The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-08-28, Page 71 THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
LESSON IX.—August 31
Amos, A Herdsman Called of God to
be .a Prophet -Amos 1:1; 7:10;
2:11; 3;7,8.
Golden Text.—I heard the voice of
the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us? Then said
I, Here am I; send me.—Isa. 6:8.
THE CALL OF AMOS
the father of Isaiah, Who was among
the herdsmen'; of Tel.'oa. "Herdsmen"
is literally"nakad-keepers," a naiad
being a kind of dwarfed sheep val-
ued for°its fine wool. Which he saw
concerning Israel. Amos' "save' in a
series of prophetic visions. In the
day of IJzziah king of jucla'h. Amos'
sovereign had the long reign of fifty-
two years, And in the days of Jero-
boam the son of Joash king of Israel,
This. was Jeroboam Il., the Northern
Kingdom having been founded by
Jeroboam I. Two years before the
earthquake. ' The earthquake referred
to here must have been one of excep-
tional severity,.
Then answered Amos, and said to
Amaziah, I was no prophet, nether
was I a prophet's son. Amos repu-
diates the charge that he is profes-
sional prophet who uses his office for
the iiurpose of gain to himself: But
I was a herdsman, This term., usual-
ly meaning a cowherd, here signifies
a shepherd. And a dresser of syco-
more trees. The sycomore is a fig
tree.
And Jehovah took nae from follow-
ing the flock. Amos was bidden to
abandon his livelihood, cease to be a
shepherd, and become a missionary
and evangelist. And Jehovah said un-
to me, Go prophesy unto my people
Israel. Amos preached to Israel ra-
ther than to his . own Judah because
in Israel the preaching:was most ter-
ribly needed.
THE BOLDNESS OF AMOS
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel.
There must have been many priests
of the calf -worship there, and he who
is here named may be supposed to
have been at the head of them, from
the 'part he took. Sent to Jeroboam
king of Israel. This ruler of the
Northern Kingdom;: the second of his
name, was one of the mightiest po-
tentates of the time. Saying, Amos
hath conspired against thee in the
midst of the house of Israel. Amos
had spoken "in the very centre of the
kingdom, where his treasonable
speeches would have the very ,great-
est effect" The land is not able to
bear, all his words. They are too
numerous, and too monstrous, to be
tolerated,
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam
shall die by the sword. Amos had
said that the house or dynasty of
Jeroboam sWauld perish violently, and:
this actually occurred. And Israel
shall surely be led away . captive out
of his land, Amos prophesied this
The words of Amos. He is to be
Alio Amazialt said unto AMASS
Probably the high priest did not ,ij:
to hear from the king, but vented his
personal wrath on Amos while await-
ing royal authority to arrest the pro-
phet and send him out of the /and.
0 thou seer. "Amos had just an-
notunced three visions." Go, flee thou
away into the land of Judah. Wrong-
doers do not object to preachers of
righteousness if they keep at a safe
distatmel It is when they cry, "That! •
art the marl„ that they become ob-
jectionable, And there eat bread, and.
prophesy there. The country was folk
of mercenary seers, comni,on fortune-
tellers, who prophesied for pay, and
earned their living through their as-
sumed knowledge • of the future.
But prophesy not again any more
at Bethel; for it is the king's sanc-
tuary, and: it is a royal house. Antos,
so Amaziah charges with well -feigned
horror, was desecrating the sanctuary
adding blasphemy to sedition.
THE PREACHING OF AMOS,
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And I raised up of your sons for
prophets. God's most precious gift:
to his people consisted in true men,
and, above all, in inspired prophets.
And of your young men for Naziritea.
The Nazirites were dedicated to God.
from their birth, It is not even thus,
0 ye children of Israel? saith Jeho-
vah, A most solemn attestation :
But ye gave the Iazirites wine to
drink, Trying deliberately to break'
down their vow and corrupt their
purity, even as modern Iiquor-sellers
put temptation in men's way. And
commanded the prophets, saying,
Prophesy not. As Amaziah com-
manded Amos himself. 'rims King
Zedekiah tried to silence the prophet
Micaiah.
Surely the Lord Jehovah will der
nothing, except he reveal his secret
unto his servants the prophets.
Christ used the same method in deal-
ing with his disciples: see John 1.3r
19; 14:29.
The lion hath roared; who will not
fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spok-
en; who can but prophesy? As in-
evitably as fear follows the roar of
a lion, so must the prophet's teach-
ing follow the voice of God in the
prophet's soul.
