OBJECT OF EDUCATION.
The doctrine has been held
that the mind of the child is
like a sheet of white paper, on
which by education we can
write what characters = Wwe
please. This doctrine assuredly
needs qualification and correc-
tion. He comes to us as a bun-
dle of inherited capacities and
tendencies, labeled “from the
{indefinite past to the indefinite’
future,” and he makes his tran-
* git from the one to the other
through the education of the
‘present time. The object of that
education is, or ought to be, to
8 provide wise exercise for his ca-
pacities, wise direction for his
, tendencies and through this ex-
ercise and this direction to fur-
% nish his mind with such knowl-
. edge as may contribute to the
usefulness, the beauty and the
nobleness of his life—John
1L
A BIRTHDAY.
My heart is like a singing bird,
Whose nest is in a waterd
shoot;
My heart is like an apple tree,
Whose boughs are bent with
thick set fruit;
My. heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all
these
Because my love is come to
me.
Raise me a dais of silk and
. down;
Hang it with vair and purple
dyes;
Carve it in doves and pome-
grangtes,
And peacocks with a hundred
eyes;
Work it in gold and silver
grapes,
In leaves and silver fleur-de-
lys
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to
me.
—Christina G. Rossetti.
@alel’s Conhiersion
By HAZEL OSWALD
T WAS Christmas eve, and
Caleb Churton, the money-
d lender, sat in his great din-
ing room, surrounded by all that
‘makes for luxurious living. :
“go Jack preferred his artist’s work
ito this,” he mused, chuckling con-
{temptuously while he half spoke the
{words.
Ten years before, his elder brother
had told their father that he was not
cut out for a Shylock, that he pre-
ferred to get a living by pleasanter
means than his fellow beings’ flesh
‘and blood, and had gone out into the
world cursed by the father and
laughed at by his brother.
It ‘was three years later—and 12
months after he had announced his
marriage to a fellow artist's daughter
‘—that old Churton died, leaving all
the business to Caleb, and not men-
‘tioning Jack Churton by so much as
‘a single word in his will.
To do him justice, Caleb had re-
‘belled against this as much as he
‘could, but he had found out that his
‘brother was able to keep his head
‘above water, and, after offering him
SENTENCE SERMONS.
The present is the living sum
total of the whole past.—Car-
lyle.
The remedy is worse than the
disease.—Dryden.
From little spark may burst a
mighty flame.—Dante.
God giveth quietness at last.—
‘Whittier.
Beneath me flows the Rhine,
and like the stream of time it
flows amid the ruins of the past.
—Longfellow.
Kings will be tyrants from
policy, when subjects are rebels
from principle.—Burke.
a share—only to be indignantly re-
fused—Caleb applied himself to the
task of doubling his father's wealth.
All these things went through his
brain as he sat by his fire. Of a sud-
den a thought struck him.
; «“f will go and parade my wealth
before them—will make the wife bit-
terly envious and Jack sorry that he
ever refused me!”
With this amiable intention he rose,
ordered his automobile to be brought
out, and was soon Whirling toward
Jack’s home.
Stiddenly the auto stopped, and he
got out, telling the chauffeur to re-
turn in an hour, not longer.
“12 T am finished before, I can spend
the time somehow,” he thought.
Up the steps of the great apartment
he went until he came to a door la-
beled 42. Then he knocked, and get-
ting no answer, entered very quietly,
finding the door not locked.
He looked round the tiny hall. and
then stepped into the first room.
“Are you Santa Claus?”
boys and girls must be encouraged to |
take part. With old and young work-
should, a real community effort,
cided success, for the interest is already
THE COUNTY FAIR.
How to Make It a Vital and Helpful
institution.
C. P. Norgard, superintendent Wis-
consin farmers’ institutes.]
To make a county fair the vital,
helpful institution that it may be the
|
ing together the fair becomes, as it
Nor is it hard to get young people to
help in making their local fair a de-
there. No event of the year, except
perhaps the circus and Fourth of July
celebration, holds such a thrill for the
average boy or girl as does the annual
county fair.
| in suffering the inexplicable humors of
CALLER WAS TOO ‘POMPOUS
Excess Peevishness Over the Tele
phone Caused One Woman Trou-
blesome Mistake.
