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: , ~IY_AUSNErig then I cannot but "to it, that wounded him will beco hateful to me. When I am b t face to face with the abandon with which"God in Christ has loved me I b free from the of Tom my old bondage. I enter into a new rela- tionship with my Saviour--brother. "Bin, which was once so allu now becomes not merely a prohibited but actually ~distasteful; and - ness, which was once go difficult, be- comes not only a thing required of me, biit actually a thing I love," Baillie-- This is the true freedom from sin, =] @ »PT6 .T TYP Lost--a Patient Mr. Birrell, when Irish Secretary, told this story about the only time he ever wanted to consult a doctor. "Once only in my life did I feel per- February 7. Lesson Vi--The Slavery of Sin (Temperance Lesson)-- Matthew 25: 45-51; John 8: 31.36. Golden Text--Whosoever commit. teth sin Is the servant of sin-- John 8: 34, - | ANALYSIS I. KNOWING THE TRUTH, John 8: 81,82 IL DENYING OUR BONDAGE, John 8: 83, IIL. TE TRUE FREEDOM, John 8: 35, 3 * INTRODUCTION--Jesus had Ses) warning the Jews against the conse: suaded that [ was smitten with a mor- ences of their unbelief, 8: 21-30, tal disease. I started on my way to is own life was 50 of a piece with consult a distinguished doctor. his spoken "testimony"--"1 always do | 'It was a hot July day and I thought those things that please him" (v. 29) | the time was come for my last walk. --that many people believed on him,'I walked from my home to Harley v. 80, Others--"the Jews"--became Street. I found the great physician's convinced that he was the Messiah. room crowded with patients, and, The faith of son of them, he stv 10 while waiting, I saw on the table a unreliable. His message eM ook written by the great physiclan is our message today in this lesson. the subject of this particular dis. 1. KNOWING THE TRUTH, John 8: 31, 32 ease. The translation in the Authorized | "The first words which caught my Version of vs. 30, 81 is "believed on." | eye were these: 'The patient who is Tn v. 81 a better rendering would be' guffering from this disease never per- "believed." Verse 80 tells of a real gpires' I picked up my hat and . faith, a personal trust and loyalty. waiked out." Verse 31 tells simply of an intellec- ° tual, doctrinal belief. The Jews--those who, in this Gospel, are taken as the What New York party antagonistic to Jesus--became convinced that he was the Messiah. Their conviction, however, made no change in their lives, They said, "We believe that what you say is trus," but tha, did not make them "follow- ers" of Jesus. To them Jesus said, "If ye continue fn my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth," vs. 31, 82. That is, Jesus' teaching can be understood only by those who are prepared to practice it--who make their "faith" the principle by which they guile all their activities. Every earnest man asks the tion, "Why am T hor2? What is 1ifa's purpose for me?" He wants to know the truth. Only as he makes Jesus' way of living his way will he come to understand the meaning of !ife and his place in jt. He shall know the truth. Kn o this and seeing therefore | th =" unhidden by "apnrarances" he will be saved from error sin and folly. His moral vision will ser him fre from the moral dangers into which, through ignorance of their real character, he might otherwise fail. He sees, for examrle, his own body as a temple of God in the building. There- fore he cau nermit nothing that will deface or defile it. 11. DENYING OUR BONDAGE, John 8: 33, The Jews were insulted at the sug- gestion that they were not 'ree, v. 35. "We were never in bondage to any man." Then what about Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Syria? Even as they spoke, was ths Roman garviscn not looking down from the castle into the Temple courts--keeping a watchful eye upon these concuered Jews. Like most of us, they wore able to ignore and even deny unpleasant facts. Hence, of course, they felt no need of freedom. What more discouraging work than offzring salvation to people who do not feel their need of it-- solving problems which trouble no one --answering questions which no cone is asking? How indifferently we lis- ten to the story of God's redeeming love. Nevertheless, when it is forced upon our attention, we are conscious that w "out" with the moral uni- verse arc nd vs. We find a law--an influence voting upon us--that when we would ¢o good evil is present with us. We are bondage. III. THE TRUE FREEDOM, John 