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s unday cj2lesson lesson xi december 13 johns vison on patmos revela tion 11322 printed text revelation 1118 golden text fear not i am the first and the last and the living one revelation 117 18 t11k lesson in its setting time toward the close of the life of the apostle john probably bout 9g ad place the island of patmos in hie aegean sea twenty four miles southwest of asia minor john to the seven churches that re in asia asia refers to the pro- consular province of that name in asia minor consisting of phrygia mysia caria and lydia at the wes tern edge of asia minor fronting on the aegean sea the seven churches re those enumerated in chapters 2 and 3 sf eta etao etao etaooa grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come grace issues in peace the namo of god and father here given was one revealed to moses ex 314 63 it is gods memorial name even to generations yet unborn and from the seven spirits that are before his throne here we have reference to the energies of the holy spirit the seven spirits betoken the complete ness and universality of working or gods holy spirit as the seven churches typify and indicate the whole church and from jesus christ who is the faithful witness se john 1837 christ was faithful in that lit never adulterated or weakened or hid any part of the truth which god sent him to proclaim being faithful unto his mission even to death the first born of the dead see col il8 he is first of all those who will rise from the dead especially as regards rank and the ruler of the kings of the earth see psalm 8927 uev 191g christ has the right to sovereignty over all the kingdoms of the earth some day he will exercise that right and take all the kingdoms unto him- sef to rule forever unto him that loveth us notice the present tense here the love tf chirst for you and me s just as great and deep today as the day when he died for us on the cross and loosed us from our sins by his olood the love ol a parent for child the love of a wife for a husband would undertake to do every thine for the loved ones happiness nnd welfare but it can never emanci pate from sin this only christ can do in his redeeming sacrifice for us and he made us to be a kingdom to he prests unto his god and father and to him be the glory and the do minion for ever and ever christians reign in conquering their spiritual en emies and then in possession of the victory that overcometh the world amen this is a hebrew word that literally means to lean upon and from 1 conies the word to believe jiy saying amen in prayer we do mean that the prayer offered by an other is our prayer also behold he cometh with the clouds what a contrast between the humilia tion and obscurity and poverty that attended his first advent and the glory and universal visibility that will characterize his second advent and every eye shall see him and they that pierced him see john 1937 zech 1210 the persons in tended in this expression ar beyond doubt those who were his murderers and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him even so amen cf matt 2130 there will then be two kinds oi mourning the one due to the terror ol an enemy the other to the tenor ol the peniten 1 am the alpha and the omega saith the lord god these two words alpha and omega are the names of the first and last letters of the greek alphabet as though wo should say the a and the christ is the bognnng and the end who is and who is to come the almighty he is almighty in sus taining his people yet equally al mighty in judgment on his enemies john your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and king dom and patience which ari in jesus was in the isle that is called patmos patmos was a little islano in the aegean sea twentyfour miles south west of the coast of asia minor and about ten miles long and six broad barren and t i the most part very rocky for the word ol gcd and the testimony of jesus th j phrase pro bably indicates that john waj banish ed to the island of patmos because of preaching of the gospel of christ i was in the spirit on the lords day this is the only time in the new testament mat we have the phrase the lords day and we may easily believe that it refers to the day we now call sunday and i heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet sec also 41 possibly this was not the actual voice of the lord but of some messenger of the lord saying what thou seest write in a book and send it to the seven churches unto ephcsus and unto smyrna and unto pergamum and unto thyatira and unto sardis and fira is symbolic of gods presence of gods glory of judgment on the wick ed of penetration and knowledge and nothing can be hid from that gaze and his feet unto burnished grass as if it had been refined in a furnace brass is invariably the type of the strength and the furnace of fire is a symbol of purity and his voice was as the voice of many waters the noise of the sea is as the noise of irresistible strength and powerful deep and majestic and he had in his right hand se ven stars in verse 20 christ telis us these stars are the angels of the seven churches ie they are christs tea these seven churches were all located in the proconsular province of asia and arc named here by john in a geographical circuit beginning with his own home city ephasus then go ing north to smyrna and pergamum then southeast to thyatira and then south to sardis philadelphia and laodicea christ himself in verso 20 tells us that these lampstands are the seven churches they are lightbear ers to the world matt 514 espec ially to a world that itself is darkness and in the midst of the candle sticks one like unto a son oi man the title here given to christ is one frequently occuiring in ezekicl and daniel and is used more than eighty times in the gospels always with two exceptions by christ himself it is a title which sets forth the human element