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A Noapolilan cobbler rc-conlly said to 0110 of the colporlors of the British and FUl'Olgll Bible Society : "Sir. I want to ask a‘ favor of you. I know that you aro onn of the Lord‘s: worko-rs. and 1 son that your boots néod repair. 1 want, lo have) the honor of nil-ruling thom." "If it will please you, (lo it liv all means," replied the colpox‘lel‘, "but you mus! loll mo pay you. for you haw lo livv." "l haw road,” ropliml tlw cobblor, “what our Lord said about, giving a rup of void \‘x‘llll‘l' in out: ol his mu» ours in tho namo of a disciple.” SO lw nit-mlml tho colpm'tor's boots, and than said : “heal- ln'ollxwr. il‘ l (fUlllll. I would mako you a now pair, but, as that crumot lw. wlwm-wx- vour boots uood repairsâ€"«the boots that you woar out an sullin: llw Hogpolsmcomo to mo, and so I Shall 300m to have a share in Lll.~ Fi-J‘a miwinn." _ v ~ " V _ ”w-.. ,__‘ _. "u... .., u...’ ‘-uu uuvu Juu, HF IUIL- lllU room. There was a deep oarnustiwss in the stranger's tum- a~nd manner that annnycd him. and Opening tlw notv he read as follows : "Analysis of zeal of Junius. a candidate for a crown of glnry. Weight in mass 100 pounds. ()f this analysis thorn [)l'HVL‘s" to he : Bigotry, 14) parts; pm‘sunal ambition. 2 parts; love of pi'aiso. '19 parts; pride of dmwm-inatinu. 15 parts: pride of talent. M parts: love of authority. 12 parts; lnvo to God (pupa. 3 parts." Were our zval put to such a (fist. would than; men he mch a gum] showing as that? Thirty years ago the following illustration was used largely by men interested in the spiritual quickening ot‘ the Church. The following version of it was given in The Methodist, a religious paper published in the Maritime Provinces, under date of May 13, 1891 : This minister had been doing very successful work, and was highly gratified over it. Med- itating thus one evening he dropped into a light sleep, and thought a man entered his room carrying chemical implements. He asked: “How is your zeal?" With a dreamer‘s strange t'aney he imagined his zeal to he a physical quantity. and, taking it. out of his pocket, he gave it to him. The stranger carefully weighed itâ€"â€"100 pounds. He thought that was splendid. But the stranger broke it up. melted it in a crucible, and on turning it out he saw that it cooled in layers. 'l'hese he took apart, weigh- ed and tested each. taking minute notes all the time. He handed the note to him pityingly. and; with the remark, "May God save you," he left. the “\m 'I‘h......\ . v--- ---â€"v--"â€"v-- ‘- _ , - v -‘-V‘.‘l-r-J.v... v-vuu -_-\, uuu‘ . n on) ”UL u III $‘CVV 0C1 DU), U. Us, in 1793. For several years he practised as a physician, and then he and Hrs. Scudder went to Ceylon and India. in 1819, as missionaries of the Dutch Reformed Church. They had ten children. 01‘ these nine became toreign missionaries (live of them medical); one died while preparing to 30. Eight grandchildren became missionaries. The centennial, in 1919, saw three great-grandchildren sail for India, where thirty-one descend- ants have labored, while thirty-seven others have served in other coun- lries. One ventures to say that there certainly must have been exemplary living. victorious praying. and faithful teaching t.H so pass on the vision through the years from life tel lite and from generation to generation. 'l‘hat self-sacrificing Church. the little Moravian body, has been cele- brating its bicentennial. It is just two hundred years since Count Zinzen- dart founded a colony of refugees on his estate in Saxony at Herrnhut. On account of persecution a company came to the United States in 1735, journeying on the same vessel as the Wesleys, settling, however, not in Georgia. hut in Pennsylvania. where its chief strength still remains. The distinctive message of these Christian people is their intense missionary zeal; it is not an extra, an added phase of activity, but the vital expresSion of their life. They have 105,000 converts from heathenism, and only 50,000 members at home in Europe and America. Its missionaries went to fields (or generations when every man knew he could not live over three years Otter sailing. But Christ had said : “Go ye!” Rarely has the record in m: vqnalled of the Scudder family for apos- loiic. missionary succession luhn SCllildPl' \\ as bum in New ”Jersey, U. S. ___ A~m I“... .. A- And the other whispered : “Listen. I had a fella like Jim once and I shook the family and stepped out With him. . I won’t tell you any more about itâ€"but for God’s sake stay at home With your dad and the Bible and Henry.” Two girls talking on a street var. (me said. "Jim says he won’t come to lie house any more because father reads a chapter from the Bible every night. He says it’s tiresome and wants me in sidestep the thing and go out with him. But Henry like-s. t.