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The Brussels Post, 1925-2-25, Page 6r fhe Sunday School L soy MARCH 1 Christ $efore:Pili te, IVIatt. 27: 11:x31. Golden Text — He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. --'lea. 53: '5. r.NALrers. been specially advised by his wife, all I, ART TuOU THE KING? 11.14, the result of a dream, to take no ac - 11. JESUS Oa uelteathee? 1.6•26, tion against Josue of Naearpth. God often makes his will known to us I11, A CROW 4, BUT OV THORNS, 27.31, through those who love us, and wish to shied us from harm. INTReocicTlOx - After his arrest, ` 'Vs. 20.23, In spite of all, however, Jesus tvas brought before the supreme as the multitude, instructed by the religious court of the Jewish people• priests andelders, clamor for Barab- This court, the Sanhedrin, composed bas instead of Jesus, and demand that of representatives of the priests, the Jesus be crucified, Pilate, even though eerilteb, andthe elders of the people, knowing that Jesus was guiltless, gave, Josue a hurried trial, Caiapphas, weakly consents. Appointed to ad - who •presided, after the Preliminary minister justico, he prefers popular. citation of wituesess, whose evidence ity, and infamously disgraces his Was apparently contradictory, put to nalne. ,Tesus the point-blank question: "Art. Va. 24-26. Pilate may ostentatious - thou the Christ, the Son of the Bless- ly wash his hands, and declare he is ed?" Jesus, who up to tris moment Innocent, but he is really guilty' of the had preserved absolute silence, ane- blackest of sine, This remains, even wered °I amt and ye shall awe the Son though the 'Jewish people encourage of man sitting an the right hand of him, and say that they take all the power, and coming in the clouds'of responsibility for Jesus' death, heaven," Mark 14: (31.62. This was III, A CROWN, BUT tee 'monies, 27-31. adjudged blasphemy by. a eourt which: Vs ee e, • This c•os• e. scene, did not accept his religious authority,'thV4 27- to thele e' and crusty and Jt the wasn h ed in, w leto deaentrusted of the Roman soldiers, serves to show with jurisdiction Sanhedrin, while entrusted Jesus to ug in the real nature of his Jewishi jurreligion, el gion, in the sphere of the kingship• His sovereignty, his maj- rlife f a did not It might itt-Iesty is the sovereignty, the majesty power of rte ando death. but might ine `of saerliiee, of suffering. The Roman Bowe sentence of codeuld give onlyiec-la ldiers dislike the Jews, and it is ess ry confrmat co. give the aiealtheir furred of the, lea's that comes Jhad been confirmation. art Roman A.D. 6,i out in this mockery of the sinless `Son Judea ,been under a Roman pnd!of God. They do not know, as they capital sentence office from Rome, and. capital sentence: of the Jewish court !hand triol this crown and sceptreof }tad to be referred to tide officerfor their mockery, that they are showing Tesus to the world in that character sancbion. .Consequently, Jesus is now la. which he will rule and govern it. led it the - Jews behad the tribunalilet 'ft Is even so. Jesus saves us by eioPilate,who6, and been obliged to since A.D.A:D26, Pilate is - to! his sacrifice, by wearing for us the go into the ease before giving his; crown of thorns. verdict. PILATE'S POLICE. To understand the trial of Jesus by, About this time, the Roman military Pilate, it is necessary to observe that:forces were organized in 30 legions the Jews, in order to get the death -,of about 6,000 neon each. Every legion sentence confirmed by Pilate, put a'was made up of 10 cohorts, and every political complexion upon the charge', cohort (of about 600 men), wasdi- against Jesus. They know that Pilate: vided into 6 centuries ( that is, groups would not concern himself with mat - !of 100 men). The army of occupation tors of a purely religious or spiritual in Palestine consisted of half a legion kind. Therefore, they misrepresented: of five cohorts, that he about :3,000 the Messiahship of ,Jesus as a claim soldier;. Some were kept at Cxsarea,:. of political kingship, and said that, the usual residence of the procurator Jesus was a menace to the Roman' or Roman governor, but most were ower. dere lies the deepest and scattered through the country towns. slackest guilt of the Jewish accusers. For example, there was a company They put a false eanstruction on the at Capernaum. A considerable force religious claims of Jesus. Jesus knew' was kept at Jerusalem all the time; himself to be called by God to the' but at the Pa --over season, when highest religions office in the nation, j large crowds gathered in the holy city' namely, t, the supreme task of bring-, and the religious temper became pe-; ince the nation at last to God. It has, culiarly indantmable, the Jorusalemi been made plain to him in spiritual`garrison and police were reinforced -t experience that he was the "anointed"; The chief officers of the legion were, or Christ of God for this redemptive tribunes and centurions. 