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HEALTH SERVICE
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CANADIAN ' MEDICAL ASSOCIA-
TION
MEASLES
Measles is perhapsthe most easily
transmitted of all the communicable:
•diseases. As a. result, it is a disease
of • such common occurrence, that
many .people regard it as inevitable;
and so do little or nothing to prevent.
its spread. Indeed, many parents
think that it is inescapable, and rath-
er welcome it so that it may be over
and done with.
Everyone is susceptible to measles.
The most important thing to know
about measles is that :the younger the
child, the more serious is the attack
likely to be. We. say "serious", be-
•cause in spite of the commonly ac-
cetped idea that measles, at the worst,
is only annoying, it is a fact that
xneasles is serious because of the in-
juries and deaths it causes.
Deaths from measles? Yes, in -
'deed. This disease which is regarded.
so lightly• comes second as a cause
of death among the communicable
occurring in young children. The
aiumber of deaths varies from year to
year as eliidernics of the disease oc-
cur, but few years pass which do not
see several hundreds of young child-
ren fall victims to measles, and the
younger the children afflicted, the
'higher the percentage of those who
succumb.
Measles is spread in the droplets
from the nose and throat of a case,
and unfortatnately; the case succeeds
in spreading the disease in this way
-for some days before the appearance
of; the rash. Because .„measles is
spread duringthis period, it makes
it most difficult to control, as, in
many cases, the 'disease is not sus-
pected, or the child is thought to have
only a cold in the head, or, as is the
common opinion, even though it is
measles, there is nothing to worry
about, and so the child is allowed .to.
mix with other children andno care
is taken to control the spread of the
disease.
One other point 1.0 be mentioned
is that simple measles does not cause
many deaths. Measles, however, give
rise to many complications particular-
ly broncho -pneumonia, and it is the
complications of measles which are
so often fatal.
We have presented these facts be-
cause we want parentsto realize that
measles is a serious disase.
Children should ' be safeguarded
from infection. We have said that
the younger the child, the more ser-
ious the effects of the disease, hence
the more need for precautions.
The child who has been exposed to
measles should be carefully watched
and put to bed on the first appearance
of watery eyes. It would be better
still to put the chid to bed eight
days after his. exposure to infection,
because the child who develops his
attack of measles when in bed is
likely to escape complications.
During an attack, and while the pa-
tient is convalescing from measles,
he should receive the careful atten-
tion he requires in any serious condi-
tion, one of which is measles.
Questions concerning Health, ad-
dressed. to the Canadian. Medical As-
sociation, 184 College st., 'Toronto,
will be answered personally by letter.
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Rubber is being used on bridges in
Europe to lessen the vibration.
Wash Day
Is Easy
Now
Particularly if you have
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home. No tearing of
clothes, no back -break-
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tub with hot water, drop
in the clothes, turn a
switch and the work is
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LJO'W BUTTONS ARE.MADE AFRICAN BUFFALOES,
nave illeon I%uiwn to KUL inions on
*lost of Them Are Made Front a Pro. hleveral Occesione..
duction ctt114PX "eronoid,”
or )(Acton".
No cows, no milk; rio milk, no but-
tons! That surprising statement
holds no exaggeration, for most of
to -day's buttons used. on women's
coats and costumes are made from a
British production called "eronoid,"
or laetoid--a vegetable composition
composed largely of skimmed milk.
Dyed in a variety of beautiful
shades, it arrives at the button-rnak-
in.g works in thin ,sheets, and the, lat-
ter, alter being soaked in hot water
—they would be too brittle other
wise—are clamped in an ingenious
machine and fed automatically to a
revolving cutter, which rapidly cuts
out from the sheets the discs, or
blanks, which will ultimately become
artistic buttons, says a writer in Tit-
Bits.
The next process is to feed the
discs into the "hopper"—a . sort of
wide funnel— of another machine.
From the "hopper" they travel down
a chute until, one by one, they meet
a very sharp tool, called a form -cut-
ter, which cuts the requiredpattern
on them-- delicate work, but done
very quickly and faultlessly.
If you examine a patterned button
you will see, especially if it is small,
that the cutter does its work with
uncanny aceuragy. A clever device,
superseding the old method of labor-
ious sharpening by hand, automatic-
ally grinds the cutter to a razor -edge
while it works. That causes showers
of • sparks to fly, but eronoid will not
burn—a great gain now that so many
women smoke.'
The waste from the sheets and
the fine shavings from the pattern -
cutting are put to a surprising use.
All is saved and sold to manure
Manufacturers! It has fertilizing
properties.
