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¢ 0-0 eres ree oy November. 15. Lesson VIl--Paul in Jerusaiem=Acts 21: 27-30. Golden Text--Thou shalt he "is witness; unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.--Acts 22:15. _ ANALYSIS I. A COMPROMISE, Acts 21: 17-26. IL, THE RESULT, Acts 21: 27 to 22: 29.| Salk BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN, Acts 22: 30 to 23: 11. IV. ANOTHER PLOT, Acts 23: 12-30. --After the riot, Paul : foward Jerusalem : ThE ton of Acts (19: 21 on) forms* riking parallel to Luke's record of Jesus facing Jeru- salem--and death. Everywhere is em- phasized Paul's farewell to his fol- x rs (20: 1, 36-38; 21: 5), every- where premonitions (f impending dis- aster. But Paul, brave soldier of Jesus 'Christ, determined » bring to the Jerusalem poor the collection he had been gathering throughout the churches, still held to his purpose. His pathetic words to the Cmsarean Chris- tians are misunderstood if we take "break my heart" (12: 13) in the modern sense of that phrase. It really means "melt away my resolution." He felt that the passionate grief of his friends might do what all fear of consequences" had failed to do-- weaken his resolution to go on. Then he uttered that great word, "I am ready, not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." His friends, recog- nizing that this was no human obstin- acy, but "the will of the Lord," ceas- ed their protests. Packing up their luggage, "taking up our carriages," Paul's company set of toward Jeru- salem and what might befall them there. I. A coMPROMISE, Acts 21: 17-26. Arriving in Jerusalem, Paul's appre- ensions were relieve] by the cordial welcome which he ani his companions received from the church leaders. The latter were doubtless glad to get 'he Lresent, although we have no record of their thanks for it. Next day, be- fore James and the others, Paul told of all the works which God had wrought through him. It was a great story, but mearly received. Paul's Learers, above all else, were zéalous for the old law. He was once more confronted with Judaistic Christian- ity. 11. THE RESULT, Acts 21: 27 to 22: 29. The result was quite unexpected. Toward the end of the week, some Jews from the province of Asia rec- ognized Paul in the Temple and im- mediately raised a hue and cry, "Men of Israel, help! Here is the fellow who has been teaching mén to ignore the law and temple!" Luther cele- brating the Mass in St. Peter's would not have caused a greater sensation. * The mob dragged Paul out. The priests quickly shut the Temple doors _ lest the sacred precinct should be de- filed with his blood. Rescued by Ro- man soldiers and given permission to peak, ie told in simple, straight-for- ward style the story of his life and his call to preach the gospel to the Gen- tiles. The racial prejudice of the crowd could not tolerate the thought of a mission to foreigners, and the riot broke out afresh, He was saved from a scourging only by asserting his Roman citizenship. Not a little per- turbed at this discovery, the officer arranged for a trial before the San- hedrin. 111. BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN, Acts 22: 30 to 23: 11 The tial before the Sanhedrin end- ed in another riot. He had scarcely begun ais defence when Ananias, the high priest, angered at something Paul had said, had the prisoner smit- ten on the mouth. This was illegal, and Paul, casting diplomacy to ths winds, rebuked him unsparingly. This was contempt of court. Paul apolo- zed. Seeing that no justice could be ex- pected there, he resorted to a clever ruse to divide his enemies. Some were Sadducees, denying a resurrection; some were Pharisees, believing in it. Paul suddenly threw a bomb among then by saying, "I am a Pharisee. It i$6n account of the hope and resur- reetion of the dead that I am called to account." This threw the crowd into a tumult. Some of the Pharisees sided 'with Paul, 23: 9, Once more the 'Roman power had to rescue and safeguard the Christian missionary. That night, in prison, what must have been Paul's thoughts! Was his of good cheer, Paul, You have testified for me in Jerusalem. You must testify for me also in Rome," 23: 11, Paul was immortal until his work was done. IV. ANOTHER PLOT, Acts 23: 12-30. Next day, a plot was discovered anil reported to Paul's nephew. Under a strong guard, Paul and his compan: ions were sent off to Felix at Caesarea. The story is told so vividly--even to noting *hat Lysias took the young man by the hand (28: 19) --that it must be the work of one who was