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Sunday School Lesson February 28. Lesson IX Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead John 11: 32-44. Golden Text I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. John 11: 25. ANALYSIS. I. AT PEREA, John 11, 1-16. II. AT BETHANY, John 11: 17-32. III. AT THE GRAVE, John 11: 33-44. INTRODUCTION The ten preceding j chaptei of this Gospel tell how every attempt made by Jesus to win the Jews only t--ied them the mo r e bit- terly against him. Finally he reveal- ed himself ns the Resurrection and the Life. John makes this the turn- ing point which brings on the arrest and death. John tells the story of the raisi"^ of I^izarus in the light of what he himself knows of the death-conquering and ever-present Christ. "John him- self had been a Lazarus, bound hand and foot in the grave clothes uf 'he old life. He had in his own sou! hea r d the mifhtv. awakening cry of Jesu>. 'Come forth,' and in his hand he r.ad passed fro -""ath unto life." Christ, he says', can do that for any man. I. AT PEREA. John 11. 1-16. Upon receiving the message that Lazarus is ill. Jesus said. "This illness will not end in death there av Le death but d-atli will not be the final word. v. 4. ^id he see his own death foreshadowed? Th" 1 ant-' "f affection would hur.-y him to hif friends he loved Mar^'ia nd her sister and I.azarus. but hv would nit b" '<hed against his better judgment. To go was almott sure deafn. Re ^-ust wnit for his Father's guidance. Jesus, like ourselves, wa. ; d^r""idf-rt u^on a higher wisdom. Whv did his Father keep him wag- ing, and the bereaved sisters? Why are .i^rrler" - n t lifted. life's question.} no- answered? John says that Got'? d'iavs are the delays r>f love. If^ loved Marf* i therefor \ he ab<io two days still, vs. 5, C. His dutv made plain to him. Jesu announced that he wo-iid leave his .?ife retrrat and go into the very teeth of dancer, v. 7. Answering the disciples' protest (v. 8) h? told th(>m .hat a man committed to God's work is immortal until that work is done. Twelve full hours, but only twlv. 1 . Every n'irute jot life, God intends us to use. Walk ing under the light of God's guidance we are safe. Th" purpose of the intended nirai-Ie. lie tcld the perplexed disciples, is .li.it they may believe. In the other Gos- pel miracles are performed out .if Invi- and pitv for the sufferer: here, they are performed to increase faith. Thon 1 - as. in no mood of expectant faith, hut in lo'-al <>=pair exclaims: "Let us also go. (hut v.-e may die with him," v. Ifi. The shadow of the cn>ss is fall- ing upon the story. II. AT BETHANY. John 11: 17-.TJ Arriving at Bethany, Jesus discov- ered that I.anarus had been dead four days, v. 17. The Jews apparently be- lieved that a soul hovered about the dead body for three days, but on the fourth, found it unrecognizable through decay, and departed. Lazarus was unquestionably dead. Friends are with the sisters, trying to comfort then by saying the usual things. Martha's greeting (vs. 21, 22) is .1 gentle reproach, and the expression of a boundless trust. Jesus' answer (\. 23) was disappointing. She has hna enough of that from her Jewish com- forters during the last four da.vs. Jesu.-. made his great declaration, vs. 25, 2C. The "resurrection" and Hie "life" which he guarantees, are no: future, but present. The resurrection has already taken place for those who are Christians. They are living the resurrection life now. They are risen in Christ, Col. 2: 12; 3: 1. Accepting this new doctrine through her confidence in him who gave it to her, Martha went for Mary (v. 23) "secretly" in order not to attract the attention of Jesus' enemies to him and to give Mary the opportunity of a private talk with the Master. Jesu?, also wishing to avoid the crowd, stay- ed outside the village, v. 30. Mary had lost hope. How soon, when trouble came to herself, had she forgotten the teachings of the Master! Seeing her back among the profes- sion:! 