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March 20, Lesson XIi—Jesus Dies en
the Coss --John 19: 17-22, 25•.$0.
Golden Text—Christ died for our
sins according to the scriptures. -
1 Corinthians 15: 3.
ANALYSIS.
I, GOLGo,THA, 19: 17-22.
II. MOTHER AND SON, 19: 25-27.
III. THE FINISHED TASK, 19; 28-30.
I. GOLG(THA, 19: 17-22,
For the evangelist, ev'erythint that
occurreg. on the clay of the crucifixion
was filled with solemn. meaning. He
has brooded long on the inner meaning
of the ': ross, and now into his story
he crowded his '•ieh symbolism.
He emphasizes the fact that Jesns
car ied his own cross, v. 17. This
does nee contradict tha ether accounts
there Simon is cmmitandeered to help.
The precession started with Jesus
carrying' his cross although he was
later helped with it. The incident
suggests in symbol the voluntary na-
ture of the sacrifice. Golgotha (v._17)
"the pace of the skull,' beyond the
northern wall of the city, near where
two ways cross (Mark 15: 29) took its
name from its shape, possibly also
from its grim associations.
Jesus was not the only victim that
day. Two thieves had also been
broughr up. Jesus was hanged "in
the mics.,' He was reckoned 2: o with7. lthe
transgressors, Luke
m
Jordan :ide (John 1: 26) on to Gol-
gotha, Jesus was "among" those whom
he would redeem.
Their gruesome work completed, the
soldiers nailed -above Jesus' head the
placard "written :a. Hebrew, Greek
and La°n" (v. 20) as John is careful
to point out. It was an uneonscioes
prophecy of Christ as all the world's
king. The Jews, their pride greatly
irritated. as Pilate no doubt intended,'
tried have the igscription changed,'
v. 21. Pilate, "by nature obstinate
and stubborn" (Philo), haughtily re-'
plied, " ,What I have written, I have
written:."
.Who e.ruaified Jesus? (a) the ortho-
dox religious leaders of his time—who
believed that they had high reasons
for what they did. Ordinary selfish-
ness, cowardice, prejudice, dislike, such
the situation, he showed us the yearn-
ing heart of God. That love wins from
Men an answering nave, rendering die-,
tasteful the sin that once appealed to
them, beeaase it inures him. (d) Re.
burs our sin in the sense that he is
our substitute, He opened up the way
that leads to God. That way, nee
opened, remains so for ever. No one
need repeat the vicar.ous sacrifice of
hint Who gave himself to discover the.
route. Buie we must climb it after
him.
London -Capetown Linked
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Another forge in the mighty
chain of telephone exchanges,
making London the world centre
was recently completed when the
Lord Mayor laid the cornerstone
and spoke to the mayor of Cape-
town, 3,000 miles distant,
Fifty Years Hence
By 'Winston Chttrc1ti11, in the Strand
Magazine (December, 1931)
The great mass of human beings ab-
sorbed in the toils, (ares and activi-
ties of life, are only -dimly conecious of
the hate at which mankind ie travel-
ing. Enormous changes have. taken
place in the last hundred years. The
Pace is ever quickening. Our centurY
has witnessed an enormou3 revelation
in material things, ill scientific apple,
antes, in political institutors, in man-
ners and .customs. The greatest
change of all is the least perceptible
by individuals—it is the far greater
numbers which in every civilized coun-
try participate in the fuller life of
man.
Disraeli wrote at the beginning of.
the nineteenth century that 'England
was for the few, and the very few."
Now millions have lifted themselves
above the primary necessities, in Eur-
ope as well as in America. Culture is
a possibility for people who, a cen-
tury ago, would never have thought of
it. Even Indiau and China, who stood
still for thousands of years, are also
rapidly moving,
What is it that has produced this
new prodigious speed. in man? Science
is the cause. Science cares nothing
for man-made laws, time-honored cos -
toms, or cherished beliefs. Science
has laid hold of us, conscripted us into
regiments, set us to work upon its
highways and in its arsenals; reward-
ed us for our services, healed us when
we were young, pensioned us when we
were worn out.
Man in his earliest stages lived
alone and avoided his neighbors with
as much anxiety and probably as much
reason as he avoided the fierce flesh -
eating beasts that shared his forests.
