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M. 6 :20 (3.3! 6.43 ”IS (“‘1‘ moum FOEST ‘ Business College Unexcexled Train Service Highest Class of Equipment nnoum‘ amiry. that h‘hus his Tanning Min and Factory unpluwd am} 15 prepared Custom Sawing Promfitly At- tended To Tho undersigned begs to Wham an SASH, DOORS --- and all kinds 0! â€" chse Fittings ”6.1:. MORNING. DRE. Patti. Agent, Toronto Lv. \Valkerton Ar. ” Maple Hill ” " Hanover Allan Park " Durham: " L‘K'Wt: at. D and 8.55 1". Duvhmn at L0 in the “‘idt'llts ~Of ; :x-mmdmg 71‘ 11:15 his )‘l‘ ONTARIO 12.20 10.04 12.55 10.35 5 mm. .553. 9.50 II). I Lesson verse 2 shows us isrnei smit- l ten before the i’hilistines. and we 5 think that We hear again the words of ? Joshua. “O Lord. What shall i say when lsrnel tm'neth their backs before ;7 their enemies?" «Josh. vii. 8.) But. as I. then. so now. it was because of sin in E the vamp. As the. elders considered the present defeat they did not seem , to think that the difficulty might be with lsrnel. nor did they turn to the Lord. but said. “Let us fetch the ark ot’ the covenant of the Lord that it may save us“ lVel‘SG 3). The presence of the ark caused lsrael to shout with a great shout. and when the Philistines understood that it was because the , ark was come into the camp they said _ thnttind was come into the camp. the gods that smote the Egyptians. On the part of both Israel and the Philis- . tines it seemed like pure superstition. , The latter knew no better. but for is- . rael to put confidence in the ark rather than in the Lord reminds us of their ”worship of Aaron's golden calf and. away beyond the time of this lesson. their worship or the serpent of brass ' (11 Kings xviii. 4i. ' 19-22:. so that a great calamity came to the house of EM in one day Iii. 34L Thus suddenly have great events trans- pired again and again. and so Sbnll it be at the end time. The men of Beth~Shemesh rejoiced greatly to welcome the ark. and they oh‘ered burnt offerings and sacrifices unto~ the Lord. but they made a sad mistake when they SOUked into the ark. and they snfl'ered greatly for It As we said at the beginning of this stndx. the art; was made to keep the now In W of God. which Jsmel could not keep. The blood sprinkled upon the men y‘reat from year to year (Lev mi: {0!} of the demmm~ of, the law met by a substitute. even Christ. the en! u! tne'inw for righteousness to the Lord upon dumb beasts and brings to mind the dominion over all she-up and oxen. beasts of the field. fowl of the air and fish of the sea that has had some foreshadowings all the way along. but will be fully seen when the kingdom 'comes (P9. viii. 6-9: Heb. h. 8. 9|. The story of the 211'de the humus of the .l’hilistines schapters v and xi) makes us think of Jerusalem. a hur- densome stone for all people. and that all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces «Zeeh. xii. 3». The Phillstines found the art: a very griev- ous thin: to have in their midst. and 'after a few months wt. 1) they were glad to send it back to lsrael.’ The story of the new cart and the two milk cows tied to it. with their calves shut "hp at home and the eows taking the .traigbt way to Beth-Shemesh. lowing as they went. but not turning aside to the right hand or to the left Ni. 7.12». is a’wnndert'ul record of the hand of God was taken (verses 10. 1h. Poor old Eli waited with fear and trembling for tidings from the battle. and when he heard the sad news and that the ark of God had been taken he fell off his Seat bm-kward and broke his neck and died. He was ninety-eight years old and had judged Israel forty years (verses 12-18). I think that while outwardly it was a broken nevk it may have been inwardly a broken heart. In the same day it seems as if Phine- has' wife was also taken away werses Is it not the same today with those who think there is any benefit in the mere reading of a chapter in the Bible. or saying a prayer. or taking the com- munion. or in any religious formality? Anything that is not real heart deal- Ving‘with the Living God is only a form of suyerstition. The I‘hilistines were stirred to great fervor by the cry or their leaders. “Be strong: Quit your. selves like men and fight" «Verse 9). and the Lord delivered Israel into their hands so that 30.000 Were slain. in- cluding Eli's two sons. and the ark ot 3-33! n!