1 , mourners, oppressed by the pa- thetic hopelessness of those who sor- row without Christ, his sensitive soul, hurt by the vulgarity of conventional mourning, Jesus groaned in his spirit and wai troubled, v. 33. Asking where the grave was (the only occasion in this liospel on which Jesus asked for information) he burst into tears, v. 8;" It is a touching picture of the sorrow- shaving Christ. The Jews, whose re- pulsive vulgarity must needs follow Mary (v. 31), gazed with unsympa- thetic eye upon his tears. How like some of our "large" public funerals! III. AT THE GRAVE, John 11: 38-44. Coming to the cave, Jesus command- ed, "Take ye away the stone." No longer was he the weeping friend, ht was now the Lord of Life. But God does nothing for us that we can do for ourselves. See also v. 44. So cer- tain was Jesus that his prayer would be answered that he first thanked God before all the people, and then cried with a loud voice (symbolic of the last trump) "Lazarus, come forth Loose him, and let him go." Here the artist leaves his majestic "sign." He has driven home his les- son. God's gift of eternal life is not a thing of tomorrow merely, it is a thing of today. ~ Preserve "Old" Frankfurt by Reproduction in Miniature Frankfurt Am Main The "Alc- stadt" the Old-Town of Frankfurt, with its "Roemer" where emperors of the Holy Roman Empire were chosen and its ancient dome where they were crowned, with Goethe's birthplace and a picturesque maze of venerable build- ings and churches and high-gabled, half-timbered dwellings, is yielding before the sweep of modern needj; but if most of it is doomed to disap- pear the whole of it is to be preserv- ed, at least in miniature, for future generations. Two artists, the brothers Treuner, are at work on an exact model, on a scale of 1 to 200. In 1913 they pro- duced for the Historical Museum a miniature of one Old-Town street which has since been changed beyor.d recognition. The project of havit.g the whole district modeled was evc^n then conceived by the late Directcr Mueller of the Frankfurt Historical Museum, but had to be deferred until a well-to-do son of Frankfurt put up the needed money. The work will take a !"ng time, and the modelers are pushing measurements of streets and structures to have data compL'fj before more of the Altstadt is demol- ished. Building in Jerusalem The high artistic quality of archi- tecture of Jerusalem's new houses, and the "extraordinary changes" since his last visit to Palestine less than two years ago. profoundly impressed Prof. Leslie Patrick Abercivmbie, well- known architect and town planner, and professor of civic design it the University of Liverpool. Many of the buildings he found to be above the average of those going up in the Hg towns in Kngland, and Mr. Abercrom- bie found in Jerusalem structures a welcome departure from the common- place and stereo yped. What the city specially needs, he stid, is more trec.-s to mako up for lack of green and open spaces. If Jerusalem cannot have grass, because of the shortage in the water supply it nevertheless can ha.'<! certain types of trees. "My poor man. why don't you so (rtli ami labor?" "1 can't find nothing in my Hue, mum." "And what was your last posi- tiou?" "Oil, it was very responsible, mum. I was official grass cutter for a polar expedition." A A Foundation Commouseuse Is the foundation "f man's happiness in his corainen > others. A Tr Forgivenen Hath auy wounded theo? Soft lang- uage dresses It, forgiveness euros it. and oblivion take* away tha scar. Francis Quarles. Volcanoes Active In Aleutian Chain Once more a volcano in the Aleu- tian chain of islands has been reportec in violent eruption. This time it was Shishaldin on Unimak Island that re- cently belched forth clouds of smoke and showers of ashes and lit up the sky "like a huge torch." Such news is to bt expected from the Aleutian Islands, for the majority of the 1,600 mile-long chain stretching between Alaska and the Orient seems to be of volcanic origin, tha. is, they were formed by volcanic eruptions >n the ocean bed. Such submarine volcanoes are e lieved to be at least as common as those on the exposed surface of the earth. Occasional reports tell of the ocean's bubbling and steaming anc throwing up fountains