1)f tribunes, task. But all through his ministry there were six in every legion, and he had refused to a110W this office to they were associated in command of. be confused with any political or the legion, though sometimes, in addi-' worldly dreams. In the wilderne:., tion, a tribune is found in separate! and afterwards in Galilee he had de -Command of a cohort. Each century alined the crown of earthly kingship. was under the command of a cen-i But, Jewish hatred Inc its own per turion. The "band" of verse 27 was • poses now invests him: with the very; a "cohort," but . could hardly be a: attributes he had disclaimed, and ar-;whole exhort. reigns the sinless one as a politically —se -- dangerous person. How to Kill Ox Warbles. L ART THOL THE gneoe 11.14. The grubs :n commonly found in V. 11. The question which Pilate' ••boils" on the bucks of cattle during, asks Jesus has been put into his winter and spring are the larvae of the mouth by the Jewish accusers. He had, tvarbke-fly developed from eggs de - been instructed" be Jewish lawyers,' g,osited byy the fly when cattle are and conceives his duty to be confined razing. They are the source of much to probing the truth of the particular g F .ASSURANCE OF CANADA HEAD' OFFICE . • !VIONTREAL A Statement of Remarkable Progre s Extracts from Directors' Report Your 1)Ircelore present their G(ty.fourth Annual Report with unusgal satisfaction. Tia rapid expaimiou of gpor+lione, and the etendy mphuiiding of resources, which have no markedly armee- Refixed the Company's tranractious to pmvious years, have tons tinged daring the past twrIL mouths, and at a greatly Moused tato of progress, .. . These figura (herewith quoted) show the grouch whjrrr :.: has taken place in the volume of the Cempony'e operations, mud In its resources. Tbo egwns ea to profit -moiling power and firma• clsl atreagth ace even more ;mpreu,ve. As to profit. actually paid, the stem of 00,081054,40 has been disbursed during the year to policyholders under this heading. As to provision fur the future, the Company's position bas been materially strengthened rn all directlons, 'There has boon a further upbgjlding of the life policy, reserves. Heretofore pot rico issued prior to 1003 have been valued on the basis of assuming three and a half per mud. interest. as the db. counting rate for the Company's obligations, but this year the entire life assurance contracts have been valued at three per cent, the extra amount thus set aside being 81.111,025. !'here has also icon a strengthening of the Annuity Reserves. Recent investigations have sh a'o a progressive increase In the. average lifetime of annuitant*. ' A special annuity reserve or 5720,400 has this. year been set up beyond the entwine require) by the Government standard.. The Company's )lead Office pod branch buildings and other seal estate, hoe been written down by 5760,000. ' The Contingency 1k.•erv,nhave limn strengthened by the addi- tion 01 0,000,000 Oaken from the cuttings or the year. 0.7,000000 of this amount going to the fund to provide fort possible auetua- lions h, the market value of our securities, raising that fund to (55,000,000, and 51.000,000 going to General Contingencies ac, count, raining Gust to el,500,000.Th 'c contingency accounts thus amount naw to 57,500/50. After making then heavy allocations, the undivided surplus • has yet been increased by 64,231,400, bringing it to a total of 645,107,158. The Company t5, at muse, in a position to inereo0 its already gcncrdus seal, of profits to policyholdeus, and your Directors have 'pleasure in announcing, for the fifth year in succession, that such. an increase will be made. it'b7a sunny factors bare contributed to this remarkable slar.