8: 35, 36. When Jesus then contrasted the family relationship of the slave with that of the son (v. 85) he meant that no matter how long or how hard a man's bondage to sin had been, it was still only an artificial and, if he so desired, a temporary bondage. Whe- ther he be a drunkard. apparently hopelessly enslaved by the drink babit,' or one of those who are even harder to redeem--the respectable complacent folk who are saturated with the form of religion, but uninfluenced by its! power--his bondage can be broken. By whom? "If the Soh therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed," v. 86. How does the Son de- liver me from the sin that holds me? He wins me by the power of his own ure love to awakea an answering ove in me. . If the one whom I have greatly wronged is able to convince me that his love for me is strong enough, not only to overcome any re- _ sentment toward me, but to forgive Is Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Ilusirated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern cy With the delightful new Victorian fashions which are considered so ravishing, particularly for youth and the youthful type of woman, one needs a slimmirg costume slip. 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MRS, CLUTTS 3PoKé TO ME- AND WHEN T TRIED - ny Professor Albert Einstein, propounder of the theory of relativity, pays tribute to the prize-winning float in the annual tournament of roses pageant at Pasadena, California, Caves of Ice The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway ou the waves; Where was heard the mingled meas- ure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw. It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played. Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome fin air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! Briefs Abroad The ordinary type of cold costs Gt. Britain at least £6,000,000 a year in loss of working time. England's army of Civil Servants shows an increase of more than 5,000 over the figures for a year ago. The last sailing-ship to be built in Britain was the Archibald Russell; she was built in Glasgow in 1905. It costs £50,000 for the voyage to Canada and back of the new Canadian Pacific liner, Empress of Britain. The only private "army" maintained in Britain is that of the Duke of Atholl. It is one thousand strong, and is com- plete with artillery. Buses now being built for London traffic will seat sixty-three passengers, room being made for the ten extra --Samuel aylor Coleridge, Poems. lg. .0 yo axtending the top deck over the driver's cabin. pein S19 They Didn't In the Vatican Library, the roof of A dentist was about to extract the which suddenly collapsed recently, tooth of a girl who declined an anaes- | were 400,000 printed books, 653,000 thetic but resolutely closed her jaws |mMSS., and 6,000 works of art. Most whenéver he approached her with the 'of these were, however, undamaged. forceps. Pen ! guins' eggs, which are bigger At last he whispered to his asslst-'y,,, tnoge of the turkey, take halt an ant: "Quietly stick that needle in her hour to boil. They are already in use back. That will make her open her ; o +p Africa, and it is planned to mouth!" ! A The assistant carried out his instruc- Dut thom on sls in Gt. Britain at $1.10 tions. The girl opened her mouth and the tooth was removed. The dentist sald: "I hope you didn't experience much pain?" "No," she answered, "but I never knew the roots went down so far" 'twould Men are sald to be more susceptible to colds than women, ' Gt. Britain's figures go to prove that seventy-seven per cent. of the male patients suffer from colds, as compared wth sixty per cent. of the women. . England's roadways have become still more dangerous to pedestrians, according to police figures. In the] year just ended fifty children under five years of age were killed, as com- pared with thirty-eight the previous year. German women and girls spend, on an average, twice as much on cos- metics and perfumes as do the women of Gt. Britain. According to official figures, this expenditure in Germany works out at one shilling per person every. 