Gradually, however, the advantages of
co-operation became evident. For,
hundreds of /ears man worked to-
gether to utilize his own, muscular ef-
forts. But another era dawned when
he learned how to harness the forces
of Nature. Methods of production and
Fonimunication were speeded up.
The most wonderful of all modern
prophecies is found in Tennyson's
"Locksley Hall."
it ifs Possible to control accurately)
front tiro bridge of a battle -cruiser :all
th.e bower of hundreds of thousands of
men, Or to set off with one finger a
mine capable in an instant of destroy
ing the work of thousands of man-
years. These immense new sources'
of power, and the fact that they can
be wielded by a single individual, have
made possible novel methods of min.
jig and metallurgy, new methods of
.transport, and undreamed of machin-
ery. 'Undoubtedly the evolution of
which they are the present outcome
will continue at an increasing rate.
Greaterspeed is assured. We are,
promised, too, now and greater sources
of power, It may well be possible to
change the face of the world to ex-
tents of which we have not yet dream-
ed.
Hitherto the production of food has
been the prune struggle of man, That
war is won. There is no doubt that
civilized races can produce or procure
all the food they require. Our problem
to -clay is that the white man produces
more wheat thaii he needs, but the yel-
low men, brown men and black men
have not yet learned to demand and
become able to purchase a diet superi-
or to rice. Synthetic food will, of
course, be used in the future. But we
shall not have to face an existence of
tabloid food. Instead, our present
food will be prepared, but in a syn-
thetic manner. We shall hardly be
able to detect any difference between
the synthetic foods of the future and
the natural foods of to -day,
Equally startling developments lie
already just beyond our finger-tips in
the breeding of human beings, and he
the shaping of human nature. There
seems 'little doubt that it will be pos-
sible to carry out the entire cycle
which leads to the birth of a child in
artificial surroundings. Iuterfereuce
With the mental development of such
beings, expert suggestion and treat-
ment in earlier years, would produce
beings specialized to thought or toil.
Our minds recoil from the creation of
beings who are capable of tending
a machine, but without other ambi-
tions, and the laws of Christian civili-
zation will prevent them. But lop-
sided creatures of this type might fit
in well with the Communist doctrines
of Russia. Future races may see new
powers in the hands of altogether new
and difiierent men to those to which
wo of to -clay are accustomed.
But while men have been gathering
knowledge and power with ever-in-
creasing and measureless speed, their
virtues and their wisdoms have not
shown any notable development as the
centuries have passed. The brain of
modern man does not differ in essen-
tials from that of the human beings
who lived and loved here millions of
years ago. The nature of man has re-
mained hitherto practically unchanged.
Under sufficient stress — starvation,
terror, warlike passion, or even. cold
intellectual frenzy the modern man
we know so well will do the most ter-
rible deeds, and modern woman will
back him up.
At the present the civilizations of
many different ages coexist together
in the world, and their representatives
meet and converse. Euglislimen,
French and Americans, with ideas
abreast of the twentieth century, do
business with Chinese and Indians
whose civilizations were crystallized
several thousand years ago. We have
the spectacle of powers and weapons
of man far outstripping his intelli-
gence; we havethe march of his in-
telligence proceeding far more rapidly
than the march of his nobility. We
may well find ourselves in the pre-
sence of "the strength of civilization
without its mercy."
Therefore, it is important above all
other things, that the moral and
spiritual conceptions of men and of
nations hold their own amid these
formidable scientific evolutions. Other-
wise it would be better to call a halt
in material progress.
What New Yokk
Is Wearing
BY ANNEIiELLE WORTHINGTON
:Il.1sfrated Dressmaking Leeson Fur -.
With ,Tavery Pattern
as characterize Tose. of us, were
enough when followed out to their i Comracleshi}�
logical conclusions, to put to death
the Son of God. (b) the vested inter- Come, I will make the continent indis-
ests, represented by the Sadducees. Isoluble;
They still crucify the Christ when he I will make the most splendid race the
opposes them (c) tete -politicians, rep -I sun ever yet shone upon;
resentfd by Pilate. (d) the soldiers,--- With the love of comrades,
good fellows in themselves. JesusS;rith the life-long love of comrades,
spoke highly of some of them. It I will plant companionship thick as
was a soldier who did him the i trees along all the rivers of
last earthly kindness he receiv-i America, and along the shores
ed, 19: 29. But it -.vas by :nen of the great lakes, and all over
prepared for their task by military j the prairies;
discipline that he was done to death
on Golgotha. Our military systems I will make inseparable cities, with tl�
are planned to depersonalize those their arms about each other's
whom they train. Soldiers are edit -1' necks;
cated not to think for themselves, but For you; for you, 1 am trilling these
to give unreasoning obedience to a songs,
command. "Such a system, white it' In the love of comrades,
has noble associations with courage,' Iu the high -towering love of com-
loyalty, honor and self-effacement, rides.':
counteracts that which Christianity —Walt Whitman. "Poems."
