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sunday school lesson february 23 lesson viil the twelve sent forth matthew fi 35 to 10 8 4042 golden text the harvest truly is plenteous but the laborers are few pray ye therefore the lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his harvest matthew 9 37 38 analysis i the harvest ch 9 333 ii the mission op the twelve ch 10 18 iii the keward ch 10 4042 introduction one of the great echievemerts cf jesus was the call ami the training of the twelve they were to carry on the work which he had begun and were ti lay the foun dation o a world mission 1 the harvest ch hi s53 v 35 this verse reveals tl the unceasing activity of jesus as he gv from place to place with a desire to spread his infiverce rs wda- as pos sible t1 his eagerness proclaim the uiwoe message cf salvation so that he tvsy relieve peepc of the bur den cf fesw xre igrorarce mvi teach them vvrcevnxg the love and forgive ness of eivsi s the infinite compas sion of his heart in that ho cured every ease cf sickness that was brought to him h showing that he was looking forward to a time when the ignorance sin and sorrow of the world would to all overcome no one ever had as pure and lofty a hope fee the race as jesus v 36 the tender heart of jesus was stirred to its depths as he saw- how helpless the people we these hopeless anl unhappy conditions -e- minded him of two things in nature they are liko a flock of sheep that have lost their shepherd and are at the mercy of every foe that may at tack them v 37 the other figure is taken from the corn fields the harvest is white and ready for the sickle hut there are no reapers so that this rich grain is going to ruin see john 4 35 v 38 the only hope rests with god the father ami they must pray to him that he may send forth laborers into the harvest 51 the mission of the twelve eh 10 1s v 1 the call of the twelve is men tioned in mark 3 13 and there are three reasons assigned there for this choice 1 that they might be with him he wished these men to get to know him so that- they might trust him in all the difficult situations that might arise if only they will keep their faith in him they will not fail 2 that he might send them forth to preach they were to carry forward the great teaching work of their mas ter the kingdom of god must haye workers who were informed on the principles of jesus 3 that they might have power over sickr ess they ere to be healers as well as preach er- and thus must assure people that it was gods desire that some day all trouble and suffering would vanish from the earth the mission of the twelve therefore included in its scope both body anl sjul v 2 these men were sometimes called apostles the wovd was after- the samaritans ox gentiles as yet they are not eejuipped for the larger and difficult breaching v 7 he tells them what to say they are not to prsaeh their own thoughts- but to announce that gods kingdom is rear at hand and that the promises of israel are about to be fulfilled v 8 they must also do all they can to help and heal the sick and the for saken v 9 he advises them on their equipment they must not take any- extra clothing they must travel light ly and must not be very anxious about their board ard lodging as they go from place to place they will receive hospitality hi the kewaui ch 10 4042 here jesus gives the promise of hclp he will not send them on their own charges ho will not leave them alone theirs is an honorable calling since they represent himself nor will their work 1 e in vain since the small est work done as his disciples will never be forgotten to do work for jesus i- to gain eternal joy what is right with england we about ah by lord beaverbrook hear a great deal nowadays changes we are capable of taking n our stride even if say the cotton industry should sink permanently to a lower level than it has enjoyed that too is a loss the nation can repair if in the matter of shipping america and ger- the misfortunes of great b-i- compete with us in material yet we shall still more than hold our the war left us toaged k fc eeamm of brhan war inevitable thinks woman british mp says consider able prowar feeling abroad london inevitability of war under certain circumstances was stressed by susan lawrence parliamentary secretary to the ministry o health when addressing a recent meeting in london on women and peace we are now said miss lawrence watching the progress of one of the most practical and hopeful efforts to wards peace the feeling that war is not only wicked but is barbaric and foolish is the sentiment which makes for the success of that conference but even if the futility of war is com ing home to the national conscience hero is still in this country consider able prowar feeling and i think we must fact the circumstances triumphant and not all of our efforts to repair the damage have been of the happiest tre pessimist looking around can find plenty of causes for lamentation and i am somtimes told that i ought to make use of these as arguments in favor of the great cause of empire free trade which i advocate i de cline however to do so for the simple reason that such arguments would he irrelevant to the essential nature of that cause tho empire crusade is based on a policy of optimism not pessimism and it calls on the people of this couurty to support it in a mood of hope not in a mood of fear it is easy enough but also most dangerous and most un worthy to play on the feats of the people some industries hard hit i am willing enough indeed to admit most of what the pessimists declare is in the tough of the wave some of our heavy industries have been hard hit our shipping is being subject- to fierce competition both from the americans and from the germans who bring nev and uptodate material to fight with ours that is beginning to grow obsolete looking further it is possible to say that egypt has gone