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^ i . Sunday School Lesson LESSON II PETER COMMENDED AND REBUKED Matthew 16: 13-25 Coiaen Text â€" Thou art the ChrUt, the Son of the livinf God. â€" Matt. 16: 16. THE LES.'SON IN ITS SETTING Tins*. â€" In the third period of the Galilean ministry, autumn, A.D. zr>. P!a<"p. â€" -\t or near Caescrca PhilifpJ, in the northern part of Galileo, south of the foot-hills of Mt. Bermon. A year and one half, which is almost ane half of the entire period of our Lord's public min- istry, has elapsed between the events of our last lesson and the epochal event which we are about to study in this lesson. 13. Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of man is? After months spent in teach- ing the apostles about his person and mission he gives them a choice, a test concerning the explanation of it all. It has been probably two years since he chose them as apos- tles. By this time they ought to know their own minds. 14. And they said. Some say John the Baiitist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. 15. He saith unto them. But â- who say ye that I am? This was a decisive moment in which the separation of the New Testament church from the Oid Testament theocracy was to be made. Peter's Great Confession -Matt. IG: 16. 16. And Simon Peter answered and said. Peter was always the spokesman of the twelve disciples. Thou art the Christ. "Christ", is the Greek synonym for the Hebrew word "Messiah". All those of the Old Covenant knew that when the Messiah wt)uld come peace would reign, justice would prevail, the â- wilderness would be changed into a garden, wars would cease, there would be no darkness or night. The Son of the living God. Peter in these words goes even beyond ascribing Messiahship to Jesus; he considers him to bo the very Son of God. Divine Revelation Matt. 16: 17-20. 17. Anc. Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jon- ah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven. The Lord means that recognition of his Messiahship and Sonship is not brought about by human logic, but that it is a divine working in the human heart and mind, a work of revelation, by which such an ac- knowledgment is made. IS. .-Vnd I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock. The word "Peter" in Greek is the word "pctros," meaning "the rock". 1 will build my church. We should notice that Christ de- clares kc will be the one who will build the church. Jesus is the â- architect, and the verb suggests the continued activity of the living Christ in giving out his design. The foundation of the church is made up of the apostles and proph- ets, Christ himself being the chief corr.er-i^toiie. (Eph. 2: 20). What the Lord really meant is that not upon Peter but upon this confes- sion of Peter concerning the per- son of Christ he would build his church. .\nd the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. The passage implies conflict with the kingdom of evil and victory over it; but its leading thought is the triumph of life over death, of the kingdoni of the resurrection over the usurped reign of the kin;; of Hades. Keys to the Kingdoni 10. I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdoni of heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. The keys of the kingdoni of heaven •re first of all the gospel of salva- tion through Jesus Christ. By this means men are admitted into the kingdom. He was conferring pow- er fur saving and not for barring from salvation. 20. Then charRcd he the dis- ciples that they should toll no man that he was the (Christ. He now de- sired that he should move on and finish his work on the e irth, dy- ing, rising again from the dead, and ascending into heaven, before the disciples should go out and preach Christ; then men would fully know what receiving Christ meant. Matt. 13: 21-25. From that time began Jesus to show unto his dis- ciples, that he must go unto Jeru- salem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and acrikes. and be killed, and the third day kc raised up. Jesus was not, as some men claim, taken un- awares and put to death. He knew from the beginning what would be Occupants of Canada's Most Northerly Outpost Two R.C.M.P. oflRcers enjoyed a large and appetizing Christmas dinner this year in company with their four fellow-occupants (Eskimos) of Craig Harbor, Ellesmere Island, Canada's most northerly outpost. Ptarmigan replaced turkey on the menu and all Christmas greetings arrived by mail. Three of the Eskimos appear in the top photo. Below you see Lanee-Corporal R. W. Hamilton, of the R.C.M.P. with the fourth Eskimo. Xo mail will arrive at Craig Harbor till next summer. his experience for he came defin- itely to die for us. 22. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee. Lord: this shall never be unto thee. This word was a word of love. 23. But he turned, and said un- to Peter, Get thee behind me, Sat- an: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men. 24. Then said Jesus unto his disciples. If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25. For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and who- soever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. There is no discipleship without self-denial both in the easier form of starv- ing passions and desires, and in the harder of yielding up the will, and letting his will supplant ours. Ontario Cheese Production Up But Total Cheddar Output For .^Canada in 1938 is Less Than Previous Year The'*uiantity of Cheddar Cheese nianufacTturod in Ontario in No- vember was reported at 4, 998. 