- ing, the most noteworthy has been the large earning from invest- ment*. As has been mentioned In previous reports, it has for many yens been the polio, of the Company to invest in leapt -urn bond, and scalar choice ss •urines, in order that by this means the high rales of interest then prevailing u a result at the ahnonrul con. dittoes produced by the war, might be projected into fuluce years. This pokey is now bearing fruit. Cisrreot rates of interest, though still very satisfactory...a materially lower than those of forcers years, and as a consequence there has been n marked rise in the quotations for most of the securitis owned by the Company. During the past year some of these increased values novo been s capitalized by sales, and a net profit of 03.801,470.48 has two realised from this mursr.ln addition there leas been an increase of 68,331,377.00 In the market value of the securities still held. Although most of this increased value is uudnolnedly permanent, and due merely to the readjustment o1 intnrst rates to a more normalbasis, it still bn noted that the Company has carried 80,000,000 of the amount t0 contingency crowds, as already explained. The rate of intrust earner during the yeer on the mean invested' asst Inas leen s.s per 0,2,t., exclusive of profits from sales, This is a substantial increase over the rate of the previous year, and has resulted from our laving realised on some of ow holdings of goy eminent and other hoods which bad risen to high figura,. the pro• weds being then reinvested in securities yielding Letter returns. 1924 New Acsuranees Paid For Increase ... , $30,075,000 Total Income ........... . Increase .. , . $15,280,000 Payments to Policyholders and Beneficiaries (Total paid since organization, $183,798,000) Assets at December 31st..., Increase .... $64,873,000 Reserves for Unforeseen Contingencies .... . Surplus Over All Liabilities and Contingency Reserves Increase _ $4,234,000 Assurances in Force (Net). . Increase - . t $167,871,000 $137,466,000 $62,245,000 $31,881,000 $27,130,000 $7,500,000 $22,107,000 $871,636,000 Policies in force (excluding Group Policies) .... 384,113 Employees of firms protected by Group Policies . 30,160 Dividends to policyholders again? increased The Sun Life ranks amongst the Foremost Life Assurance Institutions of the World Incorporated1865 Began business 1871 WHAT IS MED t ,D I have noticed several articles •i various pi+poi's about the epodes of man known as theeferm-hand. From residing these 1 am led to conelude ' that the unmarried farm-hand is a sort of pest, about as annoying as a .mosquito, 'aft undependable as_a Wittyhorse, and that he is sure net to be there In an emergency. I am oneofthose unmarried men, worldttg by the month and with an agreement to week -rho season for my present employer. I want to say a little about the business, for there are things to be said on both sides of the ease, and much of thref which is writ- ten is not written by hired men. There ere all kinds of men engaged in farming, from the "hull -pup" kind of fellow and the pinch -penny gentle- man up to the roal thoroughbred man. I believe that the farmers wlio do not deserve a good hired Titan have been howling tho most, for I have noticed that a square -dealing farmer has usually very little trouble with his hired -help question, I believe I know why this is so, Everyman. that I have worked for has given me a square deal, and I attt'ibutethis to several things, One is that I choose my em- ployer. A look at many would-be employers has often been enough to decide me against them, But when I see a man who makes me feel that he can respect me both in business and in the hours of recreation, it is reasonably safe to hire with him. Then, is the man fin- ancially soured? It isn't going to make a man very much put out to be looked up at his local bank, if be knows lie is O.K. If he knows he is not O.K. well, that is a different matter. Respect for an employer keeps a hired man from getting too familiar, something that should not happen for the hest of harmony between the two parties. The pr'over'b about "familiar- ity breeding contempt" is just as much the truth now as it ever was. If the employer is a man who can be respect- ed, the hired atom has a very big in- centive to conduct himself so that be, too, will be respected. A good motto for hired men is as follows: "Try to do more than the employer has a right to expect," This does not mean that a man should work himself to death, for in this present day there are certain rather well- established rules about the working day which all employers must adhere to if they want to keep their good men. Butit does mean that when an emergency comes up, where initiative and skill are, required, that the hired man will be there to carry his share of the load. It- does mean that the man is willing to do chores on Sun- days and sometimes on special holi- days. It means that Ile is willing to get out of bed when a sudden sterni puts some new -horn litters of pigs, in danger. charge that Jesus claimed to he the mi.eery to their hosts, and may reduce king of the Jews, Jesus answers milk yield or prevent normal growth A CROSS -WORD iArftt3itl Did? 1 PARTY Efficient simply: "Thou sayest." This means and