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AB "therefore, 1a DissoLYED PARTNERSHIP, Acts 15: IL. GALA fSiTED: TIMOTHY, Acts THI. now bab. TURNED WEST, Acts. 15: ~_ INTRODUCTION--We come now to Paul's second missionary journey. Had Paul gone East instead of Wess, Chinese churches would probably he sending missionaries today to evan- gelize .he natives of Britain and Am- erica, As itis, into our western hands has been : committed ths missionary ente "prise. I, A DISSOLVED PARTNTIRSHIP, Acts 15: 36-41. After accepting the Jerusalem com- promise, the church in Antioch had peace. Paul wes again free for mis- sion work. He longed to see the Gal- atian converts once more, v. 36. This personal affection and concern for his converts was one of. the most attrac- tive featares in Paul's character. It appears-in the ietters which he wrote afterwards. "With great desire" he would see th:ir faces (1 Thess. 2: 17), "night and day praying exceed- ingly" "1at he might see them, 2 Tess. 8: 10. Also, he recognized the im- portance of "following up" work ba: gun. Then came the unhappy disagree: mene between the two leaders. Bar- nabas would take John Mark again. Paul, setting out upon a journey like- ly to be difficult and dangerous, would have ncthing to do with one who had already failed him. Barnabas, jer- Laps unconsciously placing nis kiadly feelings toward his nephew before the interests of the work, was adamant, Unable to agree, they d vided the field between them. Barnabas could take Mark and go to Cyprus. Paul, select- inz Silas (15: 22), would go north overiond to the cilies previously visited. Barnubas now disappears from the record, Tha church at Antioch agreed with Paul, v. 40, It seems inexpress- ibly sad. Paul owed a great deal to Barnabas, 9: 27; 11: 25, 26. His affec- tionate nature must nave been deeply pained. It was a time when he felt that for Christ he must suffer loss of everything--even friendship, Phil. 3: 7, 8. That friendship, however, vas restored later, 1 Cor. 9: 6. Even Mark eventually won his confidence (2 Tim. 4: 11), but 'ke two leaders never worked together again. God makes the wrath of man to praise him; two missionary enter- prises, instead of one, were thus set on foot. II. GALATIA REVISITED: TIMOTHY, Acts 16: 1-5. After winning his fight for Gentile freedom from circumcision, Paul cir- cumcized Timothy. Why? ~Timothy (v. 1), whom he himself had heen the means of converting and of whom he was very fond, Paul would take with him, v. 3. But Timothy was uncir- cumcised. Being part Jew, he could r.asorably be expected to come undsr the Jewish requirements. The mis- sionaries would generally lodge in the Jewish quarters of the cities they would visit. They would begin their work in the synagogues. The pres- ence of the uncircumcised Timothy would be offens've to the Jews, em- barrassing to Timothy himself, and a . hindrarcc to the work. Paul, there. * fore, since no principle was at stake, 'Lad Timothy circumcised, v. 3. IIT. HOW PAUL TURNED WEST, Acts 16: To the north lay Bithynia with its populous cities. Thither Paul turaed. Agai the "Spirit of Jesus" (the :or- rect reading of v. 7) forbade, The har- vest of Bithynia was not for Paul, but for eter, | Peter 1: 1. The only course left opep for the missionaries now was westward to Troas, v. 8. For- bidden to preach ther y--for it was part of the forbidden Asia, they had rot much choice; it was either to re- turn home or cross the sea to Mace- @onia, which is today part of modern Greece. At the critical moment came a turning point in history. Paul's vi- gion was the birth-hour of western civilization and westera Christianity. Paul was evidently thinking and pray- ing about Macedonia. Perhaps, as Ramsay suggests, a Dr. Luke meeting the travelers in the hotel at Troas, had suggested Macedonia to him. Tn any caso, falling asleep to the swish of the sea, Pail dreamed a dream, v. 9. He took it to be a divine guidance. So did they all, -. 