‘ mph“ for :ightmmsness to uwrgc we {.3: t 1:: *iuvth .Rom. x. 43. E '; m-rz: \“rts nnr 00:33:] h? by the .-v 1'. Mri: mm Ioni)‘ Him: “9 an" In :;;§[}' “(-413 (zud :ilHl is therefore m As we read this chapter and the two following and vii. l. 2. we cannot but notice the frequent mention of the ark of the Lord. or the ark of God. or some of its other titles. and when we recall that it was the principal vessel in the tabernacle and the only one of all the tabernacle vessels that con- tinued to be used in the temple of Solomon. that it was made specially to be a receptacle for the two tables of the law. that orer its blood stained lid or mercy seat and between the cherubim the glory of the Lord was revealed. and that from’ahore the mer- cy seat the Lord communed with Moses. We must be persuaded that this vessel had a wonderful significance. And when we read in Rev. xi. 19. of the temple of God in heaven being opened and there being seen in it the ark of His Testament we stand in still greater awe before this holy vessel. it is mentioned forty times in the books of Moses and twentyeight times Noslma. chiefly in connection with the crossing of the Jordan. in our lesson chapter and those following it is mentioned thirty-seven times. so that we can easily see that the interest cen- ters upon it. a Text of the Lesson, l Sam. iv, 1-13. 18. Memory Verses, .10. 11â€"Golden Tort. J18. 1, 22â€"Ocmmcntary Prepared by THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Lesson WILâ€"Eirst Quarter, For Feb. 21, 1915. SUNBAY. SBHOOL m i m:- zuizsium'iun of clear! -‘.: 11cm. all. 19: 11 Cut. 13!. fl fin: us an In I is therefore 01' death .Gal. It is an extraordinary masquer- ade. But Whoever is behind the domino, it is much the same to the poor, toiling peasant farmers of the delta. Whoever danced. whether it be the builders of the Pyramids, those mountains of- van- ity and unrequited toil, or wheth- er it be Darius or Alexander, Pom- The Man Who Pays Not a few British officials and many. soldiers wear the fez, .for an Egyptian hates the sight of a hat. Good faithful English church- men keep holy the Mahometan Sabbath, which is Friday, stay at their desks Sunday, and in the month of Ramadan they would not for the world sit down in a pub- lic dining place between sunrise and sunset, where they might. be seen breaking the fast which the pious M'ahometan observes even to ti e extreme of refusing to swal- luv: his saliva. ‘ "__Q Behind the Khediaval throne there ever stands a Whispering but positive British commissioner. At his whisper a Khedive has been dethroned Within a few weeks. and a new Khedive en- throned: at his nod the yoke of Turkish suzerainty Was thrown off after 4.00 years, and the very flag of Egypt was changed‘ but not by the insertion of the cross of St. George. Simply txvo more five-pointed Egyptian stars were added to the crescent. ’ Yet it must be said that no Ian-.1 ever had a more beneiicial or un- obtrusive oppressor than the Brit- on in Egypt. His is a strange, iIHiolUlU' rule. Previous to the re- cent occupation of the British the Sultan 01' ‘l‘urkey was the sover- eign, with the Knedive at the head of the government. No Brit- ish flag waved over the seats of power and authority, but only the five-pointed star in the crescent cent of the 'lurco-Egyptian flag. With Oriental pomp, the KhediVu made his progress through the streets of Cairo, while his Britisn master goes by with no more flourish than a Cook’s touristy Egyptians were the pilots, in the custom house in the postofl‘icec and telegraph offices, in the rail- way stations and on the trains. There were only Egyptian police in the streets, and Egyptian sol- diers to be seen galloping about the Pyramids and other of the famous monuments, or standing before the many places of the Khedive scattered over the coun- try. Many more Greeks and Ital- ians were to be seen that Britons, and more French was to be heard spoken than English. All the Brit- ish one saw looked like mere tourists, except for an occasional army officer or