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Women aud the Future Empire
How Youth Views the Future
The Vote EY•,tended .to All Women of 21 Con.jure`s New
s.ConntItiOns As Seen in London"Time and•Tide"
PRIZE ESSAY
(Time and Tido, (Load?n) eelii•oducei pouted to feel ettizons of the world
this essay on '°T(a Vote and Foreign when we are - not true citizens at
Affairs" by a 'stir tent of McGill Uni-, bome.
varsity; written for a recentcompetf-1 The aim of foreign of airs should be
tion open to women under 30, held by i to maintain Peace withcint afny rosary-
The Women's International League, ations.' The way to ensure' this Peace'
of England.)ty to break down Nationalism and to
on the leaflet auirouucitig teis com—
petition it is asked how yeoLitS sent Great Britain wants Peace but must ,protect her interests iu 'China.
women P1 Groat Britain are gong to >
fxt tcemsolvos or the vote. There is,
The ,United States wants Peace but
you
no question of
y•.ngw--c,mon fitting must protect her interest} iu .Nteara-
themselves foe the. vote. Wbetbe • fine, France and Germany want Peace
' men or women are fit to vote may be bat—the Rhine '4°°°.Every nation:
questioned' but the line between those fiat -1-La "buts.' ("That is the cause
who are and those who aro not, is in of these "buts?" Nationalism, Un
n;j way connected with sex. shot,til every' njian and woman realizes:
IesIlet also states that "tile groat ,that they aro citizens of the world
questions 6f .international :peace will' and that Groat Britain, united States,
be, the responsibility in part of the Poanes and Germany, eta, are mere
Yong Women." The mere giving of geographical terms there will always
the vote will certainly not give any. be, these "buts." Is not filo Fallacy
resp ietb±llty at all ;to women under 'of Nationalism obvious when, every
tiiirf leo ry'ote lues u iolltiaal j nation ttilnits itself the_ best, and the.
Y P i I mere accident , 'of birth °term nes.
equaliC,v, but only as WO acgtiiro ab-. d
solute equality in, the world°wi11 we
which nation one 10 to support? .At
have no responsibility -in foreign of -I present everyone puts, their, country
Give usu flit/ end we will I frst,.everyone enjoys Standing up for
lairs. G ve eq a a their National Anthem, sakiting their
work up peace; but do not try to side-.
lbiiaste.of•hia orher ,
track us on to peace before givingtional flag ,and uP
abaohite equality. Patriotism ` Ndtionalism is at the
• bottom of war. Take away all na-
,.
I'oteign affairs as. they are at .pre-; 1,10nel-2-anthems', 'patdiotic songsand
sent managed; unlike home ,aftairs emblems and then try to- recruit: an
aro not settled by the electicus, they] army. These, things may seem'ohiy
nend aulek•decide& action, they can -.;o nth° surface, and economic causes.
not wait for general election's' to ob-' at the root of the troubles but these
tain the opinion of the people.. The would ,disappear with Nationalism.
most the elections' do is to put ,;a When no One belonged to a nation
Party in power with its policy, hat but to a - W6rid, who would care
tome not foreign affairs are, always whether one part :of the world had
etrossell at-• election time and the' the trade. The best goods wantid be.
average. 'voter knows far too little sought,, not "British" just because
about foreign affairs to predict they ',were Britisii.- This desire for
European crises. That is one reason the best .would. be the consumer's
why we wilt not have any respensibli- stimulant\to good- trade. instead of na-
tty., Teanya}e.`who 'doubts .this, I - tionalism•and -the desire to help his
say, "What effect did the reform acts country, This natlenl:M m •cannot.be
of 1832, 1867, 1884 and 1918 have onremoved -by the use of the vote and
foreign affairs? Women under thirty until women. are able to :enter all.
are neither superior nor inferior in- walks of life on equal terms with men
dividuals that our vote would have it will remain.' Internationalism mast
any .effect uncia• foreign affairs. - be based, on absolute- equality be -
more important reason is this.. Who, tween the sexes.
