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The Brussels Post, 1929-9-25, Page 2W17DNInS t. 25th, 1029, 'HE BRP BELS POS' THE Should include provision for the regular saving of a percentage of your income.... Whether the amount is large or small, how- ever, regular depositing is most important. This Banls Invites Your Savings Account. Interest Compounded Half Yearly. ANK OF NOVA SCOTIA ESTABLISHED 1832 Capital $10,000,000 Reserve $20,000,000 Total Assets over $260,000,000 J. A. McLEOD, General Manager, Toronto Err Sunday School Lesson BY CHARLES G. TRUMBULL (editor of Tho Sunday school Times) REVIEW : SIGNIFICANCE 01' THE EXILE AND RESTORATION. Sunday, Sept. 29, 1929—Devo- tional reading ; Isaiah 61 : 1-9. Golden Text: But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and his righte- ousness unto children's children. (Psa. 103 :17.) How many people have any clear understanding of the meaning of "Jew" or "Israelite" in God's plans and purposes for the world? Few it is to be feared. Yet Israel is one of the three great themes of the Bible. Christ is the supreme, central theme. Next comes Israel. Then comes the Church, seen dimly or not at all by Old Testament writers, but gloriously prominent in the New. The Gentile world is another theme, of no such commanding prominence as the three named. We cannot un- derstand the :Scriptures unless we understand Israel. Nor can we un- derstand God's purpose for the human race, or for His Son, without a clear knowledge of this peculiar people. Therefor a review on the signif - cance of Israel's exile and restora- tion is an exceptional opportunity for going to the heart of things in our Bible study. We should keep be- fore us, in this review, the lessons not only for the past quarter, but of the past six months, from Jarael to Malachi. Why did God ever call out from the rest of the human race such a nation as Israel, to be distinct and separate? The Scotfield Reference Bible (on Rom. 11 :26) gives a clear answer to our question : "Israel, so named from the grand son of Abraham, was chosen for a fourfold mission : (1) To witness to the unity of God in midst of the univers- sal Idolatry (Deutz 6 :4, with Isa 43 :10,12 ; (2) To illustrate tc the nations the blessedness of serving the true God (Deut. 33 :26-2e ; 1. Chr. 17 :20,21 Psa. 144 :15) ; (3)To receive, preserve and trans- mit the .Scriptures (Deut. 4 :5-8 : Rom, 3 :1,2) : (4) To produce, as to His humanity, the Messiah (Gen. 3:15; 12 :3 ; 22 :18 ; 23: 10-14; 49:10; II Sam. 7 :12-16 ; Isa. 7,14 ; 9 : 6 ; Matt. 1 :-1 ; Rom. 1 :3). Ac- cording to the prophets, Israel, re - New Things Are "News" EVERY member of every family in this com- munity is interested in the news of the day. And no items are read with keener relish than announcements of new things to eat, to wear or to enjoy in the home. You have the goods and the desire to sell them. The readers of THE POST have the money and the desire to buy. The connecting link is ADVERTISING. Give the people the good news of new things at advantageous prices. They look to you for this "store news" and will respond to your messages. Let us show you that "An Advertisement is an invitation" At Canada's Capital: Ottawa This view allows the Parliament Buildngs in the distance, while the boa is are in the Rideau Locks. The Laurier Chateau is shown on the right and cpposlte is the Railway station. A trip to the Capital city is well worth the expense and time. Ottawa has a wonderful park system, thanks to all the Governments that have been in power, gathered from all nations, restored pensations and the two Testaments to her own land and converted, is and on to a time that is still ahead, yet to have her greatest earthly ex- when the Lord shall return. altation and glory. The significance of the exile is This statement of Israel's mission that God must judge sin, even in throws a flood of light on the signif- the lives of those who have luiowh ieance of the exile, Terser was de- and served Him well, and whom Ile garded by defeat at the hands of her loves as we do not know the mean - enemies, cast out of her God-given ing of love. He had to exile His peo- land, taken into humiliation captivity ple in order to save them. and forced to live for seventy years The meaning of the restoration is in. servitude, because she had so that God's grace is greater than our failed God in the mission to which sins. He brought His people back He called her, from their own land, although they did not deserve this. He will