there, moat probably Luke himself. So, by means which must have been far from-Paul's intending, God was answ:ring his rayer Gio: 21) by hurrying him on to Rome. ---- ---- -- is way Beyond the Sun: Behold this vast incalculable ray, 'Brighter than stars, mor: luminous than suns, More distant than all Dace beyond all space In its beginning, if indeed there be Birth or beginning to that principle Man's m'nd hath never conjured, nay, nor will Perchance, with all his weighty con- juring This side the glimmering secretive Veil. Behold this ray, feffable, informed Beyond the sun, beyond these mea- surements Of skies and firmaments and fashioned voids; This uncreated, all-crsating volt, This unthought word, this might with- out a name, That shook Old Chaos into rhyme and rhythm, No single atom looted or laid waste Unto this hou. What hath God wrought, indeed-- Himself, and light snd law and life and love, The: from the mist that moves be- yond the sun, A --Ie.roora Young, in Tha N.Y, Times. mf in Seas That Are Salter Would you be able to answer cor- rectly if someone asked you which contained more salt--a quantity of water from the Atlantic Ocean or an equal quantity from the North Sea? You would probably venture the sug- gestion that they were both the same, and you would be wrong. For the At- lantic is more salt than the North Sea. This is one of the interesting points that emerge from the report of the, Government chemist which has been issued recently. The work of his de- partment is very varied--it may be asked to determine whether water from a certain source of supply is suit- able for use in pithead baths, or if a suspected article of food contains poison. A Another question put to the depart- ment was why certain films of nation- al importance were deteriorating, and how they could be restored and pre- served. This problem was tackled in a very thoroughgoing way, with results that may make historic films a much more permanent record. --'"Answers." ---------- ent His Turn Two taxi-drivers stopped for a chat. "How's business, Bill?" asked one, who was seated in a smart-looking taxi. "Terrible," replied Bill, sadly. "All this week I've hardly picked up a shil- F ing. The other looked his taxi over. "Well, Bill," he said, "I don't see as how you can expect to get fares with an old crock like that. Why don't you do what I do, and go round to --- He'll fit you up with a nice turn-out like this, and then you'll get all the fares you want." Bill took the advice, and started next day in a brand-new taxi, After a week, however, the proprietor of the vehicle sent for him. "Look here, Bill," he said, "you've had this taxi a week and done nothing with it. What's the matter--why don't you get fares? Don't people signal to you?" "Oh, yes, they dc," replied Bill; "I see em waving all right. But they wouldn't wave when I had an old cab, and I'm not taking any notice of 'em waving just because I've got a new one!" tm miimeaine "If a man smashed a clock, could he be accused of killing time?" "Not if he could prove that the clock struck day's work 'for his Master done?-- dare the Lord stood by him and said, In Crime Condensed from Progressive Era: An-elderly man was discovered by a policeman. His face was downward! (as he Jay crumpled in blood-stained drifts. In his inner pocket were papers that identified him. Word was flashed to headquarters,fand Robert Paessler, chemist and scientific detective, took up the 'trail of the unknown slayer. He learned that the murdered man had been alone the night of his death. His daughter and her husband had spent the time with relatives in a neighboring town. During the even- ing the son-in-law had left the house,' and had not returned until two in the morning. He declared he had attend ed a movie, and produced witnesses to substantiate the story. His alibi was perfect. Paessler searched the home of the murdered man. By means of a special 1000-watt, nitrogen filled lamp, with twenty times the power of an ordinary lamp, he found a stain, faint and over- looked. After studying the brownish, round- ed imprint on the linolenm of the kit- chen floor, he identified it as the repro- duction of a rubber heel, which tallied in every respect with that of a shoe worn by the son-in-law. About the nails was some dark matter that proved up- on chemical test to be human blood. A conviction followed. In France not long ago, some boys | found a body, stabbed in a score of places, and showing an odd series of wavy, parallel lines in the clotted blood 'near a wound on the ghoulder, At first the