oeoupy all the important positions M It is to be hoped that the :new
the Foreign Qfflce? 'hien—wee are vbters will use their votes to bring
, in the Cabinet?-men—who' is fact about this 'equality and thus better,
are responsible for the whole foreign foreign affairs, and not'try to better
policy and affairs of the Country?- foreign •affairs and forget 'about the
men,' No -wonder that peace has not position of their ser A sarong and
beeir mairytamed. For why should•one active organization should be form -
halt of the world manage its affairs? ,ed "to seethat women ase their votes
That women are just as intelligent as to bring about, r' complete political,
men has been proved botb by psycho- economic, ' indnstrial' and social.
logical 'tests and by everyday life] td equality, for thus and .only thus will
it only requires a little thoughti to we better foreign affairs, for'then we
realize that women inherit from their • will: be able. to ries ,above this false
Parents- as well . as men, and,yet for national pride and be citizens ofethe
centuries men have beau Sas
world. A better prize, for this esbsy
superior to women. This has result than a week abroad studying foreign '
ed in' unintelligent men striving to affairs would be a 'week at, home 1
govern' intelligent women and Intel-,study:rtg the reasons why women get
ligent women striving to, fit them: unequal pay for equal 'work, unequal
selves to unintelligent men With the promotion and unequal chances all
result that many homes are Full ofalong the line The League of Na -
misery end discord. What wonder i nous itself, which hopes to make
that nations who cannot keep strife I peace; discriminates against women.
fro mtheir homes' fail to keep it from men are given better positions. with
`their foreign affairs, . !better 'chances of promotion,, and
Remove' strife from.the home and merely because they are men, not on
you. villi remove it from the world,' account of their ability.- TheeLeague'
As 'long as, men and women are ea- I also lavers the so-called "protection"
cupted by unhappiness and troubles of• women workers that 'puts thou --
in the
hou=in.the items there will be unhappiness I sande Of women out of jobs and is
and troubles in the world, Remove really protection for men against
these troubles by removing the econo- 'feminlne competitlnn. How San a Lea -
lineally' dependent • stat of women gee Which Which Inas such weaknesses andand both men and women will have..! cowardice of its very centre expect
time to turn their attention, to wider to. be just and true'enough• tot keep'
spheres. Women can hardly be ex- International Peace?
Looks Peaceful Eraougla Now
SHIP ON, 'Vl-IICH EIGHT STOWAWAYS MADE TROUBLE OFF 'CEYLON COAST
Tflie liner JervisBa which ave the world 'a thrill byits • wtrelesg message announcing "trouble with eight
Bay, g d
desperate stowaways, arrives, at Southampton: •
spinning. nebula., Its size and weight
would be many times greater than
now, and its radiation many times
fiercer: Its intervening history las-
been 000 of melting away of sub-
stance, fading of glory- and= contraction
01 3150. This: contraction , his prob-
ably, not Been continuous or steady;
1t has more likely been ; epasmodic or
jerky; since the observed stars do not
form a continuous ,steady sequence,
put rather tend 'to form : patches of
distinct sizes:, There are 'giant" stars
so large that millions of stars like our
sun could be Packed' inside one of
them, there are normal "dwarfs"
of about the size of our sun, and there
are the minute "white dwarfs" hardly
larger than our earth, whose sub-
stance :is so closely packed that a
hundred tons would hardly 1111 a to-
bacco -pouch.
This variety -o6 sizes may probably,
'as I shave Suggested, be -traced in the
last' resort to the different sizes of
stellar - atoms. Inside the `•'white
dwarfs" the heat is so intense that
the -atoms can retain no protecting
rings 'Of electrons; everything is dis-
mantled and packed in the smallest
possible space In the cooler "ordin-
ary dwarfs," like the sun, most atoms
retain a - single ring of electrons;
whioh clear a Space Tuna them and
so add -enormously to their size,
while in the still cooler .°giant" stars,
each atom -has two "or even tbree
rings of electr6ns in attendance. But,
quite smart _from theory or explana-
tion, direct observation leaves no
doubt that there isa distinct gap be-
tween the sizes of the "white dwarfs"
and of other stars,-such•as our elm.
