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oe, fy -- sir Ee ----, jy Suny _esson ™ School | >> -> +o +0000» LESSON XII THE SUFFERING SERVANT Mark 15:22-39 Golden Text -- For the Son of Man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransam for many." Mark 10:45. 2 J THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time -- Friday, April 7, A.D. 30. Place Jerusalem, "And they bring him unto the placé, Golgotha, which is, being in- terpreted, The place of a skull." Golgotha simply means "skull," as Mark himself explains for use. This place was probably given such a name because {it had a skulllike. contour. The site cannot be identif. fed with certainty. There are only ~--=Liwd places that can be seriously considered to-day- as the site of Calvary, one is the plot over which the church of the Holy Sepulchre now stands, and the other is the skull-shaped knoll above Jeremiah's grotto, outside the present north wall of Jerusalem, : The Crucifixion "And they offered him wine that was mingled with myrrh, but he re: ceived it not." This was a drink mercifully offered to those about to be crucified, to produce stupefac. tion (i.e., as an opiate). Jesus in, tended to go through the final or- deal with a mind perfectly clear, "And they crucify him." It is pro: bable, though not certain, that our Lord was nailed to the cross while it lay upon the ground, and that it was, then lifted into its. position as is represented in the great picture of Rubens, in. Antwerp Cathedral. The cross of Jesus lifted hig feet' no more than a yard above the ground, for the short stalk of hys- sop was able to reach Jesus' mouth. The agony of crucifixion needs no description. "And part his garments among them, casting lots upon them, what each should take." "And it was the, third hour, and they crucified him." Mark is the only one who gives the hour of Christ's crucifixion. The Jewish day began at six o'clock in the . morn- ing, and therefore the third hour would be about nine o'clock in the morning. "And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 'This in. scription on the Lord's cross was written by Pilate in Aramaic and in Greek, as well as in the official Latin, so as to be iuteiligible to all Jews. It was just this that the Jews refused to recognize, namely, that Jesus was their king. "And with him they crucify two robbers; one on his right hand, and one. on his left." These two men Fore not only robbers, but, as ".uke . tells us, they sere malefactors, l.e., men whose business it is to work. evil. Thus was the prediction of Isaiah" nearly seven hundred years i before this brought to pass. Though Mark does not recall it, all who do ... know the story of our Lord's cruci- fixlon as given in the other Gos- pels will remember that,~while at the beginning of this day both of the thieves railed upon thy Lord Je- sus, later on the same day one of them believed in him and \thereby - reecived eternal life, } Three Final Insults "And they that pas on him," These w try folk- on their wa citizens whose business into, the country. The w translated "railed" means, ordinar- ily, to speak repr.achfully, to re- vile, to calumniate. "Wagging their -heads, and saying, Ha! thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest «it in three days, 30. save thyself, and come down from the cross." The implication here is that if Je- sus spoke the truth in asserting his ability to build the temple again in three days, he certainly would be able.to pull his hands and feet free from the cross and to deliver him- gelf from his impalement. "In like manner also the chief priests mocking him among them- gelves with the scribes sald, He saved others; himself he cannot gave." Members of the priestly aris. tocracy were seen in company with scribes and elders deriding the suf- ferer, It is not true that Jesus could not save himself -- he could have done so easily, instantly, with all the omnipotence of God, but he could never have saved us had he saved himself, for we are saved only by his death. . "Let the Christ, the King of Is rael, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with. . him roproached him. The Fourth Cry "And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour." This darkness is alsa mentioned by Matthew (27:45) and by Luke, (23: 44), a darkness that began at high noon. and ended three hours later, at three o'clock in the afternoon. So compare another famous period of darkness at the time of the redemp- A---0O cad 'cometh to take him down," Bhd hd Sdn ag tion of the children of Israel from Egypt. "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloi, Elo}, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" This fourth cry from the cross, also re- corded by Matt, 