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Sunday School Lesson March 20. Lesson XII Jeu Dies on the Croaa John 19: 17-22, 2530. Golden Text Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. 1 Corinthians 15: 3. ANALYSIS. I. GOLGOTHA, 19: 17-22. II. MOTHER AND SOX, 19 : 25-27. III. THE FINISHED TASK. 19: 28-30. I. GOLGOTHA, 19: 17-22. For the evangelist, everything that occurred on the day of the crucifixion was rilled with solenvi meaning. He has brooded long or. the inner meaning of the Cross, and now into his story he crowded his *ich symbolism. He emphasizes the fact that Jesus carried his own cross, v. 17. This does not contradict th? other accounts where Simon is commandeered to help The procession started with Jesus carrying his cross although he was later helped wi'h it. The incident suggests in symbol the voluntary na- ture of the sacrifice. Golgotha (v. 17 ) "the place of the skull,' beyond the northern wall of the city, near where two ways cross (Mark 15: 29) took it? name from its shape, possibly also from its grim associations. Jesus was not the only victim chat day. Two thieves had also been brought up. Jesus *as hanged "in the midst." He was reckoned with the transgressors, Luke 22: 37. From Jordan side (John 1: 26) on to (iol- gotha, Jesus was "among" those whom he would redeem. Their gruesome work completed, 'He soldiers nailed above Jesus' head the placard ''written la Hebrew, Greek and Latin" (v. 20 1 as John is careful to point out. It wa.s an unconscious prophecy of Christ a? all the world's king The Jews, their pride greatly irritated, as Pilate no doubt intended, tried >o have the inscription changed, v. 21. Pilate, "by nature obstinate and stubborn" (Philo), haughtily re- plied, " #hat I have written, I have written." | Who cru.ifietl Jesus'.' the ortho- dox religious leaders >f his time who believed that they had high reason.s for whtt they did. Ordinary selfish - nf". rowardice, prejudice, dislike, such as characterize mosi of us, were enough when followed out to their logical conclusions, to put to death the Son of God. (b) che vested Inter- ests, represented by the Sadducees. ' They still crucify the Christ when he opposes tiiem (c) th- politicians, rep-, resented by Pilate. (d> the soldiers, -- good follows in themselves. Jesus spoke highly of some of them. It was a soldier who did him the last earthly kindn -ss he receiv- ' ed, 19: 29. But it ,7as by men prepared for their task by military , discipline that he was done to death on Golgotha. Our military systems are planned to depersonalize those whom they train. Soldiers are edii- 1 cated not to think for themselves, out to give unreasoning obedience to .1 command. "Such a system, while it' has noble associations with courage, ' loyalty, honor and self-effacement, counteracts that which Christianity tries hardest to create a reasoning conscience, Cofnn. The Meaning of tf>c the situation, he showed us the yearn- ing hart of God. That love wins from men an answering K>ve, rendering dis- tasteful the sin that once appealed to them, because it inures him. (d) He b-iars our sin in the sense that he is our substitute. He opened up the way that leads to God. That way, once opened, remains so for ever. No one need repeat the vicarious sacrifice of him who gave himself to discover the v oute. But we must climb it after him. London-Capetown Linked Another forge in the mighty chain of telephone exchanges, making London the world centre was recently completed when the L/ord Mayor laid the cornerstone and spoke to the mayor of Cape- town, S.OOO miles distant. Comradeship Come, I will make the continent indis- soluble; I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon; With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all ovr the prairies; I will make inseparable cities, wlta their arms about each other's necks: For you; for you, I ant trilling these songs, In the love of comrades. In the high-towering love of com- rades." Walt Whitman. "I'oemj." II. MOTHER AND SUN. 19: 25-27. We now come to the most tonch/rn; scene of all. Reckless In her grief, Jesus' mother had pressed close to the cross. In his dying agony, his caro for his widowed mother was his one earthly .bought. "Woman, behold ;hv son." said he, looking at the disciple whom he loved. In the word trans'at- ed "woman" there is no harshness such as the English suggests. Sym- bolically the incident is taken .hat. Jesus commends his mother, the Jew- ish church, the ancient faith which gave birth to Christianity, into the keeping of the Christian believer.--. What was valuable and permanent in Judaism row passes over into Chris- tianity: The "mother" of Jesus dwells in the house of his disciple. III. THE FINISHED TASK, 19: 28-30. Then comes tho triumphant "It is finished." What did he accomplish in his finished work? He bore our sins. (a) he was the victim of sin's deadly hostilit. (b) he bore our sins on his conscience. He identified himself with mon in their suffering, their need, their corporate guilt. He was under- going the Cross long before he found himself on Calvary, (c) He bears our f sin away, not in the sense that another j shoulders a legal debt for another, but by demonstrating to us a love that, swallows up sin and destroys it. In : going the full length demanded by OTHERS Doing nothing for others is the un- doing of one's self. We must be pur- posely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. Th heart that goes out of itself gets large and full of Joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others. Horace Mann. "Dt'ai . ; s you all I have to say. Have you understood "Oh. please say it again." me?" Fifty Years Hence By Winston Churchill, In the Strand Magazine < December, 1931 > The great mass of human beings ab- sorbed in the toils, cares and activi- ties of life, are only dimly conscious of the pace at