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-. l> Sunday School Lesson January 2f. Lesson IV Standards of the Kingdom Matthew 5: 3-9, 17-20, >:>. Golden Text Bleised < the pure in heart: for thy shall e God. Matthew 5: 8. ANALYSIS I. THB BKATITUDES, ::-'.'. II. JK.HU8 AND OLD LAW, 17-20. III. THE NEW LAW OK LOVE, 43-48. INTRODUCTION Having K- that Jesus came to proclaim the kingdom of heaven, we now pass on .0 the study in detail of some of he principles of this teaching. The Sermon cm the Mount is the most famous of all ser- mons. Other discoveries pass ami are fo.-gottc-n, but this great pronounce- ment is as fresh today as wnen it was uttered. It contain* much of the finest teaching of Jesus, insomuch that some people will say that if we can only live according to the precepts of this man, we shall be perfect. This is, as it were, the ethical program of Chris- tianity. I. THE BKATITtmS, 3-9. Vs. 3-0. The beatitudes describe the kind of blessedness, or happiness, which the true Christian is to obtain, and they toll of the conditions which! underlie thcje blessings. It ia notj easy to give a very clear division; but' in a more or less rough way, ve may) divide them into three groups. The first, given in v. ,'!-5, deal with the outward conditions in which men may iind themaelvcs. Many of these to whom Jesus wa* preaching were poor and anxious and destitute. They did not belong to the rich or comfortable class. Many had deep sorrow, and little to comfftrt them. These might naturally say that '.here waj no chance for them in the kingdom of God. They wore inclined to rega-'d thoii poor con- dition as a sign of divine disapproval. If Jesus had no message for this class, li would not be a world-Saviour; for the pcr and trouble*! always form n !*r|fe majority of the population. Jesus does not say thai poverty is, in itself, a blessing. Blessing may come in spite of the poverty and sorrow. For life does not consist in the abun- dar.ce of natural posst-si-ionR. The joy that Jesus brings, thervfniv, is inde- pendent of worldly wealth. Vs. G-9. This second group brings us from outward to inward conditions and we arc told that there can be .0 true happiness unless the heart is right with our neighbor and with Clod. There must be rightpoiunes?, and pur- Hy ami peace. If the mind and heart bo set upon worldly things, ami if then- aro wrong desires and ambitions, then there is no divine presence, i.o jvy. Vs. 10, 11. We should include the third group also in our lesson, since this is the crown of all. Life without some great object, some goal, some jiasiivii, in not at it* !>cst. And Jesus iayj that the noblest of nil passions is love for himaolf. lie calls people to sacrifice for his sake, and in tho glow of joy which come* from close friend- ship with him there is that which the world cannot give or take away. Study these suggestire word*, "for my sake." II. JE8LS AM) <>U> LAW, 17-20. V. 17. Jesus would inevitably en- counter opposition from those who did not Tee with much of his teaching. To them it was revolutionary. Mental to oppose the traditions of the Fath- ers. Wo gather from this verse that this opposition had boeonio vocal, from which we conclude that, this sermon was not given until his mission had advanced some distance. His enemies had said that he was opposing the law. Accordingly Je*us says that ho has not come to destroy either the law or the prophet*, he i rattier the one, who for th first time, puts full meaning into the law. V. 10. If any one teaches that the commandment* have lost thoir binding fore., or if any one tcachns the bind- ing nature of the comnidndmnnte, but doea not keep them himself. thw Pharisees wero likely doing, they swh, could not belong to his klrtgdom. V. 20. Jesus is willing to have hi teaching tested by the vtiln of conduct, and if nis followers do not show a bet- far result than others, he will regard them as unfit for th kingdom. We might put tho word "goixlncsa" in I place of "right.-ousr.esa," ami thu* understand his statement as chal- lenge to his disciples to show that thoir goodnowf surpssmei that of the scribes. III. THE NKW I.\W (IF I.OVK, 13-48. V. 43. Tho verses that intervene are given to specific examples of the way in \.hich Je.ius reads a new mean- ing into old legislation: and wo now have the last of these, the law of love. We do not find tho iirtual wi>nU in tin- Old Testament, advocating hatn-d of our enemies (sc Lev. 10: 10), but tho rr'.nhis bad concluded from this paw- ait that there were no obligations ! concerning those who were outside the chosen race of Israel. It is this nar- row, national spirit which Jo&ua at- tacks. It it the privilege and duty ol the disciple of Jesus to regard n\ claim's ad liis f rineds. V. 45. To do this is to dp what Cot does, who gives his blessings to all people V. 40. If they love only their friends thi-y 11 n. no better than tho-ie who were looked