10. ; 'and no syn women holding of his fam "After a good passage, carefully re rted by Luke, who is now of re | ty and acquainted with the sea, the missionaries arrived in Philippi early in the week. Philippi had few Je e, Paul found some a prayer-meeting by the 'iver. Among then he began his "venture of faith." Lydia became one ous converts. zation of Euro, hindrances, embarrassme, ently sinister experiences, God "sets oup feet in steps that lead us upward yet. . Enter the Provost A new ecclesiastical title is to make its appearance--that of "Provost," which is to he borne by the incum- bents of parish church cathedrals, such as Birmingh#m, Bradford, Lei- cester, Newcastle; Portsmouth, and Sheflield, The title"is to carry with it the precedence accorded to the dean of a cathedral. : Although new in this connection, the title of provost is an old ome. It is applied to the heads of certain colleges, such as Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and to the chief magistrates of citi d boroughs in Scotland. There the title is equiva- lent to that of ..yor in England, and that of Lord Provost to Lord Mayor. There are five lord provosts--the chief magistrates of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Perth and Dundee, ee What New York Is Wearing lllustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern _ BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON and destruction writes The N.Y. Times. damage? civilizations, for although in China with its densely | COT™-belt soil to wash off land of gent populated lands the flood *waters are |lY 8loping topography. On steeper more appalfing in their results, the | 18nd, that having a fall of eight feet processes which arg there at work are { in a linear distance of a hundred feet, also to be found as a menace to the ' the rate of removal is one inch in one future of the United States. ous Gross, a mechanic of Berlin, has conceived this new idea of a water riding automobile. . With special equipment any auts can be converted in a period of 15 minutes into a sea-going hack. Just the thing for detours. layer removed by unchécked washing, Destructive Floods ", !but the exposed subsoil which now ' 'must be farmed, or abandoned, is more C of Erosi ause ' OSI0N aimicult to till because of its usual high Countries Being Denud- ed of Forests One of China's greatest scourges-- the flood--is again spreading death over a wide area, Hugh Hammond Bennett' in What is the reason for these periodic visitation entailing great loss of life and vast property| In China's recurring. mis. tiiuous corn cultivation in Northern | Missouri and Southern Iowa for ene fortunes there is a warning to younger especially to America; | tnch of an important type or rolling content of stiff clay; it absorbs mois- China's Diaster Warning "to ture slower than the mellow loam now gone and gives it up faster with the increased baking of dry weather. Moreover, the washing is speeded wp in many localities; and it is at this staze of land depletion that gullying usually sets in. Over the less absorp- tive eroded slopes water flows away with increased rapidity to augment floods. It takes just seven years under con- year. In other words, under the pre- China's history of floods is volumin.| ailing system of corn production in beyond comprehension. After this region the most productive part 4,000 years of building levees and dig-| °f the land, the seven inches consti- ging canals, the great Yellow River broke over-its banks fn 1877 in an ap- 2%&Y within from seven to forty-nine palling overflow that brought death to Years. Here the virgin soil produced 1,000,000 human beings. In 1852 this! in good years seventy-five bushels of swollen Titan changed its lower chan. COFIl Der acre; the exposed subsoil pro- nel to enter the ocean 300 miles nortn | duces at the rate of about twenty of its mouth on the Yellow Sea. tuting the -top-soil, is being washed bushels per acre. .|stands a hippopotamus that | the Hippo--the famous roving ai + fthat was'lodked upon by white South Atricans ag a friend and by natives as , | country, The Yellow Sea, a part of the Ia- cifie Ocean, is colored with silt swapt down from slopes far up the Yangise Kiang and Whang Ho, whose water- sheds once were clothed with forests and grass. Stripped of these stabiliz- ing agencies in nature, countless slop- ing areas were cultivated without pro- tection against the evils of rain-wash, a process which has altered the sur- face of the earth more than the com- To be just right, the clothes of the growing miss must have abit of dash. The jacket dress, so splendid for school wear, has a definite smartness and practicality too, for it is equally attractive when the jacket is dis- carded. 