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The Multitude--John 6: 1-13, 4851. Golden Text: Jesus sald unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst--John 6: 85, ANALYSIS. 1. SYMPATHY WITH HUMAN NEED, G: II. GOD AND MAN WORKING TOGETHER, 6: 7-13, III. THE SOUL'S "BILL OF FARE," 6: 22- INTRODUCTION--John introduces the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand in order to illustrate the discourse on "Christ, the Bread of Life." With the accounts in the other Gospels before him, he selects and modifies to suit his purpose. His Gos- pel is concerned, not so much with facts, as with the interpretation of the facts. Like the other miracles in this Gospel, the one recorded here is largely symbolical. But whether ane tekes it as the account of a miracle which wctually took place, or explains + i* naturalistically, the spiritual mean- ing is the same. The naturalistic ex- planation is tnat Jesus brought order out of confusion hy arranging the pes- le in groups, by suggesting to them, v his own exanple and that of his disciples to share such supplies as they might have in their lunch bas- kets (Jews always carried lunch bas- kets with them, in order to avoid the necessity of using "unclean" food on their journey). The generosity of J.osus and his disciples so stimulated the generosity of those who had more food than they needed that the needs of all were more than met. Whether we take it as fact or as symbol--and John evidently takes it as fact--the spirit1al meaning is the same, I. SYMPATHY WITH HUMAN NEED, 6: Jesus and his company had gone away for a few hours vest, The rest was denied him. The crowds came with their vulgar curiosity--it was nothing better, v. 2. There was no trace of impatience as he saw the prospects of his qaie: afternoon disappear. It was with love a~d understanding that he turned to thom. They would soon be hungry, he thought, and he began at once to prepare for heir needs. He accepted responsibility for the welfare of others. So Christ, says John, anticipates human need. He thinks of everything. "Had I thought of it, I should have been glad to do it for him," said some one who did not think of doing that kind deed until he saw another doing it. Christ-like people "think" in time. II. GoD AND MAN WORKING TOGETHER, 6: There may have been a touch of humor behind Jesus' question to Philip, v. 6. Philip lived by figurcs rather than by faith. He believed what he could see. If he could work it out on paper, he would believe it possible. His calculations (v. 7) left out the chief factor,--Josus himself. The small boy with "h» big lunch (v. 9) is the only possibility that comes to Andrew's nind. "But what are these among so many?' Many a worth- while achievement has been frustrated by the "but" of timidity. Christ can produce mighty results from the slenderest possible means. So it hanpened here, Undreamad- of resources hecame immediately available. T'v 2 baskets of food were left over, v. 13. The baskets would be the "trav: 'ing wallets" already re- ferred to. Jf we give our best in Christ's service, be that best what it may, we shall discover that we have . gifts and powers and strength which| grow as we use them, III. THE SOUL'S "BILL OF FARE," 6: 22- - 71. The day following (v. 22) the peo- ple--who found him in Capernaum (v. «nd who understood "the meat which abideth unto eternal life" (v. 24) 27) to mean some details of external conduct which would win merit for them, asked Jesus, "What must we do that we may work the works of God?" In reply he called upon them for faith in himself as God's ambassador, v- 20. There was a prevailing belief that the Mes- siah would feed God's people with bread from heaven, as Moses had The bread which Jesus had given them yesterday was only earthly food. Jesus Feplicd, e had been leading up to this declava- He reasserted it in vs. 48, 51, They then asked for a "sign." done, Exod. 16: 4, 15. "I am the bread of life," v. 35. tion. B8...c0 : In spite of their unbelief (v. 36) 81. Lesson V--Jesus Feeds Crown Prince Gustaf Adoll of Sweden broadcasting the Season's greetings to of the aation. the people BC nn." ttoo Jesus was confident that God's pur- pose in sending him into the world would be accomplished. "All those (and only those) will come to me who ure the Father's gift to me)" v, 287, That is, it is only a divinely inspired impulse which can turn to Christ those "who come to him." The one who has the responsive will (the individual will plays its essential part in "'elec- tion") and acts upon the divine im- pulse, and comes to him will be sure of a welcome, v, 37. In v. 51 the though: passes from what Christ is to what 'he gives: In his incarnation and in his sacrifice on the cross he is bringing life to all men. The reference to his death is clear in vs, 53-56 where "blood" im- plies a violent death. This whole inci- dent is best understood as we remem- ber that at this time Jesus knew him- self to be a marked man. Herod Anti- pas, who had put John the Baptist to death, was probably preparing the same fate for him. e have here, probably, the reflections of John, writ- ten after the event. Such advanced teaching as we have here would be beyond the understanding of uncultur- ed Galileans. It is : discourse based probably pon scattered utterances of Jasus preserved by his