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May-25. Lesson Vill--Jesus Describes the Future of the Kingdom--Mat-|ve this serious tone inthe teaching 13° ; Jesus, Notice that in the Sermon Shew 25. 1-13. Golden Text--Take on "the Mount Jesus had said, "Not Ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time Is.--Mark 18: 33. « ANALYSIS THE PERIOD OF WAITING, vs 1-5. . THE SUDDEN CALL, Vv. 6. TIL. THE FINAL RESULT, vs. 7-18. INTRODUCTION -- The twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth chapters are directed to the disciples of Jesus, and to the whole Christian church, and are meant to give solemn warning to all believers _ concerning the approaching return of Jesus, who will come to judge and rule the world. This truth of the imminent return of the Lord runs through the gospel of Mattuew. This section in- cludes three parables of warning: (1) 24: 45-51, the Faithful and Wise Sery- ant; (2) 25: 113, the Ten Virgins; (3) 25: 14-30, the Ten Talents. ere Wwe notice how Jesus makes use of these parables to drive home simple = severe lessons on the problems of ife and religion. There is nothing in all the range of religious literature te be compared with the parables of Jesus. 1. THE PERIOD OF WAITING, vs 1-5. Some one has said that we may di. vide the parables into two groups. The first consists of those that deal with the kingdom and-=can be distin- guished by the formula which intre- duces them, "the kingdom of heaven is likened unto." The second group consists of those that deai with the individual. Here we have one of the p- rables of the kingdom, but it cou- cerns only one aspect of this doctrine. Sometimes desus treats of the present kingdon. as if it were : ready formed on the earth, and revealed itself in a new c. ndition of life and sodiety. The seed parables refer to this present kingdom. However, t"ere is also' the foture aspect of the kingdom, which will be manifest when Chr's' returns on fhe clouds of glory. V.-2. In JéWish marriages the usual custom was for the friends of the bridegroom to cu uct the bride to the house of her husband who came forth .to meet the processiva and wol- come the bride. But in this case the imagery is changed, since the groom now goes into a far country to meet the bride, while the friends remain behind to be in readiress to welcome him on his return. V. 3. The umber ten was the sym- boi of completeress und here repra- sents the membership of the kingdom. The division into two equal parts is significant. The olish virgins had taken enough oil in their lamps for their immediate use, but had made no provision for the future. Religion had made no deep and lasting effect upg this class of follower Sihe oh Ro be regarded as the presence of a gen. ine Jove for God and desire to do his w . 5. During the period of waiting for the bridegroom tlLey all slumber. | There is no appara. t difference be- | tween the wise and foolish. No sug- ; »stion of rebuke is made in the fact! ful, the happiest woman at tiie head! medical science." that they slept. "It intimates the nee- | cessity that lies on all of going down into the ordinary affairs of this life.| Disciples in the body cannot be occu- pied always and only with the exvee- tation of their Lord's appearing." \ 11, THE SPODEN CALL, v. 6. | V. 6. Two facts about the second coming are very clearly stated in the New Testament: (1) There is the cer-| tainty of the return. This we "hear | from the life of Jesus, and from all the apostles, The Book of Revelation is filled with this prediction of the e.rtainty of the return of the Lord. Behold I come quickly. (2) The sec- ond fact is the uncertainty eoncerning the exact time. Jesus told his dis- ciples that no man knew of the day and hour when the Son of man would return. suddenness of the return, come like a th' f in the night. 111. THE FINAL'RESULT, vs. 7-13, V. 7. Everything comes to an end; even the delay of the Lord, and now every one is full of activity. life is closing Lehind,#and eternity opening before us, we are all aroused." He will the long days of grace to listen to the eall of the Saviour, and to follow his commands. V. 9. At first it might seem strange that the wise virgins refused to give a little of their oil to help out their companions, share their possessions? able makes it clear that this is im- possible. If the wise give their oil there will not be enough for both, and the Lord will have none to meet him. The meaning is that there are certain things we can never give to others MUTT AND JEFF-- LINQUENT RE £3 ne heaven." 