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This passage occurs in that section of the Sermon on the Mount which contrasts the new piety with the old. Jesug refers to three types of prayer: (8) The "Boston Audience" Prayer, ©». 5. Jesus warns st making Frayer a mere performance, The Jews stated hours for prayer--morn noon, e . Some were careful be found in some conspicuous Place, a crewded street corner, say, when 3 prayer-hour struck. There, sure to o they prayed. An enthusi- astie reporter once ribed a certain devotional effort as the "finest prayer ever delivered before a Boston audi. ence." Such prayers get what they want, publicity. "Reward" means "paid in full." Verce 6 commends that secret communion with God which was Jesus' own method. : (b) The Mechanical Prayer, v. 7. "Vain repetitions"--a lot of talk with- out much behind it. Prayer tends to become a series of conventional re- quests and set phrases which we rattle off without realizing their meaning, without any serious attempt to live up to them. Is this the reason why so many Sincere Christian folk never go to prayer-meeting? _ Prayer is not o be merely a "want dist." Our Father knows already v. 8. Tt is cultivating nis friendship-- tuning in the radio of the soul to ©. tch the music and message of the 'eternal. When Jesus prayed, he met somebody. What he got from God, was God himself. H's disciples, dull as they were, were wikened to the wonder and the power of it. They came to him and asked, "Teach us to pray like that." (¢) The Model Prayer, ss. 9-15. First of all, Jesus would have us think of his Father as one un whom we are all dependent, "Our Father," v. 9. Not my, but our, thus reminding us that we are members ona of the other. Jesus would have us ask for no bless- ing for ourselves which does ot in- clude our brother, also. "Who art in heaven" --who occupies the position of supreme authority, See Isa. 66: 1. Love is all-powerful. "Hallowed be thy name" mears, "reverenced be all that thy name stands for, Beauty, ve, Goodness, Fatherhood. May these characteristics and the relation- slp of brother which they involve he more sacred to me th .n anything else in life." This aim is clearly impossible in a world organized on selfish, individual istic lines where a man is forced to look upon his brother as a rival, even an enemy. Hence ths petition, "Thy kingdom come," Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, v, 10. Jesus wants us to pray for a new era when J astice will prevail, when kindness will find expression, when purity will tri- umph, 3 From the highest cpiritual aspira- tions the prayer suddenly drops to man's most common physical need, bread, v. 11. Jesus knéw that grind- ing poverty, as well as too much wealth, has soul-destroying power. Hence the prayer--"enough for each | day." Bread, not for me alone, nor for some of us, but for all God's children, The condition for forgiveness in v. 12 is not arbitrary. It is only the atti- tude that forgives that can accept for- giveness. i "Lead us not into temptation" (v.] 18), is probably better rendered, "Let us not enter into temptation." Al- though character needs testing, the conflict is doubtful, and even desper- ate until victory is won. When a man realizes the issues involved, it is na- tural for him to seek to avoid the ordeal. II. THE CHRISTIAN AND HIS BIBLE, 2 Tim. 3: 14-17, Paul emphasized the value of. the S.riptures for Christian wth, va. 16, 17. Why read them? For the same reason that we read any other books--for what they say "o ue. "he Bible shows us the way: of God with men. Inspired? We know it is inspired res. J In the brought to the airdrome were worth nearly 00. Aggregate 'engi a \ horsepower. The small singleseater aircraft, alt oi them capa flight considerably exceeding 200 ian manoeuvre. One ma- made four consecutive upward th the tail pointing almost c toward the earth and still cient power in hand to climb on to a level wl once more. Another elimped. f ply: r several seconds up- side down and with the engine throt- tle closed. And each was dived at speeds surpassing 350 miles an hour, lling: vertically downward and flat- ing out barely 100 feet above the 'airdrome, In sharp contrast the 'same planes were flown slowly across the flying field providing a demeon- stration of wide speéd range and ef- ficient. flying control. + Big new night bombers showed their places in circuits of the air- drome, flying at first slowly and later moving at full speed with thunder- ous bellow of engines. One of the night bomber pilots made almost a complete circuit of the airdrome with hands held high above his head, not once touching the control lever as the big plane moved around. The performance of a new air liner designed for operation of the African air routes attracted much attention. This'is a monoplane with dation for sevent: p gers in a cabin said to be roomier than the most luxurious of Pullman rail cars. Driven by four air-cooled engines totalling 1,360 horsepower, the new craft cruises easily at 120 miles rer hour and is capable of a maxi- mum velocity in level flight of more than 150 miles an hour. p - Marriage and Travel Boomed By Italian Fare Reduction Rome.