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Â¥{ Not they! Work was still to be done. Back to the cities from which hatr»d had driven them they went, stcengthâ€" ening the faith of the unsteady Galaâ€" tians. _ Paul organized the various groups under elders, nd, commending them unto the Lord (v. 23), they ma ie their way across the mountains agair, and down to Perga where they stopped * their wouldâ€"be murderers! Mast men would have gone in the other diâ€" rection. Years after, writing to Tim othyv, whom, as a boy, he had won for Christ in Lystra, Paul said, "I know whom I have believed," 2 Tim. 1: 12. It was ‘that knowledge that kept him steady in Lystra. HIL comptering ts tourR, Acts 14: 20bâ€"28. "And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe." Derbe was not far from the "Cilician Gates," the PAS3 which crossed the Taurus Mountains down to Tarsus. Just around the bend of the Mediterranean from Tarsus was Syrian Antioch It was now Autumn. The travelling season was drawing to a close. After their unâ€" interrupted success in Derbe (v. 21) what more natural than that the two men would head for home? _He rose 26. One ordinary to prot Toward The work of evangelization was soon interrupted. The persistent haâ€" tr»c of the unbeliesing Jews follow=d the apo.tles, even to Lystra. The new arrivals had little difficulty in perâ€" suadin, the people that these men they possessed t kngv_nledge of God When the aposties ~card of it they immediately stopped the procesdings«. "W» also are men of like passions with you," they said. and Paul began to preach to them. His address is _ frac examnle of what all preaching should be. He used the knowledz® which \ ould the populace be cz;fiiint"r.::péing when the gods arrived. Sacrifice must be made, vaunbrepe oaa: S .206 .20 c »I, but the action of Mind and Spicit in human lives? II. peterm aAND srowmeo, Acts 14: 11â€"20a, The cure electrifi»d the whole town. IThe old legend flashed into these unâ€" eultured minds. Slinp‘ng into .heir native tongue, the crowds cried out, "The gods are come Jown to us in the likeness of men‘" Paul and Barnabas, ignorant of the lacal speech, were conâ€" scious only of th» enthusiasm. Swiftâ€" ly the news spread. On it came to the ears of the priest of Jupiter. He was equal to the occasion. Not this ime H In the course of his pro healod a cripple, v. 8. ~It pact of a superior and inind upon a feebler one kind of thing happeas powerful will acts upon a What is the transfocmin w.... q _ __"°" Iemmpte UE JUpIlet, N0 a few Jews, but not enough to form a synagogue. _ This countryâ€"side was sacred to Jupiter. Was it not in the near vicinityâ€"Phrygiaâ€"that he, with nis attendant Mercury, once visited an old couple, Philemon and Baucis? The humble peasants alon : recognized and entertained their magnificent guests. and were by them magnificently reâ€" vwarded. The populace, however, ware solemaiy warned that another failure to recognize visiting deity wouid he properly punished. Into this primitive paganism came the messengers of the gospel. i P e e ue Jews, tinally forced to leave. and thereâ€" by carry the gospel farther afield. I. A CRIPPLE MEALED» Acts 14: Tâ€"10. Tucked away in a remote highland glen, twentyâ€"five miles from Iconivum. lay ‘e little Lycaonian town of _ysâ€" tra. Its people were chiefly native Asians, enough Greeks and Romans to have built a temple of Jupiter, and a few JCWS,. Bubf BOGL ABGION Km Puws: a Jews, INTRoDUCTiONâ€"In Asia Minor the apostles‘ experiences were, in general ou‘line, the same; preaching first in the synagogues, rejected there, apâ€" pealing to the Gentiles, received by t'hem, .atsi«:k‘ed by the unbelieving n ANALYSIS I. A CRIPPLE HEALED» Acts 14: 7â€"10 II. ogtr.so ano STONED, Acts 11â€"20a, IIL comererinc tur TOUR, Acts 20bâ€"28, impostors. The Lystrians stonâ€"d 4Te, however, must have manâ€" somehow, in the hail of ston»s otect his temple. and his heart. rd evening, as they watched, his shed friends saw the body move. they which a rightsousness‘ s the kingdom of &: 10. and came int~ the city." v would think it was quite thr thing for men to walk back wouldâ€"be murderers! â€" Mast d have gone in the other diâ€" Years after, writing to Timâ€" m, as a boy, he had won for ie knowledze which > bring them to the of his preaching, Pacl Experiencesâ€"Acts 14: m _ Textâ€"Blessed are _ are persecuted for 8‘ sake: for theirs is of heaven.