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UNDAY LESSON 1 God the Creator -- Genesis 1:1--2:25 Printed Text -- Genesis 1:1-5, 26-31 Golden Text •--"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Generis 1:1. The Lesson In Its Setting Tima -- It is not known when the universe was created, nor is it definitely definitely known when man was created. However long ago the creation of the universe, the creation of man did not take place before 5000 B.C. though the exact year of this will probably never be known. All ancient histories recognize recognize that there are no records of human civilization antedating 4000 to 5000 B.B. Place There have been innumerable innumerable conjectures as to the location of the Garden of Eden, but, thus l'ar, none of them have been generally accepted accepted by the Bible scholars; all we can say is that it was probably located located somewhere near the lower part of the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." There was no matter before the beginning, nor any planet in the heavens, nor any angel or created being. God was before any thing, or any created created person. Every thing that is in the universe today has come from t : ■ : t'h.' •. as any thing before God, it might be that power or person could ultimately crush God, but, if all things have been made by God, then surely God is greater than all the universe, and, if his power is great enough to create, it is also sufficient to control control it. God had no beginning. He was from eternity. "And the earth was waste and void," (Seejer, 4iS3 and Isa. 3i: 11.) The'word waste refers to the msl-teT, and void to the form, and the phrase combining the two denotes denotes a state of utter confusion and desolation, an absence of all that can furnish or people the land. And darkness was upon the face of the deep." The conjunction indicates indicates that the darkness is connected connected with the disorder of the previous previous phrase, and forms a part of the physical dearangement ; the deep refers, of course, to the sea (Gen. 7:11; 8:2; Isra. 51:10, etc) "And thé Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Here is the beginning of God's work' in the restoration restoration of that which has become chaotic. What the Holy Spirit began began to do with the chaotic condition, condition, bringing out of it the beauty of a new earth, he also has been gent to do in the human heart, bringing out of its chaos, due to sin, a new life, beautiful and orderly, like that of the Lord Jesus Christ. "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. Simply for God to utter his word. brings into existence existence whatever God wills (John 1 : 1-3; Eph. 3:9, Col. 1:16). The fact that God creates by a word is an indication not only of the ease with which he accomplished his work, and of his omnipresence, but also of the fact that he, works consciously and deliberately. "And God saw the light, that jt was good." That is, he examined and judged the newly finished product, investigated its nature and its properties, properties, admired its excellency, and, in all these respects, he pronounced good. "And God divided the light from the darkness." Thus God allows allows darkness still to exist, but never again to become dominant. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night." The first word which we have ' in the Bible as proceeding from God is the word day. We, as followers of the Lord Jesus, are to walk honestly in the day (Rom. 13:13); we are the children of the day, not of the night. (1 Thess. 5:5. "And there was evening evening and there was morning, one day." It is significant that, as in the Genesis account of creation, light appeared on the first day, so in the new creation which we have in Jesus Christ, the Lord came forth from the darkness of the grave and death on the first day of the new week in the morning of the resurrection (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:2; John 20:1, 19). "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." The plural pronoun "us" certainly indicates that God took counsel With at least one other in this supreme, supreme, final work of creation, and we can believe he took counsel with no angels, but with the other two persons of the Godhead, the Son and the Holy Ghost. This is the Only place in all the six days of creation concerning which we have a record of such a council; three times in the narrative of man's origin do we have the word create, both facts emphasizing the preeminent signi- 1,1 •"«meet of, creation above all preceding ones. "And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." "And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Man lost perfect dominion over the creatures when he fell in sin; thousands thousands of men and women every year are destroyed by the animal creation, creation, especially in countries where gospel is not known, such as India and Africa. Dominion over the creatures creatures will be restored to man during the Millennium (see Isa. 11:6-9). "And God blessed them ; and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, arid have a dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green her for food; and it was so. Four things are to be discovered here: the Creator bestows a general bless- nig upon the newly created pair, our first parents; he commands them to be fruitful and multiply that they might replenish the earth and bring it into perfect subjection; he gave them