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^ SUNDAY SCHOOL . LESSON LESSON II. THE CHRISTIAN IN GOD'S KEEPING (Psalm 121; Book of Jude) PRINTED TEXTâ€" Jude 1â€" I. 17â€"23. GOLDEN TEXTâ€" Keep yourselves in the love of God, lookmg for the ir.ercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. â€" Jude 21. The Losson In Its Setting Time â€" Inasmuch as the author of the 121st Psalm is not known, its date cannot be determined. Jude wrote his epistle about Co A.D. ^ P'.a.ce â€" We have no way of determ- ining where the 121st Psalm was â- written. Strange to ;ay. we have no information of any kind that would tell us whore the epistle of Jude was written. It may h.ive been Jeru- salem; it may have been elsewhere. "A Seng in Praise of God's Preser- vations,"' Psalm 121: This beautiful psalm is the trustful expression of a heart rejoicing in its own safety un- der the watchful eye of Him who is both the Maker of Heaven and earth and the Keeper of Israel. The Creator of the universe, the Keeper of the nation, is also the Keeper of the individual. Undoubtedly the characteristics of Jehovah revealed in the ficst two verses of this psalm are stated to set Jehovah in contrast with the dead gods of the heathen nations around them, who. on the one hand, did not make the heavens and the earth, and, on the othor hand, were even acknowledged (at times) by their worshippers to fall asleep and thus to forget their subjects. A God who has created the universe has power enough to easily keep and protect individuals, no matter how threatening, or how powerful adverse circumstances or external antagon- ' isms might be. From physical dangers, the Psalm- ist rises to moral dangers, assuring those to whom he wrote that Jehovah the Creator, would actually keep his own from all evil contamination of soul. God's 1 omises This exquisite psalm is, as it were, a condensation and summary of simi- lar promises of God in the ages that had gone before, as. e.g., the words ol God to Jacob the night he fell asleep at Bethel, after leaving his father's home in sorrow. "Behold I am with thee and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee ajain into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of". So, hundreds of years later, the Lord said to Moses â€" "Be- hold I send an angel before thee to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have pre- pared." "Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James.'' â€" There are six different men in the New Testa- ment who bear the name of Jude or Judas. The author of this epistle of one chapter was a brother of James who wrote an epistle, and. conse- quently, a brother of the Lord Jesus himself (Matt. 13: 55; Mark 6: 3). To them that arc called. That is, to those who have heard the call of the gospel message to accept the Lord Jesus Christ, and have hearkened to it. "Beloved in God the Father." â€" It is God's lt>ve which sent the Lord Jesus Christ to die for us. and then sent that message to us through his word and through his ministers: â€" thoso who .ire called of God truly are the beloved of God. "And kept for Jesus Christ."â€" The word here translated "kept" occurs five times in this single chapter â€" here, twice in v. 6, once in v. 13, where it is trans- lated "reserved," and a final time in V. 21. The word expresses watchful care and is suggestive of present pos- session. It is the same wor 1 three times used by our Lord in his won- derful intercessory prayer in John 17. Jude is so confident of God's purpose to keep us that he links it insepar- ably with and makes it to be a very part of our calling, and the fact of our being loved by God. We are kept day by day from those things which would harm our souls. That which alone can come be- tween us and God is sin. It is God alone who can deliver us from the power of either of these, and from the weakness and wicked inclinations of our o'.vn flesh. "Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied."â€" This sentence is what might truly be called an in- vocation, so common in all of Paul s epistles. "Mercy" is the unmerited source. "Peace" and "lave" are the blissful results, whether by love is meant the mutual love of fne readers, or their love to God. or God's love to them, or all three. Trouble in the Church "Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto t' 3 condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ." â€" A terrible' situation had arisen in the Christian Church at the time Jude was writing, which was probably about 35 years after the ascent of our Lord to glory, possibly .A..D. 65. or 66. Certain men had stealthily come into the church, who allowed themselves to become members of thft church, but who concealed both their heretical beliefs and their impure life from other Christians, and were thus hyprocrites at the outset. They were false both in their beliefs and in their conduct. The two go together. These terrible conditions led Jude to urge his readers to earnestly contend for the very faith which these men were denying. "But ye. beloved, remember ye the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; That they said to you. In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts." â€" St. Jude reminds his readers that the apostles had often said that mockers would come and then pro- ceed to quote an apostolic document in which this saying was recorded in a particular shape. "These are they who make separa- tions." â€" It was characteristic of the false teachers and mockers that they drew lines of demarcation which Christ had not drawn, between them- selves and others, or between differ- ent classes of believers. "Sensual. having not the Spirit."