Now our sun is so very near to the
edge of this gap that we cannot dis-
regard the possibility of its starting
to jump the gap and contract to a
"wtite dwarf" at tome astronomic-
a11y not very remete, time And''radi-
ation is almost' completely inhibited
in the white -dwarf state, no white
dwarf being known which emits as
much as a three -hundredth -part of
the sun's radiation If the sun be-
comes a white tdwarf, tine earth will
be gripped in a worse than icy cold-
ness,'such as no life can hope to sur-
vive. The transition to this state,
although abrupt from the astron-
omical point of . view, would occupy
many millions of years, 'and the first
100;000 generations of men might
well notice no change at all; thus
we cannot be eertaii}.that the transi-
tion is not already in progress. But
astronomical time moves' so exceed-
ingly slowly that,merely as a matter
of probability, it is very unlikely that
tho event is happening now or` that
it will ,happen'within the next million
years, .A rotten tree may fall at 007
.minute, but it is unlikely to Pell with-
ine-the next two or three minutes,
?imply because a tree lives' many thou-
sands of minutes after it, has become
rotten.
What' Our
Successors Will
Think of Us
Our Advanced Civilization
Will, Thinks Sir J. H. Jeans
in the London Observer,
Be But the. Dawn
TIME IS RELATIVE
(The following is but the oonciusion.
of a very striking article by a recog-
nized authority.)
In 1604, a star in the constellation'
Serpentarlus dared up to many times
its original brightness, Transitory
meteors and comets had long been
familiar objects, but this apparition,
as Galileo showed, was so remote as
to belong to that outermost,region of
fixed stars in which everything had.
hitherto been regarded as eternal and
immdtable. Thus Galileo established
that even the fixed stars were subject
to change.
Constant change is, now known to
be thelot of all the stars, and,, indeed,
of the whole universe, The sub looks
the same from day to day and for gen-
eration.. after generation merely be
cause it is changing so slowly. It
Is living its life, and travelling the.
road. from birth to death, just as.
surety as men and trees. Evidence.
for this is provided by the light and
heat it sends to earth.
For light and heat carry weight
with' them, weight, which .• is every
whit as ,real as the weight of of ton
of coal, so that we may quite properly'
speak of a ton of light or heat. We
do not obtain anon of light and heat
on burning a ton of coal—we 'obtain
less than, a mi1116hth_ part of a Pound,
all the rest of the ton staying' behind
as ash and cinder, or combining with
atmospheric oxygen. As a conse-
quence of its weight light produces a
dodulte impact when it falls on and
nIumluates a s}rface; a man could be
knocked down by a sufaciently strong
iifiht as surely as by a cannon ball..
This impact of light nielkes it possibl
4 measure the weight of light, fust
one might estimate the .weight pf
cannon ball front the impactwi z
tell it hit a target. It would, of
AO, be necessary to knew th
d toed of the cannon ball, but the speer
df -Might, 180,000 miles' a second, is so-
d rately, known, •
"rich square inch of ooi 's flan
�s e snits as much lig h(lt
t 118t' horsepower act ,, 1icht, ail
Amount of light an u lr fit dit`rriee
away weight atm the rate of en ounce
in 2,000 years. This seems small
enough, but when we multiply it by
Hie total number of square: inches in
the sun's surface, we find that weight
is pouring out of tine sun in the form
of radtatioh at the rate of about 4,-
000,000
,000,000. tons - a second—roughly, 150
times the rate at which weight is pour-
ing over Niagara in the form of water.