which mankind is travel- ing. Enormous changes have taken place In the last hundred years. The pace la ever quickening. Our century lias witnessed an enormous revelation in material things, In scientific appli- ances, in political institutons, in man- ners and customs. The greatest change of all is the least perceptible by Individuals it is the far greater numbers which in every civilized coun- try participate in the fuller life of man. Disraeli wrote at the beginning of the nineteenth century that 'England was for the few. and the very few." Now millions have lifted themselves above the primary necessities, in Eur- ope as well as in America. Culture Is a possibility for people who, a cen- tury ago, would never have thought of it. Even Indian and China, who stood still for thousands of years, are also rapidly moving. What is it that has produced this new prodigious speed in man? Science i . the cause. Science cares nothing for man-made laws, time-honored cus- toms, or cherished beliefs. Science has laid hold of us, conscripted us into regiments, set us to work upon its highways and in its arsenals; reward- ed us for our services, healed us when we were young, pensioned us when we were worn out. Man in his earliest stages lived alone and avoided his neighbors with as much anxiety and probably as much reason as he avoided the fierce flesh- ating beasts that shared his forests. Gradually, however, the advantages of co-operation became evident. For hundreds of /ears man worked to- gether to utilize his own muscular ef- forts. But another era dawned when he learned how to harness the forces of Nature. Methods of production and communication were speeded up. The most wonderful of all modern prophecies is found in Tennyson's Locksley Mall." For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see. Saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fllled with commerce, argosies magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fllled with shout- ing, and there rained a ghastly dew .From the nations' airy armies grap- pling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder- storm; Till the war-drum throbb's no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd, In the Parliament of man, the Federa- tion of the world. Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher. Glares at one that nods and wiuks be- hind a slowly dying flre. These six stanzas of prediction, writ ten eighty years ago. hare already been fulfilled. There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose con ditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period, save for some minor alterations, will b similar Secondly, we can survey the genera! course of development in our immedl ate past, and endeavor to prolong 11 into the near future. The first is tho method of the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to as now, and that only is a partial sphere. But, obviously all that Science has achieved in modern time*, and the knowledge and power now in her possession, we can predict with some assurance the inventions and discoveries which will govern our fu ture. We can but guess what reactions these discoveries and their applica- tions will produce upon the habits, out look and spirit of men. To-day man can control great forces It is possible to control accurately from tlio bridge of a battle-cruiser alt the power of hundreds of thousands of men. Or to sot off with cue finger a mine capable in an instant of destroy- ing the work of thousands of man- years. These immense new sources of power, and the fact that they can be wielded by a single individual, have made possible novel methods of min- ing and metallurgy, new methods of transport, and undreamed of machin- ery. Undoubtedly the evolution of which they are the present outcome will continue at an increasing rate. Greater speed is assured. We are promised, too, new and greater sources of power. It may well be possible to change the face of the world to ex- tents of which we have not yet dream- ed. Hitherto the production of food haa been the prime struggle of man. That war is won. There is no doubt that civilized races can produce or procure all the food they require. Our problem to-day is that the white man produces more wheat than he needs, but the yel- low meu, brown men and black men have not yet learned to demand and become able to purchase a diet superi- or to rice. Synthetic food will, of course, be used In the future. But we shall not have to face an existence of tabloid food. Instead, our present food will be prepared, but in a syn- thetic manner. We shall hardly be able to detect any difference between the synthetic foods of the future and the natural foods of to-day. Equally startling developments lie already just beyond our finger-tips In the breeding of human beings, and in the shaping of human nature. There seems little doubt that it will be pos- sible to carry out the entire cycle which leads to the birth of a child in artificial surroundings. Interference with the mental development of such beings, expert suggestion and treat- ment in earlier years, would produce beings specialized to thought or toil. Our minds recoil from the creation of beings who are capable of tending a machine, but without other ambi- tions, and the laws of Christian civill zation will prevent them. But lop- sided creatures of this type might fit in well with the Communist doctrines of Russia. Future races may see new powers in the hands of altogether new and difflerent men to those to which we of to-day are accustomed. But while men have been gathering knowledge and power with ever-in creasing and measureless speed, their virtues and their wisdoms have not shown any notable development as the centuries have passed. The brain of modern man does not differ in essen tials from that of the human beings who lived and loved here millions of