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OPEN \nm& TO A FARMER Bjr Re». M. V. Kelly, C.S.D. XV. Qod'* Work and Man'*. When all the eridenctMi we can gath- er seem to point lu the undermining of religion In the city, you will prob ably amy, "Why should It be sa?" Wh*t It the fxp'.anatlon of It all. In the flnrt place, it la quite poMible that Usoae of ua who apead our Uvea in h comntry plac* fall to appreciate the wonderful lessona Ood U teaching ua almoet every hour. P^rharw wo rare- ly a<lTert to the great privileges afford- ed by ou poattlon In compariaon with thoee enjoyable In the city. In the city we are In the preaenpe of inan'a worV, In tho country in the presence of the worka of God. In tho development of bualness undortaklng^, Tafft accumulations of wealth, ex- amples of able management, perfec- tion of organization, leadership of maoees of men, progress of Inventlona, adaptations of oocmpllcated und pow- erful machinery, the city resident wlt- noBHeii the excellence of man's ability end effort. His thoughts are absorbed In these, h^.« life is one of perpetual awe, for those manife:;tatlon8 of human power. Successful achieve- ments In one sphere or another, in business, In a profession, or in poli- tics, are the constant topics of con- â€"AND THE WORST IS YET TO COME versatlon; the'^Uaily papers blazon them forth with appalling headlines; their Importance nionoiwllzes the pages o the monthly magazine; in pri- vate gallieringa everyone has marvels to re'.ate of some extraordinary ability displayed by this or that woU-known citizen. Their successes are held up as ideals, as aims worthy of tho noblest E.«pirations; and as the peas- ant boy hears his father hope for an abundant harvest "witli the ble.sslng of God," tho city youth must hopo to prosper by remembering that, "what man lias done man can do." The indescribable beauty of God'a cn-atlcn, the immensity of HIa power are ever Impressing themselves upon the farmer or laborer in the country. The E-plf-ndld freshness of vegetation, the indnile valety In color and size and shape of things around him, the Hying stroaras, the forests and hills, that immense firmament overhead, the countless stars by night, the changing courses of tho sun and moon, the re- gular re'nrn of the seasons, are all speaking to him of an Infinite Power â- whf) has croate-d and governs all. The effect of heat and cold upon the soil he tills, the ;;bundant rains which give vigorous growth to his crops, frost, storms and lightning, which may bring destruction to everything â€" In all the.^e he recognizes a Power again.^t wliom human endeavor Is help- less, he reallzee how completely every Interest and clrcumatauce of life is in the hands of Him who gave it For the farmer the elements enter into the most direct relation with his plana and undertakings. Oonsclously or un- const'.ously he observes and studies them. Tho everywhere controlling forces of nature claim his reverence and from them his thoughts are car- ried to the study and reverence of nature's God. Tho poet remarks: "Earth witih her thousand voices praises Ood." Was It not in this relation St. Paul spoke: "For Ood hath manifested It unto Uiem. For the Invisible things of Him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the thlug,s that are mad«; His eternal power also, and divlnlt]?; so that they are Inexcusable." Rem. 1: 20. You are now spending your days In the enjoyment of all this. Is it not aometbing worth having? Would you be anxious to leave It all? Who Mutt Work on Sunday? It Is much easier to practice our re- ligion in some occupations than In others. Never let youraelf run away with the foolish notion often given ex- pression to In words auoh as "every- thing depends on the person; If you try you ran be good any place; etc., etc." Saints have lived, it Is true, amid tho raofl.t unfavorable surround- ings and conditions; don't advise your friends to try the same. All but the rarest exception would soon give you reason to regret your advlcec. Your Sundays are free on tho farm and It Is very seldom anything occurs there to prevent your observing God's laws or attending to the religious practices every go<^>d Christian should be anxlou.s to observe. In citkvs thousands are gradually getting away from such practices and eventually giving them up altoRelher through the Inconveniences inipoeed by the neces- sities of thoir pofiltion. Tho street- car driver or conductor must work thr<H- Sundays out of four. The livery man or taxi driver is In demand nt every hour. With railway men of every description Sunday is In no way dif- ferent from the remaining days of the week. Sailors, 1)nat hands generally, are similarly situated. Hotels, res- taurants and boarding hou.i^es must look after guests with tho same care Sunday and Monday. The milk man's hours Sunday are so long, church go- ing .