1 V5 38. Here he lesson of the parable upon the duty of watehfulnes.. is a probation where we have our op- earning of divine truth; but the is very brief, we shall appear before the judgment seat of Christ. or not. He came at the resurrection, and at every great crisis in history. He comes to every one at death, but there still remains the great final day when Christ will appear to judge the world and to bring in the final king-|, dom of heaven, brook Empire, as it might be called By BUD FISHER P (YouR Hook, =. PReTeEs! AGANST THE UNJUST TT" SENTENCE OF A YEAR DEPT. IN JAIL AND FIFTY GRAND FING! WANT THe CASE s3E given. Jesus means to lay stress Life rtunities for service and for, e time , and when this is over, People ask whether Christ has come ellen an "United Empire" Melbomrne Arugs: This Rother portmanteau-wise, after the fashion of Lewis Carroll, is at present impos- sible, if only because of Australian policy. A country which prohibits the export of stud sheep to South Africa and plunders its own people while selling sugar and butter cheaply to. foreigners is a long way from be- ing in that state of grace which the United Empire. requires. Australia | will have to be born again to discover that kingdom. ' 'Necking may be pronounced inno- gent, but it's not spelled that way." -- Woman in the Home Frances F. O'Donnell in the Forum "Soapy" Smith was a tough guy. He shot men for the fun of it and rob- bed thein when there was nothing better to do. He had a trick of appearing to wrap a cake of soap iam a five dollar bill and selling it to a gullible cus- tomer for a few cents. Because of that they called him "soapy" up in Skag- way in the gold rush days of '98, But "Soapy" was too tough and too slippery even for the rough frontier of the north. One day he was a bit slow on the draw. He was shot and killed and burled with his antagonist, whom he had mortally wounded, in the little cemetery adjoining the town. When news of his sudden and long hoped for death arrived the townspeople appar ently thought something should be done to commemorate the end of a desper- ate career Someone had said that "Soapy" was as hard as rock. So they painted a skull on a cliff and lettered Soapy's mame on it, To-day tourists to Skagway 'stand and photograph this rellc of a day that is on more, Alaska and the Yukon are sunny places of green hill sidés and flowers, of placid lakes dnd roaring rivers, of great peaks and deep valleys when the boats sruise up there in the summer time. This year the service is to be augmented by the S. S. Prince Henry, of the Canadian Natienal Steamships. The CNS "Prince Rupert" and the "Prince George," of the same line are al- ready known for their comfort and seaworthy qualities to the thousands of tourists who each year make the voyage up the well-known Inside Passage to Prince Rupert and Skagway. Two other new steamers now being built for the Canadian National Pacific Coast Service, the Prince Robert and the Prince David, will ply between Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle. TWO OR THREE DOLLARS ALMOST ANYBODY No man can sit in misery's mental| Right where you are now, do the rocking-chair and wish himself into; very best you cam with what you've success, got and do the thing now, Success owes you nothing. You Almost anybody can accomplish al owe success every faculty you possess. | most anything if they nave all the If you want success, the only way | tools and all the time they think is to win it is by intelligent industry. necessary. Until you: get these truths firmly fixed in your head, your services are worth two or three dollars a day, no more. i ---- YOUR SECOND SET Beneath the surface of the skull, just above your collar button is a brain that you seldom use, and all be- (New York): Whatever mode of life tends to develop the most perfectly rounded, the most genuinely success- of the home, is the mode that will make the best mother--and conse- quently the best child. I don't care where she spends the hours of her day, ow much wealth enables her to give ef childrén "advantages," or how hard she tries to be a "good" mother, an unhappy woman is a bad mother. Whether or not she is conscious of the blight she caste upon her child, he [will be influenced by her attitude of defeat and disappointment. Mistaken for "Re 9) Detective Killed | coup Finland, Hence we hear so much of the | an Exchange Telegraph dispatch said London--An anti-Communist went awry in Helsingsfors, recently. To prevent Communists from smug- barracks, | authorities posted two plains-clothes the building. "When | Without informing the military, police | stationed two plain-clothes detectives The two parties V. 8. The foolish virgins represent | mistook each other for Communists, those who have not taken advantage of | and in the fight that fqllowed one was i wounded, and one officer also suffer- gling pamphlets into a army officers outside jt the same place. detective was killed, the other | | ed injury. ----a------. In the three British Army centres Why would they not! where time-expired soldiers are taught But the par-| some trade, about 3,000 men are train- [ every year, the vocations ranging from valeting and waiting at table to electric wiring, building, motor build decorating, IT'S OKAY OPENED. ing, and all forms of painting and i OPENEDL I Now FING THE PRISONER Te YEARS IN JAIL AND A HUMDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS. "0, doetor. I have sent for you, cer- tainly; still I must confess that I have not the slightest faith in modern "Well," sald the doctor, "that doesn't matter in the least. You see, a mule has no faith cause