and that india is going i do not agree our governments policy how- is foolish and the pessimists a right to ask us to face the ever have fads the future is the thing and in spite of all this i repeat that these are not the arguments adopted by the empire crusade that movement is not concerned with what act that under certain has been done vroug in the past but war is inevitable i with what is going to be done right would go so far as to say that there in the future what is wrong with are certain conditions which areworse england may be a theme capable of ward used in a wider sense paul was one of the apostles also barabas and others these twelve are mentioned four times in the new testament matt mark 3 16 luke 6 14 acts 1 13 they fall into three divisions of four each but the order is not al ways the same in each division peter 5s always the first and judas tho last some of them such aspeter and john arc often mentioned and we know imich about them but there are others of whom we know little except the xanie they were all taken from the com mon people and if we wonder why tcsus dil not select some from the more educated and noble classes per haps the answer would be that jesus had to choose from those whi offered themselves not many rich were call ed the marvrras fact is that jesus was able to uu such ordinary ma terial ard prodiee such eraid results jor these men became the pillars of the church only one was an utter failure though it remain a mystery how judas came to make so disastrous v 3 bartholomew is probably to ce identified with nicodcnuis lcbbaeus ithatddcus and jude the son of james are all names for the same person v j simon the canaanite is also jailed the zealot v 5 now comes the address or charge which jesus gives to these men icfore they go out on their important i task it is a long discourse and in cludes much holpful advice while it is ulso filled with the promise of hcp v 8 he fixes the limit of their la bors they must not go beyond their wn peodle must not try to evangelize than war any movement which simp ly argues that war is wrong is doomed to futility it is a horrible fact that there is eo great nation in the world that has attained its freedom except by war the fact that we have passed through that stage ourselves has colored our national consciousness it is no good for us to say that war has never set tle danythiiig it is not true it is not true to say that cromwell and his ironsides settled nothing nor is it true to say that america settled noth ing with regard to slavery xo these memories of how we attained our freedom are proud memories rnd this 1 think isjat the root of the coipiac- ency and even the admiration with which people look upon war the great danger of the future is that those infinitely explosive ideas of freedom and liberty have passed into the conscience of the people of the east what good is it to talk to those people of the pacifism of the upper dog we should do well therefore to realize that just as wars have been inevitable in the past they may also ho inevitable in the future we are more likely to act reasonably and wisely if we realize this especially in regard to our obligations to the league of nations mrs jones tin never going to play another game of cards i threw the last pack of cards into the stove this rfternood mr jones oh burning up your bridge behind yon eh indefinite expansion but what is right with england seems to me to be one on which it is more profitable to ex pand and what is right with us is now as it always has been quite suf ficient to maintain our place in the world more than once in the course of our history we have faced misfortunes that seemed to be crushing if we have so mishandled things in egypt and india that our hold there grows slacker it does not mean that we have entered upon our final decline as an imperial power compare with the present situation that which existed in 17s3 when the american colonies were torn from us partly by our own bungling britains great colonial empire that is what historians call the end of the first empire and foreign contemporaries supposed it to mean the end of british greatness but from that disaster we went on to create the second empire and the crusaders recognized the need for the third empire which will be the economic empire with the goal of free trade within its confines even without the dominions though god forbid that we should be obliged to approach the task without their help we have in the colonial empire tracts so wide and wealthy of the earths surfac i ready to our modelling hands as to supply the elements of this mighty third empire it is the same with our concerns at home trade in england has before now seemed to be on the verge of death throughout the middle ages agriculture was our staple occupation rnd at the end of the middle ages any man would have told you that bad policy and the- greed of a few individ uals were killing farming and that the greyfaced sheep was eating up the husbandman to the countrys irre trievable detriment yet then the palmiest days of english farming were til to come the qualities really count so it is with us now what we lose- in one direction we can and shall make up in another one ha only to look at the abandoned lead mines of the memlips the abandoned tin mines of cornwall that speckle a grand landscape with their melancholy re lics to realize what losses and for in the last resort it is the qualities of our people that are what is right with england and that throughout the ages counterbalance what may be wrong with england the qualities of courage will and vision there is still vision in england where there is no vision it was said of old the people perish but there is vision still among us and the people shall not perish we have no cause for despair only the other day i read this re markable sentence although 12s000 emigrated that year the number