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M><0EBHH»»-O4Bi| | âmnbap â>ct)ool ieason LESSON IX. MEASURING,.A MAN’S WORTH. Mark 0:1-17 Gel*» Textâ€"How much then is a man of more value than a sheep? Mate $'E.:12. T^g LESSON IN ITS SETTING. TiWBâ€"Autumn, A.P. 28. piaee.â€"Gersa, located on the east- dri^tre of the Sea of Galilee, op- ph^lte the plain of Gennesaret; a wiSt' wantry. 1. Am! they came to the other side «I the sea, into the country of thé ferasenes. «% place is one which our Lord w«3f tie likely to visit,' having Ca- peetemtn in full view to the north, gng Galilee “over against it,” as Lt/kc siays it was. 2. And when he was come out of the B#it, straightaway there met him. out ei the tombs a man with an un- clear spirit. The whole subject of denww-posseaion is admittedly difli- cti‘It> Who these evil spirits were, we dbnWlHknowâ€"whether they were fall- en tmgéls,. or the spirits of some of the. wicked dead, or other creatures, ehtistKfc now he determined. 3< Who had his dwelling in the tories. These were natural or arti- ûiêm excavations in the rocks, fre- quawily cut laterally in the hills and Oita* left uncovered, which, like other caves, would be resorts for wild nfreih find beasts. Amid all the btfahtyd civilization of antiquity there eati&ed no hospitals, no penitentiaries, no afeyiums. Powerless to Restrain Him A*d no man could any more bind hinvno, not with a chain. 4. Because that he had been often bound with fèSÉrK and chains, and the chains tijMbeen rent asunder by him, and tyWeftera broken in piees: and no maw had strength to tame him. All «tor laws and prohibitions are to us what his chains were to this wild man q«f Gadàrene. “Thou shalfc not,” says taw to us. All that law seeks to do is1 to prevent the outbreak of these eV«4 passions into the sinful act and deed. .All it does, in a word, is to bdhind the man. Nothing that man has been able to devise has been able to keep these wild passions of the, httman heart within bounds. 5. And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. Sin is always a destruct- ive force in any man’s life, and it especially is manifest in the terrible effects it has upon the human body. Conflict With Demons 6. And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshipped him. Why is the man drawn as by a mag- net to Jesus? He actually ran to Je- sus, and prostrated himself in Orien- tal fashion before him. It looks in- deed as if the will and power of Jesus drew the demoniac to his feet. The words of the demon accord with this involuntary approach to Jesus as the supreme master of the demon world whose will and word the de- mons must obey. 7. And crying out with a loud voice, he saith, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me not. 8. For he said unto him, Come forth, thou unclean spirit, out of the man. Always the spirits know who Jesus is, and in a malicious fashion yell out their mys- terious knowledge. So here the de- mon voice shouts, “Son of God the Highest..” The demons are determ- ined to publish the deity of Jesus, as if to spite him, who Wanted men to arrive at this knowledge by faith in his words and works, 9. And he asked, What is thy name? And he saith unto him, My name is Legion; for we are many. Jesus, no doubt, asked this poor creature his name that he might bring him for the moment to the place where he was conscious of his own separate personality, and when his attention would bo concentrated, not" on the demons who possessed Mm, but upon his own self. to. And he besought him much that lie xyould not send them : away out of the country. The person here speaking is one of the demons, not the demon-possessed man himself. “Out. of the country,” is explained by Luke’s “into the abyss.” 11. Now there was there on the mountain, side a great herd of swine feeding. 12. And they besought him, saying. Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. Why these demons should ask to be sent into the swine, we do not know, though we have a revelation here, as Archbishop Trench says, “of those mysterious af- finities which evermore reveal them- selves between the demoniacal and the bestial.” Into the Swine 13. And he gave them leave. - And the unclean spirits came out, and en- tered into the swine: and the herd I rushed down the steep into the sea, in number about two thousand; and they were drowned in the sea. It is nowhere said that the demons drove the swine down the steep place into the -sea. It is just as easy, and much more natural, to suppose that against their will the swine, when they found themselves seized by this new and strange power, rushed them- selves in wild and panic fear to their destruction. But in either case, whether they thus destroyed them- selves, or were impelled by the foul, spirits, there reveals itself here the very essence and truest character of evil, which everywhere outwits and defeats itself, 14. And they that fed them fled-, and told it in the city, ind in the country. And they came to see what it was that had come to pass. 15, And they came to Jesus, and behold him that was possessed with demons sitting, clothed and in his right mind, even him that had the legion: and. they were afraid. 16. And they that saw it declared unto them how it be- fell him that was possessed with de- mons, and concerning the swine. 