years ago. The nature of man has re- mained hitherto practically unchanged Under sufficient stress starvation terror, warlike passion, or even cold intellectual frenzy the modern man we know so well will do the most ter- rible deeds, and modern woman will back him up. At the present the civilizations ol many different ages coexist together in the world, and their representatives meet and converse. Englishmen French and Americans, with ideas abreast of the twentieth century, do business with Chinese and Indians whose civilizations were crystallizec several thousand years ago. We have the spectacle of powers and weapons of man far outstripping his intelli- gence; we have the march of his in- telligence proceeding far more rapidly than the march of his nobility. We may well find ourselves in tile pre- sence of "the strength of civilization without its mercy." Therefore, it is important above all other things, that the moral and spiritual conceptions of men and of nations hold their own amid these formidable scientific evolutions. Other- wise it would be better to call a halt in material progress. What New York Is Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON U istrated Dreismakhig Lesion Fvr- With Every P,,tttm Sheer wooiens are tremendously ;mart for resort and spring. The ribbed fabrics are especially favorert as boucle jersey and knitted woolens. 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Canada Guards Indians' Health EFFORT Most of us come late in life to the discovery that we can do much more than we are doing. * Friendship which flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, aa the water that flows from the spring does not congea! :n winiiT . J. Fenl- more Cooper. To-day Away with the flimsy idea that life with a past is attended, There's Now only Now and no Past there's never a past; it has ended. Away with, its obsolete story and all of its yestcrd sorrow; There's only to-day, almost gone, and in front ' to-day stands to-mor- row. Pardon To endure and to pardon is the wis- dom of life. Koran. Department of Indian A/fairs Maintains Health Service On All Reserve In the care and training of Can- ada's Indian wards, the protection ol their health is a matter of prime Im- portance. In every province of th Dominion where reserves have bea set aside for the benefit of the In- dians, the Department of Indian Af- fairs maintains a health service whereby not only bodily ills are at- tended to, but the Indians are trained in personal hygiene and otherwis* grounded in the fundamental? of pre ventive medicine. The health service of the Depart- ment of Indian Affairs is carried out for the most part by local physicians and hospitals. About 325 such phy- sicians are employed on part-time sal- aries or on the call system to attend bands of Indians living in their neigh- borhood. T!u number of local hos- pitals utilized in this manner is about L'OO. The permanent full-time health ser- vice of the Department is carried out by i:> Medical Superintendents, 10 Field Nurses and 7 Hospitals, located as follows: Doctors (Full-time Physicianci. Full-time physicians ar< located at tlie following reserves: Quebec: Bersimis, Seven Islands and Caughr.awaga. Ontario: Sis Nations Reserve (S) Manitoba Norway House. Saskatchewan: File Hills and Qu 'Appelle Agencies combined, and at the Battleford Agency. Alberta: Bhu ktoot Reserve, Sarcee Reserve and at Chipewyaii. Northwest Turrit" >r>s: R-'soitition and Simpsor.. Field Nurses. One field nursi- is assigned to each of the following province?: Xuva Sco- tia, New Brunswick, Queb'v. Ontario, Manitoba. Saskatchewan. Travelling Nurses. Prairie Provinces (2i; British Col- umbia fli; Northwest Territories (!"'. Departmental Hospital. On'ario: I.ady Willingdon Hospital Six Nations K<'V-.Tve Brantford. 20 beds. Manitoba: Norway Hous.- Hospital, JO beds. Saskatchewan- Fil.- Hills Hospital, 2i beds. Alberta: Bluckfoot Hospital, 34 beds; Blood Hospital, 40 beds; Sir cee Hospital. -0 beds; Peigan Hospital. 8 ' eds. The nursing staff of these hospital! numbers .1 graduate nurses. The IB dians' fear of and prejudice agalnit medical treatment have been almost wholly overcome and the hospital fa- cilities are now made use of at all times, In addition to providing the serr- ices outlined above, the Departmeit i-o-operates with Churcix missionary organizations, in the operation of hot- l>itals and with the Provincial QOT- Hrnments, and the Victorian Order of Nurses in the maintenance of district nurses in many places. Black Outlook She lived in a neighboring ti'.vn ..nil was the daughter of tnibbish p-irenta. They met one night at the pictures and a friendship began. Hi- told her he was an accountant. One day, as she was passing his place of employment about noon, she lingered in the hope f seeing him. That morning he had been engaged in cleaning out boilers, and presented a grimy appearance as he '.eft the factory for his midday meal. "Oh, John! 1 ' she exclaimed, oatching sight of him as he tried to pass un- noticed. "I thought you told me you were an accountant." "So I am," was his calm reply, "but this is my day for mixing the ink." A man without decision caa never "That's ni, . Willie, to ,e said to belong to himself Hebe- resolve not to torment your "poor iongs to whatever can make captlTe old dog any more! Hero's a nickel ,,f him. John Foster. for you." > Willie "Thanks! You see old 1,000,000 su-.;- maples are to be Pido died last week." ;>; ; nited in the Lake St. John area la : tiie Province of Quebec, according to Where law ./mis tyranny begin*. Hon. Houore Mercler, Minister of -Earl of Chatham. | Land3 and Foi MUTT AND JEFF- By BUD FISHER There Are a Lot of Others Like Jeff. IT (SoCS ON TO SAY THAT . OM f\ i BoRieo IT . BoT THAT BUXINJG sTR\k OP BUYING The Tr\S AR<2 AS UNPATRIOTIC AS A SVACK6.RL OP ANX> THIS is GOING BACC Necessmes CIRCULATION . \