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Re -- NOTICE Due to the fact that this whole page, next week, will be devoted entirely to the Coronation, we are including next week's Sunday School Lesson in this issue. SCHOO] SUNDAY ----LESSON= LESSON V.--May 2 ABRAHAM A MAN OF FAITH (Genesis 11: 27--20, 18.) Printed Text--Genesis 12: 1-9; 13: 14-18. GOLDEN .TEXT--By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for 'an inheritance, He- brews 11: 8. ~~ The Lesson In Its Setting Time--Abraham was born B.C. 2003 and reached Canaan about B.C. 1928. He separated from Lot four years later and rescued Lot B.C, 1921. Sodom was destroyed B.C. 1904. Place--Tht City: of Ur was in southern Chaldea. Haran was in Mesopotamia; Shechem in central Palestine; Sodom at the northern end of the Dead Sea; the plain of Mamre, which is Hebron, is located twenty miles south of Jerusalem. Gerar was . nine miles southwest of Gaza. * "Now Jehovah said unto Abram" --The name "Abram" means "high father." Later in the narrative we shall find the name changed to Abra- ham (17: 4, 5). "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee." This is . undoubtedly the second call in Abram's life. The first one he had only partially obeyed (Acts 7: 2--4). God knew that Abram had come to an hour when he was ready to more fully obey God's commands. God never tells us to give up anything that is dear to us unless, at the same time, he gives us a promise of some- thing even more precious that he will bestow upon us, (See Phil. 3: 4--14). "And I will make of thee a great nation" --The Jews have been a great nation numerically, and are greater - today. than probably ever before. They have been great in commercial life; tiey have been greater in arts and sciences, but they have been su- premely great in their spiritual in- fluence, in giving us the Holy Serip- tures, and the Son of God. "And I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing." Abra- ham was. blessed in being the father of the Hebrew people, in the privilege of walking with God, in receiving mighty promises from God, in being the father of the faithful; through- out all the ages he has been honored by Jew and Gentile, by Christians and Mohammedans. His place in Christian truth may be judged by the fact that he is mentioned more than seventy times in the New Testa- ment. "And 1 will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall al] the families of the earth be blessed."-- (Sce Zech. 14: 16--19):-- Abraham bestowed a blessing upon the world in being the first great character of the true God. that whole race of people who have Bo mightily blessed humanity by their Scriptures; through him came the Lord Jesus Christ. "So Abraham went, as Jehovah had "spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of | Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their 'substance that they had gathered and the souls that they had ~ Botten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came." Canaan is supposed to mean "mer- chant." See, c.g., Isa. 23: 11, the marg.n. "And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem." This is the place where Abram first erected an altar. Shechem lay in the pass which cuts through mounts Ephraim, Ebal, and Gerizii,, about twenty-five miles" directly north of Jerusalem, in a valley which A, P. Stanley has called "the most beauti- ful, perhaps it might be said, the only very beautiful spot, in central Pales- tine." g "Unto the oak of Moreh, Moreh refers to the owner of the oak grove, "And the Canaanite was. then in the land. This simply implies that the land was not open for Abram to en- ter upon immediate possession of it without challenge, It also intimates or admits of the supposition that there had been previous inhabitants who may have been subjugated by the in- vading Canaanites. : "And Jehovah appeared unto Ab- ram, and said, Unto thy seed will 1 give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah! who appear- ed unto him."-- Here," for the first time, occurs a phrase that is to have such great significance throughout the Old and New Testaments, 'the Lord appeared.' How he actually ap- peared to Abram we are not told, and Through him came . it is vain for us to speculate, We can be confident that God appeared in such a way that Abram knew that it was God who was speaking with him, Though the promise of the land was given to Abram, he himself never possessed Canaan: this was left for his seed, to follow some hundreds of years later, (see Acts 7: 6). "And he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Bethel, and. pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the _east: and®there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah. And Abram jour- neyed, going on still toward the South." --Bethel means 'the house of ( God,' and is to be identified with the modern town Beitin, It played a most important part in the life of Abram's granlison, Jacob (Gen, 28: 11). Why Abram continue! tu move southward we are not told: probably God would have him traverse the en- tire land which he had promised as a possession for his descendants. "And Jehovah said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, north- ward and southward and eastward and westward. For all the land which thou seest, to thee will 1 give it, and to thy seed for ever,"--This is the second promise Abraham has been given regarding the ultimate posses- sion of Canaan, only this time