= | SUNDAYSCHOOL
Here is a significant little story I
tell you for future guidance, sO that
you may realize that you are not alone
the telephone service. A very busy
man I know was trying hard to tele
phone from a big hotel the other day.
Of course he couldn’t get the number
he wanted for a long time, and when
at last he did get through the tele:
phone, humorists promptly connected
an incoming call with his line.
Then followed the usual “Please get
off the line” dialogue, but my friend
(By E. 0. SELLERS, Acting Director of
To prove this look back into your
own youth and recall with what tense
excitement and image filled brain you
went to bed the night before the fair.
Remember how you arose earlier than
found that the incoming caller was a
very pompous lady who wouldn’t give
way. “I won't get off the line, I won't
ring off,” she said peevishly. “You're
the ‘Metroritz’ aren’t you? Then take
usual, by an hour or more, to get'in | this message at once,” My friend was
the cows and rush through the chores. | helpless. It was of the greatest ime
See the family packed into the spring | portance that he should get back to his
wagon as it rattled down the frost | original call, so he let the peevish lady
coated lane and hear the merry shouts | talk.
and good natured 'jests as you meet She dictated an order for a special
friends and neighbors along the way. | dinner for 12 guests that night. She
Feel again the thrills of expectation | gpecialized the table, ordered about
as you near the tall board fences of | two hundred and fifty dollars’ worth
the fair grounds and hear the alluring | of flowers to decorate it, insisted on
strains of the merry-go-round Organs | certain waiters attending, and finished
and the metallic drone of the hawkers. | yp by sharply reprimanding the man
It was surely a big day, and if you | gt the hotel end for negligence and
had some choice ears of corn or a fine impertinence. Then she rang off. My
ewe that was to compete for a prize | friend got through again to his office.
you were doubly interested and excited. | Now, what he wants to know, and what
Teachers and county superintendents 1 want to know, is what the pompous
do much to interest the boys and girls | j3dy said when she arrived at the
in the importunt features of the fairs. | «\etroritz” that night and asked for
Oftentimes they arrange for the eX- | per table —London Mirror.
hibition of the handicraft of their
pupils and provide for speliing matches
and other forms of scholastic com- HAD CAUSE FOR INDIGNATION
Protest of Chinese Over Proposed
“Exhibition” in England Seems to
|
petition. |
Have Been Justified.
The social side of the fair is one
that is too important to be overlooked |
and one that ought to be strengthened
in every possible way. In many com-
munities the fair is the one medium
The Chinese Review, a highly inter
esting London publication edited by
by Whies Frmers 2) hele fon ice two Chinamen, makes the following
meet friends e comment on the bigoted attitude ex-
acquaintances among people living in
other parts of the county. People meet Bibliot the West against everything
at the fair who seldom see each other “In the year of grace 1912. tho. Roms
Chroughout the ret of the year Thi | arable and. high miaded promoters of
friendships and to meet: strangers, of the Anglo-Japanese exhibition decided
ps et, strangers, of | 1, 534 a touch of Chinese color to the
course, is a splendid ‘thing. A Wide . 4 gigplay at Shepherd's Bush. A
acquaintance is a broadening factor in ‘ .
scheme was forthwith proposed, and
the life of any person, and the farmer ide
needs such an influence as much as any widely advertised in the press, to in-
bar hie 1a0a picnic am. Tals typical opium den within the
Bers on the groun a8 township aha exhibition grounds, and attempts were
school district receptions (the people made to hire Chinese sailors from the
East end to play the part of opium sots
of one district inviting those of another and exhibit to the West, in realistic
to a basket lunch) and various kinds
~ detail, all the disgusting particulars
of get together meetings should be en associated with opium STUER.
coutaged. “Suppose the tables be turned. Im-
TRUE PRAYER.
Many a man prays with his
whole being, feels himself thrill-
ed with the divine currents and
going out in inspiration after
the eternal, and yet finds words
forsake him when he attempts
to put his devotion into speech.
And yet is not this true prayer?
For how can you translate as-
piration into speech ?—W. D. Lit-
tle.
. LIFE'S CHECKS.