200 days. During the last twelve months 27,000 people were reported "missing" in Paris, and more than 25,000 in New York. Britain's annual figure, of wo- men and girls, for the whole country, is'about 15,000, of which number less than one-tenth remain undiscovered for more than two weeks. | "Extreme" marriages last year in England included three girls of twenty who wedded men of seventy or over, one girl aged seventeen who married a bridegroom of sixty-seven, a man of can't you let in a little fresh air?" twenty-two whose bride was aged Flat (abséntly)--"No; there's ab- sixty, and a twenty-elght-year-old solutely no room for another thing." | groom who mated a woman of seventy. en The Other Clan The foreman of & big motor works was interviewing a number of appli- cants. S Presently a lean, angular man was shown into his office, "Well," asked the foreman, "are you a mechanic?" The applicant shook his head. "No, sorr," ha replied gravely, "I'm a McTosh." Mrs, Flat--"It's so close in here, mon. In their presence every mother spontaneously exclaims, "How like my own little one!" because the artist has interpreted the real child nature. Such pictures may justly take rank among the highest productions of creative art, having proven their claim to greatness by their unquestioned appeal to uni- versal admiration. , In work of this kind one name alone is prominent, a name which England is proud to claim as hers, but to which all the world pays honor--the name of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Prince of Child. painters. < A simple-hearted man; of sweet, kindly disposition, the great portrait-painter, bachelor though he was, possessed in rare measure the mysterious gift of winning the confi dence of children. The great octag- slightly drooping, in the sweet shy way 80 natural to a timid child. The big eyes are lifted to ours half confidently, half timidly while a smile hovers be- witchingly over the mouth, A long pointed basket hangs on one arm, and the little hands are folded together in front like a little woman's. The child wears a curious round cap on her head, '| his little patrons with the pet dogs and '| ing he felt seedy: onal studio in Leicester Square must have often resounded to the laughter of childish: volces as he entertained under which, presumably, her hair is gathered up in womanly fashion, for there are no stray locks to be seen ex- cept the two soft curves on the fore head. --From "Child-Life in Art" by Estelle M. Hurll. So They Sa om birds he used in thelr portraits, and coaxed them into good nature with a The Cobbler A little cloud in a golden vell fantastic skyline of 'domes, cupo and spires, its quaint balcoules | varlety, and sometimes the eccentricity, of its . modern architecture is one of the fors. . . . y A walk through the Skatudden, however, is as Interesting as turn. ing over the 'pages of a picture-book. The richly varied sky line, brokem by turrets; and gables, reminds one of some fabled city of the East. The street corners present no sharp, stiff angles, and remarkable ingenulty treatment. = Here the 'corner has been simply rounded, here it has been 'dotibled, 'here 'again it has been cut' away at the foot, and overhangs perilously above. Sometimes this overhanging portion is supported by a single pillar of granite, A remark- At getting of the sun: And I a cobbled working--working; "Work {s never done. "Even when things are slow the business of the United States is pretty big.--Henry Ford. "It is labor, not metal, which is the fundamental coin."--Mahatma Gandhi. "All uncles believe that all babies like to listen to watches."--A. A. Milne. "Nobody could ever earn seventy or eighty bucks a year by being a! crab.""--Babe Ruth. "Once I thought city folks were brighter than the villagers, but the re- verse Is true"--Ruth Chatterton. "Men make money by looking after the public.""--George Bernard Shaw. "The first requirement Of a sound law is that it should correspond with the aotual feelings of the community, whether right or wrong."--Oliver Wen- dell Holmes. "Much is needed to bring us grief, little to console us."--Jean Rostand. "There is no pain quite akin to that of regret."--Fannie Hurst. "Our capitalistic. form of society must be flexible enough to adjust it- self to changes in world conditions.""-- Newton D. Baker. "Authority must in the final resort rest upon force, but the force I would provide would be internationally own- ed."--The Aga Khan. "War is no longer the private affair jof belligerent nations." Frank B. Kel- logs. "A woman's best bet is just in be- ing feminine--when the man is boss there 'is greater happiness in the home."--Ruby Ayres. "Any one man {is different from any other man."--Gabriel Wells. "The State ewists for man, not man for the State.""--Albert Einstein. "There is a great deal that 'the | Wealthy can learn from the poor."