THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG " NEWS AND VIEWS FOR WOMEN READERS Keeps the Oh! ROMAN MEAL MUFFINS-Splendid. Yes, Yes, steaming hot! They always agree with me-and I love them. cn ed 0) Dame Fashion ana Common Sense agree It's astonishing how many ladies are wear- ing wool "undies; particularly when "they can wear pure woollen vests--as soft as the finest flannel--made with | | | | | More than a dozen years ago, aft- er a rather comprehensive tour of Mesopotamia, 1 wrote in these Les- !sons that any young man with | money, and a taste for the Bible {and for archaeology, could have the finest of adventures, and win fame {for himself, by digging on the site lof the first home of Abraham, Ur or | the Chaldees. That opportunity is now lost, for the University of | Pennsylvania and the British Mu- | seum have jointly carried out tmis | excavation, and the discovertes | made last Winter have stirred the whole world of cultured folk. The little cuneiform tablet from Ur which I got from an Arab while travelling there, dated in Abraham's cwn day, seemed to make the father of faith near and real; put now the whole life of this city and time is being uncovered; and no discovery '|1s too startling to expect. low neck and no sleeves, that can be worn with the present fashion of dresses. This is partially the reason for the great Turnbull Vests and Bloomers made to match demand for Other reasons are the fine unexcelled softness, and high be relied on i clothing. You can vests and that can always BULL'S under- qual t mn t these beautiful; fine wool loomers to match, in pure wool "CEETEE"" No. 225 or wool mixture Tumbull's No. 420, Sold by the The inside of the church spirit out to be as manifest on tae out- slde and among sinners, From an actual business stand- Point there is muoh advantage to be had by being known as honest. The man who does not believe there is a God ought never be found teking His name in vain. Free salvation don't mean free church pews and the abolishment of the contribution plate. | This seems to be Abraham's day. By many lines, interest is convéty- ing upon the founder of Monothe- ism, the first interpreter of Jehovah, the one and supreme God, New Giggings are to be started ' this Autumn in old Jerusalem, where once he offered up Isaac as a proof of his loyaity to Jehovah; and these will assuredly result in reve- lations that will arrest the atten- tion of civilization. The finding.of the tombs of the kings on Ophel, the original Mount Zion, seems almost a certainty. In Egypt, Prof. Flin- ders Petrie has unearthed new evi- dence of an ancient Israelite settle- {ment. At Belson, Prof. Fisnes mn [finding illuminating inscriptions. ! Aleppo, which embalms traditions of Abraham in its name, may give jup to French scientists the secrets { that lie hidden beneath its great | castle. Hebron, with its rich mem- jorles of the patriarchs, is now ac- | cessible to a few properly accredit- ed visitors, A Trip to Old Hebron. I have just come from a visit to Hebron, and the graves of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebécca and Jacob an] Leah. The experience ie a moving one. Many sacret sites leave me cold; and I am inclined to be sceptical about shrimes in gen- eral. Not so with Hebron. The Geneels record is explicit that there In the cave of Machpelah, bought for four hundred shekels of silver by Abraham from Ephron the Hit- tite, the patriarchs and their wives were buried. The place is carefully located; the whole transaction of the purchase of the real estate is as vivii as an oriental experience of yesterday; and the unbroken tradi- tion of the centuries points to this very cave as the tomb of the famfly of Abraham. Machpelah is one of the undisputed sites of the Holy Sister JOHN TAYLOR & CO. says "True skin comfort -- no fads --the secret of that charming glow." All the. family use it TORONTO Limireo = A VISIT TO ABRAHAM'S TOMB The International Sunday Sch ool Lesson for October 7th Is, | "Abraham a Blessing to the Whole World."