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IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
Sunday School
T Lesson T
(By RKV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D, |
T< teller of English Bible in the Moody ;
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
«£>. 1921. Western Newspaper Union.)
LESSON FOR OCTOBER 9
PAUL AT EPHESUS.
LEB9ON TEXT—AcU 19:1-11.
OOI.IJEN TEXT Thou sluilt worship |
the Lord they God, and him only shalt
thou serve.- Matt 1:10.
KEI'EItENGE MATEItIAE Hev. 2:1-7.
J'KIMAKY TOPIC Paula Loving
Friend and Minister.
JUNIOR. TOPIC- Paul and tlie Rllver
srnltlis.
IN PEItMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC
—I- .-.perlence In Ephesus.
YOUNG PEOPI.E AND ADUI.T TOPIC
—1 hifiling the Gospel In a Center of i’li
sanlsm.
I. John's Di6ciplts Become Chris
tians (vv. 1-7).
'Thc.e twelve disciples hntl only
been taught the baptism of repent
arc c :,s a preparation for the kingdom
of God. Paul taught them to believe
In Christ, that is, to receive Him as
the One who bail on the cross pro
vid'd redemption for them.
11. Paul Preaching in Ephesus
(vv. 8-10).
1. In the Jewish synagogue (v. 8).
His mes re Is characterised by: (1)
boldiic-s. He realized Hint God bad
sent Him and that His authority was
back of Him. (2) Henson. He rea
soned with them. God’s message Is
tuner sentimental nor arbitrary, but
In accord with the highest reason. (8)
I’er ainslon. It Is not enough to come
boldly with a reasonable message; it
must lie accompanied by persuasion.
(4) Concerning the kingdom of God.
He did not discourse on current
events, literature, or philosophy, hut
upon the message of salvation through
Christ.
2. In the schoolhouse of T.vrunnus
(vv. 9, H>). Paul’s earnest preach
ing only hardened the Jews. When
they came out and spoke openly
against lids way of salvation in
Christ, Paul separated the disciples
from them and retired to the school
house of Tyrmmus.
HI. God Working Miracles by Paul
(vv. 11-10).
No wonderfully did he manifest His
power that handkerchiefs and aprons
brought from Paul’s body healed the
sick and cast out evil spirits from
those whose lives had been made
wretched by them.
“IV. A Glorious Awakening (vv. 17-
41).
1 Pear fell upon all (v. 17). News
of the easting out of these evil spirits
created Impressions favorable to
Christianity.
2. It brought to the front those who
professed faith in Christ while not
living right lives (v. 18). They be
lieved, but bad not broken from sin.
a. Guve up the practice of black
urts (v. ID). This means forms of
jugglery by use of charms and magi
cal words. All such are in opposi
tion to the will of God; therefore no
one can have fellowship with God and
practice them. They proved the gen
uineness of their actions by publicly
hunting their books. Though this
was an expensive thing—valued at
about #l2,odd they did not try to sell
the books and get their money back.
When you find you have been In a
wrong business, make a clean sweep
of things; burn up your books on
Spiritualism, Christian Science, etc.;
empty your whisky and beer Into the
sew or, and have a tobacco party siiu
liar to the Boston tea party.
4. Uproar of the Silversmiths at
Kphesus (vv. 22-41). (1) The occa
sion (vv. 28, 24). This was the pow
er of the gospel In destroying the
Infamous business of Demetrius and
Ids fellows. It was clear to them that
Idolatry was tottering before the pow
er of the gospel. They were not In
terested particularly In the matter
from a religious standpoint, but be
cause It was undermining the princi
pal business id’ the city. (2) The j
method (vv. 25-2 D). Demetrius, a j
leading business man, whose business
was tin- stay of others of a similar
nature, called a meeting and stated
that much people had turned from
Idolatry and that the market for their
wares was materially weakening. He
appealed to Ids fellows (a) on the
ground of business, saying "This, our
craft. Is in danger of being set at
naught." tv. 27). (b) On the ground |
of religious prejudice, lie said “The j
temple of the great goddess Diana j
should he despised” (v. 27). lie he- j
came unite religious when he saw that i
his business was being Interfered
with, llis speech gained bis end; the j
whole crowd was enraged and veiled j
In unison, "Great Is Diana of the
Ephesians ” The mob was quieted by ;
the tact and good Judgment of the '
town clerk.