do Instead of witnessing to the unity more and better for them than that of God in the midst of idolatry, Is- in a time that it still future. For rael became like the other nations, even after their restoration, when intermarried with the -idolaters, ever- the Messiah predicted by their own shipped idols herself, and sank down prophett came to them,hey "denied in the unspeakable sins that always the Holy One and the Just, and de sired a murderer to be granted unto you (them) ; and .killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the -dead." (Acts 3 : 14,15). Israel deserves no national future but she is going to have it. and a More glorious future than all the glories she, knew under David and Solomon. Why? Because of the love of God, the promise of God, the word which cannot be broken. The time is coming when the Jews, scattered nowin all lands, the time of their greatest persecution and tribulation being still ahead, are yet going to be gathered to their land and established there for- ever ; and then they will be so faith- ful to the original mission that all the nations and races of the earth will be blessed through them, and any one knows a Jew will be proud of it. accompany idolatry. Instead of il- lustrating to the heathen nations the blessedness of serving the living and teue God, Israel took the name of God in vain, rebelled against Him, rejected Him, and illustrated to the nations the curse of serving other Gods. She turned away front the very scrptures that had been entrust- ed to her, so that they were ne- glected, ignored and left in disuse, But even this did not prevent God from committing His oracles to Is- rael, and continuing to do this eve:l while she was going down to het ruin, as He singled out individual men who were ready to believe and serve Him, and become His prophets, and be inspired by the Holy Spirit to write His Scriptures. Nor could Israel's awilul failure prevent God from carrying out Hitt plans made in eternity to give the world a Saviour by giving Israel her Messiah. Christ was born in Israel, and to Israel, not because she deserved it, but because of God's sovereign will and grace. Looking back over the lessons of the six months we see beacon lights of faith and obedience in such pro- phets as Isaiah. Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah and Mal- achi. The class may be given an op- portunity to tell what they rcmem bar of outstanding characteristics or messages of these various pro phets. Thus Israel is the great prophet of redemption ; his fifty-third chap• ter reads like one of the Gospels. Jeremiah is with his people both before and after captivity. Like Isaiah, by isnpiration he looks down through the cooling age-- to the Lord's return and ssraei s restored glory. Ezekiel, like Daniel and the Apo- stle John, is a prophet of Apocaly- pse, using symbols and being given visions. He is faithful it condemn- ing Israel's sins, as werd an the pro• phets. But he looks ahead also to the national restoration AGNES M'PHAIL IN EUROPE Geneva, Sept. 2.— Central and Southern Europe is a seething mass of unrest. The Ukrainians and Poles are at each others throats. Mace- donia, carved up and given to three surorunding countries, is torn in spirit. The Bulgars and Serbs are killink each . other on the frontier. The danger spot of Europe should read the danger spots of Europe, any one of which holds the possibilities of future war. Millions of people are now discontented minorities. Blessed are we who live in the North American continent, ani be cause of our happy position, we owe leadership to the world. At Cherbourg. I landed at Cherbourg when ten- ders came to the ship's side. What hustle and bustle! Tickets and pass- ports to be examined, luggage to be got on to the tender, through the cus- Daniel an certain respects may be tome and on to the' French train be called the greatest prophets of without once losing sight of itl The them all ; his personal character is "red -caps" were blue -jackets. They beyond reproach ; his faithful test-, talked only French, we only English, imony to God is what Israel as a everyone gesticulated wildly, but ft - nation might have borne, but would nally we were in the French train, not ; his vision of the future of dreg sharing a compartment -with the Jews and the course of Gentile ti- I Bishop of Panama and the President dominion sweeps down to the his- - of the League of Nations Society of tory foretold in Revelation. Chicago. Ezra and Nehemiah are builders