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April 10. Lesson 1l--How Sin Begins «Genesis 2: 15-17; 3: 18. Golden Text--Watch and pray, that we en- ter not into temptation --Mat- thew 26: 41. ANALYSIS. 1. THE PROHIBITION, Gen. 2: 15-17. il. THE TEMPTATION, Gen. 3: 1-5 III, THE SIN, Gen. 3: 6, 7. IV, THE CONSEQUENCES, Gen, 3: 7, 8. INTRODUCTION--From the story of creation the Bible proceeds to 'he story of the garden. The connection n the two accounts is not im- portant, It implies that God is con- cerned, not only with creating man, but with forming an ideal environ- ment for him--an evidence of God's goodnes and loving care. What an enchanted garden it is, with trees that bestow knowledge and life, and ani- mals that talk! This garden, like the far country in Christ's parable and the road which Christian traveled in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," be- longs to the map of the soul rather than to that of the earth. The mo- tive of the story is to explain the uni- versal but mysterious fact of *thuman sin with its dire consequences. 1. THE PROHIBITION, Gen. 2: 16-17. Life in Eden, though pleasant, was not idle. There can be no genuine happiness without a worthy vocation. So Adam must tend the trees of the garden. In his life he was given a wide liberty of choice; he could eat of any of the trees of the garden. Without this freedom he could not fully axpress his personality. Sut there is a limit to human freedom. There was one tree of the garden which was not to be touched--the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Just as the people of the Middle Ages sought for the fountain of eternal vouth, so the ancients believed 'hat certain trees would bestow knowledge, ag certain waters would bestow life. Here the forbidden tree is surely to be understood as a symbol. It stood as a divine warning against human pre- sumption. thou go and no further," Knowledge of life and the world, which is won by the sacrifice of peace of mind and pur- ity of heart, is both illicit and impious. II. THE "EMPTATION, Gen, 3: 1-5 Never have the stages which lead te sin been depicted with such pene- trating, psychological insight and wich such simple, powerful strokes as here. Even an ideal environment is not proof against the possibility of sin. The serpent is not to be understood as the devil of Christian theology, al- though it became identified in later though. with him; it represents simp- ly the agent by which an evil sugges- tion came to man. It commenced oy exaggerating grossly God's prohibi- tion, as though every tree of the gar- den were under the ban. It thus sought to create the impression that man's lot is unnecessarily hard through the severity of God. The ser- pent seemed more compassionate than God; life, under his management, would be less austere. At first the woman repelled the suspicion that God is unnecessarily harsh. She cor- rected the serpent; only one tree is prohibited. Ah, she was made to talic --and about the prohibited tree! The rerpent now became very bold and branded God's word as false. "Ye shall not surely die," he said. God is, ther 'ore, a tyrant who lays down a prohibition, not in the interests of Adam and Eve, but merely to restrain them from the happiness that might be theirs, Further, in eating the fruit of this tree there is a wondrous toon --the opening of the eyes. It makes one's soul to feel that one is going througk life like a blind man, missing its priceless things. These were the suggestions sown in Eve's heart. III. THE SIN, Gen. 8: 6, 7 The serpent, having done its worls, disappeared. Eve's curiosity had been aroused. She looked at the tree and noticed what she had not previously observed, that the forbidden fruit was ot pleasant appearance. Next, her de- sire was kin How glorious it must taste. How mysterious its power of bestowing knowledge! The fatal step was taken swiftly and thought- lessly. Then, as sin loves company, Eve tempted Adam, and when woman tempts, man is powerless to resist. "The opening of the eyes aptly symbolizes the awakening of con- science. So Newman says, 'They lost Eden, and gained a conscience." The innocence of childhood was gone, and shame and fear came in its place. No doubt the moral maturity which an awakened conscience implies -vould have been reached, but more slowly, It said, "Thus far shalt] MUTT AND JEFF-- own age. IV. THE CONSEQUENCES, Gen. 8: 7, 8. These early sinners had hoped Join knowledge of the highest, but e knowledge they won was merely that they were naked! Sin produces shame. For they had now te cover themseives, and they chose fig-leaves. Sin also separates man from his In picturesque simplicity the story tells how God walked in his garden in the cool breezes of the morning and how Adam and Eve could not look into hig searching eyes. g First. Spring Ah it 1s well that grass now light to emerald; That hyacinths in purple and pink unfold; That lilies lift in sheer and sudden whiteness, While daffodils burst softly into gold. For soon, across the earth, dull-hued as parchment, A message must be written by a sun-- A message worthy of the fairest col org-- "The Lord is risen again! is done!" --Violet Alleyn Storey in the N.Y, Times, What New York I Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Lo, death Tustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern Just another smart frock for "best" for that important age of 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. This time a lovely deep blue with a sapphire cast silk crepe made the original, It's an adorable affair. And it's really quite simple. It re- flects the Victorian period in its quaint puffed sleeves and round lace trimmed neckline, Style No. 2622 can be made at a very small outlay. Vivid red crepe de chine is very effective. Then again, perhaps you'd like it fashioned of a lovely cotton tweed in red and brown mixture. For the col- lar, cut the material on the bias and pipe around lower edge with red bind- ing. Match the belt in leather to the collar, Size 8 requires 2% yards of 39-inch material with 3% yard of 86-inch lace and 8 yards of 8-inch ribbon. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS, Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and ! address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto, By BUD FISHER Africa to select them, -- Blue Predominates In New York Parade Waists Uncertain But Neck Lines Are Definitely Higher New York.--There was a distinct blue note in the traditional spring par- ade when fashionable New York and a great many country cousins strolled down Fifth Avenue. The blue note was not due to over- cast skies, but to the whim of the mys- terious men and women--in Paris and New York or somewhere--who dictate what the well-dressed woman will wear. If you're still in doubt, the W. D. wo- man will wear blue most of the time this season. The styles displayed along Avenue were emphatic. Hats were small, tipped over one ear. Rough woolen material of a loose weave was seen frequently and there were many striped costumes. . The stripes appeared to have in- vaded every phase of the new styles. They were usually three colors--red, white and blue or red white and black. The hats were mostly blue, and of- tentimes trimmed with red and white, Most of the dresses were a pale shade of blue, trimmed with pearl gray and with light blue slippers to match. Black costumes also were popular. The silhouette was intriguing, broad at the shoulders and narrow at the hips. The waistline is still wavering between its natural level and a slight- ly higher point of the directoire period. This trend also has inspired higher neck lines, and in the smartest street dresses the neck line aproached the collar-hone. i ii. the American Professor Urges Adult Education Adult education has become not only | a necessity but an obligation, accord- ing to Professor A. Broderick Cohen, director of the evening and extension courses of Hunter College. In a recent interview Professor Co- hen declared: "It is an obligation of all parents to continue their studies, either by some more or less regular program at home or by participating in organized courses given by a col- lege university or some other educa- tional institution. "Such organized study at home or in"an educational institution is desir- able even for the graduates of the col lege and the university. For those lacking college training such study is indispensable especially if the parent would fulfill his obligation to his child and keep abreast of the swiftly chang- ing scientific and cultural aspects of our modern world. "As the child grows older the need for the parent to continue his studies in order to keep up with the child is Known as Africanders, a herd of these. strangelooking catfle * has been purchased by the United States department of agriculture and will be crossed with Texas beef stock. | nounced movement from the country the King's partiality is toward the old. necessary." 'W. H. Black went to -- Shift in Nopulation Noted in Dominion Ottawa,--Rural population to-day re- presents 46.20 per cent, of the total for the Dominion of Canada, compared to more than 50 per cent. in 1921, ac- cording to an official report based on the census taken last year. The rural population to-day is 4,802, 138 and the urban population 5,672,068, Comparatively figures a decade ago were 4,435,827 and 4,352,122 respec- tively. Thus, during the ten-year period the urban population increased by 1,219,936, or 28 per cent, and the rural population by only 366,311, or 7.6 per cent. In the ten years the population of Canada increased by 1586,247, or 18.05 per cent. to the total of 10,374,196. During the same period the gain in the United States was 16.7 per cent. and in England and Wales somewhat less than 6 per cent, Generally speaking the most pro- to the city is found in Eastern Canada, and in particular the industrial areas of Quebec and Ontario, although the tendency is spreading westward. Since the census was taken, in June of last year, governments in Canada have been giving attention to a back-to-the- land movement which has been instru- mental in settling in agricultural em- ployment on their own land or as em- ployees, some 45,000 individuals who required no financial assistance, but only some advice and guidance. mean --r---- Royal Family's Taste in Books Extends Over Wide Range London.--Prince George's confession that he has a keen appetite for novels, but is tired of their incessant harping on sex, is a reminder that he is the book lover of the royal family. He is as Interested in first editions as his father is in stamp 'collecting: The public life of the King and other members of the royal family leaves little time for light reading, although er novelists--Dickens, Thackeray and Scott, and occasionally Conrad, Blogra- phies and historical romances are the Queen's favorites. 