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AUTT 1S PLAYING ME \ bined activities of volcanoes, quakes, tidal waves, tornadoes and all yet on the verge of a land shortage. the excavations of mankind since the In spite of the appalling wastage, we I earth- beginning of history. Every rain heavy enough to cause water to.run land down into the less stable sub-| strata, where the destructive process i speeds on at accelerated pace. Under nature's stabilizers of forest, bery and grass, erosion works slowly; with these removed by man and his do- mestic animals the wastage is vastly increased. There have always been floods and there always will be. There is evi- nevertheless, that no such And {mighty flood ever before marched down the Mississippi as the one of four years ago. And now the Yangtse is reported to have surpassed its own long record of deluges, covering more than 4,000 years of recorded history. What Wasteful Erosion 'Means When soil is washed out of flelds ft cannot be hauled back, nor can it be restored with fertilizers or soildm- proving crops. «It can be improved, to be sure, but soil like the virgin surface layer, which averages only about nine inches deep over the uplands of the country, cannot be hullt back to its original condition. With some of the important agricultural soils of the country it has taken nature not less than 400 years to build one single inch of this productive humus-charged sur- face material, the principal repository of available plant food and the abid- ing place of incredible hosts of béne- ficial micro-organisms, shrub- produce' abundantly, Not on'. is the more productive The plant food removed from the fields and pastures of America every year by erosion exceeds by twenty- one times that removed by the crops harvested. That taken by crops can be restored fn the form of fertilizer, but that removed by. erosion cannot be restored, because this malevolent process takes the whole body of the soil, plant food and all. Notwithstanding the vast continuing losses caused by erosion, we are not are confronted with the anomalous situation of having on our hands large downhill carries its toll of suspended | crope surpluses. With increasing, use soil, eating away the substance ot the of fertilizers and soll-improving crops, together with the abandonment of worn-out land for land still retaining some of its top-soil, we continue to In many locali- ties, however, yields have dwindled markedly, Wit" all the improvement which has been made with corn varie- ties and the widespread betterment of cultural methods, our acreage, yield of corn has not increased, This means, obviously, that we are s'ill cultivating much land of inferior quality, The United States Department of Agriculture, co-operating with the States, has recently inaugurated a na- tional program of soil conservation. Already much has been accomplished with field terraces, and experiments under way indicatp that strip<cropping --that 1s, the growing of soil-saving crops in strips algng the slopes, alter- nately with the clean-tilled crops--will prove tremendously important, A soil saving culttivator' recontly devised at one of thse experiment stations digs 19,000 holes to every acre, while oper- ating as rapidly as any practical farm implement. These excavations hold on each acre of land aproximately 50,- 000 gallons of water, thus preventing run-off 'and erosion from numerous ratus, oh Grey--"How long has Meekleigh been married?" "Greene--"For twenty awed years." Cape Town.--In the Kaffrarian rari eum at King Williams Town South Africa thrill after t mous stuffed hide was once Hube e reincarnation of a great chief. Flags were flown at half-mast in Durban on the tragic day when the known. Four farmers convicted of the deed were each sentenced to a fine of £25 or three months' hard labor. A wave of protest swept through the wrote: "I have entirely despaired of human nature. Therb are some peo: ple who cannot see an interesting specimen without itching to take a pot shot at it." Faia How did Huberta the Hippo capture the affection of the whole of South Africa? It is a diverting story. To realize the sensation caused every- where by the appearance of Huberta, it must be understood ®hat South Afri- ca--apart from a few game preserves --is no longer a wonderland of big game. Thousands of people living in the cities have never seen game ani- mals execpt in captivity. So when, in November, 1928, a full-grown hippo- potamus strolled intp the village of New 'Guelderland, fifty miles from Dur- ban, The event received largé head- lines in all the newspapers. Huberta Makes Debut Indians and natives working in the fields of sugarcane were the first to raise the alarm. They