full dominion over all creatures creatures beneath them; the Creator gave them herbs and trees for food. It would seem that originally man's diet was exclusively a vegetable one. It is not recorded that man ate the flesh of animals until after the flood. "And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day. Perhaps here we might just add a word about the meaning of the word day in the creation narrative. Many believe that this word, as used in the first chapter of Genesis, must meant a period of twenty-four hours. Others believe that it was used to indicate a long of period of time, perhaps geologic ages. We must remember remember that the word day has different different meanings in different places and does not always mean a period of twenty-four hours; thus in Genesis, Genesis, 1:5, it means t>nly that part of a period of twenty-four hours in which the light shines; yet again, in the very same verse, both the morning morning and the evening are called one day. Again, in Genesis 2:4, the phrase the day refers to the entire period of creation Elsewhere in the Bible the same phrase is used to indicate indicate various periods of time (John 6:39, 44, 54; Rom, 8:19-23). Gallant Male to Combat Skeptics Essay Will Tell What Women iV've Done to Develop Country NEW YORK.--An offer of $1.000 with which to' combat; male spectles of women's ability, to hold down jobs and to "wipe from masculine lips that devastating remark, "She's only a woman'," was received by Mrs, Katherine Katherine Bleecker Meigs, president of the New York League of Business and Professional Women, says the Montreal Montreal Star. The gallant male, who by his. offer hopes to bolster feminine prestige in the realm of business, was Isaac Liberman, Liberman, president of Arnold Constable & Co. He said his store employed women in executive capacities and had found them efficient, "since 1842 or thereabouts." The offer came as a result of a telegram telegram sent by Mrs. Meigs on the eve of the National Business women's week now being observed, to twenty business women's clubs in New York City,, declaring war on male skepticism skepticism and specifically denouncing the phrase "She's only a woman." The sum will be used to sponsor an essay contest on "What women have done toward the development of the country in the last 100 years." Tennis Enthusists Practice Under Cover Tennis Enthusists Practice Under Cover W13ÊÈ mm > -, . . WiA» V - V, 1 -' ËIISI1I 'a'ao - Si . S8iiil :;;.v Solving the problem of how to practice tennis throughout the year, Boo a..d vi-K 'vu. ... of Seattle, Wash., high school players, had court covered with tent made of 3,000 yards of canvas, it is electrically heated and lighted. By VIRGINIA DALI If you enjoy yourself most at films that make your hair stand on end, your spine tingle, and your hands grow damp in terror, Gaumont-British has brought over just the ideal evening's evening's entertainment for you. It is "The Woman Alone," with Oscar Ho- molka and Sylvia Sidney. If you take my advice, you will see it in the afternoon, so you will have a few hours before bedtime in which to recover from the sheer terror it inspires. But by all means see it, even if it. does mean loss of sleep for a few days, for it is one of the smoothest and most gripping pictures you will ever have a chance to see. Speaking of Sylvia Sidney, she and Ann Dvorak are running a neck and neck -- or I should say test and test -- race for the leading role in Samuel Samuel Goldwyn's film of "Dead End." Each girl has made several tests of the big scenes in the play and both are so good, Mr. Goldwyn is having a hard time choosing be Sylvia Sidney tween them. Hollywood Hollywood sort of hopes Ann Dvorak w"l get the role, because because Sylvia Sidney has had so many triumphs lately, she really does not need another as much as the loveable Ann does. When Jean Sablon sang on the Rudy Vallee hour recently, all the film scouts were listening. Immediately Immediately studio heads telegraphed their New York offices to take a look at him and put him under contract if his appearance was half as romantic romantic as Ms voice.. They reported that he was every studio's dream of a matinee idcl. but none have .'Succeeded .'Succeeded in getting him under contract contract yet. Mr. Saglon is twenty- nine years old and has been singing in operettas in Paris ever since lie was sixteen. Men working in mines and among the fumes .of mineral dust often suffer from tuberculosis or other lung diseases. It has hitherto been assumed that these were caused by minute particles particles of silica in the ore; but now Prof. Trueman, working for the British Minstry of Health, and Prof. Jones for the insurance companies, have discovered after many experiments experiments that it is not silica, but mica that is the cause of such diseases. Between the layers of every mineral mineral in the world are microscopic shafts of mica, so small that only the most powerful instruments can locate them. These are breathed in with the air, and impinge on the lungs, clogging them. "Sunshine and exercise is the key to feminine charm."--Berna : rr Mac- fadden. B--3 "Best-Dressed" U.S.A. Fashion Academy Seeks to Make Women More Clothes Conscious NEW YORK.