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elements of an exciting game. A pet buck of mine that I had raised with a bottle was on terms of friendly intimacy with my hounds; and in the autumn, when he had his new antlers and when his physical well-being was at its height, he used actually to pro- * voke the dogs to give him a race, It was a strange yet accountable sight to 800 the proud stag, mincing arrogantly, lowering his head and bulging his neck, approach the hounds drowsing in the sun by the old barn. He would paw mischiévously at them, snort in their faces, feign to menace them with his gleaming horns. After this mock threatening had gone on gs far as the hounds could stand it, they would "take notice," rousing themselves, at which the buck would bound away in artificial panic. Stimulated by what appeared to be the deer's real fright, the dogs would take up the chase, sending the lithely joyous fugitive fiy- ing down the avenue, over fences, through thin strips of woods, back along the river, and thence to the avenue again, and so up to the house. As the buck would near home, he 'would miraculously transform himself from a wild deer into our tame one, would break off the race, and would not even deign to look back at. the hounds which, with tails waving and long ears flying, were clamoring on his © trail. As soon as the dogs had come to where the deer had stoped, they stopped too. The fun was over, and everybody was happy. Each had had' his "daily dozen." > A storm had uprooted a huge yellow pine; the dead top lay fringing the path; the roots had torn up with them a great half-moon of earth. Where the pine top touched the path, there was a wide slash of water, The fox avoided the water, yet did not pass it, but, at its widest part, leaped across it straight into the shadowy shelter of 'the old pinetop, from where he ran down the log, climbed the strange mound of earth, and there lay down, some ten feet off the ground. In due time came the hounds, puz- zling out the trail. At the water they became completely bewildered, and for some moments they cast about vainly for the lost scent. One dog went al- most under the fox, which never moved. At last the oldest hound gave notice that the fugitive had run the log. Instantly the fox leaped lithely down the farther side of the embank- ment on which he had been craftily reposing, and I saw him bobbing away serenely through the woods. He must have been a good half-mile away be- fore his pursuers straightened on his tracks; and by that time he.was prob- ably making a mew puzzle for them. For in such cases the fugitive is gen- erally the real master of the situation; and insofar as I have observed him, his attitude betrays less fear than a certain amused curiosity, and a cer- tain assurance in his own superiority, which subtly reflects contempt upon the following pack, Considering predatory creatures and ners.--1 Timothy 1: 15. _ ANALYSIS I. LIVING WATER, 4: 7-16, II. FACING THE FACTS, 4: 17-19. III, .. SPIRITUAL RELIGION, 4: 20-26, IV. CHRIST'S FOOD, 4: 27-42: = . The woman disap- INTRODUCTION--In order to avoid pears. - To the surprise of the returned dis- even the frpearanee of Jvaling the ciples, Jesus did not wish for any disciples withdrew to Galilee; They £ v» 32. He had derived so much took' the shorter, Samaria route. T gp tual satisfaction from doing his was noon (the * sixth hour, Roman ather's will and helping some one = ecko v.06) when the party came that he forgot all about physical hun- to Jacob's Weil. There it was that|&e™ V: 34. In the multitude whom the Jesu met the Samaritan woman. woman was bringing to him from the village (v. 30) he saw the speedy har- I. LIVING WATER, 4: 7-16. vest from the good seed he had sown, _ This encounter was all the more re- v. markable use Jew and Samaritan so bitterly hated each other. The brofling heat of noon may be part of the author's symbolism to make more vivid the Seaching that is to follow about the refresh g waler of life. Recognizing him by his dress to be The Samaritans were not satisfied with hearsay. They came to Jesus themselves and found him to be their Saviour. So must we all pass from an unavestioning credulity to a first- hand, thoughtful faith. a Jew, the woman was surprised to he accosted by the stranger. An ordi- nary Jew would not speak to a wo- man, much less a Samaritan--and such she evidently was. Jesus began by asking her for a Jrink. To estab- lish the essential friendly contact with those whom you would win, have them do you a favor. His appeal to human kindness, going beneath all racial and religious differeaces, was successful, While the stranger was quenching his thirst, the woman with familiar impudence twitted him, "How is it that you, a Jew, should ask drink of me, a woman, and a Samaritan at that?" v, 9, Ignoring her banter, he told her of "living water"--that is, running spring water as contrasted with the stagnant water of a cistern. "One of the smart new ideas which | See Gen. 26: 19. In our lesson "living ee ee ame, "The Guardian" Lives On. Montreal Daily Star: British journal ism has lost ome of its