The Seaforth News, 1930-09-25, Page 31
Sunday School
Lesson
September 21. _ Lesson XII. ' Jonah
(The Narrow Nationalist Rebuked).
ANALYSIS
L R1 'uSrNG THE CALL O(,` GOD, chap, 1.
II. A.PRAYER OUT OP' THE, DEPTHS, chap.
2..
.III. A RELUCTANT OBEDIENCE, chapters
3and 4,.
INTRODUCTION—Joretniah, or some
later prophet whose work is included
in the book of : eremiall (chaps. 50-
51), compared fr e king of Assyria and
Nebuchadnezzar, Ming of Babylon,
with fierce beasts of prey which had
devoured Israel.and broken: his bones,
and rho latterwith .a dragon which
had swallowed up =stats and then cast
him forth, 50: 17; 51: 34. The refer-
ence is unmistakably to the captivity
of Israel and Judah in Assyria and
Babylonia and to the release and re-
turn of, the exiles after the conquest
of Babylon by Cyrus, There is an
explicit prediction of such a return in
50: 18-20. It would seen that some
large hearted Jewish writer of the
first or second century afttr the re-
turn used a similar figure in writing
the book of Jonah, Jonah he uses to
represent Israel, refusing to exercise
his prophetic -mission to the ,world, the
mission- of teaching Jehovah's ways
.and establishing universal peace (Isa,
2: 1-4), or of bearing the covenant
blessing and the light. of deliverance
to all oppressed natiors, Iso. 42: 1-7;
49: 6. The eastern empires which
conquered and enslaved Israel are rep-
resented by the great fish, and the re-
turn of Israel to his own land tt the
'vomiting forth of Jonah upon the dry
land, Israel's keen desire :o see the
'rations which had opposed him pun-
ished, and his rediction of ruin to
these nations, are well represented by
Jonah's preaching in Nineveh, and by
his discontent and anger at tee non-
fulfihnent of his prediction of the de-
struction of that city. The book closes
with a rebuke 'o the narrow spirit of
rational selfishness, and a most im-
pressive lesson of the all -embracing
mercy of Goi.
2. REPUbING THE CALL OF GOD, chap, 1.
Jonah, the son of ALiittai, is niea-
tior d elsewhere only once. -In the
brief account of jeroboam F and his
reign, in 2 TCtags, 14: 23-2e, h . is said
to have foretold the extonsirt of the
kingdon of Israel "from the entering
in of Hatnath (in the north) to the
sea of the Arabah (in the south)." Of
Isis hall to be a prophet and his mis-
sion to Nineveh we know nothing ex-
cept what is told us here in +he book
of Jonah. The book is quite' evidently
not written by him, but rather about
hint. There :nay have been current in
later centuries usve such story as is
heretold which 'the writer .tf this book
takes and uses for his own purpose.
Ire his hands it becomes a parable con -
taming a pointed and effective rebuke
to the narrow Judaism cf the fifth and
following centuries B.C., which desir-
ed and predicted only the destruction
of the nations which had beer. hostile
to Israel. See for examples. Ezekiel,
chapters 38-39; Joel, chapter 3; etc,
II. A PRAYER OUT OF THE DEPTHS, Chap..
2.
It is net quite easy to understand
the language of this prayer as pro-
ceeding from a ratan in a whale's belly.
It is true that he might have described
himself ea in the "belly or hell," or
rather Sheol (as margin R.V.), and
as in "the depth, in the heart of the
seas," but hardly as having the
weeds ... wrapped about" lis head.
The last clause of verse 6 and the
verses that follow represent him as
delivered and his prayer as answered,
and declare his purpose to offer te
sacrifice of thanksgiving. The prayer
may have come out o3 any occasion of
extreme danger or distress.,
III. A RELUCTANT OBEDIENCE, chapters
3 and 4.
