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Lesson X.s= Two Parables of Judg- ment, Matt. 21. 33-48. Golden ' Text, Matt. 21. 43. Verse 33. Another parableâ€"Fol- lowing his custom, Matthew gives a. group of three closely related parables, of which this is the sec- ond, the others being the two sons, and the marriage feast. All drive home the lesson of the fig tree, that the hollow professions of the Jew- iish rulers must bring upon them isevere judgments. This is the only }one of the three which is found in all three of the Synoptics. THE S. S. LESSON A householderâ€"Matthew alone refers to God in this way. It is a favorite word with him. The king- dom of Israel is frequently spoken of in the Old Testament as a vine- yard.» The hedge was a fence of any ,sort, and here may stand for all those “individuals, institutions, the whole national economy,” by ‘which God hedged in the life of Israel, to protect and restrain it. 'It' is unnecessary to give a special meaning to the winepress. In the Oriental vineyard, “Where the soil was deep, 9. press was digged in the earth. This, built round with masonry and carefully cemented, ‘received the juice expressed in Va. iwooden structure set on the sur- ,face.” The tower Was a substanti- Ilally built affair, commanded a view ,of the whole vineyard, and was ap- parently the abode of the keeper !throughout the summer and au- 1tumn. 35. Beat . . . killed . . . stonedâ€" Hostility to the prophets, among all classes, is written all over the his- tory of the Jews. This antagonism ichanged in form and in degree, but _there was no let-up, and it increas- 37. Afterward hesent . . . his son ‘â€"â€"This was an indirect reply to the rulers, as to where Jesus obtained his authority. It was the author- ity of One sent from the Father, an authority greater than that of the servants by so much as the Son of God is greater than all the pro- phets. ‘ ‘ Husbandme-nâ€"Under the monar- chy these were the kings and priests; after its collapse, the scribes and priests. They were ap pointed to oversee the interests of the kingdom. i 38. The husbandmenâ€"Since the ‘sons acted just as the fathers beâ€" fore them, the keepers of the vine- iyard are represented as the same 'throughou‘o. Went into another countryâ€"In this way‘ Jesus indicates the cessa- tion of the old theocratic form of government, in which Jehovah was the only King. 342 The season of the fruits drew nearâ€"Again and again God looked at seasonable times for a fair re- turn for his investment among the Jewish people. life. A. He‘ sent his servantsâ€"A long line of prophets. The fruits they de- manded were obedience to the law of God and the virtues of a, godlv ed rather than d-eéiozased. Accord- ing to tradition, Isaiah and Jere- miah bot-h met violent deaths. 36. Again~After the terrible warning of the captivity Jehovah sent still other servants, but these were treated shamefully, as were the first. It is strange that the un- usual benefits which these messen- gers of God brought to the nation should have been so lightly regard- ed. But until the death of Malaâ€" chi, when the succession of prophets ceased, and the nation began to mourn for more pf their type, each generation failed to appreciate What the Householder was doing for his vineyard by sending these servants... They will reverence my son â€"-â€" Meaning that this is the treatment .of his son that the father ought to expect, though implying no ignor- ance on God’s part of the humiliaâ€" tion to which his Son was to be sub~ jected. ' This is the heirâ€"~The rulers did not acknowledge Jesus to be the. true Messiah. but it was because, in their greed and obtuseness, they had misread prophecy and so look- ed for a King of different mold. So it is assumed in the parable that Jesus is the Son. and known to be such, and yet. is deliberately killed. 41. According to this, Jesus drew forth from the rulers their own con- fession of the, righteousness of their condemnation. Mark and Luke re- present Jesus as answering the 39. Cast him forthâ€"~Perhaps rev ferring to the fact that Christ was dragged forth from the city before being killed._ INTERNATIONAL LESSON, ' SEPT. '4. ‘ question himself, while the hearers protest, “God forbid.” The words are 'a. threefold prophecy of the doom awaiting Jerusalem, the call of the Gentiles, and the continued fruitfulness of the Christian Church. 42. The stoneâ€"Suddenly chang- ing the figure from the vineyard of Isaiah to the familiar stone which the builders rejected (Psa. 118. 