you must do some tall thinking before that brain wil' work. rt He: "Something seems to be wrong with this engine, it----" She: "Don't | their machine-guns or their' { , "Though few may emerge 2 these flaming plains that offer no shel-| Of Northern Manchuria. Mos get Corse s 125, readers who tenant Ernest Junger, will everything subservient to "the will to win," . Here {s a characteristic pas- sage which speaks for itself: -- in the. battle for some slag-heap. of | horror, over those *Wreathed smoke rival conceptions of the world's fat lure are locked in demoniac. strife, It is not a question of the few thousand men who may perhaps be rescued from destruction, but of the dozen or two survivors 'who are there in the nick of time to turn the scales with That is a view of the world's destiny which few have the iron nerve and masculine force to bear, and yet one may be proud to live in a time when cause of an approaching | Chinese conference. : [> "Ime works with heavy tools, and | been conducting 'a the Chinese Eastern Rallway as a is oe moe acute be- .Russian- "Those simple-minded people who think that China's grievances against Soviet Russia are to be remedied, de- clares the Canton China Truth, must have received a rude shock when they learned that Moscow has all the time Agrion intrigue" against China. This weekly goes on: "This state of affairs has reached an alarming stage in view of the fact that the two countries are running Their concern joint enterprise. ; "We are not alarmists or jingoists, for at this very moment Soviet agents are excavating the foundation of the country with a view to the eventual b collapse of thie social and economic superstructure, "According to Kuo Min News Agency, the Commissary of Finance such a spirit has shapéd events to its mould of tempered steel. ter but the mettle jn a man's own heart, and though these few resolute in aim and act, may still find fate turn against them and deny them their goal yet I feel as surely as I feel any- thing at all that a gain' will be scored that can never be scored out. "For they who can come through this--and, as I say, there can only be a few--what can there be that they could not come through? And. so I see in old Europe a mew and com- manding breed rising up, fearless and fabulous, unsparing of blood and spar- ing of pity inured 'to suffering the worst and to inflicting it and ready to stake all to attain their ends--a race that builds machines and trusts to machines, to whom machines are not soulless iron, but engines of might which it controls wih cold reason and hot blood." , "Say, this novel is all bound wrong. It starts with the last chapter and ends with the first." "It's all right, only you've gotten be foolish; wait until we get off this r , and yet {in the - veterinary surgeon, and Yy main road" he cures him just the same." Summer Days hold of a copy of the 'Woman's Edi- tion"." ¥ Lake and river travel remalm to Canadians the complete and perfect Kingston the holiday ships move to the lower St. Lawgence and Saguenay rivers, This glimpse of the Laurentians and the lower St. Lawrence is typical of the summer days on these famous trips. CASE CLOSED!! holiday. | upon the app opriation of six million from | From Niagara, Toronto and (Photo by Canada Steamship Lines.) of the Soviet Government has decided rubles for the economic exploitation "A committee to be headed by the Soviet Consul in Harbin, and com- posed. of reprecentatives of various Soviet commercial organizations in Manchuria, will be appointed to attend to the carrying out of the details of Moscow's new program in China. 'This is a rather mild statement, but the same agency wen on to say that Soviet forces stationed near Man- chuli total two battalions of infantry and cavalry troops, 120 field guns, 80 machine-guns, 11 armored cars, and § armored trains. : "Friends of Soviet Russia may argue that this has so far not done any harm to China." But let us resd another story from the North China Daily News of Shanghai. "That Shanghai daily has just pub- lished a report from Indo-China stat- ing that Southwest Kwangsi has gone Bolshevik. The towns Poseh and Lungchow have been in control of the Reds for three months." The Communists spread terror throughout those districts, we are told, and foreign missionaries and others were stripped of their possessions, even to the shoes on their feet. It is related in the same dispatch that "a Russian emissary and a Shang- hai paid agitator appeared on the scene and set the place in flames." We read then: i "Those who live in Shanghai, Han- kow, Tientsin, etc., may have no idea how the Communists behave when they capture a town, but the Canton- ese know very well what the Reds did when they were in control of Can- ton on December 11, 1927. . "The most densely populated part of the city was reduced to ashes, and th of i t people were killed. Besides, there were the usual lootings and outrages by ruffians and thugs who joined the Communists on the spot. "Of course no Communist coup d'etat was complete without the pre- sence of Red agents from Moscow. * "In