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Sunday School Lesson s * October 4. Lesson I The Macedon- ian Call Acts 16: 6-15; Romans 15: 18-21. Golden Text Go ye therefore, and teach all nations. Matthew 28: 19. ] ANALYSIS I. A DISSOLVED PARTNERSHIP, Acts 15: * 36-41. * II. GALATIA REVISITED: TIMOTHY, Acts * 16: 1-5. * III. HOW PAUL TURNED WEST, Acts 13: 6-15. * INTRODUCTION We come now to , Paul's second missionary journey. Had Paul gone East instead of WetC, Chinese churches would probably he * sending missionaries today to evan- v gelize i-he natives of Britain and Am- erica. As it is, into our western hand-, has been committed tha missionary ente.-prise. * I. A DISSOLVED PARTNERSHIP, Acts 15: t 36-41. ^ After accepting the Jerusalem com- promise, the church in Antioch had * peace. Paul was again free for mis- sion work. He longed to see the Gal- * utian converts once more, v. 36. This * personal affection and concern for his converts was one of the most attrac- tive features in -Paul's character. It * appears in the letters which he wrote afterwii'ds. "With great desire" he would see thiir faces (1 Thsss. 2: 17), "night and day praying excetd- ingly" 'iat he might see them, 2 Tess. 3: 10. Also, he recognized the im- portance of "following up" work be- gun. ' Then came the unhappy disagree- '. mene between the two leaders. Bar- . nabas would take John Mark again. Paul, setting out upon a journey likfi- ly to be difficult ind dangerous, would have nothing to do with one who had already failed him. Barnabas, per- haps unconsciously placing his kindly * feelings toward his nep'iew before the interests of the work, was adamant. Unable to agree, they divided the field between them. Barnabas could take c Mark ami go to Cyprus. Paul, select- N V ' ing Silas (15: 22), would go north A overland to the cities previously visited. Barnabas now disappears from the * record. The church at Antioch agreed with Paul, v. 40. It seems inexpress- ibly sad. Paul owed a great deal to Barnabas, 9: 27; 11: 25, 26. His affec- tionate nature must nave been deeply pained. It was a time when he felt that for Christ he must suffer loss of everything even friendship, Phil. 3: \ 7, 8. That friendship, however, was restored later, 1 Cor. 9: 6. Even Mark eventually won his confidence T (2 Tim. 4: 11), but the two leaders never worked together again. God makes the wrath of man to praise him; two missionary enter- prises, instead of one, were thus set on foot. II. GALATIA REVISITED: TIMOTHY, Acts 16: 1-5. After winning his fight for Gentile freedom from circumcision, Paul cir- cumcized Timothy. Why? Timothy (v. 1), whom he himself had been the means of converting and of whom he was very fond, Paul would take with him, v. 3. But Timothy was uncir- cumcised. Being part Jew, he could reasonably be expected to come und^r the Jewish requirements. The mis- sionaries would generally lodge in tt e Jewish quarters of the cities they would visit. They would begin their work in the synagogues. The pres- ence of the uncircumcised Timothy would be offens've to the Jews, em- barrassing to Timothy himself, and a hindrance to the work. Paul, there- fore, since no principle was at stake, had Timothy circumcised, v. 3. ifiTHOW PAUL TURNED WEST, Acts 10: 6-15. To th north lay Bithynia with its populous cities. Thither Paul tur.ied. Agai the "Spirit of Jesus" (the 'or- root reading of v. 7) forbade. The har- vest of Bithynia was not for Paul, but for Peter, 1 Peter 1: 1. The only course left open for the missionaries now was westward to Troas, v. 8. For- bidden to preach ther.1 for it was part of the forbidden Asia, they had not much choice; it was either to re- turn home or cross the ^ea to Mace- donia, which is today part of modern Greece. At the critical moment came a turning point in history. Paul's vi- sion was the birth-hour of western civilization and western Christianity. * ' Paul was evidently thinking and pray- ing about Macedonia. Perhaps, as Ramsay suggests, a Dr. Luke meeting the travelers in the hotel at Troas, had suggested Macedonia to him. In any case, falling asleep to the swish of the sea, Pajl dreamed a dream, v. 9. He took it to be a divine guidance. So did they all, ". 