of our saviors c mracter clothed with a garment down to the foot the garment to the feet sug gests the right to govern and to judge and it is the robing of judicial au thority not the robing of the priest christ is here seen having sole right to pronounce verdict and sentence on all the services that the church ren ders and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle se isa 115 dan 1053 girt loins tell of readiness for action but girt breasts of the repose of sovereignty and of intense affec tion and his head and his hair were white as white wool white as snow see dan 79 isa 4028 his is the age that is not aged and the beauty of holiness which are eternal and unto philadelphia and unto laoji- messengers set for witnessing in the respective assemblies by his appoint ing and out of his mnuth proceed ed a sharp twoedged sword the word of god has power to penetrate through every shield and device be hind which man attempts to hide from gods scrutiny and judgment and his countenace was as the sun shincth in his strength this same dazzling glory was noticed when our lord was transfigured in the days of his earthly ministry matt 172 a spectacle that john the author of this look would well remember occupant of gift mansion selected his eyes were as a flame fire the late justice and the most pinee and when i saw him i fell at his feet as one dead so other great servants of god have been similarly affected by a revelation of divine glory as isaiah 65 ezekicl 128 daniel 817 and he laid his right hand upon me saying fear not i am the first nnd tho last what infinite mercy there is revealed here christ does not want his own to be afraid in his presence but to worship and adore him and to wait for his com mands and the living one and i was dead and behold i am niive for ever more every man could at one tune say i was living and alive but this one had lived and had died and was alive again and not only agan but he was alive for evermore he was the eternal and everlasting one and i have the keys of death and if hadts and if the keys of all the world supernal and infernal swing at the girdle of the son of god then we do know and know for cerlan that fil those kingdoms will he administered in accordance with the most immacu- t love kix iiiixiikij by matr m morgan j5 tiiiiz b 3 reasons for anger by robert brkault the musson book com pany ltdi toronto 300 four teen essays by the author of europa one of the bestsel ling tiovds of last year it seems this book owes its title to harold nicholson who in reviewing one of mr briffauils books com plained there is no reason wh mr briftault should get so angry to which mr briftault replies social progress has invariably been the outcome of anger called forth by abuse whether or not mr briftault felt abused by mr nicholsons remark and reas ons for anger is the result we are not certain but we certainly do appreciate the fact that he has written these fourteen essays dis cussing the stupidity of man caused mr briftault argues by the primitive vested interests es pecially superstition evolutioni- zed into a formal religion those who have read his classic works the mothers and rational evolution know him as one of the great living anthropologists to whom the proper study of man kind is man only the first half of this book presents the case against the hu man race for instance we read while rational intelligence has gone on increasing at compound interest primitive stupidity has remained to all intents and pur poses as stupid in 193g as it was at the dawn of time the vennerable institution which constitute the firm of man inc preserve the virginal bloom of primitive stupidity while intelli gence goes on accumulating in in dividual men nnd women this is one side of the question then he gives us hope by declar ing today a great natioi which has made momentous contribu tions to civilization has sunk into sheer unmitigated barbarism if it be not an insult to the barbarian to compare him to nazi germany but it is unlikely that mankind as a whole will have to pass througfi such an ordeal mr briftault gives his reason for this hope by stating it is unlikely because human intelli gence is unmeasurably better equipped more widely diffused more secure and more resourceful than it was when the first euro pean civilization fell one may not agree on first reading with many statement made by mr briftault but a sacond and third reading convin ces the reader that there is more intelligence prevalent today but it takes an individual as vital at mr briftault to point this out a book strongly recommended for those who like reading matter which causes a certain amount of cerebration the foundation of civiliza tion by will durant the mus son book company ltd toron to 129 offers some interesting reading for such a low price ever since the first volume of will durants story of civilizatio was published a year ago the publish ers have been asked to reprint the first section of it which was en titled the establishment of civili zation it is in response to this widespread demand that the pres ent volume is issued about twenty years ago will durant planned to write a history of civilization in the nineteenth century he discovered as he proceeded that his subject could be understood only in terms of what had come before his re searches gradually led him into the formation of a plan for writ ing a history of all civilization ancient and modern occidental and oriental the present volume is a preface to the complete work which will be issued w the next fifteen years high praise 13 due mr durant as he has used a clear lucid sim ple style an excellent handbook for school libraries compromise by ruby m ayrcs the musson book com pany ltd toronto is tho latest offering from this authors proli fic pen and her readers will not bo disappointed in this tale of a very modern girl and her battle for happiness fiint ovcrbiard by