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Zurich Herald, 1930-09-18, Page 31 't Sunday School Lesson $eptember 21. Lesson XII. Jonah (The Narrow Nationalist Rebuked). ANALYSIS 0•811.0.•••,••••••,••••••••7••••••••*/**•••.***0•Y" • • • Exercise Alone ,Does Not Reduce telfilled. Bet instead of reeicing this sinal display of the divine mercy "it displeaseth Jonah exceedingly." 14e wee not pleased that his God was "a gracious God and full of compassion, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy." Ile was grieved for the de- struction of a simple, quickly growing vine which sheltered his head from the heat of the sun, and the absence of which caused him some discomfort, but he would have looked with satis- faction upon the destruction of the many thousands of Nineveh. Jonah presents a ccaispicuous example of the hardness of heart and narrowness of outlook upon the world of many Sews of that period, ard of many of 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, .1. REFUSING THE CALL OF GOD, chap, 1. II, A PRAYER OUT OF THE OEFT,HS, chap. 2. II. A RELUCTANT OBEDIENCE, chapters 3 and 4. lerenobuonoN—Jeremialit or some later prophet whose work is included in the book of Jeremiah (chaps, 50- 51) , compared t e king of Assyria and -Nebuchadnezzar, king of Bahyloe, with fierce beasts of prey which had devoured Israel and broken his bones, and the latter with a dragon which had swallowed up Israel and then cast him forth, 50: 1'7; 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. Them is an explicit prediction of such a return in 50: 18-20. It would seem that some large hearted Jewish writer of the first or second century after 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 Norld, 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 nations, Ise. 42: 1-17; 49: 6. The eastern empires which conquered and. enslaved Israel are rep- eeesented by the great fish, and the re- turn of Israel to his own land te the i. °wilting forth of Jonah upon the dry land. Israel's keen desire :o see the nations 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 the non- fulfilment of his prediction of the de- struction of that city. The book closes -with a rebuke 'o the narrow spirit of -national selfishness, and a most im- pressive lesson of the all-embeacing mercy of God. 1. REFUSING THE CALL OF GOD, chap. 1. Jodah, the son of Amittai, is men- tioned elsewhere only once. In the brief account of Jeroboam IT. and his reign, iu 2 Kings, 14: 23-29, he is said to have foretold the extension of the kingdom of Israel "from. the entering in of Ilamath (in the north) to the sea of the Arabah (in the S'D,uth)." Of his call to be a prophet and his mis- sion to. Nineveh we know wiling ex- cept what is told us here in the book f jonah. The book is quite evidently not written by him, but rather about him. There may have been current in later centuries uire such story as is here told 'bleb. the writer ter this book "The love of God is broader Than the measure of man's mind; And the heart of the eternal Is most wonderfully kine." THE TRUTH ABOUT HENPECK We all pity Mr. Henpeck a bit. Quite unnecessarily, according to a well- knoWn authority OIL children, Dr. C. W. Kinunine. According 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, make decisions for them, and generally act as the "pre- dominant partner." This may explain a good many cases of henpecked husbands, but does it explaM 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 ONVI1 way just the same. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• leg week and forth, then sideways ton time. , e..-ixo reduce the hips and the calf, egefei twelve times, each toot alter- otthe leg etep up on a chair and dOWn. natelY. oesideo reducing we are building up this WY bring back the body to Ito a entitle self control, for with the in. norMai Weight and beauty, and best of "(Asset exercise a the body we do not wend, to eat more food, We will in all it Will.stay normal because we will not care to eat such quantities of high. caloried foods after we understand :.:A4..,.,. Keep on with your 1200 Calorie per how much they count, day reducing diet if your normal By Marie A.nn Best weight is 100 pounds, a few more than 1200 calories it you have a bigger frame, and less it it is smaller. Recipe Tuna Fish a la Newburg 1800 Calories %sp. salt 1 large eau tuna fisb. pinch cayenne ile green Pepper ye pimento 1 pt. whole milk 1 tbls. cream 3 stalks celery 3 ripe olives 1 this. butter 2 tblsps flour Metimel.—Parboil green, pepper and 3 green olives egeryetill tender, thea drain.. Chop them. up with pimento and olives. Make a white sauce with milk, butter float* and cream. Season. Pull fish apart IA big pieces. Add to sauce, turn in other ingredients, cook together a minute and serve with. toast points. Next week—Sugar and Chocolates. --a.'*--e-- MOON IS FOUND GUILTY FOR SEVERE DROUGHT Calling the drought now existing on the North American continent an ap- palling disaster to agriculture and the severest since that of 1874, Mr, Her- bert jauvria Browne, 'consulting met- .eorologist or. 