â€" That is, they were "men who lived only for the natural self â€" men who make the sensuous nature with its appetites and passions the law of their life." Keep in God's Love "But ye, beloved, building up your- selves on your most holy faith." â€" /9^ V i Ah ~^ 00, God 'W. BY HELEN WELSHIMCR / ^A. e thank Thee, Cod, for shaded lamps at evening, For crusted loaves and firelight and the rain Whose gypsy songs make music for our dreamings, On dark blue nights, against a shining pane. For wide, green winds, and sun-bright fields of sumrMeri Sea-light aiid dusk, and high, brave trees that bend To spring back straight, and rainbows after showers, And homing paths with laughter at their end- We thank Thee, Cod, for seedtime and for harvest. For violets asleep in mossy banks, The hurt we masked with gaiety undoubte<r--«- Oh, most of all for bravery we give thanksl Probably these phrases, of which this is the first, form as perfect an illus- tration as can be found in all of the New Testament of the words of the apostle Paul â€" "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." The way to build ourselves up on our faitl. is by doing the things which Jude now admonishes. "Praying in the Holy Spirit." To pray in the Holy Spirit is to pray in accordance with the leading of the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. Consequently, all prayers will be characterized by holi- ness and by spirituality. "Keep yourselves in the love of God." â€" It is not, "Keep God loving you." But we need to keep in the conscious enjoyment of it. We keep ourselves in the love of God primarily by doing those things which please l.im. "Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." â€" We are to continually look for our Lord to come back, at which time we know that mercy will prevail. .\t this time we shall come into the full apprehension of and the full realiza- tion of the eternal life, which, as a gift, was bestowed upon us when we accepted our Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour. "And on some have mercy, who are in doubt. .\nd some save, snatch- ing them out of the fire ; and on some have mercy with fear; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." â€" .A.S the Lord has been merci- ful toward us. so should we be merci- ful toward others, and especially must this be observed as we deal with those who have come into the dark- ness of doubt, ofr' have fallen into some great sin. "Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling." â€" The concluding sentence of Jude's epistle is one of the richest, if not the richest doxology to be found at the end of any of the New Testament writings. ".\r>d to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish." â€" The •â€" * TINS 25* pV.»t^ Script Writing No Cinch Some authors spend months or years writing a single novel, but Irna Phillips, author of The Guiding Light, Today's Children, and the news er- ies The Road of Life, three NBC Seria's, turns out more than 30,000 words each week. Her job is no snap â€" spcfiding nine hours a day at least five days a week in her Chicago of- fice dictating to her secretary. To get the natural touch, faithful char- acterization, and so on. Miss Phillips invites such people as policemen, storekeepers, etc., in for a chat when she must write a part for such char- acters. Chose Hard Road to Success Joan Edwards, pretty 19-year-old rhythm singer, is determined to make good on her own. Although she is a niece of Gus Edwards, famous for dis.'overing and developing stars, Joan wants none of his iafluence. -And 30 she suffered many dis- appointments and heartbreaks. Her father is a song publisher, her moth- er a former vaudeville singer. Both encouraged Joan's ambition to be- come 3 singing pianist. She made her professional debut in Miami, where she was presented by Rudy Vallve, and later by Fred .\:len. She is now hoard on tho blue network on Tuesdays a-'J, Wednesdays at 10.15 p m. The News Is Out .About 77 more days till Christmas â€"but we know now that Arturo Tos- ean'ni will conduct the N B C Sym- phony orchestra coni^isting of 100 hand pi.kod musicians on December 25 from 'J:00 to 10:30 p.m. and each Saturday there.ift.-r The program v,-:il originate in N B C's Inrge Ra- I'i) City studio a:ul will be> he'ard fi'oni coast to coast over the Red web. Toscanini, in returning to .\m- eiica about December 15 to taUe over the baton of the NBC Sym- !iho.iy, comes ba.