053 pounds as against 3,625,323 pounds in N'overaber, 1937, a gain of 1,373,000 pounds or 3S per cent. ProJuction for the first 11 months, however, is considerably below the level of a year ago, the total being 83,113,349 pounds tills season, as compared with 91,- 456,962 pounds a year ago. Creamery butter output total- ed 5,103,206 pounds in November, and was again higher than in the corresponding month of 1937. The increase amounted to 398,000 lbs. Prognosticator Sees Cold Spell FOUT ERIE, Oi.t. â€" They scoffed at William Henry Wint- iiiute, Bertie Township farmer, last September when he pre- dicted that this autumn would be the mildest in years, but he had the last laugh when he showed the scoffers violets and lilacs blooming on his farm in December. Spurred on by his success. Farmer Wintmute has now made his prediction for the next three months, which, he said, will be cold. He bases his predictions on the condition and location of milts in hogs â€" a system he claims is infallible. or 8 per cent. Total production for the fii-st 11 months of 1938 is now estimated at 83,281,303 lbs., the highest on record, and com- pares with 77,023,660 pounds in the first 11 months of 1937. Less Cheese Made The trend in recent years in Canada has been toward greatly expanding butter production and reducing the quantity of cheese manufactured. That a lesser de- cline in cheese output would have been to the advantage of the dairying industry is now generally conceded, and efforts to build up cheese production and regain former export volume are consid- ered by many as most desirable. Germany has fixed a 600,000- pound quota on Quebec eels that will not be filled before next March. To Sweden and Belgium smaller shipments are made, al- though the Belgians' national dish is a preparation of baked eel. Small hats with pleated fan effect in front promise to become popular in Paris. Too Little Beef, Too Many Legs Department of Agriculture Of- ficial Sayi Canadian Cattle Have Not Been Fed Nor Fattened Up Enough For Market Too Utile beef on too many legs has beeu on big trouble with the Canadian cattle industry, In the judgment of A. M. Shaw, Ottawa di- rector of markets for the Dominion Department of iVgrlcuiture. Thera has been insufficient grain fed to Canadian cattle to provide "a reasonable level of beef quality or a sufficient regular supply of grain-finished cattle to meet the best demands of the domestic and export trade." Mr. Shaw declared iu a paper before the prairie markets conference. Feed Them IVIore Grain He informed the conference, that Is studying the lack of markets for western farm produce, that a gerat deal more grain could be consumed by fewer cattle to the advantage of the industry. An increase in cattle numbers was not altogether desir- able and certainly not necessary to a substntial inc'rease In grain con- sumption, be said. Fatten Up Your Horse For Sale Sanctuary It's a Good Plan to Add a Few Hundred Pounds to the Animed In fitting horses for Spring work it may uot be necessary to fatten them, or burden them, so to speak, with excessive fat, but when it comes to courting a sale at a re- munerative price, it is a good plan to add a couple of hundred pounds to the animal. E.xtra fat on a horse will not deter him from en- gaging in heavy work, and it is just as well to have the animal In a condition that will always com- mand the best market. Fetches Better Price A highly finished animal may uot always be the fittest for immediate hard labor, but it is plainly evident, at horse sales, that horses in full fleshed condition command better prices. Buyers will bid for flesh, and it is daily demonstrated that It does not pay to offer uufltted animals for sale. Bidders at a sale will run up the price of au animal that is slick and well covered. It is therefore the business of the seller to prepare his olTering to suit the buying public. Are You Listening? L By FREDDIE TEE YEAR'S LEADING NEWS FIGURES Lowell Thomas, Edwin C. Hill and Walter Winchell. NBC news commentators, put their heads to- gether at the National Broadcasting Company to pick the ten leading news personalities of 1933. These three veteran reporters and com- mentators decided that the ten big news makers of the year were nine meu and a horse. Here is their list: 1. Adolf Hitler 2. Neville Chamlierlaia Kranklln D. Roosevelt Douglas Corrigan Pope Pius Thomas E. Dowoy Seabiscuit .Vlfred P. Sloan. Jr. Walt Disney li.eiiry Armstrong 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. <). Ill, PIANO BEST BACKGROUND It you want to be a composer, take up the piano! "The pianist has a head start on players of other instruments as far as composing music is concerned," says the famous -'King of Jazz" â€" Paul Whitemau, whose program Is heard over CBS every Wednesday night. To prove it. he cites the fol- lowing composers: Ferde Grofe, for Instance, earned his first claim to fame as the origiual pianist in the Whitcman Orchestra. Duke Elling- ton is one of the top pianists of his race. CBS's Waller Gross is consid- ered one of .\merica's ace classical and swing keyboard masters. It was Gross who played Gershwin's diffi- cult "Concerto iu F" iu Whiteman's all-Gershwin concert over CBS last summer. It you go back into musi- cal history," says Whitemaa. "you will find that nearly all composers played the piano. It is more natural for a pianist to compose than, say a violinist, because the pianist has to know his harmonies perfectly â€" and the knowledge of harmony Is the foundation of creative writing." OLD COUNTRY PROGRAMS Owners of Rogers, DeForest Cros- ley ami Majestic radio sets, prior to the new "Spread-Band" IStao mo- dels, cannot conceive of the im- proved and satisfactory reception which those new models bring in from the Old Country. It is a simple matter now to listen to and enjoy the news broadcast from London, England, just as though It was a nearby station. Every person inter- ested in hearing programs from the Old Country should be sure to go to their nearest DeForest Crosley, Majestic or Rogers dealer and ask for a demonstration of the marvel- lous ''shortwave" reception on these models. POPâ€" Fortunately, Pop Hasn't Many Hairs to Split Tliere is a land of dreams Wherein soft desires Burn fragrant fires, Where the bright thought gleams. And the min<t can retrace On swift, impassioned feet The path of Memory, sweet With perfumed petals of a hal- lowed place. There, oh there only, can we wis Our peace at last, .41one with the Past .â- Vnd dreaming therein. â€" Eileen Fifer, in Poetry •/ Today. This Curious World V. William Ferguson COTR. <9U f nIA SERVICC. INC SCALES. 77^/Z.OUGH -ry^^ CJLOUOS/ rr IS ABOUT /CX>,CKX> 77MES PLANT BQEEDERS^ HAVE DEVELOPED OiXiRLESS cabbage:. THE penguin is a bird of parado.xes. Its feathers resemble scales. It has wings, but does not fly, using these appendages for swimming. On land, it walks erect, or slides over the ice on its stomach. NEXT: How many dUIereot species of native trees has North America? Chinese Barricade HORIZO.NTAL 1, 6 Lengthy man-made barricade, China. 9 Less reluctant 1 \ Intention. 12 Away. 13 Flax derivative. 15 Moor. IS Befalls. 18 Railroad. 19 Third-rate actor. 20 Form of 'be. 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