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been placed between the enemy and
the fleeing man. The various trees,
were not very good protection but they
were the best devisable. The trees
were not the things being defended
but the life which was bent on getting
INTO safe cover: The trees and the
enemy were all in the woods, but the
life struggling for safety was mightier
than the woods, and it was the thing
which was making for safety. The
winding course Of stream which
worms its way around hills thru
woods and across plains which seem
10 be constantly presenting insur-
mountable obstacles, nicely illustrates
the action of the life which is born
from above. AS; WIG behold the stream,
with its serpentinM course. we almost
wonder how it is that it has not got
ten lost, and forgotten the great sea
tne beckoning Of which it has seen, A
stream never loses its way It takes.
a long time and covers a considerable
territory sometimes, but it never
gives up, the energies of all its volume.
push Il forward, and some time after a.
Dng and tedious struggle against the,
uncertainties ef its course. it will law
tn weary head on the great bosom of
the deep and In short time will Re-
1niisd into peaceful sleep. The draw.
ing OF the sea and the force of It's
own body has held It on its way
sometimes the opposing banks have
seemed insurmountable, but It has
only waited and deepened, until at last
II was able to make its obstacle the
generator Of strength sufficient to
conquer. Again across its way. there
mas been hurled steep precipices as II
10 Try It's faith and confidence. Pre-
cip'css never stop stream. With
one mighty leap 1t rushes into the
seeming abyss, only to find that the
leap OF faith was the way to new life
and all Its energies for the time seem
spent in dancing and sparkling midst
the spray Of a new hope.
Ito be continued,
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z Religion a Life
Text: John Ala
A SERMON BY. c. E. VERMlllIA-
THE LIFE EXPLAINED AND
$ ILLUSTRATED.
I

Text. John Ala, The waite, that
shall give him shall become In MIN
we'll of water springing up unto
eternal life"
Jesus here represents the life OF
the soul which is inspired thru Him
as being like we'll of water which as
spring is constantly bubbling forth
and over it's bounds. 1t is a we'll
which has spring for its supply, or
it might be understood from what we
know of an artesian well. Such a
well is characterized by freshness,
xolume and moving energy; 1t is liy-
ing water. Something like this says
Christ will be the life which I shall
arouse within the soul of those who
will drink at my fountain life which
is life indeed. life which, tho
small in its inception, still has within
it the forces and power which if con-
served will bear itself on thru this
world with its varied experiences and
stand forth at last made perfect and
beautiful thru its efforts. Just as the
small stream begun by the flowing
we'll selects and winds its way toward
ahs river or sea- sometimes bubbling
with seeming delight and sometimes
sUanins deep and calm in apparent
meditation, always makes progress
and. ever increases in volume, so the
life, OF the human soul when started
Oh it's life evolving course will con-
tinue, to- grow and increase thru time
and eternity. Jesus here makes /
much Of the life within the man or
better; which is the man, and indi-
Gates that in this life is our salvation
and our hope: In this robust, divinely
aroused and informed life, in this life
feeling the tug Of the perfect ideal
and conscious Of an upward drawing,
hes the most trustworthy and depend
aDle tnlnS KNOWN TO man.
The Life ExpIainet and illustrated
This was no Incidental remark
which Jesus made to the. woman, it
vas one of the fundamental truths
Of His Gospel. In fact it was the CEN
Iral idea of his message and he fire.
lueHtfy- yea, constantly emphasized
he same. Il. am come says He that
hey might have, life, and that they
night have it, more abundantly." 'I|
I'M the bread of life" II am the ]
light of the, world. he that followeth {
ne shall not walk in darkness but Is
shall have the light Of life = *"He {
hat hath the Son hath Life"
Then it was said of him. Gle is the Il
light that lighteth every man that
,ometh into the world" "These (;
ire written that We may believe that
'esus is the Christ the Son of God,
md that believing.ye may have life in ,
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born from above, have come thru it
all, now clinging to this idea. and now
to that. Thru it all the steady. and
divinely informed stream of life has
made progress. The saints have es-
capped as the redeemed who washed
their robes i'm the blood of the Lamb,
Should I say; Like the redeemed"
who have washed their robes in the
blood of the lambw No this is. not
correct. They are, the redeemed them.