27:46, is the only . one of the seven words from the cross recorded in Mark's Gospel. This in one of the deepest, most in- gcrutable mysteries of all the word of God, and, reading these words, we can only bow our heads, and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal in our hearts some of the terrible meaning of this cry, The nearest we can hope to come to penetrating this mystery is to think of Jesus as cov- ered with all the world's sin and curse; and when God saw Jesus thus, he turned away- from him. And even though God turned from him and left him, he cries'to him and holds fast to him as his God. Here the divine perfection of Jesus appears. "And some of them that stood by, when they heard it; said, Behold, he calleth Elijah." There was some- thing in the cry that recalled to the spectators the name of Elijah. "And one tan, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying Let be; let ug see whether Elijah This verse can be understood only as we 'recall that the fifth word on the cross (John 19:28) was, "I thirst." See also Matt. 27:48. Consequqgences of His Death "And Jesus uttered a loud voice, and gave up the ghost." The word translated "ghost is the word: of- ten. translated "spirit." "And the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bot- tom." This veil is the one that hung between the hold place and the holy of holies described in Exod. 26:31, 36.35. The veil in the temple, as in the tabernacle, symbolized the fact that God was diztinctly separated from men, and could not be ap- proached by men except through a high priest. No Hebrew, in all the hundreds of years of Hebrew his. tory, except the high priests, ever entered through the veil that hung _before tiie holy of holies. The rend. * ing of this veil was certainly an act of God. The veil was tremendously Leavy, and said to have beg¢n about forty feet in height. In the rending of the veil 'we have God revealed to men as he never has been before. We now know' God through the Lord Jesus Christ and especially. the love of God in the. fact that Christ died for us. "And when the centurion, who stood by over agajnst him, saw that he so gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God." This centurion: felt himself to be in the presence of a great-mys- tery, and realized that Jesus was kin-with divihity. Music Is Urged As Our Unifier Canadian People Could Be Drawn Together By Music Declares Eminent Glasgow Musician Sir Hugh 'Robertson, adjudicator of musical festivals throughout Canada, and director of the famous Orpheus Choir, told members of the Montreal last week that music was the best unifier that Canada could have, for all question. of color, re- ligion or nationality sank when peo- ple joined together for music. The eminent. Glasgow musician - Association of Canadian Clubs at said he had heard 40,000 "children . singing on his present trip to. Can- . 8IR HUGH ROBERTSON ada, all of them. animatéd with the one thought to do a beautiful thing beautifully. The children of today were the Canadiang of to-morrow and as they looked to the education and énlightenment of those children so they could look for an enlighten: ed Canada in the future, and any- EE = DONALD'S A TOLL-COLLECTOR rn i -- ---- Nicknamed "Donald" by children and drivers, this and, collects toll from a onald waits until a car stops base Die ribu- ulwich Par ¥ fusing touch tha om t duck in motorists 'lake where he lives, waddles across and waits for y 0) tions. Photograph ahove shows Donald saying th quack quacks), "Please, pretty please, what will you give me today ting a mototyt and N %_ By VIRGINIA DALE 3 Carole Lombard and Clark Gable really ought to go into the dress- making business. They co-operated on a sports jacket which = Alice Marble, the United States' Number One tennis player, will wear when she steps out on the courts of Wimbledon, England, to battle for a championship. Carole desig:..d the jacket, (she is Alice Marble's best friend) and Clark had his tailor make it. It's a knockout. And Alice, tall, blonde and pretty, will wear it. Remember "Dawn Patrol," in which Richard Barthelmess starred, and, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., after pleading and fighting for the role, played the ~~cond lead so ably that he stole the picture, and proved in 4 : ERROL FLYNN himself a good actor? Well, it's to be made again, with Errol Flynn, Patric Knowles and Basil Rathbone in the leadingz roles. » Claudeete Colbert, who recently got home from that European va- cation, likes-simple clothes -- but - listen to the description of the dress recently designed for her by " Travis Banton, one of movicdom's ace designers. It's frilly, it's frothy, it's of white organza, covered with a printed, pattern of