17. And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders. The utter hardness of the hearts of these peo- ple, in, on the one hand, failing to give any expression of joy and grati- tude for deliverance of their fellow citizen and, on the other hand, in ask- ing Jesus to leave their country be- cause they were afraid that more pro- perty might be destroyed, even though it meant deliverance of human and eternal souls from the crushing- power of evil, is only an indication of the utter perversity of human na- ture when the standards'by which an act is judged are monetary and not humanistic. “They preferred the swine to the Saviour; they thought more of their material loss than of this man’s moral gain. In seeking to save their possessions they are losing their souls. Men do not care to face the awful thought of a divine power among them. It disturbs the easy routine of customary life. We grow accustom- ed to our average, ordinary self, and we shrink from losing it. We are afraid to be transformed, afraid of the unknown consequences which might follow the claim of a person to the. entire possession of oiir body, soul, and spirit, that he may do what he will with it. No, it is too urgent, too exacting, too disturbing; we be- seech it to depart from our borders. It is this ignoble fear, taking a refuge within the citadel of custom, that makes the church so stagnant, so void of power and influence in the world. Victorian. Lost- Influence “If I had arranged grandmother’s flowers for her and mixed them with fruits from the orchard and vege- tables from, the kitchen garden as I do for my more perceptive clients, she would haye said, ‘What will peo- ple sayâ€"my drawing room is not a public market!’ And out my dissent- ing decor would have gone into the dustbin.” So says Constance Spry, in Har- pers’ Bazaar. She continues: Different Design for Living “But today our whole design for living is different. The Victorians ‘did’ their houses for, life. And flow- ers were not permitted to alter the set scheme of things. On the con- trary, we moderns are a restless race. We keep the decorators busy ‘doing us over.’ And we have discovered that we can be even more mercurial in between timesâ€"express almost daily changes of heartâ€"-by so using flowers as to give a supple, fluent quality to our current decorative plan. Acting on the principle of no- thing centured, nothing gained, we have dared greatly. Via this new freedom we have won through to many original and beautiful designs. Symphonies in Color “Much depends on the fearless- ness with which one mixes colorâ€" and form. Massed reds, for instance, are at once the most difficult and the most beautiful example to take. I find I get the most satisfying and brilliant results by mixing every shade and range of redâ€"carmine, rose, scarlet, vermilion, crimson and magentaâ€"from the deepest reds to the palest pinks. When it is well done, the effect is a brilliant sym- phony. New Michigan Coach H, 0. “Fritz” Crisler, coach of foot- ball at Princeton, has been named to take over that post at the University of Michigan, following completion of negotiations, and his release by the Tiger board. He may succeed Field- ing Yost as director of athletics at Ann Arbor. A couple of weeks ago we wrote our disappointment of the Ken Soble Amateur Hour heard each Sunday at 12.30 over a network of Canadian sta- tions. Now, it ia not our Intention to set. ourselves up as final judges or anything or the sort, but we feel that our opinion is the same as the major- ity of the listeners, that the final re- sults of this program are far from sat- isfactory, and far from giving credit. to the parties to whom it is due. Per- haps it ia not the fault of the pro- ducers of the show, but some arrange- ment could have been made whereby the best performer could have been selected as winner. Instead, three tap dancersâ€"all childrenâ€"came out on top, and if Hollywood hasn’t thous- ands of children, who from the sound of these winners, couldn’t dance rings around those Canadian “champions’’ we’ll eat the newspaper that this col- umn appears inâ€"and without salt and pepper at that. * * * Hayloft Club Word has come to us that the Char- lie Hannigan program heard over CKCL Monday nights at 8.00 o’clock is really drawing the mail. A club known as The Hayloft Club has been formed, and. to be a member, all the listeners have to do is drop Charlie a note ask- ing for a request number. Guest tick- ets to Loew’s Theatre each week are being given away to those sending in letters, and we understand that free dances are being arranged for club members. Eddie Guest does a nice bit of work on the program, as does Jim- mie Dobson, Billy George and the Mountaineers. If you are interested, send your letter to Charlie Hannigan, care of CKCL. * * * “It would amaze the average house- holder if he realized how many dollars spent for fuel are wasted up the chim- ney,” says James Stewart, ‘blue coal’ heating expert, whose voice is regu- larly heard on “The Shadow” pro- grams over Station CFRB; every Wed- nesday evening at 9 o’clock. Mr. Stew- art adds that a large proportion of this waste is absolutely unnecessary, as simple adjustments in the handling of drafts and slight changes in meth- ods of fueling the furnace will often All day earth waited, certain Her cloudy guest Would peer out of his curtain, Spread east and west. But with the dusk’s first candle He fled afar, Leaving a. crimson sandal, And one great star. (Ed. Note; This ia the second of a