But whereas tie Niagara River is
continually replenished by falls .of
rain, the sun undergoes no replenish-
ment of apprr;clable =bunt'. Its
weight must, then, be .forever dimin-
ishing.
iminishing. To -day it is a smaller body
by 360,000 million tons than it was
yesterday, and' by to -morrow it will
weigh 360,000 million tons less than
to -day, Here we have the ultimate un
derlying cause of progressive changes
in the stars; they aro transforming
:their sullistence into radiation, which,
they then pour away.`. Our sun _de-
stroys its own body to provide the
light andheat which are essential to
the livesof its children.
Clearly such a process cannot' go
forever, but the Sun has substance
enough to continue to emit light and
heat at its'present rate for 15,000,000
million years to come. It will not, of
course, do this: The star's are in-
comparably nearer than we are to ex -
Meeting a
x-tractinga ton of radiation from a -ton
of matter, and Nature loaves but little
ash and cinder behind, yet the sun is -
not likely to destroy itself utterly to
its last ton. Neither can it maintain
its radiation continuously at its;pres-
ent rate. Each year that passes sees
a reduction in the sun's weight, and
this reduces its .radiating capacity.
Incidentally it also Weakens its gravis
tattonel hold on the planets, so that
their' orbits continually enlarge; the
earth, for instance„ is receding from
the sun at the rate of about a yarn
per century. Thus 'each year is a
shade longer and. a shade colder than
its predecessor.
The changes aro so ellght: team
the course of _events cqntihed as a€
present,' the .cumulativ(I oranges Qf
the next 1,000,000 milli6n years will
not produce conditions verb di4erent
from those of to -day. Cf each pound
now in the sun only item ouiicd
will remain, the yeaitwi,1 be sps ten
per cent. longer• Oka 11gw, a t iv
•eaj'th's climate pe Hils05 140. tq
greel colder, hog ifi 0» �aaltli puglit.
60) to be possible 1, 0,000 million
yegrq front now.
tint wit tl;.p coin a e, eyontQttc4 •
li0
ab at tnc
sen
dQ,onrttiiy 9a
Rely came ntobe$ l 0 ,
, U g 'a
e
f very tOlibr
Thu although the possibility of
early destruction is suspended, like
the sword of Damoceles, over all ter-
restial life, the probabilities are all in
favor of the earth still being fit for
human habitation a million million
years hence. Whether our posterity
will inhabit it rests with us and them,
Man ,may exterminate himsoIb in
some folly of war or,neglecting the
armory of science, may be extermin-
ated by some'other order of life. But
the augury from the portends in the
sky is that man is freeto remain
master of his Yate for some million
million years to come. After some
such period eternal night will close
in, and life must Vanish from earth.
Terrestrial civilization, with a mere
ten • thousand. " years behind it, and
probably' a hundred million times this
length of life stretching out before it,
would seem to be at the very begin-
ning of its existence. Far -Off future
ages, looking down this immense
vista of time from the other end, will
think of our times as lying .at the
first dawn of civilization ours will
appear as the heroic age of man's first
occupation of ,earth, When hs sbhll
Struggled •with the primeval wildness
.of its surface' and first ,learned to
utilize "the 'forces of nature in his'ef-'
forts to establish society and „civiliza-
tion. We carry the heavy responsi-
bility,of bhoso who draw up plane and
lay -foundations for •a lotg future
Northern Settlers ,': end
Classics
Toronto.—Residents in the scatter-
ed settlements of Northern Ontario
have a predilection forconstitutiohal
history, applied ecionceand 'the cissa-
ted' to a surprising extent according
to the teachers 10 charge of the On-
tario Government school and library
railway cars that oporate.inethat part.
of the country,
"'The. two cars that have been travel-
ling in Northern Ontario for about
two years have proven so popular that
three morecars aro to be put lnte
service in September.'
The libraries in the two cars began.
with 300 boblcs in each,- among which
were some on the more popular works.
of , fiction. It was soon found that
the-prhicipal demand was for histories,
biographies, the best works ou applied
science, etc., and the Ontario Govern-
went is augmenting the libraries with
the standard books on the subjects
the settlers evidently prefer.