â€"Matthew 1t was the imâ€" ind dominatiag we. The same is whenever a 1 a weaker one. ming power of Aind and Spicit â€" _ One Good Turn Deserves Another.r Joy ; The joy of life, the joy of flowers, The joy of bright blue skies; The joy of rain; the glad surprise, Of twinkling stars that shineo at night, The joy of winged things on their flight, The joy of noonday ,and the tried, True joyousness of eventide; The joy of labor and of mirth, The joy of air, and sea, and earthâ€" The countless joys that ever flow from Him Whose vast beneficence doth dim The lustrous light of day, And lavish gifts divine upon our way, Whate‘er there be of sorrow I‘ll put off till toâ€"morrow, And when toâ€"morrow comes, why then, "Twill be Toâ€"day, and jJoy again. 14 14 : Toâ€"day, whatever may annoy, The word for me is jJoy, just simple to preach. Back in Antioch they to‘d how God had "opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles," v. 27. It was the door which led into the kingdom, but not through the works of Judaism. 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W C ARRATE m BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON lWlustrated Dressmaking Lesson Futâ€" nished With Every Pattern What New York â€"John Kendrick Bangs Is Wearing Joy W! 5Y€, ouD Beatw,‘ Same custard: "When the flesh is boiled, take it from the broth all clean, and let the broth cool ;and when it is cold, take 8€8gs, the white and the yolks, and cast through a strainer, and put them ’ "Take veal and smite in little pieces into a pot and wash it clean ; then take fair (i.0. clean) water and let it boil together with parsley, sage, savory, and hyssop cut small enough ; and when it is boiling take powdered pepper, cinnamon, cloves, mace, saffâ€" rom, and let them boil together and a good deal of wine therewith, .1 menu bears no resemblance to the cusâ€" tard of toâ€"day, It was then a serious undertaking, as will be seen from the recipe: In addition there were stags, bucks and roes, 500 and more; 1,500 hot pasâ€" ties of venison, 608 pikes and breoams, 12 porpoises and seals, bosides 13,000 dishes of jelly, cold baked tarts, hot and cold custards, and "spices, sugarâ€" ed delicacies, and wafers plentie," It is true that there were said to have been some 6,000 guests at this famous feast, but a slight calculation shows that the allowance for each was enormous, says William E. Mead (in "The English Medieval Feast"(, ‘ A partial list of the food includes 300 quarters of wheat, 300 tuns of ale, 100 tuns of wine, 104 oxen, 6 wild bulls, 1,000 shoep, 304 calves, 304 "pokers," 1400 swans, 2,000 geese, 1,000 capons, 2,000 pigs, 103 peacocks, besides over 13,500 birds, largo and small, of variâ€" ous kinds, What would modern diners think of a feast like thisâ€"provided at the inâ€" stallation of Archbishop Neville at York in 1467; "A discase, you Hung. to an express train, the wondering Chinaman asked why the change was necessary. ‘The guide replied that it would save five minutes. "But," returned Li, "what are we going to do with the five minuteg ?