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% Ploneer of Faith)--Genesls 12: 2 13: 7412; Hebrews 11: 810. Golden Text--By Abraham, when he 'was ANALYSIS 1. CALLED OF GoD, Gen. 12: 1-5. II. A PEACEMAKER, Gen, 13; 1-12, IIL COVENANT AND INTERCESSION, Ge; ' 17: 1-8; 18: 22-38. : IV. AN EXAMPLE OF FAITH, Hebrew. 11: 8-10. ¥ INTRODUCTION--We begin, with this lesson, a series of studies of men and women of the Bible, more especially of Hoge whose names stand out promin- ently in Bible history. Of these none is more interesting and none more dis- Zingvighed than Abraham. He is inter- esting as a man of his own age, with the ideas and with the limitations of age, who nevertheless rose above 'those ideas, transcended those limita. tions, and went forth upon a great adventure, because he heard and obey- ed the voice of God. He is Teton ed for Lis courage, Jor his magnanim- ity, for his love of his kinsfolk, for his humanity, bus, above all, for his faith in God and his great obedience. 1. cALLED OF Gop, Gen, 12: 1.5. Abram, as he was first named, had dome originally, with Lis father, his wife Sarai, and his nephew Lot, from the city of Uron om the lower Eu- phrates River, to Haran, an important Base more than five Lundred miles to north-west. Here the road from Nineveh to Carchemish was joined by the road from Damascus, and Haran was therefore a meeting place of ear- avan trade from tl east, the west, and the south, whose merchants many cen- tories after the time of Abram are 'mentioned as still trading with the great seaport of Tyre (Ezek, 27: 23). Now the Lord had said unto Abram, speaking no doubt through some pro- found inner conviction of duty or obli- ation. So writes one of the best nown futerpreters of the book of Gen- esis, "God's voice is to be thought of not as something external, but as heard within Abram's inmost soul." What conditions of life in Haran may have affected the mind of Abram at this time and made him more recen- tive of the divine call we do not know. Haran was a great centre of the wor- hip of the moon-god, and h~ may have desired to escape from the corrupt atmosphere of its temples to the freer and cleaner air ~f the land of Canaan "hip God in a bet- " cee a M4: 2). With the cail to wh'ch Abram was obedient came the promise of blessing --the blessing of God upon himself and through him upon all families of the earth, One can imagine this man in the vigor of comparative youth, chieftain of a small tribal community, thrilled with this high ambition and hope, leading his followers out on the way to a new country where there would not only be plenty of room for their flocks and herds. but ovportunity for a purer worship which would bless the world. II. A PEACEMAKER, Gen. 18: 1-12, N The story so frankly told in the lat- ter part of chap. 12 is not creditable to Abram. It may "ave been that he met Again in the populous and hich land of Egypt some of the evils which he had sought to escape when he left Haran. The way of cowardice and falsehood did not prove to be the way of safety, and he richly deserved the rebuke of Pharaoh. The true character of the man appears when he returns to Bethel, in his magnanimous treat- ment of Lot. Here he counsels peace irstead of strife and gives the younger man his. choice oi the land. Lot made a selfish choice, the plain of Jordan-- well watered everywhere--even as the garden of the Lord. This was the re- ion north of and surrounding the ead Sea, park of which (that near Jericho) was very fertile. The later destruction of the cities of the plain seems to have rendered much of it barren and desert. Lot's selfish choice was lis undoing, and the tragedy of it began when he B his tent toward Sodom, v. 12. The generosity of Abram was rewarded by a renewal of the di- vine promises, 18: 14-17. TII. COVENANT AND INTERCESSION, Gen. 17: 1-8; 18: 22-88. The story of Abraham's ou 5) in- tercession for'the doorhed cities of the plain shows his true greatness. Boldly e pleads with God to save the cities for the sake of the righteous who may . have their homes there. For shall not n. *| Welcome the advocacy of athelsm in East, But the East--at any rate the{ Islamic and Buddhist East--is es- sentially religious and Is unlikely to any form. Neither in: India where political movements are Invariably colored by religious beliefs nor in the world of Islam, nor in Jewry, is blat- ant and aggressive irreligion a pass port to lasting esteem or influence. Great Britain, who is now confronted in Palestine and India with problems that will