The Seaforth News, 1928-10-18, Page 2Sunday School.
Lesson
October 21.-1. mason 111, -Christian
Stewardship, 2 Cor, 8: 1.9; 91 6, 7
16, Golden Text -First gave their
own selves to the Lord. -2 Cor, 81 6
ANALYSIS
I, THE FORCE 09 A 000D EXAMPLE, 8:1-5.
II. me NEED OF CAREFUL SUPERYXSION,
III. TI•IE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTIAN
9';^ 6 ,7, 15.
,INTRODUCTION -This important let-
ter was probably written towards the
end of A.D, 56, when Titus had come
back from Corinth.
THD FORCE OF A 0001 iai:AMtLE, S:1-5.
V. 1. Paul refers 'to the Christians
in Macedonia in order to stir up the.
mind of the Corinthians, and .the cir-
cumstances of' thee Christians are so
set forth as to reveal the intense gen-
erosity shown by them, Tho only ex-
planation Paul can find is that God
has given them this grace and liberal-
ity, The next verses mention sone of
the ' qualities which distinguish this
kindness of the Macedonians.
V. 2. (a) The offering was tirade in
a time of great confliction. Severe
punishments had broken out, and they
'had to endure incessant pain. This
'was a test through which they passed
with great success. (b) The gift was
made, not with a grudging spirit, but
out of an overflowing heart, They real-
ized what had been done for them-
selves by Christ, Often it has been the
case that the followers of Jesus have
come to realize what are the secrets of
divine love in such moments of deep
trouble. (e) It was done out of pov-
erty and not out of wealth. The Rom-
ans had been very hard on Macedonia:
they robbed them of their silver and
gold mines and of other means of
wealth, and still continued to exact
heavy taxation. "The Macedonians
said that their nation was like a lacer-
ated and disjointed animal." Yet these
kind people did not suffer their own
need to prevent • them from making
this gift.
V. 3. (d) They gave far beyond
their means, and did not stop to cal-
culate which was their proportion.
V. 4. (e) They came forward with-
out any effort on Paul's part to stir
up the gift, and they insisted upon
giving what they could. It was a free-
will offering in the truest sense of the
word. They looked upon it, not as a
hard task, but as a real opportunity
and privilege, and they pleaded with
Paul to be allowed to participate.
V. 5. (f) They went far beyond his
expectations. They did not limit their
etrorts to these gifts, but said that
they were ready to meet his will in
any other way he could suggest. They
would send a companion to take their
contribution. These were the qualities
which distinguished this offering from
Macedonia, and account for the praise
which Paul bestows upon them. It
was surely a real incentive to orinth.
They meet not fall below the standard
of their brethren.
II. TIIE NEED OP CAREFUL SUPERVISION,
8: 6-9.
V. 6. Paul was a careful organizer,
and knew that everything of this kind
would have to be arranged beforehand
witli great thoughtfulness. Evidently
the proposal that Corinth should share
in the collection had been made some
time before, and the difference of opin-
ion which had sprung up between Paul
and the church had delays the gather-
ing of the money. But now that they
are reconciled Paul returns to the sub-
ject, moved by the hope that these
people will make an offering worthy
of themselves. We must read the whole
passage in order to recognize the mo-
tives which are here actuating the
apostle. He knows how reedit,- suspi-
cion may arise in the case of the
handling of trust funds such as these.
He will not do it all himself, but will
take Titus and other members with
hiln that they may share the responsi-
bility. In vs. 20, 21 he tells them that
he must be above reproach. We must
also read the opening verses of chapter
9 in order to see how firm Paul can be,
and how straightforward' he is in all
his practical dealings. The church
can never be too attentive to any busi-
ness arrangements into which she has
to enter.
III. TIME INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTIAN
GIVING, 9: 6 ,7, 15.
Paul is greatly agitated lest these
Corinthians should compare unfavor-
ably with other Gentile churches, and
he now supplies three motives which
may urge them to do their very best.
V, 7. (1) They will reap in propor-
tion to their sowing. This mays not
seem to be a very high motive, but it
is one that works powerfully with us
'V'. 8. (2) AU they have le due to. the
kindness and love of God. Their newer
to work and to earn a Fining is the di-
rect gift of their Ilenvenly Father, and
they should eek to imitate the ,joy and
liberality with which God treats thorn.
Ged•loveth a cheerful giver,.
V. 15. (8) The greatest of all Chris-
ten motives is the love of Christ who
came to cavo us and who gave his life
that we might enter into eternal life.