* The guide didn‘t know., Changing was just a habit, he admitted. The custard included in the Li Hung Chang, famous Chinese statesman, when visiting New York some years ago, was taken for a trip on the subway, Told by his guide that they had to change from a local "Oh, you mean Pepâ€"is Road. Why that is down by New Cross Gate!" Which it is. Borough of Deptford, which for over 300 years has had close affiliations with the Pepys family, there is a Pepys Road. Should a visitor to Deptâ€" ford ask to be directed to Peeps or Peps Road, he would be told "There ain‘t no such road." But should he spell out the namo, a smile â€" would come over the face of the native, who GENERAL â€" __ ._ _ TRAViSS would say: ‘ "People who talk about ‘poor old ’Pepy'a," remarked Edmund Gosse at a celebration of the diarist‘s birthâ€" day, should remember that he was only twentyâ€"six when he commenced his diary." But what interests me more is the provunciation of his name by the people who talk about Pepys. There aro, to my knowledge, three variations: . Peeps, Peps and Pepâ€"is. Which is correct I do not know. | There are, points out John Hix (in "Strange As It Seems"), 5% cards in a deck and 52 weeks in a year. There are 12 picture cards in a deck and there are 12 months in & year. There are 4 suits in a deck and 4 seasons in a year. There are 13 tricks in a deck and 13 weeks in a quartor. The numâ€" bers of the cards in a deck total 365 and there are 365 days in a year. ‘ And, he might have added, the odd trick is the seventh and there are| seven days in a week. | what part?" rece unexpected reply: "Oh! all of me." It is curious how sometimes quesâ€" tion and answer between "grown up" and child entirely miss their mark (reflects Mrs. : oton Christopher in "Life‘s Little Laughs"). For instance: A lady saying to a little girl "I hear you were born in Indiaâ€" Amusing Anecdotes However, in south London, in the fesh is boiled, take it all clean, and let the d when it is cold, take received the somewhat change from a local rain, â€" the wondering why the change was guide replied that it mean," corrected Li above Archaeologistsf here believed that the city was destroyed by the gradual sinking of the shores of the sea and by an earthquake. About 40 feet under the sea, the expedition‘s divers and motion picâ€" ture photographers found the ruins of a city in the shape o a gigantic horseâ€" shoe, with walls, towers, houses ard underâ€"ground tunnels honeycombing the whole. d .my of Arts raported recently that its operations had uncovered the reâ€" mains of old Khersoness, the existence of which has long been suspected, but never verified. An expedition which was sent there three months ago by the State Azaâ€" Scientists Discover Ancient City Under Black Sea Moscow, U.S$.S$.R.â€"On the southâ€" western extremity of the Crimean Peninsula, near Sebastopol, the floor of the Black Sea has revealed to Soâ€" viet archacologists an ancient buriedl city which is believed to have cthrived between the fourth and second centurâ€" ies B.C. | Roberts was sick â€" in more than one. 1 "‘His Majesty‘s Ship Blank to His Majesty‘s Ship Blue; Is the journalist ! sick yet‘?" "I became bold, to the point of inâ€" viting a snub," relates Roberts (in his reminiscences "Half Way."). "At last the skipper yielded. He pulled the ‘flimsy‘ out of his pocket and passed it to me. Elated, I peered at it, â€"It read : k _ Invitedâ€"As a newspaper â€" corresâ€" pondent during the World Warâ€"to jJoin a destroyer of the famous Dover Patrol for a 24 hours‘ stretch of duty at sea, Cecil Roberts, the novelist, tells of being on the bridge when a wireless message was delivered to the skipper, who, after reading it cramâ€" med it in his pocket. Roberts, scontâ€" ing a "scoop," was curious as to its contents and tactfully began to quesâ€" tion the skipper, but to no avail. J hosi‘s favorite pastime, I discovered, is to go out to the corral back of the house and put in a half hour or an hour roping calves. Ho is a sureâ€" enough cowpuncher both on and off the stage!" Captain Hawks spent five delightful days with Will Rogers not so lon; ago at the humorist‘s ranch near Santa Monica, California. "There are two goodâ€"sized boys and a Sirl in addition to Will and his wife â€"‘Ma‘ ha calls hor," says Hawks. "My Whether rabbits‘ feet are effective amulets or not, Hawks doesn‘t pretend to know, but he does think they are not such hot luckâ€"bringers to the bunâ€" nies that originally owned them. 1 am not at all inclined to be superâ€" stitious,‘ says Hawks (in the reminisâ€" cences "Speed"). "Because I fared so well on that trip, I have kept it ever since though t Like most airmen, Captain Frankl‘:‘ Hawks, the "Bpeed King," won‘t ad-‘,, mit to being superstitious, but on his first "wild journey across the United ! ,,, States," as he calls his record fllghthn from Los Angeles to New York, there bo was a rabbit‘s foot tightly wired to we his airplane. It was the gift of al,,( friend. into the broth, so many that the broth will be stiff enough. Then make fair coffins and couch three pieces or four of the flesh in a coffin. Then take dates and cut thom, and cast thereto. Then take powdered gingor and a litâ€" tle verjuice, and put into the broth and salt. And then put the broth in the coffins, bake a little with the flesh beâ€" fore thou put thy liquor thereog, and let all bake together till it be enough (done). ‘Then (take) it out, and serve forth." ‘ ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORronNnto nalist ! _ The twentyâ€"two year cycle, he points out, appears to be universal while the ways others may be more dependent on lo«al conditions. ' drear, | I Faith waits with cup of loving cheer, To hasten Hopoe‘s reviving. + 'And Love comes with a golden bowl, / , To warm and heal hor sisterâ€"soul; | She steals a smile past Sorrow‘s toll With winsomest contriving. Ah, HBpe look up! Arise! Partake Of these sweet ministrations ; ’ Thou must be well for their dear sake, Who bring theso inspirations. ;Fl“h'l cup of Peace, Love‘s bow! of â€"Charles H/ Hunter, in Echoes from the Hills. 'When hope lies sick on bed of fear, lAnd clouds are dark and days a grace, Shall bring the smile back to "The most important for forecastâ€" ing purposes is the fiveâ€"andâ€"aâ€"half | year cycle, especially marked in the | records of the southern California staâ€" ‘ tion. It is brought out by computing the frequency of occurrence of seasons 1: with two or more consecutive months of decidedly abnormal rainâ€"the San | Diego record containing thirteen such seasons in seventyâ€"two years." 1 _ Existence of wet and dry cycles is â€"revealed by mathematical analysis of the rainfall records of California, Dr. A. F. Gorton of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography reports to the Amâ€" erican Geophysical Union. "Fluctuations of rainfall," he says, "occurs at intervals of from two to three years, five to six years, and twentyâ€"two to twentyâ€"six years, the first being more noticeable in the recâ€" ord of the northern stations and the second in southern California. _ Los Angeles shows successive wet and dry periods eleven years in length, with a total cycle of approximately twentyâ€" two years. In addition to these there is evidence of a longer cycle of fiftyâ€" five to sixty years. f How swift the summer goes, Forgetâ€"meâ€"not, pink, rose, The young grass when 1 started, And now the hay is carted, And now my song is ended, And all the summer splendid ; The blackbird‘s second brood Routs beech leaves in the wood; The pink and rose have speeded Forgetâ€"meâ€"not has seeded, Only the winds that blew, The rain that makes things new The earth that hides things old, And blessings manifold. Analysis Reveals ' The compound bears the chemical name "stevioside," because it occurs in a South American plant known to botanists as stevia. The plant itself was first introduced to the scientific world about the beginning of the preâ€" sent ceontury; it is a close relative of such familiar North American weeds as boneset, joeâ€"pyeâ€"weed, and the plant that causes occasional outbreaks of milkness in the Midwost. After its discovery by Europeans it rapidly acâ€" quired the namo of "the sweetest plant in the world." A very small piece sufficed to sweeten a cup of coffee or tea. During the past generation several partially â€" successful attempts â€" have been made to isolateo and study the Stevia Plant Yields Compound _ | Colonial Cooking | 300 Times Sweeter Than SUgAr when me nouse was sunt, bri