These cars stop at different points,
along the Natiotral Transcontinental
line running from Cochrane, Ontario,
to Winnipeg, Where there ars no ,
schools, and give the rudiments of
education to the children of settlere
Magnetic Waves
Lure Steamers
On To Shoals?
Port Arthur. -The chart of the
vicinity where the steamer Reroute
went aground on a reef at Lucille
Island recently shows there i8 a
magnetic disturbance in that ,Meals
Ity, likely to interfere with a ship's
compass.
It is reported that' the steamer
Minch, bound for Port Arthur, just
grazed the•Lucflts: IBland. feet not
long ago, but sustained no damage. -
The steamer Saskatoon ran on the
Rock of Ages late in May, while
On her way to Duluth. It is said
that in both instances the compass
direction was true to the r4nlar
charted course,,, On June 7, the
passenger steamer America of the
Dominion Transportation Co. ran.
on a reef at Washington Harbor, a:
harbor it lead navigated .for more
than a quarter of a century. The
America sank after tlfe`passengers
and crew had been taken :off. ` `
who live in districts remote from per- ,�''' Big Job
manont schools and also loan book?
to both children and adults. The ven-
Iture has proved a very encouraging
success.
Canada'sP
Po ulation
Estimated 9,658,000
Ottawa, -Canada's population is es-
timated by the Bureau of Statistics as
9,658,000, ad increase of. 139,000 over
the estimate for last year. Por the
different provinces estimates' of popu-
lation are:
1927 1928
P. Edward Island.... 86,100 86,400
Nova Scotia 543,000 547,000
New Brunswick 411,000 415,000
Qaebec e 2,1104,000 2,647,000
Ontario 3,187,000 3,229,000
Manitoba 601,000 655,000
Saskatchewan 836,000 851,000
British Columbia575,000 583,000
i Yukon 3,470 3,500
N= W. T. 9,050 9,200
Canada 9,519,000 9,658,000
1.
When the last Dominion census was
taken in 1921, the imputation was Coln-
puted at, 8,788,000. The increase in
the last seven years, therefore,
amounts, according to the estimate, to
870,00.0, or an average of 124,000 per
year. The increase in population be-
tween 1911 (the year of the previous
census) and 1921 was 1,582,000, and
average of 158,000 per year.
WOMEN DECLINES TO
"PESTER" MINISTERS
Port Illizabeth, Cape - Colony.—I(een
as are the women of South Africa to
obtain the parliamentary franchise,
they have decided not to adopt the
methods of the pre-war suffragettes
in England,
j At the annual conference of the
1 Women's Enfranchisement League at
, Port Elizabeth it was moved: "That
in view'of the unsympathetic attitude
of'the Government toward the enfran-
chisement of women,: the time has
home to adopt an active policy 06
pestering Cabinet Ministers and mem-
bers of the Government,' such actions'
to beon similar lines to those em-
ployed by the W. S. P,U. In Great BM-
-tale in pre-war days."
A representative of the Port Eliza-
beth branch declared that her mem
fibers objected to the word 'pester"
and would prefer to substitute "per-
sistent presentation of our claims,"
Furthermore, hor,.branch thought that
the resolution went far enough if they
Tottenham magistrate to a woman
complainant: , "What do you know
against, this man?" The Woman:
"Only that he is my husband.".
1 Plan Change in North African
Climate by Creating
Inland Sea
London,—A plan to change the cli-
mate of Northern Africa by creating
inland seas in the Sahara desert is
being seriously considered by the
French Government and" the Cabinet
is expected to make a decision on the
question in September.
Dwight Braman, of New Yorlc, is
the 'engineer ,who presented the plan
and undertook to make 350,000 to fur-
ther the project. He made an en-
gineering study last spring of the arid
Wastes lying below the level of the
Mediterranean, and extending from
the Gulf' of Gables westward to Bisken,
and formulated plans to cut three ship.
canals 40 'feet deep and 200 feet wide
connecting the Mediterranean sea at
Gables with three dry saline lake beds
called "Schlotts."