the promise has a greater sweep, and. its eternal aspect here first appears. God does not tease us by giving ou: souls visions of ultimate accomplishments, desires for service, but he leads us, and schools us, and equips us for the attainment of that which he has un- unveiled to our souls; one vision to one and another to another. "And 1 will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may thy seed also oe number- ed""--Ior a fulfillment of this prom- ise sce Num. 23: 10; Duct. 1: 10; 10: 22; 28: 62. In Gen. 15: 5, Abra- ham is promised a sced as numerous as the stars of the heaven, and it has his seed should be as the dust of the rth refers to his posterity accord- -ing to the flesh, and the promise that his seed should be as numerous as the stars of the heaven, refers to his seed according to the Spirit, Gal. 3: 29; Heb. 2: 16). - "Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it. And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre; which are in Hebron, and built there an al- tar unto Jehovah."--Acting immedi- ately, as the heavenly voice directed, Abram moved his tents to the plain of Mamre, who later became his friend and ally\(14: 13, 24), near He- bron, twenty-two miles. south of Jer- usalem, on the way to Beersheba, a town of great antiquity. Here he built an altar to God. It is uot said anywhere that Lot ever built an altar to God. Erecting an altar for the worship of Jehovah in every place where Abram journeyed may be com- pared to Christian people immediate- ly seeking a church home when they man attending divine service every -Lord's- Day no matter how far from home he might be; or Christian people not allowing themselves, in strange cities, and when living in hotels, to fall asleep at night without hearing the voice of Gad from the pages of Holy Scripture. : LESSON VI--May 9. ABRAHAM A MAN OF PRAYER (Chapter 18.) - , Printed Text Genesis 18: 17--32. GOLDEN TEXT -- The supplication of a'righteous man availeth much in its working. James 5: 16. The Lesson In Its Setting ' Time--Abraham's intercession for Sodom occurred B.O, 1904. Place--Hebron, about twenty miles south of Jerusalem. . "And Jehovah said, Shall 1 hide from Abraham that which I do; See- ing that Abraham shall surely be- come a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in hini ?""--God always knows what he is going to do in every cir- cumstance concerning every individu. al and every nation, Some of these purposes he has revealed to us in his Holy Word, indeed thousands of them, Often by prayer and abiding in the will of God we come to know God's specific purposes for us at specific times, as we face certain cir- cumstances. Our knowledge of what God will do strengthens us, encour- ages us to greater fervency in Chris- tian work, delivers us from fear, and ~ been suggested that the promise that move to a new city; or a travelling creates in us a hope that nothing can ever take away. "For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him,--As it was only by obedi- ence and righteousness that Abraham and his seed were to continue in God's favor, it was fair that they should be encouraged to do so by seeing the fruits of -unrighteoushess. So 'that as the Dead Sea lay throughout their whole history on their borders, .re- minding them of the wages of sn, they might: never fail rightly to in- terpret its meaning @nd in every great catastrophe read the lesson, 'Except ye repent, ye shall all like- wise perish! They could never at- tribute to chance this predicted judg- ment. cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have don~ alto- gether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, 1 will know."--There, far down the valley, lay the guilty cities, still and peaceful. No sound travelled to the patriarch's ears. Quiet though Sodom seemed in the far distance, and in the hush of the closing day; yet to maiden, the wife, and the child. These were the cries which had entered into the ears of the Lord God. Each sin has a cry. 'The voice of thy broth- er's blood crieth unto me. We must not conclude from the phraseology of these two verses that Goa did not know the actual condition in Sodom prevailing at this time: su h expres- sions as we have here are used to indicate God's absolute justice in all his decisions, and to inform us that God never punishes any being or any community in wrath, but that he is fully justified in so doing. Gen. 18: 22--23. "And the men turned. from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet be- fore Jehovah. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked? Per- adventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou™consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be ner, to slay the righteous. with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?""--This prayer of Abraham's "arose from Abraham's knowledge of Gods purposes towards Sodom, and from Abraham's own love for Lot, and his feeling of deep responsibility for the son of his de- ceased brother, with whom for so many years he had lived and labored. Furthermore, Abraham knew God. He had absolute confidence in God as one who heard prayer,, who always acted reasonably and justly, and to whom he could fervently pour out his heart's desires. "And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."