When Jonah's second chance carne
he went to Nineveh and proclaimed
the destruction of that city—"Yet
forty days and Nineveh.shall be over-
thrown." He represents very perfect-
ly the attitude and spirit of the Jews
after the period of the exile toward
their neighbors. No dotlbt there were
notable exceptions, as seen in the
language of some of the Psalms, for
example, 96, 100. But, like Jonah, the
Jewish people as a whole had no gos-
pel of salvation for the Gentiles and
no desire that the Gentile -nations
should survive the catastrophe which
they believed would end the age in
which they'lived.
But in this story the unexpected oc-
curred. Nineveh listened and repent-
ed of its sin, "and God repented of the
evil which he said he would do unto.
them." Jonah's prediction was not
fulfilled. .Eut instead of rejoicing at
this eignal display of the^divine mercy
"it displeaseth Jonah exceedingly." Ile
was not pleased 'that his, ,God was "a
gracious God end full of compassion,
slow to anger- and ,plenteot,s in.
mercy." He was grieved for thekde-
struction of a simple, quickly growing,
vine which sheltered Ida -head from the,
heat of the sun, and the absence of
which caused him some discomfort,;
buthe would have looked with satis-
faction upon the destruction of the
many thousands. of Nineveh. Jonali
presents a conspicuous example of the
hardnessof heart and narrowness of.
outlook upon the world of many Jews
of that period, and of manyof the
Jews of New Testament times, This
little book was written as a noble
effort to teach the truth fully revealed
in Jesus Christ, that,
"The love of God is broader
Than the measure of man's mind;
And the heart of the eternal
Is%most wonderfully kind."
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THE TRUTH ABOUT HENPECK
We all pity Mr. Henpeck a bit. Quite
unnecessarily, according to a well-
known authority on children, Dr. C.
W. Kimmins.
Accordiug to him, most henpecked
husbands are really "hen -protected."
As small boys they relied entirely on
their mothers, When they"''grew up
and married they expected their wives
to look after them, makedecisions for
them, and generally act as the "pre-
dominant partner."
This may explain a good many
cases of henpecked husbands, but does
it explain them all? If there are gent-
ly submissive men, who want to be
under authority. there are also master-
ful women who expect to rule.
But, after all, doesn't every wife do
that? The only difference between a
henpecked husband and one who isn't
is that the former knows his wife is
running the show, The other doesn't,
but his wife gets her own .way just
the same,
POLAR BEARS ENJOY
STRONG SUN BATHS
Sympathy is wasted on them in tor-
rid summer weather, according to
F. Thorne, writing in Science News-
Letter, a Science Service publication
(Washington). He quotes George
Jennison, a well-icnown and widely ex-
perieneed English zoologist; as fol-
lows:
"The public err profoundly . With re-
gard to polar bears. They are pitied
in hot weather, while a severe spell of
frost always calls forth the remark
that the polar bears will enjoy them-
selves;actuallythey do not like the
cold.. They rarely enter the water be
tween October and February, and, on
the other hand, nothing pleases' them
so much as hot weather, when they
will Ile flat with all foto' feet extended,
enjoying the blazing sunshine. In the.
Arctic, radiation from the white snow
Is extreme and the heat terrific. Carl
Hageubeck has seen' polar bears
stretched out to enjoy sunshine that
gave -leopards heat apoplexy."
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WHAT THE SAILOR READS
There seems to be a suggestion of
the "busman's holiday" about the fay..
orite reading of sailors. According
to the British Sailors' Society, which
runs the Ocean Library, Service for
Merchant Seamen, travel books are,
after fiction, the most in demand in.
the sea -going libraries.
In fiction, "thrillers" are the), most
popular form of story,in to
ys ty tales
of the sea being especially in demand.
Among the standard authors who are
strong favorites, Joseph Conrad and
Robert Louis Stevenson, who both
wrote sea stories, have places of
honor.
A. standard ocean library consists
of a selection of books, including bio-
graphy, history, travel, essays, poetry,
science, and fiction. It is contained
in an oak cabinet. Libraries can be
exchanged at the principal British
ports and, also on the Continent and
overseas.