upon as belonging to tha most forsaken class, the publicans. For these people also loved their friends. V. 47. In loving their enemies they nro lieromini, perfect, since they are jetting inor: and moro like God. News on Africa Describes Country Where Ant Hills Are 25 Feet in Height Ant !:il!ii -; f"ft hi^ii and ns much as GO fui-t In diameter are to be found distributed through many parts of Rhodesia. Dr. J. Austeu llanrroft, formerly Dawson professor of ecology at McUill University and now con- sulting ; '-'iiuni-it for a laiTo mining company in Rhodesia, said in describ- ing th country In which, lio Is now employed In finding tremendous de- posits ot valuable ore*. TUe subject of UU talk was "Mineral Deposits In Northern Rhodesia." In Hie course of tlie lecture he told many Interest- lug things about the general nature nf the country which was kept for the British through Iho far-siRbted state* man, Khodes, from whom the roun- Iry got Its name. Though the fauna of Rhodesia will eventually disappear, tlie land Is still a great resort for big game hunters. Though there are Kill! a larse num- ber of lions In Rhodesia, these have learned to save their fcldua by keep- \ug out of sight. One may travel 400 miles across the wildest parts of the country and not sight a llcm, though tbeir unfinished feasts will be visible, Dr. llancroft stated. T'::e buffalo Is perhaps the most d.iimernus animal. Wlieu wounded he becomes danger- ously vindictive, following bin attack- er for miles ready to chars* at some unexpected moment and se< we what U undoubtedly a well p':mned re- venge. TO BE HEMEMBERED When we realize that every liberty, evMv privllPK'!. every advantage that ronns to Hit as men and women has beon bought with a price that the dark, subterranean lives of those who toll day and niKlit In the bowels of tlie earth, the perils and hardships of tbo.iH who null to and fro on the stormy p ':i*, the benumbing weari- ness of those who die and ditch and b.-indle dirt, the endless tending of loom* and plying of needles and car- lylng of btirdenn the fierce confederate Htorm Of sorrow barricaded evermore Within the walls of cities-- all thlt is done and endured and suf- fered by our fnllowmeu. though blind- ly, for our benefit, and accrues to our advantage when we begin to under- stand this, a nobler xplrlt enters Into us. the only spirit that can keep our wealth, our freedom, our culture from being a curse to us for ever, and Inking m, Into the ennnl of a selfish hell.-Dr. H. Van Dyke. 7./V Ml.tsinnar} "I've cum* in ilo you good." Cannibal "You can't do It; I'm on a diet." v ' ' "Schoolmaster* and scboolmls- i. ..i.-i have to deal with Ignorant children on < ne side and with Ignor- ant educational authorities on the other." Bertram! Russell. "Is It iiRcenflury that one should die tn prove that ho Is sincere,"- Aristldo Hi-land. "It U not needs but markets that comaiul the attention of statesmen." Clnrenco Uarrow. SCQNO off Montreal, showing old Hailing ships used by ij r i ti , fl , drawn on 8 , K)t br on . of aU , 9t ln 1T5s . O ne Ir Qfin>nnl'_ u*lt ._* t of Mr. Samuel's collection. India 1 * -iSO.OOO.OOO natives la the hol-J elements of Indian agitation are pro- _, low of !:i P lnl . n ">ean only one! roundly self-deceived by Irish preced- Tne Storm V P*fr*l thln - tnut tn National agitation has ents which could only lead them to ^ .^1^1 my t did ( itself acquired a momentum which the, gigantic disasters." If the congress Indian Affairs are Receiving Serious Consideration from the Press the World Over WORRYING JOHN BULL India's demand for self-government, tbe correspondents agree, has tkn on a new form that threatens to put the British Government In a tight place The recent bombing of the railway train carrying Lord Irwln, Viceroy ot India, we are told, was a feeble ex- plosion in comparison to that set off by .Mahatma Gandhi when he An- nounced before the All-India Nation- alist Congress at Lahore that he and other Indian loaders bad abandoned their stand for a dominion status, and would henceforth be satisfied with nothing short of absolute Indop'-nd- ence for India. The next day the executive com mlltee. by a vote of 134 to 77, voted to submit to the conference a resolu- tion demanding Independence from the British Empire. And when tbe 2,000 native delegates assembled for their first full session on December 29, they listened with tumultuous cheers to a speech In which the fiery young president, Jawaharlal Nehru, announced: "We are now In con- spiracy to froo India" hy peaceful tneana. If possible, he added, but by war If necessary. moderate^ can not now check, says the at Lahore were truly representative of all India, sayi the Ix>ndon Sunday Times, the resolution demanding com- N'ew York Herald Tribune, adding "A year ago Mr. Gand'cl wa* plead- ing for caution; he assented to the demand for dominion stat-is only to avoid ni > ra radical action .Vow he, Umsi-'f, Is forced to rle'iiauj inde- pendence; once more, I* is Maid, to f'rc.