Christ is the unspeakable gift, It is
an offering, for which ;no words are
sufficient in order to describe its
magnitude. Then Paul reaches that
which is the purest of all Christian
motives, which is love, The One thing
that can make our {rifts worthy, both
in quantity and, quality, is the spirit of
sacrifice, which we learn at the cross
of Christ.
Serious Sheep Loss
I,
Can Be Prevented
A Little Iodine in Food Will
Eliminate Goitre and
Improve Health
A Great Scientific Achieve.
ment '
Science now 'offers a means of elim-
inating many of the losses which were
regarded as inevitable a few years
ago, Goitre in sheep, hairlessness in
pigs and joint -ill in colts, for instance,
can alt be prevented as a result of
recent research. These three things,
which exact a heavy toll in Canada
each year, never visit the farm where
the stockman feeds a little iodine, ac-
cording to Lionel Stevenson, newly
appointed Provincial Zoologist in On-
tario.
Ioine, Dr. Stevenson points out,
costs less for ten years than the loss or
Weakening of a -single lamb, "There
is no substitute," he says; "iodine must
be present in the food. What you lose
on one dead, weak or runt lamb, would
pay for all the iodine required by your
flock for ten years. Why take a
chance with goitre when it costs little
to insure your flock against such
losses."
Not only does the use of iodine pre-
vent goitre in sheep, but it also tones
up the general health of the animal,
according to Dr. Stevenson. There are
larger lamb crops, greater gains in
wool and meat, where iodine is regu-
ooraon.
The Canadian Co-operative Wool 'non and iuterconsultation have for
Growers recommend feeding iodine in long past, one is glad to think, been
the form of Potassium Iodide. Only the keynote of the relations between
Sea Elephant
or a Pet
'SEA ELEPHANT QUITE SOCIABLE
He is a guest in the Berlin Zoo and allows his host to stand on him when he is accepting a little light refreshment.
Great Scientific
The British High
Commissioner
Sir William Clark has arrived in
this Dominion to assume the duties of
High Commissioner for Great Britain.
in Canada. It is forty-eight years
since Canada ,named Sir Alexander
Galt as her first High Commissioner
in London, but Sir William is the first
occupant of the complementary post
to be chosen by Britain.
In the first interview given out on expectation that he will set a standard
his arrival on these shores rSh' Wil -
in the new office worthy of the past
Ilam describes the functions which bee which will be difficult to surpass, In
has come here to carry out as "an ad- so doing he will have the support and
ditional channel of communication the good wishes of the united people
between the Government of Canada of Canada, -Montreal Star.
laxly fed with the he fd tiand that of Bute n. . Co opera
ensure an even smoother runniug of
the machinery than created. B
It is a tradition in England that she
sends to Canada mon of outstanding
ability and brilliant gilts. To the long
roster of men who have served the
Empire so ably as Governors -General
must now be added those who are to
serve in the exalted office of High
Commissioner. It will be a post de-
manding ability and qualities of rare
tact and geniality. Sir William. Clark's
past record in the Board of Trade iu
India and in other branches of Im-
peril service warrants the confident
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one half ounce per sheep per year is the two governments and it is hoped
required, but this amount, while small, that the creation of my appointment
is absolutely essential, "Buy medi- may make the bonds between them
cated salt containing potassium still closer. So far as in"me lies it
iodide," they say, "or pre:erably, pre- will be my earnest desire to do every -
pare it yourself by dissolving 4 ounces thing in my power to further that
of potassium iodide in a pint of water. end."
Sprinkle this over 100 pounds of salt Such a declaration will confound
and prix well. Le the sheep and lambs those pessimists who see in the new
help themselves every dry. Don't let
the sheep get salt hungry."
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English Speech
We are gifted with apt speech
among ourselves. • One of the tinge
edies of progress to me is the way in
which apt and racy speech of the
old England is disappearing under the
process of what for want of a better
name we call education. There is
nothing more remarkable (and I
should like some time to address
some observations on that subject)
than the amazing gift of the people.
of England to express themselves,
until they are taught to speak a Jar-
gon that expresses nothing. One day
on my walks in Wyre Forest I met an
old woman, who accosted me with this
salutation -a salutation that sounds to
me Elizabethan, and that I defy any
modern educationalist to improve:
"May God, goodwill and good neigh-
borhood be your company." Think
what -education could de to that!