disciples and understood long after. The central teaching is that Christ provides real nourisment (symbolized by the common barley bread) for the human soul--as contrasted with the unreal food for which men so often strive, As bread never palls upon the appetite, so the one who lives the simple, wholesome, serviceable life of Christ never becomes sated, borad. Life is too interesting, and too usefut, a - The Weed-Killer "Special" Weeds are the railwayman's enemy 28 well as the gardener's. It left alone they would choke the perman- ent ively as, in the cir cun would do to our fow- erheds vel paths. But, of course, they aren't left left alona, though weeding by hand is apt to prove both laboricus and costly. Now, however, a new way of doing this job has been discovered. The Southern Railway in England has made a special weed-killlng train by and fitting them with spray pipes and tanks. A special form of liquid weed-kill- er, is used, and the spray pipes have an effective range of about ten feet.--London "Answers". D THAT coupling two "old tenders together! "visitor to Russia, in Asia (Nov.,"31). Whoever saw the, international ex- hibition otf fine books in Paris last summer must have remarked how the visitors swarmed about the Russian exhibit, Here was a whole regiment of paper-bound picture tales and print- ors with one alm only, to educate a vast public--young people reading for ing to read for the first time--Iin a completely new system of life. Into the books had gone drawings, in black and white and in color, by many dis- tinguished artists; the type was some- times beautiful and was always used with a freedom and a dash, a know- ledge of, without servile respect for, all that bookmen and advertisers now know about the display of letters on d page. No wonder the visitors swarm. ed And no wonder the news stands in Russia look like book fairs. Books are everywhere in Russia, Children's books, in bright red and blue inks and in subtler mauves and purples that show the effect of Chinese painting on the artists of the Soviet Union, are im- portant. They smile beside the samo- var in railway stations; they garnish the windows of new bookshops in vil- lages where half the population has learned to read at all only within the past ten years, What you do not see in Russia are any expensive books. Not one. The Soviet Union is designing libraries for masses, and masses are poor. The Russians think of books as carriers, educators, things of use and illumina- tion, but hardly as property. are content to make paper books that are read ond read and thrown away. Whereas in America two dollars is an average price and 2500 the average edition, more and more the Russians try out all their children's books in editions. of 32,000; and miracles of color printing can be worked for ten cents when the big edition distributes the load of initial cost. Even ten cents is considered too high to make books (available to everybody, and the news stands of the Ukraine in particlar car- ry hundreds of 'little five-cent bools, tales, expositions of fact and news I stories simply and graphically told of life in the new Russia of to-day, The Soviet Union is a world in itself, {a league of many tribes and nations {that are being linked by Soviet struc- 'ture--and books are often translated into 20 or more languages (pictures, happily, need not be translated; they are understood in Babel). It is politl- cally significant for the rest of the world that the lan .gov t is now welding a national sense through- out the land by such simple means as tales of the life of children in all the far corners of the Union. - Books are also being used to develop a sense of responsibility for and common cause with the millions of China, India and Africa. There are maay series of books on what we in the West would call the brotherhood of man, lively and loving accounts of black and yellow of earth, with short captions and an and brown people, all the "exploited" occasional jibe at the white overlords, but, on the whole lovely pictures of lit- tle children and thelr mothers, of the day's work, of grainsowing and har- vesting, bread-making, ships and car- riages and houses, So the average Russian child grows up knowing a great deal about his own country and about Africa and Asia as well. The present Soviet idea #8 to initiate the child, almost from the kindergar- ten, into a sense of social organization and to make all literate in commercial 'geography at a very early age, Actual ly, to a Russian child the chances are [that a tiger hunt in India exciting to 'read about, will be no more exciting than the story which tells him every step in the history of the manufacture of cotton cloth. . There is a constant stream of such storles--books that answer questions, hooks about clocks and time, the story of printing presses, how glass is made, the history of pottery and the story of- what makes dynamos go. A whole na- | tion, old and young, is asking how to do things for itself and why this and | that are so. One of my own favorites among Rus- !slan children's books deals with the , making of newspapers, It is a lively OF YOu LINC * T'M CONSIDERED TO es Si : Be A BIG PIECE OF CHEESE) ' F Woke - the first time and old people also learn-|e !tor J. B. Lippincott Co., and frequent | S¢ ! out once more. For example, there is the stofy of the pedsant who went to pull a turnip, but the turnip was so stubborn that it refused to come out of the ground until the peasant had sum- moned; in turn, his wite, son, daughter dog, cat, and finally the household mouse to his aid, Thus, not only the inexpensiveness of Russlan books, their color and variety of design, but their special emphayes are unique, Elves have given place to cranes, and fairies to electric light bulbs; and in the picture books the astonishment is all for man and his power to remake his environ- ment rather than suffer and bear it. 1s it any wonder that travelers to Rus- sia prefer to mail home children's | books instead of letters, confident that S.R.? amA---- Brisbane, Queensl.