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February 7. Lesson VI—The Slavery
of Sin (Temperance Lesson) --
Matthew 25: 45-51; John 8: 3136,
Golden Text—Whosoever commit-
teth sin is the servant of sin,—
John g: 34.
ANALYSIS
1, KNOWING THE TRUTH, John 8; 31, 32
IL DENYING OUR BONDAGE, John 8: 33 Lost --a Patient
34. + Mr. Birrell, when Irish SeeretarY,
told this story about the only time he
ever wanted to consult ,a doctor.
"Once only in my life did I feel per-
suaded that I was smitten with a mor-
tal disease. I started on my way to
consult a distinguished doctor.
"It was a hot July day and I thought
the time was come for my last walk.
I walked from my home to Harley
Street, I found the great physician's
room crowded with patients, and,
while waiting, I saw on the table a
book written by the great physician
ou the subject of this particular dis-
I. KNOWING THE TRUTH, John 8: 31. 32 ease.
"The first words which caught my
eye were these: `The patient who ie
suffering from this disease never per-
spires.' I picked up my hat and
walked out."
me freely and yearn with a passion-
ate longing for :ny answering love,.
then I canaiot but respond to it. The
thing that wounded him will become
hateful to ane. When I am brought
face to faee with the abandon with
which God in Christ has loved ane I
become free from the shackles of my
old bondage, I enter into a new rela-
tionship with any Saviour—brother,
"Sin, which was once so alluring now
becomes not merely a prohibited thing,.
but actually distasteful; and good-
ness, which was .once so difficult, be-
comes not only a thing required of me,
but actually a thing I love," Baillie—
This is the true freedom from sin,
III.
THE TRUE FREEDOM, John 8: 35,
36.
INTRODUCTION—JCSUS had beer
warning the Jews against the conse-
quences of their unbelief, 8: 21-30
His own life was so of a piece with
his spoken "testimony"—"I always do
those things that please him" (v. 29)
—that many people believed on him,
v. 30. Others—"the Jews"—became
convinced that he was the Messiah.
The faith of some of them, he saw to
be unreliable. His message to thorn
is our message today in this lesson.
The translation in the Authorseed
Version of vs. 30, 31 is "believed on."
In v. 31 a better rendering would he
"believed." Verse 30 tells of a real
faith, a personal trust and loyalty.
Verse 31 tells simply of an intellec-
tual, doctrinal belief. The Jews—those
who, in this Gospel, are taken as the
party antagonistic to Jesus—became
convinced that he was the Messiah.
Their conviction, however, made no
change in their lives. They said. "We
believe that what you say is true.," BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON
but th.. did not make them "follow-'
ers" of Jesus. i JllusLrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur -
To them Jesus said, "If ye continue nishecl With .t;v„^•$i Pattern
in my word, then are ye my disciples
indeed; And ye shall know the truth,”
vs. 81, 39.. That is, Jesus' teaching
can be understood only by those who
are prepared to practice it—who make
their "faith" the principle by which
they guide all their activities. Evary
earnest man ssks the question, "Why
ant T he -a'? What is life's purpose for
me?" He wants'to know the truth.
Only as he lens cs Jesus' way of living,
his way will he come to understand
the meanine• of Pfe and his place in
it. He shall know the truth.
Knew;ee this and seeing therefore
the "real" to hir'clen by "appearances"
he will be saved from error sin and
folly. His moral vision will set- him
free fr-' n the moral dangers into
which, through ignorance of their real
character, he might otherwise fail. He
sees, for rte:eve-le, his own body as a
temple of God in the building. There-
fore he eau permit nothing that will
deface or defile it.
II, DENYING OUR BONDAGE, John 8: 33,
What New York
I Wearing
34.
The Jews were insulted at the sug-
gestion that they were not 'ree, v. 33.
"We were never in bondage to any
man." Then what about .Egypt,
Babylon, Persia, Syria? .Even as they
spoke, was the Roman garrison not
looking down from the castle into the
Temple courts -•-keeping a watchful
eye upfn these conquered Jews. Like
most of us, they were able to. ignore
and even deny unpleasant facts.
Hence, of course, they felt no need
of freedom. What more discouraging
work than offering salvation to people
who do not feel their need of it—
solving problems which trouble no one
—answering questions which no cne
is asking? How indifferently we lis-
ten to the story of God's redeeming
love. Nevertheless, when it is forced
upon oar. attention, we are conscious f
that we ate "out" with the moral uni-
verse around us. We find a law—an With the delightful new Victorian
influence working upon us—that when fashions which are considered so
we would do good evil is present with ravishing, particularly for youth and
us. We are in bondage. I the youthful type of woman, ono needs
THE TRUE FREEDOM, John 8: 35, , a slimmii g costume slip.
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Professor Einstein In California.
Professor Albert Einstein, propounder of the theory of relativity, pays
tribute to the prize-winning float in the annual tournament of roses
pageant at Pasadena, California.
Caves of Ice
'The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was beard the mingled meas-
ure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure -dome with caves
of ice!
A. damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw.
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played.I
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould
win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of
ice!
—Samuel aylor Coleridge, Poems.
Briefs Abroad
Painters of Child -Life
It we could gather into one great thousand merry tricks. Although the
gallery all the paintings of child -life
which the world has ever produced,
there would be scattered here and
there some few works of a distiuctlY
greater number of these little people
belonged to the most wealthy and arts-
tooratic families in England, their plc.
tures do not in any way indicate their
unique character, before which we rank. Still less do they show any dire-
should rest so completely satisfied tinguishing marks of the artificial ago
that we .should quite forget to look at in which they lived, Dressed in the
any others. These choice gems are simplest of costumes, of the sort which.
the work of those rare men of genius is never out of fashion and always to
who, looking beyond all trivial circum- the best taste, and posed in the na-
stances and individual peculiarities, tura) attitudes of unconscious grace,
disoovered the essential secrets ofthey are representatives of childhood,
child -life, and embodied them in ideal of;
pure and simple, rather than of any
types. They are pictures of childhood, particular social class or historical
rather than of children, representing period.
those phases of thought and emotion( A list of Sir Joshua's child pictured
which are peculiar to the child as such, inlay suitably begin with one which, in
and which all children possess in com- his own opinion, is among the best and
mon. In their presence every mother most original of all his works. This
spontaneously exclaims, "Haw like my ; is the Strawberry girl, exhibited in
own little one!" because the artist has 1773, and repeated many times by the
interpreted the real child nature. Such painter,—"not so much for the sake of
pictures may justly take rank among profit," as Northcote explains, "as for
the highest productions of creative art,' improvement." The model was the
having proven their claim to greatness artist's pretty niece, Miss Theophila
by their unquestioned appeal to uni-' ("Offy") Palmer who was named for
vernal admiration. j his mother, and whom he loved as his
In work of this kind one name alone own daughter.
Is prominent, a name which England The little girl stands with head
is proud to claim as hers, but to which . slightly drooping, in the sweet shy way
all the world pays honor—the name of so natural to a timid child. The big
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Prince of Child.; eyes are lifted to ours half confidently,
painters, A simple -hearted man, of half timidly while a smile hovers be -
sweet, kindly disposition, the great I witchingly over the mouth. A long
portrait -painter, bachelor though .he pointed basket hangs on one arm, and
was, possessed in rare measure the the little hands are folded together in
mysterious gift of winning the coni- front like a little woman's. The child
denoe of children. The great octag- I wears a curious round cap on her head,
oval studio in Leicester Square must !under which, presumably, her hair is
have often resounded to the laughter gathered up in womanly fashion, for.
of childish voices as he entertained there are no stray locks to be seen ex-
his
ahis little patrons with the pet dogs and cept the two soft curves on the fore -
birds he used in their portraits, and head.—From "Child -Life in Art," by
ooaxed them into good nature with a Estelle M. Hurl).
The ordinary type of cold costs Gt.
Britain at least £6,000,000 a year in
loss of working time.
England's army of Civil Servants
shows an increase of more than 5,000
over the figures for a year ago.
The last sailing -ship to be built in
Britain was the Archibald Russell; she
Was built in Glasgow in 1905.
It costs £50,000 for the voyage to
Canada and back of the new Canadian
Pacific liner, Empress of Britain.
The only private "army" maintained
in Britain is that of the Duke of Athol),
It is one thousand strong, and is com-
plete with artillery.
Buses notw being built for London
traffic will seat sixty-three passengers,
room being made far the ten extra
fares by extending the top deck over
the driver's cabin.
In the Vatican Library, the roof of
which suddenly collapsed recently,
were 400,000 printed books, 53,000
MSS., and,, 6,000 works of art. Most
of these were, however, undamaged.
Penguins' eggs, which are bigger
than those of the turkey, take half an
hour to boil. They are already in use
in South Africa, and it is planned to
put them on sale in Gt. Britain at $1.10
• a dozen,
Men are said to be more susceptible
to colds than women. Gt. Britain's
figures go to prove that seventy-seven
per cent of the male patients suffer
They Didn't
A dentist was about to extract the
tooth of a girl who 'declined an anaes-
thetic but resolutely closed her jaws
whenever he approached her with the
forceps.
At last he whispered to his assist-
aut: "Quietly stick that needle in her
back. That will make her open her
mouth!"
The assistant carried out his instruc-
tions. The girl opened her mouth and
the tooth was removed.
The dentist said: "I hope you didn't
experience much pain?"
"No," she answered, "but I never
knew the 'roots went down so far."
The Other Clan
The foreman of a big motor works
was interviewing a number of appli-
cants.
Presently a lean, angular pian was
shown into his office.