heard a snort- ing and a bellowing, and ran for safe- tv. The hippo remained until hun- dreds of people were staring wide- eyed with astonishment; then retreat- ed into the thicket. Undoubtedly this adventurous beast had wandered from the Umfolosf sanc- tuary, near Lake St, Lucia, Zulaland --the last known breeding place of the hippo within the borders of the Union. by correspondents who rushed to the spot, but it was as Hubert the Hippo that she became a national character. It was not until after her: death that the mistake about her sex was dis- covered, "and she was renamed Hu- berta, From the day of her first appear- ance until her death Huberta was a marked hippo, After she had startled the plantation workers at Guelderland she quickly achieved notoriety. An enterprising _ress photographer went out among the sugar-cane, but when he leveled his camera Huberta charged him. Curious crowds: flocked to see her. As they grew larger they annoyed Hu- berta more and more, and finally she moved off, From that moment began her journeyings, which were to last two years and make her the most fa- mous hippg that ever lived. She moved first in the direction of Durban, As she approached the city she passed through areas which grew more and more thickly populated with every mile. Naturally, the sensation she caused was enormous. As she approachpd Durban, which is one of the largest cities in South Afri- ca, the excitement grew. 'Hubert on His Way," said the headlines (they thought she was a bull then), and peo- ple waited eagerly to see where the animal would make its next appear- ance. Of cours, had it been neces- sary, an organized hint could have put an end to her career then and there. But by. this time Huber-a was a public character. She "ad roused the amuse- ment, even the affection, of the entire population. It had bcep proved that she was quite harmless. Qccasionally she charged people who were too in- quisitive. - An Unwelcome Visitor Her gre escapr' followed. She called at a hotel just outside Durban one night, appeared suddenly and gave some of the habitues a severe nervous shock. After this, however, she de- more than two years. For this enor. "assassination' 'of Huberta, became | 1 and a museum director At first she was named Billy | Mrs. Osborn of London, Eng- land, enters her Irish wolfhaund in the Richmond champion dog show. into contact with civilization, She made a wide dstoutand was not heard of again until she reached the coast twenty miles south of Durban. Jour- neying on, she came to the mouth of the Umzimvubu River near Port St. John. There she settled down for a time and lived happily in the river. But again her fatal curiosity got the better of her and one night she visited the village of Port St. John. A town counselor, so it is said, was crossing the square to a meeting. He flashed his electric-torch in front of him and saw the yawning mouth of a hippo. He did not attend the meeting! Huberta gat down in the squarq and soon the entire population of the vil lage turned out to see her. It was the most exciting thing that ever hap- pened in Port St. John or is ever like- ly to happen there. Huberta bore the shouting of men and women and the barking of dogs for half an hour. Then she left Port St. John never to return. Her wanderings had begun again, Huberta's odyssey now became a less pleasant one. The Bloomfontein Zoo_had sent a party out; to capture her alive, - They were hard upon her trail. But Huberta by this time had lived upon the fringes of civilization for nearly two years. She had de- veloped amazing cunning. She passed through areas inhabited by natives and they saw not the least sign of her. Then one day a farmer reported to the magistrate at Peddie, near King William's town, that he had seen a dead hippo in the river. Men went to the spot and, with eighteen oxen and chains, hauled out the body. It was Huberta, with bullet holes above her eyes. She was a full grown cow hippo 9 feet 2 inches in length and with a girth of 8 feet 1 inch. She must have weighed .nearly four toms. . Every paper in South Africa pub- lished an obituary, Museums quar. reled for the right to preserve her hide. There was a popular outcry against the unknown marksmen who had shot her. Eventually, four men made voluntary conf-ssions. They were charged under tho game laws and fined $125 each. Huberta will always be remembered with affection in South Africa. To the natives the stuffed carcass will remain an object