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OUR LORD’S INTERCESSORY '
PRAYER
LESSON TEXT—John 17:1-8. 18-26.
GOLDEN TEXT—"Holy Father, keep
through thine own name those whom thou
hast given me, that they may be one, as
we are."—John 17:11.
Maybelle Brown never, lost heart.
They moved in with her father and
mother, ,and she. managed to keep
the doubled household so comfort-
able that when better times came
they hated to part, and the Browns
stayed on. Maybelle’s father died,
leaving her mother the house, and
there they all still are living. There
is plenty of money now; Harry works
from eight to four every day for
twice as much money as he ever
made before, and besides that he
is often kept until seven or eight
o’clock at night for overtime work.
The trouble is, this money has ex-
panded Harry’s ideas to such an
extent that he has lost interest in
his home. Often, if he is kept late,
he goes to a night-club with some of
his associates, and dines there, sit-
ting for hours' over the table, laugh-
ing and talking. Girls go to these
places and strike up acquaintance
with the men.. On two separate oc-
casions Harry hasn’t troubled to
notify Maybelle that he isn’t coming
home to dinner, but has gone on
from the restaurant to dance with
these girls. He has never been very
late in returning.
"Harry always apologizes,” she
says. "He says he was tired, hun-
gry, he just didn’t think. ‘You have
your nice little dinner all ready,’ he
says, 'and I’m afraid I’ll make you
mad if I say I’d rather stay down-
town? When I ask him WHY he’d
rather stay downtown than come
home to the children, whom he real-
ly adores, he answers that oh, you
get kind of demoralized, and the
other fellows are doing it, and it
just seems the easiest way.
Gets So Frightened.
"I get so frightened sometimes,
afraid that I will lose him. Is this
the beginning of a more serious sep-
aration? Perhaps I ought to say, that
my mother is quite different from
most mothers-in-law. She is strong,
quiet, amusing, wonderful with the
children, who think there is no one
like ’Gam? Harry really loves her.
Tl>?y work crossword puzzles, agree
politically, follow radio serials to-
gether and, when she was ill five
years ago, no son could have been
more frightened than Harry was.
When Harry doesn’t show up for
dinner she usually isn’t aware of it,
for she is on the hospital kitchen
staff and is over there from four
until about nine every night. If she
does suspect it she doesn’t make any
comment. But to be alone with the
children, watching the clock, putting
dishes back in the oven, wondering
whether to start dinner or to wait,
seems to break me down. All the
time, in my mind, I am arguing with
Harry, and that isn’t healthy for
anyone. On the other hand, I don’t
want to be a nagger, or a shrew, or
suspicious, or spying, and I can’t
seem to see what is the sensible
course. But you must have had this
problem before, and perhaps you
can help me.” »
If I could,, Maybelle, it would be
by telling you what I have told thou-
sands of women in the'course of the
last 15 years. It is that YOU are a
person, yourself, not part of Harry.
No matter 'how deep the love be-
tween a man and his wife, or how
heart-filling the intimacy of the mar-
riage tie, the dear sharing of home
and hearth and the love of children,
no marriage can be happy unless
the wife has within herself the ele-
ments that make her independent of
her husband, and of- every other
human being. To pour all your de-
votion into your love for a child or
for a man, is to jeopardize your own
happiness forever. To watch and
worry, wondering if he caught the
five-ten ’bus—no, but he may be on
the five-forty—no, well, then he
won’t be here until half-past six, is
to take the very course that will
lessen his devotion, and accomplish
the thing you dread.
Insist That He Telephone.
But insist that he telephone you
when he cannot get home for dinner,
adding cheerfully "that is, if you’re
so tired, dear, it seems easier to
stay downtown/’ Dine with the chil-
dren promptly afterward, always
helping them with homework. Busy
yourself with letters or a book or
sewing or any one of a score of ab-
sorbing occupations, takihg the chil-
dren on free nights to early movies.
Slip across the street to the hospital
and lend Mother a hand; compose
poetry; make up crossword puzzles;
take up your old piano practice—all
those things that sound so dull in
prospect are completely fascinating
once you get into them. They may
well provide a real rival to Harry’s
amusements in the night club with
the little vagrant girls.
Has the Real Thing.
After all, Harry hqs the real thing,
the deep affection of his wife, the
little hot meal cooked especially for
him, the children to get into his lap
and tell him their news, his own
chair and lamp, and it will be an
unusual thing if he is shallow and
unfeeling enough to ignore them
very long. These are disturbed
times for our minds as well as our
bodies, and for our souls, too; and
Harry is feeling the release of a new
kind of work, higher pay, exciting
conversations and the envy all men
out of uniform—being men, which
is to say being in many ways still
small boys—feel for men in uniform.
