THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE ONT. THURSDAY. APR. WOMEN'S CHATTER By Mair M. Morgan HAVE YOU READ THESE? LOST HORIZON, by James Hilton (Macmillan Co. of Canada) is enjoying a vogue at the moment, and when the review copy came to my desk 1 was prejudiced against it. But after reading the first nine pages I was completely captivated by the quiet charm of the writing. Then on page ten you read: "All this is mere beating about the bush. The fact is Conway isn't dead. At least he wasn't a few months ago." From these lines you realize you are going to be plunged into a maze of fantastic adventures. The first twenty-four pages are a prologue, whetting your curiosity about Conway,' the central figure. You cannot lay his book down until you have finished it. There is a touch of H. M. Tomlinson and Conrad in the style, which, of course, is all to the good. Angus Graham's "THE GOLDEN GRINDSTONE" (Oxford University Press), takes one back to the feverish days of the Klondike gold rush. Lucidly told in an easy fluent style, one is convinced the adventures of George M. Mitchell as narrated by Angus Graham ring with complete authenticity. Likewise, the photograph of George M. Mitchell convinces one further that this man was capable of handling the many awkward situations reported in the book. BACK IN 1842 A friend handed me a bpok, old and battered, with the date of 1829 inscribed. I idly turned the pages back and forth and a sheet of paper dropped out. This is what I read: "We the undersigned being called by George Jamison to value the damage done him by David Hall's cattle breaking into his potato pits and doing damage there; after deliberately viewing the damage we do award that David Hall do give George Jamison twenty-five bushels of potatoes forthwith. Signed: Cavan, October 5th, 1842. John Bowman and James Eakins." Nearly one hundred years old. It gave one a pleasant feeling that justice was done. Too, it makes one realize that we should all date our books, since it gives so much pleasure to future generations. GOODBYE TO CHATTER Next week you will meet your old friend, WOMEN'S CHATTER, under a new name. It seems the feminine title balked the masculine element--they refused to read it. Next week will see the debut of POTPOURRI (pronounced po-poa-re first o long accent on last syllable. Webster's dictionary gives the definition as "a medley or mixture." We will try to make it a pleasant mix ture, appealing to all. SUNDAY- HEAVENLY FATHER--Psalm 103 : 1-5, 10-14; Isaiah 40 : 27-31; Matthew 6 : 24-34; Luke 11 : 2; John 3 : 3-6; 8 : 40-47; 14 : 1-31 Romans 8 : 14-17; Hebrews 12 5-11. GOLDEN TEXT -- "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. -- Psalm 103 : 13. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING TIME AND PLACE -- Psalm 103 belongs to the time of David and was consequently written after 1050 B.C. the fortieth chapter of Isaiah may be approximately dated at 712 B.C., the Sermon on the Mount was given in the mid-summer of A.D. 28, probably on a hill west of the Sea of Galilee; the passage from Luke dates from the early winter of A.D. 29; John 3 3-6 belongs in the very earliest part of our Lord's ministry in April, A.D. 27, and records events that took place in the city of Jerusalem; the teaching of John 8 : 40-27 was given in the same city in October A.D. 29. The great fourteenth chapter of John contains words uttered on the day before our Lord's crucifixion, April 6, A.D. 30, in the Upper Room. The Epistle to the Romans was written about A.D. 60; the date of the Epistle to the Hebrews and its authorship are debated questions. It was probably written not many years hofore the fall of the city of Jerusalem. A.D. 70. "Philip saith unto him, Lord show us the Father." The universal human craving to see God, to have the indubitable direct knowledge of him as we have of one another. "And it sufficeth us." It is .the pathos of the t art's instinctive yearning for Father--a Father's heart,- a Father' home--in God. "Jesus saith unto him, Have I bee: so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip?" God is holiness and love; the real manifestation of these moral perfections can only consist in a moral life such that in it, in its acts and words, the moral perfection of the divine character shall shine forth. Now, this unique spectacle, this perfect tin : frequently that I say unto you myself." This idea the lips of Christ; 8:28, 38; 12.49; 14:24; 17:8, 14. See especially, Deut. 18.18. "But the Father abiding in me doeth works." The words and the wor Christ are pointed out as the proofs of his union with the Father, the former appealing to the spiritual consciousness, the later to the intellect. "Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake." They were to believe his very ement concerning his union with Father, and the Father with him; but, if this they could not do, then they were to "begin with the works and, through them, arrive at a belief in the divinity of his person. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that 1 do shall he do also." How tremendously encouraging to these disciples must have been an assertion such as this. "And greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father." Christ wrought miracles that men, beginning with what they could see and appreciate, might d on to believe in and trust Him for power to help them in all their Wins Golf Tourney ;:al arka\gi:mkxts simple pattern )ver a surface examples of Rhythmics ents of simple patter jrface of ruled squares o With y ou v.'iU , rig them ; our paper poss Ex. No. 53. Get any natural leaves and make outline drawings of them, carefully showing the trend of the veining in each leaf. Ex. No. 54. Make a half-dozen drawings of leaves not loss than 1 inch wide in black silhouette on wlrte paper, showing the veining in white. Draw an oblong round each loaf, varying the proportions of the oblong according to the shape of Miss Betty Vetterlein, 21-year-old Philadelphia, Pa., socialite, pictured on course at Palm Springs, Cal., where she won Woman's Golf Championship tournament. Rehears^. For Golden Jubilee lin, collected and filed away for futur use? Do not overlook this important feature. You cannot have too much data on design. You as a commercial designer, will be called upon prove your mettle as a designer. This week we give you a variei of problems to create. Ex. No. 52. Make several pieces of border design then take which ever design you prefer, and make a complete border of it, about 5 inches long by 3 inches deep. Do not use any shapes larger than % inch square in these designs. Write the description below each drawing, carefully describing it, as an arrangement of similar shapes and seeing that the leaf comes in the best position within the outline you place round it. Ex. No. 55. Take the most satisfactory surface pattern you have produced, trace it and transfer it to tinted paper. Paint it with Chinese white