test both her fair-mindedness and her statecraft, should have little reason to fear Bolshevist propaganda 2 rp re Aviatrix Finishes 12,000-Mile Air Trip New York--Miss Anne Peck, ex- plorer and lecturer, returned June 13 from a 12,000-mile airplane trip In South America. Miss Peck began the South American journey about Christ mag time last year. She landed on the coast of Colombia, and, taking her first airplane ride, flew into the in- terior at Bogota. She continued the alr journey down the west coast, over the Andes to Buenos Aires up into Paraguay and finally on to Pernam- buco and Miami, Fla. Miss Peck set a mountain-climbing record when she scaled Mt. Huas- garan, Peru, sald to be the highest climb in the Western Hemisphere, in 1903. --n Britain's 'Moral Supremacy America has not yet produced a race, or a racial type, or a racial mind, and this fa~t--to be very frank --i8 a guarantee of Great Britain's moral supremacy for the next few . hundred years, says Mary Borden in | Harper's Monthly. After that, when ' the population of the United States bas added to itself another hundred million people, Great Britain may have to take second place. In the meantime, I back England and the enduring power of England and Its curious, slowly developing life, aud its obstinate, invincible unity, which is so little understood by foreign politicians and "which I attribute en- tirely to its geography, or, in other words, to its climate, renner ee eet Canada To Be Visited By British Farmers 'Winnipeg, Man.--Under the auspices of the British National Union, a tour of British farmers is to be conducted through Canada toward the end of this summer. The tour will com- mence August 23 at Liverpool, and will be the sixth that the union has organized. The object of the visit is to, en- courage Intercourse between the pco- ple of the mother country and their kinsfolk. \ rp tesa. 100-Ton Carillon Goes to New York London--What is sald to be the world's largest carillon--72 bells-- for the Rockefeller Baptist Church in New York, was shipped on June 20 on the liner American Trader. ° Cast by Gillett & Johnston of Croy- don, the total weight 1s over 100 tons, the large Bourdon bell being nearly 20 tons. The C bell is the largest tuned bell ever manufactured in this country. men pee: Plane Breaks Speed Record Over Andes Santiago, Chile--A new speed rec- ord between Mendoza, Argentina, and this city over the Andes was set June 18 when a New York, Rio and Buenos Afres alr liner made the flight in one hour as compared to a normal flying time of ome hour and ten minutes. Travel timé by train between the two the Judge of all the earth do right? points is 1614 hours. By BUD FISHER when its true characted is made plain.|" Prime Minister and Miss Ishbel Croydon, recently, in first air excursion from London to Glasgow, inaugurated by Imperial Airways, | Deported by Police London--YVisitors to London during the coming season will look in vain in Chinatown for the mystery and glamour of the Orient which once lur- ed sightseers from all parts of the world to that small corner of the East End, Gone are the opium dens and gam-| will facilitate the cleaning, some ex- bling hells which for so long provided | perts use a small amount of kerosene requiste| instead, because besides cutting" the thrills; the police have unearthed all| grease it leaves a brilliant luster. fietlon writers with their the secret lairs and the crafty money- makers who lurked therein have been cleaning glass, deported, At the present time there are not more than a hundred Chinese families left in Chinatown--and earned the reputation of being one of the most honest and generally wells behaved sections of the Bast End community, shmmase------ The Sussex Shepherd He sleeps to-day in waxen shrcud; His gentle hands are full Of snowy may; with finger-hold Upon a wisp of woo! He carries to the Heavenly Throne To show the waiting Lord He could not leave in lambing-time To hear the Blessed Word. No lark will ever waken him; The mists will climb the sky; And in the dew-pond on the Downs His shadowed sheep go by. --Mary Marquis in the New York Times. ------ nnn Clearing the Air. Mrs. Blank used to take great In- terest in visiting hospitals and asy- lums, During her visit to one of the latter, a certain old man aroused her special compassion. "How long have you been here?" she asked him. "Twelve years," was the reply. After asking a few more questions she passed on. Turning to her guide, she noticed a smile on his face. On asking him the reason, she