--Rome may soon become the honeymoon capital of the world as a ¢ Zc3quence of reductions granted by the Italian State Railroads to newly married couples. It ic announced that newlyweds of any nationality, married anywhere outside the territory of the Kingdom of Italy, wil! enjoy a special reduction of 70 pe. cent. from the Italian frontier to Rome and return. Some months ago the Ministry of Communications granted Italian hon- eymooning couples, married anywhere in Italy, 70 per cent. reductions for journeys to Rome and return. The experiment wac highly successful. Even the Pope entered into the spirit of the thing and made a point of re- ceiving in audience all the couples who came to Rome on their honeymoon. Paris Is Steadily Replacing Trolley Cars With Buses Paris--The ubiquitous trolley, a few years hence, will be a thing of the past in Paris. Its replacement by autobus is slowly but surely being effected. Some fifty trolley lines have been suspended during the past seven years by the Societe des Transports en Com- mun, These lines served sections of the capital and the outlying districts, During the first half of this year five lines have been discarded for the more 'comfortable bus. There is no doubt that with the passing of the trolleys traffic regulation will be simpler, par- ticularly around the Opera and St. Lazare districts and several others where buses and trolleys converge. J p PRAT Canadians Prefer . Tea to Coffee Ottawa.--Canadians drink. more tea than coffee, in the proportion of four | to three. Statistics show that the an- nual per capita consumption in the Do- minion is four pounds of tea tnd three pounds of coffee, and use of both seems to be increasing steadily. But Cana- dians still have a long way to go be- fore they approach the enormous amount of tea consumed in the British Isles. There the per capita consump- y the best of all proofs, because it | tion is eight pounds a year, capable of speeds in level| ° an hour, were put through] San Francisco's a veteran's building. : war memorial is in the form of beautiful twin buildings, recently dedicated. One Is a civic opera house, the other Indian Population Grows Contrary to a widespread impres- sion that the Indian section of our population was steadily declining, comes a statement from the Depart- ment of Indian Affairs to the effect that the latest census shows an ac. tual increase of over 14,000 since the previous census ten years ago, We have usually had drawn for us a rather pathetic picture of the pass- ing of a race--a page turned down in the history of the land, In the United States, as an actual "matter of fact, the Indian population Is de- creasing rapidly through intermar- riage, But it seems that our more stimulating climate and the fact that there is relatively little Inter- marriage here combine to perpetuate the race. The care devoted to the welfare of all Indian communities In Canada is well known, and the De- partment may congratulate itself and stick another feather in its cap on the strength of the census return. The noble red man may have vanish. ed as a historic figure from our midst, but his descendants are still virile and still maintain some of the best traditions of their ancestors.