-k to tha land where glory here referred to is. of course, the glory of God, the outshining of ail of his divine attributes. "In exceed- ing joy." This probably refers to the jt>y which is God's and the joy of the Lord Jesus Christ in bringing to co^i- pletion their great task. "To the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be rrlory, majesty, dominion and power, before all time, and now and for I'vermoro. Amen." Câ€" 3 Around The Dial RADIO HEADUNERS OF THE WEEK G. C MURRAY he has had many great triumphs. It was during his seven years of asso- ciation with the orchestra at the Metropolitan Opera, from 1908 to 1915 that he rose from the rank of fine conductors to the pinnacle of in- dividual supremacy among them- 1920 saw Toscanini returning to La Scala in Milan, where in his earlier years, his great genius had matur- ed. Last year he left .\merica, and was thought to be lost to music lov- ers here until last Winter he con- sented to return to the States to conduct ten radio concerts for N B C for which he will receive -40,000 iron men- JeD-0 Benny Rides Again October 3 saw Buck Benny back on his Jello spot with Mary Living- stone, Kenny Baker. Don Six Delici- ous Flavors Wilson, Phill Harris and his Jello guzzling orchestra, gravel- voiced .\.ndy Devine, and Sam Schlepperman Hearn, who's "Hello Stranger" has been missed during the last part of Benny's series. The day â€" Sunday. The time â€" 7:30 p.m. â€" The netwo:k. NBC Red- Canadian (Radio) Capers The Good Humor .Xmatour Hour enters the second year of present- ing new voices and acts over the ozone. Two new stations join the hook-up. C F C F, Montreal and C F C O. Chatham. C H M L. Ham- ilton, C F R B, and C K C L, To- ronto complete the chain. . . . C H M L. Hamilton to carry Rugby g:im- cs of Toronto. Hamilton, and Guelph univtrsities. Sport fans will have a full Saturday afternoon of rugby, for these games will be followed by the Bis: Four Games- . . . Wondering what happened to Pauline Drake. \ hose charming voice pleased many radio listeners while pinch-hitting for ;>nother female commentator- . . Lou Snidvr and Murray Ross have g;>.ined many, many friends a..ross C;ina a on their present C B C net- work pro-rrams. This two piano team is one of the popular features on Canadian Radio. . - . Horace Lapp and b's musicians move back into their Royal Yoric Hotel spot, and will soon be heard dispensing smart dance tunes over the air. They havo j',:st returned from Banff, Alberta. Mrs. Marzia Lakov, aged 26, has 'u>en legally m;;rrlcj under RuS.iau law 2'J times in seven years. In that period she has had 28 divorces. Insect Is Speed Champion of World Cephecemvla Can Travel at 818 Miles Per Hour Dr Ruy CuJ-pman Andrews, this week ut Ncw York, uvarded the world sp'-'J'i cliamp-onshlp to an :iir racer nam-^d cephennmyla, a kind of bug which has been clocked at 313 miles an hear. Tr. .\ndrew3. director <:f the Ameri- can Museum of Natural History, writes in the October issue of 'Nat- ural History, that: "If it were possible to drive an air- plane at the .speed of cephenomyia for 17 hours con'inuously. we could go all jruuud the world in a daylight day. Eight hundred and eighteen miles an hour is upnroximutoly twiey as fast ;i3 our fi.-itest rl-in- s." Arcjnd World In A Day Insects are boti.-r flivrg than birds, [>i-- .\-!-ii->'%vs su;--'. bc-e:!!'.st? they have a h-M-i;a-:-' •:[ ;<•' v- ral mi!!ii;n y^ars in natur^-'s tr:;il and "rror flying school. w'i'.Ti'as bi'ds !::ive boon :\round only about r;3.'M}i.i.'iiiO y^ars. "So fir t'lti !n;-e«s .Tiiy be ahead," h" ' one! â- dt'-=. â-  but man I'.a.s only re- (â- '=nJ!'.- .snr"-.i'l his v.inrs â€" and ih'.' sky is ''V l'-.T.i(." B:^rkless Dogs Ars New Craze ro U?c-1 Pets In Cities Carry- ing on Anei-Noire Campaign Tho-:e -N'l'W Yoriiers who t.ike their anti-noise tampaisu seriously have somethina more to cheer about than the departure of the .American Legion- aires. That's wh^â- n the barkless dog made i'.s North .VniTiean debut this week. Increiiible as it may seom. the dogs really don't bark. They are born that way; no bark-removing operations have to be performed. Natives of the Congo in .\frica. the barkless wonders are known to the .Africans as Basenjl. which are excellent hunters, although they can make themselves heard with only 1 sort of srowl or ru-ible. Doe lovers never heard of these ani- mals until last December, when a few braces of them were tak»n to England by Mrs. Olivia Burn, an Englishwoman who found them in the Belgian Congo. la the last ten months the Basenjl have been bred and shown in England, atracting considerable attention. Two barkless. but otherwise alert and play- ful puppies arrived from their English birthplace aboard the Berengaria. MuMoIini's Son Here V'ittorlo Mussolini, eldest son of thi Italian dictator, comfortably at- tired in shorts on the Rex. from v.hich he was lauded by a Coast Oi:,'d cutter to escape Communist il-nuinstraliou scheduled to gree^ liim. *. 1^ â- i:» "^ l-X «»*4 â- ^si^m^!i£^