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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS! COLBORNE, ONT., MAY 20th, 1937. gUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Sunday School Lesson^-Willard m 10 LESSON VIII. THE WEAKNESS OF ESAU (Genesis 25: 19--34; 26: 34, 35; 27: 1--46.) Gdden Text--Every man that striv-eth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. 1 Corinthians 9:25. The Lesson in its Setting Time--The generally accepted date for the birth of the twins, Esau and Jacob, is B.C. 1844. The selling of ths birthright took place 18 years later, and Esau was married about B.C. 1805. Facts given about Jacob's years of service (Gen. 31: 41) and his age and his children's would place his flight from home about B.C. 1781. Place--The twins were born probably at Beer-lahai-roi (Gen. 24: 62; 25: 11), about 50 miles south of Beer-sheba. Later events in the lives of these two men took place near either one or the other of these two cities. Gen. 25: 27--34. "And the boys grew: and Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents."-- He was full of the manliest interests, occupations, and pursuits. He was a very proverb of endurance and success in the chase. His hand was always full of skill, and strength, and success. He was the pride of all the encampment, as he came home at night with his traps, and his snares, and his bows, and his arrows, and laden to the earth with venison for his father's supper. "Now Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: and Rebekah loved Jacob."--Persons of quiet and retiring disposition like Isaac are often fascinated by those of more sparkling and energetic temperament such as Esau. Mothers, on the other hand, are mostly drawn towards children that are gentle in disposition and home-keeping in habit. We are probably not wrong in discovering in these words an indication that there were some jealousies and prejudices in the home of Isaac and Rebekah, "And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottase, for I am faint." Pottage was a kind of thick broth made by boilin;? lentils or other vegetables with meat cr suet, usually in water, but sometimes in milk. "Therefore was his name called Edom." The i the, word "adn,ijg" the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob."--Of all the parties in this transaction, none is more to blame than Esau. While he so furiously and bitterly blamed Jacob for supplanting him, it might surely have occurred to him that it was really he who was supplanting Jacob. Inconstant as he was, he could scarcely have forgot the bargain by which he had sold to his younger brother all title to his father's blessings. Many that care very little for God's love, will seek his favors; and every wicked wretch who has, in his prosperity, spurned God's offers, will, when he sees how he. has cheated himself, turn to God's gifts, though not to God, with a cry. Like many another sinner he wanted to eat his cake and have it. "And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said unto him Behold thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban, my brother to Haran. And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's-fury turn away. Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from hence: why should I be bereaved of you-both in one day?"-- It was from Haran that Rebekah herself had come at the request of Abraham's servant to be married to Isaac. She intended her son to be absent only "a few days," but they proved to be 20 years (see 31: 38). It is not probable that Rebekah ever again beheld her favorite son, which was a sinful chastisement for her sinful ambition for and partiality towards Jacob. -- Rebekah seems not to have been aware that she herself was the cause of much of the evil and of much of the misery that flowed from it. All the parties of this affair are pursued by a retributive chastisement. quite s'milar to the word "adam.' The propriety of a particular name may be marked by two or more totally different circumstances, and its application renewed on each of these occasions. It is pretty certain that Esau did receive the secondary name of Edcm from the red complexion of skin even from his birth, but the exclamation "that red," uttered on the occasion of a very important crisis in his history, renewed the name, and perhaps tended to make it take the place of Esau in the history of his race. "And Jacob said Sell me first thy birthright." --The birthright seems to have included temporal and spiritual blessings. It carried with it a double portion of paternal inheritance (Duet. 21: 17; 1 Chron. 5: 1, 2); it gave the holder precedence as head of the family or tribe. Above all, it constituted the possessor priest and spiritual head of his people. "And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die: and what profit shall the birthright do to me?"--Of course he was not about to die. No man wou.id die simply because he had not had food for perhaps 12 or 14 hours; moreover, supper would normally be prepared for Esau within less than an hour. He simply exaggerated the importance of the demands of his body. Oblivious of everything but lib hunger and his food, so it is always with the man who has fallen under the power of sensual appetite. "And Jacob said, Swear to me first; and ho sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went away: so Esau despised his birthright."