Last year 203 new libraries were is-
sued and 1,084 were exchanged. Thcy
are the most travelled libraries in the
world. -Answers.
Irate Parent: "The next time that
young ;van calls, I'll sit on hint."
Daughter: "Oh, father, let me do it!"
ShamL
rocle V, Sir Thom f pton's
as
challenger for the America Cup, has
been insured on a value of $90;000,
at a rate of 150 per cent. Risks cov-
ered include sea perils, fire, partial
damage, and collision,
Exercise Alone
Does Not Reduce
By Marie Ann Best
Article 7—"The Daily Dozen."
There are many excellent exercises.
We read of tthein itt papers, hear them
over the radio. The. main thing is' to
be sure we do them and do them re-
gularly.. It was' thought that to re-
duce one must go through exceedingly
'tiring and long drawn out perform-
ances.
It is found that this is not necessary,
in fact it is sometimes harmful.
One often hears of a person who
tries. to reduce by exercise. Suddenly
they will take a notion to walk four
miles every day. They do so for a
while, coming home tremendously
hungry and quantities of footed are
eaten with great relish,' This maygo
on for days but it seems a very' little
is accomplished for se big an effort.
Why?
Because you cannot reduce justeby
exerr-ise alone. What should be re-
membered is the fact that with the in-
creased' exercise, which should not be
too strenuous; the intake of ,food .must
not be increased, so that in this way
the body will draw on the surplus body
fat for fuel: Everyone knows the great
value of the daily walk, or a swim;
when every muscle of the body is be-
ing exercised, but do not start on too
long a walk at first, get the flabby
muscles used to it.
Here is a good daily sample for ex-
ercise: 1. When you waken yawn and
stretch every muscle in the body.
Yawn again and feel glade you are
alive. Then take hold of each side of
of the bed with your hands, bend the
knees so that tate feet are planted on
tl;e'sheet, then lift hips while lying on
your back and sway over to one side
of tate bed 'as far as you can before
you let yourself down. Then lift and
more over to the other side Repea
fifteen times. Gradually you will be
able to clo it' forty times or more. This
is excellent tar rebating the hips and
also SU•engthons the hack.
2—Draw up one leg tight to the body
encircle the knee with hands to draw
up tighter and let go. Repeat 10
times or more, then exercise the other
leg, after which try both together.
3—Sit up in bed without using arms,
lie down again and repeat 15 times.
Now,, then, you will feel like getting
lip.
4—To tone up the nerves and keep
a cold away there is nothing quite so
good' as a quick 4pld sponge `bath
every morning. It is not nearly as
hard to do as it sounds;, many people
can take .a cold sponge who find the
plunge into cold water hard on the
system. Some prefer a quick tepid
hath or shorter in the morning.
Afterwards the brisk rub with a
rough towel also helps to remove the
surplus 'fat, Pull the towel back and
forth many times across the body M.
every position. It exercises the arms
as well. At night, two or three times
during the week, is the time for the
hot bath, They help to reduce but
too many turkish exhausting baths are
weakening. Everything accomplished
should be gained naturally.
5 -At night massageeyour'ueck with
cold cream, rubbing straight up and
down vigorously with fingers from
point of chin to chest. This prevente
the neck from becoming wrinkled and
removes the fat,
6-A fine exercise for plumb backs
and shoulders is to stand erect, feet
together, stretch arms straight out
side ways, palms up, then make a
large ,circle with your hands without
flexing the elbows, Swing from the
shoulders. Then reverse. At first this
seems hard to do but if you persist
it will take off the flesh just where
you want It off, Be satisfied with four
or five times at first, working up to
twenty times each way:
7—Bend siddways with .arms out-
stretched to left and right,
8—Place hand on door and swing
leg back and forth, then sideways ten
times, What New York
9—To reduce the hips and the calf
of the leg step up on a chair and down
Is Wearing
egaip 'twelve ;tines, each foot alter -
mately.
BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON
Besides reducing we are building up
a subtle self control, for with the in- Illustrated Dressmak- ing Lesson Fier -
creased exercise of the body we do not visited With Every Pattern
intend to eat more food. We will in
this way bring back the body to its
normal weight and beauty, and best of
all it will etay normal because we will
not care to eat such quantities of high
caloried 'foods after we understand
how touch they count.
Keep on with your 1200 Calorie per
day reducing diet if your normal,
weight is 150 pounds, a few more than
1200 calories if yori have a bigger
frame, and less if itis smaller,
Recipe
Tuna Fish a la Newburg
1800 Calories
1 large can tuna fish /2sp, salt
I/z green pepper pinch cayenne.
11Fi' pimento 1 pt. whole milk
3 stalks celery 1 tbls. cream
3 ripe olives 1 ails. batter
3 green olives 2 tblsps flour
Method.—Parboil green pepper and
celery till tender, then drain. Chop
them up with pimento and olives,
Make a white sauce with milk, butter
flour and cream, Season. Pull fish
apart in big pieces. Add to sauce, turn'
in other ingredients, cook together a
minute and serve with toast points.
Next week—Sugar and Chocolates.
MOON IS FOUND GUILTY
FOR SEVERE DROUGHT
Calling the drought now -existing' on
.the North American continent an ap-
palling disastar to,agriculture and the
Severest shite that of 1874, Mr, Her-
bert 'Janvrin Browne, consulting met-
eorologist of Washington, D.C., in a re-
cent Bulletin of his weather .forecast,
service says that the ultimate culprit
Is the moon, working through its tidal
attraction on the ocean. Says Dr. E.
E, Free; in his Week's Science (New
York):
"During recent months the relative
positions of earth and moon in space
have swung the moon farther to the
north of the earth's equator than us-
ual, Mr. Browne explains, while the
moon also has been relatively near to
the earth. This has increasedthe lunar
attraction on the water of the North'
Atlantic, with the result of spreading
westward over that ocean the. cold
water area, which exists normally in
the neighborhood of the Azores Is
lands. Around this cold -water area,
Mr. Browne.s' explanation continues,
there circulate normally a series of
Winds which seldom reach this con-
tinent. This 'summer, however, be-
cause of the unusual westward exten-
sion of the cold -water area, 'these
winds aro reaching this country so
that hot winds blow landward from
the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean
Sea, create more or less permanent
areas of high air -pressure over the
continent and prevent, Mr. Browne
concludes, 'anything save showers in.
the way of rainfall.' The condition
has been accentuated, Mr. Browne
adds, by the fact that the radiation
from the sun, now measured daily by
the Smithsonian Institution; has been
unusually high for the past six weeks."
An old farmer was complaining bit-
terly to the minister of the terribly
bad weather for the crops, when the
latter reminded him,that he had much
to be grateful for, all the same, ".And
remember,".said the good man, "Provi-
dence cares for all Even the birds of
the air are fed each: day." "Aye,"i'e-
piled the farmer, darkly. "Off my
corn."
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A naval vessel put into a South
Wales port, and two midshipmen, keen
golfers, got shore leave. ,Putting ori
;their plus -roues, and complete with
golf bags, they went off for a game.
But on landing they ,were met by a
Well-known coalowner, who knew one
of them, and he suggested lunch and a
visit down a mind instead of golf. So.
down the mine they went, and thea,
reshouldering their golf bags, returned
to the ship, They arrived in face of
the Admiral, who, feeling genial
enough to notice the "snotties," re-
marked, "Been playing golf?" "01r,
no, sir," grinned one of them; "we've
been down a mine," Next morning
they were hauled up for insolence, and
it took a letter from the eoalowner to
persuade the Admiral that appear.
epees had beondeceptive.
Ideal to brighten your mid -summer
wardrobe for town or resort.