The Fall of Jerusalem.
And Nebuchadnezzar, king of !
Ilabylun. came against the city, and
his servants did besiege It. And he j
carried away all Jerusalem, and all !
the princes, and all the mighty men ,
of valor, e\eu ten thousand captives.—
H Kings, 24:11 and 14.
The Day of Reckoning.
And they consider not In their hearts
that I remember all their wickedness;
now their own doings have beset them
about; they are before uiy face. —
Lloscu, 7 .2
•ROAD•
BUILDING
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FEDERAL COMMISSION URGED
Highway Question Concerns Agricul.
ture, Commerce, Military and
Social Necd6.
“National development and the need
I for economy demand the forma, on of
j u highway policy under a federal cotn
| mission,” said George M. Graham,
: member of the highways committee,
National Automobile Chamber of Com
merce, speaking before the senate
committee on post offices and post
roads.
"The economic barrier now con
fronting us is the luck of adequate
highways. There Is urgent need to
build these highways as quickly as
possible, and with the maximum
l economy.
“Highways should be planned with
consideration of their relationship to
railway and waterway communication.
The highway question concerns agri
culture, commerce, the military and
the social needs of the nation. The
roads program is national In scope
and is related to all departments of
the government.
"Highway policy, therefore," Gra
ham continued, “should be unified un
der a federal highway commission di
rectly responsible to the chief execu
tive, as is now the policy in state road
administration.
“Economy will he served by such a
measure as roads will be with regard
to all the needs of the nation. It will
be possible to pay higher salaries than
can now be done under the bureau
system. Millions of dollars are to be
expended on roads, and it Is the high
est economy to secure the ablest
brains in the country for the adminis
tratlon of these funds.
"Selection of roads of primary In
terstate importance and concentration
of federal funds in conjunction with
state funds on these roods is the first
step needed. States should be required
to meet the federal aid ns states rath
er than passing their responsibilities
along to counties sis many slates do
now. In this way, it will he possible
to have state policies correlated with
the national program. The counties
will benefit from the general inter
state highway system, and the funds
which the counties formerly Used in
conjunction with federal aid can he
devoted to more specifically local pur
poses.
“Maintenance should be provided
fur h.v tlie states in all cases,” Graham
emphasized, “In order that ns the pub
lic highways are developed they may
Patrolman Patching State Road.
he depended upon as permanent ave
nues of communication, in order that
the original public Investment be pro
tected.
“States which have been sufficiently
progressive to build their share of
federal aid are now In a position to
develop secondary systems, and are
therefore that much ahead in economic
development.
“A wise highway policy will con
struct and maintain roads through gov
ernment forest reservations from fed
eral funds, without calling upon the
j treasuries in the states wherein these
are located. Wherever a state con
tains large areas of federal lands due
modification should be made of the
present 60-50 expenditure of federal
and state funds.”
WOMAN AS ROAD CONTRACTOR
-———■
Manitoba Municipality Awards Con
tract to Elizabeth McCoy to
Build Highway.
Elizabeth Ann McCoy of Pipestone.
Manitoba, has the distinction of being
| the first woman in the province to be
awarded a contract In construction of
roads. She recently secured a con-
I tract from the good roads board for
road building in the Pipestone liiunicl
j polity.
IS LONGEST PAVED HIGHWAY
Possible for Motorist to Travel From
Atlantic to Mississippi on
Hard Surface.
From the Atlantic const to the Mis
sissippi river on paved reads’ This
may sound like a motorist's dream,
but It will be actually possible to make
such a trip this fall. The last stretch
of the national pike in Illinois will be
completed then. Never before has
such a long paved road been possible
In this country.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR vt. VERNON, GEORGIA.
I AFFECTED BY EXCHANGE RATE
«Vhat Might Be Called Celestial Cur.
rency Can Be Purchased for
Little Cash in China.
Even In the higher realms are the j
problems of exchange in these troub- i
lons of reconstruction. When .
good Chinese are gathered te their fa- !
tliers, it is incumbent upon their cliil- j
dren to see to it that the departed
ancestors have some treasure lu
heaven as spending money. It is
believed that if their purses are not
supplied that nil kinds of bad luck
will come upon those whom they have
left behind on this mundane sphere.
To wander cashless around the
walls of the world beyond our ken
.»ust not be the portion of any good
celestial who lias brought up his chil- i
dren in the way they should have gone. !