O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart again That I may flower to men â€"John Masefield, The Ever Mercy. or no taste. United, they are Intenselyi sweet; divided, they are not even as sweet as ordinary sugar. ' Paris. â€" A natural substance 300 times sweeter than cane sugar, rivalâ€" ling some of the coalâ€"tar products of chemical laboratories, has been shown by two French chemists to consist of a chemical union of common glucose and another compound whih has little The Summer Goes Masefield, The Everlasting Hope Lies Si1 Rain Falls Cycles thy are By BUD FISHER a fellow has : square meal." truth is always consistent self, and needs nothing to hel it is always near at hand, and on our lips, and is ready to . before we are aware; whereas troublesome, and sets a men‘ tion upon the raCk â€"TPillatea. Power ‘ Man has one power | in particular, which is not suficiently dwelt on, lt' is the power of making the worldl' happy, or at least of so greatly diminâ€" ishing the amount of unhappiness in It.I as to make quite a different world‘ from what it is at present. The power is called kindness.â€"r,. w Faber, | |, On Southampton Island, 600 miles | |to the wostward and with an area ot‘ »’19.000 square miles, Dr. Sutton (ound' â€" &n enormous summer bird population, |ling with their close relatives, the; _ many thousands of blue geese mins-‘ " lesser snow geese. The whole island has only about 140 Eskimo mubn-l [ants, so the birds are little molested. | Their nests are scattered through tho‘ lakes, generally close to the shore, As _grass ranges between the numerous soon as the young are able to take care of themselyes the geese move ln-'w |land in family groups, feeding until | . late August, when all reassemble for . the migration southward . |. The blue goose family, Dr, Sutton found, is a rather stable organization, the majle and female remaining deâ€" voted to each other and their young through the summer, Whether these families are broken up after the miâ€" gration is unknown. Truth is l Summel: ' Discovery of a second breeding ground of the mysterious blue goose on Southampton Island in Hudson Bay is reported in the Auk, organ of the American Ornitholo lcal Aggociation !by Dr. George i't' iullon. {r(‘-ornofi University, ‘ The blue goose is very abundant in winter about the mouth of the Hlull-" sippi but, until two years ago, its sumâ€" mer quarters were unknown. It seemâ€" ed to disappear entirely over the northern horizon. Then a large nestâ€"‘ ing ground was found in Baffin Land. | Well, ofd man, how are M. Briddel and Laviello made anâ€" other interesting discovery, the sigâ€" nificance of which is not yet clear. If they freeze a 50 per cent. solution of the intensely sweet stevioside they obâ€" tain a mat of fine needleâ€"crystals, which contain more ‘chemically comâ€" bined water than the original subâ€" stance, and which are only faintly sweet. The sweetness of stevioside seems to depend on the presence of an exact amount of water in combinaâ€" tion with the glucose and steviol; a trifle more or a trifie less spoils the effect. I Theyâ€" have discovered, to their surâ€" prise, that the sweet crystals of sievioâ€" side, upon chemical treatment to reâ€" move a part o fthe combined water in them, break apartâ€" into about 60 per cent, common glucose and 40 per cent, of a new stuff which they called "steâ€" viol." The,latter has no taste, but comâ€" bined with the glucose it produces a most poignantly sweet substance. particular substance in the plant that made it so intensely sweet. It has reâ€" mained, hbhowever, for the French chemists, M. Briddel and Lavielie, to accomplish the final purification, nds scas2 â€"1 d , with skirts lower this year e utd 9 er Quarters of %lue Goose Found ‘ar at hand, and sits upâ€" id is ready to drop out aware; whereas a lio is nd sots a men‘s invenâ€" rack.