-- God -accepted the test proposed by Abraham, though 'not necessarily thereby acquiescing in the absolute soundness of his logic; God said he would spare Sodom if fifty righteous could be found, not as an act of judgment, but as an ex- ercise of mercy, because of . the claims upon his mercy which grace admits the righteous to prefer. "And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five. And he said, I will not des- troy it, if I find there forty and five," -- Abraham must have known the city of Sodom intimately, and he probably was convinced in his own heart that fifty righteous could not be found within the circumference of that city. He himself certainly never heard of fifty righteous men being there. Yet his heart is moved with pity for his own flesh and blood, who certainly would be destroyed in such a judgment as is about to descend upon this city. Accordingly, he asks God if he would not spare the city if only forty-five righteous could be found, and God answered his second petition as he had answered thg first. It should be noticed that, in this sec- ond petition, Abraham appears even in deeper humility than in the first peition, as though he had no right to ask God anything; being but dust and ashes himself--he is dust at first and ashes at last, : "And he spake unto him again, and said, - Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake, And he said; Oh let not -the Lord be angry, and I will speak: peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there."--Twice again, continu- ally reducing the number of those who, if found, would lead God to spare the city, does Abraham ap-- proach 'God on behalf of a doomed community, Here is true persistence in prayer, not letting go of God until our whole heart has been poured out "And Jehovah said, 'Because thé God there was a cry, the cry of the: far from thee to do after this man-_ ;'felt that he had reached the limit -- rr Movie-radio =--gossip M-------- By DOROTHY -- As a fitting salute to Spring, War- ner Brothers have released "The King and thé Chorus Girl," and-United Ar- tists have put out "History Is Made at Night" They are both giddy and romantic and have set everyone .to arguing over who is the greater mat- inee idol, Fernand Gravet or Charles Boyer. They are both grand romantic heroes. "The King and the Chorus Girl," is something of a nine day won- der because it is a Warner Brothers musical without a big production num. ber to faterrupt the gaiety. And "His- tory Is Made at Night," is completely baffling because it mixes spectacular scenes and grim tragedy with farci- cial situations. Talent scouts from the motion-pic- ture studios are suspected of doing their hunting mnowa- days in nurseries, for suddenly all of Hollywood {s in a dither over the child prodigies. If you did hear Betty Jaynes, the fifteen-year-old opera star on Bing Crosby's program a few weeks ago, just before she - started work for Maetro- Goldwyn-Mayer, you may have marveled Bing Crosby, at her talent. She ig practically mid- dle aged, compared to their new- est discovery, for the new contract player :{s Suzanne Larson, aged ten, who will be featured in a musical "B Above High C," which gives you an idea of her voice range. ODDS AND ENDS -- Freddie Bar- tholomew stayed up past his bedtime to sce the 9review of "Captain Cour- ageous." the screen version of Kip- ling's immortal novel and the lad's greatest picture since coming to Hol- lywood. -- Franchot Tone recently ce- lebrated his birthday with a party at a popular Hollywood night club. -- In her current picture, "When Love Is Young," Virgina Bruce wears a dress that required 310 yards of material -- "Anthony Adverse" got a cool recep- tion when it was given its premiere in Paris recently.. The Parisians were not at all pleased with the way Nap- oleon was presented in the picture, -- While Gloria Swanson's return to the films has hit a temporary snag, those in the know say all the present diffi. * culties will soon be ironed out -- De- anna Durbin is about the busiest young lady in Hollywood. Just as soon as she completes "One Hundred Men and a Girl," she will go into produc. tion on ano'her picture. Things Every College Girl Ought to Know ST. LOUIS--Walter B. Pitkin, author and member of the faculty of Columbia University, asserted in an address here "we aren't properly pre- leaves college with so little practical knowledge she goes out and electro- cutes herself with a curling fron by makifig an improper electrical con- nection." .. ; before him, pleading with his as a man would plead with a friend~ How wonderful for a mere creature to be on such terms with God as Abraham is here revealed to have been, and yet every Christian believer+in Jesus .Christ has an even greater right to exercise in entering 'into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the way which he dedicated for us.' (Heb, 10:19, 20), TE ! "And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me" to speak unto the Lord: ptradventure there shall: be twenty found there.' And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake. And he said, Oh let fot the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall' be found. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.'