‘ft cannot have escaped the
notice of any one who has had
much experience that human
life is a system of cunningly
devised checks and counter-
checks. This is easily seen’ in
considering physical things—
such, for instance, as the hu-
man body. One of these bodies
has ‘a particular disorder. You
could cure it by a certain rem-
edy if that remedy could be
continued far emough. But it
cannot, as it would produce an-
other disorder. The same law
holds good throughout life; and
sometimes, when there is an ap-
pearance of the power of free
movement in many directions,
there is in reality a check to
movement in every one.—Sir
Arthur Helps.
SWEETEST FLOWER THAT
- BLOWS.
The sweetest flow’r that blows
1 give you as we part.
For you it is a rose,
For me it is my heart.
For you it is a rose,
For me it is 1ny heart.
The fragrance it exhales.
Ah! If you only knew,
Which but in dying falls;
It is my love for you.
The sweetest flow's that blows
I give you as we part.
For you it is a rose,
For me it is my hearts
For you it is & Tose.
For me it is my heark..,
—Charles B. Raw Se
>
amen
The timid little query stopped him
in his wanderings, and he looked
down to his feet to see a sunny-
haired, blue-eyed little mite gravely
regarding him. :
“But no, you can’t be Santa Claus,
for he's ever so old, and has got a
white beard and a long coat, and a
big bag full of toys, and comes down
the chimney, and doesn’t come till
after I've gone to bed, and—and—"
She paused in her list of details for
| want of breath, and, the first time for
many years, Churton laughed heartily.
“You queer little mite,” he said, “I'm
not Santy. Who are you,”
“Im Gladys Churton, and I'm not
queer. I'm very well, thank you.” -
“So you are Gladys,” he said.
“Where are your father and mother
“They've gone out to buy some
things for me, and they told me to be
ever so good. They will be back soon.”
Churton looked around him. It was
go pleasant, so happy, evidently, and
the home he had left seemed to lack
a great deal. He sighed.
“What's the matter, strange man?”
“Nothing, dear.”
“But there must be something. I
always go like that when I want a
doll, and mamma won't buy it for me.
Is your little girl naughty?”
“I haven’t got a little girl.”
“Poor strange man!” with a cloud-
ing of her sunny face. Then, sudden-
ly, “lock out, here come mamma and
dad! Let’s hide.”
“All right, dear; tell me where.”
Hastily she drew him behind a cur-
tain, and followed.
“Where's my girlie?” in a clear,
happy voice.
THe mite ran out and struggled in
her mother’s arms.
«you don’t know who else is here,”
she said importantly. “There's a
strange man, and—poor dear!—he
hasn't got a little girl, and he isn’t
happy.”
She ran back to the curtain and
dragged out a somewhat dusty, shame-
faced individual. i
«I came to see you—felt a bit lone-
'ly— Hang it all! Jack, I want a
taste of home life, and escape from
the eternal accounts. No,” as the
clear, blue eyes of the baby were fixed
on him, “that’s a lie. I came here
to show off my wealth, and to make
you envious; but your little ray of
sunshine here took the conceit out of
me. Hang it, man, take me in, for
pity’s sake, and let me be human this
Christmas-tide. The money can go. I
must stay here.”
When Churton’s man came back, he
be home for some days.
BAO TORE
ER ———
master would not
i dged |
The worth of a county fair is judged , agine the promoters of a Chinese ex-
by the number of exhibitors. It can
hibition proposing to represent Great
nles
never be of great infiyence unless a Britain by setting up the model of a °
large percentage of the people within
low-class drinking shop, and engaging
i h
the county are Interested In its growt Britishers to act the role of besotted
v 0 hould
and improvement. Every one Sion drunkards. In place of the mild pro-
2 1, 1pf!
Iolr Douome a real, vital, helpful in | Great Britain would probably have
: ‘sent a fleet of warships to demand
reparation for the national insult.”
GOOD RETURNS FROM SHEEP. | In the whole range of China's past
em— ' and present, asks this Chinese editor,
is there nothing worthy of notice and
| representation except an opium den?
Every Farmer With Forty Acres le
Advised to Keep a Flock.