view of the sinister designs and intrigue of Soviet Russia on China, a how can the two natidns maintain friendly relations?" -- ae Are You So Important If you ever feel very important and think you are indispensable, here is something that will take you down a pes. . Every twenty-four hours ninety-six thousand human beings leave this life and still" the world gces on, It the world can continue to go on losing four thousand people every hour ,it may not miss me much and it 'might not miss you very much. -- ir ---- TEN SHORT LAWS There are ten short laws to govern mankind and they all sum up like this --Play Fair. in ---- BEWARE OF CAR STRAIN When the car is new do not seek to force speed as such action often places an undue strain which will prove injurious to the engine. Discrimination dogs +has since Roman ified One to vent their anti-Semitism, 'the average ha "He must," writes Dr. Frank Gavin, a professor in the General Theologi- cal Seminary, "acquit himself in ad- vance of tral of indictments prepare before he came into Court--nay, mord evi --of condemnations passed before dence was collected." oR Small wonder, . then, writes Dr. Gavin in The Living Charch (Episco. their outsideness." 8 Dr. Gavin tells us, for Instance that it is three times as hard foi Jewish boys -to enter certain medical . colleges as for other hoys. Often they have to try from five to. forty- six colleges before they can secure A " " admission, and we read: "Last year some six hundred suck - boys, who could not prosecute their studies in medicine here, made ap plication at Edinburgh, of whom but thirty could secure places. Of Ameri cans studying medicine abroad a dis- proportionate number are constituted of Jewish boys who could not secure idmission to an American medical college. ' "Many of these boys are, well above in intellectual prepara tion, the capacity for consistent hard work, and the keen desire to study medicine. "Lest it be thought that a prospec- tive medical student, rejected again and again, 1s not likely timber. for the profession, Dean Schwitalla's paper, delivered last winter, gives the verdict of the St. Louis University Medical: College ¢n such cases: thg evidence is clear and unmistakable-- the so-called 'multi-applicants' furnish not the worst but the most promising material on the basis of class stand- ing, grades, and general competence. Because a boy's name happens to be Greenblatt he expefiences obstacles which would not come his way did he bear an Anglo-Saxon name. "If the quota system In colleges and universities exists to prevent the do- minance by the Jew of the tone of the under-graduate life of the college, it 1s out of place in a professional school, where the best competence and ability must be secured and trained, for the public good. Discrimination can not be justified om grounds of common sense; why penalize society and the public weal by excluding keen- ly alert and intelligent possibilities from making their potential contribu. tions to the general good? "The Jew is, of course, an indivi- dualist, "He tends to an originality and ine dependence which mystifies, baffles-- .and often flouts--the easy-going group action of typically non-Jewish society. But such individualism and instinc- tive independence are valuable assets in life--especially in the sientific world, where all the sedulous' train- ing of the student is designed to as- sist him to an independent and fresh view of evidence." : Such discrimination, says Dr. Gavin, makes for the development of all those things against. whih our. religion is doing battle: embitterment of life, contriction of personality, frustration of vocation cramping and paralysis of capacity, incentice and creative pow- ers. "It offends every principle of fairness. It flouts every canon of social integrity 'and honest dealing of man with man." But its evils do not stop here, and this is a point to be remembered: "The instances, momentous in num- ber and appalling in the aggregate, where. anti-Semitism operates in hos- tile discrimination against the Jew--: socially, politically, economically, or culturally--do the Jew less harm (great ag it is) than they do the mon- Jew. The stultification of principle and the release of evil instincts are corrosive and subversive of the es sential qualities of Christianity. "The cripplng and paralyzing effect of non-Christian actions by alleged Christians vitlates the effective pow- er of their Faith in their lives. "How can Jews ever respect or love the religion of Christians who ex- perience in daily life such unchristian, treatment from the profest followers { of Christ?" fn its requirements as to the conduct of war."--Herbert Hoover. 3 wy > Sil A Williamsport man, harassed a good deal over making out his income § a tax return, finally hit upon a simple | formula, which he now offers free of charge to any who may be perplexed in-future. He listed as dependents 'one wife, a sedan car, three goldfish: pal), that "protective bardness én. cases the conduct of those who: feel | and two children. He then, multl-' "To maintain peace is as dynamic -