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february 28 lesson ix jesus raises lazarus from the dead john 11 3244 golden text i am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he ive john 11 25 analysis i at reatsa john 11 1lc ii at betuany john 11 17-32- iii at the crave john 11 3341 in aleutian chain introduction the ten prccediv chantci of this gospel tell how every j thing of today attempt mad by jesus to win the jew3 onlv turned them the more bit terly against him finally he reveal ed himself as the resurrection and the life john makes this tho turn ing point which brings on the arrest and death john telis the story of the raising of laarus in the light of what he himself knows of the deathconquering and overpresent christ john him self had been a lazarus bound hand and foot in the grave clothes of the old life he had in his own soul hca tho mihtv awakening cry of lesus come forth and in his hand he had passed from opth unto life christ he says can do that for any man i at perea john 11 11g upon receiving the message that lazarus is ill jesus said this illness will not end in death there may be death but death will not bo the final word v 4 did he see his own death foreshadowed tn htpfl of affection would hurry him to his friends he loved martia and her sister and lazarus hut he wold not be mhd against his better judgment to go was almost sure dth he must wait for his fathers guidance jesus like ourselves was dependent unon a higher widom why did his father keep him wait ing and the bereaved sisters why are drts it lifted lifes questions no answered john says that gods davs are the delays of love he loved martm therefi he abode two days still vs 5 6 his duty made plain to hir tesii announced that he wold leave his safe retreat and go into the very teeth of danger v 7 answrii the disciples protest r 8 ro told thv chat a man committed to gods work is immortal t imtil that work is none twelve full 1kvs but only twiv every minute of life god intends us to use walk ing under the light of gods guidance we are safe the nurpose of the intended miracle he told the perplexed disciples s that they may believe in the other gos pel miracles are performed out of love and pitv for tho sufferer here they are nerformed to increase faith thom as in no mood of expectant faith but in loval despair exclaims let us also go thjt we may die with him v 1g the shadow of the cross is fall ing upon the story ii at bethany john 11 1732 arriving at bethany jesu3 discov ered that lazarus had been dead four days v 17 tho jews apparently be lieved that a soul hovered about the dead body for three days but on the fourth found it unrecognizable through decay and departed lazaru was unquestionably dead friends are with tho sisters trying to comfort then by saying the usual things marthas greeting vs 21 22 13 a gentle reproach and the expression of a boundless trust jesus answer v 23 was disappointing she has had enough of that from her jewish com forters during the last four days jesu3 mado his great declaration vs 25 26 the resurrection and the life which ho guarantees aro not future but present the resurrection has already taken place for those who ore christians they are living tho resurrection life now thev are risen in christ col 2 12 3 1 accepting this new doctrine through her confidence in him who gavo it to her martha went for mary v 28 secretly in order not to attract the attention of jesus enemies to him and to givo mary tho opportunity of a private talk with the master jesus also wishing to avoid the crowd stay ed outside the village v 30 mary had lost hojie how soon when trouble came to herself had she forgotten tho teachings of tho master seeing her back among the profes sional mourners oppressed by the pa thetic hopelessness of those who sor row without christ his sensitive soul hurt by tho vulgarity of conventional mourning jesus groaned in his spirit and wai troubled v 33 asking where the grave was tho only occasion in this go3pel on which jesus asked for information he burst into tears v zz v anfiira it is a touching picture of the sorrow- wiwuiuco nvuvt sharing christ the jews whose re pulsive vulgarity muet needs follow mary v 31 gazed with unsympa thetic eye upon his tears how like some of our large public funerals iii at the crave john 11 311 coming to the cave jesus commard ed take ye away the stone no longer was he the weeping friend he was now the lord of life but god does nothing for us that we can do for ourselves see also v 44 so cer tain was jesus that his prayer would be answered that he first thanked god before all the people and then cried with a loud voice symbolic of the last trump lazarus come forth loose him and let him go here the artist leaves his majestic sign he has driven home his les son gods gift of eternal life is not a thing of tomorrow merely it is a preserve old frankfurt by reproduction in miniature frankfurt am main the alt- stadt the oldtown of frankfurt with its roomer where emperors of tho holy roman empire wero chosen and its ancient