Those of us who are wealthy can send
our sons to expensive private schools
for four years, and then perhaps for
five or six years to Eton, and we can
finish up with four years at Christ
Church. Think our son will say that
to us? No, he will say, probably,
"Pip -pip, Toodle-oo." For literature, I
take my stand every clay by the side
of the illiterate, and I say to all of you,
"May God, goodwill and good neigh-
borhood be your company." -Stanley
Baldwin, in "Our Inheritance."
all, and at times it was employed by We all finally come to do the things
eJsus. See Matt. 6: 4, 6. we swore we wouldn't.
MUTT AND JEFF -Bud Fisher
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•
appointment some sinister effort to
undermine the British Empire and to
weaken the cordiality of the relations
now existing between London and
Ottawa.
Sir William Clark has had a wide
experience in the machinery of gov-
ernment administration. IIe is a man
of outstanding talent and strong per-
sonality, and it is hardly likely that
he will ever consent to be nothing
more than a transmitting agency be-
tween Ottawa and London. Sir 'Wil-
liam Clark announced that it will be
his first task to travel throughout Can-
ada from end to end in order to gain
knowledge of the country and to dis-
cover the varying outlooks of the peo-
ple in the different provinces. Such
a course has everything to commend
it, and when he has returned to Ot-
tawa he will be in a far better position
to interpret the negotiations in which'
he is to play the part of go-between.
With such knowledge he will not
merely be transmitter of communica-
tions, but a transmitter, interpretting
the Canadian view with a detached
and impersonal outlook, rather than
the more official viewpoint of a Cabi-
net which is bound to be influenced
by the restrictions of political • ex-
pediency.
The appointment of Sir William is
a natural outcome of the Imperial
Conference of 1928, by which the
powers and privileges of the Gover-
nor-General in Canada were restricted,
the Governor-General becoming the
personal representative of the Sover-
eign while the ttawa Government
transacted its business directly with
the Cabinet at Westminster. This
plan has worked well and the appoint-
ment of a High Commissioner should
Television Is
Show Be .; ture
Los Angeles Exhibit Proves
New Subject Real Pub-
lic Attraction
Los Angeles -Television radio -casts
and receptions featured the sixth an-
nual National Radio Exposition which
was brought to a successful close here
recently. Record crowds were in at-
tendance at the Ambassador Auditori-
um, where the annual event was stag-
ed, every day of the six-day run.
• The television booth was always a
canter of attraction. Here "seers -in"
as well as "listeners -in" were afford-
ed an opportunity to witness all of the
steps in the process of television radio -I
casting and reception.
Under the supervision of a radio '
engineer images were radiocast from
ono part of the auditorium and picked'
up in another, and although in its
early stages of development with am-'
ple room for improvement the demon-'
stration was nevertheless interesting
and pleasing to large gatherings of
radio fans.
Many improvements in both cabinet
work and the instruments themselves'
were noted, and the scores of display'
booths gave a comprehensive view of
the year's developments in the radio
field.
The cream of radio entertainment
from 15 stations throughout Los
Angeles County was heard during the
exposition given alternately on five'
different stages in different parts of
the auditorium. When one program
was finished on a stage in one section'
of the building the lights were turned
off on that stage and a stage in an-:
other part of the exposition would be
illuminated and an other group of
radio stars would appear.
Abit of color was added to the
show when all the performers appear'
ed in special costumes instead of
street attire which they ordinarily
wear when appearing before the'micro-'
A
Achievement
Ottawa, Canada. -The development
of Garnet wheat, a new variety of
great promise, is almost ari epic in
the realm of 'scientific achievement,
according to the Dominion Cerealist
at the Canadian Government Experi-
mental Farm, Ottawa, This new
wheat was placed on the market only
two years ago after almost half a
century of patient but determined
effort connected with its breeding and
evolution.'
In 1914 Garnet wheat was included
in the regulary.variety test -plots at
the Experlmenthl Farm, at Ottawa.
In 1919 it was tested at the Experi-
mental Farms in the Prah'le Prov-
inces, In 1925 the Branch Farms were
able to sow 320 acres, from which was
produced about 9,700 bushels, In 1926,
some 6,954 bushels of Garnet seed
1 were offered 'to Prairie farmers with
a four -bushel limit to any one farmer.
Some 2,826 farmers, including 862 sol-
dier settlers, secured two to four bush-
els lots and this, together with seed
from increasing test samples by two
or three seed growers, made a grand
total of some 14,000 bushels, or enough
to seed 12,000 acres.
This year Garnet wheat was ob-
served growing in all parts of the
west. The section .east of Prince Al-
bert and north of Tisdale, Sackatehe-
wan, is practically a Garnet country.