most distin guished figures and the newspaper world one of its greatest forces for good through the death of C. P. Scott, managing director of the Manchester Guardian. He was its editor for fifty. seven years, and he had brought it into the very forefront of the world's really great newspapers. A man of unime peachable {ntegrity, brilliant intellect and keen discernment, he held before him a staff of distinguished writers who were eminently well qualified to give those ideals vivid and convincing expression. Mr, Scott wielded an influence per just announced that after months of \ 1 mother's care. Miss May Oung, only woman delegate at the Burma round table conference in London, appeals to her fellow delegates to "trust Britain", enn London Scientists Believe Substance Pure Vitamin D London--Dr. Robert Bourdillon has Paris favors so much, is this new sports type. The front-buttoned bodice is given a basque effect. The neckline is espe- cially becoming. And don't you like, water" symbolizes the spiritual life that never becomes exhausted. He said to her, in effect, "You are trying to satisfy yourself at the stagnant pools of life's sin and folly: You are failing in your quest. Life has grown haps unparalleled by any other Eng. experimenting at the National In- lish editor since the days of Delane, 'stitute for Medical Research, he and tions, and seek for the true so human happiness. : There is to-day only one f mn existence that can point out the path to us--Nature. True, Nature some times makes mistakes, or at least wa cannot always see the causes that bring about certain results. But she lays down one law common to all crea tion. That is, to transmit the life that we ourselves have received, and nol only to transmit it, but to amplify it as if on each of us alone rested the future of our kind. I hear the objection: "What, throw unfortunate beings on the earth with machine-like regularity? Disastrous - overpopulation!" The misfortunes of this are highly hypothetical, Wars have never been caused but by the political or economic ambitions of & few ;and the earth, being cultivated more and more, is a long way from re- « fusing to feed all her children. Ho who fears life fears death; the two are complementary. Nor have we any right to evade our responsibility, Who knows but we may be the ances. tor of some great reformer, some bene- factor to the race, We profit by the labors of others and of their children; then it is not in a way a breach of com fidence to break the chain of life? Nature expects from us results im proportion to our mentality. The plant must grow of its own accord; it knows As we climb the scale of creation, we assume more and more responsibility toward our off and he enjoyed a reputation within 's group of five London scientists had the ranks of his own calling excelled | isolated a substance they believed by none. He made the Manchester'to he pure vitamin D. spring, until man finds it necessary te give his protection to his child for & | long time after it is born. Nor is that all, To the lower animals Nature lays the intricate lines at the front of the! « irt? They're very slimming. The original French mode! in Span- ish tile sheer woolen, choose a brown waffle surface woole: for its collar and cuffs, The buttons toned with the brown woolen. Mude has many possibilities for this codel. It is equally smart in tweed- stale for you disappointing. The gift that I offer you will meet your soul's deepest need, bring vufgthe best that is in you. One satisfa®ion after an- kind of life." She missed his deeper meaning. She earnest, v. 15. She wanted her life made more comfortable. Religion for other, comes to those who live my like woolens, wool crepe, canton-faille crepe silk and velvet. ~ Style No. 8426 is designed for sizes 34. 36, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches t. too many of us is just being comfort- able in this life and safe in that which! is to come. II. FACING THE FACTS, 4: 17-19, : Finding her inclined to be flippant, Jesus sobered her by suddenly con- fronting her with the seamy side of! her own life. "Call your husband." 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Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it capefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattera Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. -------- : As Professor Dow says, "Before Jesus can do anything for us, he insists on frankness. The whole facts of our moral life must be faced before the evil can be cured." trating gaze of this uncanny stranger the woman felt as if all of her past life stood exposed before him. See her exaggeration in v. 39. The reply of Under the pene- : quate is its speed that it can take ex- cellent care of itself. Nor are we to forget that such a fugitive may take whatever course it chooses, whereas its pursuers have to unravel its mazy trail. _ Deer play in front of dogs; they dodge; they skulk; they exercise an almost incredible precience to do what 18 least expected. If ever hard pressed, they take to water, and wherever the deer 1s found, it is commonly found in such