t unday chool school party sunday school lesson lecsom vii november 15 the heroism of christian fafth acts 21 1223 30 ro mans 9 1 5 printed text acts 21 12 13 2734 romans 9 15 golden text greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends john 15 13 the lesson in its setting time ad 57 place the city of jerusalem 12 and when we heard these things both we and they of that place besought him not to go up to jerusalem 13 then paul answered what do ye weeping and breaking my heart the verb translated break is found only here in the new testament and signifies the weakening of purpose in any one so the apostle intimates not that they intended as we should say to break his heart by adding to his sor row but to weaken his determinat ion and deter him from his journey for i am ready not to be bound only but also to die at jerusalem for the name of the lrd jesus lu ther cried out when his friends would keep him from going to the city of worms were there as many devils in worms as tiles on the roofs i would go in 28 crying out m- of israel help this is the man that teacheth all men everywhere against the peo ple and the law and this place and moreover he brought greeks also in to the temple and hath defilec this holy place 29 for they had before seen with him in the city of trpshi- mus the ephesian whom they sup posed that paul had brought into the temple the charge that paul had brought greeks into the inner court of the temple was a lie from the fact that they had seen him walking in jerusalem with a gentile citizen of ephesus by the name of trophi- inus and now saw paul himself walking in the inner court of the temple they supposed that if paul was there trophimus was there also he wasnt paul would never violate jewish conscience in this way 30 and all the city was moved and the people ran together and they laid hold on paul and dragged him out of the temple and straight way the doors were shut they want ed to get paul out of the temple so that the temple would not be pollut ed with human blood for they cer tainly were set on killing him 31 and as they were seeking to kill him tidings came up to the chief captain of the band that all jerusal em was in confusion outside the temple and overlooking it stood the castle of antonia connected with the temple by a flight of stairs leading from the outer court of the gentiles the caste was the headquarters of the roman garrison of jerusalem at this time commanded by claudius lysias the chief captain the jew themselves were responsible for keeping order in the temple itself 32 and forthwith he took soldiers and centurions and ran down upon them and they when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers left oit beating paul 33 then the chief captain came near and inquired who he was and what he had done what the jews would not do though they were supposed to be servants of and believers in a holy and merciful god pagan roman soldiers must now do ie give paul at least a fair trial 34 and some shouted one thing some another among the crowd and when he could not know the certain ty for the uproar he commanded him to be brought into the castle with this scene should be compared the one at ephesus 19 32 the verb here translated shouted is the same as that used in luke 23 21 in describing the din of the multitude which shouted against the lord jes us few of the jews knew even who paul was or what the charge was against him i say the truth in christ i lie not my conscience bearing witness with mo in the holy spirit that i have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart paul piles up phrases to indisputably prove to the jewish people who would not accept christ that he had never lost his great af fection for them in spite of their re jection of his saviour for i could wish that i myself were anathema from christ the word here translated anathema means anything devoted to ruin by a solemn curse for my brethrens sake my kinsmen according to the flesh who are israelites whose is the adoption and the glory and the cov enants and the giving of the law and the service of god and the promises whose are the fathers paul does not actually say that he wishes to be separated from christ but he says he could wish it were it not wrong or would it not involve his being unholy as well as miserable but as such is the case the desire cannot be enter tained and of whom is christ as concern ing the flesh who is over all god blessed for ever amen the lord jesus christ was the son of abraham matt 1 1 luke 334 the son of david matt 11 john 742 rom 1 3 2 tim 2s paul after listing the wonderful privileges of the jewish people comes finally to the greatest of all kllll10 the book shelf by mam m morgan jj opinion becomes evident toward the end of the book away from it all an escap ologists notebook by cedric bel- frage ryorson press 300 is a book all those who feel depres sed with the routine of things should read not all of us are as fortunate as mr belfrage to have the wherewithal to go on a world tour and get away from it all but we can read of another escap ologists endeavor to run away from himself mr belfrage is preeminently a newspaperman his stylo is salty racy and his observations on human relation ship are at times cutting sarcas tic a noticeable tolerance of one chapter dealing with his travel abroad a schooner peopled with as an illassorted combina tion of souls as youd care to find is especially probing the charm of mary the girl he left behind him is evident every time she pope into the book ono felt one would like to meet her she sounds like a real person and one feels that the secape of mr belfrage was a wise thing inas much as it made him realize the value of such a girl as mary another air trip just is days after his flight with tho stork john oliver la gorge 2nd takes off from washington dc airport with his mothor mrs gilbert la gorce on flight to boston as one of the youngest passengers gerald raftery ia the new york sun tanya plays her violin all the schoolroom listens tense to the music she can spin lightly out of emptiness latin faces smile and sway slavic faces darkly dream wordless things that she can say deftly in the sobbing stream gypsy feet that pace and dance mothers lowhummed lullabies dimly now they shine and