It is an early maturing variety. It
usually ripens from Six to twelve days
ahead of Marquis and has consequent-
ly enabled the area of wheat produc-
tion to be extended much further
northward.
In 1903 it was reported wheat would
never grow in the Peace River coun-
try, Alberta. This year Garnet was
being cut here on August 21st. Crops
were more advanced in the Peace
River district than further south, and
some of the west's finest crops were
seen there. In the Rio Grande section
of the Peace River country on August
22nd( 31 varieties of wheat were iden-
tified, and of these 16 were Garnet,
seven Marquis, five Huron, one Tur-
key, one Ruby, and one Reward, which
indicates the way in which Garnet
wheat is spreading in Western Can-
ada. As an early maturer and good
yielder it has no equal., its discovery
is regarded as an epoch-making con-
tribution to Canadian agriculture:
"A girl's trump card is her feminin-
ity," saysa popular woman novelist.
That obviously means a short suit
these days.
A barrister was met by a friend the
other day in the street with a number
of law books. Pointing to the books,
his friend said, "Why, I thought you
carried all that stuff in your head!"
"I do," quickly replied the lawyer with
phone. Ia wink; "these are for the judges."
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Forest Fire
Caused by Smokers
Animal Myths
A collection of these, suggested by
questions received by the staff of the
A U.S. View of a Question New Ye's'k Zoologieltl Garden, is gii'en
Vital to Canada's Forest by Department
L, Dltmam euraltor of
ealth the Department of ,Mammals and Rep.
tiles, in an article, originally prepared
Srnolcei's leave been responsible for PS a radio talk, printed in ""Science
over a third of. all the man -caused for• j and Invention" (Now York), Interest
est Mee in the national' forests oP I in animal 1Ffe in this country is in
Oregon 'and Washington,'aecording to creasing, Mr,' Ditmars tells us. He
a report just lesued by the U.S, orest writes:
Service. With 'a total of 293 man- "There is developing a humane and
caused fires so Par this season, 100 sympathetic interest that is clearly in-
were started by careless smokers. As- (Heated by the increasing mail received
cording to a press bulletin, just issued at the Zoological Park. We have to
by the Service, every, time a careless answer every kind of a query,' from
smelter throws a burning oigaret into elephants being` afraid of .mice,
the dry grass or needles of a forest through the maze of hoopsnake myths,
floor he is giving the fire demons odds to toads producing warts. Let us con.
,of one to nine that it won't start a sider a few of these superstitions,
fire. Wo read: "The first to be cited is that of the
"These odds, coupled with the fact 'hoop -snake, alleged to take its tail in
that .there is smoked -and discarded in its mouth and roll down -hill -or; pro -
the United States the amazing total pal itself along a road. There is no
of 171,232 cigarets per minute, day serpent in the world that in its habits
and night, during the entire year, are even indicates a basis for the story.
believed to account for the large per- When alarmed or excited some snakes
tentage of man -caused forest and may thrash around, and it is quite pose
brush fires that are started by Bible that they might accidentally
smokers. ' Even if only one-third of grasp 'their tail in their, mouth, but
the cigarets consumed throughout the never with an idea of rolling away to
country were smoked out-of-doors, safer regions. Nor has any snake in
there would , still be over 50,000 the world a sting in the tail. When
chances a minute' of a fire, foresters correspondents have become insistent
ppint out, about the hoop -snake and power to
"To determine the fire hazard from sting with its tail, we have offered to
smoking materials, P. D, Sale and F. pay a thousand dollars for even a
M. Tloffheins, of the U. S. Bureau of young specimen that would perform.
Standards, recently made a series of Twenty-five years of repetition of this
tuts with nine brands of cigarets and offer have 'produced no hoop -snakes.
eleven brands of cigars, The tests
were made by placing the lighted
cigar or oigaret butts in a dry grass
pad attached to a screen,
"Some tests }vera made in still air;
others with winds of various veloci-
ties generated by a small electric fan.
From measurements of butts found on
concrete floors, pavements, and bare
ground, It was estimated that the aver-
age cigaret butt is about one and one-
fourth inches long; so half-length
cigarets were lighted and burneddown
to one-fourth inches for use in these
tests, Cigar -lengths used in the tests
ranged from from the whole to any length
sufficient for relighting and testing.
In a similar fashion we dispose of the
enthusiastic correspondent who insists
he -has records of sevdnty-five-foot boa -
constrictors in the tropics, But in this
instance the price' being 4f alleged '
noble size, we are willing to increase
the offer -even offering a thousand
dollars for a dried, rolled skin,
"Next in order of the snake myths
is that of the milk -snake. Many farm--,
ars firmly believe that there is a specie
fied kind of snake that lurks around
the 'barns and steals milk from the
cows by, actually milking the stock.