development, beside, causing tre- that he is indeed the king of the Jews, rterdous economic loss by the damage but that he will not explair:. Pilate they du to the hides for leather. In must himself accept the responsibility; time this menace and mischief might for any conclusions which. he may: be lesgened, or possibly • to. No! Jesus cannot discuss greatly elimin- his claims with a heathen magistrate.; ated, were every owner of cattle in - Pilate cannot, the Jews will not under- variably to protect his animals from stand. As the Gospel according to flies by free and frequent spraying John explains, Pilate and the Jews' with a reliable repellent, and by have before them the sufficient evi-!squeezing out and destroying every dence of Jesus' holy Iife and his euro i rub he can find, The extraction of a spgiritual teaching. Jesus hbs srgu-4g grub from a mature boil may readily He will riot defend himself by arga be accomplished by pressing down mens hard on it with the open mouth of a Vs. 13-14. The majesty of Jesus' reserve, continued even when the Jew- p' large bottle. A mixture of one part ish authorities break in again with; of iodoform and five parts of lard the accusation, astonishes Pilate, and should then he applied to the boil, sets him thinking. Conscience, a cel.-, and to immature ones, to induce heal- tain perception of the real truth of the jag or destroy forming grubs. Such case, is not dead in Pilate, He sus -;treatment always proves p1`ofitahlej peels that the Jews are acting from i malicious motives. But, besides con -land certainly is humane. --Pr. A. S.'i science, other forces are at work to Alexander. save him from an unjust consent to! _ I Jesus' death. 1 It has been said that "Small minds II. JESUS OR BARAS5A52 13-'26. j dwell on small things. " I1�owever•, i S. At the Passover, it seems' someone did not look out Inc the V:. 1:.1 1i•,. to have' been the custom of the pewee- "smaet things of life the whole ator to release some Jewish prisoner! scheme if life would go to smash, of note as en net of grate, to the dews.' -- Very peasiblly Pilate himself had it.sti-' A row giving :000 pounds of butter - toted this eastern as a mean' of keep fat returns 5102 anually, above her ing favor with the people. If so, he feed rust, while the cow producing 100 had here an opportunity of declaring' pounds makes a return of only $8. Jer'is absolved. The door Termed pro- With six tines the production the re- videntially opened for the release of sum is nearly twenty times ,es great, Jesus. Thus, not only conscience; hot! which show, tho absolute necessity of the fortm+ate circumstance of this sus -i weeding out the low .producers and tom was on Pilate's side, had he l replacer e. them with more profitable chosen to do the right.O indiculu:tls. ve 1n, Not only w, but peete had STOCK Farmer Proves Value of Pure Bred Bull W. G. Potter received $52.25 more for steers sired by a Pure Bred Bull than for steers sired by a Scrub Bull, Ho shipped fi5e c'eers from common grade cows of egqe 1 merit. The two steers sired by a Scrub Bull brought 95.55 each,'v,i�iie the three steers sired by the Pure Bred Bull brought 0147.80 each, The sleets reecclved the /lame dart. Fewer and bettee ppantie are more profitable than a larger number of Scrub animals. Make your cows work far lou rattier than you should work for them. Your 1925 rasohtlloa wag to get rid of that liarub hiu11-4tave yeti cross int BETTER BULLS PAY BY BEATRICE PLUMB. Cross -word puzzling has become a stational sport. So of course you'd like to make it a Cross -word Puzzle Party. Here's your invitation: Oh, the world has grown so clever Since the cross -word puzzle craze— Just -to think that. Duce we'd never In the dictionary gage! Here's an invitation hearty To my cross -word puzzle spree. Be a puzzler at my party; (some and work a few with me. Write the day, date, time, and place of your party beneath the verse. (;lip from old newspapers and magazines crossword puzzle diagrams, without the definitions, and paste on each in- vitation. Divide your guests into groups of four, each group to sit around a small table and solve a cross -word puzzle together. irai)el your tables alpha- betically. Mark off on email squares of card- board fuur of each of the table let- ters. hasten to each cardboard letter to half -yard length of thread. Mix the lettere and arrange between the lea:es of a large dictionary, leaving the threads hanging out, When your guests have arrived um:ounce that out of the thousands of lettere in the di,•- tionary you are going to aline' each to draw one. When all have drawn, the four who have letter,A sit at table A as