--In Hebrews 12- 16, Esau is spoken of as "a pro-fans perron." Profane is a Latin jverd which means "before the temple," and "refers to that plot of ground just in front of the temple |>eing outside the sacred enclosure. Gradually the name "came to mean that which was purely earthly and Common, as opposed to that which ^vas sacred, consecrated and dedicated to God." Esau's life was entirely earth-bound. He was intent only on (present gratification and set no value dn the divine gifts. To him future blessings were intangible and unreal. Everything about the present was real to him, while everything about the future was unreal, vague and misty. To him this world was everything and God nothing. "And Esau hated Jacob because of Pasteur and Pasture The farmer-milkman was much annoyed with a temporary resident in the village who complained of the price he was charging for milk." "I am entitled to charge the same price as in the city," he assured her. ,i 'gnt-thst' 'The" milk I pasteurized." "Pasteurized! Pasteurized!" he retorted. "I'd like to know anybody's cows that are pasteurized more than mine. Come down to my place any hour of the day or night and you'll see my cows pasteurizing in the fields." Is John Lewis slipping? He permits President Roosevelt to fraternize with nonunion fish. -- Chicago Daily News. "If I lived a thousand years I would still be a Virginian." --Lady Astor. onation Standard and Colonies, this special flag was designed Just Sawing Wood Paul Searles, champion sawyer, gives himself a real workout on a huge log as he sharpens up arms for the contest in which lucky lumbermen will be selected for the honor of sawing giant i wood at opening of Golden Gate Bridge. "Conservation will continue to be of transcendent concern to the human race so long as we have to depend upon this earth for our food, clothing, shelter and our pleasures." --Harold L. Ickes. Even As You And ] ell-known movie lion, makes no bones about his mtal work. Dr. S. James Vamuas, dentist at the waits for his chance to make his semi-annual in-intendent Melvin Kountz tries to spread Jackie's Boarding Houses Coming Back? Miss Lrma Berger, executive secretary of the Association to Promote Proper Housing for Girls in New York, told the association members at their annual meeting the other day that the old-style boarding houses are regaining their popularity. An increased demand for such accommodation has sprung up recently, she said, and the number of boarding houses, as distinct from rooming houses, has been decreasing for years and such accommodations have often been hard to find. Clubs, apartments and studios grew more popular about the time the "bachelor girl" came in. While many "old folks" clung to Victorian boarding houses, young people of both sexes, revolted in favor oi modern accommodations. Can it be, now, however, that the old-fashioned boarding house (although more likely it will be new-fashioned) will renew its appeal for comfortable, homey, protected living? Perhaps not all the rooms will be back rooms. And could wash-bowls and pitchers enough be recovered from the limbo into which they vanished, to refurnish a modern city-size boarding house? It is doubtful, m ovie-radio! Egossip You never can tell what an actor will be asked to do down at the Me-tro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. You'd just think they'd be satisfied to have Clark Gable and Robert Taylor the romantic idols of half the population but never satisfied they are making the lads sing in their new picture. Dorii Nolar 'The Top of the Town" because it seemed to her that she never had anything to do. She felt that she was all but lost among the fancy sets and big musical numbers, which just shows you that actors are -suall: wrong about what a' picture will do for them. Sam Gold-wyn took one look at "Top of the Town," and imediately started negotiations to borrow Miss Nolan for a prominent part in "Dead End." Meanwhile Miss Nolan had gone off on a! motor trip with her sister, to take a look at the cherry blossoms in Washington, to dash over the skyway in Shenandoah Valley, and visit relatives in North Carolina. The good' news reached her en route. All the studios are re-making successes of other days, having failed to find new stories as good. M.-G.-M. has cast Jean Harlow and Jimmy Stewart in "The Shopworn Angel," which was one of the best pictures ever made when Gary Coopei and Nancy Carroll played it And Lily Pons will play "Ki-ki" with operatic flourishes, which Lily Pons was not so good when Mary Pickford played it years ago. ODDS AND ENDS -- Erin O'Brien Moore, who was so good in "Black Legion," is going to play Nana in "The Life of Emile ^ola," a part that dozens of prominent actresses had tried out for -- Pathe's two-reeler -- "A Day With the Quints," proves definitely that the world's most famous three-year-olds grow more charming and obstreperous every day. Thev achieve an almost Donald Duckian rage when anyone addresses them by the wrong names -- When Ann Soth-r.tnrued to the ^fifa.,, ■„ , „ IThe found an exquisite reindeer hei dressing table, a gift from Una Merkel who had occupied her room during her absence -- Don Wilson of the Jack Benny program is making hij picture debut in R. K. O.'s "Missus America." -- Albert Coifs, famous Belgian portrait painter, says the most beautiful of all the film stars are France Farmer, Merle Oberon, Luise Rainer, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer and Kay Francis. too, whether enough prints of the "Stag at Eve" or the "Gardens of Versailles" could be found to furnish many rooms. And bric-a-brac of the William McKinley decade is scarcer. Boarding houses gone? Of course no. Miss Berger is right: "You can't keep a good boarding house down." The world has not outgrown home cooking, and maybe there is still a lonesome -country boy or girl in the city who wouldn't mind being "mothered" at times. And parlors may sometimes be as pleasant to entertain callers in as a movie patece.--~ Christian Science Monitor.. Famed Baths azed once danced and rows of both-houses were a total loss. the boardwalk at Long Beach, N.Y.,' as firemen adjoining building. Ballroom where Irene Castle