<'eems to be an Impossibility. Policemen cannot leave their posts. Patients must get prui>«r attention no matter to what extent, doctors, nurses, dmgglnts, eV> , are deprived of the liberty neceenary to sanctify the day. The hours of business In many de- partments on Saturday make Sunday observanoe a matter of the greatest difficulty. The grocery clerk, for ex- ample, wlio has a rush of customers lo wait on from early Saturday morning tin late at night, feels entitled to a •leep Mvan a^ the risk of not waking OP la Unie to go to charcb. The bar- (Continued from last week) { ber'a eiperlence Is etmllar, nod vo for a multitude of others. The delivery lK>y flnUhes his day stil! later. .'MI these go on even where Sunday Is ob.served with the greatest strict- nivs. At almost any point beyond the Canadian boundary line, la almost every other land, u great many things are done on Sunday which would not bo tolerated hero. Supply shops for meat, groceries, fruit, vegetables, etc., keep open Sunday morning. Barber «hops, refreiihinent stands, theatres, all forms of public amusement compel large armies of attendants to be at their posts the greater part of the day. I Now, despite the best Intentions at the outset, a certain length of time struggling with such cIrcum.S'tances lead almost Invariably to neglect of religious duties. We are all creatures of habit; a vast majority of the cases of Indifference and utter neglect of re- ' liglon. when Inquired Into, are found traceable to years spent In one or . other such occupations. The effort to comply with religious duties become I gradually weaker month by month un- j til at length there Is not even a qualm ' of conscience In passing over what In | the beginning would have seemed an . obligation nothing on earth could ex- cuse from. Should you decide to live In the city, what assurance have you that none of your children or Rrandchlldren will Le engaged In any of tlie.so occupations? To bo contiuued). <Z-r^\r^r^\ \ I nc--,-4-c>i^ f» At Least They're Not Lost. She â€" "A man's lost without a wife." Bachelorâ€" "That may be, but he al- ways knows where to find his clean collars and shirts." Tuning In With God. Some years aco when Alexander Boll conr.tnictod his fii-st telephone people regarded it as a marvel cf human Ingenuity. Hut tho principle of It was simple enough. Mr. Bell was a teacher of vocal phywsiology; he ho- lieverl that the vibrating of the vccal chords aro responsible for the sound of the human voice. One day he suc- ceeded in making an electric current communicate tho vibration through a wire, and that day the telephone vras born. To-day vre arc told there are some sixty octaves of vibration known to science â€" an octave is the range of notes in which the vibration of the highest Is twice that of the lowest. Man can hear only in tho first few octaves; above those few the sounds are too fine for tho oar to detect. Our modern railio transmitters "step up" the voice to higher octavos that we cannot hear and ECid it forth through tho air. It is received on an aerial and by nfans of a delicate instni- mont Is graduated down again to the level of the human ear. We may sit Ten-Mile Skyrocket. An American scientist. Dr. Robert H. Goddard, who four years ago an- nounced hia scheme to fire a rocket to the moon, 239,000 miles away, will make a preliminary test this summer i in our c<3mfortable chair luid thrill to ready been handled with a rocket that may ascend ten , \,'oiulerful messages floating down to . ^ miles. . u.s from thousands of miles away disciples when they asked him to ! teach thorn to pray was, "Enter Into thy closet and . . . shut the door." Get away from the world. There is too much tumult and confusion there. : The closed door Is tho first step to . hearing wonderful things. God's ad- monition for ail of us: "Be still and know that I am God." I ^ « _. I Quick Justice. I Two years ago the Legislature of California established a new court, I which haa since been one of the busi- est in the St^to. It is the Small Claims Court, and Its cbjeot i~ to give justice to poor peo- ple who cannot afford the cu.stomary legal procedure. There are no lawyers, and no amount in dispute may exceed three hundred tlollars. The Judge simply hears the arguments, gives his deci- sion, and that ends the matter. The court Is largely used for collecting small debts, and less than one per cent, of its rulings have been appeal- ed against. Over five thousand case.