numbers that fresh trails are constantly crossing one another, As a result, dogs pursuing one deer will usually rouse others, so that the whole - affair, instead of being the stern pur- suit of one unhappy fugitive, is far more likely to be a sort of relay race. or merry-go-round. What is true of the deer's elusive- ness, and failure to take very serious. ly the pursuit of the clamoring pack, is true likewise of the fox, between which and the dog there exists an an- clont and honorable enmity, Many a time I have been afforded an oppor- tunity to observe the behavior of a fox at some distance ahead of the dogs; and usually the pursued appears to and, upon the whole, beneficent laws." ------ en "What's this, daughter. You let Mr. Brown, whom you barely know, kiss you." "Now, father, let's get this thing right. I didn't let him kiss me, I merely let him try." ree fp L ' Prince of Wales Resumes Hunt London.--The Prince of Wales has taken to the hunt again. Both he and his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, were hunting on Jan. 2nd with the Belvoir hounds, this being the Prince's Jesus in vs. 17, 18 was probably only Guardian notable not only for its sturdy spirlt of independence, but also for its high literary quality, and he leaves it one of the outstanding news papers in the Empire. His editorship was an inspiration to all with whom he was assoclated, and he did honour to answered him half in jest, half in!the profession his great gifts adorned. tented? ~ rman A Religious Salesman A certain minister was trying to raise money for a religious purpose. Raising money seemed to be out of his line, and he went for advice to Dwight L. Moody. Moody decided to see what could be done and sug- gested to the parson that they call on some of his prospects. Very logically they set out first to call on a rich widow. On the way Moody asked his friend how much he fn. tended to ask her to give. "Oh, perhaps $250." Moody made no com- ment, but when they reached the house he pushed forward and said to "We lave isolated a pure white crystalline substance which we have |d40Wn a hard and fast law; to man she named calfiterol and whioh we have | STalits the frotiom of choice. Shall he every reason to believe is pure vita. abuse his trust? min D," he said. "It is Po We hear a great deal to-day about vitamin D in a purer state than has action. Before proceeding any fur ever existed "before." (ther, let us define the thing, that is, Recalling the fact that vitamin D mark out its limitations. : has long been known as a cure for| Consider an army at war. We say rickets, Dr. Bourdillon said the im. they are in action. It is not true. Each portance of the discovery apart from man, each division, 'is merely auto its scientific merit was that the vita.|matically obeying commands from a min could mow be administered in central hierarchy, War is nothing te correct doses. | the common soldier but slavery, and He added that their success came , therefore it is not action, Still less is almost simultaneously with that ofan army active in time of peace. Them Professor Windaus and other Ger-|it is a useless and expensive piece of man scientists who produced the |machinery, deploying through various 32,209 Schools Attended in '30 There are 32,209 schools or col- leges in Canada which were attend- ed by 2,490,623 pupils at the end of 1930. In these schools and colleges there are 88,144 teachers. The schools in Canada are attended by about one-quarter of, the population of the Dominion. They fuvolve an pupil enrolled according to & recent bulletin of the Canadian Government. average expenditure of $66 for each | bands the gods of the five nations set- the lady, "Madam, we have come to ask you for $2000 to help build the new Mission." She threw up her hands in horror. "Oh, Mr, Moody, I cannot possibly give you more than one thousand!" That was the way he did it-- Gamaliel Bradford, in D. L. Moody. "Thou hast well said." In reporting the conversation to her friends she particularized the sins which he had brought home to her conscience. She was unable to hide her real character. So are we. "What you are speaks so loudly, I do not hear what you say." We cannot fool God, nor, usually, our neighbors. Those who regard the woman in this story as merely the type of the Samaritan people, see in her five hus- tled in Samaria by the Assyrians (2 Kings 17: 24-34), the sixth being the God of Israel whom they *do not The schools controlled by the Pro- vincial Governments number 30,685, in which 2,285,045 pupils are earoll- od; the privately controlled ordin- ary day schools number 795, with 92,276 pupils, There are 182 busl-, ness training schools, with an enrol- ment of 29,120. The schools for In- dians, which come under the control of the Dominion Government, num- | know" (v. 22), that is, do not worship , according to the pure rites. | IIT. A SPIRITUAL RELIGION, 4: 20-26. The sudden turn.of the conversation to deal with true worship would scem to support the view that the story is allegory. The woman, changing the subject, began a theological discus- sion, She was the victim of