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U ND LESSON IIL JESUS THE WATER OF LIFE _ (John 4: 1-54.) | Printed Text John 4: 7--26 Golden Text--Whosoever drinketh + of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, John 4:14, The Lesson in Its Setting Time.--December, A.D, 27, Place.--The discourse with the Sa- maritan woman took place at Sychar in Central "Palestine between Mt, Ky Gerizim and Mount Ebal, The rest MA of the chapter narrates events occur- 3 ving in Galilee, especially at Cana ih and Capernaum. z 3 Ey 7. There cometh a woman of Sa- yr maria to draw water, "A woman, ih and as such, lightly regarded by the ; popular doctors (cf. v. 27): a Sa- 2 3 a maritan, and as such, despised by the Jews. Jesus said unto her, Give me a drink. "He opened the conversation with a request on the human level, the level of His own human neces- sity. 8. For His disciples were gone away into the city to buy food. It is possible that one of the disciples car- ried a vessel for drawing water up from the well, and that, because they were absent, a stranger had to be asked to draw water up for the Lord. 9. The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me? The word here translated "askest is a word of petition, as from an in. ferior to a superior; but when Christ refers to that request of hers, He does not take up and allow her word, but uses the phrase, **who is it that saith to thee." Who am a Samaritan i woman. (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) "Rabbinis pre. cept forbade Jews to eat oread or drink wine with ther Samaritans. The Jews despised them as a mon- grel people with nondescript faith (2 Kings 17: 24 ff.)." 10. Jesus answeree and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God. As far as we know, the water was . not drawn up for the quenching of Jesus' thirst. He drops the matter of his need for iteral water, and He turns the aticntion of the woman from things physical to things spiritual. : And who 1t is that saith to thee, Give me to drink. Two things then this woman did not know, the gift of God, and the identity of the person who stood before her. Thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. God's greatest gifts are available to His children, whatever their merits, simply by asking (Matt. 7: 7, 8). "a common expression for. running spring water of a cistern or reser- voir, and used as a symbol of spirit- ual blessings with great frequency in the Old Testament." 11. The woman saith unto Him, - Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast Thou that living water? "The woman finds it impossible to compre- .hend the spiritual aspects of our Lord's statement, and, for the most part, confines her attention to the matter of drawing literal water from the. well immediately before them; yet, in her question, "Whence, "then, hast Thou living water?" 12, Art Thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle? There is noth- ing in the Bible to substantiate the claim of the Samaritans that they descended from Joseph, and hence could call Jacob their father. "When the Samaritans asked Alexander the Great to excuse them from tribute in the sabbatical year because, as hd true sons of Joseph they did not till rds their land that year, he pronounced their. claim an _imposture and de-. stroyed Samaria." 13. Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of his water shall thirst again, The Lord Jesus does not stop to compare Him- % self with Jacob, but He does state a truism which she could not deny, namely, that the water in this well could only temporarily quench the thirst of any who drink of dt, 14, But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. (Cf. 6: 86; Rev. 7: 16; 21: 6) Here Christ gathers to a head innumerable promises of .the Old il Testament, and thus claims them as fulfilled in Himself; e.g., Isa. 41: 18; 48:21; 49: 10; 56:1. See also Psalm 86:9; Jer, 2:-13; 17:13. But the water I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life. Christ received in- to the heart by a believer imparts eternal 'life, The spiritual life which we have from Christ ean never dry : It goes on and on for all etern- 16. The woman saith unto Him, * Bir, give me this water, that I thirst CHOO| gssoN s ¥ FATE AAT Ct Lp not, neither come all the way: hither to draw. Not only has the curiosity of the women 'beén aroused, but Christ has stirred op within her heart a deep longing for this living water of which He is speaking, though she does not. fully compre- hend what He has been saying. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 'One is surprised at the sudden change in the line of Jesus' conversation. At the moment when she asked the Lord for this living water, He told her to go back to the city. He did not bestow upon this woman the' gift of eternal life when she was keeping buried out of His sight, and probably out of serious consideration, the shameful sin in which she was living. Christ must bring her to an acknowledg- iy and a- confession of this sin rst. 17. The woman answered and said unto Him, I have no husband. Ap- parently this was an attempt to evade an examination of which she was afraid. "She would rather have these pages unturned. