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-*;â- -' CUNDAY r^yOOLESSON ^ Coat of the Coronation REVIEW: THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY IN SOUTHERN EUROPE Hebrawt 2il-4; 11132-12:2. PRINTED TEXTâ€" Hebrews 2:1-4; 1 1 '32-12 *2 GOl.DEN TEXT â€" The kingdom of the world is become the kingrdom of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. â€" Revelation 11:16. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING TIME: The Epistle to the He- brows, as far as we can judge, was written about 66 or 67 A.D., before the destruction of Jerusalem. PLACE: Wa do not know from what place the Epistle to the He- brews was written. Hebrews 18:24 may t« interpreted either as indi- cating the placa from which the let- ter was written, or tha place to which It wan written, namely, Italy. "Thfrefora wa ought to piva the more (earnest heed to the things that were lieard." The "therefore" re- fers back to all that has been <iaid in the precediiig chapter concerning the I/ord lesu* f^hrist Because of all his infinite glories and his marvelous person exalted above all other per- sonalicies of the universe, the very Son of God, whom the angels wor- shipped, men ought therefore to give to every utterance concerning him tt.oir most careful attention. "Le.st iitpiy wo drift away from them.' The verb here presents a most significant figure. It warns the Hebrew.s against being carried past the landing-place by the strong eurren* of life. It is a warning suit- able f.-ir all times, for there are cur- rents of thought, feeling, and ac- tion, which, if not resisted, carry down to the sea of spiritual death. 'For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every trans.f^ression and di.sobedieoce re- ceived a just recompense of reward. The Scriptu'es frequently spoke of the law a.- being given by God to men through angels (Gal. 3:19; Acts 7:53; Deut. 33:2; Psalm 68:17). "How shall we e.icape, if wa ne- glect so ^reat a salvation?" Our sat- iation is great because its author Is God: it originateb in God's love; It is made possible only by the sacri- fice o? the eternal Iamb of God; it It doen what nothing else in the World can do â€" it absolutely and permanently changes men, it eman- cipatci» men from the enslavement of sin; it bestows peace, and joy, and power it is eternal; it perfectly, con.stantly satisfies: it is unique â€" It has no true rival In the world. "Which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was con- firmed unto us by them that heard." That great preacher Dr T. DeWitt Talnwge conclude.^ liia sermon on thi.s text with a poweiful paragraph, from whic we can give only the following: "Now are you ready for the .ipostlc'a question'' How shall we escnpo' No e.scape at all 1 Everything will picad aifain.st the man who makes -t. The tree of Calvary will say â€" escape, ho must not! The thronj of judgment will say â€" es- cape, he ir.uat not' Jesus will say, 'I called to him for many years, but he turned his back on these wounds; and by all those despised tears and by that rejected blood escape, he mu.-:t not ' "God also bearing witness with them." The oronoun here refers to those who compnuioned with the Lord .Jesus when he was on earth, and who bore witness to his life and death and resurrection to the follow- ing reneration. "Hoth by signs and wonders, -nd by manifold powers, and by /ifts of the Holy Spirit, ac- cording to his own will." God bore witnesH to the truth which they pro claimed by miraelps, and by the gifts he bestowe-l through the Holy Spirit "And what shall I more say?" The writer's mind is crowded with other heroes of the faith, of whom ha would like to speak, but he has already written more extensively than bo had intended, and now he must simply pile up names and in- cidents without going into details. "For tlie time will fail me If 1 tell of Gideon" (Judges fi-8) "Barak" (JudgeM 4. r>). ".Sam.son" (Judges 13- IC), "Jephthah" (Judges 11, 12(; "of David and Suniucl and the pro- phets." "Who through faith subdued kin;fdom8." The allusion is spetiully to the comiucst of Canaan by Josh- ua and to the victories of J>;\vid (2 Sam. .'i:17-25; 21:16, etc.) "Wrought righteousncsji." These men served a righteous (iod, and their lives and their legislation were in righteous- ne.w, a glaring contrast with the in- iquitous conduct of the; Canaanites whom they subdued. "Obtained promises. This refers to ^11 those precious promises God made to the patrinrchs, to .Moses and Joshua, to the judges, and to the faithful kings of Israel and Judali. "Stopped the mouth.<i of lion.s." A.s .Samson (Judges 14:0); David (I .Sam. 17:34); and Daniel (Dan. C>:IC,). "Quenched the power of fire." As the three Hebrews who were thrown Into the fiery furnace (Daniel 3), The fires which we should quench are those which Satan would kindle by his fiery darto (Eph. 6:16). "Ea- caped the edge of the sword." As David (I Sam. 18:11; 19:12-12) ; Elijah (I Kinga 19); ElUh* (2 King* 6:14), and many othen. "IVom weaknesses were made strong." The reference here nuy be to Samson (Judges 16:19; 16:28-30), or to Da- vid (I Sam. 17:42), or to Hezaklah (2 Kings 2t :5). "Waxed mighty in war, turned to flight armiei of •Hens." These classes may refer specifically to the Maccabees, though they also suit Joshua, tha judges, David, etc. "Women received their dead by a resurrei:tion." As the widow of Zarephath (I Kings 17:17), and the Shunammitts woman (2 Kings 4:17). "And others were tortured, not ac- cepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better reaurrection." The word here translated "tortured" means "were broken on the wheel," and the particular eventa in the mind of the writer may have been the tortures of Eleazar, the scribe, and of the seven brothers, narrated in the Second Book of Maccabees (6 18-30, 7). "And others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment." See, for examples of Imprisonments, the in- stances of Joseph (Gen. 39:20); of Micaiah (I Kings 22:26, 27), of Je- remiah (Jer. 37:15), of Hananl (2 Chron. 