like a hu^e coffee percolator. Volcanic ?inders and dead fish float above the spot, and sometimes those more permanent evi- dences of submarine eruptions vol- canic islands rise mysteriously out ol the depths. Thtfse islands sometimes are made by foldings in the e..rth's crust as a result of the tremenlius pressure ex- erted by volcanic steam. They may also be accumulations of volcanic ash and lava which have collected under the water, until after repeated erup- tions they make mountains thousands of feet high projecting above the ocean's surface. Practically all of the Aleutian Is- lands bear ma:ks of such evolution, and the birth of some of them actually has been observed. An example is the Bogoslof group. In May. 1796, there were signs of volcanic J'sturbances off the coast of Unimak Island ( where the recent eruption occurred) and a few days later a new island had been cre- ated. It was christened Bogoslof. Al- most a century later, in 1883, another Uand, which was called New Bogoslof, came into being : nder similar circum- stances, and in 1900 a third appeared. That islands born of volcanoes should themselves frequently be dis- turbed by volcanoes is to be expected, for they are only volcanic peaks pro- jecting . bove the wat >r. Estimates of the number of active volcanoes in the Aleutians runs into scores, and no one can say confidently of the others which are extinct and which are merely dor- mant. Shishaldin is one of the best known of the active craters. Its most violent outburst occurred between 1825 and 182S), when, together with its twin peak, Pogromni, it erupted fiercely at intervals. Since then the clouds of smoke it blew from its mouth have warned of hidden strength. Aims It was Julia. Ward Howe wlio once said, when asked for a definition of what tlie ideal aims of lite were: "To leant, to teach, to serve, to enjoy." A life which misses any of these is in- complete; but as any life can have them all. the incompleteness is :i mat ter of choice, not of fate. ENJOYMENT The secret of enjoyiug Ufa Is tn being able to set happiness from the ii'irtlt'st resources. * WILL A will residing within us. and made free to choose the better part, forges Its iron chains link by link lu again and again ciioosin? the won* Macdonald College Celebrates General rlew f Hacdonald C 1- lff B.IMJnn* St. .1.- Belle-roe, QIC. (3) Ohtmlmtrr BulldU*. MrGUI I ! "-r! : I I) M .K-.l.ni.iM i, Building M, ..III I alvi-rilir. The Twenty Fifth Anniversary of Macdonald College wich par- icular emphasis on Founder's Day, February 10th, focuses attention on this institution and its founder, the late Sir William C. Macdonald who built, equipped and endowed the entire institution at an -\\peasc of more than six million dollars. Founder's Day which this year, marks the 101st Anniversary of the birth of the late Sir William C. Macdonald, founder of the Mac- donald _ Tobacco Company and Canada's greatest benefactor, once more draws attention to the tre- mendous scope of his benefactions to McGill University with which the Macdonald College at St. Anne de Bellevue is affiliated. These bene- factions total more than twelve and one half million dollars, $10,690.165 of which was given during life. While the Faculty of Science and of Scientific Agriculture was possibly the dearest to Sir William's heart, every faculty of the McGill Uni- versity becetited during his life and after. The Faculty of Law received $232.500. The Conservatoriura of Music $300,000. The Faculty of Medicine was bequeathed $500,000. The McCord Museum Building was purchased at a cost of $142,000. while the Macdonald Park site now occupied by the Stadium, and the Student's Park was purchased _ at a cost of more than one million dollars and presented to the Uni- versity. Student's activities came under the henoficient scope of Sir William as the McGill Union testi- fies. Sir William spent $219,000 on its erection and equipment. In addition to the wonderful equip- ment at St. Anne de Bellevue, those buildings at McGill which bear the Macdonald name and those donated by the late Tobacco knight, stand today, as the greatest