dome whero they were crowned with goethe3 birthplace and a picturesque maze of venerable buil ings and churches and highgabled halftimbered dwellings is yielding before tho sweep of modern needs but if most of it i3 doomed to disap pear the wholo of it is to be preserv ed at least in miniature for future generations two artists the brothers treuner are at work on an exact raodol on a scale of 1 to 200 in 1913 they pro duced for the historical museum a miniature of one oldtown street which lias since been changed beyond recognition the project of having the whole district modeled was even then conceived by tho lato director mueller of the frankfurt historical museum but had to be deferred until a welltodo son of frankfurt put up the needed money tho work will take a long time and the modelers aro pushing measurements of street3 and structures to have data complete before more of the altstadt is demol ished building in jerusalem the high artistic quality of archi tecture of jerusalems new houses and the extraordinary changes since his last visit to palestine less than two years ago profoundly impressed prof leslie patrick abercrombie well- known architect and town planner and professor of civic design at the university of liverpool many of the buildings ho found to be above the average of those going up in the big towns in england and mr abercrom- bio found in jerusalem structures a welcome departure from the common place and stereotyped what the city specially needs ho said is more trees to make up for lack of green and open spaces if jerusalem cannot have grass because of the shortage in the water supply it nevertheless can have certain types of trees once more a volcano in the aleu tian chair of islands has been reported in vicknt eruption this time it was shisb3ldin on unimak island that re cently belched forth clouds of smoke and showers of ashes and lit up the sky like a huge torch such news is to bt expected from tho aleutian islands for the majority of the 1g00- milelorg chain stretching between alaska and the orient seems to be of volcanic origin tha is they were formed by volcanic eruptions n the ocean bed such submarine volcanoes are re lieved to be at least as common a3 those on the exposed surface of the earth occasional reports tell of the oceans bubbling and steaming end throwing up fountains like a huge coffee percolator volcanic cinders and dead fish float above the spot and sometimes those more permanent evi deuces of submarine eruptions vol canic islands rise mysteriously out of tho depths these islands sometimes arc made by foldings in the erths crust a3 a result of tho tremenijus pressure ex- orted by volcanic steam they may also bo accumulations of volcanic ash and lava which have collected under tho water until after repeated erup tions they make mountains thousands of feet high projecting above the ocean3 surface practically all of the aleutian is lands bear mark3 of such evolution and tho birth of some of them actually has been observed an example is the bogoslof group in may 179g there wore signs of volcanic d otf the coast of unimak island where the recent eruption occurred and a few days later a new island had been cre ated it was christened bogoslof al most a century later in 1883 another island which was called new bogoslof came into being under similar circum stances and in 190g a third appeared that islands born of volcanoes should themselves frequently be disj turbed by volcanoes is fo be expected for they are only volcanic peaks pro jecting bove the wntn- estimates of the number of ietive volcanoes in the aleutians runs into scores and no one can say confidently of the others which are extinct and which are merely dor mant shishaldin is one of the bet known of the active craters its most violent outburst occurred between 1825 and 1829 when together with its twin peak pogromni it erupted fiercely at intervals since then the clouds of smoke it mew from its mouth have warned of hidden strength gemeral view ot macdonald col- o bulldlnc st anatk do bellerue macdonald college celebrates jiaceagiaisbkmbesaeasefflra alms it was julia ward hows who once said when asked for a definition of what tho ideal alms of life wero to learn to teach to serve to enjoy a life which misses any of these is in complete but 83 any life can have them all tho incompleteness is a mat ter ot choice not of fate enjoyment the secret ot enjoying 3if is la being able to get happiness from tha simplest resources will x will residing within us and mado free to choose tha hotter part forges it3 iron chains link by in again and again choo3ins worse link the my poor man why dont you go forth aad labor i cant and nothing ia my una mum and what wai your last posi tion oh it was very responsible mum i was official grasi cutter for a polar expedition a foundation commonsenso ij the foundation ot mans happiue33 ia his comaiorca with others forglvenes3 hath any wounded thee soft lang uage dresses it forgiveaeii curei it aud oblivion takes away tha scar francis quarles dullness dull is