cherries In black. The gkirt 1s shirred and full, the neckline is outlined by a large flounce, with wider flounces form- ing the sleeves. Sounds anything but simple! Alice Brady has had years on the stage and years in the movies, but when you hear her on the radio you one who ~begiudged opportunities for-the children yas no citizen 'at all, but was a traitor in the camp. - Music For Her Soul's Sake The propagation of culture was very difficult' in new countries be. cause the whole life in new coun- tries was one of striving, but new countries required a cultural back- ground and that was a work that lay to the hand of the Canadian Clubs, Canada needed music for her soul's sake and also for her nationality's sake. The great problem of race assi- milation can be met by music more successfully, than in any other way, for hostility could not enter where music was, and therefore its uhify- Ing value was inestimable, ) ™N, ¥ 4 may be sure that she is nervous. The microphone simply scares her into such a state of nerves that the pages of her script have to be past. ed on cardboard, to keep them from rattling. Encouraged by its success in the building up of Ginger Rogers as a dramatic star, RKO is going to try to do the same thing with Ruby Keeler, the dancer who is Mrs. Al Jolson in private lite. You'll see the first results of the new campaign in "Mother Carey's Chickens." And with Fay Bainter and: Ralph Mor- gan also in the cast, the girl will have to act or be utterly swamped. Bob Ripley has discovered in his gearch for 'Believe It Or Nots," that it is three and two-thirds times - as easy for a man to become an- amazing person as it is for a wo- may, to do so, He finds that amaz. ing women are just as Interesting as men, but rarer. The only reason he can glve is that they don't have as much chance to distinguish themselves as men do. The first thing any of us know, someone is going tp form an organi zation to protest against radio pro- grams which are awfully amusing to the audience in the broadcasting studio, but pretty dull to those who Just tune in, and can't see what is going on. Eddie the worst offend- ers. After all, ra- dlo is supposed to be heard, not just seen, And I know of more than one instance in which a listener, at home, swore never to buy the sponsor's product because it was so annoying to hear the laughter and not know what was so funny. Eddie Cantor ODDS AND ENDS -- Paramount may follow Metro's example and launch an air show in the fall .... . Stan Laurel and his Russian bride plan a fourth wedding ceremony -- Frank Black saves the stamps from foreign letters, and gives them to his friends -- which keeps his office filled with both friends and stamps ..... Around Hollywood they are calling "The Adventures of Marco Polo," "Mr, Deeds Goes k- to China" ..... Gale Page, known to "radio but not to movie fans, has been made a star by Warner Bro- thers, p Heads Weekly Publishers At the annual convention of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association in Toronto (Ontario- Quebec Division), Mr. A, E. Dobbie, managing editor of the Record-News, Smith's Falls, Ont, wag elected president of the or- ganization for the coming year. Cantor is one of ° A Handwriting Analysis Will Help You 'To A Better Life By L. HIBBERT ¢ | Handwriting Expert) . (Psychologist and Is It possible to foretell the fu- ture from one's handwriting? This is a question that is frequently ask- ed. Unfortunately, we cannot tell fortunes from handwriting, 1 wish we could, sometimes! What, then, will handwriting re- veal? It will show the character of a writer, There are, of course, many things we know about our friends, acquaintances and people with whom we come in contact, But there are other, deeper traits that don't come so readily to the sur- face, or are deliberately hidden. These are revealed unerringly in handwriting. Hapdwriting doesn't stop at re- vealing the writer's character; It shows the hidden potentialities and talent that often lie dormant witliin a person. Many persons are work- ing in "blind alleys," or ara real- {sing but a tithe of their possibili- ties, merely because of a lack of knowledge of their own powers. A handwriting analysis is often the first step towards a beticer po- sition and greater earning powers. Every reader will appreciate the importance of this, especially in these days of fast competition and reduced earning outlets. Can handwriting analysis be de- pended upon? There WAS a time when many so-called graphologists were nothing more than charlatans, preying on the gullible. There was also a time- when many medical vexperts" were quacks! But you do not put any less faith in your doc- tor today because many years ago there were medical quacks, do you? In