Pattern -cutting done, the next pro-
cess is that of drilling the holes.
Machines in the charge of girls do
that rapidly and with wonderful
precision.
Next comes ' a most interesting
operation —that of polishing the
discs. Each is hand -fed into a queer
robot-like machine. A wheel revolves,
and with a click the fingers of a ser-
ies of hands on it open, The oper-
ator pops a button into the fingers,
which at once, as though they were
human, close on it, and take it along
to meet four circular revolving
"mops." . Three, fed automatically
with special polishing pastes, polish
the buttons, and the fourth putsoil
the °final gloss. The buttons are
finished.
The mystery of button coloring is
as follows: If a black button with a
red centre is desired, red eronoid is
used. The buttons are then dyed
black all over, and the center por-
tion "buffed" until the original red
is brought up. It is by that method
—expert buffing—that a button, all
blue or any other desired color, can
get a number of tints and shadings.
Not only in material, but in work-
manship and • finish, British -made
buttons are the best. As Mark Twain
humorously observed, °a good deal de-
pends on them, and those made at
this factory can be trusted to keep
things up. All the . button -making
trade wants is' that Dame Fashion
should smile on buttons—and keep
on smiling.
A Village for Birds.
A swimming pool, a "church," and
delightful little houses designed in
themanner of timbered Norwegian
dwellings form part of a novel village
for birds built by Mr. F. L. Hunt,
says an. Old. Country °periodical:,
He aims to provide a place where
birds of every kind mayflock and
find their wants satisfied. Straw,
wool, and twigs for nesting time are
close at hand, and there is a "restau-
rant" where scraps, crumbs, seeds,
and similar bird delicacies are laid
out.. At feeding. time the birds can.
be seen coming out of their houses
and darting across in a frantic effort
to be first.
Mr. Hunt has also provided an
"hotel" for casual vistors, and a hos-
pital. Although he caters specially
for the small and more defenceless
birds, such a robins, tits, wrens,
sparrows, and larks, all are welcome.
'Phoning at Sixty Miles an Hour.
A Berlin reader follows up the an-
nouncement that certain liners are
about tobe fitted with telephones
with whichit will be possible for
people at sea to telephone to friends
on land, . with the news that passen-
gers on Berlin -Hamburg expresses
are able to get into telephonic com-
munication with •any part .of the
country while the train is travelling
at sixty miles an hour. They merely
enter an ordinary telephone box on
the train and ask for the number and
place they ,•equire.
Connection is obtained by means
of an aerial running along the roofs
of the carriages, from which ether
waves are transmitted by electric cur-
rent on to the ordinary telegraph
wires running parallel with the rail-
way, and so, via Berlin or Hamburg,
to any part of Germany,
'Buttonhole "Mikes."
i The difficulties at taking talking
films in noisy streets have long puz-
zled filen directors. Their, problem
has now been solved by means of
buttonhole microphones which are
worn by the players.
These microphones are connected
to sound -recording apparatus• by
wireless, and it is claimed that voices
are recorded clearly against the loud-
est background of traffic noise.
'World's Oldest Tree.
The oldest tree in the world is
claimed by a Portuguese colony at
St. Vincent, Cape Verde Island, in a
dragon tree to which 6,000 years are
ascribed.
Experienced hunters all, agree that
the wild native buffalo of South Af-
rica is the most dangerous animal on
that continent. Says one of them In
recent letter t0 the London Field:
"Single lions very often dog a herd
of buffalo, their method being to wait
for acalf or young balk -grown beast
to stray a. little way from the herd,
pull it -down and then run for their.
lives, as the mother -cow will invar-
iably charge and probably bring a
number of the herd charging down
on the lien, But after a while the
herd will move off and then, the lion
returns for his feed, When lions
combine into a troop to kill a buffalo
they use the same tactics as the sin-
gle lion, except that they may pull
down a full-grown beast.
"I am. quite convinced in my' own
mind that no single lion could bring
down and kill a full-grown buffalo
bull single-handed, though he might
do so with a cow. There. is such a
tremendous mass of muscle and gris-
tle extending from the shoulders to
the back of the head that a lion can-
'not break the neck, with that one bite
and wrench of a paw that he always
employs. The bull gallops full tilt
into a tree and literally sweeps the
lion off his back. Probably crushing
him badly into the bargain. He then
turns round and gores and pounds
the lion to death. Buffaloes have
been known to kill lions on several
occasions.
"If a herd of buffalo have reason
to believe that a troop of lions are
about they get all.the calves into the
centre, form up in a circle with their
tails facing their centre, and no lion
or lions will tackle that menacing,
ring of horns."