detective was deeply mystified, but finally a possible ex-. planation occurred to him. The mur- derer had evidently leaped on his vic- tim as he fell, and kneeling on his shoulder had plunged his stiletto again and again into the body. The parallel lines had the imprint of the weave of the killer's trousers in his victim's blood. Among the suspects rounded up by the police was one whose trous- ers, though carefully washed, had a peculiar weave which matched the lines on the victim's shoulder. In these cases, the clues were clear- ly legible. Often, there are only single drops or tiny stains, dried particles in dirt, or faint blood traces in garments that have been-washed over and over again. Here is where the amazing discov- eries and apparatus of the laboratory come into play. Astonishing feats have been accomplished in the detection of crime by both American and European investigators. It was at the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory at Chi-| cago that I learned something of their methods and of the instruments they use. There they search for stains with special electric - lighted magnifying glasses; utilize testing reagents of a dozen kinds; carry on researches in| the mysterious realm of colloid chem- istry. They work with rare, colorless serumsy reacting strangely to the mic- roscopic red discs that contain the hemoglobin, or red coloring matter, of the blood. With super-power microscopes, they study infinitesimal crystals within, red corpuscles only three-thousandths of an inch in diameter. With blood-test- ing spectroscopes, they note the gases a life-stream carries. In a case where a murder had been made to appear like a suicide, the veins of the woman proved that she had been dead before the gas fumes with which the room was filled, had had time to act. ; Most people tliink of bloodstains as always red or brawn. Heat, moisture, cold, and chemical§'afféct them so that they are found in every imaginable hue. Light olive green, light rose, practically colorless, or assuming the color of the material upon which it rests, in any casé, it furnishes a foun- dation upon which the scientific de- tective may establ't'i the identity of the murderer. Stains on polished furniture, often a reddish brown, are particularly diffi-! cult to see, and often only a photograpit | will reveal the differences that are not visible to the human eye. In one case a photograph made by magnes- | ium light revealed some spots on the mud-crusted rung of a ladder. spots which were otherwise invisible. | Various means have been rdopted by criminals to outwit these blood- trailing detectives, One man stripped himself naked before committing the first." By BUD FISHER crime, so that his clothes would bear f | he 4 his handkerchief, | which he later destroys. He invariably forgets the lining of the pocket in which the bloody handkerchief was carried. Other overlooked places are the materials scraped from around and under the fi ils, in the hems and seams of garments, and around the nails and seams of shoes. 5 The first question the detective must answer is: Is it blood? Suspects will often declare that bacco juice, medicine, or some other suspicious | stains were made by paint, coffee, to-| dark liquid. In such cases the first re-| =| '80rt is to the microscope, which may reveal the structure of the red cor-| puscles. In more dificult cases chemi- cal reagents, such as benzidine and| sodium perborate, are added to solu-| tions containing blood. So accurately do these chemicals react to the pres- ence of blood that a particle no larger than a grain of sand may be identified, and blood taken from an Egyptian mummy showed the reaction almost immediately. The second question to be answered is: Is it human blood? In deciding this problem, rabbits come to the scientist's aid, First, freshly-drawn human blood fs allowed to coagulate. 