of awe for generations, While ghe lived they quickly surround- ed her with l2gends. To many of them she was the reincarnation of one of the great chiefs of the past who had come back to earth to ead the Bantu Nation to the greatness that once was theirs. Arnis Wheelbarrows should have legs eighteen inches long, according to British experts in industrial health cided that she was coming too closely research. experi 'gate and a tower at ths South 'end of the bridge subsided with its arches into the river, and later in th | | same century a house on the bridge just doubled up its timbers and fell, depositing an astonished family in the Thames. Hence the rhyme cannot be gainsaid. It simply does not tell, per- haps, the whole story. It might as well be structure which fell, That was built by Sir James Rennie almost precisely oné hundred years ago, and it is not ably solid still, for over it pass some- 'times in a single day 20,000 vehicles and 100,000 persons. This much, how- ever, must be admitted in all-fairness: it has never been weighted down with houses and a palace, with shops and a chapel and stalwart gateways as was the London Bridge which did service for six and a halt centuries--the Lon- don Bridge which is invariably refer- red to when the name is carelessly used--the bridge which was built by a monk, Peter of Colechurch; in the twelfth century, A great deal is neces- sarily expected of a bridge; but it seems unreasonable to demand that, in addition to its specified duties, it support a street of crowded houses. Proudest of all the days of old Lon- don Bridge were those of Queen Eliza- beth's reign, when the richest mer- chants of London lived there--when the narrow roadway was flanked with timbered houses, indeed almost roofed over by them. Had the Elizabethan merchant and his. dame so desired, they might hav» lived in their own house on the bridge, perhaps facing the dazzling, many-windowed Nonsuch House, and maintained themselves comfortaby by trading only at such shops as were "clustered closely about them. ' And all the while (3 Thames flow- ed imperturbably on helow. It gave no heed to the monotony of daily liv- ing or to those frequent spectacular interruptions in the form of pageants and tournaments, revolutions and pil grimages, Yet the poet, Cowley, des- cribed the river as: Stopped by the houses of that won- drous street, N Which rises o'er the broad river like . a fleet, And a popular proverb has if that "London Bridge was made for wise men to go over, and fools to' go un-' der." What the proverb meant to im- ply was that tho bridge, getting very much in the way of the river, inter- fered with its natural and rightful ac- tivities, It seems that the piers which sup- ported the bridge wers raised upon platforms, called "starlings," built of strong elm piles and covered by thick planks, which were bolted together. There being a cons derabls number of these starlings, it is readily realized how they hindered the movements of those who would pass upstream; The necessity of "shooting the bridge" be- came both a pastime and a danger, because of the narrowness of the space between the starlinc. and the consequent compression of thd riveh water in their vicinity.v It swirled and eddied alarmingly; the. bargemenmn shrieked warnings and clamored for , thel rright of way; such pandemonium prevailed that it is a marvel that ° dwellers upon the bridge could sleep o' nights. "shoot the bridge," Cardinal Wolsey, coming from downstream, always land ed, made his way around-the bridge by the shore, before returning to the cool comfort of his stately barge, Slowly, however, the brilliant era of the bridge's career waned. Little by little chapges crept iny the Draw- bridge Gate was pulled down as early as 1577 and later--much later, of course '--the old buildings were removed as sheer precaution of safety; then the once narrow roadway was consider {ably widened. In 1776, the last of the gates disappeared. London Bridge was no longer in its heydey; it was the river at London, for a neighbor bridge. had come to be stationed at Westminster. Then, 100 years ago, all the most modern machinery of that period was brought to accomplish the building of the London Bridge which i we know to-day--a bridge which was [formally opened by King 7 Peter ¢ Shares. long-lived structure; {on the identical site inted out at '| once that it was no part of the present Not caring to 'venture to ° indeed no longer supreme monarch of