glance through the golden notes that rise siiftly to an end they glow vanish in a swirling gush tanya drops her silent bow startled at the sudden hush nobody with a sp of reckless daring need fly over the ocean these days when gasoline is available for cleaning clothes in the cellar to ronto telegram columbia students stage strike in protest oyer expulsion scene in front of columbia university in new york city as 400 students staged demonstration protesting the expulsion of robert burke class officer and campus leader for his part in june demonstration protest ing the acceptance by the university officials of invitation to send delegation to heidelberg germany this year a winner and loser help guard ballots ernest o porell of westbrooke me was so sure that he wouldnt be elected state representative that he agreed to ride a bicycle to augusta the capital if he won election he did everett greaton of governors staff greets him at end of ride charles francis coe left author and noted criminologist and joseph w martin eastern division director of republican committee talk over plans for nationwide organization of nonpartizan vigilantes to prevent election prauds in november freedom epitomized for aleatraz prisoners si iff hi sgag w jmi ssmpig ji jrrrf isf j v sss3k m3 fmmpz mm vf mm tlie narrow confines of the federal prison on aleatraz island in san f rancisco bay viust have seemed narrower still as prisoners saw hawai ian clipper swoop over on flight across broad pacific graphic picture of wreckage in quebec oil explosion upwardbackward bending exercises for figure beauty exercise authorities now agree that all reducing routines should be done slowly and that the types which stretch your body upward and back ward are better than forwardbend ing ones for instance one important figure expert lifts her eyebrows in disap proval whenever a customer wants to do that old exercise of touching floor with iiauds while keeping knees straight she says it will keep knees from becoming stiff and that it stimu lates sluggish circulation to some ex tent but it certainly wont slender ize the waistline instead she makes the client hold her hotly erect wlih hands high ab- ovcr the head then stretch and bond backward as far as possible this not only stretches the waistline mus cles but it elevates the chest and helps to reduce a double chin too if you are trying to mako your hips inches slimmer do rolling oxsr- clses and do them slowly pressing your body hard against the floor as you roll lie flat on your back with hands clasped abovo your head and feet to gether keeping upper half of your body on the floor and feet together roll back and forth twenty times feel tho way this massages the fat spots around hips and thighs and twists waist muscles co back to tho original position then crossing left leg over right force it upward until it is perpendicu lar with your body meanwhile keep ing the right leg perfectly straight this slenderizes hips and waistline and stretches leg muscles in good old days a dollar- aday it may be some young people to day would liud it hard to believe that wages used to be very low for those who started to learn trades the village printing office paid 150 per week for the first year and in the winter time it called for be ing at the office at g30 in the morn ing to get tho box stove going before the printers arrived at seven the night the paper was printed wednes day work was carried on until about two in the morning and the stage left at five the same morning and it was necessary to be on band with the bundles of papers the second year the wages ad vanced to 2 per week and 1 was paid for the third year at the end of three years one was supposed to be a printer the man who worked in the liv ery stable a few doos awcy wes married and his family was fairly well grown up when there was a funeral he drove the black team oa the hearse and wore a plug hat rnl a long black coat be had been in the place for 22 years and made si per day now and then ho added a little to his income by acting as auc tioneer at the general store on the corner there was a clerk who had charge of the grocery department in fact he ran the place and ran it well lie had gone to that store as a boy when leaving school and had grown up with the business as the owner used to say he was married and had two children his pay was 750 per week you say times have changed they have in the village most people had gardens and many of them had fruit trees they produced all the veget ables and fruit they could use there were no cars then there were no movies there were no dance halls and outside of the two hotels thero was no place to eat downtown there were only three families in the place which went away for the summer and they took tents and went to the lake shore for two or three weeks the one outing for the children was the day of the annual sunday school picnic we recall the taxes on one com fortable little cottage mounted to 18 per year wo quite well realize those standards are gone for the most part but if such a thing as 20 a week had been mentioned at that time we are sure the entire male pop ulation of tho village would have an swered the call huge vegetables inspired by dream stratford anyone who thinks her man grieve of 82 regent street who states that a vision which came to him in his sleep 12 years ago show ed him how to grow vegetables and flowers was spoofing about the slzo nnd quality of the crop he takes from his halfacre of ground might do well to lean over the fence these days as evidence of tho size of his produce mr grieve produces a beet that weighs about two and a half pounds a carrot just weighing under two pounds nnd a parsnip almost the mate of the carrot when nine big gasoline and oil storage tanks caught fire and exploded in tho st malo section of quebec city recently hundreds of people were driven from their homes houses were shifted from their foundations and windows within half a mllo radius were broken fortunately no one wis injured this picture shows the tangled mess left after the flames were conquered b 3 sweetbreads are usually the creas of thymus of calves pan- if a husband goes philandering at 30 it seems wicked nt 40 it seems a folly after 50 it merely seems nasty robert quillcn