and outline it with black ink, taking pains to get your outline on the outside of the pattern. Questions will be answered in this department. Anyone wishing to receive a personal reply may have same if a 3c stamped, addressed envelope is enclosed with the request. The Art Director, Our Sketch Olub, Room 425, 73 Adelaide Street, West, Toronto. Out On Bail ■nee of 1 before "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name." This first mention df prayer in our Savious's parting words thus enables us two most important lessons. He that would do the work of Jesus must pray in his Name. He that would pray in his Name must work in his Name. "That will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." It follows as a matter of course that this, must be with us, as with Jesus, the essential element in our petitions: the glory of the Father must be the aim and end. the very soul and life of our "If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do." Thus, while his disciples ?thall pray in his name on the earth, he will act from heaven, on God's part, to execute the work, so intimate will be the union effected in him between heaven and earth. "If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments." Obedience is the necessary consequence of love. "And I will pray the Father." The work used for praying here is a different one from that used in preceding verses, implying on the part of the asker a certain equality, as of king with king (Luke 14:32), or, if iot equality, familiarity with him rorn -whom the gift of favor is sought vhieh lends authority to the request. 'And he shall give you another Comforter." He is given to strengto- s home in New York for "The Meistersinger," which will be l English to celebrate Mr. Damrosch's 50th year as a conductor. en us for every task assigned to by God, to sanctify, enlighten i empower us. By calling him another Christ virtually asserts the personality of the Holy Spirit, and his essential equality in the Godhead, "That he may be with you for ever." He will not leave, as Christ was compelled to leave. This promise is for the Church as a whole, and for each individual believer. "Even the Spirit of truth." The one hose sphere of activity would be le truth, who would revea 1 the truth to men. See, e.g., v. 26; 15:26, 16:13; 1 John 2:20, 27. There is also a spirit of error (1 John 4:6; John 8:44). "Whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him." Thus, the world, by its own wisdom, can never come to know God, and to discern spiritual truth (1 Cor. 2:11-15). "Ye know him: for he abideth with you, and shall be in you." "I will not leave you desolate." It is found only once again in the New Testament (James 1:27). Christ knows the human heart, and how to meet its deepest needs. "I come unto you." He came to them after his resurrection; more powerfully, at Pentecost; he continues to come to all believers in many ways, at every crisis; he will, finally, come again to take us to himself. "Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more." It was to be less than twenty-four hours. The world never saw him after his resurrection. "But ye behold me; because I live, ye shall live also." The life they live, so far from being a vacant and dead thing, because he has disappeared, shall t be the continuous evidence to them that he lives, and lives in and with them. "In that day ye shall know that 1 am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you." The day corresponds to the coming, but generally it marks each victorious crisis of the new apprehension of the Risen Christ. "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me." Returning to the idea of verse 15. They must remember that love to him is not to be measured by knowledge of mysteries, or by great privileges to be conferred; simply, as ever, by obedience. "And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father." Reciprocal love, ever deepening, sweeter as the years go by. "And I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him." The word here translated manifest is a vivid one. It means to present one's self to the sight of another, to appear, as Ex. 33:13; made possible by the illuminating presence of the Holy Spirit. 'Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto him, Lord, what is come to pass that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?" He feels there has been some remarkable truth uttered, but he does not, apparently, understand its true meaning and importance. "Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep Evelyn John Straehey, British auth Parliament, leaves immigration office in there for deportation as a Communist. r and former member of Chicago, 111., after arrest my word: and my Father will love him." Note how in this whole sage the presence of the Spirit of truth, the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ himself, and the love and presence of the Father, are all bound up together. "And we will come to him, and make our abode i him." Here on earth, it is God who makes his abode with the believer; 'n heaven, it will be the believer will make his abode with God. "He that loveth me not keepeth not my words." Without sincere obedience, ^profession, talk, knowledge, churchmanship, yea, ever feeling, conviction, weeping and crying, are all worthless things. "And the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me." It would seem that, as Christ attempted to terminate his message to the disciples in the upper room, on the night of his betrayal, one matter after another came into his heart and to his lips that he desired to municate to those who were to be his witnesses. Once when one of Dody's little friends, Jerry, was with his mother he didn't want to leave the nice people they were visiting. When his mother told him to put, on his coat Jerry said: "No. I am going to leave my coat and come back after it sotaie other Two Ways To Do It Two boys once applied for a job. The prospective employer gave them/ a test. 'Open this parcel," he said; to the first lad. With elaborate care the boy untied the knots in the _ string, rolled it up carefully, took off ' the wrapper and folded it neatly, putting it on one side. The second boy then stepped forward to open a similar parcel. He whipped out a pocket-knife, cut the' string, tore off the paper, threw j paper and string into the waste basket and waited expectantly. "You're hired," declared the boss to the sec-j ond hoys, "we haven't got time in I this office to save paper and string.1 That was in prosperous days and they have departed, though keen-eyed business observers declare they detect signs of their return.--Hamilton Spectator. One of Dody's little friends had been playing so much games all evening and when she began to say her prayers that night she started to say: "Chickamy, ohickamy, craneycrow --I went to the well to wash my toe." This is all for this week. Martha Feltus, Age 9. (I will be 9 Saturday)