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 stretch every muscle m positions of earth and moon In space Yawn again and feel glad you are have swung the moon. farther to the alive. Then take hold of each side of north or. the earth's equator than us- er the bed with your hands, bend the nal, Mr. Browne explains, while the knees so that the feet are planted on moon also has been relatively near to the sheet, then lift hips while lying on the earth. This has increased' the lunar your back and sway over to one side attraction on the water of the North. of the bed as far as you can before .: Atlantic, with the result of spreading you let yourself down. Then. it and. westward over that ocean the cold. - move over to the other side. Repeat water area which exists normally in. fifteen times. Gradually you Will be the. neighborhood of the Azores Is - able to do it forty times or more. This is excellent for reducing the hips and also strengthens the back. What New York Mother Earth Beats is Wearing Like Human Heart BY ANNABELLE WORT:e8I8N:T:Nr_ New Doctrine Of Evolution Propound - //lustre ted Dreeentalaing ed by Chicago Astronomer. vishod With Ever etAlbany, NX..—The Albany F4 v era rtg 1attern 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 astronomees and geo- physicists since the beginning of as- stronomical observations, Professor Boss has placed the entire mechanics of the evolution of the universe into one 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 pulsatio e is caused by. the sun's bombardment of the earth with 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 suit' through a cosmic dust of greater or lesser potential. Iceland tropical ages have,theen caused by the passage of the sun. 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 stars which pass on. to the yellow giant elars, and losing mass through radiation, pass to yel- low dwarf 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, al- though a vast field of investigation has been openel by his demonstration of penetrating radiation from the sun. Ocean to Provid Power In Future? Article 7—"The Pally Dozen." • There are many excellent exercises:. We read or. them. in 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 perform1 - 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 willatake a notion to walk four miles every day. They do eo for a While. coming home tremendously hungry and quantities of ,f000d are eaten with great relish. This mu go on for days but it seems a very little is accomplished for so big an effort. Why? Because you cannot reduce just by exercise 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 • b d POLAR BEARS ENJOY STRONG SUN BATHS Sympathy is wasted an them in tor- rid summer weather, according to F, Thorne, writing in Science News - Letter, a Science Service publication (Washington). He quotes George Jenuison, well-known. and widely ex- perienced 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; actually they do not like the cold. They rarely enter the water be- tween October and. February, and, on the other band, nothing pleases. them so much as hot weather; when. they will lie flat with all four feet extended, enjoying the. blazing sunshine. In the takes and uses for his own purpose.1 Arctic, radiation from the White snow is eatieme and the heat terrific. Carl In his hands it becomes a parable con- . -Wiling a pointed and effective renuKe to the narrow Judaism .of the fifth and following centuries B.C„ which desir- ed and predicted only the destruction -of the nations which had. been hostile to Israel. See for examples Ezekiel, .chapters 38-39; Joel, chapter 3; etc. ILA PRAYER OUT OF THE DEPTHS, chap. 2. It is nct quite ease to understand the language of this prayer as pro- ceeding from a man in a whale's belly. It is true that he might hays described himself as in the "belly or hell," or rather Sheol (as margin RN.), and as in "the depth, in the heart of the seas," but hardly as having the 4'weds . . . wrapped about" 1 is head. The last clause ot verse 6 and the verses that follow represent hint as .delivered and his prayer as answered, and declare his purpose to offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving. The prayer may have come out of any occasion of extreme danger or distress, III. A RELUCTANT (=MENGE, chapters 3 and 4. When Jonah's second chance came 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 •• d of the exile toward Hagenbeck has seen. polar bears stretched. out to enjoy sunshine that gave leopards heat apoplexy." WHAT THE SAILOR READS There seems to be a suggestion of the "busman's holiday" about the fav- 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 iibearies. In fiction, "thrillere" are the most popular form of story, mystery 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. They 2—Draw up one leg tight to the body encircle the knde with heads 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 arme, lie down again and repeat 15 times., Now, then, will feel like getting 4—To tone up the nerves and keep a cold away there is nothing quite so good as a quick cold sponge bath every morning. It is not nearly as hard to do as it sounds; many people cau take a cold sponge who find the plunge into cold water hard on the system. Soma prefer a quick tepid. bath or shower 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 in every position: It exercises the arras 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 massage your neck with .cold cream, rubbing straight up and down. vigorously with fingers front point of chin to chest. This prevents the neck from becoming wrinkled and removes the fah 6—A flue exercise for plumb backs and ehoulders 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 waut it off. Be satisfied with four or five times at first, working up to twenty 'times each way. 7—Bend sideways with arms out- stretched to left and right. 