The French customs officials seem - and restorers of the study of the ed fussy only about tobacco— they Word, of the walls of Jereusalem, asked "see -gar? No? `'See-gar-ette? of the temple. They help to bring No?" then dismissed us by an (=- Israel back to the mission God had, pressive gesture, given her. 1 On a French dining -ear one can - And Malachi looks forward to not have a choice of food. The whole :Toho the Baptist, bridging the four• menu is served. The food is odd but hundred -year gulf between the die good and aboundant. In France and PROSPECTS IN CANADA It ought to give considerable sat- isfaction to the people of Canada to be informed by the experts on fin- ancial affairs that, as far as can be discerned, business conditions throughout the Dominion are ex- ceedingly encouraging. The •rinal es- timate for wheat crop, issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, is 293,000,000 bushels. This amount, together with the one hundred mil- lion bushels carried over from last year, will aggregate about 400,000,- 000 bushels, which at the advanced price, will bring the farmers of Western provinces almost as much money as they received last year. Of course, the railway will feel the reduction in the amount of traffic very keenly, and the poor crops in certain districts will affect business On the whole, however, the outlook continues to be promising. Speaking of conditions in general, the Brook - mire Analyst, published in New York, and which takes a very im- partial view . of Canadian affairs, says : "Aside from unfavorable agricult- ed at th'e California hotel and found the rates to 140 frees or $6,00 e day. Teals are very cheap and their ;defy= cars drive like road. Not being able to speak Trench was a' groat 'handicap. Te be eoinfortable in Europe one needs two and preferably three las- 8 ages, lt'nglish, French )lid German, A Lovely Country. 1'he country -side in France, Ger- ltitnty and Czechoslovakia looks equal ly lovely; there is no waste land, and in the two latter countries there is a great deal of well kept forest --men the twigs are picked up by OS s turd women, tied into treat bundles and used for firewood. The fields are very small,, they are `not fenced oft from each other and, with the differ- ent colored crops it gives the country a curious checkerboard appearance, Bops are a leading crop. in South Germany and on the same ground some other' crops which looked like turnips. The farmers live in villages. Their white, red -roofed houses look come Portable with window boxes even on the upper 'windows, making a blaze of color, More women than men were work- ing in the fields. They even do the ploughing, wearing long full skirts, while oddly enough men working in the fields wear aprons. Oxen seem to be used as much ae horses 11 France farmers were bringing 1 bay in dinky two -wheeled carts draw by one horse and in some cases th horses were hitched tandem. Coming to Prague. Crniing alone from Paris to Pra Nue— 'tailed' "Praha" by the natives of the city—I thought I would find no one who would understand Eng ural conditions, business shows no ,lash, but almost all the travellers et signs of depression. Iron and steel ` the first class train,• called the Orien industries are well employed ; tex- Express, were English or Ameri- tile mills are operating at 70 per can. On the journey two customs cent. of capacity ) officials examined the luggage and p y and the rate of passport. Three languages, three mineral. production exceeds that of kinds amoney were used, and three 1928 by a wide margin. Consume- varieties of food served. How can tion of newsprint has been above the Europe understand herself when sh average for the past two months and speaks with a dozen tongues? producters are looking forward to Prague is ti beautiful city; th exceptionally large demands during cathedrals, the Castle—old home the fall and winter. Building activity continues in ew;esc of lost year. vett 6 •struction contracts awarded during August showing an increase of 48 per cent. over the same month in 1928 and establishing a new high re- cord for all time. In a country of the vast extent of . Canada, with all its varied natural resources and industries, it is only natural that there should be tempor- ary fluctuations in the volume of business, but evidence is steadily ac-, cumulating to substantiate the opin- ion that It will take more than one : 'short crop in Western Canada to dis- organize the economie prosperity of Canada. Beef Grading