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Optimist Club an
Aid to Community
Tlie primary purpose of an Optimist
organization in any city Is community
improvement. It accomplishes this
purpose both directly and Indirectly.
Indirectly through the spirit of Op
timism inculcated In the hearts of its
members who do not wait for plans
and programs, but put their Ideals
Into everydny practical application In
their buslbess and social relationship.
And directly through the corporate ef
forts pf the club along lines of com
munity welfare.
If a club did not moro than make
good Optimists of Its individual mem
bers, It would have earned Its right
to existence, asserts Cornelius Conway,
writing in the Houston Post. But we
all know that good Optimists can be
made only by putting them to work,
not for the club but for the com
munity.
Optimism is not something that can
be absorbed from talks around a lunch
table. It Is only acquired by those who
are doing definite things to make hu
man life better in the community. It
Is tlie business of the club, therefore,
to put all its members to work. The
opportunities everywhere are tre
mendous. Each community has Its
own needs which the local club will
have no difficulty In discovering. And
yet In some respects all communities
are alike. The needs of any city are
Just human needs.
'In Brief, the field of our efforts flft
cludes every form of improvement,
civic, social, industrial, intellectual,
material, educational, personal In
morais ? aye, and spiritual.
In fact, the opportunity for Opti
mism is Just as broad as the needs of
human life.
Poor Material Often
to Blame for Fire s
A. total of $506,641,001 worth of
American property went up In smokfe
in one year, according to the report Is
sued by the National Protective soci
ety.
The report shows that 40 per cent
of the fires may be attributed to Inade
quate and inflammable building con
struction, another 40 per cent to gen
eral carelessness, 10 per cent to simple
Ignorance and still another 10 per cent
to purely accidental or "fortuitous cir
cumstances."
< According to Charles E. Worthlng
r'ton, member of the society, a great per
centage of home fires is due entirely
to architects and builders who specify
Inflammable building material and roof
ing because, In some Instances, It to
cheaper than safer grades.
' "North Americans probably are the
|bp8t caj^alesspeople on earth," accord
ing t# Ralph P. Stoddard, executive
secretary of the Common Brick Man
ufacturers of America.
"We burn our homes in far greater
proportion than people of western Eu
rope, for Instance," he said. "It Is evi
dent from almost every, available table
of statistics that this Is due largely
to our lack of foresight In construct
ing homes. There are plenty of out
side wall materials and roofings that
will not Ignite from sparks of nearby
chimneys or other neighborhood Aires."
Moral Value of Neatness
A "paint up" campaign In Choctaw
county, Mississippi, started with ex
tension workers, who decided that If
a few of the school buildings could be
painted a/\d otherwise freshened up by
community effort people generally
would be Influenced to Improve their
premises, both Inside and out, with
paint or varnish. According to a re
port received by the Untted States De
partment of Agriculture, fho women's
clubs decided to put through the paint
ing of four school buildings In different
parts of the country. Three othei
buildings were later added to the list.
The mombers of those clubs helped to
ralso funds for the paint and enlisted
men and boys to do the palnttng. One
teacher In a school where paint demon
strations were given Inter reported
that the children took a great deal of
pride In It. These children came with
their parentB to the meetings and
worked until everything around the
building was cleaned up. ? Agricultural
Department Bulletin.
Paint and Varnhh Outlay
About $50 In the total value of pnlnt
and Tarnish used on n new house of
frame construction that would sell 1ft
the market at $5,000, says the com
mittee on specifications for small
houses of the American Institute of
Architect*. The outlay for paint and
varnish Increases with the Increase In
the area of the housea and also the
decorative specifications, hut the aver
age Is about 1 per cent of the total
coat.
Many (/??? for Church
In the town of Ledyard, Conn., there
la a church that la peopled oftener than
moat churchea. On Bundays It Is ?
place of worihlp and on week daya It
becomea a schoolhouae. In the eve
nings town meeting* and town com
mittees aaaemble there.