"Well," asked the foreman, "are
When Jesus then contrasted the you a mechanic?"
cut with fitted brassiere and its an- •The applicant shook his head.
family relationship of the slave with broken line through sue 'mast add acs
that of the son long(v. he howaha d that sun hips A nice fulness is given the
no waiter how or hard a g
man's bondage to sin had been, it was hens through the slightly circular
still only an artificial and, if he so skirt part,
desired, a temporary bondage. Whe- It will take the minimum of mak-
ther he be a drunkard, apparently ing and its small cost will be a rove -
hopelessly enslaved by the drink habit, lation.
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"I'm a McTosh."
Mrs, .Flat—"It's so close in here,
cau't you let in a little fresh air?'
Flat (absently) -"No; there's ab-
solutely no room for another thing."
The Cobbler
A little cloud in a golden veil
At setting of the sun:
And I a cobbled working—working;
Work is never done.
A little cloud in, a golden veil;
And I am mending shoes,
Never a feathered sandal thing
Such as a cloud may use.
A little cloud in a golden veil,
Along the bright highway:
And but for her, tomorrow were
Another yesterday.
And this will stay, though she melt
away
After the moon sets sail. •
For no man's sky is always gray,
. —Cloud in a golden veil,
—From "The Collected Poems of
Josephine Preston Peabody."
Rubbing It In
An actor consulted his doctor, say-
ing he felt seedy.
"No wonder," said the doctor, who
knew his man. "You never leave the
theatre till midnight. Then you hang
around the club talking and smoking
till early in the morning. What you
want to do is to go straight home from
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So They Say:—
"Even when things are slow the
business of the United States is pretty
big."—Henry Ford.
"It is labor, not metal, which is the
fundamental coin."—Mahatma Gandhi.
"All uncles believe that all babies
like to listen to watches."—A. A.
Milne.
"Nobody could ever earn seventy
or eighty bucks a year by being a
crab."—Babe Ruth.
"Once I thought city folks were
brighter than the villagers, but the re-
verse is true"—Ruth Chatterton.
"Men make money by looking after
the .Itublic"—George Bernard Shaw
"The first requirement of a sound
law is that it should correspond with
the actual feelings of the community,
whether right or wrong."—Oliver Wen-
dell
endell Holmes.
"Much is needed to bring us grief,
little to console us."—Jean Rostand.
I "There is no pain quite akin to that
of regret."—Fannie Hurst.
I "Our capitalistic form of society
must be flexible enough to adjust its
self to changes in world conditions."—
Newton D. Baker.
"Authority must in the final resort
work rise with the lark, and have an rest upon force, but the force I would
early -morning walk." , provide would be internationally own.
The actor determined to do so. ', ed."—The Aga Khan.
Next morning he was up at six, had ; "War is no longer the private affair
from colds, as compared wth sixty per a walk round the park, and reached of belligerent nations." Frank B. Ke -
cent. of the women. I home just as the milkman was leav- logg.
England's roadways have become ing. I "A woman's best bet is just in be -
still more dangerous to pedestrians, The milkman touched his cap and ing feminine—when the man is boss
according to police figures. In the said: "Good night sir." I there is greater happiness in the
year just ended fifty children underhome."—Ruby Ayres.
five years of age were killed, as com- r .;
pared with thirty-eight the previous
year. Lel` nu`
German women and girls spend, on.
an average, twice as much on cos-
metics and perfumes as do the women
of Gt. Britain. According to official
figures, this expenditure in Germany
works out at one shilling per person
every 200 days.
During the last twelve months 27,000
people were reported "missing" in
Paris, and more than 25,000 in New
York. Britain's annual figure, 03 wo-
men and girls, for the whole country,
is about 15,000, of which number less
than one-tenth remain undiscovered
for more than two Weeks.
• "Extreme" marriages last year in.
England included three girls of twenty
who wedded men of seventy or over,
one girl aged seventeen who married
a bridegroom of sixty-seven, a man of
twenty-two whose bride was aged
sixty, and a twenty -eight-year-old
groom who mated a woman of seventy.
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Ask MUTT:
"Does he blow his own horu?"
"Not much! Hires a chauffeur.'
"One can teach tricks to a monkey
but never ideas."—Gabriel W ells.
"Women never get too old to want
to love and be loved."—Ruby M. Ayres.
"Standing on one's is the
pinnacle of all absurdities."—Reginald
Berkely.
"Take your work, but never your-
self, serious ly."—Sir Arthur W. Lewis.
"Any one man is different from any
other man.."—Gabriel Wells.
"The State exists for man, not man
for the State."—Albert Einstein.
"There is a great deal that the
wealthy can Jean' from the poor."—
Mrs. August Belmont.
"The fear of losing money is the one
fear that has always kept men from
making it."—Edt; in LeFevre.
"America and Siam are the only
countries outside the international
copyright union."—Inez Haynes Irwin.
"Adequate preparation against war
does not mean aggression."—John 5.
Pershing.
"I once said civilization was a race
between education and catastrophe.
That is not so. Education has not yet
started." H, G. Wells,
; "The only power now ruling the
United States is purchasing power.'—
Du Pont Lee.
"Teach cooperation as the first
necessity of competition." Will Dur-
ant.
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