selves. AS John says these are they
which come out of the great tribula-
ton, and they washed their robes and
made them white IN the blood of the
Lamb, Therefore are they before the
throne of God" Tt seems to me that
these words We're spoken of those who
have been trying to let the life within,
live, those who have struggled on.
lodging, first this way and that, both
to avoid danger and to secure a safe
footing. These are they who were safe
not because of perfect beliefs alone
and the permanency of their positions,
but because of the bubblfng, struggling
and onward pushing life within which
insisted on finding way Of living,
The vital thing was not the belief
alone by which life lived but the life
that wanted something by which to
live for the time being, at least. Only
as we come to grasp this truth can we
see how the human soul can live on
with so much error coupled with it's
so-called truth. We believe something
but usually it is only part of the truth,
or little more than the same. In
this condition what is it that saves us.
and enables us to make progress? We
are saved by the life within, which
knows its destiny sufficiently to hold
itself in the right direction. The
souls aim and its insistance on rea]iz.
ing that aim, its life and growing push
ing ability, is the thing wherein lies
safety. Not all our beliefs will be alb
solutely pure and beyond correction
as time passes by. Error no doubt has
always been a part of your belief and
mine thru it all the soul life, unrecog-
nlzed by us, has been of the kind that
Wormed itself forward in spite of some
error, thus coming to more per-
feet knowledge. Like the plant.
again, which insists on growing even
where the odds are against it, so the
soul has gone on in its life. Living, in
TACT, is much like the conduct of one
trying to escape the bullets Of an
enemy in the forest" first this tree
and then that serves as protection
until at last sufficient distance has
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what oxygen il needs out of the air be.
cause it. has a principle of life control
ing its every ACT. So you and 7 are to
be big with life power, and choose arsd
do the thing which viii help the life to
become, bigger; because Of the power
of the life to sehct the same. Our re-
lations TO our own children will throw
a little- light or this thot. We advise
our children great deal, but no father
wants: his child to- grow up with the
idea that he can settle nothing for him
self. We show him how to saw the
first board to line, but we take more
delight in seeing him with his father
inspired mind, learn how to guide the
saw. than when we do it. Nothing in
fact pleases us more than to see the
life within tile boy move him to, exer-
else his own mind, inspired by us and
our IDEAL You have sometimes seen
your child planning to do his work
we'll, with the thot that it will please
the parent Like Jesus he is doing
the things that wifi please his father
and the father rejoices that he is do
ing It and not the father. The father
inspires but the child acts, and they
are his own acts. The father is there
in great power, but the child is there
also the more, because he feels THAT
the fathers ideal is his and he is
striving to attain the same. Jesus does
not come into this world to do man S
work. or to supp1ant him in his soul
action. He comes to quicken the life
Of the man SO that he will be able to
do his own work. It is vigorous soul
life headed in the right direction, and
always forging forward in the light of
the ultimate ideal to which it is to at
tain, that Christ aims at and, this Sc
cured he knows that the life is safe.
This vigorous life which is at the
center Of our very being, because it is a
growing and living somewhat, is that
which saves us from shipwresk. This
is true both for the Christian today
and also for those who have gone be-
fore. When we think Of the abundance
of superstition and ignorance as well
as error, which have prevailed in the
minds of Christians of all ages, we
can but wonder how they have come
thru it all and not made shipwreck Of
the life We are so hungry for the
truth and so confident that what we
believe must all be true that when we
realize the facts of life as they are and
have been, we stand amazed before
them. Some lives indeed have been
wrecked, but the bulk Of the lives
which have been of the sort that are
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his name" Paul also makes 1t the
heart of his message. "Be We trans.
formed by the renewing of your mind"
His emphasis of the fact that nothing
was of avail but New creature In
! Christ, grows out Of the same thOt.