'The watery, strav-colored serum fis then drawn away from the clots. Small quantities of this serum are injected, at intervals of one or two 'days, into the veins of rabbits. The rabbit is killed, and its blood allowed to coagulate. The serum] is then drained away and preserved. It is called "anti-human" serum, and is carried in stock by biological supply houses. Suspicious stain3 are soaked in a very weak solution of common salt. A few drops of terum are added. If the stains are human blood, white precipitate forms a ring wihin the tube. But if any other type of blood caused the stains, the tiny halo fails to form. Anti-chicken, anti-cat, anti-deer, and other serums are prepared in a simi- lar way. To prepare anti-rabbit serum, however, rabbit blood is injected into chickens, since no animal's blood will cause irritation in its own body. Another method of distinguishing between types of blocd has been evol- ved through a series of researches at the Carnegie Institution of Washing- ton, D.C. Dr. Edward T Reichert and his associate, Dr. 8 P. Brown, have found that they can tell the blood of different creatures apart and dis- tinguish human blood from that of other animals by the shape and angle of crystals in the red corpuscles. Nor can a murderer safely claim that suspicious stains were made by his own blood. Scientists have known for twerity-five years that all human blood falls into one of 'four groups. In one instance, where a suspect claimed a nosebleed had caused the stains, the blood was found to belong to Group Four, while his own blood fell into Group Two. Not only does the blood itself tell a dramatic story, but a number of crimes have been solved through ma- terials found in dry stains. 'A tiny thread matched a murdered man's pyjamas, a torn finger-nail led to a murder, a minute bone proved. that a murder had been committed, and a single drop of blood set the sleuths on the track of a slayer. The expert to-day can tell by the shape of the blood-drop whether or not the victim was moving; he can read whole stories into a single splotch, Clever indeed is the criminal who overlooks no possible precaution against these man-hunting, blood-trail- ing sleuths.--Magazine Digest. a CL First Fish--"Will the lobster do to fill in at our poker game?" Ginger Rogers has all the ap- pearance of enjoying her visit aboard this battleship, but is she laughing or calling for help? -- The Moon Thy beauty haunts me heart and soul, Oh: thou: fair Moon, so close and bringh; Thy beauty fakes me like a child, That cries. aloud to own thy light: The little child that lifts each arm, To press thee to her bosom warm. Though there are birds this night With thy white beams across their throats, Let my deep silence speak for me More than for them their sweet- est notes: Who worships thee till music fails, Is greater than thy nightingales. --From "Collected Poems," by Wil liam Henry Davis. AD mn mrt Old Frescoes Discovered Prague.--In a 700-year-old church in the village of Drautz, Slovakia, three frescoes have been found under an old wall which are believed to be the oldsst existing victures of the life of St. Anthony. The pictures, which are in Byzan- tine style, represent St. Anthony's meeting with Paul, his martyrdom ard death. The pictures are about 12 feet wide and 4% feet high. The frescoes have been restored by a, Hungarian artist. The village of Drautz was the seat of the Order of St. Anthony in the thirteenth century. | -- From a Train Sunquick and gloom, The engine's windy wake, Hillsweep unfreckled as a frosty peach, Rock-torrid ploughland river's lace, Rich grass pollendd with buttercup, Elm-terraces Broidering purl on purl, A station jagged and flown Like a leaf torn from a book, The stretch of plain, on, on --So many things pass by-- All a landscape spinning on a wheel Below a tranquil sky. --G, W. Stonier, in the New States- man and 'Nation, -------- resins An international convention of all the aviators who have flown the At- lantic is being projected by the Inter- national Federation of Aeronautics, It is hoped that this meeting can be held in Rome next Spring, that sing Second Fish--""Yes. In a pinch." + | to crime as there is the danger per- |ZBFHK nounce the word." are very nearly a handicap.--Mr. Andrew Soutar. : A philanderer {is a person who gives money to charitable and needy institutions. > They gave Willlam IV. a lovely funeral. It took six men to carry 'the beer. : "There is an age of susceptibility iod for disease."--Lewis E. Lawes. "Do clever men make the best hus- bands?" "Clever men don't. become husbands." . The more things a man is asham- ed of the more respectable he is.-- George Bernard Shaw. Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a differ- ence of purpose between the Almighty and them.--Abraham Lincoln. Since the creation of the world there has beén no'tyrant like intem- perance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.