“ hear the stull' and talk with father, and have me stay at. home and nsnt with him. I just don’t know what to d0. 1 like them both and I bet, I could get either one of them for a hus- To the greater extent be blames these cases on the lack of parental care. In this respect he continues : "To my mind there. isho doubt that the general run of arents or toâ€"day are more or less Middle-rent to the upbringing of their c ildren. I notice on all Sides less and less of the old-time famil life, which went so far to mold the character of the children. The mot er, I think, is more to blame than the father.” "I haven}. come forlthat; I have brought a present m self for the Lord Jesus. It wall he his birthday to-morrow, and I want im to have this because I love him.” . . ’ ; ,i in; And from the fold of her sari she produced a four-anna piece! Major Walter Collins of the Columbus (Ohio) Volunteers of America thinks that if a number of the boys and girls who imagine that they are already men and women could now and then be given a real good licking a great number of the minor crimes would never be committed. It was Christmas Eve, and at an Indian mission station the workers of Die Zenana Bible and Medical MlSSlOn were preparin presents. A call was heard on the verandah. it came from one of the genana pupils from a village where the Bible-women work, a'nd they supposed that she had come for her annual present of material. After receiving her salaam one of the missnonaries said that her gift was not ready, that it‘should be sent. on to her at the New Near; but she interrupted, saying with glistening eyes and a beaming smile : The following is quoted from: The Christian Statesman : Fiji» For The Quiet Hour GLORY! .lit’s Chrismlu ’GWine to sit up early . An’ sing 3 howdy song! ’Gw'ine to make a racket abut yo’ll refinombah long! New!) heah to! s whispah gDey Chrismus feclins, do yuh? Diséain’t no time fo’ silent prayah,-â€" Hg t’s "time {0’ Hally-loo-yuh! “A RRBSER’!‘ {OR JESUS" .4 i .3; With one dozen photos we are giving a beautiful framed art mir- ror, 7% x 26 inches. At F. W. Kel- sey’s Studio. Get Photographs Now. W0 wish the editor, staff and waders a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Fowl-picking is Um order Hf the day. Mr. Andrew Stvwart and M r. W'il- liam Porter worn in Owen Sound fur a cnuplv of days last week on the jury. Mrs. Alex. Smith and Mrs. William Carson are also under the (incl-Jr‘s cari'. Mr. Will 'l‘liompsun relumcl home, last. Saturday night from Disloy. Sask., looking wvll. (Our own correspondent.) Mr. James Halliday is suffering from a paralytic stroke, which he took about two weeks ago. He is able to be around again, but is speechless. Mrs. John Marshall is expected heme Friday of this week from a three weeks’ stay in Mount Forest. Mrs. Marshall’s many friends wish her better health in the future. Two men were sawing down a tree in William Kerr’s bush, recently owned by James Park, Jr.,. when they found that the tree was hollow and a swarm of tame bees had made their winter lodging. The honey he- gan to run out and the gang made themselves at home. Merry Christmas. The schocl children in this section are preparing for a Christmas tree for December 19. Mr. G. C. Gerber, the Rawleigh man of Neustadt, was peddling on the line last week. Norman and William McRonald visited Mount Forest friends recent- ly. ‘ (Our own correspondent.) Miss Bella Park of Toronto is vis- iting her parental home here. The Wilson Bros. of Vamey had a sawing bee at Aberdeen on Tues- day last. Mr. Fletcher McLean of Holstein is spending a few days at his home here. Sometime ago the school children collected $9.00 in aid of the Child- ren’s Shelter, Owen Sound. Messrs. Will McCracken and Herb. Hopkins attended the Fat Stock Show at Guelph last week. W39 are sorry toreport Miss Miller, our teacher, is leaving. We wish her success in her new school. A very successful box social was held at 8.8. No. 10, on Friday evening last. A good program was rendered and‘the boxes sold well. The pro- ceeds amounted to $3.00. A clock for the school is to' be purchased from the amount and the balance is to be given to the hOSpital in Dur- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Twamley of Crawford, visited the McCrlcken and Macdonald families on Sunday last. Mr. Jack Smith spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. J. W. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Alex. B. Macdonald of Pricevillc, accomp ied \by Mr. Elmer Watson, spent y with Mr. and Mrs. James Macdonald. South Bentinck Blyth’s Corners. a creature 0f the night. It, lives chiefly on insects. chiefly ants, and so is classed as an antvah‘r. It. has A full-grown echidna is about. the size of an American hedgehog. and the body is covered with short soft hair, interspersed with Emu; hard spines that form a means of demise. Except that. the spines are barhless. they resemble those of a p0retpnw. Again like the duckliill, the echichie makes its home in u burrow amI is Another egg-laying animlal is the echidna; it also is found in Australii and particularly in the Arfak Moun. tains of New Guinea. Like the duck- 3hill. is is of early origin. The eggs of the echidna are small and have a tough. leathery shell. As soon as they are. laid they are put into a pouch like that of the kangaroo. and there the young animals hatch. Im- mediately after hatching the young eehidna does not measure mush more than three-quarters of an inch and is quite helpless. The young‘ animals remain in the pouch until‘ they are at least three or four inches long. to store food that it gathers after dark, for the duckbill is a creature of the night. The young duekbill has teeth, but as the animal grows they disappear, and in their place grow horny plates for grinding the Other interesting physical char- acteristics of the creature are its well-developed bill, its webbed feet and a spear of born that grows on one of the hind feet of the male. The horn connects with a poison gland and serves as part of the ani- mal’s means of defence. When at- tacked. the duckbill drives the horn into an enemy and injects the poison into the wound. The forefeet are particularly interesting; although they are webbed for swimming, the animal can fold the webbing back at will and leave five powerful paws exposed either for defense or for burrowing. Like many animalsâ€"the squirrel, for exampleâ€"the duckbill is equip- ped with cheek pouches in which The body of a full-grown duckbill is approximately twenty inches long and is flat and oval. The hair is no visible ears, and .the eyes are very small. as the young are hatched they roll themselves into a ball and spend most of their time in sleep. The duckbill is a survivor atone oi the earliest types of animal to live on this earth. It 1s virtually a water animal and makes its home in hur- rows along the banks of the smaller 1PlV’ ers and streams of Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania. One entrance to the home of the duckbill is al- VV aVs under water, another is f1om a 81838) field. Far back in a burrOVV 1n a nest carefully bedded with grass is where the duckbill lays its eggs It is believed that the eggs. VVh1ch me less than an inch long, require no incubation, or “setting,” as the eggs of a bird do, but that tth hatch almost immediately me be- ing laid. The young are boxn blini and hairless; the bill, which is a prominent characteristic of the old- er animal, is soft at birth. As soon m-ume‘umu Nature has a collection of animsl oddities so me ’as seldom if ever to be seen inside a 200. For example, there is the duckbill, an oddity sureâ€" ly since. it is a mammal that lays eggs and hatches its young. Mr. Josiah J. Evano, p'éincipal of the King Edward school, Toronto, a former Owen Sound boy, fell dead new covenant was unveiled in Him. Jeremiah’s promise of a restoration which included cleansing from sin. forgiveness; and cure, pointed to the marvellous work of grace upon the individual soul. Dropped Dead in Tomato. of sermons on the Mesoiu: in Pro- phecy. Jeremiah's “Branch of Righ- teousness" was the subject discuss- ed last Sunday. PHONES: Day 4, Night 8|. DURHAM, ONT. If you’ve Grain or want Feed call us up N 0 Town Delivery Terms Cuh BUSINESS HOURS: 8 am. to 5 pm. For which we will Pay Highest Prices ADAMS’ SLEIGHS and BRANTFORD CUTTERS WINTER IS COMING! ROB ROY MILLS LIMITED Are You Prepared? See these and get our prices. 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