-- Twice again, still clinging to God for Sodom, does Abraham plead that God might not destroy this wicked city, once asking that it might be preserved if only twenty righteous:, should be found, and, finally asking if God would preserve it if only ten righteous shoul be found. And both times God ans. + 4. Abratam in the. affirmative, '. ure not told that God demanded int Abraham cease his intercession for Sodom: we may assume that Abraham simply thought he dared not ask God for more than he had already requested, and that to do so would be to presume upon the. mercy of Jehovah. Abraham of that liberty which God accords the. believing suppliants at - his throne." paring 'people .for-life- when a .girl |. Farm Problems J / Conducted by PROFESSOR HENRY C. BELL with the co-operation of the various departments of Ontario Agricultural College QUESTION: "Regarding fertilizers, what conditions call for a 20% phos phate? I 'vas wondering if it was the price that wus in its favor. We would like to sow grain again op land which had grain last year. Last year's dry spell 'has thrown our rotation out of order. Our land is sandy and gravel loam. Would you recommend sowing 20% 'phosphate alone? How Would it be in conjuuction with a light co.' one of the regular fertilizers?" -- J. R., Wentworth County. : ANSWER: You say that you would like to sow grain again on land which had grain last year. You also say that the land is sandy and gravelly loam, Chances are the level of available Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid and Pot- ash will be fairly low in this soil for this .year's crop. If you can spare ft, a light coating of manure, I believe it would be good. In addition, I would recommend that yoi apply 250 lbs. per acre of 2-12-6 or 2-12-10 fertilizer, I would prefer.the latter although fit would cost a little more. 2-12-10 has given excellent results in our demonstration tests over the of manure, or would you recommend' province, giving incraages of 10 to 16 bushels per acre over unfertil 2-12-10 fertilizer at the rate I men- tioned will: cost you approximately $3.30 and 2.126 will cost $3.00 per a e 20% Superphosphate would cost you $2.50 'per acre, but it will not add anything" but Phosphoric - Acid, This is the kind uf plantfood which hastens ripening, 2-126 will add Nitrogen which gives straw. growth and Potash which promotes the filliug and health- "iness of the crop. In our demonstra tion tests, we have found that both Nitrogen and Potash pay well under conditions which you mention, especi- ally if you are seeding down with alf- alfa or grass mixture. Best applica- tion of this fertilizer" of course, fs through the, fertilizer sectton of the -combined- fortiltzer and grain drill The analysis of the soil would of course help us' in reaching definite knowledge of the fertility levels of your goil, but since you say it was in grain: last year, and since it is sandy a graveily loam soil, I believe you would be safe in following the sug- gestion that I have given. Target of Dynamiters ~-- a -------- Lawrence Dwyer, 72-year-old United Mine Workers organizer, . telling Senate Civil Liberties Com- mittee in Washington of attacks made on him in Marlan County, "Three Kentucky mountaineers told of dynamite attempt. 300,000 People Now Living Will | Be Murdered _ Although dimly aware of the facts before, because of its mathematical definiteness, we find something sharp- ly arresting in the statement of a Department of Justice official that 800,000 persons now living in this country will some day be murdered, comments the Dettoit News. This means that, in spite of all the educationy the moral and religious training, the attempts to improve those social conditions which may in- cite to violence, and the likelihood of punishment for murderous acts, one out of every 400 of us is almost cer- A--3 tain to be shot, stabbed, pelsoned, Woe betide the intrepid rain- - drop that should: venture beneath the umbrella sheltering this Eng- lish bulldog, truculent entry in Melbourne show. i "demise. ° * mental ethical sense which is suppos- Insuance Ethics The London Spectator comments. Some of the Coronation insurances raise "dthical rather than legal prob lems. That interested parties, notably persons or institutions with seats to | Lown cok to the ground, let, should have taken out policiés | against 'loss incurred -by any post. ponement of the Coronation is uatur- al enough. : : But the policles are not all of 'a standard type. Some were so drawn as to involve the underwriters in the payment of a specified' sum ¢ if the Coronation of King Edward VIII does not take place on May 12th, 1937,"-- or words * that effect. The language appears to-have been a mere matter of form, No one, that is to say, was intentionally making provision for the possibility that King Fdward might not be crowned 0 May 12th, but another King might. And there is obviously no fear that seats will be left empty because the central figure is 'to be King George. Rut claims 'lave been made under the Edward* VIII policies -- and paid, One of the great hospitals, I be- lieve, has so benefited, and it may possibly De argued that a hospital is justified in raising: funds by any legitimate expedient. But is, for ex- ample, a West-End club? The question" has arise - in connection. with at least one of them, and the committee fis, or was, divided. But the principle seems clear--no loss, no idemnifi- cation. : : i _ Chief of Staff Commissioner = John McMillan, "chief of the Salvation Army in Canada, has been appointed chief . of staff of the.organization, sec- ond only to General Evangeline Booth. choked or .blackjacked, and that ap- proximately another .onevof each 400 is destined to be the instrument of our unexpected 'and unpleasant Besides provoking a shudder