fascinating series of articles by this well-known writer). No matter how well you think you know yourself; even if you feel there is not a single possibility within you that you have not already plumbed ; you will find yourself benefitted by finding out what your handwriting tells about yourself. Some time ago, a man wrote to me, in part, as follows: “Frankly, I am a sceptic. I know myself so well that I re- fuse to believe you can tell me a single thing about myself that will be news to me. Anyway, even if you do, 1 won’t believe you! Now do your worst!” Hardly an encouraging invitation! However, I analyzed his writing, which indicated that he was so self- centred that he had lit tie thought for anyone but himself. After telling him this, among other things I said: “The cold truth is that you have an inferiority complex, and instead of facing it and overcoming it, you are building a fence around yourself by feeding your inner ego.” I urged him to pull up the blinds That kept the light from his mind. Shortly. afterwards, he replied: “Thank ‘ you for giving me the\ big- gest laugh’I’ve ever had. ' it’s a very iuefi.1 laugh, though, for it is on myself. You were'right and T was xvi’cng. . Seriously, your advice was just. 1 he : toril: I " ne'dOil . . . You Around The Dial RADIO HEADLINERS OF THE WEEK By FRANK DENNIS result in remarkable savings. One oi the easiest methods of finding out it you are handling your heating plant in the most satisfactory manner is to send for a free copy of the valuable little book, “First Aid to Better Heat- ing,” which may be had by sending your name and address to ‘blue coal,* care of 217 Bay Street, Toronto. * * * We must write a line or two on the new show “Airbreaks,” heard over CFRB Friday nights at 8.30. Last Friday’s show, we think, was the best yet, and from the auditions and re- hearsals we have witnessed, bigger and better ones are to come. In our opinion, the shows in the past, were hampered by too much commercial, but that is being steadily overcome. Roy Lockstey’s orchestra really give plenty of what is known as “shmaltz" during their featured numbers. This show really gives pros and amateurs the same breakâ€"all who appear on the program receive a regular pro- fessional fee for their appearance. And by this we mean moneyâ€"not just a dollar or two. All are Welcome to audition for an ‘‘airbreak”. Just ad- dress your application to Dr. Jackson, CFRB, Toronto. * * * News of the Networks Several Columbia Broadcasting pro- grams have been renewed for further periods. The Boake Carter News broadcasts begin a new series on Mon- day, Feb. 28, 6.30 to 6.45 daily except Saturdays and Sundays, sponsored by General Foods. Carter first rose to. prominence through his skilful radio reporting of the Lindbergh kidnap- ping, and will soon celebrate his ninth year on the airwaves. Garter was born in Baku, South Russia, the son of a British consul. Lum and Abner, those famous Pine Ridge Arkansas storekeepers and rural comedians will make their bow over the nation-wide Columbia web, Feb. 28th, from 6.45 to 7.00, Mondays, Wednesday and Friday. The program originates In Hollywood. Ted Hammersteln’s Music Hall, heard over Columbia every Friday] at 8.00 s,m., starts on a long term contract February 25th. As an insight into the capacity of the United Kingdom as a user of food, almost all the British Empire’s exports from Denmark and Poland, half of the egg shipments from the Netherlands and China, and one-third the egg exports from Egypt, together with the home production in Britain, were absorbed by the British mar- ket in 1936. erringly' on my weakness, but you have painstakingly outlined the rem- edy.” To know our faults is half the bat- tle of overcoming them. To realise the talent and potentialities that lie dormant within us is a god start to- wards building them up and capital- ising on them. Other people often know more about us than we dc ourselves. The difficulty is to find onlookers who are really unbiassed and sincere in their opinions of us. This is where a handwriting analy- sis comes in usefully. Your charac- ter is etched clearly in your hand- writing, Not alone the obvious traits, that stand out like beacon flares, but the qualities and tendencies that are la- tent ; 1 only partially developedâ€"rich in promise, like a newly-discovered gold vein, but requiring to be devel- oped1 and utilised. A character analysis will unearth the ore that is lying submerged within you. The author of the above imterest- m.g article, can tell your character from your handwriting. Perhaps, too,, you ' are eager to learn the truth about your friends? Send specimens of the writing you wish to be anal- ysed, and 'enclose 10c for each spe- cimen (coin or postal note prefered). Enclose with stamped addressed en- velope tot Lawrence Hibbert, Room 421, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto, Ont. Replie» will be mailed as quick- ly as possible. Weakened By Constant Yawning Miss Mabel Patrick, 21 year old Montreal girl, at the time this photograph was taken had been yawning at 30 second intervals for four days, and' Was growing weaker as she was unable to sleep or eat. Fears woio expresse ! that the malady might develop into sleeping sickness. Ideas No Rain â€"Lori Petri, in Voices. Your Handwriting Tells The Truth About Your Chur acier l By LAWRENCE. BÃŽBBERT (Psychologist, Character-Analyst and Lecturer) Bâ€"D