22), Jesus shows that the repudiation of the stone by the builders is as un- availing as the killing of the heir by the husbandmen. In both cases the object of rejection turns up again to overwhelm the rejecters. “The husbandmen destroyed them- selves when they destroyed the heir; and the builders heaped con- tempt upon themselves when they contemptuou-sly set aside the stone. They lost the stone for their own edifice, but it received its due hon- or in a. more noble building” (Plumme'r) 43. This is not parable, but bald fact. The nation which despises the manifest favors of God shall suffer the humiliation of having them tak- en away and given to a people who will appreciate them. 44, To the stone of the Psalms is now added the stone-of Isa. 8. 14 and that of Dan. 2, 34, 44. He who stumbles at the fact of Christ may be broken to pieces, but the pieces can be put together again; but, if the final condemnation of Christ the Judge fall upon a man and seatâ€" ter him as dust, there can be no recovery. 45. Itris characteristic bf Matthew to single out the Pharisees for con- dcmnation. 46. Took him for a. prophetâ€"Thé crowds had gone after him as they had after John the Baptist, because they thought at last, after Such a. long interval, the old order of proâ€" phets had been restored. TBRTUHEU FOB SEVEN YEARS Gives 1.71) Estates and Labors as Missionary Monk Until Blind. Although British baronets have the reputation of being Wicked, probably owing to the fact that the villain of almost every melodrama is “a bald, bad baronet,” there are some of them who are almost saints. To the latter category be- longs Sir-David Hunter Blair, 3. barefoot monk of the Order of St. Benedict, who, after spending a number of years laboring in the swamp districts of the Amazon River to convert the natives to Christianity, has now returned home to Europe perfectly blind, in the. faint hope that some miracle may be accomplished toward the re- storing of his eyesight by the world famed occulist, Professor Pager:- stecher at- Weisbaden. The baronet- graduated from Ox- ford and married. Upon his wife’s- d-eath he obtained special permis- sion from the Pope to take orders and turned over the family’s Ayr- shire estate to his brother, a naval captain. Sir David‘ who is the fifth bar- on-et of his line, has also done mis- sionary work in Patagonia. He is the only monk on record who be- longs to any clubs, having retain- ed his membership in the Caled‘onâ€" ian, in Edinburgh. and of the Con- servativo, in London. “I noticed in the store we visit- ed to-day everybody was crowded around the perfum-ery counter.” “That’s not surprising.” “Why not?” “Oughtn’t perfumer natur- ally be a scenter of attraction?” . MADAM 403:!" mm": '- No. In George St., Sorei, Que. “For seven years I suffered from womb disease and dreadful torturing pains, and I had constant Dyspepsia and Chronic Constipationâ€"the latter so bad that sometimes I went ten‘da 5 without action of the bowels. Six di erent doc- tors treated me and {or a year I was in bed, coiistantly facing death. ‘ Then my husband coaxed me to try “Fruitâ€" a~tives " and this medicine, and nothing else. cured me and saved my life." (Signed) Mme. JOSEPH LIRETTE. 50c. boxâ€"6 for $2.5oâ€"or trial ‘box 25c.â€"-at dealers or from Fmit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. SCOTCH BARONET A SAINT. “FEW-HMS” HEB summl The remarkable changes of the latter half of the nineteenth cen- tury in the means of communicaâ€" tion and transport have enormously altered commercial and industrial relations. Improvements inma- chinery and vastlyincrea/sed com- petition have also made a. lasting impression. The appearance of railways, the post oflice, teleâ€" phones, sounded the~knell of small and local enterprises and prepared the way for gigantic combined in‘ dustries. MODERN FOOD SUPPLIES A review of these changes as they afl’ect the preparation of foods and food-stuffs has recently been made by Prof. Lindet of the National Agronomic Institute of France. Reference is chiefly to French in- dustries, but some of the points, says the British Medical Journal, are of general interest. In the manufiacture of breed the old millâ€" stone, which had done duty for centuries, has since 1884 rapidly been replaced by more efficacious and economical machinery. This has caused the disappearance of the old country mills and has insured the production of A MUCH FINER FLOUR. In the actual baking of bread there has not been such a note- worthy change; the necessity for the early delivery of fresh bread every morning still enables the lo- cal baker to maintain his place. Attempts at wider organization and coâ€"operation have only been to a certain extent successful, but great- er progress in this direction may be expected with the cheapening of motor coni/eyancc. Disappearance of -the Millstoneâ€"â€" Bread-Making Remains the Same. 