--Hold your liats, here comes another list of 'best-dressed women," Emil A. Hartman, director of the Fashions Academy, has announced the 1937 winners of medals awarded by the Academy each spring to feminine feminine fashion leaders. Like the other "best-dressed" lists, it was "the result result of a poll of America's leading designers." designers." The winners, chosen from eight fields: Helen Gleason, stage; Carole Lombard, Lombard, screen; Mrs. William Rhinelander Rhinelander Stewart, society; Dorothy Mae Kil- gallen, adventure; Jessica Dragonctte, radio; Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rhode, public life; Eve Symington, night clubs; Lily Pons, opera. Among previous winners of the Academy awards were Mrs. Franklyn D. Roosevelt, Mrs. James A. Farley. Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, Gladys Swarthout and Mrs. Harrison Willi- ama--the perennial favorite of best- dressed lists. Hartman said it is "unfair to hold any one person in the style lime-light too long," hence a new list now and then. "We hope," he said, "through the medium of the selection of 'best-dressed 'best-dressed women' to make American women more clothes conscious." How many people know that matches matches are made of aspen, brake blocks of poplar, gun stocks of walnut, walnut, and artificial legs of willow? These facts, .and many others about timber are to be found in a "Handbook on Home Grown Timbers," Timbers," recently published by Forest Products Research Labor: ory in London. Scarcely any willow is at present imported into the United Kingdom, and the demand for cricket bats is^_ met entirely from homegrown willow of a special variety. British ash is preferred to all others for airplane work and sports goods. The tendency of the trees in Great Britain, adds the writer, is to. produce a fast-growing timber, and this present - the greatest difficulty difficulty to the extension of its use. Be Fi BEER'S COBWEB Conducted by PROFESSOR HENRY G. BELL With the co-operation of the Various Departments of the Ontario Agricultural College Question 1:--"How can I tell what analysis of fertilizer is most suitable for my farm? The most of it. is „ heavy clay soil. What would be suitable suitable to put on Old Meadow?" -- G. Q., Perth County. Answer:--The only way you can obtain fairly definite information as to the fertilizer mixture that is most suitable for your soils, is for you to send a sample of the soils to the Department Department of Chemistry, O.A.C., Guelph Opt., where by rapid methods we can test these soils far acidity and mineral mineral content. Samples of soil should be taken at about plow depth from a number of places In the field. Mix ' these samples together and send about I Vs pint of the mixed material for an- I alysis. Tills is best sent in a cotton bag. For Old Meadows, experiments have largely shown that 250 lbs. of 3-10-5 or 4-12-6 have given best results. results. This fertilizer should be applied applied broadcast over the meadow as soon as growth begins in the spring. Question 2.--"I had intended to buy 20% Phosphate and mix Muriate of Potash together without filler, and sow thinner. I would like to know whether you think this will work satisfactorily satisfactorily or not. In case 1 want, to add 2% nitrogen to it what material would you use, such as nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia? How would you mix' a good digest- able mineral that is 'high in Phosphorus Phosphorus and Calcium? Would steamed bone meal be alright to use it"? -- S. A., Bruce County. Answer:--I would say that a mixture mixture of 20% Phosphate and Muriate of Potash can be made for sowing as you indicate. You do not say in what quantities you plan to mix these, hut 1 see no reason why the mixture should not give results. 'The big point is to get it on evenly, which means that great care must be taken in the first place in the mixing of the phosphate and potash so that each pound, or gallon, will carry an equal proportion of plant nutrients. If you wish to add 2% nitrogen, you would have to add 209 lbs. of Sulphate of Ammonia, or 267 lbs. of Nitrate of Soda to the ton. For a good digestible minera! mixture mixture high in phosphorus and calcium, probably nothing supersedes steamed bone meal. This is good healthy bone, cooked with steam under pressure. This practically removes all the protein protein and fat from the bone, and the bone is then dried and ground into line white powder, and should be almost free of odor. Fertilizer bone meal should not ha used for stock feeding, since in preparing, fertilizer bone meal the meat is boiled under ordinary conditions conditions to let loose the flesh from the bone. This does not kill disease germs as thoroughly as where the material is cooked under steam pressure. pressure. Some stock men advise the adding of a small amount of Iron Salt and Iodized Salt. Question 3 :--"Does Nitrate of Soda work more rapidly than Sulphate of Ammonia? Which one of the two is most satisfactory for spring crop?"-- EJ. G. L., Grey County. Answer:--Nitrate of Soda supplie: nitrogen in a form that is immediately immediately usable by crops. Nitrate of Soda is immediately soluble in soil mixture. Sulphate of Ammonia is likewise immediately soluble, but I» very large part, the nitrogen supplied in Sulphate of Ammonia must undergo undergo change in the soil to the nitrate form before it can be used by growing growing crops. Hence, its action has to wait for bacterial growth in tlje soil. It is therefore a little slower than Nitrate of Soda. Sulphate of Ammonia leaves an acid reaction. If your soil is already acid,. Sulphate of Ammonia will adcf to this trouble. Nitrate of, Soda is neutral in reaction.