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r »iiii««i«ii«»«ii»»«»«««»««««» »ot 4 Sunday School Lesson LESSON XII THE SUFFERING SERVANT Mark 15:22-39 Golden Text â€" For the Son of Man alto came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." Mark 10:45. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time â€" Friday, April 7, A.D. 30. Place Jerusalem. "And tliey bring Iiim unto the place, Golgotha, which is, being in- terpreted. The place of a skull." Golgotha simply means "skull," as Mark himself e.YpIains for use. This place was probably given such a name because it had a skull-like contour. The site cannot be identif- ied with certainty. There are only two places that can be seriously considered to-day as the site of Calvary, one is the plot over which the church of the Holy Sepulchre now stands, and the other is the Bkull-shaped knoll above Jeremiah's grotto, outside the present north wall of Jerusalem. The Crucifixion "And they offered him wine that was mingled with myrrh, but he re- ceived it not." This was a drink mercifully offered to those about to be crucified, to produce stupefac- tion (i.e., as an opiate). Jesus in- tended to go through the final or- deal with a mind perfectly clear. "And they crucify him." It is pro- bable, though not certain, that our Lord was nailed to the cross while it lay upon the ground, and that it . was then lifted into its position as is represented in the great picture of Rubens in Antwerp Cathedral. The cross of Jesus lifted his feet no more than a yard above the ground, for the short stalk of hys- sop was able to reach Jesus' mouth. The agony of crucifixion needs no description. "And part his garments among them, casting lots upon them, what each should take." "And it was the third hour, and they crucified him." Mark is the ouly one who gives the hour of Christ's crucifixion. The Jewish day began at six o'clock in the morn- ing, and therefore the third hour would be about nine o'clock in the morning. "And the superscription ot his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS." This In- Bcrfption on the Lord's cross was written by Pilate in Aramaic"., and la Greek, as weltras in tl^e official Jjjitin, so as to be intelligiSle to all Jews. It was JuSt^HMs that t&e Jews refused to recognrzl>, r&afeiy, that Jesus was their king. '^ "'_ 'â- "And with him liiey crucify tiyvD' robbers; one on his right hand, jiid "" one on his left." These two v/kn ,. wjere not only robbers, but, as Luke â-  tells us, they v,-ere malefactors, i.e., men whose business it is to work evil. Thus was the prediction ot Isaiah' nearly seven hundred years before this brought to pass. Though Mark does not recall it, all who do know the story of our Lord's cruci- fixion as given in the other Gos- pels will remember that, while at the beginning of this day both ot the thieves railed upon the Lord Je- sus, later on the same day one of them believed in him and thereby reeeived eternal life. Three Final Insults "And they that passed by railed on him." These were either coun- try folk on their way to the city, or citizens whose business called them into the country. The word here , translated "railed" means, ordinar- ily, to speak repr...>chfully, to re- vile, to calumniate. "Wagging their heads, and saying, Ha! thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, 30. save thyself, and come down from the cross." The implication here is that If Je- sus spoke the truth in asserting his ability to butld the temple again in three days, he certainly would be able to pull his hands and feet free from the cross and to deliver him- self from his impalement. ''In like manner also the chief priests mocking him among them- selves with the scribes said, He saved others; himself he cannot save." Members of the priestly aris- tocracy were seen in company with scribes and elders deriding the suf- ferer. It is not true that Jesus could not save himself â€" he could have done so easily, instantly, with all tlie omnipotence of God, but he could never have saved us had he a.ived himscir, tor we are saved only by his death. "Let the Christ, the King of Is- rael, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reproached him. The Fourth Cry "And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour." This darkness is also mentioned by Matthew t27;15) and by Luke (23: 41), a Uarkness tliat began at high noon and ended three hours later, •t three o'clock in the afternoon. So compare another famous period of darknDss at the time of the redemp- __ ♦<»i «i«««»«»«t««««i«««««t«ti»tt« tlon ot the children ot Israel from Egypt. "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Elol, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me'/" This fourth cry from the cross, also re- corded by Matt. 27:46, is the only one of the seven words from the cross recorded in Mark's Gospel. This