-- Gen. 12:1-4; 18:17, 18; 22:15-18. By William T. Ellie. | Land, Over the cave, which 1s now seal- ed up exactly as was recorded in the eleventh century, there is an ancient church, which has been turned into a mosque. There are two holes leading into the. cave; one an aperature in the side, by the | stairs, at a point beyond whiem no Jews are allowed to pass, where ,as 1 saw, Jewish women go to pray for sons at the tomb of Sarah, dropping written prayers the while into the cave. The other hole is in the top of the cave, opening into the inter- for of the mosque, and through this a small boy is lowered at in- frequent intervals to gather up the papers' that have accumulated. Aside from the cenotaphs, covered | with gold-embroidered green cloths, which commemorate all of the bodies below, there is no display or ostentation about the tombs, Mos- lems maintain shrines in far great- er simplicity anq dignity and seem- liness than do the Christian church- es in the Orient, Real reverence fills one who has the high and rare privilege o: visit- ing these tombs where, for four thousand years, these men of faith have rested, according to the ancient Book of Genesis. The flesh-and- blood reality of Abraham impresses one at Hebron. What king's grave has so certainly been kept for a per- lod of this length? The much press- agented tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen is not £0 old as that of Abraham, and he. himself was comparatively a nonentity, As I went out to the oak of Mamre, and to the vineyaras of Eschol, where the grapes were flourishing in abundance, I somehow had the feeling that, in a way Yer to be revealed, the personality and message of Abraham are soon wo mean more to mankind than ever before, -------- . A Hero of Three Religions. Jews Christians, and Moslems all do reverence to this first hero of faith, to whose abode civilization | and scholarship are nowadays pene- | trating with new interest, Perhaps | a return to Abraham may mean a re- | vival of the religion of the reality and unity of God. That was his message, even aa it later was Mo- hammed's. It is not the full truth about Jehovah, who revealed him. {who wandered far and slowly over From far down below Bagdad, where self completely only in his Son, our Saviour. Nevertheless, in a period when we have overlaid Christianity with refinements of ritual and dog- ma and ecclesiasticism; and when the minutae of procedure and prac: tice are stressed by many as ths first - requirements of faith; it is wholesome to be called back by Abra- ham to the majestic and essential first truth that God exists, anq that he is one God, supreme in character and in sovereignty. Religion is not a matter of the fashion of one's dress, or the meet- ings qne attends of the organiza- tion to which one belongs; it is be- fore all else, a recognition of the Godship of Jehovah, and of humble obedience to Him. This was the tre- mendous truth, which, in an idola- trous age, made a "come-outer" of Abraham, and set him forth upon the supreme adventure of the ages. The Audacity of a Dreamer. All the East ig full of tales of Ah- rabam: I wish there were space to tell the characteristic one which I heard at Urfa, and of Abraham's tra- ditional sojourn there. This man, our day's most troubled areg of the Near East, was so great a personal- ity that his memory has outlived all the major empires of antiquity. once the city-state of Ur flourished, along with others over which the sands of the centuries have also drifted, he journeyed northward and eastward, in obedience to a Divine vision, No mere tent-dwelling Bedouin was he, rude and unlettered, but | city man of learning, force and substance. What a flood of light the recemt excavations have shed upon the assumption that even Mos- ----. You cannot afford to economize on sleep Sleep is the most important of costs only two or three cents per life's few necessities. Total loss night for all its years of use. of it kills any animal in a week, The Ostermoor Mattress while men have gone without Check up on your sleep equipment food for 50 days and recovered. tonight. 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"In a sordid .time to seek steadfastly spiritual ends is a mark of real greatness. To put God and duty first, with nothing else even sec- talém today because umph lead through a Gethsemane. Abraham and Jesus were neigh- bors in the Garden of Sacrifice and Surrender. But both became saviour. Civilization makes epirit- sual pilgrimage to Hebron and Jeru- Abraham dar ed go the limit for God. 1f wishes were fishes a lot of peo- ple would be to lasy to fish. * old, is to move up into the foremost ranks of character. Ii made Abra- ham, "a friend of God," and a bene- factor of all mankind. J powder Get two ounces of xin from any os nkle vin be gop