monument to his memory. Macdonald College was founded by the late Sir William in 1907. It was designed to include three schools one for agriculture, one for household science and one for normal teacher training. The gift included the grounds, almost 800 acres in extent, the complete equip- ment and endowment. The college itself was incorporated with the University of MrCiilas the Faculty of Agriculture, although the teachers' training feature is powibly his beet known contribution to life in the Province of Quebec. Other sections of the country have benefited by the late Sir William's benefactions, the Mac- donald Institute and the Macdonald Hall at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, being among the mott important. Dullness Dull is. after all a relative term; It expresses ouly a want of correspond- ence between the mind of tha writer and 'li:it nf the :v:ulir. Prof. So-Icv. "Does .Mc"ui ' She does." "And Skating?" "Oh, yes! She likes that may possibly lead posul." anytiiiug to a pro- Heat and Power to be Generated From Sewer Gas Snir.i- t:o\v fcatiin- mark tlv - li ,->'- . ' ' ''''' BMth( :' of Plainfield, New Jersey, to utili/.e ,- ...... | I "I '!' and the develi p.i.Ciit of puwvi-. The plan is thus described and ex- plained in the Plainfield O>ur!-r-' News : "Sewer gas, never very popular, gained for itself a particularly une- ' enviable notoriety early in October. 1 when an explosion destroyed a part of the Woonsocket, Rh(xk> Islaini. M-W- er plant and caused the death of two men. Engineering publications throughout the wintry have carried columns of reports and discussions tn this explosion. "At the local joint sewage-disposal ;>Iant the heating power of this gas, ! which is 50 per cent, greater than that! of manufactured gas, has been har-| nessed and put to useful purpose dur-! ing the past five years by means of a .-afety collective device developed uy ; the supervising engineer. John R. ' Downs. "The organic matter or the solid portion of the sewage is destroyed, anil ! tha remainder of the solids rendered] innocuous, by a digestion process. This , process is greatly accelerated by heat, .-o that the :i:i.e KIM:, oary to complete ihc proe-.-, i- '.11 down from five or six months to a period of from thirty lo forty days. When we consider that itbout L'.OOO cubic feet of these solids . aeh :hs plant daily, the .-laving in the y of structures to hold the sol- ids, until :he piwesj is completed, be- - i>l>v:uii~. "The PlainfVid Join: Sewage Plant was tin; tirst *.;> apply this principle by usiri^ the ^as given off during the ' * to supply the heat necessary !\>r acceleration. The more heat that is supplied within certain limits the more sras is prxluced so that there is always an "\.vss quantity of gas. "Part of the excess gas has now l>cen piped into the office and labor- atory building where it is burned in the steam-healing plan. A visit to this building will rouse the envy of any coal-shoveling householder. An absolutely uniform temperature of 70 degrees can be maintained night and day without shoveling coal or remov- ing ashes. "P< xver has also been developed from this jjas. one horse-power being available continuously from each 1,000 persons connected to the sewer system, or fifty horse-power at the local plant. "A very interesting development is that both the power and the heat c-an be recaptured from the same gas. The best .;' made are 'miy 25 p*t ii-nt, ti'.- i ;>>'aking, the other 75 per cent, of the heat value of the nas i iM:i;r (jiviMi up U.- the cooling water in tlii' engine jacket or lost ! the exhaust. By water-jacketing til* exhaust and using the cooling water to heat the sludge or buildings, 75 per cent, of this waste heat c^n be re- covered." I'msp, ,[. Ti'tu!!: 'How :s till* flat lieai"d ?" TiMi;i!i' I'.y ;:i|i::i- t:i,. janitor." Muliby -"Y.iu ilidu't hav a ra <M your hack wli.-ii I married you." Wife. "Anyway. I've plenty or the* now." MUTT AND JEFF By BUD FISHER Gus Geevem Seems to Have Mi:t-.'s Pedigree. I'MTCLUNG WHY, NVOTT- LOOK l<5 A NO- 6000 SAP. HC OF SCMSIBIUTIGS AMD COOCbM T CAU.S HIM'. \>oice FOR IT. IT u;Ai