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@ ae od pS ) . LESSON X SERVING BY PERSONAL °* DEVOTION TO CHRIST i Mark 14:3-11, 27:31. Golden Text--She hath done what she could. Mark 14:8, THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.--The supper at which Jesus was anointed took place on Saturday evening, April 1, A.D. 30, The ar rangement of Judas with the chief _ priests to betray the Lord was made on Tuesday of the next week, April 4, while Christ's foretelling of Peter's denial took place after the Lord's Supper on Thursday evening of that week, April C. Place.--The supper scene was in Bethany. All the rest of the incidents of this lesson took place in thé city of Jerusalem. The exquisite story of the anointiag of Jesus by Mary is also found in Matt. 26:6-13, and, with many added 'details, fn John 12:28, 3. And while he was in Bethany. "Bethany is a little village on the east: ern slope of the Mount of Olives, just over the top, so that from Bethany the city of Jerusalem [s not visible, It is to-day a miserable village of some forty 'or fifty poor homes occupied by fanatical: Moslems, Here- was the "home of Mary and Martha and their brother Lazarus. Undoubtedly Jesus found the home of his family the most perfect place of retreat for quiet. Here, Jesus was pleased to reveal more of the human side of his com: plex nature than anywhere else. In the house of Simon the leper. We know nothing more about this man. _ It 1s most probable that Simon's was N moral Uzauty, "been healed of his 1-nrosy, the most commodious home in Beth- any, and could. most easily accommo- date the larga number of guests who were 'invited to this supper, and that Simon's home is not to be Identified with Mary's home, but that she was simply serving or waiting upon the table in Simon's house on that occa- sion, Simon, of coruse, must have As he sat at meat, there came a woman. John tells us her_r ae, Mary, not to be confused with Mary the mother of ..us, or with Mar Magdalene. Hav- ing an alataster cruse. The alabaster mentioned in the Scriptures is gener- ally known as Oriental alabaster, to distinguish it from tlie 'modern min. eral called by the sam name, It-was usually crystallir -, stalagmitic rock or carbonate of lime. and was of a semi-transparent natur.. The name is connected th the town of Alabastron ++ T~upt, w' ore the stone was quar- ried. "It was Fighly esteemed for making small perfume bottles or oint- m2nt vases ..iled alabastra, Of pure ord, vey costly. frag: rant East Indian plant belonging to tia genus J-~l-rviana . 113 a juice of . deli :ious odor used eit' er pure or mix- cd by the ancien' + 'AniAct of Pure Love And she 'ke 2 cruse and pour- ed it over his * "~d. In the hot and stifling clim *~ i* was grateful and re- . freshing,- and. to anoint: one's guests, was an ordinr co 'tesy. The sisters had often' pondered "ow they 'could sho ; their .grat.'ude for all he had been. and all that he had do=2 for tiem. He had h-a'sd Simon, and had given the sisters and their brother, ths hope of aven, by winning their souls to himself, he "a shown how truly he was the Messiah, by bringing back L--arus from the grave. Mary was left to give their * and grati- tude exprese'on. This act was purely volrntary on Mary's part, and certain- ly arose only from * de * love for the Maviour, 4. But there were some that had ndignation am-ng themselves, saying, To what purpose hath this waste of the ointment been-made? We are told by John: that 'he leader in this criti- cism of Mary's beautiful' act was Ju- das. When 'we are thinking of, hu- man love. and the charm of human personality, it is i..congruous, it is a desecration, to introduce the thought of silver and gold. These things can- not be weished. They, are w' 1t we may call the poet : of life. : False Yardsticks 6. For this ointment might have been sold for above three hur "red shillings, and g' to the poor. And they mur.aured against her. The word here translated "shilling," as we have noted in a previous lesson, {8 the word "denarius," which {is the equivalent oc! bout seventeen cents, and was the wage for a day's labor in the time of our. Lord. Our. false measuring of things by a materialis "2 yardstick will yield when money is involved to the most. . degrading and dishonorable temptations. 6. But. Jesus said, Let her alone; why. trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me, [It should be care- fully observed that, as far as the re: cord: tells us, Mary sa'l nothing in de- fense of her own act. "ier act was a good work, one which possessed true The good -288 of the act lay in the grateful love which it displayed. 