in one of the deepest, most in- scrutable mysteries ot all the word of God, and, reading these words, we can only bow our heads, and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal in our hearts some ot the terrible meaning ot this cry. The nearest we can hope to come to penetrating this mystery is to think ot Jesus as cov- ered with all the world's sin and curse; and when God saw Jesus thus, he turned away from him. And even thouglr Ood turned from him and left him, he cries to him and holds fast to him as his God. Here the divine perfection of Jesus appears. "And some cf them that stood by, when they hearii '•â-  said. Behold, ha calleth Elijah." There was some- thing in the cry that recalled to the spectators the name of Elijah. "And one ran, and filling a sponge full ot vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying Let be; let us see whether Elijah cometh to take him down." This verse can be understood only as we recall that the fifth word on the cross (John 19:28) was, 'I thirst." See also Matt. 27:43. Consequqences of His Death ''And Jesus uttered a loud voice, and gave up the ghost." The word translated "ghost" is the word of- ten translated "spirit." "And the veil of the temple was rent in two from t'le top to the bot- tom." This veil is the one that hung between the hold place and the holy of holies described in E.xod. 26:31, 36.35. The veil in the temple, as in the tabernacle, symbolized the fact that God was di->tiuctly separated from men, and could not be ap- proached by men except through a high priest. No Hebrew, in all the liundreds of years of Hebrew his- tory, except the high priests, ever entered through the veil that hung before the holy of holies. The rend- ing of this veil wag certainly an act ot God. The veil was tremendously heavy, and said to have been about forty feet in heflght. In the rending of the veil w^iave God revealed to men as he-i^ever has been before. W^ji^ov^Jinow God through the LftM Jesus- Christ and especially ^'§ love of God in the fact that friirist died for us. "And when the centurion, who stood by over against him, saw that -be so gave up the ghost, he said, Trulj; this man was the Sou of God." This centurion felt himself to be In the preseiice of a great mys- tery, and realized that Jesus was kin with divinity. Music Is Urged As Our Unifier Canadian People Could Be Drawn Together By Music Declares Eminent Glugow Musician Sir Hugh Robertson, adjudicator oX musical festivals throughout Canada, and director of the famous Orpheus Choir, told members of the Association of Canadian Clubs at Montreal last week that music was the best unifier that Cauada could have, for all question of color, re- ligion or nationality sank when peo- ple joined together for music. The eminent Glasgow musician said he had heard 40.000 children singing on his present trip to Can- SIR HUGH ROBERTSON ada, all of them animated wi;h Ihc ane thought to do a beautiful thing beautifully. The children of tod.iy were the C^iuadians of lo-inorrow and as thoy looked to the education ind enlightenment of those children so they cor Id look for sn enlighten- ed Canada in the tnture. an^ any- . DONALD'S A TOLL-COLLECTOR Nicknamed "Donald" by cbUdren and drivers, this pet duck hi Dulwich Park, London, '''^glMW. CoUrctii t/Sll ttoA all motorists passing through the park. Do^g walti untU a cjr stbia b^iae the lake where he lives, waddla< acroip aoid waits for tasty ^sRSiou^ tions. Phstograph aboV« shOwl Donolil gfMeng a moMfih &d laying (in auack quacks). "Pltiat, pret^ pleaM, what viriU fSL give me today? Carole Lombard and Clark Gable really ought to go into the dress- making business. They co-operated on a sports jacket which Alice Marble, the United States' Number One tennis player, will wear when she steps out on the courts ot Wimbledon, England, to battle for a championship. Carole desigr.^d the jacket, (she Is Alice Marble's best friend) and Clark had his tailor make it. It's a knockout. And Alice, tall, blonde and pretty, wlil wear it. Remember 'Dawn Patrol," In which Richard Barthelmess starred, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., after pleading and fighting tor the role, played the ^•^cond lead so ably that he stole the picture, and proved ERROL FLYNN himself a good actor? Well, it's to be made again, with Errol Flynn, Patric Knowles and Basil Rathbone in the leading roles. C'laudeete Colbert, who recently got home from that European va- cation, likes simple clothes â€" but listen to the description ot the dre.'