10. r- : H i After a good passage, carefully re- ported by Luke, who is now one of the party and acquainted with the sea, the missionaries arrived in Philippi early in the week. Philippi had few Jews and no synagogue. Paul found some women holding: a prayer-meeting by the river. Among the n he began his "venture of faith." Lydia became one of his famous converts. The evangel- ,/ation of Europe had begun. So, by hindrances, embarrassments, appar- ently sinister experiences, God "sets our feet in steps that lead us upward yet." A Novel Idea Enter the Provost A new ecclesiastical title is to make j its appearance that of "Provost," which is to be borne by the incum- bents of parish church cathedrals, such as Birmingham, Bradford, Lei- cester, Newcastle, Portsmouth, and Sheffield. The title is to carry with It the precedence accorded IT the dean of a cathedral. Although new In this connection, the title of provost Is an old one. It is applied to the heads of certain colleges, such as Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and to the chief magistrates of citi d boroughs In Scotland. There the title Is equiva- lent to that of ^..yor in England, and that of Lord Provost to Lord Mayor. There are five lord provosts the chief magistrates of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Perth and Dundee. WhaTNew York Is Wearing Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern Gross, a mechanic of Berlin, has conceived this new idea of a water riding automobile. With special equipment any auto can be converted in a period of 15 minutes into a sea-going hack. Just the thing for detours. BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Destructive Floods Cause of Erosion China's Diaster Warning to Countries Being Denud- ed of Forests One of China's greatest scourges the flood i again spreading death and destruction over a wide area, writes Hugh Hammond Bennett in The N.Y. Times. What is the reason i'or these periodic visitation entailing great loss of life and vast property damage? In China's recurring mis- fortunes there Is a warning to younger civilizations, especially to America; for although In China with Its densely populated lands the flood waters are more appalling In their results, the processes which are there at work ar also to be found as a menace to the future of the United States. China's history of floods is volumin- layer removed by unchecked washing, but the exposed subsoil which now must be (armed, or abandoned, Is more difllcult to till because of its usual high content of stiff clay; It absorbs mois- ture slower than the mellow loam now gone and gives it up faster with the increased baking of dry weather. Moreover, the washing is speeded up In many localities; and it is at this 8ta S of land depletion that gullying usually sets In. Over the less absorp- tive eroded slopes water flows away with Increased rapidity to augment floods. It takes just seven years under con- tinuous corn cultivation In Northern Missouri and Southern Iowa for on inch of an important type or rolling corn-belt soil to wash off land of gent- ly sloping topography. On steeper land, that having a fall of eight feet in a linear distance of a hundred feet, the rate ot removal Is one inch In one year. In other words, under the pre- vailing system of corn production In ous beyond comprehension. After ^^ re eion the most productive part 4.000 years of building levees and dig- ot tha land - the aeven incttes consti- ging canals, the great Yellow River broke over its banks in 1877 in an ap- palling overflow that brought death to 1,000,000 human beings. In 1852 this swollen Titan changed its lower chan- net to enter the ocean 300 miles north of its mouth on the Yellow Sea. tuting tha top-soil. Is being washed away within from seven to forty-nine years. Here the virgin soil produced in good years seventy-flve bushels of corn per acre; the exposed subsoil pro- about twenty duces at the rate of . bushels per acre. The Yellow Sea. a part of the P- Tne plant food remi > ve i f ni the cine Ocean, is colored with silt swoj>t ! field8 and P aatures ot America every down from slopes far up the Yangtse y ear ^ roslon exceeds by twenty Klang and Whang Ho, whose water- sheds once were clothed with forests ona times that removed by the crops harvested. That taken by crops can and grass. Stripped of these stabillz- 1 b restored In the form of fertilizer, ing agencies in nature*, countless slop- ing areas were cultivated without pro- tection against the evils of rain-wash, a process which has altered the sur- but that removed by erosion cannot be restored, because this malevolent process takes the- whole body of tha soil, plant food and all. ! quakes, tidal waves, tornadoes and all I the excavations ot