Will Build Civic Cintmr
Pasadena, Cal., la to have an ade
quate civic center, $8,500,000 In bonds
for that purpose having been voted at
A recent special election.
MPKOVED UWFOt* DfTTXKATlOfUL .
Sunday School
' Lesson *
<ny REV P, B. FITZWKTER. D D.. D?an
of th* Ev?n!n( Bchool. Moody UibU Id
atltur* of Chicago.)
<(p. 1>2? M'??(?rn N?wip?p?r Union.)
Lesson for July 27
THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS
LESSON TEXT? Matt. 4:1-11.
GOLDEN TEXT? For In that II#
Himself hath suffered being tempted.
He in able to succour them that are
tempted." ? Heb. 2:18.
I'KIMAHY TOPIC ? Jesus Refuses to
Do Wrong.
JUNIOR TOPIC ? Jesus Conquers tho
Tempter.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC ? Jcsun Shows Us How to Overcome
Temptation.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
? Victory Over the Tempter.
I. Its Purpose (v. 1).
The Holy Spirit led Him Into the
wilderness with the specific purpose
that He there meet and overcome the
one whose works He mine to de
stroy (Heh. 2:14). His temptation was
not a preparation for His work, as
usually thought, but rather the opening
of the dreadful conflict between Christ
and Satan, which was to Issue In Sa
tan's defeat. It was not to test Jesus
to find out as to whether He would
stand fast ? to see whether He would
*ln. The eternal purpose of God as to
redemption absolutely could not fall.
It was rather to exhibit Illm as an ob
ject upon which faith might rest, to
show that n union between God and
man had been effected which would
insure man's reconciliation.
II. The Conflict (vv. 2-11).
1. The Combatants (v. l).
(1) Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, the
Divine Man, Is now entering upon His
mediatorial work. He went Immedi
ately fron\ the place of anointing and
heavenly recognition as the Son of
God to meet the arch-enemy of the
race.
(2) The Devil. He was a real per
son and, while always filled with cun
ning and malice, In this case the Initia
tive was taken by the Lord. He was
dragged into the presence of Jesus
Christ and forced Into the struggle.
2. The Rattle Ground (v. 1). It was
In the wilderness of Judea. The first
man was tempted In a garden with the
most pleasant surroundings and fulled.
The second man wns tempted In a
bnrren wilderness, surrounded by wild
beasts, and gloriously triumphed.
8. The Method of Attack (vv. 2-10).
Since as our Redeemer Christ sus
tained a threefold relationship, the Son
ofcMan, Son of God and as Messiah,
ench one was made a ground of attack.
(1) As Son of Man (vv. 2. 8). This
was a test of the reality of His human
ity. To demonstrate whether the hu
manity which He obtained through the
virgin birth was real, the appeal was
made to the Instinct of hunger. Hun
ger is not the result of sin. While the
appetite is not sinful, to have satisfied
it In a wrong way would have been
sin. ' /
(2) Son of God (vv. 5, 6). This was
a test as to whether the personality
which had come from heaven and
taken upon Itself humanity was divine.
The Devil quoted from a Messianic
psalm to get Him to presume upon
God's care. God does care for His
own, but to neglect common precau
tion ? to do the uncalled for thing ?
Just to put God's promise to a test is
sin and death. Satan tempts men to
4ny to do the spectacular things In or
der to get publicity, to gain the ears
of the people.
(3) As Messiah (vv, 8, 9). Christ's
mission as the Messiah was to recover
this world from the Devil. The Devil
ottered to surrender to Him on the
pimple condition that He would adopt
his method, thus obviating the neces
sity of the cross. The kingdoms were
really Christ's and He knew that they
would ultimately become Ills. The In
ducement was to get Immediate posses
sion without the sufferings of the
cross.