16:10). "They were stoned." As Zechariah (2 Chron. 24:20-22). (Cf, Matt. 23: 35.) For the stoning of the early apostles, see the cases of Stephen (Acts 7:58, 59) and Paul (Acts 14:6, 19; 2 Cor. 11:25). "They were sawn asunder." According to tradition, this was the awful manner of death suffered by Isaiah. (Cf. 2 Sam. 12. 31; I Chjon. 20:3). "They were tempted.' 'The character of the temptation is not mentioned. Doubt- less some inducement to escape suf- fering by giving up their faith is referred to. "They were slain with the sword." (See I Kings 19;10; Jer. 26:23.) Thus did James suffer martydom for his faith in the Lord Jesus (Acts 12:2). "They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; Henry F. Pringle in tha Ladies' Home Journal writes: â€" It is estima- ted that 2,000,000 vsiitors will go to London for the Coronation and that the proceaaion will be watched by 5,000,000 people. It is agreed that at least $150,- , 000,009 will flow into the pockets of British hotelkeepers, modistes, jewel- lers, robe makers, silversmiths, sou- venir vendors, florists and restaur- ateur*. At the outside, as far as I could learn, the Coronation with all ita ceremonies will cost tha taxpayers a more $1,000,000 â€" and the sum will probably be less. Among others, I railed on Edward II. Syntonds, a leading London faab- Ion authority who had just returned from a presentation of British fash- ions in New York and other Ameri- can cities. Mr. Symonds is chairman and managing director of Reville, Ltd., dressmakers by Koyal warrant of appointment since 1911 to Queen Mary. For the Coronation season, Mr. Symonds said, over $3,000,000 worth of orders for London created clothes, fabrics, and fashion acces- sories would be received from Amer- ica alone. He estimated that not less than $60,000,000 might well be spent for robes and gowns, cloaks, dresses. FARM NOTES Conducted by PROFESSOR HENRY G. BELL With Ike Ce-Op«ratiaa of the Various Departments e( tlie Ontarie Agrieullural College. Motor Magnate* Meet At A.A.A. Convention tiona favourable for the growth of clover, and the fddition of Phos- phoric acid and nitrogen greatly in- vigorates tha growth of grass «. QUESTIONâ€" (a) "The milk yield of my herd aeema to have fallen off quite considerably during the paot two years and some of the cattle have lost their healthy appearance and seem quits gaunt and weak. Is there any possibility that the soil is becoming run down and producing low grade feed? I have never used commercial fertilizer but always have quits a bit of manure each year to put back in the land." (b) I have a clay loam field which has been in pasture for 26 years and is now very thin. I do not wish to plow it up and am wondering if re- seeding will be satisfactory a\ou^ with some commercial fertiliser. If so, what procedure should I follow?" S.A.W., Kent County. ANSWER â€" (a) Undoubtedly the soil of your pasture ia becoming de- ficient in Phosphoric acid and pos- sibly Potash. It may be also lacking in lime. The lack of Phosphoric acid and lime is becoming apparent in not a few pastures in certain parts of the province with the result that pasture animals are more and more given to chewing bonea, stones and wood in an effort to obtain these elements which constitute a consid- erable part of their bone. Craving is bound to increase until attention is paid to putting bi^k the minerals being ' that are lacking in the pasture. You destitute. afflicUd, ill-treated." See I say that you apply considerable the case of Elijah (I Kings 19 il 3 manure each year which is an excel- Câ€" 3 and 2 Kings 1:8). Hairy garmenta seemed subsequently to have been a common dress among prophets, and it was sometimes adopted for purposes of deception (Zecn. 13:4. "Oh whom the world was not worthy." The world drove them out thinking them unworthy to live in it, while in truth it was unworthy to have them living in It." â€" A. B. Da- vidson. "Wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the jarth." Of Israelites in gen- eral (Judges 6:2); and of the pro- phets of the Lord (I Kings 18:4, 13) and of Elijah (I Kings 19:9). "And these all, having had wit- ne.vi borno to them through their faith." This entire chapter is but a commentary on the power of faith in Gou in the lives of men and wom- en. "Received not the promise. God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.'' These heroes of the faith had been given promises, but the promises had not been completely fulfilled, espe- cially the greatest promise of all concerning that of a Messiah, God's nnointe'' Priest and Kinj;. For all the patriarchs, prophets and mighty men of old before the coming of the Lord lesus, there