partners; the four with letter I*- .it at table 5, and en on until all :u'e seated. Put to puzzle face down on each tel,'e, together with a scratch pad and fuer well -pointed pencils. Be very sure each pencil hap an eraser. if you supply each table with tl dictionary have them all the same. Announce that on signal the puzzles; may be turned (face up and solved. The four players at the table first to turn in the correct solution may receive the sane prise -enc of the little dictionaries which have been in use would be appropriate ate rewards. If you wish to give one single prize me tong the top 'four, let them eompete with each other by seeing who can make the best stint -word telegram yy stng only the letters (-lt-O-SI-S W -O -B. -f) as the first letter: of eaten word, Label the telegrams I, e,, 3, a:i 4 and let your other guests vote for the one they like best. Try a letter race. Place a bowl in the centre of each table, filled with the vermicelli lettere used in soup, Stand a saucer in front of each guest with a few toothpicks. Each guest is to lift out a tiny letter on the tooth- pick and carefully place it on the saucer. He is to continue doing this, never using more than` one toothpick at a time, until the .signal to stop, Award a prize to the one- with the most letters in•his saucer. A can of soup would be a suitable prize. Cross -word proverbs add variety to the entertainment. Divide your guests 1 into two groups. One group secretly selects a proverb and gives one word to each player. If, the group is large give the same word to more than one player. At a signal the members sing their individual words in chorus to n given tune while the other side tries to guess them. Alphabetical answers is a game that never fails to prove a wiener. Make cards, writing on each a different let- ter of the alphabet. Pin on each guest a lettered card. On the signal to start, each player asks any other player a question. The first word of the ans- wer given by the person questioned must time with the same letter as the one on his card. Replies must be com- pleted before the questioner can count ten, otherwise the player surl'enders his letter to the ono who has "counted him out," The player with the largest number of letters tit the, enc( of the gaure, 01110. Hames over, se eve rnfreltmente. If you wish to serve at the little tables, a double strip of tile design crepe pa- per in black and while would make a suitable cloth. I'm an entlrasitertjc .erose-worderi Myself. How I wish 1 enuid come to• your party! j ROUP AND KINDRL'"D AILMENTS. Roup in its beginning simulates very closely a common cold, but is more sudden of onset, produces great- er disturbances in the subject, is pro- longed in its course and brings serious consequences. The mucous membranes of the up- per air passages, nostrils, sinuses of the head or eye show evidence of''irri- tation by to discharge, which at first is fluid and watery, and is accompan- ied by sneezing, coughing and shak- ing of the head. Cold or catarrh sel- dom presents more symptoms than these. On the other hand, roup passes from these symptoms to those of greater severity. The discharge be- comes denser and more viscid in con- sistency, sticking the eyelids together, filling the sinuses and blocking the nasal passages, Attempts to clear the eye by wiping the head against the hackle leaves the feathers in a wet and sticky condition. Once the lids aro closed the discharge becomes cheese -like in consistency, a similar change taking place in the sinuses and nostrils. The features become greatly distorted through swelling. A similar process may take place in the wind- pipe, lungs, or abdominal air -sacs. (lankei ous areae may form in the mouth, which are usually covered with a tenacious yellowish -colored' false membrane, The larynx may likewise be the seat of these lesions, the mem- brane occluding the .passage, and a fatal termination resulting through suffocation, Ati a general rule the snbjeet shows considerable systemic disturbances. The affected bird early isolates itself, becomes listless, takes food sparingly, or not at alb'-; the feathers become ruf- fled, and the egg -yield diminishes or ceases entirely. Diarrhoea appears early, in which the feces ore of a greenish -yellow color, Colds seertingly are clue to unhy- gienic enviroliment, and the undesir- able condition that is responsible Should be sought out and remedied. !'olds frequently are brought about by the combination of two or more fac- tors Working tngothol', such as damp - nese followed by a sudden drop in tentperattu'e. lluWs are better natured and better producers when tarnished a var(ety of