4. The Defense (vv. 4. 7. 10). Christ
met the enemy each time and repulsed
his attack with the Word of Ood. Each
time He said, "It Is written" and
quoted from Deuteronomy, the hook
which the higher critics would dis
credit. Christ had enough confidence
In It to use It In this, the most crucial,
hour of the world's history.
R. The Issue (v. 11).
(1) Satan vanquished. The enemy
was completely routed. The strong
man wns so bound that the spoiling of
his house was possible.
(2) Angels caine and ministered
unto Him, This event was so notable
that these glorious beings were sent
from heaven to give It recognition and
to minister unto the triumphant King.
Man'* Sorrows
Man's sorrows are a mystery, but
that sinners should not have sorrows
were a sadder mystery still. And Ood
pleads with us all not to lose the good
of our experiences of the bitterness of
sin by our levity or our blindness to
their meanings. ? Alexander Maclaren.
A Prayer
We pray Thee, O Ood. that Thou wilt
help us to be faithful, earnest and
true In alJ of otir work, whatever It
may be.
Clear Conscience
Lot* of pooplo regAnl b clonr con
*rtonc? ?* mof? of a luxury thnn n
ncce*ftM y.
Considering Other*
ft in ftlwnyn eniittr to <1I?cum ^n?"
duties of others, than to do our owl.
FORTUNATE
Girls of the Hardangar District.
(Prepared by Ihe National Orographic So
ciety, \\'Mhln*ton, D C. )
Norway, where the nine hundredth
anniversary of the establishment of
Christianity Is being celebrated this
summer, gained Its fnlth. strangely,
through piracy; and the piracy of this
virile people In the I>ark ages came
almost Inevitably from Its geographic
situation, which forced the Norwegians
Into a seafarlug life.
i Nowhere else In the world have the
Inhabitants of so northern a land had
the opportunity to %tlllze the sea the
year round. For Norway Is In the
latitude of northern Siberia, bleak La
brndor and Alaska. Though half of
Norway Is above the Arctic circle, the
land Is In effect removed far south
by the warm Gulf stream. Rven the
fjords which penetrate far Into the
western side of Norway remain un
frozen in winter save in their Inner
most rencheR. OfT the coasts are al
most Inexhaustible supplies of flsh.
In the great forests ol the land Is
excellent timber for boat and ship
building. Every factor seemed to In
vite and urge the Norwegians sea
ward, and they have been answering
the call of the sea from the earliest
times.
The celebration of the Christianizing
of Norway uncovers one of the most
picturesque stories to be found In his
tory of the wholesale changing of a
people's ways of life by the wills of a
few strong men. The Norwegians of
the Ninth and Tenth centuries forsook
fishing as their major sea activity and
became pirates, going In great fleets
of galleys to sack the coasts of more
southerly Europe, where prosperity
had reached ^considerable heights.
They were heathens, sacrificing to
Thor and Woden, and propitiating the
sun and natural forcea. But through
contact with the people of the south
I those Norwegians who left home saw a
superior culture and a higher religion,
| p-h]ch shook somewhat their old be
liefs.
The sons of the greatest leaders In
Norway all served their apprentice
ship as warriors on the Viking ex
peditions to the Bouth. One of them,
Olav Tryggvason, who was to be one
of the greatest of Norwegian kings,
grew up almost wholly away from
home, taking part In one expedition
after another against the coasts of
Frlesland, France, England and the
smaller Islands around Britain. A
religious hermit, whom Olav Is said
to have met on one of the Scllly Is
lands. converted him to Christianity
and baptized him.
Christiana by Compulsion.
Adopting the religion of the English
did irot prevent Olav from leading an
expedition that almost captured Lon
don In W4. The English king, Aethel
red, invited Olav to his palace to ne
gotiate a treaty. When he went he
Was confirmed as a Christian by the
bishop of Winchester and agreed never
to attack England again.
From this time Olav determined to
gain the throne of a united Norway
and give to his people the religion
and culture that he admired In the
south. Ills wdr the Introduction of
Christianity Into Norway, but his
methods were largely colored by com
pulsion so that the later date <>f the
legal establishment of the faith Is that
on which the present Norwegian cele
bration Is based.