The first canal Is to be 10 miles
long and will extend from the Gulf of
Gables to Schotts Dierld. The second,
six miles in length, will. connect
Schotts Djerid with Schotts Rharsd,
and the third will run from Schotts
Rharsa to Schotts Melira, which ends
ileore than a mile and a half from
)31110x. ,
1
r9eh ad's New Era
"Constitutionalism Inas trinubirhed
In Ireland," writes Bolton C. Waller,
Irish author and"exPert in interna-
tional 'problems. In the August. Cur-
rent Illatory ho, describes the new dra
of law and order which has transform-
ed the •Irish Pree State within • the
Past year. "The chief gain is this,"
he says, .'!that: all the elected repro-
eentativoa of the people have now
taken their seats In the national Par-
liament and .acknowledge its authority.
Whatever bo the aims of the.Ropubll-
can section for the future, they now
intend to pursue them, not by 'agita-.
Hon or violence, In the country(, butt, by
mei the nof the constitutional organs:
of the, State.
'In the new Dail the debut of the
Fianna Fail Party as the official oppo-
sition was awaited with muck interest.
Many people expected them to adopt a
policy of pure obstruction intended
to discredit the Dail and' the Free
State. But this was not their inten-
tion. They showed regard for 'the
dignity of the House and a readiness
to discuss praotical questtons&on their
'merits In a,practboal way, playing the
part ofra constitutional Opposition,
prepared to take office when the time
should coins, • * * President 'Cies-
grave‘. on May 5 pointed 'out` that a
.great deal of.the' old political bitter-
ness had dleappeared, and that all
parties,- were concentrating their at-
tention on the new:oconomic, inns
trial and commercial'development of
the oountry. In. general, the condition`
of the country is felt to be 'far more
stable, as Is shown among other things
i•�y the successful flotation of the new
National Loan,"
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New Materials
of -Artificial Silk
All -artificial silks are being need
for afternoon and evening wear ex-
tensively.
stensively. - Several new fabrics have
been produceed to meet this demand.
The loveliest one so far is an artifi-
cial silk -satin with an artificial silk
face and back, the latter- dyed a
slightly darker tone than the face of
the material.
Several innovations h5.vs been'
made In the production of the artifi-
cial silk voile featured two soasone
ago, but not extensively popular. *A1
thoigh even at that time -the patterns
and calor'iug were beautifuland the
sheerness alrelrst equal to that of
chiffon, the threads rayseled and pull-
ed,- not only during the making but
afterward at the slightest frietion. It
was difficult to cut because of this
slippery. quality of the thread, and it
was extremely bard to launder. These
faults, however, have been overcome,
not only ,by the 'continental houses
where the artificial voiles"were first
made, but by British houses In Man-
chester. The threads do not attentive'
material is made in designs more
beautiful than before and are well
adapted to this season's feminine
fashions.
There le need, as one department
store buyer recently said, to educate
the public, regarding the laundering
qualities of this material and also
concerning the proper method of
washing it Tor retaining the sheen
there is said to be a chemical sub-
stance which should be added to the
last rinsing water, and Which will
leave . the articles ,undamaged., This
is a new preparation, and if the claim
of tho manufacturer is established, it
will be an added factor In determin-
ing the durability of the material
An Unfortunate Incident
London Daily Express (Ind, Cons.):,
(A, party of Englishmen, spending a
holiday. at Boulogne, which they had
not visited since they had' passed
through 3s "Tommios" on their way
up 'the line, became embroiled in a
street disturbance and Were arrested,
After .three weeks' delay, they were
marched through the streets -of Bou-
logne, chained together, under a
guard with fixed bayonets). If thee°
men were guilty of rowdyism 11 :is
deeply regrettable. They were to 'a
foreign country, and therefore under
a double compulsion to behave wen.