--The antarctic ablaze with light from many hotels, a fashionable resort and the playground Capt. Frank Hurley, photographer of the Douglas Mawson antarctic expedi- tion. : Capt. Hurley described this futuris- who asked of what value would be the mally taken possession of by the ex- pedition. With the improved methods of trans- port, he believed, the antarctic would be within 20 years at the very doors of Australia--the object of week-end tours, The methods of fast upper air jars foreshadowed by the Junkers stratop would pr bly bring this territory within six or seven hours' flight of Hobart. No longer would people regard the antarctic as a mysterious desolation to be tra versed only by supermen under com- ditions of extreme vigor and hardship, but rather as an alluring playground. The weather there was easier to fore- cast than in the more tropical regions, and summer in the Ross Sea was simi- lar to the winter at Mt. Kosciusko, one of the best known tourists' resorts in Australia. suggested Captain Hurley, there prob- ably existed untapped mineral re- sources the exploitation of which would enrich the manufacturing world, Captain Hurley who was the official photographer to the Australian Im- perial Forces, considered Antarctica one of the most beautiful parts of the world, "Senator, you promised me a job." "But there are no jobs." "I need a job, senator." "Well, I'll ask for 'a commission 0 investigate why there are no ' jobs and you can get a job on that" Explorer Visualizes Antarctic little bodice. The As Fashionable Resort a smart buttoned sleeve. A novelty of Australia, was the picture drawn by * | | Beneath the winter snow and ice, Some one. ie | --a Small daughter will be thrilled with They these are indeed samples of the U, 8. this cute jacket dress. It's the cutest thing to make, and the skirt is just darling in wide box- plait effect. It buttons on to a straight ate jacket has woolen in navy blue 'with 'vivid red plain woolen. made the original for school wear. g Wool jersey in brown with vivid yellow is another effective scheme. Tweed like cottons, wool crepe, wool challis and crepe de chine are also suitable, X; Style No. 3479 may be had in sizes tic vision in answer to an interviewer 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. Size 6 requires 1% yards 64-inch large area of land that had been for- , .tevial and % yard 85-inch con- trasting material. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain ly, giving number and size of such 'patterns as you want. Enclose 20¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for 'each number, and dd your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. . . Relief Now the dim' relief has come: Out of thy dark we crawl, Haggard and still, and some Are motionless along the wall, =» We do not speak a word until We form on a firmer road and dawn Reveals a length of quiet hill And a house farther on. crying, but there is laughter: ¢ Some one whistles something old, And some one staggers drunken after So much death and cold. --Edwin: Morgan in "The Common- weal". a Mercury Discovery Added to Diamonds Murfreesboro, Ark.---Pike County, southwest Arkansas, olalmed to he the home of the only diamond mine in North America, has a new claim to distinction. Cinnabara (sulphide of mercury), a valuable ore, which is reduced to mercury or quicksilver at a comparatively smail expense, has been discovered here. Oddly, 1t was a farmer: who found the news ore in Pike County, just as John Huddleston, a dirt farmer, found the first diamonds in this sec- tion. Goodness Try to be as good as all think thee to be because many have great faith in thee, and, therefore, I admonish thee to be nothing less than hope of thee.~Fraucls d'Assissl, people | This, our sacrifice § ool tion 'But the 5,000-mile many cars. B vals being so far apart, the 9 more often: forgotten than remember Ammeter Becomes a Guide tn adjusting the idling speed of the engine of a free-wheeling car the am- meter may be used as a guide. The carburetor should be so set that the ammeter 'will register two amperes charge when the engine is runing slow- y. > o£ ! Importance of Reflector The importance of a clean and un- marred headlight reflector will be clear to the average motorist when he realizes that the reflector's job 1s to increases the natural illumination of the bulb several hundred times. Knack in Release of Tires A great many car owners, tire men find, still do not know all the tricks of getting a flat off the wheel One generally missed really is quite im- portant if it happens to be a heavy tire. That is