an un- spiritual religion--churchy, but not ; ber 342, with 15,743 puplls, and the | godly, She thought of God as in a 205 universities and colleges are place--the temple on Mount Gerizim, credited with 78,440 students. v. 20. We say of a church, "This is The average dally attendance in God's house." But everywhere is God's _80hoo! .i house, He is to be reverenced in the the ls was 77 per cent. for Can OF Caro wet IT we take a wily and sardonic delight in out- [first day this season. The Prince of witting the pursuers. It must be re-| Wales abstained from fox hunting the membered that most of these chases] entire season before last, but was out than of ada as a whole, which the official re- port observes "is a marked lmprove- ment in this respect in the past de-| cade; the percentage having risen in the wilds are tests of mental rather )a few times last winter before leaving » It is on his South American from 64.7 per cent in 1919. fail to honof him there, our reverence or special places is mockery. The woman worshipped a God who was a8 Samaritan. Do we wo "It 1s customary to seal a pro- posal with a kisg 1s it not?" "It used to be, but nowadays it 1s considered best to have a wit- ness" --) ce. et An unwelcome guest {3 one of the Po | best things going. God who is a Britisher? We did, 50 Z| GoL® BALLS JUST | ECON BEING SLACK I A ouT FoR same substance recently while work- ing on the same lines. lem The Integrity of Canadian Banks Le Soleil, Quebec (Lib.): Since the beginning of the erisis there has been no banking disaster in Canada. Our great financial institution have resist- ed the depression with such strength that they deserve our admiration and our confidence. Other countries have not been as fortunate as we have, Bank failures have been exceedingly numerous in the United States. In the last ten years at least 6,987 banks in the States have gone under with $2,586,000,000 of deposits In the last two years more than three thousand banks disappeared. Here in Canada wa have been fortunate in saving al i our institutions, and we believe that all serious danger is now passed. We' have turned the corner of the crisis, etme A A FRESH START 'We have all heard about the storm- driven ship whose crew was half fran- tic for water. At last another ship came near, and they cried, "Water! water! we are perishing with thirst," "Dip down into the ocean," was the answer; for they were off the Amazon, which hurls its mighty flood of fresh water far out into the briny Atlantic. In the same way there are many who are longing for a fresh start, a new chance, who have the opportunity every day of their lives if they will only reach out and take it. "Every day is a fresh beginning." Not a Bad Idea, at That. BUSINESS N'T USING THIS YEAR. T'M THE EXERCISE forms that havd no meaning, waiting | uselessly for something that may or may not occur. There remains civil action to be considered, Here again we must dis- tinguish hetween the various types of what we falsely call action. All phys cal motion fs not necessarily actiom. The ploughman in the fleld is not ao tive so far as his body is concerned, nor is the mason who merely piles up bricks. But {tf the ploughman has be fore his mind the motion of a crop # the mason is working out a great de- sign, then, indeed are both these mea in action, Action then is an ldea--something to be carried out. All this machinery about us does not signify action, but it does increase our capacity for ao. tion by increasing our power to work, out our ideas. Work is not decision, it is routine. Man is deprived of his initiative, a slave to his machine, What could resemble a moron more closely than a man at a machine? Ao- tion lies deep in the brain of man. It does not change it in the least that It may exhibit itself in various forms of motion later. -It is still action so long as it is employed in the working out of an idea. Action 1s of value in proportion te the time that its results last. The art ot the olden days was true aotion; the art of today is more magnificent, but also more useless, It may touch the emotions, perhaps even the morals, but it is not true action since it has ne lasting qualities. Returning to the source of happlk ness we find that it begins in the braln--in other words, with dreams that mean action. Life goes on through action and ae- tion alone. Action then is merely the transmission of life, whether it be Im & physical or a mental sense. The sum total of the morale of ae tion fs: 1. To transmit life. 2. To accomplish something; or bed ter still to inscribe one's life in acts, 3. To attain the utmost limits of which one is capable; to he someone. To act wisely and nobly--and this should not displease those who hold beliefs founded on the idea of duty-- takes courage and faith in oneself. leads to much distress many heart burnings but in the end, there is the ab tainment of a perfect Te perpetuate physically, and to exert our will--there lies the path to human joy erin Gets rig Stockholm. --One of the largest crete bridges in the world is bullt near here. It is 694 feet ninety wide and eighty be finished in