^s recently dosigned for her by Travis Banton, one of moviedom's ace designers. It's frilly, it's frothy, it's of white organza, covered with a printed pattern of cherries in black. The skirt is shirred and full, the neckline is outlined by a large flounce, with wider flounces form- ing the sleeves. Sounds anything but simple; Alice Brady has had years on the stage and years in the movies, but when you hear her on the radio you one who bogrudged opportunities tor the children was no citizen at all, but was a traitor in thh camp. Music For Her Soul's Sake The propagation of culture was very difficult in new countries be- cause the whole life in new coun- tries was one of striving, but new countries reiiuired a cultural back- ground and that was a work that l:iy to the band of the Canadian Club.s. Canada needed music for her souVs sake and also for her nationality's s.iko. The great problem of race assi- milation can be met by music more successfully than in any other way. for hostility could not enter where music was. and therefore Its unify- ing value was ti tstiinable. may be sure that she is nervous. The microphone simply scares her into such a state of nerves that the pages of her script have to be past- ed on cardboard, to keep them from rattling. Encouraged by its success In the building up of Ginger Rogers aa a dramatic star, RKO is going to try to do the same thing with Ruby Keeler, the dancer who is Mrs. AJ Jolson in private life. You'll see the first results of the new campaign in ''Mother Carey's Chickens." And with Fay Balnter and Ralph Mor- gan also in the cast, the girl will have to act or be utterly swamped. Boh Ripley has discovered in his search for "Believe It Or Nots," that it is three and two-thirds timea as easy for a man to become an amazing person as it is tor a wo- man to do so. He finds that amaz- ing women are just as interesting as men, but rarer. The only reason he can give is that they don't have as much chance to distlngulsli themselves as men do. Eddie Cantor ODDS AND ENDS â€" Paramount may follow Metro's example and launch an air show in the fall Stan Laurel and his Russian bride plan a fourth wedding ceremony Frank Black saves the stamps from foreign letters, and gives them to his friends â€" which keeps his office filled with both friends and stamps Around Hollywood they are calling -The .\dventures of Marco Polo," "Mr. Deeds Goes to China" Gale Page, known to radio but not to movie tans, has been made a star by Warner Bro- thers. Heads Weekly Publishers .â- \t the annual convention oT the Canadian Weekly Newspaper .Association in Toronto (Ontario- Quebec Division), Mr, A. E. Uobbio. nianaginji editor of the Kecord-.N'ews, Smith's Fall.H, Ont., was elected president of the or- ganization for the coming year. A Handwriting Analysis WiU Help You To A Better Life The first thing any of us know, someone is going to form an organi- zation to protest against radio pro- grams which ara awfully amusing to the audience la the broadcasting .studio, but pretty dull to those wlio just tune in, and can't see what la going on. Eddie Cantor Is one of the worst offend- ers. After all, ra- dio is supposed to be heard, not just seen. And I know of more than one Instance in whicli a listener, at home, swore never to buy the sponsor's product because it was so annoying to hear the laughter and not know what was so funny. By L. (Psychologist and Is It possible to foretell the fu- ture from one's handwrltlngT This U a question that is fre<iiMntly aak- ed. Unfortunately, we cannot tell fortunes from handwriting. I wUli we could, sometimes! What, then, will handwriting re- real? It will show the character of a writer. There are, ot course, many things we know about our friends, acquaintances and people with whom we come in contact. But there are other, deeper traits that don't coma so readily to the sur- face, or are deliberately hidden. These are revealed unerringly In handwriting. Handwriting doesn't stop at re- vealing the writer's character. It â- hows the hidden potentialities and talent that often lie dormant within a person. Many persons are work- ing In 'blind alleys," or are real- ising but a tithe ot their possibili- ties, merely because of a lack ot knowledge of their own powers. A handwriting analysis Is often the first step towards a bettor po- sition and greater earning powers. Every reader will appreciate the HIBBERT Handwriting Expert) Importance of this, especially t* { these days ot fast competition an'i reduced earning outlets. Can handwriting analysis be d«> pendad upon? There WAS a tlzu when many so-called graphologiata were nothing more than charlatana, preying on the gullible. There warn also a time when many medical ''experts" were quacks! But you do not put any less faith in your doc- tor today because many years ago there were medical quacks, do yoaT In the same way, graphology has IMssed the elementary stages and la now recognized as a science. Hare YOU discovered what your handwriting shows about your re^ self? Would you like to know the truth about your sweetheart, rela- tives or friends? Or are you Inter- ested in finding what talent yon have? Send specimens ot the wrifc- Ing you want