-- + Mrs. August Belmont. "The fear of losing money is the one | fear that has always kept men from! making it."--Edwin LeFevre. . "America and Siam are the only countries outside the international copyright union."=-Inez Haynes Irwin. Apt "Adequate preparation against war "One can teach tricks to a monkey |does not mean aggression."--John J. but never ideas."--Gabriel Wells, Pershing' creme "I once sald civilization was a race "Women never get too old to want between education and catastrophe, to love and be loved."--Ruby M. Ayres. | That is not 80, Education has not yet sempre started."--H, G. Wells. "Standing on one's dignity 'is the| "The 'only power now ruling the pinnacle of all, absurdities."--Reginald | United States is purchasing power."-- Berkely. Du Pont Lee. "Teach cooperation as the first "Take your work, but never your- necessity of competition."--WIll Dur- self, serlously."--Sir Arthur W, Lewis. ant. A little cloud in a golden veil; And I am mending shoes, Never a feathered sandal thing Such as a cloud may use. A little cloud in a golden vell, Along the bright highway: And but for her, tomorrow were Another yesterday. . And this will stay, though she melt away : After the moon sets sail. For no man's sky is always gray, --Cloud in a golden vell. --From "The Collected Poems of Josephine Preston Peabody." ------ ee Rubbing It In An actor consulted his doctor, say- "No wonder," said the doctor, who knew his man. "You never leave the theatre till midnight. Then you hang around the club talking and smoking till early in the morning. What you want to do is to go straight home from work rise with the lark, and have an early-morning walk." The actor determined to do so. Next morning he was up at six, had a walk round the park, and reached home just as the milkman was leav- ing. The milkman touched his cap and sald: "Good night sir." wn horn? "Not much! Hires a chauffeur." THIS \S THe BOTTLE ~ X'LL ASK MUTT! able pillar of this kind, supporting the buildng like the leg of a table, is to be seen at the top of Lots. gatan. The usual material is brick covered = with plaster, supported upon a lower course, or lower storey of granite, The plaster work has afforded | endless soope for decorative treat. ment. A keen appreciation has been shown for the value of blank sur faces, and 'ornament is introduced sparingly to relieve an arch, or the supports of a balcony, or bay win- dow. Almost all the flora and fauna of Finland have been drawam upon for motives. Over one door swims a procession of swans; a row of owls supports a bay window; here a'bear's head forms the keystone of an arch, and here.a squatting frog; here again is a frieze of oak leaves with acorns, of dandelions, or of pine-cones and needles--in a door the glass panel 1s designed in the form of a &pider's web, and on the wooden panel of another has been carved a knot of mice.--A. MatCallum Scott, in "Through Finland." ---------- ttt There's Always Something. "To whom are you married now? asked an inspector of one of the im mates of an asylum who was always imagining he was married to some celebrated person or other. "The devil's daughter," was the re- ply. "That's a strange selection," said the Inspector. 5 "No" replied the lunatic, 'she's & very nice girl and manages the house well." "I'm glad xou are so happy," sald the inspector. "Well," said the patient, "most plea sures have thelr drawbacks. The trouble is that I findsher old folks very difficult to get on with!" tpn THE HUMAN MIND A man's mind may be compared to a book, of which the body is the binding; sometimes in calf, but gilt; sometimes in plain boards. The title-page is the face; the epistle dedicatory, the profession; the table of oontents, the characteristics and principles; the correct passages 'are the virtues; the errata, the faults -- and owing to a bad impression, these occupy the larger portion. So much depends upon the "getting up"--the education--for the final success of the work, that we often see produc- tions of first-rate talent spoiled by «inferior finish; and others not worth reading, universally admired for the excellence of the paper. and the 'beauty of the type.--F. Hutcheson. An, ACCUSATION .. There is nothing more damaging in average human eyes than to stand dumb in the face of even an unjust accusation, If you have nothing to sy or, Jourselt how are onlookers a Fil Mra: Rentoul 'Esler. most interesting features of Helsing. has been displayed in their various , its in' your' favor.-- _ ¥.