after all a relative term it expresses only a want of correspond ence between tha mind of the writer and that of the reader prof seeley the twenty fifth anniversarv of macdonald college with par ticular emphasis on founders dav february 10th focuses attention on tms institution and its founder the late sir william c macdonald who built equipped and endowed the entire institution at art oxpen3e of more than six million dollat3 founders day which thu vear marks the 101st anniversary of the birth of the late sir william c macdonald founder of the mac donald tobacco company and canadas greatest benefactor once more draws attention to the tre mendous scope of his benefactions to mcgill universitv with which the macdonald college at st anne de bellevue is affiliated these bene factions total more than twelve and one half million dollare 10690165 of which was given during life ft he the faculty of science and of scientific agriculture was powibly the dearest to sir williams heart every faculty of the mcgill uni versity benefited during his life and after the faculty of law received 232500 the conservatorium of music 5300000 the faculty of medicine was bequeathed 3500000 the mccord museum building was purchased at a cost of 5142000 while the macdonald park site now occupied by the stadium and the students park was purchased at a cost of more than one million dollars and presented to the uni versity students activities came under the beneficient scope of sir william as the mcgill union testi fies sir william spent 219000 on its erection and equipment in addition to the wonderful equip ment at st anne de bellevue those buildings at mcgill which bear the macdonald name and those donated by the late tobacco knight stand today as the greatest monument to his memory macdonald college w3 founded by the late sir william in 1907 it was designed to include three schools one for agriculture one for household science and one for normal teacher training the gift included the grounds almost 800 acres in extent the complete equip ment and endowment the college itself wa3 incorporated with the university of mcgihas the faculty of agriculture although the teachers training feature is p03sibly hi3 best known contribution to life in tha province of quebec other sections of tha country have benefited by the lata sir williams benefactions the mac donald institute and the macdonald hall at the ontario agricultural college guelph being among tha raost important does maud like dancing she does and skating oh yes sha like anything that may possibly lead to a pro posal heat and power to be generated from sewer gas some new feature mark the stie- eefl jittt f th city authorities of plainfield new jersey to utilizo sewer mis icr trie prcuuetion of hs and the development of power the plan is thus described and ex plained in tha plainfield courier- news sewer gas never very popular gained for itself a particularly une- enviable notoriety early in october when an explosion destroyed a part of the woonsockct ithode island sew er plant and caused the death of two men engineering publications throughout the country hava carried columns of reports and discussions on this explosion at the local joint sewagedisposal plant the heating power of this ga3 which is 50 per cent greater than that of manufacluied gas has been har nessed and put to useful purpose dur ing tho past five years by means of a pafety collective device developed by the supervising engineer john e downs tho organic matter or the solid portion of the sewage is destroyed and the remainder of the solids rendered innocuous by a digestion process this process i3 greatly accelerated by heat 0 that the time necessary to complete j best gasengines made aro onlv 25 per the proess i3 cut down from five or j cont efficient thermaly speaking the six months to a period of from thirty to forty days when we consider that about 2000 cubic feet of these solids reach the plant daily the saving in the capacity of structures to hold the sol ids until tho process is completed be comes obvious the plainfield joint sewage plant was the first to apply this principle by using the gas given off during the process to supply the heat necessary for acceleration tho more heat that is supplied within certain limits the more gas is produced so that there is always an excess quantity of gas part of tha excess gas iha3 now been piped into tha office and labor atory building where it u burned in the steamheating plan a visit to this building will rouse tha envy of any coalshoveling householder an absolutely uniform temperature of 70 degrees can ba maintained night and day without shoveling coal or remov ing ashes power has also been developed from this gas 0110 horsepower being available continuously from each 1000 persons connected to the sewer system or fifty horsepower at the local plant a vory interesting development is that both the power and the heat can be recaptured from the same gas tho other 75 per cent of the heat value of the gas being given up to the cooling water in tha