Some blame the black snake for this
pernicious habit. There is no doubt
"In 11219 tests each with cigars and that certain snakes may warrent sus-
picion by their persistent lurking
cigarets in still air no ignition of the 'around barns and dairies. They are
grass tools place. In a wind Of one to rodent -destroying species,. and gather
three miles per hour the ignitions of neer human habitations owing to the
cigarets amounted to 41.2 per cant,; in abundance of rats and mice around the
a three -to -four -mile wind 55.3 per Eales. A fair-sized serpent, if it were
cent.; in a four -to -flys -mile wind, 50.8 to crave milli, would be limited to con -
per cent,; and in a flve•to-eight-mile tarn not more than half a pint of fluid
wind, 57.7 per cent. widen its stomach. As cements feed,
In cigar tests in a one -to -three-mile it would not repeal the meal before a
wind, the ignitions were 18,5 per cent.; weak An amount like this woirkl pro-
m ethics-to•four-mile wind, 8.1 per duce lo effect upon ev,n a scrawny
An
cent.' a four -to -five -mile wind, 25.4 per weer
cent. The"ignitions increased to 89.3 "other query we receive is about
per cent. fn a nine-to-tryelve•nrile wind. hoAnosehtrs falling into a well and
which was the highest in all the tests turning into snakes. This is explained
that were made. by a singularly slender aquatic worm,
"CIgarets took from 19.2 to 33.5 technically known as Gordius, quite
minutes to burn their full length; active, sometimes over a foot long and.
cigars from 2.3 to 5.17 minutes. The ,appearing like an animated horsehair.
average time the cigarets took to A common
", query is about rattle -
ignite the grass was '5 to 9 minutes.
The cigars took on the average for
the Various wind velocities and
lengths all the way from 1 minute,
18 seconds to 4 minutes and 28 sec-
onds.
DOESN'T GAS ON THE STEPS
"Does your feller ever gas on the
steps with you In the evening?"
"I should say not 1 -le steps on
the gas with me In the evening,
Ary dear."
Ethyl-Fle said he would kiss nae or
site in the attempt Methyl -And did
you let him? Ethyl -Welt, he has no
life inburance, and I pitied his poor
aid 'mother.
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snakes committing suicide when cor-
nered. There is a story to the effectif
a horsehair lariat is thrown in a circle
and a rattler placed inside'thaelt will-,
not cross the rope, but, striking its
fangs deeply into its body, quickly
dies from the deadly venom. All ven-
omous serpents are immune to their
respective poisons. In the excitement.
of capture they often strike this way
and that, and wound themselves with
the poisonous fangs, but there is no
bad effect from such injuries.
"I have tried the horse -hair lariat
experiment a number of tines., and
have Been rattlers calmly crawl over
the rope -in fact 'have not noted that
they even hesitated. This.also elimin-
ates,tl'ie myth about the sleeping coow
jio' elf the plains, seeldng protection
from prowling rattlers by sleeping
within a large ring of his lariat.
Birds Appreciate
Lights' Protection
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Crowds Seek Hotel Grounds
in Colombia Because of .
Night Prowlers
Puerto Berrie, olombia.-The swat-
lows of Puerto Berrie, famous
throughout the Republic, are interest-
ing. These birds come nightly to
roost in the palm grove of the hotel,
where the electric lights of the
grounds give thenn protection from
night prowlers which the jungle does
not afford,
As dusk approaches, thousands of
the birds simultaneously appear in the
sky, soaring above the hotel grounds
in most interesting evolutions of flight,
No confusion ensues as they seek suit-
able places, allchattering • constantly,
There appears to be a definite under-
standing as to which parted the grove -
a detachment shall occupyt When the
shade of a tropical night sweeps down,
the last swallow has wound a place in
tho grove, the chattering ceases, and
all ie quiet and serene under the lights
of the hotel grounds which have never
failed these birds for years.
The peach crop of.Canada this year
will, it is estimated, total 687,000
bushels, compared with 847,580 bush-
els last year, an increase'' of 3,12,110
bushels,
"My husband le so good to his em-
ployaa," "Is he?" "Yes, Ile carne
homo late 'Prom the office lase night,
all tired out, and I heard him say in
his sleep, 'Jing, Pah going to raise you
another ten,' And businert is so poor
just now,'