group of loitering ’l‘ommies on leave from the big British barrcaks that are mod- estly tucked away inconspicuounly in the outskirts. " Yet someWuere in the backâ€" ground of every Egyptian ofiicial in the custom house, in the post» office and in tne railway station, of every Egyptian policeman and sthiier, of every sheik and pasha, there sat a Briton issuing orders and handling the money. ’lhe Egyptian pays his taxes to an Egyptian collector, is arrested by; _OJ ‘7 "h" ’ an Egyptian policeman and tried by an Egyptian judge holding court in the name of an Egyptian monarch. But the men the public sees nave no more independent power than a Tammany mayor of New York, only “the man higher up” in Egypt has won the reputa- tion of being clean-handed. ‘ A strange mum-Inc Rule An ardent rev«,:luiionist. at 1:, busy \x‘itu all manner of sedition, privy co'nSpii'aey and rebellion against the firiiisn masieis 01.11:;5 native land. 'ineir Assuem Liam, their schools, their heqlth oin- speetor and tneir street sweepers have not sufficed to excite Im- gratituue of Young Egypt toward its alien overlords. It wouid mine;- revert to the squalor of old than languish in a national impotance unuer which it dare not do inure tnan merely spit on the shadow of a passing Englishman. “With all your im entions, you can’t invent a religion, out mu to import your religions l-om us, and tnen after 2,000 years of study you can’t understand. [1113111. Your struggle with the Oriental Scrip- tux-es truly is '11itiablol” Wnat “as {11018, my canuiJ fri: nd told me tuut «e a: e not even unite, tuv pure Egyptian ueing {gr \H‘xitC‘i'. which he bared his wrist to prune. “Really,” he said, as he pro-j ceeded to instruct me with all; possible courtesy, ‘our people are; too civil to explain to the west-5 ern people the utter contempt in which they hold them. For exam- ple, it would be tne grosscst. breach of manners for me to tell! you what I am actually thinking, of you now. in .your cnarar ter asi a representatixe 0f the Occidenti You cant understand mat we g don’t care anything about voui boasted achievements in natural science your mechanical im enm. tions. We first invented them all while your ancestors were still in the savage state. But we found that they Were useless as ameans to happiness. and we simply arm;- ped tnem and forgot them. ' quire ,where the monuments of that civilization were to be found. he exclaimed, “Th‘at question’is so western! Your people think and talk only of doing, but we give all our thoughts toneing.‘ Youcan perceive only what you can toucn: you value only what you can, 4qu up in money sterm§. - One well-known writer says: “One Egyptian did deign to favor me with an impression of the . 1- most inexpressible contempt or the east for the West. He had been extolling the Orient as the only true source of civilization. but when I had the temerity to in; STRATEGIC“. IMPORTANCE OF THE SUEZ CANAL V Continued from page 2. yond Port Said possesses him that he is alone in a human wilder-â€" BESS. It ié alleged .that the Coopers have been making a business of stealing grain‘ fOWI, etc., and three other charges of theft have been . laid against the younger Cooper.â€" Shelburne Free Press. ‘ 'g s SCOTT‘ Opposite the Old Stand _ Durham, (mad. 6 MWW9999999 W 90999996999999. 99999991 99” There are several other charges of theft against Harry Cooper‘ who formerly worked for Har- shaw. He is about 35 years of age. and the father is about 65. They will probably be tried at the assizes on .March 9, before Chief Justice M‘ulock, unless they elect to be tried at an earlier date without' a jury before the county judge._ Harry Cooper and his father, Peter Jesse Cooper, v.'e1e commit- ted for trial at O1 ne'eville last Week by P. M. Pattullo on a charge of the theft of nearlv 150 bushels of oats. some buckwheat chop and other grain. .1h1h 11 we stolen from the barn of John Har- shaw of Mono. earlv on the morn- ing of January 14 last. The" theft was discovered the next m'u'rfing by John M. Harshaw. son of Jim owner of the farm. when he Want to the Barn, and the case was at once placed in the hands of the authorities. High Consta7113 Mar~ shall a1: ‘ested‘Peter Jesse? Cormâ€" er