engine jacket or lost in tho exhaust by waterjacketing the exhaust and using the cooling water to heat the sludge or buildings 75 per cent of this wasta heat can ba re covered pithy anecdotes captain malcolm campbell holder of the worlds speed record on land who is going back to coco island fa search of buried treasure says that the treasure story he likes best is that of walton le dale near the river kibble in lancashire england there for centuries a legend sur vived that any one who stood on his hill and looked up the valley in tha direction of ribchestcr would face tha richest treasure in england he re calls in searching for pirate trea sure in cocos island t for centuries men dug and tun nelled in the fields until in 1811 labor ers at work on their ordinary agri cultural tasks urearthcd a kaden cof fin buried only three feet uep it con tained more than 7000 silver coins nearly all of the time of alfred the great and a thousand ounces of silver ornaments rings necklets banglea pendants and charms most of which were of saxon origin this example illustrates the amazing pertinacity with which legends of buried treasure survive for obviously the leaden cof fin was burird seven or eight hundred years before it was found charles dickens taught his son harry now sir henry fielding dick ens an english judge to write short hand and for practice used to dictate stories to him how well 1 remember how he mad me laugh recalls judge dickens in memories of my father so much so indeed that 1 was soon reduced to a state of helpless imbecility with tho natural consequence that when in tha end i had to transcribe my notes i found myself confronted with an im mature collection of undecipherabla hieroglyphics i doubt whether any student of shorthand was ever exposed to such a trying test as this to walk with charles dickens in the streets of london was like a royal pro gress peoplo of all degrees and classes took off their hats and greeted him as ho passed on one occasion tho great novelist had taken young harry to the zoo and father and son wero walking down tho broad walk when they saw a lady and gentleman with a bright and pretty little girl coming towards them c suddenly the little girl catching sight of dickens ran back to her mother crying out delightedly oh mummy mummy it is chartoa dickens my father who hd heard and seen it all says harry now judge dick ers was strangely embarrassed but oh so pleased so truly delighted ifc was a pretty scene rudyard kipling who celebrated his sixtysixth birthday recently haa a reputation for punctuality few lit erary men can rival in 1901 when living at rottingdean near brighton he went to soutii africa before leav- ing rottingdean relate3 frank rutter in since i was 25 kipling order ed a carriage to meet the train arriv ing at brighton at 5 pm on tha fol lowing 3rd of may months ahead sure enough on may 3rd kipling ar rived at the brighton terminus on tha dot and and mr rutter i suppow tea was ready for him by tho time ha reached home prospective tenant how is this flat hoatod tenant iy tipping the janitor hubby you didnt have a rag on your back when i married you wife anyway ivo plenty of them now mutt and jeff by bud fisher gus geevem saems to have mutts pedigree im tilling voo that mutv is a nogoot sap he has nonft of thg fiwer snstblutls of a gcntlcfaaw seevjmyojl8 sot hlra all ujroms a squnlsrvootr s calls p j hm i mr rutter aiso tells my favorita kipling story a young editor of an undergraduate journal had tho superb assurance ta write to kipling for a contribution or- i plaining that to his regret tho financea of the journal did not permit them 1 to pay more than a guinea about 5 i then per thousand word3 j kipling sent this reply there- was once n author who j wrote i dear sir in reply to your iota of testerday3 dato j i reluctantly state cant be dona at tha price yoa quote f sir jame3 frazer who wrote that masterpiece tha golden bough fa said to have read rnoro books than any living man whenever ha travel tho bulk of his baggage coniprisea books he cannot live without his books lady frazer onco said then she add ed this human touch ho i3 not really an observant man- i might change my dress fifty limes a day aud he wouldnt notica it one of sir jamess disappointment i3 that tho golden bough generally conceded to bo his masterpiece haa overshadowed his other books j3pect- nlly his new letters of sir roger da coverey and his editions of addi son and cowpcr in which hi3 literary powers found congenial subjects roman sarcophagi unearthed cologne germany the finds from tho daj3 when cologne was a romaa colony exhibited in front of tha wah- rafrichartz museum here have bee enriched by tha addition of further object3 among these arc three 3ton sarcophagi one of which datoa from tho fourth century it h ot particu lar interest because it is marked with a pentagram or pentalpha as it la called in heraldry consisting of tw triangles s sot together aj to form a fivepointed star it wm used by th pythagroroaaa m a aymbol of haaltt but its origin ij unknown