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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, , COL LBORNE, ONT., APRIL 22nd, 1937 UNDAV CHOOI fssqn LESSON IV The Obedience of Noah -- Genesis 5:28 -- 9:28 Printed Text -- Genesis 8:20-22; 9:8-17 Golden Text -- "By faith, Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house." -- Hebrews 11:7. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING' Time -- The traditional date for the Hood is about 2350 B.C. Recent archaeological discoveries would place the flood nearer 3000 B.C. Ancient chronology is far from being settled, and we need not examine this difficult problem in this lesson. Place -- Where Noah was when he built the ark, we do not know. Mt. Ararat on which the ark rested after the flood, is in Armenia, near where the Tigris River has Its source, almost directly north of the city of Babylon. "And took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered a burnt offering on the altar." For a list of animals counted as clean in the sacrifical rituals of Israel, see especially Deut. 14. The burnt offering is the first to be described in the book of Leviticus (chapter 1), and, of course, was one in which not only was an animal offered in sacrifice, but one in which the slain animal was not consumed on the altar with fire. "And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor." The sacrifice of the patriarch was as acceptable to God as refreshing odors are to the senses of a man. "And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done while the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." This declaration is not a revocation of the curse of Gen. 3:17, nor a pledge that such curse would not b« duplicated. The language refers solely to the visitation of the deluge, and promises, not that God maj not sometimes visit particular localities with a flood, but that another such world-wide catastrophe should never overtake the human race. "And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of ~4ft-ttt.»t go. vit. Gt tlva avi, «*. w.t,.* beast of the earth. And I will estab- lish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." The word my points to a covenant already in existence, though not formerly mentioned until the time of Noah. "And God said, this is the token of the covenant, which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations; I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth." The wordnow refers, of course in this mar-rative, to what we call the rainbow, i.e., a bow arc of several colors appearing in the heavens during or after rainfall, 'formed opposite the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays In drops of rain. The word rainbow is not found in the Old Testament, and only twice in the New Testament (Rev. 4:3; 10:1). It is not said that the rainbow first appears at this time, for, undoubtedly, due to the invariableness of the laws which do cause rainbows, there must have been many before this time, whenever the physical conditions creating a rainbow existed, but what the passage does tell us is that now, for the first time, God appoints this phenomenon as a token of his pledge to never again curse the earth with a flood. "And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the lasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, this is the token of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth." The activity ascribed to God should be particularly noticed. Four times is he said to establish his covenant (9, 11, 12, 17); once he is said to set his bow in the cloud (13); once he is said to bring clouds over the earth (14); and twice it is said that he would remember his covenant (15, 16); and once that he would look upon the bow in remembering his covenant (16). "And there are no obligations on the part of men or of the creatures. This covenant is God's only. It is contingent on nothing done by the recipients. God binds himself whatever be the conduct of men. This covenant is the self motivated promise or an unconuruon-al mercy. Farm Problems Conducted by PROFESSOR HENRY C. BELL vith the co-operation of the various departments of Ontario Agricultural College 1. Question: "Have you any evidence to show beneficial results to grain crops when salt is applied? Would 250 lbs. per acre cause injury? Does salt cause more moisture to be available to the growing crop?" --R. P. Huron County. Answer: The use of salt with sugar beets was common practice in England some yean; ago. Salt does not add any plantfood, but the sodium of the salt lets loose the potash out of the soil Sugar beets are particularly potash-loving crops on account of the starch and other carbonhydrates that they contain, hence the liberation of potash, helps in their growth. I find records where English farmers used salt on soils growing barley. The same reaction results there namely that the barley crop benefitted from the potash which the salt let loose. Malsters, however, found that the addition of salt lowered the quality of the barley for malting purposes. The sowing of salt at 250 lbs. per acre would not be injurious to crops. In a short time, however, it would be injurious to the soil, in that it leads to the depletion of the potash of the soil. In the case of sugar beets or mangels, it may be that the help which these crops receive from salt is to some extent due to the fact that the beet plant is thought to have originated near the sea. Salt has no plantfood value whatever. As far as we know, it acts only as a stimulant. When it is applied in quantity, it does draw moisture from the air, but at the small rate of application which would be possible to put on the soil, i cannot conceive any beneficial effect resulting from the application of salt due to the moisture it gathers. I never advise the use of salt because as i have already said, it is nothing but a whip or stimulant to the soil. Question: "Would it be possible to sow fertilizer after the grain has been sown? i am not going to be able to procure a fertilizer drill at time of sowing, but could get one shortly afterwards. Would it be possible to sow the grain with an ordinary drill and follow later with fertilizer? If this is possible, how much later could this be done to get the best results?"