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband: 18. For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly. We must not forget that this terrible resume of this wo- man's life was not something which she confessed, but was something which He had knowledge of and re- minded her of. 19. The woman saith unto Him, Sir, 1 perceive that thou art a prophet. The word here translated "perceive" "marks contemplation, not immediate perception." 20. Our fathers worshipped in this domain; and ye say, that in Jerusa- lem is the place where men ought to worship. The mourtain to which this woman referred is Mount Geri-| zim, which was for the Samaritans the holy mountain of the world. 21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman believe me, the hour coneth when neither in this mounta.n. nor in Jeru- salem, shall, ye worship the IPather, Our Lord dues not decide the ques. tion as to the super.ority of one lo- cation over another, though, of course, if He had 'spoken about it, He would have exposed the: fradulent claims of the Samaritans; but He simply announces to her that the time would come when the worship of the Father would be determined no longer by some geographical limi- tation. : 22. Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. The Samaritan religion had only the Pentateuch for its Bible: it repudi- ated the Psalms and the writings of the prophets. Furthermore, it had added many 1dolatrous practices and pagan superstitions, so that the God whom they worshipped was not the true Jehovah of the Old Testament. 23. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the [Father in spirit and in truth. = True worshippers here are contrasted not so much with the in- sincere as with those who worship imperfectly. That which is imperfect can never be finally true. To wor- ship "in spirit" is to commune with God in one's spirit, for the preposi- tion "in" has reference to the sphere in which worship moves. For such doth the Father seek to be His worshippers. "The Father is seeking in the Son for true worship- pers, and therefore men are encour- aged and enabled to seek Him in spirit and truth (John 1: 17)." 24. God is a Spirit. By saying tha God is a Spirit, Christ means that God has no bodily form. On the other hand, God does have substance or essence. God is not a mere idea; or a construction of the mind, like a mathematical formula. And they that worship Him must worship in spirit and truth, Worship of God which is not in accordance with Gods nature is not true wor- ship. 26. The woman saith unto Him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when He is come, He will declare unto us all things. This is the only place in the New Testament where Christ is referred to as the Messiah, with the single exception of a proceding notice in this same Gospel (1:41). The word "Messiah means the Anointed One, 26. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am He. These words probably did not express a surprising truth to the women, who had been led to see so many great spiritual truths this hour, 'It is an undeniable acknowledgment, on the part of Christ, that He believed Himself to be the Messiah sent from God. If we do not accept His verdict about Himself, we characterize His as one who spoke falsely, or one who was under a delusion. c-3 mander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, Sir Bede E. H. Clifford, C.B.)., K.G.M.G., M.V.D,, Governor and Com: '| loam soil' which will receive eight ed Giving His Viewpoint K lovie-radio gossip By DOROTHY = v Jessica Dragone te, who'sbeen sing- ing on the air practically ever since there's heen any broadcasting, {8 branching out for herself with a new weekly seties of half-hour -musicdl programs each Wednesday night from nine-thirty till ten, on CBS. First tim she's been on a coast-to-coast series, after ten years of radio work. LJ ~ * . Tu you listen. to the Kate 'Smith programs, on which various unsung heroes and heroines appear, tell their gtory, and "hem receive votes from listeners-in? If you heard seven-year: old Mary Lonise McCroskey and lik: ed her you'll. he gled to hear that she was voted for by 215,000 people, and received the weekly award of FfL. 1 3 * = Loretta Young fell in love with the beautiful costumes that she wore in "Ramona," and couldn't bear to have them returned to the wardrobe room to be cut up and made over. So she bought them, had them remodel: ed slightly--and now has four new evening dresses, : es At last Jack Oakie, that gay com: edian of the screen, has his heart's desire--a master of ceremonies job on the air, It's odd that he hasn't been sign- ed up before, for he is one of the few comedians who are as good on the air as they are on the gereen you've probably. heard some of his guest performances; hh e was on with Bob Burns while Bing Crosby was in Honolulu, He got th. idea for this new program from his work in "Col: lege Rhythm." He's admitted that he'll have "guest professors'"--Al Jol son' Eddie Cantor, Burns and Allen and othets. \ \ * & 9 : 3 ODDS AND ENDS -- Talent Scouts for two major picture companies 'appeared at Now York's Jack Oakie Montclair, (favored haunt of movie celebrities) recently to watch ~ Ann Courtney--no:. knowing = that she'd .'gned that morning with 'Varner Brothers . . . Goria Swanson's go- ing to do a stage play in New York; Irving