7..For ye hate the poor alwa 8 with you, and whensc.ver y2 will ye can do them good: but me ye. have, not al ways. B--D Sunday School Lesson 8. She hath done what she could. This is sometimes { "en to mean that, while it may not have been "uch that Mary did, yet she did what she was able to do. She had done all that she 'could, She hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying. -Mary an- ointed the Lord, ith the presenti- ment of, as w2ll as with the spirit of and divinely beautiful sympathy with, that death itself. Her action was en- tirely a prophetic one. She was con- sciors of what she did. 9. And verily I say unto you, Where- soever the gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, that also which this woman hath done shall be saoken of for a memorial of her, Mary's act to Jesus was the one memorial of the festive scene, the taing which did ~ot pass away. It will thing which did not pass away. Mark 14: 10, 11. 10. And Judas Is- carfot, he that was one of the twelve, went away unto 'he chief priests, that I; might deliver him unto them, 11. And "ay, when they heard it, were plad, and promised to g'e him .aoney. And he sought how he might conve- riently deliver him uno them, Notice that Judas Iscariot is even here at this time, when his aw'ul sin © about to be introduced, still numbered among tha twelve apost'2s. Judas dellberate- ly went to the "lef priests with the intenticn of betraying the Lord. The '| rroposal came from him, not fromthe priests. As Matthew tells. us, they gave him thirty pieces of silver, which was the equivalent of about one-third of the cos: of the nard with which Mary anointed the Lo. lL, 27. And Jesus saith unto 'them. All ye shall be offended.- The disciples will |. be trapped by what will happen to Je- sus; it will upset them completely. For it is written, 1 will smite the shepherd, ard th» sheep shall be scat tered abroad. This prophecy is found in Zech. 13:7. The shepherd here is; of course, the Lord Jesus. The sheep are his disciples. Fulfillment of this prediction is recorded in verse 50 of chapter, y 28. Howbeit after I am raised up, 1 will go before you into Ga'i'ee, The J ere declar 3 tha: deaih will not be able to hold him, and that the shameful departing of the disciples from their Lord in an hour when he needed them will not mean their per manent sep:vation from him cr he from them; they will be forgiven, they will te restored. 29. But Peter said unto him, Al- though all shall be offended, yet will not I. The words of Peter here are nothing less than sheer boastfulness. 30. And Jesus saith unto him, Verily { say unto thee, that thou to-day, even this night, before the cock crow twice, shalt deny me. thrice. The crowing of the cock is not some casual crow- ing of some individual cock. Two crowings were di.tinguished as time marks, one near midnight, the other just before dawn. Peter denied the Lord within four hours after his em- phatic assertion that nothing could ever persuade him to leave the Lord's side. 31. But HY spake exceeding vehes mently, If I must .die with thee, I will not deny thee. And in like manner also said they all. They were all sin- cere, but none of them knew his own weakness, The chipmunk, wrapped in spiral fur, In amber light and liquid fire: He circles tree trunks like a flame, A powder blaze along a limb And through the air: And stops: A leaf Dead in the grass, an ash of life: . A candle eye and twitching jowl Flame-swift, and fragile as a jewel, --Robert Wistrand in the New York Times. son, who is heir to the title. - 5 Above are left and centre, the new Duke and Duc hess of Devonshire. his father, who was Governor-General of Canada from 1916 to 1921. The Duke inherited the title from At right is the 'Earl of Burlington, their The Dunchess is a daughter of the fourth: Marquess of Salisbury. Former Coal Centre Now "Ghost Town" Famed Alberta 'Community. Once Employed 600° Workers DRUMHELLER, Alta. -- Wayne, famed old coal-mining town in Drum- heller Valley, where 600 workers were employed, is. rapidly becoming a "ghost town,'" but a new commun- ity three miles to the east is spring- ing up. Closing of the Jewel mine at Wayne left only one small mine in operation there, cmploying fewer than 50 men. Houses in 'Wayne are being sold for what they will bring; others are being moved to other val- ley points. The --new- town springing up- is Rosedale Ferry, A large hotel is nearly completed and many houses are being built. Mine equipment from the Jewel mine at Wayne is be- ing moved by truck to the Cambrian mine at the ferry. A year ago there was 'virtually no activity in' this area. { Winnipeg River Threatens Land KENORA, Ont. -- Hundreds of sightseers flocked to Norman Dam here last week as close to 650,000 through the channelways and the flooding Winnipeg River crept to within 18 inches of serious levels reached "in the 1927 flood. ~ Authorities estimated. the river's peak may not be reached for an- other 48 hours but the waters al- ready have driven four residents of adjacent Keewatin from their homes and gardens and farmlands adjoin- ing the river are under two and three feet of water. Big Fish Pulls "Dog Into River Officers of the Oxford Game and Fish Association vouch for. this fish story: Two Woodstock boys were fishing in the north branch of the Thames, north of the city, when one, after a desperate struggle, landed a