--Mont- real Daily Star, RE _. Small Japanese Industries [it That the smaller' industrial esiub- lishments in Japan have been more adversely affected during the last few years than the big concerns is in- dicated by a report recently publish- ed by the Japanese Bureau of Social Affairs showing an increase in the number of labor disputes from 2,289 in 1930 to 2,456 in 1931, but a de- crease in the number of workers in- volved from 191,805 to 154,528. In 998 cases the disputes developed inte 864 strikes, seventy-six lockouts and fifty-eight instances where the work- ers stayed on the job, but did as lit- tle as possible. The principal causes of disputes were the discharge of workers, reductions of wages and de- mands for discharge allowances, in- creases of wages and the payment of wages in arrears. Of the 998 active disputes, 893 ended in failure for the workers, 851 in compromise and 226 in favor of the workers' demands; 23 were reported unsettled, and in six cases the outcome could mot he ascertained. ab Mh A Poet's Visio He toiled for daily bread. His soiled hands Bear witness to his toil, filed, The poet's soul within him, harken- ing, heard, Not the harsh noises of the market- place ; Wherein men barter body, mind and soul, for paltry peace, But from the dusty counter-land through open door, And high above the clamour of the street, The mystic music of a lovely land, Sun-kissed, and bearing evermore The soft, sweet murmur of a singing sea, And harpers, harping on filled shore, --@Gilbert Rae, in Chambers' Journal. - Yet, unde- a song- most "That machinist thorough man at his trade I know." "What makes yoy think so?" "He not only works all day, but everybodys attention and ham- mers every new idea advanced." is the Apple Harvest No other harvest is so richly scented With all the essences of earth and air, Or leaves the one who harvests more contented When musky bins are filled beneath a stair, ' Bees cannot wing this tang Into their taverns, Or these plumed pirate squirrels hide away This gold and crimson in their tree. trunk caverns ; Through all the gold-flecked spacious: ness of day. Old orchards have a way of running over Till all the wicker baskets do the same And ruddy cheeks roll oft into the clover As If they had it planned before we came. The peace and mirth of orchards and their glow Have filled hearts, too, before they turned to go. . --Glenn Ward Dresbach. --------p "Sisterhood of Plow" Foormed Girls of Australia are joining the "back to the pléw" movement which has been started by the United Asso- ciations to helo young women to go on the land. The organization is known as "Sisterhood of the Plow" and the first camp, called "Gouliston Training Camp," boasts of eighteen girls who already are expert plowwomen. They include former stenographers, school teachers, nurses, store clerks who had lost their positions. The camp is on a twenty-acre farm, which the girls have cleared and pre- pared for cultivation, Each expects eventually to manage her own farm. They live in tents and by 7 o'clock every morning are hard at work in the field. a On the Boards Jack Dempsey looks worried but he's not behind the bars--only studying his act. He declares five shows a day as hard work, The Little World By Jan Struther in 'London Spectator' Though God in seven days The world and all its ways Once for his own delight did fashion truly, ; Yet every man alive Must through his senses five Create it newly, No beauty dwells on earth Till eyes do give it birth; No rock, no stone, till a hand's touch bring concreteness; Fragrance, till breath be near; Music, till listening ear Draw forth its sweetness. And you, my little god, Whose rosy feet have trod But seven days' distance from your own day's breaking, You, in my arms close curled, Tell me, what kind of world Have you been making? L, These things your treasures be-- Low voices' harmony; The comfortable rhythm of the hours: Kind warmth, surprising light, Food, and the nodding, bright, Blurred shapes of flowers, Here dwells no hurt nor harm, Nor any worse alarm Than the small stupendous sound of your own sneezing: Wise though he be, and great, Could God himself create A word more pleasing? --e ime Size of Trout No Guide To Age, Experts Reveal The size of a trout is not necessar- ily a guide to its age, officials of the U.S. Fish Division of the Dept. of Conservation say. This, they point out, is frequently proved in rearing stations where it often happens that trout raised from the same batch of fry will range in. length from two to seven inches when the ponds are sein- ed in September. The explanation of this is that here and there an especially vigorous trout has managed to obtain a little more food than the others or to live near the head of the pond where the water is fresher and contains more living organism on which to feed. These fortunate individuals grow more rapidly than the rest and early learn to use their superior strength to keep the others away from the most desirable feeding areas, themselves lying near the head screens ready to seize the choice flies, bugs and small organisms carried down the stream. The smaller trout must content themselves with the artificial food given them by