Bow theme gives jaunty air to smart
simple all occasion dress of powder-
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011e t! + iarrow as we let
it liketelet ahete..he a logely country
place miles from a railway, we .can
study the plants and animals about us
until we come to mtderetand some-
thing of the secrete of the.universe. If
our let is in a great city, we have op
portunities of studying human nature
seeing with our own eyes the de
vslopment of characters as strange as
ever novelist put into his books. Mul-
titudes of Wren walked the same
streets with Dickens without seeing a
hundredth part 'of what he,saw. It is
the power to see, and not the object to
be seep, that we lack, and this power
may be, to a certain extent, cultivated
by practice.
Immortality
It this life were all, what wide hori-
zons must vanish utterly! Imnior'tal-
ity is a splendid challenge to man, a
challenge repeated at every crisis in
mortal life, ringing even through dis-
appointments or failures, As Words
worth puts it
Our resting, our being's heart and
home
Is with infinitude, and only there,
With hope it is, hope that can never
die,
Effort anis affection and desire.
Mother Earth Beats
Like Human Heart
New Doctrine of Evolution Propound.
ed by Chicago Astronomer.
Albany, N.Y.—The Albany Evening
News publishes a new theory of the
evolution of the universe, advanced by
Professor Benjamin Boss, director of
the Dudley Astronomical Observatory
of this city, before the American As-
tronomical Society in Chicago recent-
ly,
Working with scientific observations
gathered by astrononfers and geo-
physicists since the beginning of ase
stronomicalobservations, Professor
Boss has placed the entiremechanics
of the evolution of the universe into
out scheme. The general conclusions
he has reached are that:
The earth is constantly pulsating,
like- a human heart. In these heart-
beats are born oceans, mountains, vol-
canoes, earthquakes,`
The contraction and expansions of
the earth's pulsatie e is caused be the
sun's'bontbardme'"nt of the earth witb
electrons. In the electronic charges
come the winds, the storms, northern
lights, and other natural phenomena.
Ice and tropical ages have been
caused by the passage of the sun
through a cosmic dust of greater or
lesser potential.
Iceland tropical ages have been
caused by the passage of the ami
through a cosmic dust of greater or
lesser potential.
The stars have a distinct evolution
—a life cycle. They begin in the
birth of an atom and atoms form into
cosmic dust which collect into clouds
or nebulae. The clouds condense and
form giant red stere, which pass on
to the yellow giant stars, and losing
mass through radiation, pass to yel-
low dwara stars and from the -'e to the
red dwarf stage.
While Professor Boss has actual ob.
servations to support this theories of
the mechanics of the earth, he says
that his theory of the evolution of the
universe is somewhat speculative, a'-
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attetInte
being
When
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;stir pontoons.
_ r c etet'' was in the water the
?t,:ens were removed one. by ono.
d the tube sank beneath the waves.
livers then descended and inspected
the tube, annotmcing it was resting
safely on the ocsan floor.
Prof. Clande's experiment involves
bringing huge quantities of cold water
from the bay. to the surface, where it
is pumped to large tanks on the shore.
The tanks are filled partially with
warm surface water from the gulf
stream, which is brou&ht to the boiling
point when the tanks are subjected to
an exhaustion of air, creating steam
to operate a turbine. The cold water
is used solely to cool the tanks, re-
duce the steam anti. perpetuate the
operation.
If the experiment at Matanzas is
successful, Prof, Claude, with the as-
sistance of the Cuban Government,
plans to erecta plant for commercial
operation in a more suitable location
he has selected.
Events
Every event of life, every circum-
stance of our lot, Is a husk containing
precious food, and yet how much of
life we receive as a mere husk, with-
out searching for or receiving the hid
den sweetness.—Erskine of Liutathen.
Vienna has such a mania for Po-
liteness that a new automatic machine
has just been produced that supplies
packets of sweets in return for coins,
and says sweetly: "Thank you; please
favor me again."
MUTT AND JEFF—
By BUD FISHER
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Early Emigration
Scots to Canada
Particulars of Interest in Pamphlet
100 Years Old.
From an old pamphlet written itt
the early part of .the nineteenth con-
tury by Robert Brown It appears that
in the first six years of the nineteenth
century not less than ten thousand
people emigrated to America, chiefly,
to the Maritime Provinces of Canada.