â€"Tillotson . hard time nizlng help it out things »" with it ~""°C o° tmem seem trivial, coloriess, commonplace; but joined togethar and judiciously viewed in their relationâ€" ship to a beautiful pattern for every life, each glows with a charm and proâ€" CIOu8HG8s mever har,_ 2 _ _ _(C AHBll Happiness is r precious stone so after it in vain, H composed of ma Some of them se commonplace: but | with her bill until they are completely l covered ' The chicks are covered in the same way to protect them from the sun when they are not feeding, he observâ€" ed. From time to time the old birds will sprinkle vater over the sand with their beaks to cool their offspring, This practice continues until the chick are about threeâ€"fourths grown. After the °@ggs are laid, Butler »»â€" served, the mother bird covers them with sand dur‘r g the day, the incuhaâ€" tion process being carried on by the heat of tne soil. At night, when the sand soo!; rapidly, she uncovers the mm astia Oe t After the e served, the m with sand dur tion process b _ _ Observations of a bird that burics its chicks alive to protect them from enemies and from the hot sun are reâ€" ported in Ibis, organ of the British Ornithological Association, by A. L. Butler, Egyptian ornithologist, This bird is she Egyptian plover, found in the upper Sudan country, The instant a strange noise is heard or the shadow of a hawk falls over the desert sand, he recounts, the chicks instinctively flatten themselves in the nearest depression, usually the footâ€" print of some large animal, Then the mother bird shovels sand over them with her bill until they are completely covered Egyptian Plover Burias _ Chicks When Threatsned _ Then there wore times in the fruit seasons when, the other cooking beâ€" ing finished, with an air of mystery she placed in the dark oven a stone pot, well covered, holding, as she alone knew, plums, gooseberries, or other fruits and their modicum of loaf sugar, leaving it in place till the folâ€" lowing day, and repeating the process after three bakings, for thus she someâ€" times made sweetmeats. ‘door was about three fcet from (the floor, the open space underneath beâ€" '||u a receptacle for big kettles, or sometimes for the ovenâ€"wood, out three feet long, which must be perâ€" ~fectly dry before using. Mandy alâ€" lowed no one but herself to superinâ€" tend the important office of filling the !oven with wood, and lighting it by a shovelful of coals from the hearth, | When the wood had burned the coals \ were skillfully taken out with the | longâ€"handled "peel" and cornhusks, lthe stones were swept clean. She put |the loaves of bread on the stones, by i means of a flat wooden shovel, and the | children, ver peeping in anticipatory | delight, held their breath as she | brought from the butt‘y the pies that ;had been waiting behind that closed | door, for Mandy‘s "baking" began ofâ€" | ten before cockâ€"crow. | _A steady and skillful hand was needâ€" "ed to place all properly, that each | should have the desired amount of heat. The pieâ€"platet were of brown learthen-ware, rounding and some what unsteady of base, and to place one, full of liquid punrkln far in the hot recess, Whs wellâ€"nigh impossible. A tin dipper had not cheered a house wife‘s eye, and though a gourd might ) be used for dipping water, it could not serve all purposes. ‘This difficulty was met by wooden spoons with Iund]eg half a yard long, and a s{Guarishâ€" shaped bow! holding nearly half a pint, that, supplemented by Mandy‘s long réach, could safely fill to the brim the halfâ€"filled pieâ€"plates, Now and again a pan of gingerbread sent out delicious odors from the oven when the watchâ€" ful goddess took observations. When the house was built, bricks 'm not come into use in this part of the Colony, and, like the chimney, the oven was made of stone. Its irom door was about three foet from the floor, the open space underneath beâ€" .lu a receptacle for big kettles, or sometimes for the ovenâ€"wood, cut threa feet long. which must be perâ€" s nmot a single gemâ€"a so rare that all search . 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