huge carp. He hit the whopper over the "head, and thinking he had killed it, | tied it to the end of his pet-fox ter- rier's-leash. He went on fishing. The stunned carp soon revived and gave a couple of mighty flops. | The last flop landed. fish and dog both in the river. The boys rushed into water up to their waists and only with difficulty rescued the dog and recaptured the fish. This time they made sure it was -dead,- and lugged it home. Motor - trucks which carry 200 sheep. at a time are to be used in Australia, In recent articles 1 have quoted ac- tual cases from my mailbag, in- the hope that other readers, with perhaps similar problems of their own, might derive some help and guidance, Here is-a very. poignant case that I deaft with some time ago. I received a letter from a girl who was not quite 18 years old, but who had been mar- ried for 19 months and had a little baby girl. She said: "My husband is 'serving a term in jail for stealing. But he is not a bad man; he only stole to provide for me and the baby. I send you his writing. Can you give me any ray of hope for our future? I love my husband so much." 5 Her husband's writing showed that he was not as stable ag he might be; he was too prone to take the line of least resistance. However he could overcome this. And he had certain tal- ent potentialities. I made suggestions for making use of them. ! Later on I had the satisfaction of: hearing that this little.family had re- moved to a town many miles away from their former home, and the hus- CHARACTER FROM: HANDWRITING CASES FROM MY NOTEBOOK By LAWRENCE HIBBERT (Graphologist and Psychologist) accepting h!s. responsibilities. - That wife's faith in her husband was jus. tified, but it was a handwriting analy- sis that blazed the trail that he was able to follow successfully. - Mr. G. writes: "If handwriting an- alysis Is so helpful, could it not be util: ized by business?" You would be surprised, Mf. @., it you knew how much handwriting an- alysis IS used by business undertak- ings. There are not a few large firms who use it a very good deal. Insur- ance companies make use of it in the checking of applications at times, and other firms take advantage of it when filling important positions. Do you wish to. know. what your own handwriting reveals? Have you a dear sweetheart, friends cr relatives you'd like to know more about? Send speci: meno of the handwriting you want an.' atysed, enclosing 10c for EACH speol- men. 8end with stamped addressed en: velope to: L. Hibbert; Room 421, 73 West Adelaide St, Toronto, Ontario. Please send as lengthy specimens as band was in a steady position and possible. cubic feet of water a second surged. Holstein, 14, Makes "New Milk Record Maple Range Axie, 14-year-old pure-bred Holstein cow, owned by Wellington Sager & Son, St. George, Ontario, has just completed an offi- ¢ial R. O. P. mark which is the high- est for milk ever made in Canada by a-cow. of this age under similar conditions. trict twice-a-day milk, Maple Range Axie gave 17,179 pounds of milk and 582 pounds of fat in a year. She has six official R. 0. P. records, which total 99,482 pounds of milk and 3,328 pounds of fat, according to a report released on Thursday by the Holstein-Friesian Association of Canada head office here. The "Saegers are neighbors of Hon. Harry C. Nixon, the provincial secretary. Lawrence Sager is a past president of the Brant District Hol- stein Breeders' Club. Traditions Mark Majesties' Visit First: State Visit Abroad Will Be Paid To: France in June By Vizgand Queen PARIS.--France will - give King George VI a~d Queen Llizabeth of England a far different reception from the monumental welcome Reich- sfuehrer Hitler received in Rome in May, but it will at least rival the Italian festivities in sulendor. . There will be no striking modern illumination, swastika flags and Fas- cist symbols when the British sov- ereigns come to Paris June 28 to pay their first state visit abroad. Instead, the old traditions of mon- archy and democracy have been maintained 'in the preparations for the British royal visit to Paris. A Four-Day Stay The sovereign's four-day stay will centre around the foreign ministry, on the Quay d'Orsay facing the River Seine, where they will occupy the same: apartments in which the late King George V and Queen Mary lived on their visit in 1914. = When the visitors leave July 1 by train: and boat for London, France will have done everything to offer tHem a pleasant visit--and to impress on the world that France and Great Britain are better friends than cver. Ceremonies of State The ceremonies of state observed for the visit of the King's father and mother in 1914 will be virtually the same. The principal cvents will be a re- ception at the Elysee Palace, resi- denice of President Albert Lebrun, and a dinner at the British embassy. President Lebrun. has delegated a member of his personal staff, and the government will appoint special attendants, to join the royal retinue, Pigs Catch Flu In "Natural" Test Theory