If, when he telephones at six
o’clock that he can’t get home, you
answer amiably, "Well, have a good
time. I’ll save the liver and bacon
for tomorrow, and the children and
I will go over and have dinner with
Mother. It’s a glorious night, and
they love the hospital cafeteria. And
Harry, don’t miss that article about
the Wilsons in the ‘News’ tonight.
Don’t be too late and get yourself
all tired!”
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Unfortunately, the surest
way to lose a man is to try too
hard to keep him. So Kath-
leen Norris advises ‘'Maybelle
Brown” to try living her own
life for a change instead of
waiting in fear and trembling
for her husband to call apd
say he won’t be home for din-
ner or, worse yet, to arrive
home late at night without
having called at all. An inde-
pendent attitude can be car-
ried too far, but Mrs. Brown <
will find that making her home
"a happy place will do more to
keep her husband there than
all the tears in the world. —-
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Greatest reservoir of fighting man-,
power to whip the Japanese lies in
• free, unoccupied China. For five
years the Chinese soldier has
proved himself every bit as coura-
geous and clever as his Japanese
enemy. He has hung on in the face
of discouraging odds, lacking mod-
ern weapons and an air force.
Anglo - American arsenals
should eventually be able to fur-
nish him with these new arms
and give him the support of a
combined armada of afrplanes.
However, "the day” is indefinite.
In 1943? Perhaps longer. There is
a lot of spade work to be done, for
a great Allied offensive on the Asi-
* atic continent.
It is required chiefly in Burma.
And it is being planned right now
by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek,
General Wavell and General Stil-
well.
rTnHIS cover was a twofold con-
servation measure in the most
literal sense. Its purpose was.
not to cover shabby upholstery
but to protect handsome damask
from everyday wear and tear,
in a household where there were
children. The substantial striped
cotton material chosen harmonizes
perfectly with the rather elegant
lines of the chair frame..
If you have an especially diffi-
cult chair to cover, you will save
time by fitting a muslin pat-
tern first. Then you can snip until
it fits perfectly around arms and
other supports and^ if you make
a mistake in the pattern just
stitch a patch over" it and start
over again. Before removing the
pattern from the chair, plan the
openings so that they will lap neat-
ly and be sure they are long
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MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills New York
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“On two separate occasions Harry hasn’t troubled to notify Mabelle that ha
isn’t coming home to dinner, but has gone on from the restaurant to dance.”
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
W THEN the.Browns were
\A/ first married they
’ were really poor.
Harry Brown made $22.50 a
week, and was glad enough to
get it. That was in 1930. May-
belle Brown managed thriftly
in three small rooms, and
when little June was born she
did everything for the baby,
too. She went to a hospital
ward to save money, .she
washed didies and dishes and
went without- pretty clothes.
Before she had been married
two years Harry had lost his
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’There are some times and places
so sacred that one is instinctively
hushed into reverent devotion. When
Christ prayed in holy intercession (as
recorded in John 17) on the night
before His ' suffering His disciples
must have been lifted into the very
presence of the Eternal One. .It was
a holy experience.
He prayed for Himself, but even
more did He pray for His believing
followers. To know that someone
is praying for us is indeed an anchor
in a time of storm, a strong help
in the hour of conflict or of service
for Christ.
But to know that the Master
prayed for you and me—that is
enough to send us, like the disciples
of old, out to face an unbelieving
world in His conquering name. He
prayed for-Himself—and He prayed
for' me!
I. He Frayed for Himself (vv. 1-8).
He looked up and said: "Father,”
and then He was ready to pray. So
close was He to God that there was
just this simple recognition of their
communion. In Christ are we not
as close as He?
What did Jesus ask for Himself?
At first thought it seems a little un-
usual that He asked
1. For Recognition of His Divine
Glory (w. 1-5)
Why would I^e who had just given
the disciples an example of and an
admonition to humility desire to
have His glory manifested? Be sure
it was not a matter bf selfish pride.
He had finished His work (for He
counted redemption as complete
throughout His prayer), and now the
glory which He laid down when He
came to earth (Phil, 2:6-8) was to
be resumed.
He wants man to see Him now not
only as the compassionate Son of
man, but the glorious Son of God,
able to save. It is right that the
glory of-Christ should be magnified,
and recognized by the whole,-crea-
■ T Hmsefi to the family.
The Father .had given'Christ-the. Mavbelle Brown never 1<
heart devotion of those who believed
in Him. ■■ Note' that 'their’faith rested’,
on the name ,of God (v. 6),'and
upon His Word*which had come to
them and to us through Christ. J
He recognized their position and
standing in Him and established it
before God and man. He then
prayed for them (read w. 9-17) that
they might be kept in an evil
world as a testimony to the grace
and power of God in the human
heart.