reard, to her consterna- tion, that the old man was no less than the medical superintendent. In great haste she rushed back to make her apologies. "I am so sorry, doctor," she said. "This has taught me a lesson. I'll never judge by appearances again." rami "Don't Bend 1" "Did your little boy enjoy the party?" asked Mrs. Brown, "I think so," sighed the little boy's mother. "He wasn't hungry till half- 'past five the next afternoon!" ---------- . A coiner of phrases says, "The world's tears have their source on the hills of misunderstanding." Might he not have added: And form lakes of love in the valleys? they have way for a small amount may be added MacDonald about to enter plane at "ye . Vindow Hints For washing windows, usually nath- ir 3 more than clear warm water is necessary, If the windows are particu- larly grimy, as in the kitchen where there is apt to be a film of grease on the panes, a few drops of ammonia Denatured alcohol is also good for It evaporates rapidly and leaves a brilliant sheen. Although it is most effective when used concen- trated, it need not always be used that to the wash water just a& one would use kerosene or ammonia. When cloths or chamois are to be used in cleaning windows, it is an excellent plan to wipe the panes first with a wad of dampened paper, that of the tissue toweling type being es- pecially good for the purpose. This remoyes most of the grime so tha' the other cleaning agents do not get soiled so quickly. Some women follow this plan by merely rubbing with a dry piece of old taffeta silk, which leaves the windows bright and clear. Many home makers who use chamois for this purpose do their window washing between times of loading the washing machine on wash day. Instead of tak- ing the time to wash out the chamois, this arrangement does that work for them by merely dropping the skin in- to the machine, whence it emerges "Strange Fishing A curious sight in the eity of Win Shester is angling for trout in the pub- streets. As most of you know, WinoHibster in England 1s on the River Itchen, and into the main stream there run numer- ous small tributaries. The water of these brooks is exceptionally clear, and trout, often of a good size, abound. In the main thoroughfares of the city the brooks, which run along by the edge of the roads, are mostly cov- ered in, In order to allow surface water to flow away gratings are ar- ranged at intervals, and it is through these that cunningly baited lines are cast, and a good trout often captured. Now and again a fish may get away with"hook and line and swim rapidly down stream, Then the fisherman makes a wild dash along the bank un: til, sooner or later, the flowing water comes more definitely into the open, and there occurs an opportunity to re trieve the lost line and hook, and per- haps secure the fish as well, What New York Is Wearing {BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern ready for the rest of the windows or for drying. In winter, windowpanes may well be wiped, with a handful of tissue paper dipped in ammonia or alcohol, then polished with dry paper. Alcohol not only leaves a sparkling glass, but it also prevents its gathering frost as fast as it does otherwise, so the idea is especially applicable to the washing of the windows and the windshield of the car during very cold weather, < THE ONE EXCEPTION The. well-known film actress, Miss Janet Gaynor, famous for her per- formance in Seventh Heaven, is fond of telling what may not Inaptly be called spoof adventure stories. One that she is keen on relating tells how a party of globetrotting tourists were cast away upon an ls- land where the natives were report: ed to be cannibals. "Well, what happened?" some un- wary listener is pretty sure to in- quire, "Oh, nothing," Janet wil reply. "It turned out that the natives were veg- etarians," "And so, 1 presume," hazards the unwary one, "the tourists escaped with their lives." "All but one woman, She was a grass widow." Dots seem to be growing in popu- larity more and more every day. In this model the French couturier has chosen a sheer crepe that displays charming femininity in its ceil blue coloring. The capelet collar is plain blue crepe and has picot-edge. It's the modified Princess silhouette with low-flared circular fulness that will make you look charmingly slender. Style No. 25610 can be had in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. Tulip-rouge crepe de chine and par- rot green flat silk crepe with eggshell crepe collar are stunning suggestions. Printed chiffon voile, printed batiste and pastel handkerchief lawn are lovely for summer wardrobe, HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. 