This was before most of the notorious
clearances described by Alexander
Macicenzie'took glace. It is true that
in Glengarry there had been clear-
ances in the last part of the eighteenth
century and that, about 1772 a few
hundred Highlanders emigrated to the
1Vlohaw:c Valley in New York state,
and afterwards removed to Ontario,
following upon the outbreak of the
Revolutionary War, They settled
round about the present Glengarry
district in Ontario and they and their
descendants did, yeoman service for
the British Government in the Revolu-
denary War and in that of 1812,
writes Clanranald in the Weekly
Scotsman.
Again, we'Iearn that in 1790. about
100 persons were evicted from Aid-na-
fuaran, in Arisaig, but there do not
scent to have been any other evictions
of consequence in Arisaig and leloidart
before 1810.
The most of the early emigrants 10
Lower Canada, then, left for economic
or religious reasons, chiefly the for-
mer. Some year, ago, the writer,
while looking over a copy of the Scots
Magazine, published in 1772, caeto
across a letter written in that year to
the editor by someone whose name is
forgotten, describing the trouble caus-
ed in the West Highlands by the
tacksnten and better -off farmers sell-
ing their lards and stock in order to
emigrate to America and thus remov-
ing, a large amount of capital from
the conntry. Up to that tine it would
seen that most of the emigrants had
gore to what are now the. United
State.. ae ..i.. -, ..'eh_ .y,- l
WORKED IN LUMBER CAMPS
When the first Bottlers came out to
Lower Canada almost the whole coun-
try eves an unbroken forest, and set-
tlement uittom ly :hoga:a.:-alan01.....tlle
shore and the rivers. One of the
tragedies of the firer settlers was that,
coming from a treeless country, or
comparatively so, they did not know
how to use the axe. The second gen-
eration mastered its use quickly, ani
many of the pioneer settlers in Nova
Scotia aro net 1810 or 1820 used to go
to the Mirimachi country in New
Brunswick to work in the lumber
camps. These provided the only
source of ready money at that time.
A good deal of lumber seems to have
been imported from New Brunswick
into Britain, and one reason for the
low fares charged the pioneer settlers
in coating out was that the vessels
were obliged to come out anyway for
cargoes of lumber.
As is well known, ,certain parts of
Nova Scotia are peopled largely by
descendants of those who came out
in the vessels mentioned above. The
Gaelic language is still used consider-
ably in some districts, but it seems
likely that in another generation it
will have largely disappeared, or be
understood only by some of the older
people. Obviously, except in a- few
cases, the Itighlatul rntculation in Can-
ada
anada has long ago lost touch with its
cousins it the far-off islnuds and glens
of -Scotland.
The pioneer settlers to Lower Can-
ada brought out with them their loyal-
ty to law and established authority,
and a sturdy hardihood, While nary
of .them were followers .of Prince
Charlie, their descendants afterwards
proved abundantly their loyalty to the
British Crown. In Canada the fami-
liar
aintliar Scotch clan names ate written in
the places of highest honor.
HURRAH FOR RED HEADS
Belfast, Ireland.—Red-haired chil-
dren may have freckled daces, but.
they make the best school leaders, ac-
cording to Mrs. Frank Greaves, teach-
er of or attized gemee, - - '"''
Spots: "That woman has no res-
pect whatsoever for the law." Potts;
"What is she --a criminal?" "No;
she's a policeman's wife."
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To supplement the work being done
in the regular way by the Saskatch-
ewan
askatchewan educational institutions, prove.
signs have been made by mesas of cola
respondence rlatses to give a course
of.iustrgttion to ace:nal hundred Bove
and girls who for various reasons,
have been unable to attend the pubiie
or elementary schools. Also, a cotta
respondence course in high school
studies Is inaugurated for the benefit
of those pupils who - hav,e - no high
school facilities avattable.