“Keep all the sheep your spare pas-
ture will support,” says a contributor He Agreed Unanimously.
to Farm and Fireside. “And for sheen | Senator Simmons, of North Caro-
pasture you can count every Nook. | yn, tells this story of a lynching:
fence corner and brier thicket where | mpg festivities Be at fhofr ) oe
no other stock will do any good. Sheep 5G the object of the mobls venge-
can be relied on not only to help clean | nce was hanging to the limb of a tree
up the farm, but to gather up young | with & fire built under him. The
weeds, briers, fence corner grass and | jegder of the mob detected an ancient
thistles and actually turn them into | negro hidden in the nearby bushes
your bank account or your pocketbook. | ong dragged him out. The trembling
And when I say this 1 am speaking | captive was brought close enough
from real experience. On our farm We | {; gee the gruesome sight, and the
have thirty-five ewes. We alvsys win: leader of the mob asked:
ter that many. Then we keep a thor “ ‘Now, nigger, you-all see tha
oughbred buck. We breed so that our | yja0x man en’ there? :
lambs come in March, «‘Oh, yas, sah, 'deed I do, sahl’
«A year ago last fall our sheep money | cried the negro.
was $206. This we could almost call “‘An’ you-all know why we done
clear gain; at least it was almost self | (1512 queried the leader.
“‘Oh, yas, sah,’ said the colored
man. ‘
«He got just what he deserved
ih | didn’t he? :
« Boss,’ replied the old negro,
| ‘pears to me, sah, dat he got oft
;{ mighty light.’ "—Illustrated Sunday
4 Magazine.
Ozokerite in America.
‘l One of the products of petroleum
that has been exported by the United
States to a value of between $9,000,000
and. $10,000,000 during the last three
made money, made while we slept and your 8 is paraffin was, In Spite o these
while we were busy doing other werk arge exports, natural mineral wax
on the farm. | (ozokerite) is imported, for the reason
«Later in the season When We ! that its melting point is very high, and
thought the pasket Fufted us Fe hag : although the parame Dat fom pe
thirty-five nice lambs to se e : g
money we got for them was made from melting point, the process is difficult
material which would otherwise have and costly. Ozokerite occurs in con-
gone to waste, and it was made almost siderable} Pada = Yisn » fue
without any effort or cost on our part. region oO oldiers Summit, an as
Then the ewes and ram, in the wool been produced there, but the cost of
crop, will just about even up with you extracting it from low-grade material,
every year for their keeping. So we together with the cost of transporta-
have come to call the sheep money the tion to the market, which is chiefly in
easiest clear money on the farm. the eastern states, has made it pos-
“Hvery farmer with forty acres or gible for the foreign material, which
more should always have some sheep. - COmes from ‘Galicia, to compete with it
Go at it according to the capacity of successfully. The domestic ozokerite
your fence corners and other little should now replace the fgreign ma-
pooks and places of nipping for keep- terial —Bulletin 599, United States
ing them without special feeding.” | Geological Survey.
SHEEP MAKE EASY MONEY.
School of Porpolses Stranded.
A rare phenomenon is now to be
observed in Loch Ness, Scotland,
where a school of porpoises have got
enclosed. They entered from the Mo-
ray Firth, when the River Ness was
in high flood, and now that the river
is almost unprecedentedly low, even
a baby porpoise would find it hard to
pass the shallow atvetohe while the
adults wo”
-
Lime Is Essential.
The need of lime in the laying and |
breeding stock ration is very im-
portant In ope dozen ordinary sized
eggs there are nearly four ounces of
lime This element is best supplied
by giving cracked oyster shell in hop-
pers Skimmilk also provides life to
a certain extent in palatable form, and
falfa 1 satisfactory
ing lover are
g lime.
—
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| chief captain (4:2) though it seems
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| best and most famous battlefields, Hs-
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INTERNATIONAL
LESSON
Sunday School Course.)
LESSON FOR JANUARY 10
DEBORAH AND BARAK DELIVER
ISRAEL. : :
LESSON TEXT—Judges 4:4-16.
GOLDEN TEXT-The righteous cried,
and Jehovah heard and delivered them
out of all their troubles.—Ps. 84:17 R,
There are two inspired accounts of
this victory, one in prose (ch. 4) and
one in poetry (Judges 5). They pre-
sent different views of the Salus
event. Israel had been oppressed for
20 years under Jabin and Sisera, his
to have been that the northern tribes
of Naphtali, Asher and Zebulun, the
Galilee of Christ's day, were chiefly
concerned.