at the thought of our own: danger when walking home in the dark, these figures should ingpire some very sober thought. = Just what stage of growth and evolution have human beings reached? Evidently it is a discouragingly low one. We talk much of prospérity, of liberty, of culture, and so on, but it appears that theve are deeper prob- lems to be met than these about which we daily raise such argumenta- tive hullabaloo, What of the funda- ed to be an attribute of civilized man? . That also is sadly lacking. : In a part of our work for the ele- vation of the race we must still go back to the elementary stages and strive to make ourselves just simply. moral. Many of us, it seems, are only emerging from savagery, if not from unbridled animalism, and have a long climb ahead before we can properly yof pre-Canadian agriculture. * Timber Farms Setting a good example to Cana. dians who have control of crown lands of which evergreen trees are the natural crop, at Washington, we are told, the government forests are coming more and more to be regard- ed as "limber farms" and the meth. ods of scientific farmers, That is to say, they «want to know how, well | their crops are doing, and by what methods they can produce the most wood in the least time, Tai One 'observational experiment has furnished interesting information on the rates of growing pines left stand- "ing. us. seed trees, after an area has . been logged off. : " These trees showed an average growth, 'after the clearing nearly twice as great as for the same length of time before it. The observations extended over a period of 15 years, and showed that in general the great- est acceleration in growth came dur- ing 'the last five years of that period. : 4 This piece of information f& exe tremely interesting and important; because in: the natural mixed forests of evergreen and deciduous-trees it takes two-thirds of a century to de" velop a white pine, to be at its best for the production of lumber, -This interval might be materially shorten. ed by planting the trees in groves suitable distances from one another, so as to secure the sloughing of the lower limbs and the forcing of the trunks to grow upward in the per- sistent effort to reach the open air above. 'Every one is familar with " the difference between two pines; one grown in the open with branches and the er grown in a clump of neighbors, ~ all of which are racing upward with a struggle for air and light. : There . are in the lumbered-over districts between -the Nipissing Lake and its river outlet to the north, and the Severn anu Trent River system of the south, many millions of. acres Why should. not these exhausted "timber limits" be re-planted with the two most valuable of Canadian resinous trees--the white pine and the white spruce--on - seledted deep-soil spots, cleared of deciduous trees, and the plants be left there to fight their way up with one another in the struggle for existence that would fit them for use in later years as a source of sup- ply of lumber and wood pulp? New Hybrid Apples - For the Northwest Tie Dominion Department. of Ag- riculture tells the story 'uf the breed- ing it has dene in order to 'produce ~ a hardy apple for the great Canadi- an' Northwest. The late Dr. William Saunders commenced "the project in 1 yo +. A TIRE-- = 1 Al re A * - 1887 and a quarter of a century later > he published a bulletin describing the resnlts he had obtained. Dr. Saun- ders used the extremely hardy "Py- rus Baccata," the apple of which is not much larger than a good-sized pea. } The first hybrids were crosses be- tween this apple and a number of commercial sorts. From these crosses were obtained a number of hybrids, all of crab-like characteristics, about one inch to one and one-half inches: in diameter. eer : Later on u second lot of commer- cial apples was introduced from var- "leties- like McIntosh Red, Northern Spy and Ontario. These second' "crosses were still very érab-like in nature but produced fruits up to ~two and a half inches in diameter. From the first crosses the out. standing successes were obtained-- Osman and Columbia, without doubt the hardiest crab-apples of any com- "mercial size growing in Canada And they appear to form a foundation 'stock for future development. The third crosses have been dis. tributed throughout the west for a hardiness test. Comparatively speak- ing, there is at present no commer. cial apple growing in the Prairie Provinces but if the new hybrids are successful the situation may be much altered in years to come. The apple crop of the Dominion, exclusive of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan, was about 8% milli- on barrels last year, according to a report by the Agriculture Branch of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, - Department of Trade and Commerce, 'Canada Sends Most i Cars To New Zealand WINDSOR--Increasing domination g by. Canadian manufacturers of the Antipodean automobile: market, was forecast by Carman Millward Croft, Canadian trade commissioner to New Zealand on his arrival here. Cars, he said, Torm the largest single unit of Canadian export to New Zealand, and his visit to Wind- sor, the empire's autoniobile capital, is therefore the biggest assignment of his tour, !/ During his 14 years at Auckland, the trade expert has seen Canadian * car manufacturers annex larger slices of the automobile business year by year; he said. ba eaflad civilized men, ' x fo- + \ ef "<