There is nothing simpler than the I
method of making the transfer from
this to the great beyond, observes the
New York Sun. The dutiful son goes
to a store and buys such paper money,
specially printed for spirit consump
tion, as he can afford. A returned mis
sionary who recently addressed the
old Dutch Reformed church at Tap
pan, N. Y\, went into one of those es
tablishments In China where spirit
money might be had, and asked how
much exchange might he at the pres
ent time and how much was really
necessary to the comfort of one’s
grandfather.
“About #IO,OOO velly good,” came the
response from the dealer. "Then #I,OOO
makes plenty good cash.”
“It seems to me that it must keep
the people poor to buy so much,” sug
gested the missionary. “Very expen
sive—very.”
“Ancestors need much cash,” the
dealer answered. “Take so much —
burn Dim up—#lo,ooo.”
“It does seem u great deal," moral
ized the inquirer. “Ear too great a
burden. How much in American
money?”
The merchant of lucre fingered long
and thoughtfully on his counting ma
chine —or abncuss-wliich may be seen
on every shop, counter, and then
passed over a huge sheaf of red paper
slips.
"Cachein for four cents,” was the
dual calculation.
The World's Largest Watch.
History records the making of some
huge timepieces, like the turret clocks
of old, with hands ten feet long and
with u hell which could he heard twen
ty miles away. Hut it remained for
the experts of our own day and gen
eration to produce the biggest watch
known to the science of horology.
The giant timekeeper, which cost
#5,000, recently was exhibited ut tlie
National museum in Washington.
Great crowds flocked to see Hie details
of construction and observe the me
chanical action of tlie object which is
the guardian of man’s habits and tlie
critic of liis wasted moments.
The big fellow is 9Vs inches in di
ameter and lVs indies thick or six
times as large as tlie standard watch.
It is said that the average time re
quired to build a good watch is nine
months, and that it often takes a full
year. It lids lie so, one can lie led to
fanciful speculation as to how long
it took to make the various parts of
tlie mammoth watch and to assemble
and test them, for this interesting spec
imen is complete and perfect in every
detail. I’ivots, staffs, balance, hair
spring—everything, in fact, is exact
ly like tlie watch which you carry
around in your vest pocket. —Scientific
American.
Plenty of Fish.
Now that we are hearing so much
of tlie rapidly approaching eud of the
earth’s coal supply, the earth’s oil sup
ply and various other supplies, it is
comforting to realize that at least- one
of tlie greatest food factors is safe —
fish.
Even the intensive fishing that was
carried on around Britain's coasts in
prewar days made no impression on
tlie ocean’s boundless store. Some
years ago the board of agriculture, ns
they call the authorities that look after
the fishing interests of the old country,
tested the extent of the fishing opera
tions in the North sea. Bottles were
set adrift and it was found that over
half of them were captured. Marked
fish were next tried and gave almost a
similar result. This seemed to indicate
a rather poor outlook for the fish, but
such is the productive capacity of the
female fish there is no danger of even
such vigorous fishing having any seri
ous effect.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Cows for Doorkeepers.
Campaigners in Calcutta challenge
(he well-known soliciting teams in this
country for as unique an obstacle to
subscriptions as cows.
Getting h.v the switchboard operator
and the secretary are well-known diffi
culties encountered in these United
States, but Calcutta declares “I jun j
sure that none of you have to step over !
cows lying at the front door when you I
visit the office of a commercial firm." 1
This is an extract from the report of
the Y. \V. C. A. campaign In Calcutta,
which was successful.
in the campaign for the Belgium Y.
VV. C. A. ten teams raised 192,248
francs, which was more than their
goal by a thousand francs. Tientsin
(China) Y. \V. C. A., actively helping
in the famine district, secured their
yearly budget of ST,OOO. The .Czecho
slovkia association is working on plans
for a Y. \V. C. A. building campaign
in 1922.
Need C-anking Up.
First Citizen —You can’t stop a man
from thinking!
Second Ditto—No, but the difficulty
is to start him’
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| Stories of
Great Scouts
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
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(©. 1921, Western Newspaper Union.)