Is Advanced That Human Flu Germs Hibernate In Hogs In Between Epidemics The first case in medical history of pigs catching influenza directly from human beings is announced in the Jcurnal of Experimental Medicine, of the Rockefeller Institute. The discovery may go far towards explaining a long-standing medical puzzle, as to where human flu hides itself in the intervals between epi- demics. It has not been found in man during these periods. Swine may be the "reservoir." Caught From Humans Swine have been under suspicion ever since the world flu outbreak of 1918. That year, in the midwest Uni- ted lates large herds of swine were fll and Dr. J. S. Kgen suggested the pigs had human f{lu, Later is was found possible to give pigs the human disease: under laboratory conditions. But this was so difficult ft was con- cidered unlikely pigs .uld catch hu- man flu under "natural" conditions. plied the proof that this idea w wrong. 'The natural fu outbreak in these swine was discovered by Dr. Richard E. Shope. of the Rockefeller Institute. Both herds had epidemics of human flu last winter, he said. [It has taken months of work to verify the discovery. One herd belonged to the New Jer sey State Prison Farm at Bordentown. The other was at Jamesburg on the farm of the New Jersey State Home for Boys. Both herds TAN on garbage from the ins'itutions, and He garbage is believed to have given them the flu. 3,000-Y ear-Old Wheat Planted Natives "of Perugia, Italy, may soon be cating macaroni made from wheat 3,000 years old. The wheat was found in an old Etruscan tomb discovered receatly. In the centre of the tomb, an clabor- ate affair with statues all ~round its walls, was an ancient iron trunk. In the trunk was the wheat, excellently preserved. Now this grain is being planted, and it is hoped it will germinate and bear. ity Ki) of Black Bass You Drea Ahout od bass, Caught geles, C The monster weighs 484 Ral ¥ 08 An- pounds, a record catch, Radio \\ By VIRGINIA DALE 3g Haven't you felt frequently, when you were at the movies, that you'd like to know where some of the scenes were taken? Harry She"man, producer of the "Hopalong .Cassidy" pictures, has solved that long-standing need. Beginning * with "Beneath Western Skies," each of these films will carry an announcement of the location where it was made, Is It's a grand idea. But probably it won't be taken up to any extent, for imagine the shock if you were told, at the beginning of a pict ire whose own scones were laid in France, for in- stance, that it was filmed right along thy good old California sea coast. carts of that coast have been used so often that old-t!mers recognize them instantly, It looks as if Merto had a winner in "Three Comrades," the sequel to "All Quiet on the Western Front." Ro- bert Taylor really had a chance to be dramatic in this one, and he had to be Robert Taylor good, for the other leading roles are playcd by slargarct Sul'ivan, Franchot To and Robert young, CTOW, Two New Jersey herds of pigs sup- is as Woevne Morris has Znud to his sor- that kissing a girl for the movies pretty complicated, and decidedly difficult, For instance, the ------------------ [Persia Is Governed By An Ex-Private How Native Commander Became "Shah" of That Eactern Country It appeals to the imagination--the story of how General Ironside of the British Army, now agsigned to com- mand of Gibraltar, picked a native commander for the regular army in Persia, once upon a time. He was summoned home, and obliged sudden- I'ly to find his man. "Reza Khan, Sir" And he did. "Striding swiftly down the ranks," passing up the officers, "his gimlet eye fell upon a husky noncom." "What's your name?" "Reza Khan, sir." "You'll do." And it was so ordered. The prl- vate soldier took command. Four years later the peasant trooper was shah of Persia. Parasites Battle European Sawfly Forty Million Insects To Be Re- leased In New Brunswiclt To Clean up on "Forest Scourge" FREDERICTON. -- An army of 200, 000 parasites, vanguard of 40,000,000 to be released in New Brunswick this year, has arrived here to open war In a carefully planned campaign against the European spruce sawfly, The advance corps of microplectrons from the Dominion parasite laboratory at Belleville, Ont., was liberated at the Acadian Forest Experimental Station in Sunbury County, Of these 25,000,000 will be realesed throughout the pro- vince, About 15,000,000 move will be liber- ated in August, when the second gen- eration of the destructive sawfly will be in the ascendant, Dates of libera- tion will vary according to climatic conditions in various districts. Of the 9,800 square miles of valy- able timberland heavily infested by the sawfly in eastern Canada, 1,200 square miles are in New Brunswick, reports R. KE. Balch, head of the Do- minion entomological laboratory here, The insect has destroyed millions of dollars worth of timber in the Gaspe area of Quebec, Destroy Sawfly Cocoons As shipped from Belleville the para- director [iy flat cases of wire netting. sites live