'Write your name and address plain- ly, giving npmber and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and | address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. mnie Golden Conversation Stockholm--Telephone connections between Sweden and the Dutch In- dies is now open. The cost for a call of three minutes' duration Is about $24, each Individual minute costing about $8. MUTT'S IN WITH SHOTS ~ He TOLD M& He WAS GONNA SIT- IN THE MAYOR'S Box WITH THE GOVERNOR. AND OTHER MPORTANT --{_PeOPLE! Me Bie Economy Corner Ham Roulade Cut cold baked Virginia ham into thin slices, Spread the following mix- ture on each slice very thickly. Mix one cream cheese with a half tea- spoon salt, 2 tablespoons fresh grated horse radish and sufficient' cream to, make a soft filling. Roll each up and serve on lettuce leaves. 1 have serv- ed this with vegetable salad for a luncheon, with hot biscuits," and tea, rhubarb sauce vanilla wafers and It was good. Dixie Jumbles One and one-quarter cups sugar, %' cup shortening, 3 eggs, 3% cups flour,' 3% teaspoon mace, 2/3 teaspoon salt,' 8 teaspoons baking powder, juice of 1 orange or lemon, chopped nuts, i Cream sugar and shortening; add well-beaten eggs, fruit pulice, sited dry. Tarn onto floured board, cut into shape, bake about 12 minutes In moderate oven. Leave a little space between the cakes and you can use 2 eggs and '% cup water if you care to. Potato Spice Cookies One cup molasses, % cup shorten- ing, 1% cups hot riced potatoes, 2 cups flour, % teaspoon salt, 2 tea- spoons baking powde: 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 3% teaspoon each of soda, cloves, nutmeg, mace and % cup chop- ped raisins, Heat the molasses and stir in short- ening until meltéd; add hot potatoes, then sifted dry ingredients and ral, sins; mix well and drop by teaspoons on baking sheet. . Bake in moderate oven, Luncheon Dish - One cup cold chopped roast pork (or pork chops), % cup bread crumbs, salt, pepper, 1 cup of milk, 1 egg, but-| ter. Beat the egg and add milk, pork, crumbs and seasoning. Pour into casserole, sprinkle crumbs over top and dot with bits of butter, Bake about half an hour in a medium hot oven. | Maple Mousse Heat 1 cup of maple syrup; dilute the well-beaten yolks of 4 eggs with % cup of milk and stir into syrup until thick and smooth. Cool and add 1 pint of cream whipped, and the stiffly-beaten egg whites. Pack in ice and salt for 4 or 5 hours Vegetable Hash One-half "cup of chopped cooked carrots, 1 cup of chopped cooked po- tatoes, 3% cup of chopped cooked tur- nips, 2 cups of chopped cooked cab- bage, 1 cup of chopped cooked beets, 2 tablespoons of beef fat, %4 cup of milk, salt and pepper. Melt the fat in a frying pan. When sizzling hot pour in the above ingredients, spread evenly, cover and cook slowly one- half hour. Fold, turn and serve. | Strawberry Whip | Hull 1 quart of fresh, ripe straw berries, sprinkle with a liberal amount of sugar, mash, add the juica of 1 or- ange and let stand one hour. Beat the whites of 4 eggs until stiff, then add berries previously rubbed through a sieve and beat until stiff and smooth. Line a dish with sponge or delicate cake, fill with the whip ond garnish the top with whoie berries. ! Serve at once. Rhubarb Pudding i Cut up and cook together, with 1' cup water, 3% pound of rhubarb, When soft, add 1 cup sugar and a pinch of salt. Let come to a hard boil and thicken with 1 heaping teapsoon of potato starch dissolved in cold water, | Cook % minute, stirring. Pour into; dish and cool. Serve with top mili, sweeteped. | or thin cream, slightly Very good for children. Sse Sure Sign "Did ye hear that McGregor fell in- to the water while he was fishing and was drooned?" "Are ye sure he's deid?" "Oh, he's deid richt enough. When they got him oot they went through his pockets and he didna move." | Expresses on the 'Phone "While travelliag at fifty miles an hour on the Canadian, National Rall- ways passengers can now ring up either their home or business ad- dresses by telephone, meme Mother---"Johnny, what are you do- ing in the pantry?" Johnny--"Oh, just putting a few things away." ms ry Praise for Dogs : 7 5 Sade B Stefannson Says Large Island May Be Found in Arctic Regions Quebec--"While Rear-Admiral Byrd accomplished a great deal of good work in his recent expedition to the Pole, he was accompanied by a num- ber of expert scientists," according