the same way, graphology has passed the elementary stages and is now recognized as a science. Have YOU discovered what your handwriting shows about your real gelf? Would you like to know the truth about your sweetheart, rela. tives or friends? Or are you inter- ested in finding what talent you have? Send specimens of the writ- ing you want analysed, enclosing 10¢c for EACH specimen. Enclose with a stamped addressed envelope, to: L. Hibbert, Room 421, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto, Ont. Your letter will be treated in confidence, Grants ToHelp Finance Roads Into Mine Areas Dominion Minister of Resources Gives Details of Assistance the Provinces will be given To Aid in Development of Mining Sections -- Will Im- prove Transportation--On- tario to Get $250,000. Resources Minister Crerar last week announced tentative alloca- tion of the $1,300,000 vote included fn the supplementary estimates to assist the provinces in improving transportation into mining areas. The proposed allotments follow: Nova Scotia, $26,000; Quebec, $250,- 000; Ontario $250,000; Manitoba, $225,000; Saskatchewan, $125,000; Alberta, $50,000; British Columbia, $240,000; Northwest Territories and the Yukon, $93,000. Agreement With Provinces Initiat*d in the fiscal year 1936- 37, the assistance scheme was un- dertaken to reduce transportation costs into mining properties WI: the government thought such costs were likely to retard development a departmental statement said. In that year agreements were made with the provinces concerned whereby the work was carried out under the direction of the provin- cial governments with the under standing that two-thirds of the total expenditures in each case would be contributed - by the Dominjon and one-third bv the provinces. All projects carried out were re- commended by the provinces and were subject to the final approval of the Dominion. All work under- taken in Yukon and the Northwest Territories was done by the federal government. The same arrange ment will prevail this year, the statement said. 100 Producing Areas Aided In the assistance scheme work Is being given mainly lo persons tak- en from relief rolls, or classified as needy unemployed. During the past two years the joint program has been of material aid in expand- ing the tonnage treated daily in gad and other metallurgical plants throughout Canada. Upwards of 100 producing or soon-to-be producing gold mines have been given improved road as- sistance essential to profitable op- eration, and besides, active develop- ment hag been encouraged in many promising mineral areas 'hitherto devoid of suitable transportation facilities. ES Say" Hill-Billies Like Opera Best Prefer It To Mountain Music, Declares Col. Bovey of Mc- Gill, on Return from Visit to Arkansas. There ain't no hill-billy music! Kentucky and Arkansas mountain: eers. prefr--~ symphony orchestra- tions and opera. They disclaim ut- terly the brand of savage discord which fs described as "mountain music." This is the verdict of Col. Wilfrid Bovey of McGill University who re- presented -the Canadian Broadcast ing Corporation at the recent round table conference on radio held un- der the auspices of the National University Extension Association at Hot: Springs, Arkansas. The ex-governor of the CBC and McGill extension head was much intrigued By. the University of Ken: tucky's. mountain radio listening center system, The University of Kentucky has for years recognized the radio as an excellent medium for the stimulation of educational, cultural and recreational activities. During the past season 16 or more 8 educational, agricultural and musl- cal programs have been broadcast weekly from the university studies in Lexington. It was found early in the experi. mental broadcasting that large sec- tions of Kentucky lacked the faclli- tiles for receiving broadcasts, espe- cially in the mountains. A system of radio listening centres was estab- lished. The university provided ra. dio receiving sets, of adequate pow- er, and placed them under the com- munity centre directors. This scheme has been a marked success. Do Investigate Before Buying o Ilethods of operation of the To- ronto Stock Iixchange, which, he said, is a "much misunderstood in- stitution" were outlined by Nor- man C. Urquhart, exchange presi- dent, to Kincardine business nen at their spring banquet. "] have little sympathy with anyone who buys stock without in- vestigating," he declared. "The majority of people will buy stock on a tip and very rarely will in- vestigate. If they did, it would ~greatly benefit the country." He warned against considering penny stocks as an investment and pointed out they were only-a gam- ble. Tragedy Strikes Church y $ Four men plunged to theif