The—the person doesn’t appear of E yp(ology >. to have been disturbed since the - Pyramids were built," he ventured. "What. are you about, lad? Your never going to undress it!” "It’s Peruvian, not Egyptian; I yej0C]jed the. door behind them his don’t you see the inscription?" re­ sponded Miles in a quick, excited whisper. “Moreover, the wrapping about the" head and breast have been unwound within a very few years at most and then replaced! Miles inserted his hand with in­ finite (are beneath the. displaced fa­ bric which covered 'the shrunken, flint-like breast and drew forth a slender roll of parchment. Scottie hastily returned his unwelcome bur- to its original position and strode his and that of his companion the latter compared the tex- of the scrolls.) a Quick breath and faced the At length It eyes. after hero- float- my lungs and there’s a spicy reek from that mum-1 i vmummy!" Miles struck his' together solftly. "It’s the PIONEER IS DEAD A worthy and well-known pioneer of Tuckersmith in the person of Wil­ liam Wright, Sr., passed away at his home in the sixt'h concession on Monday, November 5th at the ad­ vanced age of eighty-eight years and three months, following an illness extending over two years. The de­ ceased, who was bon in Tittcare, England, came to Canada sixty-six years ago and located in Seaforth. He afterwards moved to the 6th con­ cession, where he has since resided, his wife having predeceased him 3 years. He is survived by one son, William on the old homestead and two daughters, Mrs. Glen Sellers, of Gladstone, Michigan and Mrs. drew Jeffrey, of McMillan. 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But quiet years came; after, and comfortable ones, and 11 c]aimed forgot until this trouble now brought wound< it all hack to me.” In figure writing!" he ex-"It’s _ claimed disgustedly as the roll un­ "You’d never be able to CHATTER XIV Like two housebreakers, Sergeant Miles and Scottie stole up the back stairs that night and halted before road it and it would do you no good if you did! I’ve no doubt it's a prayer. Put it back, Owen, it’s de- ’ lying Providence—” ‘Defying your grandmother!” Miles interrupted. "This message is in companion seized his arm. ‘•‘Do you hear that?” Scottie’s husky whisper breathed .in his ear. “Someone's up, and there's a wee streak of light coming from that room at the front. Whose is It?" "Hobart’s,” whispered .Miles' in re­ ply. "Flatten yourself against the wall and walk as lightly aS you can; were going to look into this!” Foot by foot they crept along tlm hall until they neared Hobart’s door, and then halted as though transfixed, for the voice of Miss Drake, trembling and charged 'with pent-up emotion, came to the listen­ er’s cars. "It’s no use! If we wore the only ones concerned 1 would have kept this from you but it shall not be visited upon the next generation! I know the truth* Hobart! I always known!” (To be continued.) When you wake up in the morning with a furred tongue and a bad, bitter taste in your mouth you may be EUre that your liver is not functioning properly and requires attention at once. Mrs. S. J. Canning, R.R. No. 1, Severn Bridge, Ont, writes:—“On rising in the morning I found I had a bad taste in my mouth which I later found out was due to the bad state of my liver. 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