of paupers was 1429059 nearly one- tenth of the population the book was trevelyans life of john bright and the year was 1s42 when england was on the verge of her greatest period of industrial expansion and prosperity it is because of these things that i refuse to present the free trade em pire as a policy of refuge from disas ter it is not that it is not our es cape from what has been badly done in the past it is our opportunity for doing well in the future our tradition has been that difficul ties spur us to great actions and if we think of our difficulties now it should be in that light that we think of them for the greatest actions of the british people still lie ahead it was written b a young poet of our time who is now dead awake awake the world is young for all its weary years of thought the starkest fights must yet be fought the most surprising songs be sung i wish he were still alive for that is the spirit of the empire crusade montreal standard happy silhouette ecer popular suiulcriziij mccemcdt by annette piracy in china seas hong kong press nowhere- else in the world is piracy on the high seas met with and no other government in the world would regard outrages of this character off its coast with such indifferent interest but in a country where bandits are almost as plentiful as blackberies and where the kidnap ping of prominent people is quite a commonplace incident an occasional outburst of piratical activity is prob ably looked upon as a matter of no great importance cnina claims to be regarded as the equal in all re spects of other powers to support that claim she should see to it that the lawless proclivities o some of her citizens are effectively held in check it was british naval activity which cleaned up the pirates of the two kwangs half a century ago and it is only british activity today which pre vents the desperadoes of bias bay be coming more dangerous than they ac tually are china should take tins work in hand herself and do it thor oughly canada leads in wealth growth railway official gives inter esting talk on advertis ing canada calm before the threatened storm in india the banks and industry new statesman london mr j h thomas has recently stated that the city is now prepared t stand be hind and to provide credits for ap proved schemes of rationalization and business reconstruction we must make what we can of thi until fuller explanations are vouchsafed one thing however is clear whatever it may mean in the long run for the reorganization of industry it can bring no immediate hope for work for the unemployed for it is more likely to result in closing old works than in opening new ones and it is generally agreed that rationalization in its ear lier stages is more likely to increase than to diminish the numbers of the unemployed mr thomas speech therefore gives no hint of a solution of his immediate problem but that this problem remains as urgent as the other no sensible person can doubt unless justice is impartial and in- crruptible it ceases to be justice and becomes luck rupert hughes nightchib habitue staggering out of dive at 4 am good lord what is that strange odor around here doorman that sir is fresh air 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wrap it carefully for each numbck- and address your order to wilson pattern service 73 west adelaide st toronto o australia and singapore melbourne australasian wo are happily situated in occupying an is land continent and the chief advant age which the situation gives to us is that we are enabled to make use of the sea as a frontier we run no risks of attack from the south and west the danger on the east is re mote and slight our weakness is in the north and our bes means defence in that direction is not near to our own shores but as far away from them as safety will permit singapore is our verdun it is the height of folly to think of the defence of australia being conducted from our own shores with the threemile limit as a fringe we do not of course overlook the consideration that a naval base at singapore would be of very great im portance for the defence of other parts of the british empire likewise it is not merely an australian question our concern for it however s in creased not limited by the fact that it is required for the defence of india the british possessions in africa the east indies and tho china seas as well as for australia and the pacific for we are part of the political system to which these possessions pertain and their security is ours the rate of growth of wealth per capita of the population of canada during the past 20 years has never been achieved by an other nation charles pricegreen commissioner department of natural resources can adian national railways said in his address on advertising canada at montreal recently mr pricegreen traced the develop rcent of canada and revealed the enormous natural resources which con tribute to its wealth during tho last 20 years canadas trade has multiplied eight times leads all others in favor able trade balane per head of popula tion and with the exception of new- zealand in exports per capita the average of the last 12 years is 130 more than three times that of the united states one of the main contributing causes to canadas prosperity has been the development of hydro elec tricity on a very large scale mr pricegreen said i have a vision of a future in which this power will make canada one of the greatest in dustrial countries in tho world al ready it has enabled us to rise to leadership in the anifacture of pulp and paper contributed to the upbuild ing of a great mining industry and in general manufacturing it might be pointed out that tho development of water iwer has a most pronounced effect on the con sumption of coal that one installed horse power is capable of saving six tons of coal this means that the present water power installation is capable