was only a sym- bolic sacrifice for sin an incom- plete access to God, a partial infill- ing, on occasion, of the Holy Spirit, an incomplete revelation of (lod. For us, we know God through -lesus • Christ, whoni to know is life eternal. "Therefore let us also." We be- long In this company because we are servants oi the same God, because our faces are turned toward the samo hope, because we are bound to- gether in one great truth, centred in Jesus Christ. "Seeing we are com- pa.ssed about with so great a cloud of witnesses." We have been led through the corridors of the divine mnsoleum, and hidden to read the names and epitaphs of those of whom God was not ashamed. We have felt our faith grow stronger as we road and pondered the inspir- ing record, and, now, by a slnRle touch, these saintly souls arc depict- ed a.s having passed from the arena into the crowded tiers from which to observe the course which we ore treading today. "Lay aside every weight." Th"re arc one thoufiand things that no man dare call wrong, for they show none of the charar- teristicr of sin; on the contraiy, they may he precious gifts whi(h, in other circumslan.es, might be rich in blessing; but if they hinder you when you struggle for the best, and burden you so that you run un- worthily, then are Ihcy weights and must he liid aside. ''And the sin vvluch dntl .so easily beset us." The six v/,\rds, "which doth so easily be- sot lis, nil. in the (ircek one single â- "ord. and probably refir* lo cloth- lent practice, but one must keep in mind that manure even if well-kept carries only 8-9 lbs. of Phosphoric acid (P206) and possibly 10 lbs. Potash (K20) per ton. It doea earry 10 to 15 lbs. nitrogen. You will see from this that returning manure does not effectively correct the soil condition, especially where milk ii being sold from the land and the breeding cattle are raising their young which means that still greater quantities of Phosphoric acid and lime are being removed in the skele- tons of beef and other meat animals that are raised and sold off the farm. The observations you mention are being made in several sections. There are tvro ways of attacking the problem, one, by top dressing with fertilizer of analysis which will help the crop conditions and another, by feeding approved mineral feed mix- tures which carry lime and Phos- phoric acid in forms suitable for feeding. Probably a combination of these methods will give speediest and most effective help. ANSWER â€"(b) Pastures such as you describe have been greatly im- proved by top dressing with auch fertilizer as 4-12-6 or 2-12-10 in early spring as soon as the sod will carry the team. Fertilizer is best ap> plied broadcast either with tha drill, with the hose or discs suspended, or with a lime spreader. In a pasture test conducted by the Ontario Agricultural College in Mid- dlesex County, great improvement of herbage of the pasture and good im- provement of carrying capacity has been obtained by top dressing as described. The Potash makes condl- Henry Ford (left) makes one of hla rare banquet appearances at the S4th annual convention of tha A.A.A. In Detroit. With hkn U Mr, Thomas P. Henry, president of American Aotomobile Association. Going "Over the Top" .. ing enfolding one as one is about to run, hindering him in the race. "And let us run with patience the race that is set before us." The marginal interpretaiton of the word here translated "patience" is "stedfast- nesa", which probably gives a bet- ter idea of what the writer meant. "Looking unto Jesus". The Greek verb here implies "a looking away from other things," "a concentration of the wandering gaze into a single direction." "The author and perfi# tor of our faith." Christ is the great Exemplar of faith, for, by faith, he lived and suffered, ard died. "Who or the joy that was set be- fore him endured the cross despising shame." What was the joy set before rhrist" Many ans^ver^ '-pn he (riven. Certainly it would include tha Joy (,f liciiig God's .'inolnU'd i.ne tor re- deeming men for all the ages to come from sin and death and the wrath of God; of being reunited with the Father in glory aftci his humilia- tion; of realizing that, by his death on the cross, Satan's doom was Kcaled, and a kingdom of absolute and eternal righteousness was made possible. "And hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." His great redemptive work was fin- ished and accepted by the Father. He is now exalted into glory at the Fathers right hand (cf. 1:3:8:1; 10: 12). Phone Girls Ready Dolls For Christmas l,.i.. ,..A of New York '^cU"l>llon(^ (Uiinpaiiy liave volunteerert as Santa's aides in iiiitllng llnisliliiK touches to more than It.OOO dolls which win be distributed to naedy children. Here's three workeVa. At a recent test of men and equipment by German High Commaad, trucks, motorcycles and autos were put through grueling paces at Wunsdorff near Berlin. Above a cyclist goes over embankment. Amateur Fair Champions Dr. J. C. McClelland (left), Akron, O., and E. Neiman, Los Angeles. Cal., who won national amateur pair cbampiouship of American Bridge League at national tourney In Chicago. Figure Skater Shows What She'll Do Giving the ship news photo.s^raphers an htea of what she'll be domg at New York ice carnival, Jantne C!ara»>"T. French figure skating ohamplon, glides above deck of S. S C*â€" "â- -'"In.