--C. B., Perth County. Answer: i would not advise trying to add fertilizer to the field after the grain has been sown. I am afraid tho discs and shoes would tear out the young sprouting seeds to such an extent that it would do more injury than good. The one exception to this is a top dressing of nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia or cyanamid. This can be made by broadcasting the nitrogen carrying material on top of the wheat. This is common practice in England in the Spring, especially on wheat and barley. Understand, broadcasting does not work the fertilizer into the soil. It simply scatters tho material on top. The moisture of the soil and any rain that falls dissolves this material and about five bushels per acre provement usually results. ONLY ROYAL HEIR IN 600 YEARS Seeding Dates For Grain Crops Result of Five Years' Experimental Seeding at Different Dates An experiment to test the best dates for seeding grain crops was commenced at th3 Experimental Farn, Ottawa, in 1925 and carrica on for five years in which wheat, barley, peas Banner oats (a late variety), and Alaska oats (an early variety) were seeded at five differenet dates at two weeks intervals. The obje- of this experiment was to learn the most suitable date to seed these crops under Ottawa conditions and also learn which of the crops was west adapted for late seeding in the e\eni of a delayed seeding. The experiiiK nt was conducted in a rotation of grain, clover, thus allowing for duplicate plots of grain seeded The infant son of the Crown Prince and Princess, the only royal heir born in Norway 600 years, was christened, Harald, in Oslo, recently. He is shown in his first portrait with Princess Raghild (left) and Princess Astrid. The last heir-presumptive born in Norway Haakonssoi,. "n 1370. for nearly his sisters, was Olav Picturesque Corps Parade ( Will Reside In Montreal Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Bourchier Taylor, of London, England, who are coming to reside in Montreal, in the early summer. Mr. Taylor is a painter-etcher and has received great praise in England for his work A son of Colonel and Mrs. Plunket B. Taylor, of Rockliffe Park, Ottawa, he is a graduate of McGill University, having won a scholarship, and lived here prior to going to England to study. Mrs. Taylor is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delamere Magee, of Toronto. The marriage took place in London, England, last December. at the varying dates, one crop following clover, the other following grain. The results of these dates of seeding grain experiments at Ottawa indicate that wheat and peas should be sown as early as possible in the Spring. Barley and Banner oats may be seeded without loss of yield as late as May 15, and Alaska oats (the early variety) as late as June 1. Buckwheat may be seeded at any time during June, preferably about the beginning of th° month. It should be remembered that the results of these experiments conducts tawa may not be applicable to other points with different climate and soil conditions. As a rule, however, wheat oats, barley, and peas should be seeded as soon as the soil is sufficiently dry to permit working satisfactorily. 18 Barley adapts itself to growth over the longest range of seeding dates and, if necessity demands that a crop be seeded, late, barley is a suitable crop. Alaska oats is also a very suit-abl? ■■'■}) for this purpose. Swan Aided in Hatching Eggs LOS ANGELES.--It begins to look as if a policeman may be assigned to help a swan hatch her eggs. The park has asked the Police Chief to station a patrolman near the swan's nest daily during the hatching process. It was George R. Mitchell, president of the Humane Education Society, who said that originally the swan had nine eggs, but somebody had pushed the bird off the nest and stolen five. gossip ; By dorothy ; So many people complained about the moderately-happy ending of "Lost Horizon" that the director changed it several weeks after the picture had started its triumphant run in New York and Los Angeles. The ending that the rest of the country will see makes it appear very doubtful that Ronald Colman will ever fight his way through a blizzard to the heavenly peace of Shangri-la high in the Thibetan hills. With either ending this is a picture that everyone will want to see. Fruits and vegetables are the heroes and heroines of a movie being shown extensively in the producing regions of the South and Far West. The picture, designed to bring the big city auction markets to growers, dramatizes the selling process on a typical auction market where thousands of cars of fruits and vegetables are translated into millions of dollars in revenue to the growers every year. List among your future film favorites Ella Logan whom you will soon see in Universal's "Top of the Town." She is the enchanting singer with a thick Scottish burr to her vo'.ce who, accent or no, used to shout swing music over the radio with Abe Lyman's band. I like her best when she sings simple songs, but swing addicts rave about her ability to improve new hi-de-hos. "Seventh Hea en" was previewed week, and everyone agrees that it brings more glory to Jimmy Stewart than to Simone Simon, though she is pert and appealing in the role that brought Janet Gaynor fame. Simone arrived at the preview wearing a hair rib on tied in a . .jow just over her fore- head, and was so noticeably nervous that she fidgeted with her coat, her dress, and her hair ribbon all evening. She was accompanied by Anton ODDS and ENDS:-- A make-up girl at the Paramount Studio has 12 wrist watches given to her by grateful stars. Just to be different, Frances Dee gave her-an alarm .clock at the finish of "Souls at Sea" .... Ann Sothern will probably win the airlines awara for the most persistent air-commuter of the year Whenever she has two or three days to spare, she dashes off to Chicago to see her husband, Roger Pryor, who is leading a band there. . . Everyone at Paramount is glad to have Marlene Dietrich back, particularly the electricians and carpenters on i r set. She brings such luscious cakes and cookies to them. Husband (reprovingly)--Didn't 1 hear you tell your friends that your pretty dress came from abroad? V/ife--Not exactly, dear. You see, it's last year's dress which I turned inside out. I simply said 'It's from the other side.' The Mail Goes Through "0:d Bill" Trainer, Interviewed by the l.ethbridge Herald--"As far as I (an remember, the hardest trip I ever had to get the mail through > as around the middle of lanuary this year The snow was at its deepest and the thermometer around CO degrees below zero 'I left Manybemes as usual around daylight with my sleigh and team with the mail oiled behind and it wasn't so bad in my closed-in cab with the heater going. I arrived it Conirej alright that ni^ht and the next day I set out for Onefour. The drifts were bad through Devil's Di-.-e and Lost River where there is no traffic, and as I was going down Lost River hill the drifts were about six feet deep and one horse got down. Well, I unhitched the other horse and managed to pull him out and go on again. 'The next day 1 made the trip to Wild'iorse without any trouble and the following day I started the return trip. I got to the postoffice at Carlson's alright, but leaving there, there was such a terrible blizzard, and there being no fencas, I got off the trail'and got lost in a two-mile stretch Well, I kept on going till finally we struck a fence and following it 1 arrived at the farm house, where 1 stayed the night. The rest of that trip wasn't so bad but that was one time that it took me all of seven days to make the trip which 1 ke in Summer in less than two