the station attendant, and, as a result, it is not long before they are in danger of being consumed by their brothers, who have grown to» such a Superior size. «© Miniature Store Built By Grocer for Children A miniature grocer, store along the same lines as the large one in which he conducts his business has been buiit and stocked by a northern grocer for the exclusive use of kindergarten pu- rils of the local school. The children, the grocer discovered, had played store for some time in the school room, using a few old boxes and calling their "store" by the name that the grocer used. He conceived the idea of giving them a real, up-to-date store to play in and proceeded to build it in the school. He wroté wo manufacturers for empty sample boxes of miniature editions of their products and stocked the small shelves in the usual way. A formal opening day was held when the store was completed and the parents of the children were invited to attend. Moving pictures were taken and candy favors distributed to the children, Each day during class the children are allowed to play "store" for one hour. A "manager" and his "assist- ant" are chosen by the teacher, and the class buys groceries in the same manner in which they have seen their mothers buy at the rcal store. PRRASEICY OINa English Traders Trying To Curtail Mill Retailing Ashton-Under-Lyne, England.--The Chamber of Commerce here is ap- proaching cotton mill employers with a view to ending the practice of retail trading in mills in the Ashton district. Trading in chocolates, biscuits, and other commodities has developed so greatly in the mills that the chamber has been prompted to take action. '31 Record Year Creamery Butter Production Sets New High Record-- Ontario Lead in Cheese Output In Dairy Products' 'L_. § v's 142 hospitals had a income of $19,811,000 last year. ; on the medical register, Shout 000 women, 4 ' The production of creamery butter in Canada last year established a new high record for the industry. The 1930, but even that figure was exceed- ed last year by over 20 per cent. The cline in 1981, but both cheese and but- the other hand, imports of dairy pro- low proportions. The production of creamery butter in Canada in 1981 amounted to 225, 802,635 pounds valued at $50,168,738, the output in 1930 being 185,751,061 p unds with a value of $56,670,504. Ontario and Quebec ranked fairly the former province producing 77,366,- 710 pounds and the latter 69,653,510 pcunds. Alberta ranked third among with 10 per cent. of the Dominion out- put, and was followed in order by British Columbia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Ontario pro- duced 34 per cent. and Quebec 31 per cent. of the Dominion total. All the provinces showed increased output when compared with 1980. The factory output of cheese in the Dominion for 1931 was 113,704,100 pounds valued at $12,796,616. In the previous year produstion was 119,- 107,208 pounds and the value $18,089, 870. Ontario was the big producer among the provinces in 1981, her out. put being 84,229,045 pounds or 74 per cent. of the total for Canada, Queber was second: in importance with a pro- duction of 25,907,691 pounds. Ontario showed an increase over 1930 of nearly 3,000,000 pounds, but the Quebec out- put fell off by a little over 8,000,000 pounds. There were increases in pro- duction in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. -- ill Germany Lists Newspapers Leipzig.--Germany has 4,547 daily newspapers. Of these, the German Newspaper Manual lists 1,814 as "non- partisan"--by far the largest single group. Among the papers with definite party affiliations, the largest number' 596, belongs to the Centre party and it- Bavarian offshoot, the Bavarian People's party, both Catholic, The § 5! Eighty-one dailies avof allegiance to has not half the voting strength of the Communists, and fifty-eight de- scribe themselves as "democratic," | that is, representative of the State party, though this is almost extinct. There are 363 "buergerlich," 562 "national," 212 "official" dailies. No icformation concerning their political tone, Berlin, with 147 dailies, has more newspapers than the whole province of Pommern. -- men. New Trade Opportunities (From "Canada".) . The Canadian market is now opened wider than ever to goods from the Mother Country. On 220 tariff items new preferences .re granted to British manufacturers, These will help to provide employment for thousands of British workers and pave the way back to prosperity. In return the Mother Country grants preferences to