--William Lloyd Gar- rison. If you fall, dismiss it from your mind altogether, and you will have all the better charce of starting afresh. = The opportunity of doing great deeds may never come to us, but the opportunity for doing good deeds is ever with us. It is a useful accomplishment to be able to say No, but surely it is the essence of amiability to prefer to say Yes, when it is possibile. An oculist was examining the eyes of a patient and had requested him to read the top line of a test card, the letters of which ran HP RT V 3 China's population now stands at 474,787,000, although the figure is more or less approximate as internal disorders interfered with the com- pletion of the census. Another one of Junior's illusions is going to be cruelly destroyed when we get a television set, and he finds out there isn't any Kingfish or Madame Queen. Seven ex-monarchs living in exile are estimated to possess between them £15,000,000. Of this total, the ex-Kaiser, who is the richest Ger- man owns £12,500,000. Over two hundred and fifty varie- ties of cheese are made in France. Holland produces over forty varle- ties. Switzerland about forty-five, Italy two hundred kinds, and Den- mark sixty. \ IIIS TARE Ep Eh, Harvest Now, in the waning of the harvest moon, : The year draws richly on taward afternoon, With golden airs that swoon, And fin deep orchards the cuckoo's croom, late The grass waves like a surf upon, the hill There is a plaintive murmur from the rill; The katydid is shrill, While Maestro Cricket, strums, and then is still. A sense of dream lies over all the amd, Ce And if you would taste fruit--reach out your hand! --Clinton Scollard in New York Sun. ttt A ie For Motorists' Copy-Books 'While schools are re-opening is a good time for motorists to renew their studies--of' safe driving.--The Chris- tian Science: Monitor. _ MUTT: AND JEFF-- JEFF, T'M BROKE -'T NEED! [For THe DoUGH-T THINK IT'LL LUWA Go OVER NIAGARA MIKE ~ FALLS IN THIS BARREL - NIX: Ni%= MUTT = Use DISCRETION - BUT LISTEN~ NOBODY || Has eve R GONE OVER Nv FALLS AND 1 AIVED: Some: parents are more than a re-| sponsibility to their offspring--they| | the little woniam, must we?" A weary pussy nestles in little Gloria' Meehan's arms after a 228 mile trek from the Meehan's sume mer home where he was forgotten, -------- : wii ed A Hospital for Fish The little 'French magazine JL Ami des Animaux, tells the following, mention of which has not been no- ticed in any English paper: "In the City of Toronto, Canada, there hag just been opened a hospital for fish, the only one of its kind in the world. From all parts of North America sick fish are sent to it, suffering from inflammation of" the eyes or from other maladies, even sometimes needing. a surgical operation. Fach fish is placed in a jar of water to the side of which is affixed a card containing the diagnosis and symp- toms such as are necessary for the veterinarians." ------nia Barred' On the concert programme of one of the smaller orchestras was Bee- thoven's "Leonore" overture, each of 'the two climaxes of which is follow- ed by a trumpet passage off-stage. The first climax came, but not a sound from the trumpet. The conductor," considerably an- noyed, went on to the second. Again there was silence. This time, the overture being finished, he rushed to the wings. There he found the trumpeter still arguing with the house fireman. "I tell you, you can't play that thing here!" the latter was saying, "There's a concert going on!" -- i Local: Color A referee was sent to officiate at an important cup final between two local village teams in the North of England. Arriving an hour before the game was due to commence, he encounter ed the captain of the home side, who introduced his brother. "George," 'said the ' football cap- tain, "this is the referee. He's got an hour to spare, so I want you. to take him round the village to, see the sights. You could let him see the brickworks, and then 'ave a stroll round by Farmer Bates' duck- pond, and return by way of the cot- tage hospital and the cemetery." Mild Winter Sault Ste, Marie, Ont.--Weather} forecasters are predicting a mild winter in Algoma this year. So far this season only one frost has been reported in the Sault area, flowers are still in bloom; and the trees are still in leaf. Actions of the beav- ers, muskrats and other bush ani mals indicate that they do not anti- cipate cold' weather, as they have not yet housed up, and are not lay- ing up winter food. The weather Is summer-like, > ! ------ pees Cockroaches: Attack: ' Human Cockroaches, especially where there is little food for them, sometimes at- tack persons when asleep. It 1s said that slepeing sailors aboard ships often wear gloves to prevent these pests from gnawing their fin- _ gernails.--Animal Life. --e RR] "My wife made me all that I am Has hs "But we mustn't he too hard om