deaths as they rode an elevator down the 800-foot shaft of the dome that crowns Brother Andre's $1,000,000 shrine, St. Joseph's Oratory, Montreal, The men fell to their deaths when a beam, sup- porting the hoist, shifted, plung- ing the men nearly 60 feet. The black line, ABOVE, shows where the elevator fell to the church's main floor. One of the victims plunged through the floor of the hoist and again through phe wood- en flooring of the church, as in- dicated by the broken line. Indians Recall Legendary Gods B. C. Tribesmen In Annual Rituals Do Homage to Hairy Creatures of Great Size. HARRISON HOT SPRINGS, B.C. --Indians of British Columbia--the home of the Ogopogo, legendary lake-dwelling water snake, and his terrifying salt-water cousin, the sea . serpent--paid homage last week to Sasquatch, the hairy ones. An estimated 2,000 from tribes in : the province and Washington State converged on a gaily decorated In- dian village here, bringing grotes- que native masks and costumes, It was Sasquatch Indian Day, and no place for skeptics. You either take the Sasquatch or leave them alone. There is no mid: dle course. Peek tn Windows Many Indians take them straight, To hear tell, the Sasquatch were great heiry legendary creatures that maintain their reputation with an occasional present-day swoop from the mountains to peek in win- dows or smack down a lone tribes: man. Others, Indian Agent J. WW. Burns explained, take a milder view, "Despite their great size--about seven feet in height--the Sas. quatch were timid and harmless," Burns sald the Indians believe. Perhaps Primitive Race "They were believed to be cover- ed with a growth of hair and to live in caves and hollow trees. The legend probably carie down from the actual existence of some primi: tive race. I believe in it myself." Blast May Last For 30,000 Years When A Star Explodes It Shoots Out Gas that Surrounds [t As A Cloud When a star explodes, the blast may last for thirty thousand years, according to Dr. Fred L. Whipple, . of Harvard Observatory, who bases his calculations on radial velocities observed in planetary nebulae by Dr. W. W. Campbell and Dr. J. H. "Moore, of Lick Observatory. Plan- etary nebulae consist of a star In the centre of a vast cloud of gas. This cloud is usually spherical, but other shapes have been observ: ed, including the Ring Nebula, which has a doughnut-shaped ring. The gas, which is incandescent, canie froni an explosion of the cen- tral star, which is still in a high state of incandescence. The gases are moving outward at several miles a second. When they attain such speeds they are beyond the gravitational control of the central star, which Is losing much of its substance into space. If the sun should_explode and form a plane- tary nebula, the surrounding gas cloud would reach many times the distance of the outermost planet. New planetary nebulae are form- ing, and old ones are fading away. Since about two hundred planetary nebulae are known, and their aver- age life is about 30,000 years, & new one should appear about every 250 years, Dr. Whipple said. Take Notice Of Your Bad Habits We're All Subject to Odd Man- nerisms Which Can Be Corrected Ilave you recently, or ever, tak- en an inventory of your poise or bearing--your manner of standing, sitting, walking, and acting before others? Have you any undesirable mannerisms that you aren't aware of, such as standing with -one hip "thrown out," or plagng both hands on the hips whenever you are standing still, or of standing with -.the feet wide apart and hands on the hips? Have you the habit of twiddling your fingers whenever you are be- tore others, or of placing your hands on your face all the time, or of stretching and yawning no mat- ter where you are? Have you the habit of picking your teeth in pub- lic--particularly along the street-- or of manicuring your nails in pub- lic? Have you the habit of whispering to some one person in a small group of people. Or of joking, laughing, or making fun of some- one 'behind his back? Or of drum- ming with the fingers, tapping with the feet, clearing the throat, and other forms of restlessness? Have you the habit of always frowning? Have you the "1" habit; that is, are you one of those persons who are always saying, "1 believe so-and- go; I wouldn't do that," etc? Have you the habit of slapping other people on the back every time you feel so inclined? Or of teasing oth- er people? Our natures aren't naturally gen: erous, or noble. We remember slights, little distasteful actions, and some peculiar mannerisms about someone, and forget the many good qualities he may have. Turkeys are being trained in England to be "watch dogs'. oa ics in es a ol kita ERA RTI LO I fy ve Low hr, os ie Tr i oo aia ATID, A s}y