But, whatever their misdemeanours;
the Trench 'authotltdes should be Mold
politely but very firmly that the treat-
ment meted out tor•them is inexcusa-
ble. If they broke the law, by all.
means let them he punished. Bat to
keep men three weeks - in prison with-
out trial is a grave breach of inter-
national good manners. We are sure
the French only need to have their
attention `called to this. injustice to
rectify it at once. ,
FIRST WOMAN CANDIDATE 1
Mrs. Edith H. MacFadden is the
first woman candidate for "governor
in the history, of Massachusetts.
D1e6t13o fans are almost to .use'fifi
in the winter as`in the summer. cProp-
erly placed in the kitchen thevmay be
used to blow smoke and odors out
of a window•,- they will facilitate the
drying of clothes -and are often used
to assist in the drying of hair after a
shampoo,
Anglo-American Friendship
London Observer (Ind.): Anglo-
American friendship must come, first
in all circumstances. Franco -British n
friendship; high as we value it, and -
generoinsly as we would cherish it,
cq es second. Above all things, the
latter vilest- not bo alloWed to get -
in the way of the •fernier. ' There lies
ultimate failure even for .the Duni.
pep @manses which. Whitehall and
the taut d'Oirsay, with the hid of the
Melee -leg exerts, have been seeking
10 secure Is a method of logical eta-
.toratiou` equally anxious and useless..
The Kellogg Pact
London? Daily Olrl'onicle''(Lib.): We
can)oot of course regard this pact a
an p 0 t n important step of
la
read.- But it shouldld hearten the
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"Practice maketli perfect,"
The proverb so doth tench—
Especially if we practice
The fine things that we preach,
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August 20. ,Leseen IX, Paul in o
Renege Prlson—Acts 10: 19.3: dol+
den Text—ReJolce In the Lord al•
way, and again, 1 cay, -Rejoice.--.
Phil. 4: 4,
' ANALYSIS
L THE SLAVE Ginty 10-24.
II. mktn JAILER, 25-84.
INTR DUCTION—Luke does not toll
us an'tths'ng about the Sounding of the
chute at Philippi,' but we learn much
from the letter which Paul wrote to
that eongr'egation at a later time. We
learn that the Philippians; were very
devoted to Paul and ready to make
all kinds of zaciyfice for then' 1 aith.
In Acts we are introduced to three
interesting characters one of whom
�•as described in the last lesson. In
the two instances given here, we see •
how the gospel came into conflict with
forces thea threatened„to destroy the
re
lugian of
Jesus.
I. Trim SLAVE GInn, 16-24.
bn stniking contrast to Lydia is the
girl Wiitht, a spirit of divination,
through whom we obtain+a glimpse
into -the;; pagan beliefs on the difficult
s'ubjeet.of demouaiea1 possession. We
react quite often in the gospel that
Jesus was -brought into contact with
these evil spirits and that he was able
to drive them. out. In thisparticular
instance the girl appeare to have the
power of - a , ventriloquist, and was
likely 'sob jest to outbursts : of ecstasy,
which the common people regarded as
a mark of the divine presence ti e
She.greatIy annoyed the p y
addressing them as servants of the.
Most High God who brought salve•
tion,”" Tho belief. in Saviour God was
quite widespread, and it is probable
that among some pagans the God of •,'
the Jews was addressed as the "Moet
High."' Paul commands the spirit, to
come out of the girl and as a -result
her special gifts are lost and she ie
no longer of any money value to her
masterts.
V. 19. Paul's action brings him at
ones into conflict with the vested in-
tepO?i;+ee5tests , a£who theh, gad roupmade : of • mea nsma, perhapsll for-
tune out of the miseries of this maid.-
It is striking that the gospel received
its first attack from heathendom from
the side of commerce. Men are most
sensitive in matters of loss and gain.