Thalberg had planned to bring her back t. the screen, just before his death, it's said . ., You'll gee Barbara Stanwyck dancing in 20t1 Century Fox's "Banjo on My Knee", she usad to do it for a lv. ing, starting in the "Follies" +. This year thosc Saturday. afternoon broad casts of the Metropolitan Opera Com- pany"s performances will be sponsor- ed by the Radio Corporation of America. Lord Beaverbrook, British news: paper magnate arriving in New York City on Europa, pictured as he gave newsmen his views on Ed- ward's abdication. i| cauliflower for early market. My Casino | Suggests New Kingdom William H, Davies, Victoria, B. C., real estate operator, has sug: gested that Vancouver Island se< cede from the Dominion of Can- ada and establish a monarchy over which former King Edward VIII and Mrs, Simpson would be invited to rule as king and queen. "FARM NOTES 'Conducted by PROFESSOR HENRY G. BELL With the Co-Operation of the 2 Ontario Agricultural College. Various Departments of the Question:-- (a) "Has there been very much experimental work car- ried on in Ontario to determine if the use of fertilizer in this province is, profitable? Will it-pay me to use fertilizer wth my spring' grain crop? (b) I intend to grow 10 acres of table turnips (Rutabagas) on a clay loads of barnyard manure per acre. What kind of fertilizer would. be suitable for these conditions and how should it be sown?'--T. B., Water- loo County. Answer:--(a) The Ontario Agri- cultural College has been carrying on fertilizer experiments in various parts of the province for several year. During the last seven years, a very definite campaign of testing the suitability of various fertilizers on the farmers' own farms has been in progress. Over 6500 plots have been conducted on a total of over 1300 farms. This: work has proven quite definitely that profit is to' be gained by wise use of fertilizers in supplementing the fertility of the soil and of manure which has ac- cumulated on the farm. The average gain in cereals that has been obtain. ed is from 10 to 16 bushels per acre. Fertilizers on potatoes, over a 8ix- year period have given an average increase of 5b bushels per acre, Fertilizers. on alfalfa have produced an average increase of almost two tons per acre. All these increases and similar improvement in other crops have been obtained from mod- erate application of such as 250 lbs. per acre on cereals, 376 lbs. per acre on alfalfa and 760 lbs. per acre on potatoes. At prices which have pre-' vailed. for fertilizers and for crops, exceeding good interest on money in: vested in fertilizer has been realized. (b) On turnips, 2-12-10 fertilizer has given largest yields, at the rate of 200 to 2p0 Ibs. per acre. This is a. fairly heavy application to: make through. the fertilizer dropper at- tached to* the turnip drill. It has been found better practice to drill the fertilizer over the turnip "area before the land is ridged for seed- ing, : Question: (a) "1 grow cabbage and soil is a light sandy loam and 1 would like to know what fertilizer and the quantity per acre should be used to give the earliest*results. (b) I have an eight-year-old as- paragus bed which produces an ex- cellent: yield so far as quantity is concerned, but after about the third ra = cutting, the tips become,stringy. Can this be corrected by the use of a bal. anced fertilizer and what analysis would you recommend? Also, please give me any other information which you think would benefit the crop. Up until now this 8sparagus bed has never received anything but barn- yard manure. ! : (¢c)*Do I need to use fertilizer when I follow a rotation in which a green crop, usually alfalfa, is plowed under every four years and the land receives a good application of man-| ure every four to five years.,"--W. 8. S., Essex. Answer:--(a) For ' cabbage and cauliflower, good results have been obtained from use of a 4-8-10 fertil- izer at the rate of 1600-2000 Ibs. per acre. This should he worked into the soil along the rows, before the plants' are transplanted. Particularly good results are obtained also from an additional light application of ni- trate of soda around the plants, but not 'touching them, about two weeks after the plants have been set out and sometimes again at a period of another two weeks. Do not apply more than 10 lbs. per acre in one application, (b) Asparagus can be helpéd ma- terially by the addition. of fertilizer in spring. We would not. advise a mixed fertilizer, but an application of 100-200 Ibs. per acre of nitrate of soda, or cyanamid, should give good results This shoulc. "be scattered along the asparagus rows before the tips, begin to show ard worked: into the soil by light harrowing After the asparagus is cut, the application of such fertilizer 'as 4-8-10° gives great strength to the crop for the next year.' : (¢) The rotation of crops wich includes legumes such as®alfalfa and sweet clover or common clover, adds organic matter to the soil and makes some addition of - nitrogen. Other crops take out nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, and .of course legumes remove considerable potash and' phosphoric acid from the soil. If manure is added, guite a bit of nitro- gen will be supplied, a small amount of phosphoric acid and 'a valuable amount