the trick of pulling the tire free at the bottom--while the valve is at the top--and then rolling the wheel around to allow the valve: stem to drop free naturally; Horn Silence Is Explained The first place to check when the horn refuses to blow is the comnec- tions at the horn itself. If they are tight' the next point of inspection should be the connections at the am- meter. Remedy for Roughness Any noticeablé difference. in the comfortable riding of the car should remind the motorist that the shock ab- sorbers may be low on oil. Refilling every 5,000 miles is advocated as a minimum of attention even for the best of them. The warmer the weather the more likely the oil is to evaporate. Just like that of the engine. When Throttle is at Fault Maybe the throttle is at fault, not the carbureter idling adjustment, when the engine shows an inclination to stall. The throttle adjustment is easy to increase, easier than .to reset the carbureter. erin Return to Fruit Culture: Urged on Peru's Farmers: Lima, peru--A campaign to en- courage Peruvian farmers to grow fruits once more and end this coun- try"s 'large ' annual - importation of oranges, apples, bananas: and pears from the United States, Ecuador and Chile has been started by the gov- ernment. Before the World War, large orch- ards 'in the fertile = valleys of the Andes kept the country = supplied with practically all its needed fruit, at prices affording reasonable profits to the growers. However, when the price of cotton skyrocketed dur- ing the war thousands of fruit trees were torn up to make room for the more profitable crop: Now that cotton has declined In value from more than 20 cents a pound to around 6 cents, Peruvian farmers again are giving their atten- tion to the planting of orchards. The climate is suitable for the raising of all tropital and many northern varieties of fruit, Plans under con- siderstion include the establishment of several fruit conserving plants which * government = officials believe will afford a steady year-around market for the growers. fp mi BEAUTY For the beauty of each hour Of the day and of the night, Hill and vale, and tree and flower, Sun and moon, and stars of lightt Father, unto Thee we rafse of praise. --F. 8. Plerpoint, from Canada alone. It should be pos- { sible: for us to. increase: that percen-. tage, pared The vitalizing of milk is cavery. : He worked on the theory that if you can change the vitamin action within a food by light, why not feed cows light---treated food and so that they would give milk abundant with trans ferred vitamins. In theory, the experiment was sim- ple., It was merely the feeding of ir radiated yeast to cows and transfer- the vitamin content of the yeast to the cow's'udder, 'Wis. claims its experiments along the line have been successful. Dr. Harry L. Russell, head of the Wisconsin Alumus Research Association which controls the Steenbock process, sald within a short time a license will be issued to permit the dairy to produce irradiated' milk containing vitamin "pr : i seine A World in Transition (By Marquess 'of. Lothian, British Under. Secretary for India, in a Broadcast from London on Goud Times.) The world is in the greatest period of transition it has ever known, There are more changes going on in more filds of human belief and interest than ever happened at the same time in any earlier epoch. If our idea of the re- turn of a' good- time is to get back to the conditions of yesterday we shall certainly be disappointed, There is never again going to be an era of prosperity just like that, for the whole underlying conditions' of world 'busi nesschave changed: We have the advancement of science, based on electricity, radio, the airplane and countless new ideas. Al these are breaking :down- the limita- tions of time and space and producing ever faster and better communica- tions, ever better machines, ever ex- panding facilities for news and in- formation, ever new ideas: . On the other hand; of the resisting forces are the social, political and economic habits of the human mniind. Amid the tumult and shouting, ob- struction and even war from time to time, history shows that the opposition is long and formidable. Is there any doubt which, in the long or in the short run, is the more powerful force of the two? Science and fact will pre- vail every time over prejudice, ignor- ance, habits and tradition. Mankind 'moves very slowly to the recognition of what is necessary in its own interest: None the less, it seems to me perfectly obvious that the fundamental cause of all our troubles is that we have in a sense moved into a new era in human experience and that both as nations and as individu- als' we have not realized this truth s0 as to make it the basis of our think- ing and our action, and it can only ke trouble for all of us so long as ey to maintain it, and that a new world, a united and organized world, is already overdue, Apr Canadian Wheat Edinburgh Scotsman (Cons.) : With regard to wheat, at the present time about 44 per cent. of our requirements -|is taken from the Dominions and In- | dia, and about 42 per cent. from for- eign sources. About 30 per cent. comes vided: that Canada is pre- give us corresponding advan. tages for and that s} velop ment from Steenbock's original dis- The Brookhill Dairy, Genesse Depot, : "eg 4 8 | #