-iall the more Impetuous leaders who would otherwise take thi sltu.i- tion fom his bands. It U tbe o!d difficulty of nationalistic agitatlin that once It U started !t can not be controlled. However narrow may bo Its popular base, howeve.- uiwisa its claims might prove, or hoover dim- aging to the masses In whose name the claims are raised, ths agitation takes on a reality of Its own, cnd U'-e leaders are hurried down the steep slope of measures which it might be dlfflcul' to Justify on any ra'ional basis of policy." The All-India Conference l.i>t year. the Associated Press reminds u . adopted a resolution calling for a campaign of "civil disobedience" ir dominion status was not granted to India by the end of 1929. The Rrit- In Government sent a distinguished commission beaded by Sir John Slnv.-nJ to report on the degree of self-gov- ernment that might safely be entrust ed to India's medley of races and re liglons, but tbe report of that com- mission has not yet been made public. This Investigation was started by tfce|i nK standard (lud. Cons.): It Is far last Conservative Ministry, but tbe, eaH | e r for women to get jobs and to Labor Government of Prime Minister, make money to-day than for men to llamsay MacDonaU has renewed all [jo gO- if or me n jobs of any kind. plete iii'lopondence would b* the gravest event since the mutiny of 1857, but !t adds: "In point of fact the Congress Is nothing of the kind. It Is compoxed of some thousands of unrepresenta- tive Indian* whose brains have boon fermented with Ideas of Western de- mocracy. It It not ijvcn popularly elected. Kven ; ,' all shades of Indian political opinion were represented in It the Congress would still remah.: hopelessly unrepresentative of India nlne-tenilii of the population of which are lllitcra'es not caring a fig for politics." That the Liberal party of India, at least, has no use for the radicalism of the Gandhi Nationalists Is indicated by a dispatch from Madras to tho Now York Times, December 30, say- ing. "The National Liberal Federation here to-day denounced the policy of independence advocated by the Na- tionalist Congrss at Lahore. The Liberals passed a resolution cordially welcoming the Viceroy's announce- ment regarding India's future." Fortune of War Kthel Manniu In the London Kven- The big tent where this occurred ( preceding pledges and reiterated theism ] es9 rRinum-ratlva posts and big appolntuii-nU, are desperately scarce. presented a wonderful sight, the cor- 1 promise that India shall have domln- rpspoiulrnts declare. The event had! Ion status In time. But the Nation-! eighty thousand visitors to La-'allsts, becoming Impatient, have now' whilst for women they open up oil every band, awl the number of wo- hore. Thousands squatted outside adopted a policy which, as one dls- , raen earning a salary, or mokiiij ia on khaddar or homespun cloth spread patch puts It, "seems certain to deal businesses of their own. a thousand over straw on the ground, and tha sides of the tent were decorated with manners bearing mottoes such as "Swaraj (home rule) will drive a nail In th cofBn of the British Empire." When the national flag of green, red, and white atrlpes was run up on tho sixty-foot pole before the tent, the Associated Press tells us, throng, shouting "Long live the revolution!" broke through the police cordon and swarmed toward the platform, caus- ing such a cm*h that several men fainted. On the same authority we road: a crippling and perhaps a fatal blow poun( i s ft year and m ora is steadily if of con - slowly being added to, both here and to the vrb^ole British policy stltutlonat reform In India." Accord- Ing to a United Press correspondent at Lahore. ".Mahatma Gandhi's program In- , n America. . . . It is especially ,,,,1,^,5,.^ f or men t h*t nil tut op- portunities for money-uuklnc and commercial - i. >. generally, which cludes tbe calling of an eitraordlnary haye re8uUed trom tn , U p U9cv l of : flr-t , to b session of the Congress next Febru-, tn , war> Uave gon-< not to the men world '' 9Vi ary. wlih attendance limited to 1.000 wno fou fct ,, M to , U0 women who Influential delegates sworn to pro- claim 'civil disobedience' of British rule. Smh action, it Is expected, will force the Government to declare the British Empire it League in Its*Jf Success of Commonwedth Proof of Practicability Says Smuts New York The British Empire as a precedent for the League of Na- tions was held out by General Jan Christian Smuts, former Premier of South Africa, speaking at a monster dinner here. In the Empire, he pointed out, one quarter of the popu- lation of the world, representing all races, colors and creeds, were llvins together la peace with no arm/ or navy required to enforce it. He asked why this condition could not be extended to the whole world. The dinner was a part of the