of potash, so that for gen- eral cropping systems with good ro- tation of crops, there is necessity for: addition of more phosphoric acid and potash than is returued-in manure. Whether or not there is neéd of more nitrogen will depend entirely on the type of farming and the soil type. i Married in New York Mr, John Stewart McLennan, Jr, Lennan; of Petersfield, Sydney, Mrs, Sally White Houghton daugh rence White, of Beaverley Farms, gon of the Hon. John Stewart Mc- 8 and his bride, formerly ter of Me. and Mrs. Edward Law- in the Municipal Chapel in New York photograph was taken just after their ., whose marriage took place jty on Wednesday last. This wedding. : i FETA '|Home Economics department, six key qualities as reduisities for When old Biddy roamed the farm- yard, sang her little song of con- ~tentment, scratched in the barn floor litter, hid her nest in the haymow of her laying and the number of her eggs were matters to. her own clutch of eggs and mother a brood, observes the Vancou« ver Province. : : an individualist, is a machine, and as the proper place for.a machine is a factory, it is to the factory she is going. The very near future, it seems probable, will see, not poultry farms, but poultry plants ; They had a Poultry Industries Ex- and among: the gadgets and schemes exhibited was a cage with which, it 'was stated. a beginner could set up in business for himsel{ as a manu- facturer of eggs and broilers. The cage, which could be placed in a garage or any small," convenient building, had metal units in which young chicks could be started, grow- ing birds developed, broilers fatten- ed and egg-laying operations carried on. The plant had a capacity of twenty-five two-pound broilers and seven dozen eggs a week. According to the plan of operation, the chicks would be bought from an incubator and would be turned into broilers or egg-layers right in the cage. They would be ~machines, nothing more, They would have no- liberties: and no privileges--no roam- ing in the yard, no dusting in the sun, no strutting before a plumed lord of the barnyard, no cackling. turning raw materials into eggs and meat. : And the raw materials? Not the greens and grain of the old farm, Not even the laying mash of later days. = Fishmeal for protein, dried whey for supplementary food, calcite flour for eggshells. and bones; cod- liver oil qr pilchard oil for vitarsins. Not even straw to scratch in. Only cottonseed hulls, peat moss or sugar cane fibre. No going to bed with the sun, but electric lights 'to stimulate artificial activity. In the old days a hen was a care- free, happy crenture. But who would be a thetory hen? Happily her life is a short if not a merry one. "Dear Old Days Observes the Vancouver Province-- There has lately been discovered in Ottawa a note upon the Canadian scene which may d« perhaps for an historical note + pon Canadian morals- | and 'ustoms--what the old Latins comprehended in their single word "mores." It is a note, interesting and perhaps - important, upon _five-cent whiskey in Ottawa. ; It was found by Mr. Donn B. Staple- ton, unframing an old picture the other day. contained in two coples of The Ottawa Journal, dated May 14 and 15. 1895, used as backing in the picture-frame, in .one of- which was the editorial comment: "If, as is threatened, saloon keep- ers put up the price co" whiskey to 10. cents a glass, so much the better for price's wuld be high," '--O tempora," O mores, as the old 'Latins used to say. but is there not something very charming altogether in that "if, as {s threatened?" Just a faint touch of mel: ncholy regret, al though the stern mora: was not to be " .| deniéd; the price on the Demon Rum via, going up 100 percent. in the old Ottawa bar-rooms, and let all that was of good repute in Ottawa rejoice that it should be so--if, as was threat. ened! : 7 Ah, it only that stern old Ottawa journalist and moralist of forty years ago could ":ave survived--although per- haps he did--to see how we have dealt with the rager and the mocker in these more enlightened times. No bar-rooms now, but only beer par- lors. No saloon-keepers now, but only the {incorruptible Government Liquor Board. Ai" no five-cent whisky now, 0 no, indeed, but only th price which be very high indeed. \ SANTA BARBARA Calif.,, -- The bride-training is something more than teaching the art of home-mak- ing, the Santa Barbara State Colley,o hag decidea A girl also should know how to make a living, as well as how to run a home. The bride-training course at the college ha: been expanded to pre: pare greduates not only for marriage but for cireers as teachers, ists and clothing and furnishing spe- cialists. : Miss Jean Krueger, head of the gives success in home economics. She lists them .. cleanliness, appearance, ini tiative, ambition, personality and In- tegrity. and cackled to her heart's content, she was an individualist. The times - decision, She was considered to have 5 even, a. natural right to set on a ring forth and 'But the new Biddy, far from being ' position at New York the other day, . Only the day-after-day drudgery of - the community. There-are some-few thi gs_of which ft {is desirable the. the G.L.B. has found desirable should Bride-Training >. dieti- cians, journalists, equipment special- . & oy