'The Prince of Wales likes Kipling, P. G. Wodehouse and Stephen Leacock. The Duke of York turns to serious and economic problems of the day. Community utilization seems to be practice so that the power company cost of getting by which a plow may be owned makes blende ore. containing the radium, out |; the most of its investment and the pos- of the wild area by airplane. sibility of selling electric energy. drums are set up at opposite ends of the field along a straight line. A steel is supplied by cables paid out from | reels. land. ating costs, he ought to make money, gin; 8: : 3 \ fo 'This will "turther the great the valuable pitch [ con: nection with radium extraction, the An electric plow travels along at the company has engaged the services of a rate of about three miles an hour and Belgian expert, Mr. Pochon, and on his covers as many as thirty acres a day.' return from Europe in June plans will The cost of electric current at 2 cents be considered for a refinery, The plant their in a kilowatt-hour amounts to only 60 will include crushing and grinding ma- Inge for the funuels of vessels fh |, cents an acre. A contractor who owns chinery, as well as the chemical equip- a plow and hirés himself out to farm- ment for readium extraction. ers charges from $3.50 to $6 a day.| The Department of Mines at Ottawa Allowing the usual rate for interest on is lending all possible assistance to- the investment depreciation and oper- ward working out ways and means for the treatment of the radium-bearing k City. He said, quoted in a press bulletin issued by 'Every ship afloat to-day has certain characteristics whereby mariners, at & glance, can easily identify the vessel at sea or in any port of the world. Owners design' house flags and mark: j order that the lookouts in the various observation station: throughout the world may easily "read" these vessels in daylight; but in the darkness all = ships look alike, . Foreign steamship owners were the first to see the opportunity of flood- There is nothing resembling the OTe: S80 far the government has ve-|ypiing their vessels. The North Ger- a similar rope Pills For Plants Fertilizers are scattered over the be drilled into the ground like seeds.' principle, a Southern research organi ing fertilizers in an entirely new way. | The process was. described by B. G.! Klugh before the New York chapter of the American Institute of Chemists re- cently. At first pellets about the size of homeopathic pills were considered, but the pharmaceutical equipment re- quired to produce them was too intri- cate and expensive. It was decided to form a paste and to extrude it through very small apertures. Spaghetti-like strings came out, which were dried and then cut into granules an eighth of an inch long. Pills are thus obtain. ed which can be forced into the ground in any desired dosage by means of a farmer's ordinary drilling machine, They are very hard and dense, and uni- form in size and shape. The perfectly smooth outer surface presents so little area to the atmosphere that the ab- sorption of moisture is slight. Even after four months there is little ten- dency of the pill to cake. Speed Cooking For all their easy-going ways, the Germans are speed-conscious, and for all their tradition, they are as much in- terested in modern home comforts as Americans. ' Not only fe they speeding up some of their trains, but there are signs that they want to cook in a hurry. What else would explain the market- ing of a mew "electric kitchen" with which, it is claimed, a full-size meal for five persons can be prepared in 45 minutes? The -device, which is also said to make cooking cheaper consists of stewing pot, frying pan and coffee percolator, all of which operate by in- sertion of an electric plug. It was ex- hibited at the Leipzig Fair recently. As for the home comfort, there was displayed at the fair a "central heat- ing range" which can be used not only for cooking but for heating the entire Percy--"By jove! idea." Betty--"Be kind stranger." I've got an to the little house, doing away with the necessity | for separate fireplaces or stoves in the i various rooms, which is still a wide . spread custom in Germany and other European countries, This special range | hag three grates, one over the other. Only the top grate is used for cooking: | the middle grate is intended for use in milder weather when the house re- quires only slight heating, and the bot- tom grate, where the flames are mpst intense, is for the winter. Radium Refinery The Canadian which sought, near Great Bear Lake, Love Sends a Convinced that this is the correct mining company, usual gasoline tractor, Two portable ceived 600 pounds of ore for experi: mental purposes, and the company pro- | poses to ship twenty tons of ore, now Tope from one drum is fastened to the Stored at Waterways, Alta, to Ottawa rear of the plow and paid out as the for further test purposes. plow travels along; from the second drum is fastened to the front of the plow and does the actual hauling. At the end of the fur- row the plow is turned around to be-| gin the return journey and dig a new central electric stations in Canada de- furrow, renee abmnti? Water Power in Central Electric Stations About 98 per cent. of the output of trial energy. a a The devel mand on the central electric stations. i At the present/ time there are 328 hydro-electric central stations in Can- a total installation of 5,734, Of these totals, 226 stations with an installation of 609 tur- bines of a combined capacity of 4,241, 838 h.p. are owned by commercial or- ganizations while municipal and other public organizations operate 102 sta- tions which contain 242 turbines aggre- gating 1,492,658 h.p. The average in- stallation of the commercial stations is 18,769 h.p. and the average capacity of their turbines 6,966 h.p., as com- pared with 14,634 h.p. and 6,168 hp, for the municipal sta- tions. Individual turbines vary in size from the 10 h.p. turbine used for