Mother in Israel. :
1. Deborah's Call to Service, vv. 49.
As the people forsook God he forsook
them, and they became easy prey. In
we withdraw from his service we also
withdraw from his protection. Al-
though Joshua had burned Hazor
(Joshua 11:1-11), yet because of Is-
rael’s backsliding it is now strong
enough to become the ruler. It is so:
with sin—allow it to exist and it will
conquer. When, however, Israel re-
pented and cried unto God (v. 3) he
raised up a deliverer and in this case
it was a “mother in Israel” (ch. 5:7).
The word Deborah means “bee,” and
it is suggested that “she answered
her name by her industry, sagacity
and usefulness to the public, her
sweetness to her friends and sharp-
ness to her enemies” (Matthew Hen-
ry). Her husband's: name is given,
but none of hiswachievements. From
her dwelling place at Jebus, as she
sat beneath a palm tree she gave forth
her wisdom and judgment to the peo-
ple who brought their diffiet ties be-
fore her (Ex. 18:13; Deut. 17:82).
Judgment of sin always ‘precedes any
manifestation of grace (I Cor. 11:81,
82). Deborah, the judge, recognized
the gravity of the situation, for she:
was not only a judge, but a prophetess
by divine appointment (IT Pet. 1:21).
When she called Barak at once recog:
nized her note of authority. (v. 6).
Deborah gave Barak explicit instrue-
tion and direction. In this chapter
only the two tribes most interested
are mentioned (5:17, 18).
Bold, Sagacious Leader.
11. Barak’s Conquest. of Sisera, VV.
10-16. Barak was a bold, sagacious
leader and chose one of the world’s
draclon. Barak led his men to Mt.
Tabor, from which could be seen the
whole region where Sisera’s armies
were spread out upon the plain. From
chapter 5 it appears that some came
to the battle from the tribes of
Manasseh and Issachar (5:14, 15) and
_ that others were expected who failed
to obey the summons (5:15, 17). From
the slopes of Mt. Tabor, Deborah and
Barak saw Sisera and his iron char-
{ots advancing across the plain. One
of the descendants of Hobab, Moses’
brother-in-law (Num. 24:22 R. V. m,,
and Judges 1:16) had revealed the
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should have been in the land of Judah
and Simeon and not in such close
proximity to the enemies of Israel.
Josephus says that when Barak saw
Sisera’s army drawn up, and attempt-
ing to surround the mountain of his
encampment his heart failed him, and
he determined to retire to a place of
greater safety. Deborah, however,
urged Barak to attempt the battle,
“gor this is the day in which the Lord
hath delivered Sisera - into thine
hand.” The thing was as sure to be
done as if it were done already. As
we read verses 11 and 12, together
Sa. 5:17-19, it would look as though
5 seemed to have the advantage
(finst Barak and his ten thousand
“Hen. Sisera did not, however, count
upon Barak's powerful ally—God. “Is
not Jehovah gone out before them?”
Deborah had enthusiasm and zeal, but
needed Barak's action. She depended
upon the sure word of God and was
devoid of fear (Rom. 8:31). She knew
that victory was certain, for God had
gald so (v. 7). Her charge, “Up,
Barak!” was:a clarion call ind:served;
to nerve the entire army of Israek
Verse 15 tells us who it was that won
the battle that day (see also 5:20, 21;
Josh. 10:10; T Chron. 15:16-17). Even
the stars fought against Sisera, mean-
ing that God turned the elements to the
advantage of Israel's army. Showers
of meteors have been recorded in this
land in recent times and 5:21 tellg'of
the floods of water that “swept away,”
overthrew, the chariots of Sisera. The
word “discomfited,” we are told,
scarcely ;uggests the sudden terror
and confusion which fell upon Sisera’s
army. Like all of God's victories, it
was most complete.
A bravo, outraged woman executed
a sentence which some male member
of her fami'y would certainly have
been bound to carry out. {
The “curse of Meroz” (5:23) is that
bestowed upon th: shirker, the cows
ardly and idle. It is the curse of use:
lessness, the causes of which are
cowardice, false humility and indo-
lence. The work of the Avenger is a
necessity. |
Evil stalks the world on the way to
i execution; though wrong reigns, iti
must and will lead through the power
of the highest to Christ's glory (Eph.
6:12, Rom. 8:37-39). i
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