'anNGEs IN 01311 INDUSTRIAL ' CUSTOMS. ' In the wine industry similar changes have been effected. Keen competition, had years, the ravages of vine pests and the introduction of many chemical novelties have rendered the old family vintages, famous for centuries in many cases, unable to keep abreast of the times with the usual result that they have been bought up to form part of larger concerns. With large cia- pital these have been able to meet- successfully various emergencies and to apply scientific methods to what has become a national indusâ€" try. Of more interest to us are the facts with regard to milk, butter and cheese. The growth of towns has necessitated bringing the larger part of their milk supply from a considerable distance and has led to the great increase in milk traffic on railways. Two-thirds of the milk supply of Paris is‘brought in by rail. This has called for clubâ€" orate methods of keeping the milk DAIRY PRODUCTS. fresh and pure. The establishment of large milk companies has tendâ€" ed Largely toward the standardiz- ation of the niilk supply for instead of receiving the milk from one or two COWS the customer obtains a. uniform mixture from thousands of cows, and he has the assurance that it will always be pretty much of the same strength and quality. _ I Private butter making is giving place to commercial enterprises on a. large scale. Butter making has become such a fine art, involving so many complicated processes, that the individual has been unable to afford the latest improvement-s in machinery; Much the same ap- plies to the making of cheese, al- though in both caeeé certain cir- cumscribed localitiee and small dairies with a, well established re- putation are able to maintain their place on the market. BUTTER SUBSTITUTES. The manufacturers of margarine, and other substitutes for butter, has had an important effect on the butter trade and has led to much legislation with the object of pre- serving agricultural interests. In France in 1908 the amount of but- ter substitutes manufactured was more than one-fifth of the amount of butter. The production of su- gar, unlike that of butter and cheese, has never been an indivi- dual business. It has always in- volved costly plants and a large number of hands. Even here, however, the tendency for business to grow and for smaller/ ones to be merged in them is very marked. In 1870 there were in France 520 sugar manufactories, each produc- ing an average of 770 tons. To-day there are only half that number, but their average production is four times as great. Such is the' movementâ€"gradual, it is true, but none the less cer- tainâ€"~which is creeping into our in- dustrial customs, and which owes its initiation to the demand for bet- ter and cheaper production.‘ Its futuredevelopments will be inter- esting to witness, and perhaps we may live to see the realization of Robida’s facetiours scheme for 1ay~. ing in food supplies by means of a. tube from a. great central kitchen. FACT AND FANCY. Only the vaccinated may vote in. Norway. U A‘VL 'VWJ . A moralist is a person vibe is in earnest about other people’s morâ€" als. A man’s character can be accur- amly told by his handwriting, cape. cially when his love letters are read out in oou‘rt. An old stork’s nest, built on the roof of the cathedral of Colmar, in Northern France, became dislodged during the winter and threatened to fall into the street. It measur- ed five feet across and it was four feet high. It weighed 1,500 pounds and was such a compact mass that to destroy it picks had to be used, In the nest were found seventeen stockings, five fur caps, the sleeVo of a silk blouse, a large piece of leather and four metal buttons. The rabbit, which overruns Au- stralia, has almost caused a, civil war. In the past certain Austra- lians made colossal fortunes by ex- porting millions of rabbits which they secured for nothing. Eventm ally, though, it became necessary. for the government to find a bet- ter means of e'xterminating' this de- structive creature, for it threaten- ed to ruin the country. A law was passed authorizing farmers to poi- son the rabbits. Thus the rabbitâ€" exporting companies were put out of business. 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