When Jesus thus spoke to the woman
he was aiming to reveal the true ma
ture of the religious life as he desired
all to understand it, ...-s
! 1t seems like waste of time to re.
| iterate the fact that the religious life
is primarily soul life. We have all
heard this time after time and have
long since come to accept it as a part
of our faith. There is such thing
however as holding truth and seeing
only part of its real significance. This
it has seemed to me may be the case
in our thot of the life within In
fact this has been my own personal
experience. Only in recent years have
come to see what l desire to EN-.
phasiZe as a necessary con-
clusion of the teaching of Christ in
regard to this Divinely inspired soul
life l wonder if We have not thot
more about its withinness that of the
real nature of the life itself, and it's
meaning. Let us nos see if we can
probe the idea little further, and
find something that will give lis hope
and encouragement in our efforts to
realize the Christian ideal from day
to day "A we'll of water within Him
springing up unto eternal life," what
is the fuller meaning of the same?
We are all familiar with the idea
that the inner life is the determiner of
our conduct. Its ideals and its loves
and aspirations determine the charac-
ter of the individual This is truth
that we must not lose sight of and it Is
one of the reasons why Jesus ad-
dressed himself to the culture of the
inner man. This however is not the
only significance the inner life should
have for you and me- The fact that
there is at the core Of every one of us
hat which is alive and not dead, is a
hing which few of us have ever thot
If as being important, Judge. Jesus
wanted life within that there might
,e life without, but more than all he
wanted the life itself, and it seems
o me that in his messages he is con-
tantly trying to bring his hearers to-
zee that the perpetuation of the life
tself is the important thing and a
hing of comfort to those possessing
t. "He that hath the Son hath life"
Ie that hath the Son hath kind of
ife made possible only thru the Divine
ouch. The more tIfink of the hui
IAN soul with all its so-called' inner !
Mt powers and the outcome Of the \
anne the more am inclined to think +
f it as being very similar to ar egg.
his may seem to be a crude illnstra- {
ion, but it will help YOU to see my {
oint. Within the sheE of an egg, {
re powers and forces beyond number. S
here are forces there which can so; I
ombine as to- break the cold shell T;
vhich enclose the same. These fcsoesl ,
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aurochs or the bison by SO much as a word. As
the authors Of these classics were great sports
men and close observers, this would support the
theory that both these animals had already then
become quite extinct in western Europe.
In the sixteenth century, when Europe, so far
as art was concerned, had at last been aroused
from its medieval stupor by the invention OF
printing, and an extraordinary demand had
sprung up for pictorial matter illustrating re-
cent exploration of new worlds and the various
forms of the chase, there were produced quite a
number of pictures Of the aurochs by artists,
very few of whom had ever set eyes upon a live
wild specimen, though they may have seen cap
tive ones. The one artist Of whom we positively
know that he had before him At least a stuffed
specimen was the Viennese engraver Augustin
Hirschvogel (born in Nurnberg about 1909, who
illustrated the famous travel book of Baron Her
bernstein, the authority most frequently quoted in
connection with the aurochs, for he was absolute
ly the last intelligent observer who saw the beast
in its wild state, and left pictorial records of his
impressions. Herberstein was gifted with pres
cient eyes, for he foresaw that the aurochs was
doomed to speedy extinction. Hence on his sew
eral expeditions to the unknown interior of Rus
STA as the ambassador, first of Emperor Maxi
milan In 1868, then on many different occa-
sions as Charles VS. and Ferdinand's emissary,
he made notes about it, and, what was much more
important, actually brought back with him some
skins and skulls, which he had mounted in his
house in Vienna, and from which Hirschvogel
PROBABLY drew MS celeDrateQ picture OF the
aurochs. To differentiate he drew next to it a
picture of a bison. AS these two portraits"
which have been published scores of times, will
be familiar to all interested in this matter, we
will merely quote the inscriptions placed by Her
berstein over the two pictures. for it is a per-
fectly correct differentiation. The picture of the
bison has the following: 81 am a Bison. am
called by the Poles a Suber, by the Germans a
Bisont or Damthier, and by the ignorant an
aurochs." Over the woodcut of the aurochs: II
am an Urus which is called by the Poles a Tur,
by the Germans an Aurochs and until now by
the ignorant a Bison" The inscriptions in the
various volume appeared
in several languages-vary %trifingly, but the
above, which are taken from the edition of 1856.
give the sense in the best form.