analysed, enclosing 10c for EACH specimen. Enclose with a stamped addressed envelope, to: L. Hibbert, Room -121, 78 West Adelaide St., Toronto, Ont. Your , letter will be treated in confldenca. Grants To Help Finance Roads Into Mine Areas 9- Dominion Minister of Resources Gives Details of Assistance the Provinces vrill be given To Aid in Development of Mining Sections â€" Will Ina- prove Trauuportatioa- tario to Get $250,000. Resources Minister Crerar last week announced tentative alloca- tion of the Jl,300,000 vote Included In the supplementary estimate* to assist the provinces In Improving transportation Into mining areas. The proposed allotments follow: Nova Scotia, |25,000; Quebec, 1250,- 000; Ontario $250,000; Manitoba, $225,000; Saskatchewan, $125,000; Alberta, $50,000; British Columbia, $240,000; Northwest Territories and the Yukon, $93,000. Aflreement With Provinces Initial -d In the fiscal year 1936- 37, the assistance scheme was un- dertaken to reduce transportation costs into mining properties where the government thought such costs were likely to retard development a departmental statement said. In that year agreements were made with the provinces concerned whereby the work was carried out under the direction ot the provin- cial governments with the under- standing that two-thirds of the total expenditures in each case would be contributed by the Dominion and one-third by the provinces. All projects carried out were re- commended by the provinces and were subject to the final approval ot the Dominion. All work under- taken In Yukon and the Northwest Territories was done by the federal government. The same arrange- ment will prevail this year, the statement said. 100 Producing^ Areas Aided la the assistance scheme work Is being given mainly to persons tak- en from relief rolls, or classified as needy unemployed. During the past two years the joint program has been ot material aid in expand- ing the tonnage treated daily in gold and other metallurgical plants throughout Cauada. Upwards of 100 producing or soon-to-be producing gold mines have been given improved road as- sistance essential to profitable op- eration, and besides, active develop- ment has been encouraged in many promisihg mineral areas hitherto devoid of suitable transportation facilities. Say Hill-Billies Like Opera Best Prefer It To Mountain Music, Declares Col. Bovey of Mc- Gill, on Return from Visit to Arkansas. There ain't no hill-billy music! Kentucky and .Vrkansas mountain- eers pref-- symphony orchestra- tions and opera. They disclaim ut- terly the brand of savage discord which is described .is 'mountain music." This is the verdict ot Col. Wilfrid Bovey of McGIll University who re- preserted the Canadian Broadcast- ing Cor joration at the recent round table conference on radio held un- der the auspices ot the National University Extension Association at Hot Springs, \rkansas. The ex-governor of the CBC and McGill extension head was much intrigued by the University of Ken- tucky's mountain radio listening center system. The University of !;-^r.;-,i '<y has for years recognized . '.â-  : id'o as an excellent medirm fi.'r the stiuiulailon of eJucatioiiil, cultural and recreational activities. During the past season 15 or more educational, agricultural and musi- cal programs have been broadcast weekly from the university studies In Lexington. It was found early in the expert- mental broadcasting that large sec- tions ot Kentucky lacked the taoili- tles for receiving broadcasts, espe- cially In the mountains. A system of radio listening centres was estab- lished. The university provided rar dlo receiving sets, ot adequate pow- er, and placed them under the com- munity centre directors. This scheme has been a marked success. Do Investigate Before Buying Methods of operation of the To- ronto Stock Exchange, which, he said, is a "much misunderstood in- stitution" were outlined by Nor- man C. Urquhart, exchange presi- dent, to Kincardine business men at their spring banquet. "I have little sympathy with anyone who buys stock without in- vestigating," he declared. "The majority of people will buy stock on a tip and very rarely will in- vestigate. If they did, it would gfreatly benefit the country." He warned against considering penny stocks as an investment and pointed out they were only a gam- ble. Tragedy Strikes Church i'our men plunged to their deaths as they rode an elevator down the 300-foot shaft of the dome that crowns Brother .\ndre's $1,000,000 shrine. Si. J >s<?ph's Oratory, Montreal. Thtj men fell to their deailis when beam, sup- porting the hoist, shi led, plung- ing the men nearly 60 feet. The black !aic, .ABOVE, shows where the elevator fell to the church's i:iBin floor. One of the victims pi'.riKed through the floor of the I'oist and again throuRh the wood- en flooring of the church, as in- dicated by the broken line.