tries hardest to create—a reasoning i
conscience, Coffin, The Meaning of the
Gro.6. OTHERS
U. MOTHER AND steer, 19: 25-27. Doing nothing for others is the un -
We now come to the most tonch!ng doing of one's self. We must be pur-
scene of all. Reckless 'n her grief, posely kind and generous, or we
Jesus' mother had pressed close to the miss the best part of existence. The
crass. In his dying agony, his care heart that goes out of itself gets
for his widowed 'mother was his one large and full of joy. This is the
earthly uhought. "Woman, behold thy great secret of the inner life. We
son," said he, looking at the disciple do ourselves the most good doing
whom he loved: In the word translat something for others,—T-Torace Mann.
ed "woman" there is no. harshness
such as the English suggests. Syne'
helically the incident is taken that
Jesus commends his mother, the Jew-
ish dhurch, the ancient faith which
gave birth to Christianity, into the
keeping of the Christian believers.
What was valuable and permanent in
Judaism now passes over into Chris-
tianity: The "mother" of Jesus dwells
in the house of his disciple.
III. THE FINISHED TASK, 19: 28-30.
Then comes the triumphant "It i,
finished." What did he accomplish in'
his finished work? He bore our sins.
(a) he was the victim of sin's deadly
hostiit• (b) he bore our sips on his
conscience. He identified himself with
men in their sufl'e:ing, their need,
their corporate guilt. He was under-
going the Cross long before he found
himself on Calvary, (c) He bears our
sin away, not in the sense that another
shoulders a legal debt for another, but
l)y ;;remonstrating to us a love that
swallows up sin and destroys it. In
going the full length demanded by
"Dearest, this his tell, you all I
have to say. Have you understood
"Oh. please say it again."
nee?"
For I dipt into the future, far as
human eye could see,
Saw a vision of the world, and all the
wonder that would be;
Saw the heavens filled with commerce,
argosies - . magic salts, '
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping
down with costly bales;
Heard the heavens filled with shout-
ing, and there rained a ghastly
dew
From the nations' airy armies .grap-
pling in the central blue;
Par along the world-wide whisper of
the south wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples
plunging thro' the thunder-
storm;
Till the war -drum throbb's no longer,
and the battle -flags were furl'd,
In the Parliament of man, the Federa-
tion of the world.
Slowly comes a hungry people, as a
lion, creeping nigher,
Glares at one that nods and winks be-
hind a slowly dying fire.
These six stanzas of prediction, writ-
ten
ritten eighty years ago, have already
been fulfilled.
There are two processes which we
adopt consciously or unconsciously.
when we try to prophesy. We can
seek a period in the past whose con-
ditions resemble as closely as possible
those of our day, and presume that the
sequel to that period, save for some
minor alterations, will be similar.
Secondly, we can survey the general
course of development in our immedi-
ate past, and endeavor to prolong it
into the near future. The first is the
method of the historian; the second,
that of the scientist. Only the second
is open to us now, and that only is a
partial sphere. But, obviously all that
Science has achieved in modern times,
and the knowledge and power now in
her possession, we can predict with
some assurance the inventions and
discoveries which will govern our fu-
ture. We can but guess what.reactions
these discoveries and their applica-
tions will produce upon the habits, out-
look and spirit of men.
To -day man can control great forces.
Canada Guards
Indians' Health
Department of .Indian Affairs
Maintains Health Service.
On All Reserve
In the care and training of Can-
ada's Indian wards, the protection of
their health is a matter of prime im-
portance. In every province Of the
Dominion where reserves have been
set aside for the benefit of the lee
diens, the Department of Indian At•
faits maintains a health service
whereby not only bodily ills are at-
tended to, but the Indians are trained
in personal hygiene and otherwise
grounded in the fundamentals of pre•
ventive medicine.