ham- let lighting to.the great 65,000 h.p. units of the Chute a Caron develop- ada wi 491 horsepower, respectively, ment on the Saguenay river. Progress on the Big Bend Highway has been made during the past year towards the | Considerable progress man Lloyd liner Europa carries a huge electric sign amidships on both sides of the vessel, blazing forth the ship's name. Bach letter houses 100 40-watt lamps, and can be seen on the ocean at a distance of five miles. Another | recently completed flood-lighting in- 'stallation is on the Italian liner, Conde Grande, whose two illuminated fun- nels, on which are painted the identi- fication marks of the life, stand out - What was the paying-out cording to the Dominion Water Power y - drum now becomes the hauling drum. | and Hydrometric Bureau, Department Walonistiy ip we SuOusHine dank There is no overhead trolley. Current!of the Interfor, is generated from| The art of illumination on ship o1 Inydraulic installations. The propor 'tion of hydraulic installation available for, public use is steadily growing to keep pace with the increasing demand It would be better if they could for domestic, commercial and indus- In all three of these fields new adaptations are increasing | alt th i oe . | alternating current radio, electrical re- zation has developed a method of mak | trigeration, therapeutic appliances and general household devices in the do- mestic field; of improved commercial lighting and advertising in the com- mercial field; and of electro-chemical and electro-metallurgical processes in! industry constantly increases the de- ashore often finds itself overlooked and disregarded and men are slow in admitting and realizing its tremendous possibilities. From flood-lighting the lofty funnels of a ship tv distributing light evenly in the very bottom of its throbbing engine-room, the art of il lumination can perform wonders on board any vessel, Where to Sit at the Talkies Few movie patrons, says Popular Mechanics (Chicago), know that the position of their seats in many' theatres affects the clearness of the sound they will hear from the screen. Says this magazine: "Except in houses buflt to muffle the echoes a 'mushy' or blurred sound comes to the ears of those near the middle section. "It is caused by the-fact that sound," delivered from the stage by the loud- speaker, echoes from the rear wall of the theatre. The words or music travel to the spectator in the middle of the theatre, then bounce off the rear wall and return again to his ears. - "The human ear does not detect the distinct echo, but the interval between the sound and echo is sufficient to cause a slight blurring. This blurring | is more noticeable near the middle of { the theatre than at either front or back. "The patron seated well forward gots a loud volume from the speaker and an echo so faint as to be imper- ceptible, The person at the rear re- ceives a lesser volume but the echo comes so quickly afterward as to be unnoticeable. In a well-filled theatre, the mushiness is not so disturbing to completion of the Big Bend highway, | the sensitive ear as in one only partly the connecting link in the western half of'the trans-Canada highway which fol- lows the course of the Columbia River in British Columbia for almost 200 miles. On the eastern end, which is| being constructed by the National Parks Service, Department of the In- terior, sixty-two miles of road from Golden have now been graded and sur- faced. <> Teacher--"Henry, can you define a hypocrite?" : Henry--""Yessum, it's a kid wot comes to school wid a smile on his . face." Little Gift of Sneczes. GONG WITH THE BALE oF ALFALFA? MUTT, WHERE YOU | ¢ LITTLE BoQueT | JUST AS SURE AS A GIRAFFE HAs {GOT A Neck! IF You HATE Him WHY Are GIVING HIM You HAD FLOWERS ? | BECAUSE T JUST "DISCOVERED He HAY full. ' : "Theatres built since-the advent of the talkies usually are constructed to take care of the echo problem by pro- viding sound traps and broken angles as well as by the use of non-reverber- ating materials." Re Us A, ™SYS€£sos GS The Flower-Pots, Georgian Bay Islands One of the engineering works car- ried out by the National Parks of Can- ada, Department of the Interior, was the re-enforcing of the base of the smaller of the two natural columns or "flower-pots" on Flower Pot Island, in Georgian Bay, Ontario, Flower Pot Is- land was recently acquired as an addi- tion to the Georgian Bay Islands Na- tional Park from the Department of Indian Affairs, who had held it in trust since its surrender in 1856 by the Chippewa Indians. The island owes its name to an in-- | teresting rock formation which takes the form of two picturesque limestone pillars which stand in bold relief against the lake horizon like two im- mense flower-pots on the edge of the water. The larger of the two has a height of about forty-five feet and a diameter of twenty feet. The smaller pillar is over twenty-five feet high and | about fifteen feet through. The waves and ice of Georgian Bay have been slowly wearing away the bases of these pillars and the disinte gration at the foot of the smaller flower-pot is now quite marked. Hav ing an overhang of six feet, caused by emosion and lean, this pillar re- quired immediate attention, and it was deemed advisable to strengthen the base with concrete. This was effected | by pouring cement into the fissures of | the rock and then building up the face with loose stone, thereby helping to preserve the natural appearance of the column. The larger pillar is still in very good condition with moss grow. | ing up the sides and rear, indicating a 'much slower rate of erosion than in