cele- brations arranged In the United States for the tenth anniversary of the founding of the League. Some 32 organ izatlons interesting themselves In securing the entry of this country into the League, participated. The British Empire of to-day, the deneral said, was nothing else but a League of Nations In itself. The only way to secure perpetual peace was by applying the same Idea on a larger scale. The success of the Empire is proof of Its practicability. General Smuts said his mission v. ai not to engage in propaganda for the League, but merely to lay the fact* before the people is the United States. In not more than ten year he predicted the whole human race, including Russia, would be represent- ed at the Council table of the League. "It would be a very serious and very tragic thing," he went on, "If. wliea all ti'e nations of the world gather there, the seat of the founder and inspirer should remain vacant." Tribute to Wilton In this and other references he paid tribute to the late President Woodrow Wilson as one of the main forces In bringing the League into existence.- Mrs. AVoodrow Wilson occupied a seat of honor next to General Smuts. The United States, he pointed out, was bound to enter into International conferences whether within or with- out the League. The pact of ParU required It. In this way the method of conference for disposing o Inter- national disputes would become uni- versal and mice this came about peaca would be guaranteed without fail. A gradual disappearance of opposi- tion to the League in the United States w;t* noted by John W. Davis, who presided. There was not one responsible person in the country now, he said, who would say the Lea- gue was dead, was a failure 01 should be raviied. Rus*ia and Religion Lomlou Morning Post (Cong.): To resume relations with Soviet Russia and to Riire free entry to her repre- sentatives and agents has always seemed to us a monstrous folly from a political point of view. There Is, however, a consideration far stronger. Soviet 11 i ;- ..i Is the avowed and im- placable enemy of the Christian faith of any form of religion whatsoever. The intention i* clear and unashamed. UoMgion must be destroyed not only la Russin bat throughout the world la order that the social, e momlc and political theories of Bolshevism may take root and flourish, itellgton is ileitroyed in on'--- that the may fo!>w. i t 4 Industrialized W "yn Canada rest i v- delegates. Thereupon another 1,000 tbe Nationalist movement, led the! with the same result, continuing the "Mahatma Gandhi, long a leader ofi C.indhi will mobilize tight against the proposed dominion program until the Government or the status In the llrltlsh Umpire, and in- Congress breaks." troduced non-co-operative measures to That John Hull Is somewhat dl- enforre the Congress party demands j turhed- especially by the threat of an for Independence. These Included! Indian boycott on English goods refusal to attend the round-table oon- was indicated by an Immediate wnver- feronce called to meet In London tnj ing tbe price of cotton at Liverpool, diucuRs the political situation In In dla, and avm-cd boycott of the Cen- tral and Provincial legislatures with authorization for a program of civil disobedience and non-payment of taxes when tbe rommlttne thinks ll advisable." The altered at Undo of Mr. Gandhi, who Is supposed to hold one-third < wlili'h In turn affected New llork. J. I/, (iurvln. writing In the London Sunday Observer, declares that the Nationalists of In .Ha are deliberately copying the methods u.iod hy the Sinn Fein lenders In Irelnnd a dozen years :\so. even to ndop'.lnft "The Wearing! of Iho Green" ns their flghtlns song. , night ?" He ndiK however: "The Sinn FVln No \vpop-- "Between walks." tir.va home. i\ud those not the wo- men who wei* called upon to sacri- fice sons and buabauds either, but to that younjer generation of women i Victoria >imos (Mb.): liuoughout my n-.vn H,:II :i"i'M who were school i the West during the yc;i U "29 there girls in 1914. and whom the war has been a very satisfact ->iy .-spansion touched b-t lightly. in industrial development - Bering aR lines of manufacturing v. H:h pertain to the West, and it has been s year in which new iadustrir. .oducing articles uot hitherto :.,;- if aclured have been established- i iier year of Investigation into trau Abilities, bringing into the WL-S: manj repre- sentatives of Important ir in'zations. from which have resui 1 .' I new afren- oies.^new expansion an i . and at- tractive prospects for ll -' . -' Ir e. "The man of titty ha- ,, v : ly come to terms with the worM u: i ihe devil and is suffering 1 from ; Oldpop "How did you sleep last Ition or sclerosis of the con 'ence." 1 Dean Ingo. MUTT AND JEFF By BUD FISHER Can a Flee Commit Pe*- : ;ry? 1 GQIV TH ACT. But r DON'T WANT IT| se A FL6A IM TO S fAV CIRCUS AMb LfT rAV INTCLHG6MT rAuTT.' RM THIS BOX AMI) I VWIU TO AS HUMAM BeiMGSl .