to Vilhjahmen Stefaunson, noted ex- plorer, who salled for L<&ndon and Burope recently. . "Exploring nowadays is not like it was In my time, for now It is a tre. mendous organized thing, mach like a military campaign, where as in my own time it was more individual, In addition, exploring expeditions are much more costly now than was the case 20 years ago, for my expedition | was considered a very expensive one, yet we operated for five and one-half years ,at a cost of roughly $500,000 or a little less than a hundred thousand dollars a year. Rear-Admiral Byrd's expedition, which has operated for a year and a half, has cost in the neighborhood of $1,500,000, or roughly a million a year. These are public figures that I am stating, for I have no private information of my own," continued the explorer. Likes Dog Teams Discussing the use of airplanes in connection with Polar flights, and their superiority over dog-sleds and teams Mr. Stefannson expressed the i opinion that airplanes were superior for reconnaisance work, but that for | Boiling Information from close quar ters there was nothing to beat dog- teams, "One of the great problems of north- ern exploration is oceanography, and Just as you cannot get dny sight of codfish over the Atlantic In an air- plane so you cannot obtain any knowl edge of oceanography by flying over Northern seas," he declared, adding "Mr. Byrd, however, has a number of dog-slels and teams with him, and they helped considerably with his work." Addressing Meeting Mr Stefanngon declared that he had retired 10 years ago, after his third expedition into the extreme north, and that he was going to London for the purpose of addressing a meeting of the Polar congress durlfig the sec- ond week In July, and that he then intended to spend three months work- ing on his book. "1 enjoy myself Lest when I am 500 miles from my nearest neighbor, or else in a city of five milllon people," the explorer stated. He spoke of exist- ing Jand which might not have been discovered In the Arctic by any of the explorations, and declared that there was the possibility of finding an i island the size of Cuba, but it was not probable, "We belleve that there is no land not discovered in the Arctic. The last human beings to dlacover islands in the Arctic were my third expedi- tion, which discovered Borden Island," concluded Mr. Stafannson, as he said good-bye to mewspapermen -- Using Garlic Wail In the best French cook rr were garlic is used, the resultant favor is elusive that its presence in mary a delicately seasoned di is ardy suspected The French housewife uses garlic sparingly and with discretion 18 word of warning is wor'h remember ing as it is "discretion" that 18 neces gary if the addition of this pai seasoning is to be sufficiently del ¢ to be enjoyed. The use of in a mixed vegetable salad is po best known form in the average hone, In all such uses of garlic, Sydusy Smith's familiar recipe for polato salad should be borne in mind and paraphrased to read: "Let garlic flavor lurk within the bowl And, scarce suspected, animate the whole." Another method of using garlic so that it may be "scarce suspec is especially adapted to baked entroes, such as escalloped preparations of vegetables, meat, fish or fowl! 1' the baking dish is rubbed with a cat clove of garlic before being hu tered, the garlic flavor wili he sn eve distributed as to be havdiy distingu's able and still add an agreeab'v pun- gency to the contents of the dish. In preparing a cooked sate a cut clove of garlic added for three or fonr min- utes and then removed wlll impart sufficient flavor to sult most tastes. Like the onion and the leck, garlle belongs to the lily family, though its bulb has an entirely different formae tion. Each bulb is composed of & number of "cloves" or "kernels" quits distinct from one another and encased in a smooth, strong skin, Bach clove must be peeled and cut into halves or quarters in order to release the flavor, on of these subdivisions often being suffiglent for seasoning a good-sized dish, The remalnder of the bulb can be left Intact and anoth- er "clove" removed when 'needed There is no odor from garlic until peeled and cut, so that its presence with other' vegetables on hand, even in a small space, 18 not objectionable. A single bulb can be bought at a time and costs but a few cents. aa pa Now comes the news that petrol can bo made from Does this presage an added faducement to mow the lawn befors startlrg on a. loug motor trip? " ik Be 1 vee gO In Ae : tion ee a AR Xe Sw