leslie chartcris the musson book co limited toronto recounts tho latest adventure of that reformed character known as tho saint wo fear that there was a tendency to slip from tho paths of right eousness in this latest escapade but he stands by tho law at the end quick nlivo narrative car ries you along to a smashing cli max and you cant lay tho book down nntil you have finished this latest saint adventure admiral sir reginald tupper retired lias been named by king edward to occupy the kings house presented by the royal wairant holders association to the late king george as a silver jubilee gift a leviataan hobby wss f jofc mj5ii the four years spent between laying her keel and her launching are considered veil spent ry frank swetnika los angeles mechanic as he ross with his model of the leviathan which he buiit to scale it has everything the original has even tie 984 portholes it is seven feet ion habit isnt hidden behind smoke screen pleads for alaskans its just one of those things is the philosophical attitude of mrs joseph francis noon 2nd of fairview nj as she lights pipe for joe her 2yearold son who is an inveterate smoker he must have his pipe or parents cant do a thing with him he started by imitating daddy patently interested in the conversation secretary of commerce daniel roper left listens intently to dr c f kettering toastmastcr at dinner held in washington dc to celebrate the centennial of the american patent system col o f ohlson alaska rail road manager pictured in san francisco as he sought ships to transport food to alaslia which has been badly hit by maritime strike government may trans port needed foodstuffs fashionable in silk pictured above is an afternoon dress of black silk duvctine with a crcpo scarf that ties in the back note horizontal silk satm bands at bottom of jumper the statistical average man a writer in the ottawa journal has drawn a picture of an average canadian observes the winnipeg tribune it is a cheerful picture of a very likeable cuss who works fairly hard plays the game decently and does not take life too seriously it is evident the writer did not gather his information from the cen sus returns of the dominion bureau of statistics had he done so he would have been overcome with des pair it is such an minently prac tical document it is also impersonal nevertheless it see lis to breathe a wholesome contempt on the part of its compilerxfor all of us god made him and therefore let him pass for a man this seems to be the spirit with which they have recorded our physical existence in the col umns headed male and female as the case may be what sort of creature is the average man depicted by the cen sus bureau and the insurance actu ary he is a strange elusive crea ture yet the statisticians claim to know all about him they will tell how much he weighed at birth how tall he was at 15 at what age tie marries how many years he has to live they can even tell us within certain limits of what he will die they can tell us for any given year how many of us are living how many die and how many are in the sen ate yet we never seem to meet the average man neither are we the average man ourselves we know instinctively that la are not merely something different but something also greatly superior what a piece of work is a man wrote shakespeare how noble in reason how infinite in facul ty in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god the beauty of the world the paragon of animals thats us but the statisticians engaged in their nefarious craft are too busy to read shakespeare so they con tinue chaiing us to our average and so submerge us however it is useless for the statistician to argue why should a man desire in any way to vary from the general race of men this is precisely the desire that all men and women cherish but until the statisticians wake up to the fact that the minds the stand ard of the man we must bear the quinquemral slight of being record ed merely as male and female per sons roosevelts are normal family members typically american in desire to lead own lives washington the romance of franklin roosevelt jr and miss ethel du pont of the antinew deal du fonts provides another argument for those who hold that americas first family is also americas typical family write an observer that the presidents third son should become engaged to a neice of men who spent thousands of dol lars trying to elect governor lan- don emphasizes the roosevelts prac tice of applying a typically ameri can tent live your own life the normalcy of the first family is mirrored at hyde park where father carves the christmas turkey in the boys occasional brushes with traffic officers m the christening of a new granddaughter in couple of tripsto tho divorce courts in pic nics with hot dogs and mustard in tho family pew at church nearly four years as the first family has not been removed the naturalness of a natural family one in which each had a mind of his own and knew how he wanted to live each of the roosevelts observing of course demands of his hgh station has managed to preserve his individuality typical instances john parks a battered automobile at the white house door and wears old clothes when he feels like it elliott buys a texas ranch fusses with texas young democrats gets a new job and a new wife and comes home to family dinners james mingles with crowds soils insurance makes speeches goes fish- in enjoys being his pathers pal mrs roosevelt scrambles eggs in a chafing dish goes down into a coal mino to look things over builds fur niture and makes a speech tho president goes fishing cats a hamburger and runs a nation its an american family they lead their own lives banks in egypt will encourago new industries by acting as promo ter and financier participating in tho management and rendering tech nical assistance in the building and equipping of factories egypt is promoting the production of beeswax