mankind since the j beginning of history. Every rain heavy enough to cause water to run downhill carries Us toll of suspended ! soil, eating away the substance of tho I land down into the less stable sub- ' strata, where the destructive process speeds on at accelerated pace. Under I face of the earth more than the com- Notwithstanding the vast continuing I bined activities of volcanoes, earth- losses caused by erosion, we are not yet on tha verge of a land shortage. In spite of the appalling wastage, we are confronted with the anomalous situation of having on our hands large crope surpluses. With increasing use ot fertilizers and soil-improving crops, together with the abandonment ot worn-out land for land still retaining some of its top-soil, we continue to be just right, the clothes of the nature's stabilizers of forest, shrub- produce abundantly. In many local!- growing miss must have a bit of dash. The jacket dress, so splendid for school wear, has a definite smartness and practicality too, for it is equally attractive when the jacket is dis- carded. This jaunty model is delightfully carried out in yacht blue linen. And to be ultra-smart, it trims its jacket with blue linen overplaided in deeper shade. The dress repeats the trim in be-ry and grass, erosion works slowly; with these removed by man and his do- mestic animals the wastage is vastly increased. There have always been floods and there always will be. There Is evi- dence, nevertheless, that no such mighty flood ever before marched down the Mississippi as the one of four years ago. And now the Yaugtse Is reported to have surpassed its own bows at the front, and for the modish ( i ong rec ord of deluges, covering more bo hauled back, nor can it be restored with fertilizers or soil-im- cap sleeves. The skirt is so cute box-plait effect at the front and cir- cular at the back. 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What Wasteful Erosion Means under way Indicate that strip-cropping When soil Is washed out of flelds it!_ lhat ,/ [h(J growing of goll . savin | crops in strips along the slopes, alter- nately with the clean-tilled crops will j proving crops. It can be improved, to , but soil like the virgin surface | layer, which averages only about nine ot tha country, cannot be built back to Its original condition. With some of the important agricultural soils of th i country tt has taken nature not leas Write your name and address plain- ; than 400 years to built! one single inch ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. 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In the Kaffrarlan Mus- eum at King Williams Town there stands a hippopotamus mat gave South Africa thrill after thrill for more than two years. For this enor- mous stuffed hide was once Huberta the Hippo the famous roving animal that was looked upon by white South Africans as a friend and by natives as the reincarnation of a great chief. Flags were flown at half-mast In Durban on the tragic day when the "assassination' 'of Huberta became known. Four farmers convicted of the deed were each sentenced to a fine of 25 or three months' hard labor. A wave of protest swept through the country, and a museum director wrote: "I have entirely despaired of human nature. There are some peo- ple who cannot see an interesting specimen without itching to take a pot shot at It." How did Huberta the Hippo capture the affection of the whola of South Africa? It Is a diverting story. To realize the sensation caused every- where by the appearance, of Huberta, it must be understood that South Afri- ca apart from a few game preserves la no longer a wonderland of big game. Thousands of people living In the cities have never seen game ani- mals execpt in captivity. So when. In November, 1928. a full-grown hippo- potamus strolled into the village of New Guelderland. fifty miles from Dur- ban, the event received large head- lines in all the newspapers. Huberta Makei Debut Indians and natives working In the fields of sugarcane were tha first to raise the alarm. They heard a snort- Ing and a bellowing, and ran for safe- ty. The hippo remained until hun- dreds of people were staring wide- eyed with astonishment; then retreat- ed Into the thicket. Undoubtedly this adventurous beast had wandered from the Umfolosi sanc- tuary, near Lake St. Lucia, Zulaland the last known breeding place of the hippo within the borders of the Union. At first she was named Billy by correspondents who rushed to the spot, but