Aeeordingly these men decide to wait
s
held thor eirdco rt,hand am they lay bid o£
Paul and Silas and bring them Into
the marketplace; for trial.
V. 20, In this Roman colony thty
followed, the example of the capital,
and had two magistrates who pre-
sided over their courts. Luke is very
accurate in' leis nee of the titles for
the various officials.
The accusers, true to type, do not
mention the real cause} of offence.
They say nothing about their own
personal aces, nor do they mention the
fact that a poor girl had bean healed
of a sore trouble, They accuse Paul
and Silas of causing riot and disturb-
ance and of introducing now customs
that may break up society. The men'
further remind the judges that they
ane Romans, thus giving a hint that
if they fail to act severely In this ease
they may themselves be charged with
ueitfaithfulneas to tho interests of the
Doman Empire,
V. 22. The' expected result tools
Place. The fickle mob is roused to
fury, and the magistrates condemn
the prisoners, The words nought sub-
gest that these judges resit their own
clothes, but people are usually more
ready to tear other people's clothes
than their own; and here the victims
aro Paul and Silas, who, the being
prepared for the punishment assign-
ed them,
Vto. 23. The.y a-
re beaten by •tho Ea-
ters and sent to prison with a special
order to the jailor to guard them as
dangerous political enemies.
V. 24. The jailer makes sure of
this by thrusting them into the inner
prison, which was likely a cell carved
out -of the rock, where he also secures
them with chains on their feet.
II. TEE SAILEn, 25-34.
This introduces us to the third im-
portant personage in Luke's narra-
tive so different from either Lydia
or the slave girl. He was probably e
Ronan soldier with a strict sense of
hisresponsibility, oomscious also that
• neglect on his part will be se-
verely phed.
V. 25—Tinaunispicture hero presented
is very vivid` and interesting,' ,Paul
and Silas, though prisoners, cannot
forget that they are sheering for
their Master, and their jpy breaks out
into song, either the. Psalms or` sonic
early Christian hymn, such as the his-
torian Pliny speaks of in his letters
in the early part of the next century.
Their fellow prisoners are much
astonished to . hear such unusual
sounds in a place where rough lan•
gnagb and foul pests are tae order,
V. 20. The earthquake follows, and
opens up the doors so that the way
of escape lies before them, lent the
fact is not given in order bo show how
prayer' was answered, but rather is
reveal tlio courage and kind feelings
which Paul reveals' in this hour when
he could have so easily escaped.
V. 21. The jailer is awakened b3
the earthquake and hurries down
from hie private quarters, Ile seat
the door open and rushes to the con.
elusion that the prisoners haw
escaped. Rather than face the con-
sequenes sof this he preferred to take
imt5 own life:. Suicide was 110 uncom-
mon thing in the . pagan world.
V. 28. How characteristic of Paul
are these simple words, showing his
sympathy with this poor manl He
would not wish any one to be led is
such a tragic death because of his
own personal advantage
V. 29. The jailer can ecarecly be-
lieve whathe sees 'and he is So over-
come by the action of these strange,
prisoners ,that he fails down as if
to w6kah
V, 30.ip, His question is moat na-
tural. The safety which he wanted
was not merely protection ,from out-
ward danger, but hos mind had been
awakened to the deeper needs of his
soul. Had not these ,nen been ad.
dressed as the heralds of salvation?
v.+=17. The events of the trial, the
manner of the prisoners and most of
all the scenes of this memorable night
had showed him that there was some.
thing which he needed, salvation from
evil and from,deabh.
V 31. Paul's reply has been the :ane
ewer given to thousands of awakeno4
sinners. It is only Jesus who tan-
save from the guile:, fear and punish-
ment of ern, and who cat impart
peace, end assurance of Gal's for•giv, g love,
T 83, Tire neo'essary isinlit tiom is
given, glad thrau0'h baptjsrn'they are
ggivggn addmielsdon onto the church. ble
doubt this man became ono' of the
active leaders of the colnmundity:, Iso'•
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