the products of Canada's farms and orchards. Cana- cian produce has always been as good as any in the world. Now it should be cheaper than foreign produce. It is practical business to buy Canadian goods, See that the shops supply them. Bill--"My vacation starts week." Tom--""Going away?" next Bill--"No, but my wife 1s." The Uncrowned Champ ducts, not normally high, sank to very the provinces in regard to pr Jon our. | Denmark uses annuelly 49 Ibs, per cial-Democrats contr" 197 papers, tha: recently unearthed on the River Dan- Nazis 121 and the Communists 50. the German Nationalist party, which! - stored for use as butter or oil, Most of London's big government departments have their own libraries, that of the War Office containing over books. previous record had been set up in} 1004 Lister, who received a title in 1897, cutput of factory cheese showed a de-| was the first man in the British Em- pire to be raised to the peerage pure- ter scored an advance in exports. on! ly for his services to medical science. Altaough there are 1,000 girls born in England for every 1,045 boys, there are twice as many women as men over the age of 86. Eighty per cent. of the world's motor cycles are in Europe, where Germany has 760,380, the United close in volume of production in 1931," Kingdom 640,152, France 469,100, and : Italy 95,518. Great Britain does not consume as much margarine as other" countries. head of the population, Holland 20 Mu.nitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Ibe, Germany 17 Ibs., and Britain 16 A Canadian motorist recently came abreast of a deer and accelerated to fifty-five miles an hour, but the animal kept ahead of him and then turned oft in the undergrowth. Some of England's registered flocks of sheep are old institutions; one which has been in existence 140 years is be- ing dispersed this month, but an older one still exists. Eyelashes should match the frock, according to a "freak" Paris fashion. The lashes, which are either dyed or covered with artificial ones, are said to make the eyes themsslves change color. Lighted cigarette were recently dropped in England from aeroplanes flying at a height of 1,000 feet. Out of six dropped, tha official making the test found three on the ground, all still burning. The City of Westminster, in the County of London, contains four square miles, valued at about $15,000, 000,000. This works'out at $115,000 per head for Westminster's entire population. Lipsticks and other cosmetics were produced 3,600 years ago in a factory ube, There was a regular trade with Egypt in these aids to beauty in 1600 B.C. A book containing £6,000 words was recently transmitted by wireless from the Dutch Government station to the Dutch West Indies. The work engag- ¢" four transmitters for seven hours each. Last year was a good one for Lon- don hospitals. financially, There were eighty-five with a cash surplus against seventy-two the previous year, while only fifty-seven had deficits as com- pared with seventy in 1930. A stained glass window has been put up in the Church of St. Anne, Soho, London, in memory of animals ~--rabbits, cows, donkeys, sheep and fowls, which will appear in it, This is believed to be the first window of its kind in the country. Jn Pilgrimage Made to Cavern For Guacharo Birds Annually Orce a year a pilgrimage is made to the Great Guacharv cavern in the valley of Caripe, near Cumana, Vene- zvela, S.A, for the sake of obtaining quantities of the birds from which the cavern takes its name. Here the guacharos or oil birds nest in the darkness where they spend their days, venturing forth only at night to ob- tain the fruits upon which they feed. Soon after they are hatched the young birds become exceedingly fat and it is because of this they are sought, They are slaughtered in great numbers, their fat being melted and When clarified it is said this fat will keep for a year without becoming rancid. --Detroit News. A Burned Home to Get Nails Nails were so costly in Colonial days that people often set fire to their homes when leaving them to secure enough nails to build again. To pre- vent this practice the government of Virginia gave each planter the esti- mated number of nails in the frame of the house. ---------------- More Physicians In Britain London.--The British Medical Jour- ral states that on Dec. 81 last there were 55,604 names on the Medical Rog- ister, compared with 23,801 half a century ago. This mean that ther is now :. physician for every 1,000 of population, Out of shout 55,000 qualified doctors there are