to he Effective Sept. 23rd Bon. Dr. W. R. Motherwell, min- ister of agricultural for the Domin- ion, announces that the new beef grading and branding service w91 be in operation by September 23. Beef grading and branding is to be undertaken voluntarily by the packers under departmental regula- tions and supervision. This new pol- icy is in line with the recommenda- tions of the joint 'beef committee made up of representatives from the producers packers, retailers and pro- vincial governments which was ap- pointed at the national beef confer ence called by the federal depart- ment of agriculture in the -summer of 1928. Under this' policy consumers will be assured of the quality of thole purchases as "choice" beef will bear a red brand while "good" beef will bear a blue brand. Only two grades are being branded at the out- set and the brands will be so applied to the carcases that a portion of the brand will be present on any retail cut which may be purchased. Hence the consumer who seeks assurance in regard to the quality of his or her beef purchase should look for the red or blue : brands when "choice or "good" beef is wanted. It is expected that' under this pol- i TELLS OF SERVICE Hon. Dr. W. R. Motherwell, Fed- eral minister of agricultural, who says new beef grading service will be in operation by September 23. icy the domestic market will function to better advantage in placing emphasis on the better qualities of beef produced. in Central Europe the water is not fit to drink. A person has to get on as best he can on mineral water which tastes like destruction, vile coffee, sloppy tea, and wine. I am still thirsty—the thought of South Past Grey water tantalizes me A Wonderful City. Paris is a wont city, With some friends 1 visited the artists' quarters on, the hill where streets and side- walks are very narrow and paved with stone. The pictures are beauti- ful and very reasonably priced. One delightful hour w,ps spent in the Louvre with a good guide who spoke English, but only a few of the art -treasures could be seen in that short time. The Louvre was once the palace of the French kings, though the original castle has been altered and added to. It is•an endless place part musemum and part art gallery. The rooms are furnished in Louis 14th and Louis 15th style and the pieces of furniture in thein were once used by the kings; their wives, or their mistresses, of whom there seems to have been •a bewildering number. Their jewels are also dis- played and famous pictures which I found most interesting. The shops are very fascinating but the prices are quite high. We stay - 0 the Kings, now occupied by the presi- dent of the Republic and Minister of External Affairs, are very beautiful The cathedral•is of Gothic architec ture, the oldest in Central Europe The Czechs trace) their kings back t 90e .A D. Most of them are burl, under the church, where the gray have almost become shrines. Z' new part was begun a hundred yea ago and is not yet completed. 1 spite of the size of the buntline• th seating capacity is not great. The Women's International Lea gue for Peace held the Congress in a resident -school, owned by the Czech Farmers' Co-operatives. It is a large and well equipped building. Women from 26 countries con- vened here for six days. They were a remarkable group, the most prom- inent of which was the international president, Jane Addams, of Chicago. It a hard to say wherein lies the re- markable power of this woman. She is devotedly loved and can hold to- gether people who without her would see only disagreement and discord. She has studied world problems closely for many years—but with all her knowledge she parades none; she is motherly, witty and wise. Emmy Freundlich, member of the Australian Parliament, is an econo- mic expert. She was the only wo• man government representative at the World Economic Conference. Women who are medical doctors, doc- tors of law, scientists, journalists, teachers, editors, etc., attended, An arresting figure is Mrs. Skeffiugton, of Ireland, who has suffered impris- onment and forced feeding in Ire- land's cause. Her husband was kill. ed in the Easter Rebellion while try- ing to reconcile opposing forces Six women M. P.'s represented Ghat Britain, Austria, Denmark, l:lkv,4n• in, Belgium and Canada, and just to give tone to the Congress we had a countess from Denmark and a titled English woman. Twelve"women elected by the Con. grass fem.) the Interitatiunel l:xecu•- tive to which body I have been elect ed.