The health service of the Depart-
ment of Indian Affairs is carried out
for the most part by local physicians
and hospitals. About 325 such pity-
sicians are employed on part-time sal-
aries or on the call system to attend
bands of Indians living in their neigh-
borhood. The number of local Hos-
pitals utilized in this manner is about
200.
The permanent full-time health ser-
vice of the Department is carried out
by 13 Medical Superintendents, 10
Field Nurses and 7 Hospitals, located
as follows:
Doctors (Full-time Physicians).
Full-time physicians are located at
the following reserves:
Quebec: Bersimis, Seven Islands
and Caughnawaga.
Ontario: Six Nations Reserve (2)
Manitoba—Norway House.
Saskatchewan: File Hills and Qu
'Appelle Agencies combined, and at
the Battleford Agency.
Alberta; Blackfoot Reserve, Sarcee
Reserve and at Chipewyau.
Northwest Territories: Resolutiraa
and Simpson.
Field Nurses.
Sheer woolens are tremendously
emelt for resort and spring.
The ribbed fabrics are especially
favored as boucle jersey and knitted
woolens.
Here is a clever model with inter-
esting bodice treatment that lends
itself just perfectly to these soft flat-
tering woolens.
The skirt displays the voguish wide
box -plait effect with extreme snugness
through the hips.
And incidentally, you'll like it quite'
as well developed of plain rough crepe
silk or of printed flat crepe silk.
Style No. 2672 may be had in sizes
14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38 and 40
inches host.
Size 16 requires 332 yards of 39 -
inch material.
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To -day
Away with the flimsy idea that life
with a past is attended,
There's Now—only Nov—and no Past
there's never a past; it has
ended,
Away with its obsolete story and all
of its yesterd' sorrow;
There's only to -day, almost gone, and
in front ? to -day stands tomor-
row.
EFFORT
Most of us come late in life to the
Travelling Nurses.
Prairie Provinces (21; British Col-
umbia (1) ; Northwest Territories (11.
Departmental Hospital.
Ontario: Lady Wil]ingdon Hospital.
Six Nations Iterserve Brantford, 20 "
beds.
Manitoba: Norway House Hospital,
20 beds.
Saskatchewan: File Hills Hospital, 25
beds.
Alberta: Blackfoot Hospital, 34
beds; Blood Hospital, 40 beds; Sar
eee Hospital, 20 beds; Peigau Hospital,
3 :.els.
The nursing staff of these hospitals
numbers 21 graduate nurses. The lit
diens' fear of and prejudice against
medical treatment have been almost
wholly overcome and the hospital fa-
cilities are now made use of at all
times.
In addition to providing the serv-
ices outlined above, the Department
co-operates with Church missionary
organizations, in the operation of hos-
pitals and with the Provincial Gov-
ernments,
overnments, and the Victorian Order of
discovery that we can do much more ff Nurses in the maintenance of district
than we are doing. ! nurses in many places.
Pardon
To endure and to pardon is the wis-
dom of life.—Koran,
Friendship which Bows from the
heart cannot be fro2en by adversity, as
the water that Bows from the spring
does not congeal in winter. --J. Feni-
more Cooper.
Black Outlook
She lived in a neighboring town :.tali
was the daughter of snibbish parents.
They inet one night at the pictures
and a friendship began. He told her
he was an accountant.
One day, as she was passing his
place of employment about noon, she
1 lingered in the hope of seeing him.
i That morning he had been engaged
Iin cleaning out boilers, and presented
a grimy appearance as he left the
factory for his midday ureal.
"Oh, John!" she exclaimed, catching
sight of him as he tried to pass un-
noticed. "I thought you told me you
were an accountant."
"So I am," -was his calm reply, "but
this is my day for mixing the ink."
A man without decision can nevelt
Uncle—"That's nice, Willie, to be said to belong to himself He be -
resolve not to torment your poor
old dog any morel Here's a nickel
for you."
Willie—"Thanks! You see old
Fido died last week."
Where law ends tyranny begins.
—Earl of Chatham.
longs to nrhatee-er can make captly e
of him.—John Foster,
1,000,000 sugar maples are to be
planted in the Lake St. John area ht
the Province of Quebec, according to
Ilou. Honore Mercier, Minister of
Lands and Forests,
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