An example of what this virile early
Norwegian's methods were to be came
on his Journey to Norway when he
stopped at the Faroe Islands. Like
the Mohammedans propagating their
faith by the sword, he forced the Jarl
of the Islands to acknowledge his over
lordshlp and he and his subjects to be
baptized en masse.
In Norwny Olav wnn received with
ncclnmntlon because of his military
exploits, nnd crowned king. Imma
dlntely he began proving himself an
accomplished politician In achieving
his alma. In each community he
beatowed gifts and lands on the local
arlstocrnts In retwrn for their accept
ance of Christianity. After the lead
er* adopted the faith their snbjetfta
usually followed. Olav hanlahed ac-'
tlve opponent* of the new 'rtflm*.
Into numeroua communities, whoee
leaders were opposed to hla Inno^
tlon, he marched with a strong force
of aoldlera, symmoned the Jarla before
him and gaVe them the option of
armed conflict or baptism.
Soon Norway wat nominally and ail*',
perfldally OhrlatUn. But <m Olaifo.
teath in battler the kingdom ?u
membered and In mast parts of the
country pugunlsti wos revived.
Another Olnv -Olav Horalsson?
also a product of southern raids and
a Christian, reunited Norway under
one king In 1010 and took up anew the
task of making the country Christian.
His methods were not so overhearing
as the former Olav b. but force wns
not entirely lacking. From his accession
until 1023 he reintroduced the fnlth
into one region after another. Final
ly, In 1024, he had drawn up and
adopted a church code moklng the
Christian faith official. It Is the anni
versary of this act which Norway la
now celebrating.
Flahars and Sailor*.
As In the past, so now, Ashing Is
one of the basic Industries of Norway,
where millions of dollars' worth of
cod and herring are taken annually.
Rergen with its great fish market telle
eloquently of the Importance of flsh
to this nation. Before the Thirteenth
century Bergen was supplying a great
port of Christendom with the flsh
which It consumed on Fridays and oth
er fast days. The Lofoten Islands, off
the Norwegian coast Just above the
Arctic circle, form the Ashing center
of Norway. The waters are rough and
the calling dangerous. Between two
of these Islands surge the turbulent
waters known around the world as
forming the famous Maelstrom.
The Viking spirit of the old Nor
wegians is not dead, but has been
transmitted Into a driving force for
modern activities. The modern Viking
does not raid his neighbor's coasts;
instead, he takes his cargo ships all.,
over the earth and carries a large
share of the world's commerce. In
1918 Norway stood fourth in shipping
among all the notions.
Another way In which the Viking
spirit manifests itself today is in Nor
wegian immigration. Thousands of
Norway's sons have left their old home
during fhe past centuries, most of
them going to America. More than a
quarter as many men of Norwegian
bJoo$ live In the United States aB in
Norway.
Situated bo for north, Norway might
be thought Incapable of producing
much of value In crops. But farming is
even more generally engaged In than
fishing. The wordier groins are grown
and potutoes flourish. Cuttle and gost
ralslng is the most Important side of
farming, for the posture land Is ex
cellent and hay Is produced In abun
dance. The picturesque posture plots,
often a day's Journey or more from the
farms, and In many cases perched far
up on steep mountain slopes, are
known as "saeters."
The late Nineteenth century and the
Twentieth have seen the growth of
lumbering in Norway's extensive for
ests and the development of Industry.
Hundreds of thousands of horse power
are available from Norway's many wa
terfalls and these ore steadily being
harnessed to turn factory wheels and
operate elertrle power plants.
Capital Beautifully 8ituatod.
Thp queen of Norway's cities In
Cbrtstlanla, thp capital, situated
around thp southern nosp of the ppnln
sula, off flip water of the Skaijerrock.