feed. Here int some recognition of the great lndnntry of agriculture: A noted physician has indicated to roevalese- rn1 putients in need of light out -of - deers: ut-of- dt r employment, that 'farming is d not oemeldered a light oceepatlon, Dusty litter, and especially when the dust is due to accumulated pulver- ized fecal matter is another fiuitfill cause of irritation likely to result in colds. Actual causes of colds are exciting causes of roup since derangement of the membranes open up avenues of infection to.the actual microbial cause of the latter. It is, therefore, imper- ative that the first consideration should be directed towards the practice of good hygiene. The patients roust be made comfortable. Draughts, damp - nese, dust or child must be corrected or avoided. Birds showing serious illness should be removed from the rest of the flock and kept isolated until recovery has taken place. A purgative is indicated (one-half to one pound of Epsom salts per hun- dred birds) in order to equalize the circulation (thus relieving congestion) and to clear the gut of effete ma- te RUNNING THINGS 00R THE BM, And now I believe I can give a rea- son why so many of us get fired. It is the - idea, which many of us hired men get, that we should run the busi- ness. That is exactly why many a hired man has had a falling out with the boss. 'We need not complain if eve are fired for this reason, for a farrier has a right to bo his own boss. There- fore, it is certainly right that he dis- charge a man who tries to run his affairs. No matter how the employer wants a job done, whether it is the right way to do it or not, it is up to the hired man to do it the way the employer wants It done. Because a single hired man is usu- ally boarded in his employer's home is no reason why so many of ns should try to instruct the boss's young chil- dren. I am sorry to say that many of us have a rather questionable lino of talk and some colorful cuss words. Some of us seem to think it a duty to tell the small boys of the place about things they should not yet know, or should learn from their parents. Ib is policy, if nothing else, to let the employer's children alone. Be friend- ly, of course; be square with thein, and there is very little chalice of tieing bothered by the children of the em- ployer. FARM TRAINING A 1010 ASSET. rialsI may now add that to be a faenl- hand is not the simple task that 50 The administration of drugs to the many think it. In order to be a hired alimentary tract by means of thel man of the first quality it is altriost , drinking water 'is of questionable,necessary that the hired rano be raised value, rend may do actual harm by cn a farm, for farming is 1t comp'.i- deranging digestion. $Sick birds are cited husiness, which ran not be mas- likely to take a smaller quantity of Lend in a month of to year. The best such 'Miele when the consumption of a large quantity of water is most desired, Local medication can bo highly re- faint -hands are usually young fellows, trained ori the farm .at. thein lives, working for the reasoe that we must have eltpital in order IA) operate a commended and should be applied to farm, 1 a:•1 birds in the 'tick whether or not There are so utauy things that we they are.showing !evidence of disease -must know Trow to do. We ?Hest know or otherwise. The substance used how to operate all kinds of modern should be non -irritating and 0f known uinchilcery, and to do a gond job with gerinicidal saltie. Argyrol ll0<'a ten it; we must know about thefeeding per cent, watery solution has given and the care of all kinds of livestock; best results in our treatments and we must know how to build and re. should be applied ,with a medicine .pair' fences; we must know how to dropper, one drop to ouch oye, each drive twos three, four, oda, oi' eight 'hastril and to ,the throat, Daily np- horses so' that they do a good day's plications should be- given for three work, amt we 'dust be Able to judge or tour days, or until cessation of disease is evidenced. Iii the isolate&.,, casts, the cheesy matter should be removed with tweez- ers ` or probe, after which argyrol stand why so many of the Hired moll should be applied. 'Where membranes: fail toe deliver the goods. And whew have forntod in tho mouth they should they find the et6s6 Oat tries to do be removed and the parts painted with more than they Mese tt light to ex, Tr. Todine.—C. II, Weaver, Animal i poet," employers cads eoult themselves • Paihologist. lucky r •lr i. w when a horse has done enough. If the employers would atop to think. about thetetings that they ask their hired help to 4o, they would uncle, i t 4. -4 rs.