Shortly after Herberstein the Flemish painter
Stradanus, who lived and worked for over fifty
years in Florence (from 1853 to 1605), produced
a drawing Of an aurochs engaged in a terrific
struggle i'll an arena where he was matched
against a lion, two wolves and a bear. This
original drawing is not the least interesting Of
the twenty odd ancient pictures of the aurochs
in the writer's collection. In 1873 the Antwerp
publisher Philip Gale published this and one
hundred and three other sporting drawings by
the Florentine master, and underneath each of
the engravings there is a Latin inscription. The
one under the plate reproducing the drawing
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they are nearest to the storm cloud
strata.
s. Trees on damp soil: Because
the moisture makes a good contact be-
tween the tree and the earth.
9. Trees deeply rooted: Because
the long roots give a better grounding
and finish a more direct path to
deeper and moister earth strata.
10. Trees with dead branches:
Because they present alluring points.
IL. Trees whose wood has high
electric conductivity: Because the
flash will select the path of least re.
%sistance.
~. Trees whose tissues are COM
posed mostly Of longitudinally ar
ranged ibers and other elements:
Because this arrangement would favor
the transmission of the electric cur.
rent.
Is. Trees rich in starch: Because
starches and sugars are better on
ductors than oils. resins and wakes.
But years of careful study and ex-
perimenting show that any kind Of
tree is likely to be struck by light
ming.
In temperate climates thunder
storms, with lightning, occur most
commonly during the summer usually
in the afternoon. In the United States
they are four or five times as frequent
east of the Rocky mountains ss west,
emitting from consideration parts
Of Arizona and New Mexico. This is
due. as explained later, to the general
ly mountainous condition of the west.
Lightning is most frequent in Florida
and Illinois.
In Cuba severe thunderstorms are
frequent. and trees are often struck
and killed. The pine only is reported
| ignited.
Lightning is extremely rare in
Alaska, and no forest fires are known
to have resulted from it.
1t does not follow that the trees
most liable to ignition by lightning are
the ones most responsible for forest
fires. While in general one species
may be more inflammable than an
other, the degree of infammability
varies with the locality and season.
The tree most often struck and ignited
in the west is the western yellow pine,
which grows in open, park-like stands,
where the fire hazard is small.
A tree may be set on fire by light
ming and burn for days without the
flames spreading to other trees or to
the ground, and If the latter be free
from litter, as Is often the case in
western yellow pine forests, the
chances of the fire spreading are
small. 1t is probable that the ma
jority of forest fires caused by light
ming striking trees is due to the pres
enc Of dry duff, humus or litter at
the base of the tree. Another posi-
bility is that some forest fires are
started by lightning striking the
ground and igniting the soil cover.
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OYSTER SHELLS
FURNISH Lime
New York Experimental Station
Proves That Food Is Quite
Beneficial to Hens.

Some years ago a then well-known
writer condemned the use of oyster
shell as a food for furnishing lime SO
necessary in the construction of egg
shell. His contention was that the
oyster shell did not contribute lime
sufficient for that purpose. However.
the New York agricultural experiment
station has vetoed that by proving
that a pound of oyster shell contains
sufficient lime to manufacture about
seven dozens of eggs.
The proper way to feed oyster shell
is to- have a small box of it within
reach so the fowls may help them
selves at will. Mixing it in the morn
ing mash is risky, as there is a like
lihood that the hens will consume
more than is required, and in conse-
quence the shells of the eggs would
become too hard. The hens know best
when their system demands more
lime. 1t Is a very rare case when q
hen gets too much if constantly with.