Tl.v summer thp weather Is balmy. A
sail for (W> miles up t li p Island-studded
Ohrlstlanla fjord la n fitting pntry Into
thp flty which npstlps In nn amphi
theater of green hills dotted with
beautiful suburbs and country pRtatPR.
Thp deep blups of h 11 1 r and Islands,
thp wnnn colorR of the houRPs and the
frultR and flowers of the mnrket
places conspire to create nn illuRlon
that one Is In thp Sunny South. Tn
thp winter thp surrounding hills afford
Infinite opportunity for skiing and to
hngnnnlng, sports which nrp dpar to
thp Norwegian heart.
Norway la modern politically, Indus
trially nnd In almost every other way.
One ndmlrer declare* unequivocally
that the Norwegians are "the most
democratic people In the western
world." 80 progressive la their con
atltutlon that the Norwegian king hns
described himself as "a constitutional
president for life." Tplpphones and
telegraphs are In use In all parts of
the country, and In spite of Rreat
difficulties railways have been extend
ed to many of the most rugged re
gion* of the peninsula, supplementing
steamer lines that ply to nil ports
Education la compulsory. With Its vast
W*ttr bower and 4 Its ample supplies
Of rtiW materials, Norway's Industrial
futura to particularly ro*y.
Children cry for
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MOTHER Fletcher's Castoria
is a pleasant, harmless Substitute
for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Teeth
ing Drops and Soothing Syrups,
especially prepared for Infants
in arms and Children all ages.
To avoid imitations, always look for
the signature of
Proven directions on each package.
Physicians everywhere recommend it
F ? I I ^3
Be* Brand Insect Powder won't stain or harm
anything except insects. Kills Flies, FleVs, Mo
squitoes, Ants, Roaches, Water Bugs, Bed
Buct, Moth*. Lice on Fowl, and many other houee
and garden Insect*. Household sltea, 15c and 34c? othor
ticet, 70c and tL2S ?t your drugs* at at groccr.
It
kills
them/
Write for fre? booklet ?
a complete guide for kill
ln( houee end garden
ineecte.
McCormick A Co., Baltimore, Md.
Oh, Mercy Me!
Stern Mother ? Why did you allow
Mr. Swatters to kins you In the sit
ting room Inst night?
Daughter ? Because It was so cold In
the entrance hall, mainma.
Asphalted paper Is used aB a mulch
to keep down weeds In more than 10,
000 acreB of pineapple plantations In
Hawaii.
Tobacco Store Lockout
In protest because contraband to
bnceo was seized In a shop and the
place closed, all other tobacco store*
In Helrut, Syria, were closed by th?
owners for six days until It was re
opened.
A man never knows how little he
Is worth until the sheriff disposes of
bis property.
kNew Way to Make
Old Familiar Dishes
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IS IT any wonder that so many women are en
thusiastic about self-rising flour? Healthful,
dependable, economical ? you'll find it a handy
flour which thorough tests have shown can be
used for every purpose where flour is needed.
Mrs. N , of Tennessee, writes: "I have used
self-rising fiour for many years and find it a per
fect success. My biscuits and hot bread are
lovely. ... I get fine results with it for cakes.
.... It is a great satisfaction to know that
your biscuits will always rise properly."
Foods made ftom self-rising flour are always the
most wholesome and most economical you can
serve your family. They are Easily prepared.
The pure phosphate baking powder has been
added so that you can't make a mistake in mixing.
Look for the Blue Shield. You'll find it on every
bag of guaranteed self-rising flour. Accept no
substitutes.
FOLLOW THESE FIVE ROLES For Molting Prrftct Bi,cuit, with
Srlf-Riilng Flour. ( I ) 5m that your ovtn it hoi j (2) Alwayt utt twttl
miUt or cold water t 0) Nevtr add baking powdtr, loda or mill (4)
lit* mood fhorltntng ? lard, vegetable J at or butltrt (V Make toft
dough bab* quickly. SOFT WHBAT MIIXHRS' ASS'N, Inc.
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