ROCKY MOUNTAIN TOM AND
THE “BLOODY ESPINOZAS”
j ——
Bad; in the sixties in the Colorado
gold camps around Pike’s Peak the
warning “The Bloody Espinozas are
coining!” struck more terror to the
hearts of the miners than the dread 1
cry of “Indians! Indians!” The
! Bloody Espinozas were two Mexicans,
j brothers. The older, Juan Espinoza,
believed that lie had a special mission
to kill all Americans. lie ambushed
them in the daytime and crept upon .
them at night. His record of murders
is said to have totaled 32.
In i 863 lie killed two well-known
prospectors of California Gulch, near
Leadville. Their comrades vowed
vengeance on the Espinozas, and after
a long chase and a hard battle, they
killed the youngest brother. Juan es
caped and the next year he was back
in his old haunts in the Sangre de
Cristo mountains robbing stage
conches and wagon trains and mur
dering settlers and miners. He took
his nephew with him on these raids,
an/1 they grew so hold that a reward
of .sl.odO was offered for their capture,
dead or alive.
At this time there was living at
Fort Garland a little Irishman called
Rocky Mountain Tom. Tom Tobin
was his real name, and he was a close
friend of Kit Carson. He was one of
the best mountain trailers.
When the report of the Espinozas'
latest murder was brought to the fort
Tobin Immediately volunteered to go
after the bandits. Setting out alone,
he took tlielr trail and stuck with it,
although it led into the wildest parts
of the Sangre de Cristos. Late one
evening he saw from a distance two
men encamped under the shelter of
a shelving rock above a little stream.
Stalking the two bandits as he
would wild animals, the scout crept
closer and closer. He knew they could
not be taken alive, and he dared not |
take the chance of missing his first j
shot. The Mexicans were crouched
over a tiny flame warming their hands, |
but in the dim light they offered a poor j
target even for so good a marksman i
as Itocky Mountain Tom.
At last Juan Espinoza rose. He i
stretched both arms wide, forming with
his body a prefect cross and present- j
ing a target which loomed up plainly !
against the background of a sky aglow j
with the sunset. Tobin fired instantly I
and the Mexican murderer fell dead j
across his camp tire. The nephew j
scrambled to ids feet. The scout fired J
again, and tlie last of the Espinozas j
dropped dead.
A few days later Tobin walked into
Fort Garland, carrying a sack, and de
manded a reward of $1,500. The sack j
contained the heads of the Bloody Es- j
pinozas.
HOW CODY GOT NICKNAME OF
“BUFFALO BILL”
When the Kansas Pacific railroad J
was being built through Kansas in
1867-68 it was necessary to provid*
food for an army of more than 1 r <u
track-layers. A source of supply was |
near at hand —vast herds of buffalo—
and men were hired to do nothing else
but kill these animals for food. One
of the best-known of the hunters was j
William Frederick Cody, a young fron- I
tiersman who had been a pony express |
rider and guide for General Custer.
The work was dangerous, for the In- ;
dians did all they could to stop prog
ress on the railroad. They especially |
hated these hunters who killed more j
buffalo in one day than they destroyed |
in a week, and Cody took his life in j
his hands every time he went out. He i
soon became such an expert hunter
that the railroad men gave him the
nickname of “Buffalo Bill.”
During Cody’s career as a buffalo
hunter, a period of IS months, lie
killed a total of 4,280 bisou. His
greatest exploit was his victory over
Billy Comstock, a scout and rival j
hunter. The match was arranged by
officers of Fort Wallace to decide
which of the two men was the great- I
est slayer of bison. They were "to
limit one day of eight hours, and the
man who killed the greatest number
of the animals was to be declared the '
champion buffalo hunter.
A herd was found ami separated
into two hunches. Cody Immediately
began riding at the head of his bunch, ■
shooting the loaders and crowding the j
followers in toward the center of an
ever-narrowing circle. In a short time j
he had killed 3S. all of whom lay dead !
over a small area. Comstock had be
j gun shooting at the rear of his herd ;
i and. although he killed 23, they were
| scattered over a distance of three
! miles. Two more herds were found,
| and when the final count was made,
’ Cody had GO and Comstock 46.
Later Cody became a famous scout
| and guide. lie served with General
j Custer in Kansas and General Carr in j
I Colorado. Cody was known as “Pa- :
haska —Long Hair" by the Sioux, who :
had great respect for his prowess.
After the Indian wars ended Buffalo '
Bill organized his Wild West show, |
which added to his fame not only fu
America, hut in Europe as well. After I
seventy-two years of life crowded with
adventure, he died January 10. 1917.