=» have al- Stevenson's Dramatic An- I nouncement. ' Stevenson loved to be dramatic. < The ailtudo reeined to fit in nicely with his picturesque life. When Mr. ' Lloyd Osbourne was a small boy the ' author atarllod him one day with an I announcement that, coming to the boy as if out of a clear sky, fairly ' struck him dumb. I I was taking a walk with Stevenson, i says Mr. Osbourne. He was silent land absorbed; I might not have been I there at all for any attention ho paid ; me. Ordinarily a walk with him was ! a great treat and a richly Imaginative affair, for at a moment's notice I I might find myself a plrata or a red- skin or a young naval officer with sec- ret despatches for a famous spy, or in some other similar and tingling masquerade. But this walk had been thoroughly dull; we had remained our- i selves, and not a breath of romance i had touched us; and moreover Steven- i sou's pace had been so fast that my I little legs were tired. All at once he ! spoke, and here again was this I strange, new Intonation, so colorles.s [ and yet so troubling, that had recently ; ajocted the speech of all ray elders. I "I want to tell you something," he said. "You may not like it, but I hope you will. I am going to marry your i mother." j 1 could not have uttered a word to I save my life: 1 was stricken dumb. The question whether I were pleased or not did not enter my mind at all. I walked on in a kind of stupefaction with an uncontrollable impulse to cry â€" yet I did not cry â€" and was possess- ed of an agonizing feeling that I ought to speak, but I did not know how or what All I know Is that at lust ray hand crept into Stevenson's, and in that mutual pressure a rapturous sense of tenderness and contentment came flooding over me. It was thus we returned, still silent, still band in hand, still giving each other little squeezes, and passed under the roses Into the house. Natural Resource* Buflettn. "The contrivance will be about five feet high and six Inches in diameter," said Dr. Goddard. "It will be loaded with a series of explosive charges which will be Ignited at predetermined Intervals In the flight of the projectile, each giving a powerful 'kick' to ac- celerate the rushing motion through the air. "On the success of the experimental projectile may depend my effort to reach the moon." -* In order to receive those messages, however, we must "tune in" with the distiiil stations from which we wish to hear. Anyone v.ho has tried it knows that tuning in i.s not always easy. Sometimes it can bo done only lifter long and careful adjustment. Scmetimos it cannot bo done at all. Why? Because the air is full of In- numerable noises and electrical forces that constitute "initerference" and nmke recsiving difllcult. Why should not God's children al- ways remember that the first essen- tial to receiving lila message Is to get In tune with him? It is not always easy. In a world of sin and discord Partly Accurate. People who make positive state- ments seldom enjoy being corrected. Lucky they who, like the father of a family in Punch, know how to rebuke the corrector. The father was taking his family through tho natural-hi»tory museum. They all stopped before a great stuffed ostrich, and papa said: "This 'ere la the hostrlch, now ex- tinct." "But, dear," interrupted his wife, "surely the hoptrlch ain't extinct?" "Well," declared the father tenaci- ously, "this one is." The Best-Liked Sports. For the first time in the history of New Zealand a census has been taken of the principal national sports. The i .. ,,,,,., . j , . , ', , . ., ,r », „ I there is likely to be a gre.at deal of result shows rugby fcotball, New Zea- 1 ., land's national panie. as ''aving 40,- , ^^^^^^^^1^^^^^ ,^,g ^j^^^j.^^ ^^ ,^ ^^^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^.