it was as Hubert the Hippo that she became a national character. It was not until after her death that the mistake about her sex was dis- covered, and she was renamed Hu- berta. From the day of her first appear- ance until lier death Huberta was a marked hippo. After she had startled the plantation workers at Guelderland sha quickly achieved notoriety. An enterprising . ress photographer went out among the sugar-cane, but when he leveled his camera Huberta charged him. Curious crowds flocked to see her. As they grew larger they annoyed Hu- berta more and more, and finally she moved off. From that moment began her journoyings, which were to last two years and make her the most fa- mous hippo that ever lived. She moved first in the direction of Durban. An she approached the city she passed through areas which grew more and more thickly populated with every mile. Naturally, the sensation she caused was enormous. As she approached Durban, which is one of the largest cities in South Afri- ca, the excitement grew. "Hubert on His Way," said the headlines (they thought she was a bull thin), and peo- ple waited eagerly to see where the animal would make its next appear- ance. Of coursi. had it been neces- sary, an organized hint could have put an end to her career then and there. But by this time Huber i was a public character. She 'ad roused the amuse- ment, even the affection, of the entire population. It had en proved that she was quite harmless. Occasionally she charged people who were too In- quisitive. An Unwelcome Visitor Her greatest escapr ' followed. She called at a hotel just outside Durban one night, appeared suddenly and gave some of the habitues a severe nervous shock. After this, however, she de- cided that she was coming too closely Wolfhound Entry Mrs. Osborn of London. Eng- land, enters her Irish wolfhound In the Richmond champion dog show. into contact with civilization. Sha made a wide ! uir and was not heard of again until she reached tha coast twenty miles south of Durban. Jour- neying on, she came to the mouth ol the Umzimvubu River near Port St John. There she settled down for time and lived happily in the river. But again her fatal curiosity got Ut better of her and one night she visited the village of Port St. John. A town counselor, so it is said, was crossing the square to a meeting. He- flashed his electric torch In front of him and saw the yawning mouth of a hippo. He did not attend the meeting! Huberta sat down In tho square and soon the entire population of the vil- lage turned out to see her. It wai the. most exciting thing that ever hap- pened in Port St. John or is ever like- ly to happen there. Huberta, bore tha shouting of men and women and tha barking of dogs for half an hour. The* she left Port St. John never to retunt. Her wanderings had begun again. Huberta's odyssey now became less pleasant one. The Bloomfontein Zoo had sent a party out to capture her alive. They were hard upon her trail. But Huberta by this time had lived upon the fringes of civilisation for nearly two years. She had de- veloped amazing cunning. Sha passed through areas Inhabited by natives and the-y saw not the least sign of her. Then one day a farmer reported to the magistrate at Peddle, near King William's town, that ho had seen dead hippo in the rivar. Men went to the spot and. with eighteen oxen and chains, hauled out the body. It was Huberta. with bullet holes above her eye*. She was a full grown cow hippo 9 feet 2 inches in length and with girth of 3 feet 1 inch. She must hart weighed nearly four tons. Kvery paper in South Africa pub- lished an obituary. Museums quar- reled for tho right to preserve hat hide. There was a popular outcry against the unknown marksmen who had shot her. Eventually, four men made voluntary confessions. Thej were charged under tho gamo laws and fined $1-5 each. Huberta will always bo remembered with affection in South Africa. To the natives the stuffed carcass will remain an object of awa for generations. While she lived they quickly surround- ed her with Ijgends. To many ot them she was the reincarnation of one of the great chiefs ot the- past who had come back to earth to ead the Bantn Nation to tho greatness that onca wi theirs. Wheelbarrows should have leg* eighteen inches long, according to British experts in Industrial health research. MUTT AND JEFF That's His Story He's Stuck With It. By BUD FISHER THAT'S A eteveu, JFF, r (1ST B6F6R A STATeNVENT SVAJOftM TO i,N* VAjOTOCSSCtJ *