8—Place hand on door and swing a Lee their neighbors. No doubt there wereare the most travelled libraries in the s(enin the 258,E, Ideal to brighten your mid -summer wardrobe for town or resort. Bow theme gives jaunty air to smart simple all -occasion dress of powder - blue flat crepe silk. It moulds the figure, presenting a slim and rather straight silhouette. The circular skirt widens toward the hem into charming Tippling fulness. The seaming of joining of the skirt and the bodice with dip at the front and the back detracts from breadth, giving the figure charming height. St Tle No. 2582 comes sizes 1.6, 18 Mr. Browne's explauatiou continues, years, 86, 38, 40 and 42 incites-Shantung,linen, bus . ng, linen, pique, printed lauds. Around this cold-watee area, there circulate normally a series of batiste, tub silk prints and printed ' winds which, seldom reach this con - chiffon voile appropriate. tinent. This summer, howbe- ever, It's exceptionally easy to make— practicfaly a two-piece skirt to be at- . 'cause ot the unusual westward eaten- sion of the cold -water area, these winds, are reaching this country so that hot winds blow landward front the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, create more or less permanent areaie. of high ainpressure 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 Smithsoniau instittition, has beeti unuswilly high for the past six weeks," notable exceptions, language of some of the Psalms, for example, 96, 100. But, like jonala 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 world.—Answers, Irate Parent: "The next time that young man calls, I'll sit on him." Daughter: "Oh, fathei, la me do ib!" • Shamrock 1", Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger for the America Cup, has been insured. on a value of $90,000, at a rate of 150 per cent. Risks cov- ered include sea perils, fire, partial damage, and collision, tached to two-piece bodice. rum its It's very inexpensive too! IIOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of each patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Success Crowns Scientist's Efforts to Sink 6,000 Tube. An old farmer was complaining bit- terly to the minister ot the terribly had weather for the crops, when the latter reminded him that be had much to be grateful for, all the same. "And remember," said the good man, "Provi- dence cares for all. Even the birds of the air.Are fed each day." "Aye," re- plied the farmer, darkly. "Oft my corn." A. naval vessel put into a South Wales port, autt two midshipmen, keen golfers, got shore leave. Putting on their plus -fours, and complete with golf bags, they event off for a game. But on landing they were met by a well-keiown coalowner, who knew one of them, and he suggested lunch and a visit down a mine instead of golf. So down thi mine they went, and then, reshouldering their golt bags, returned to the ship. They arrived in face of the Admiral, who, feeling genial enough to notice the "snotties," re marked, "Been playing golf?" "Oh, no, sir," grinned one of them; "we've been down a mine." Next morning 'they were hauled uo for insolence, and it took a letter from the c'oalowner to persuade the Admiral that appear- ances had been deceptive. MUTT AND JEFF= By BUD FISHER RiGgTO, NCL, AND 'fot) ToeScHC-3) FoSe Ewe, 'Th1P\ Nies Fote.11-ke FIva,Net.$. 17% TIV. - nee mo• MUTT ell.61- NOW: i HAI)N'T SeaK) FoR.. lw61eNTV `1Are S.. Matanzas, uba.—The sinking of a 6,000 -foot metal tube into Metanzas Bay in connection with an experiment to create power from sea water was accomplished successfully by Georges Claude, French scientist and inventor in charge of the experiment It was the third attempt to sink a tube into the bay. The tube was slowly shoved out into the bay, 'each 150 feet of pipe being supported by four pontoons. When the full length was in the water the pontoons were removed one by one and the tube sank beneath the waves. Divers then descended and inspected the tube, announcing it was resting safely on the ocean floor. Prof. Claude'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 brought 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 and perpetuate the operation. If the experiment at 'Matanzas is successful, Prof. Claud.e, with the as-. sista.nce of the Cuban Government; plans to erect a plant for commercial operation in a more suitable location he line 8elected. Events Every event of life, every cireunt- stance of our lot, is a husk containing precious food, and. yet how much of life we receive as a mere Meek, with- out searching for or receiving, the hid- den sweetness.—Erskine of Litelathen. Power of Vision Our life is just as narrow as we let it be. It we live iu a lonely country Place miles front a railway, we can study the plants and animals about us until we come to understand some- thing of the secrets of the universe. If our lot is in a great city, we have op- portunities of studying 'human nature --seeing with our own eyes the de- velopment of characters as strange as ever novelist put into his books. Mul- titudes of men 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 seen, that NVO lack, aud this power may be, to a certain extent, cultivated by praci ice, (IMAGINet sec myth cRANG c IN Immortality If this lite were all, what wide hori- zous mast vanish utterly! Datmortal- ity is a splendid challenge to mau, tt challenge repeated at every crisis iu mortal life, ringing even through dis- appointments or failures. As Words- worth puts it: Our resting, our being's heart and home is with Intl:allude, and only there. With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort and affection and desire. Irienna has such a mania for pa, liteness that a new automatic machine has just been produced that supplied packets of sweets in return for coins, and says sweetly: '"Phank you; please favor me ngain." eeeeeeebeeeeeeeeteeee- "— «rcrerocriv you Gotta Figure Out Jeff's Opinion for You.czeive.s. BeTweew OkateSe LUES L 'DON'T flit Heks MAI') USC -t) TO 138: 4 ..„ / 'Nom