of saving thirtyfour million tons of coal in the course of a single year closely allied with water powers is the great pulp and paper industry which has grown with phenomenal rapidity the industry has made re markable strides in chemical and me chanical development the latter is well illustrated by a new newsprint machine installed at the head of the great lakes capable of making a roll of paper twentyfive feet wide at the rate of three thousand feet a minute the story of the rise of the mining industry in this country is well known to all and has been heralded all over the world and has possibly been can adas greatest advertisement being of more domantlc interest than the re markable grain production of the west the mining industry of canada has risen in twenty years from eightyfive million dollars to three hundred and five million dollars in1929 in a few years from now we will look back at this production as only a small be ginning from the dawn of civilization the lure of mineral wealth has attracted the explorer and prospector and now comes the aeroplane to assist him in this work the great incentive is that there is an almost unbelievably in creasing demand for minerals by peo- pic- getio a sheik wouldnt give a fig for harem but hes heavy on the dates i predict satisfactory television in general use within five years lee do forest mutt and jeff- by bud fishfjr mutt denies everything jvd6e man owjes mc fiw fars back alimony gandhi remains in his quite retreat in ominous silence bombay is india on the eve ot open rebellion does the present calm merely portend a storm what fa gandhi the notorious ex tremist leader really doing at tbia moment in lis little stone hermitage on the outskirts cf the city of ahmef- abad and how far does ho dare to go this time in pursuing his purpose ol testing the patience and strength of the government these aro the questions on the lips of every european and indeed in tho minds of countless thousands ofj loyal indians in every section of theq country there efin be no doubt that there is serious t ouble brewing aud that official india has every cause to bev gravely apprehensive disobedience threat what precisely are tho steps which the authorities will take to meet the initial manoeuvres in tho threatened civil disobedience campaign which is due to be launched by the middle ofs february 1 am not in a position te say but i do know tha effective measure will follow swiftly in the path of any attempt at the initiation of a general subversive movement it is difficult to reconcile the at mosphere of tranquility which out wardly prevails hero with the events which in the knowledge of everyone are going on behind the scene state garden parties balls and lev ees have been te order of the day at government house the magnifi cent official homo of sir frederick and lady sykes where lord and lady irwin hive been staying for some days in the course of an annual indian tour and when yesterday for th first time since he came to india the viceroy drove in state to the bombay races he was cheered from twenty to thirty thousand pie guarding the viceroy yet tins is only a superficial lure 1 doubt whether such energ precautions have ever been taken be fore for the safeguarding of an indian viceroy when lord irwins special train was due to depart from new delhi for bombay every yard of the sou miles cf line was carefully examined patrols of police and british troops were placed along the entire way and a special guard was mounted on the tiain itself extraordinary precau tions have likewise been taken during his stay in bombay and when the viceroy and his wife entrained once more to spend a few days with the geakwar of baroda the line of his journey was again carefully examined beforehand and troops were sent out to ensure that he enjoys a safe jour ney the absolute contempt which lord and lady irwin have shown for the dangers which have recently beset them have of course gained for them universal admiration for even in the face of warning and threatening let ters which have been sent to the vice roy himself since the recent attempt on his life they have both continued undaunted on their way gandhis retreat meanwhile gandhi remains in his quiet retreat he has gone there to await the results of his independence day demonstration iu every section of india on this day workers will assemble to hear a declaration by members of the work- ing committee which is in reality the executive of the rebel gandhi organ ization citizens are a3ked to devote the day after attending the meetings of their leaders first to spinning for an hour or so then to local cam paigns for sale of their own fab rics as opposed to those of foreign competitors the actual civil disobedience cru sade is not timed for a date before the middle of february it will not begin in fact before the working eomlttee have met early next month and decided on the methods which their followers are to adopt in evading further payment of taxes and defy ing all government authority even to- the extent of boycotting tho public schools it is hero that he govern ment will he called on to stop in unemployment relief ltnformation montreal one of the best ways of relieving the situa tion rapidly would be to accelerate tbe- execution of certain projected under takings which can be carried out in winter time and to decide on starting others which are of a necessary char acter for in canada what tho worker demands is not charity but work to assure him a livelihood a french designer says a womans dress now should he two scotch fin gers below the knee erin this case is the scotchman pouring from his own bottle or his hosts detroit xows there will be a little gold braid in evidence at tho london parley ac cording to cabla dispatches this may be duo to the desire on the part of participating nations to keep them selves freo from wargilt xcw york evening post