inside sawfly cocoons called parasized cocoons. These are packed Eggs of tells you to look down at the girl. May- | pe parasite, laid by the adults within be you're not tall enough; then you have to stand on a box. (That doesn't worry Wayne, because he's tall). your arms and kiss her," says he, "while the hairdresser stands by, and glares if you muss the girl's hair, and you must not wrinkle the collar of the girl's dress, and you must raise your arms so that your own coat does not hike up the back; if it does, every- thing stops while the tailor is sum- moned to see what's wrong with the coat. Screen love is the bunk -- but jt is a living." Jerry Belcher has broadeast in- terviews with juteresting from almost cvery fair-sized town in the United States, and from some in Canada, but so far he hasn't interview- ed any of the ones he knows best of all -- these in his own corner of Tex- as. Bing Crosby's wife went to New York to have a lot of fun and do a lot of shopping. And what do you suppose she bought? Clothes and toys for those four small Crosby boys! Somehow, the stores' other offerings just didn't seem to be very interesting. I'or up-to-the-minute radio news tune in Wes McKnight from CFRB, Toronto, 7:40 p.m., Standard time on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and at 8 o'clock Saturday. This outstanding sport commentator has been on the air since 1934 for Bee Hive Golden Corn Syrup and other products of the St. Lawrence Starch Company Limited. ODDS AND ENDS -- Gloria Blon- dell has been learning to sail a boat, with her brother-in-law, Dick Powell, daing the teaching Edward Arnold was weighed the other day at the stu- dio and beamed when he found that he had lost four pounds, due to the hot weather And then along came Mr. Lionel Barrymore and he beamed be- cause he had gained five .... James Stewart has 17 harmonicas, but he's still in the market for more ...... Joan Bennett collects salt and pepper shak- ers Universal's budget for Dean- na Durbin's next picture, ¢ Cinderella" is $1,000,000 -- which will buy a lot of glass slippers... John Payne is do- ing so well in "Garden of the Moon" that Warner Brothers have him all set for a big buildap you list of potential movie stars ... Have you a good idea for a radio pro- gram for children? A certain big cer- eal company fs in the market for one Joe Penner sport | by a traction of an inch, Jury while broadcasting --- and from a posed to be thrown out of the ring by | box used in sound effects missed him recently escaped in- | neighbors | the cocoon, grow and devour the larva, On reaching adult stage the para- vienty sites break out of the cocoon and es- "You have to take the girl in! cape through the wire netting. Then they fly through the woods seeking sawfly ceQoons in which to lay their own cggs. The latter repeat the en- tire process, and so on as long as co- coons exist, Decline Of Farm Market Is Seen Great Britaie--British M.P. Tells of Population De:rease In Plea for organization as a unit of all agriculture in the British Km pire and a warning to the Domin- ions against rushing blindly into ngri- cultural expansion in the hope Great Britain would absorb surplus produc- tion was voiced at Regina last week by Sir Regingl Dorman-Smith, Brit- ish M.P., in an address to the Cana- dian Club. He intimated Great Britain her- self, if she desired, coull step up her agricultural production by 50 per cent. and reduce radically im- ports necessary from the dominions. "The dominions seem to believe Great Britain will accept all the agri- cultural produce they send her," said Sir Reginald, "and it is true she ab- sorbed 48 per cent. more now than she did in the days of free trade. But from that the Dominions have drawn a false sense of security. "There is grave reason to doubt if Great Britain can even go on absorb- ing as much Dominion produce gs she is right now. "It is a sad fac, but we: must recognize the trend, that our population will soon start to decrease. Experts tell us the popula- . wooden box, of all things! He was sup- | anything. Eddie Klee vk satisfied bt weary as he vioigh his ¢ black | @ wrestler. A splinter from the broken not. off the Southern California coast, upon return to pened to me before." tion will reach its peak in 1943, and by 1965 will have dropped 2,000,600, and will continue to drop. "And there you have a situation of niere and mote old people eating less and less, and fewer young people to cat moye. There you have a con- tracting market." Judpe Is Stamped: Who Wouldr' t Be? Judge Willlam -- of Chi- cago, went to his law books for help - -- 80 add him to when only 11 jurors signed a direct cd verdict in a personal inquiry suit, The 12th, Elmer Blsey, wouldn't sign. "Your honor," said Elsey, "the verdict form reads, "we the jury find," but actually ve haven't found All we did was what you us to--whether we agiced or I will not sign." The judge said: "This never haps told 4 a »- pot 2 FE oS > = Ln 8 i 4s HEE AY 4 is gurticd Ap SN WH {Ln x Ie 3 14 0