^^ wavlng,hls gavel in a vain 000 players, with nearly 700 clubs.' - -' _ ^* .... .. . . Tennis comes next with half the foot- ball figures; then horse racing, bowl- Why Not Hit the Speaker? A speaker had already talked too interference"- -so much Indeed that long and was still talking. The chalr- The Natural Reaoarces IdtelliKenee Service of the Departmsnt of tlna In- teriur at Ottawa says: The British Association for the Ad- vancement of Science is meeting in Canada this year, and this fact alone should direct attention to the debt which the people of this country owe to the scientist. Canada has been most generously endowed with na- tural resources, but how to make use of these has been largely a problem whcih the scientists have had to solve. We have large areas of pulpwood, but of what use would it be in the manufacturer of paper had not the scientist provided the means? The making of paper is largely a chemical problem, but mechanics also has an important bearing. Taking wood- pulp in one end of a machine and making it into paper at the rate of up to 1,100 feet per minute requires engineering ability of the highest order. Development of our water-powers also represents a very high deg^-ee of • a "ntiflc and enffineering ability. Harnessing our falls and rapids and converting the power thus created into electric energy to provide our lighting and power requirements is an engineering problem of a high order, while the use cf thi.s same en- ergy for electro-chemical processes,' - such as extracting nitrogen from the . air for the manufacture of artificial fertilizers, represents the results of ' research over many years by some . of the world's brightest minds. In our metallurgical industries, " many of our most useful and valu-- able minerals are the result of science, developing processes for their ex-' traction. There are practically no lines of industry in which the effects of scien« tific discoveries are not felt, and this Is particularly the case in connection* with the development of the natural* resources of Canada. H. Grlndell Mathews, British Inventor of the "death ray," is shown on his arrival In New York. "It is expected he wiU negotiate with, the U.S. War Department authorities for the sale of his idea," says a report Iroin across the border. Ing, golf, and cricket In that order. When Crystal It Heated. A quarts crystal when heated ex- pands faster sldewlse than length- wls*. of at all. We cannot pray with hatred effort to stop hiiiT. Next to the chair- or sin In our heart The fault Is not man, on a lower level, sat a bald- wlth God, however, if we fail to re- ' beaded man, who suddenly received ceive his blessings. The fault is with the full effect of the warning gavel on us who do not get In tune to receive his head. them. Sinking into his chair, he muttered Remembering that truth, perhaps a prolonged "O-h-h," and then revived we shall understand more clearly why long enough to say, "Hit me again; I the first thing the Master said to his ' can still hear him." A Warning. Doctorâ€" "You aro slightly morbid, my dear lady. You should look about you and marry again." Widowâ€" "Oh, doctor, is this a pro- posal?" "Allow me to remind you, madam, that a doctor prescribes medicine, but he doesn't take it" Richest Iron Ore Field. The richest iron ore in the world ie found In Sweden, where the aver- age iron content of the ore is 60 per cent Dramatic Talent. Little Eddie â€" "I made a lotta nice mud pies, Mrs. Fllmfan, and your boy Charlie threw 'em all at the Iceman." Mrs. Fllmfanâ€" "Deer me! Isn't ll laughable? He'.s such a charming lit- tle comedian." World's Smallest Navy. Which is the smallest navy in the' world? The man who replied "the Swls Navy" would probably be laughed aL for Switzerland is an Inland country: It has a navy, howeverâ€" a flotilla of motor-boats which patrol the lakes. Monaco also has a navy of sorts, coosisting chiefly of motor yachts and launches. Jugo-Slavia, however, 1$ possibly the country with the smallest navy. It had no seaboard before th> War, and only possesses a few monit- ors for service on the Danube. The Printc i.r Wale;, photographed while inspecting partly-made reroplane wings at the aviation works at Woolston daring his recent visit to buutiii.mt>ton, where he offlclally opened tb« largest floating dock in the world. Too True. < "Look here!" exclaimed the prospec- tive car purchaser, bursting into tke repair shop. "Bealum tells me he hfis run his car for three years and hftsu't paid out one cent for repairs. I can't believe it." "It's right," aflirmed the mechanio I Badly. "1 did his repair work." Coils In a Toaster. The coils in a high-gra*» electcris 1 toaster are made of nickel and chon»j Itim. Its Constituents. "What Is contained In i>»a wat-orT Inquired the chemistry teacher In high school. "Chloride of sodium, aat tr--an^ "Well, what eJ»«r "Fiah!"