at his home in Mono Centre. Where he discovered abort 70 bmhels of the missing oats, abag of buckwheat and two bags 0f chop. also taken from Harshaw’s place. After a few days the 1 1111101111 Cooper was finally locat- ed hiding in a barn west of Cam- illa. At a preliminarv investigaâ€" tion the younger Cooper admitted his guilt and told how he and his father got the grain and divided he booty. and the following day the son drove to Alliston nith his share, where it was disposed 01 to a dealer. ney or Caesar, the, Ptolemies or Cleopatra, Antony. or Constantine, ' Omar or the Mamalukes, the Turks. Napoleon or the British bondholder, the poor fellahin al- ways have had to pay' the fiddler. to-day, scratching with Qwoodmfl ploughs the narrow strip of black! soil between the two deserts; are forever threatening to close: in upon the Nile, have been sow- ing for others to reap through 200 _ generations that are of record; Twice a year for 60 or 70 centur-, l ies at least that wonderful garden : éhas yielded its fat harvests, but :mever to the planter. The crops i have gone in various ages to the! ,Assyria'ns, the Babylonians, the gPersians, the Greeks, the Romans.' :the Turks, the British; but never 'to those who raised them. i NO WOPd?I‘ if all that natienf- There is another little stream farther north rm the same Medit- erranean shore and it is the sec- ond prize in the lottery of the \1 air This is the Bosplmrous. 17 miles Ion". but it is on! v less \i 1 to Russia than the Suez canal is to _anland. The. possession of these. two narrow waterways will decide the fate of empires. and if the strug- gle is maintained long enough its decisive battle is more likely to be fought there in the Orient than here in the Occident. FATHER AND SON COMMILED FOR TRIAL. and if Germany could, latvm' her; hands upon it she could choke London moxe effectually than if she seized the mouth Of the Thames. It is this army of fellahin and Sudanese on which Britain must now rely.'rather than the small British garrison, to defend the greatest prize in the game of War that the empires are playing. For that trench in the sand of the Isthmus of Suez is far more essential to the success of the Kai- ser than the :apture of t.e 'l‘hames or the Seihe. Tt is ilié ver‘yu’chflroat of the British Empire, d __“.‘, ‘Vphslbbkil. When the British began to or- ganize their army of native troops they were disappointed to find the fellah-in too broken spirited. too dull and tame to fig :t for their masters. 71 hen they called Truks and Albanians to mnirihuie an admixture of courage, but these were too spirited and t‘m-y mutinied. Only among the black tribes of the Sudan did they suc- ceed in finding the kind of re.- cruit that was needed. These Su- danese were savages. to be sure. but their native independence and bravery had not yet been crushed The Throat of the Fur ire _- -â€"‘---\-u\u 1LA1611C\L. . The most frutifu’i soii in the world is cursed to this day with the worst land laws and the most unjust system of taxation. No- ‘where else is nature so bountiful and hardly anywhere else is man so mean as on those banks of the Nile. ' The Egyptian crossroads and the richness of the earth in the delta ofthe Nile have been fatal gifts. bringing doWn. upon Egypt the cupiuity of the world. an! the am- bitions of conquerors. A} the great empires that have risen in 7.000 years of history have. in turn held her in bondage until her present rulers are varranted in saying that the ngptiuns do not know how to govern themsel'x'es. No doubt they have forgotten. YYYI r 1‘ n All that countryside remains as desolate toâ€"day as before its fields were first gleaned. The fel- lahin still pump the Nile water into their irrigation ditches by the same laborious Wheel. and still till the soil with the same crude instruments as in the days of the Pharaohs, and still dwell in the same bare, mud hotels that hous- ed them when Remeses reigned. ‘ rmu‘ _..\-r . A” " ” 9: WW63$33¢$3$33Â¥$333Â¥W3333Â¥m¢3Â¥nm 000000 §++¢+§+§§§§+§§+¢++§4 o 0 00000000009909.000069009 4~++++++++++++¢++++++++++++ +++++++++++++o+++++++++++ Fhe flown ..'own Shoe Store: i. S. 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