BUILT NOVEL TELESCOPE.
Hundreds of Individual Lenses Used
by Professor In California.
Four hundred individual lenses
mounted on a wooden rack are being
designed to provide a reflecting sur-
face of 100 square feet in an un-
usual'- experiment in telescope con-
struction by, C. W. Woodworth, pro-
fesaor of entomology at the Univer-
sity of California. If it is completed
and proves successful, it will be the
largest reflector in the world. At
present the largest is the 100 -inch
reflector of Mt. Wilson Observatory
In California, made of one solid
piece of glass, says Popular Science
Monthly.
With the aid of his novel instru-
ment, Prof. Woodworth expects to
see and photograph the largest image
ever made of .a heavenly area. He
has worked fors two years on this
telescope, grinding each of the 400
lenses with a special apparatus and
fitting them together.
The instrument is being built in
the professor's own backyard. On top
of his barn, '80 feet away from the
reflecting mirror, he has erected a
scaffolding on which he will mount
an eyepiece.' Through this he will
make his observations, picking up the
image reflected by the united lenses.
NIGHTMARE PLANTS.
I'LL ALWAYS PRAISE. !distinguished carefully from Amos, many times,
JARGON", SHE STATES
"I was so bilious and dizzy from
a sluggish liver and constipation I
was afraid to go on the streets alone,
Thousands of Them Have Never Been
Identified.
Plants that kill, plants that inspire
strange dreams, and another that
paralyzes fish but does not make
them unfit for food, have been
brought to Washington by scientists
under Dr.. Killip, of the Smithsonian
Institution, who have Just returned
from; the headwaters of the Amazon
and the mountains of: Peru.
Nearly 30,000 plants from the
Amazonian jungles and Peruvian
mountain tops were collected; thou-
sands of them have never been iden-
tified.
One of these is the Ayahuasce vine
or Caapi, from which Indian :medi-
cine men obtain, a thug that produces
violent nervous reactions and is swal-
lowed to evoke prophetic visions.
Other plants in the collection yield
barbasco, a milky poison which,
poured into a river, paralyzes all the
fish in a considerable area and en,,.
ables the Indians to catch them
easily.
A New Atmosphere.
That a fuller knowledge of the.
atmosphere may assist In the control
of disease is revealed' by Dr. J. Wil-
lard Hershey, who has been studying
the part rare gasses play in normal
life. He claims to have made air dif-
ferent from anything man breathes,
which will support life in white mice
more effectively than normal atmo-
sphere. In one experiment helium was
substituted• for the 78 per cent. of
nitrogen. As far as could be seen
the white mice were in a brighter,
more active, and healthier condition
than in normal air. The mice were
also tested in an atmosphere of twen-
ty-five per cent oxygen and seventy-
five per cent argon. Again it was
found that the general conditions of
respirations, appetite and rest were
better.. than in normal air, When the
argon was increased to seventy-eight
per cent. the mice could not live.
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MRS. SUSIE BUTLER
I had no• appetite, my digestion was
poor, I slept miserably and got up
feeling as if I hadn't slept at all. My
color was pallid and sickly -looking.
Six bottles of Sargon filled me with
new strength and energy, my appe-
tite is fine, I do all my housework
and walk many city blocks without
tiring in the least.
"Sargon Pills didn'tcause ane the
slightest discomfort but they set my
liver right and entirely corrected my
constipation. My complexion has
improved wonderfully. I'11 praise this
wonderful treatment as long as I
live."—Mrs. Susie Butler, 137 Har-
vey St., Toronto.
Sargon may be obtained in Wing-
ham at McKibbon's Drug Store.
A Climbing 'Tree.
Trees have almost as wonderful a
sense of direction as birds. Should
there be a leak in an underground
water -pipe in a park or ,garden, • a
neighboring `tree is •almost sure to
find it out, and, extending; its.roots
in that direction, project' a shoot
through the break into the pipe.
Even napre, extraordinary is 'the
performance', of the rattan, a climb-
ing palm common in tropical coun-
tries. Wlien it has 'climbed a tree, it
goes aver .the top and comes down.
again to the ground. Then,' growing
at the rate of a foot every twenty-
four hours,' it sets out straight for
the next tree, which may be over
gay yards away.
In 1919 the total realized annual x+'raaugne Boats.
income of the people in the United Boats et grass and straw have been
ewes was $66,9411,0 00,000 while used for centuries by natives of the
now it is egtimated at 480,419,000,-
000, Peruvian Andes,
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