He Is buried on Lookout Mounta'n
near Denver Colorado.
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Contributor —“You sit on every joke
I write.” Editor —“Well, I wouldn’t
if there was any point to them.”
Some have a hard time picking out
a car to heaven because the lower
berths all seem to he taken.
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you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by
physicians over 21 years and proved safe by millions for
Colds Headache Rheumatism
Toothache Neuralgia Neuritis
Earache Lumbago Pain, Pain
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LENIN NOT RUSSIAN CHIEF
Bolshevik Exponent Is Premier, Michael
Kalinin Being President of Central
Executive Committee.
Most Americans believe that Nikolai
! Lenin is president of Russia, Whereas
1 lie holds an office which corresponds
t to that of the British premier. Michael
| Kalinin, a peasant, for more than two
j years has been president of the All-
Russian Central Executive committee.
, His position is only about as politically
powerful as that of the French presi
| dent, and, whereas the French execu
j tive’s position is mostly social, the
j Russian president is mediator, chaip
j pion and political adviser of the
peasant masses of Russia.
Kalinin’s office in Moscow is not
in the Kremlin, but in an ordinary
I office building in the heart of the
city. It is the one place in Russia
where no “papers” are demanded
when one enters and no guards stand
about the doors.
To Fit the Crime.
Mrs. Youngbrlde—We hadn’t been
i married a week, your honor, before he
hit me with a piece of sponge cake.
Judge—Disorderly conduct. Ten dol
| lars and costs.
Mrs. Youngbrlde—And I’d made the
cake with my own hands.
Judge —Assault with a deadly
weapon. One year. i
Whose fault is it when your
husband is cross at
breakfast?
If you hit your thumb
with a hammer you
wouldn't blame your
thumb for hurting.
Then why blame your
husband whose nerves
may have been pounded
by coffee, and whose rest
probably has been broken
by the irritation of the
caffeine it contains?
If you stay awake half
the night you don’t feel
any too cheerful.
The caffeine of coffee
and the thein of tea are
known drugs. If their use
is persisted in, sooner or
later the nervous system
may give way.
Then you may have
insomnia, or disturbed
sleep. Your nerves and
tissues will be robbed of
that stability essential for
normal and happy living.
I K
Nothing Thin About It.
“I suppose your husband gave you a
tliin excuse.”
“No. he made a stout denial.”
We should strive to love our neigh
bors. We can get more out of them
that way.
Passing of Old Dobbin.
Old Dobbin and the high-wheeled
buggy, long since pushed from the
city streets by the advent of gasoline
and the flivver, are. losing favor in
the rural districts <>f the United States,
according to the preliminary report of
the bureau of census on the 1920
census of agriculture. American
fanners now possess 2,140."d2 auto
mobiles. and tliis allows more than
332 machines for every 1.0(H) fa nut
Not only is the one-hoss sliay 5%
the decline in rural centers, but the
report on motor trucks, tractors, tele
phones, water supply and gas or elec
tric light indicates a rapidly increasing
adoption by the farmers of urban con
veniences.
Signs Significant.
The days when camping was a
novelty are over, and now camps for
children and adults flourish from the
Northeast to the far \yest.
Driving down an Adirondacks road
the Mid-Victorian lady noticed two
signs within a few miles of each other
that warned autoists of nearby camps.
The lady wondered If the wording of
the signs characterized the real differ
ence between girls’ camps and camps
for boys.
The first sign proclaimed: "Girls’
Camp—Go Slow.”
The second : “Danger—Boys’ Camp
■ Ahead.”—New York Sun.
You can avoid this
possibility if you’ll stop
drinking tea and coffee and
drink instead, rich, pleas
ing Postum.
Postum is the deli
cious cereal beverage with
a coffee-like flavor. It
affords the advantages of
a hot drink, without the
ill effects of tea or coffee.
Order Postum from
your grocer today. Try
it with the family for a few
days, and see what a dif
ference there’ll be —how
it will permit Nature to
bring sound sleep and
strong, sturdy, quiet
nerves. Sold by grocers.
Po3tum comes in two
forms: Instant Postum (in tins)
made instantly in the cup by
the addition of boiling water.
Postum Cereal (in packages of
larger bulk, for those who pre
fer to make the drink while the
meal is being prepared) made
by boiling for 20 minutes.
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