In reach.
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by r. G. PLUMMER.)

by T. G. PLUMMER.)
From early times there has been a
belief that certain trees more than
others are likely to be struck by light
ming. The elder Pliny said: Light
ming never strikes the laurel" This
tree was also called bay, and wreaths
of it's leaves were worn by ancient
rulers both as a,symbol of victory and
as a protection from the lightning of
the gods. Seneca and Plutarch held a
similar belief, which may be traced
down ever to modern times, but the
theory as nov held includes a number
of trees, different in various countries.
This belief was so firmly established
that such trees as the beech, locust.
holly, olive, walnut, birch. elder,
mistletoe and live-for-ever, supposed
to be effective in warding off light
ming, were placed cal dwellings.
To this day there are many who
still insist that the beech is eve
struck, while in parts of the United
States the aspen is considered i'm
mune from lightning.
On the other hand, it was believed
that such trees as the oaks, particu-
larly cork oak, had a very bad repu-
tition for attracting lightning, and
this belief prevails even now. There
is a proverb:
Avoid the oak, flee from the spruce,
but seek the beech"
And also:
Beware the oak, 1t draws the
stroke.
Avoid the ash, it courts the flash.
Creep under the thorn, twill saw
from harm"
Natives of South Africa have said
regarding the mopane tree, which is
often struck, "Lightning hates it," but
they say that the morala tree is never
touched. The Portuguese share this
belief.
There was once a widespread belief
In Europe that conifers were almost
immune from lightning, but records
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made there showed that conifers
rank third in liability to stroke. The
persistent popular belief regarding
immunity of some trees and liability
of others have given rise to the fol-
lowing theories regarding trees most
likely to be struck:
1. Tall trees: Because they reach
high toward the electrically charged
cloud, and therefore lessen the dis
lance with the flash must traverse
through the dielectric (air). Such
trees are conceived to be a part of the
earth, extending. upward and inviting
the stroke. .
Q. Trees with pointed crowns:
Because they invite, to their M apex,
a single full-pressure fash. Trees
with rounded crowns, favor the diff
fusion of the flash into a spray.
8. Trees with pointed leaves: Be
cause static electricity jumps most
easily to and from pointed terminals
4. Trees with smooth or shiny
leaves: Because a smooth surface In
vites flashes, while a hairy or woolly
surface, presenting a multitude Of fine
points, favors diffusion.
S. Trees with deeply grooved bark:
Because bark deeply grooved longi
tudinally guides the current to thu
ground, and because the moist sap
wood is close to the surface in the bot
toms of the assures.
6. Trees isolated: Because the!
are the only marks for the fash ant
are conductors.
Z. Trees or high ground: Becaus,
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were caught IN pitfalls anu
transported great distances.
The likeness is not a bad
one, and in the above col
lection of prints there are
three other pictures OF
aurochs, and a fifth depict
ing the lassoing of the bu-
balus on the island of Sar-
DINA. A contemporary and
countryman of Stradanus,
one Hans Boil, produced
also an interesting engrav-
ing of an aurochs hunt
which forms the second
print of his attractive little
set entitled, "Venationis,
Piscationis, ct Aucupii
typi," published in 1882 by
the same enterprising Ant
werp publishers that gave
the world the last-named
collection. Beneath the au-
rochs picture we read, in
Latin elegiac couplets:
Thus with darts. swords,
and light arrows men every
where drive the horned
aurochs into pits" A rath-
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runs: Some great lords are looking on at a spec
tacle in the arena. A furious lion with revening
fang and claws tears some wild beasts. He lays
the wolves low and defeats the Taurus in a strug-
gle, while the bear covers way in terror" Wheth-
err the artist ever witnessed such a struggle in an
arena cannot be ascertained; but it is quite posi-
BILE, considering their great popularity during the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The blasts