This leads to His intercession for
all believers.
n. He Prayed for All Believers
(W. 18-22).
Christians are not simply the
avowed adherents to a particular
form of belief, they are "sent” ones.
As the Father sent Him into the
world, "even so send I them into
the world,” said Christ.
Christ has gone to be with the
Father, but He has left those who
believe in Him as His witnesses, His
representatives. For this they need
holiness. He prayed:
1. For Their Consecration (w. 18,
19).
For their sakes He consecrated
Himself. Surely if He needed it, we
do far more. It is not only His will
for us, but His prayer. How won-
derfully that prayer was answered
we see as we look back over the
intervening 19 centuries, from His
immediate disciples on through the
martyrs, the missionary pioneers of
all ages, the faithful preachers and
teachers of the gospel, yes and' "liv-
ers” of the gospel too. He knew,
He prayed, God answered. Are you
^in that blessed host of consecrated
believers?
2. For Their Unity and Glory (w.
20-26).
There is a refreshing simplicity
about the Christian faith which is
utterly different from all the com-
plications which man has prepared
and superimposed upon it. Essen-
tially it is a matter of God having
sent His Son into the world to be the
Redeemer of men. He and the Fa-
ther are one, He and His followers
are one, and so we are all one. We
who today believe are included (read
w. 20-23).
. This is an inward unity of the
Spirit, not an outward union of or-
ganizations. The answer to our dif-
ficulty is not the dissolution of de-
. nominations (although there do
seem to be far too many subdivi-
sions, too), but the uniting of all
groups in a oneness of love and de-
votion to Christ, and a united empha-
sis on the gospel.
There is something more here.
This unity puts Christ’s followers
into the place where His glory may
be revealed in and upon them. It is
His prayer that we should behold
in our Saviour the glory which God
had given Him because He loved
Him before the foundation of the
world.
Allies Need Burma.
The transfer of a thousand bomb-
ers and a thousand fighting planes
frqm America to China could be
made in seven days. But once hav-
ing got the air fleet to China, the
Allies would be little better off than
before, unless they had Burma.
For the air force would need fuel—
not a few thousand gallons flown
laboriously over the Himalayas, but
many thousand tons.
And where is the oil for the
future planes of China? In Bur-
ma. "Oh,” you say, ‘‘weren’t
the Burma fields scorched by
the British? Or was that just
another newspaper story?”
Yes, the Burma fields were
scorched, thoroughly scorched. At
the moment they’re useless. But
listen to the man who did the scorch-
ing.
"If the Japanese brought in 15,000
, specialists and 50,000 tons of equip-
ment and machinery, they could get
Burma producing again within a few
months. But they have neither the
specialists nor the equipment. We
have both. We can soon have the
wells flowing—if and when we re-
capture Burma.”
Scorching of Burma.
For the story of the scorching of
Burma, let’s, begin looking into a
little red cloth-covered notebook
which this itinerant war correspond-
ent bought in Mandalay for ten an-
nas, before the ships were bombed
and burned down on Good Friday
last year. I had it in a sweaty pock-
et of my khaki shirt when I jeeped
through Yenang-tuang, oil capital of
Burma, on Thursday, April 16, 1942.
Yenang-taung in Burmese, means
"stream of the smelly waters.”
Some centuries ago, silk-skirted na-
tives scooped up the pungent black
liquid and burned it in crude lamps
«»t home.
Came the white man. In the
last 60 years thousands of der-
ricks sprang up on the drab hills.
Burma oil, a million tons every
12 months, began lighting many
a lamp in greater Asia.
Then came the Jap. He was about
30 miles south of the oil capital and
pressing hard last April when. I
walked into the main oil-field head-
quarters and met a lean, hard,
eagle-nosed English civilian load-
ing his .38 army revolver.
He was Walter L. Forster of the
Shell Oil company at Cairo. He had
supervised the demolition of the
Rangoon refineries the previous
month, then calmly departed and
was now in central Burma to finish
similar assignments here.
At work or play, Forster likes
dynamite* Knowing his specialty,
the British government had sent him
late in 1941 to Russia, to advise the
Soviet engineers in their program
of scorching the earth. He quickly
decided that the Russians knew
more than he did, but he stayed to
learn their methods, and visited
secret areas of the Caucasus.
He remarked afterwards that the
Reds had carried out factory wreck-
ings in one day that Anglo-American
experts had forecast might take six
months.
"But I wish the Russians could
have seen our job at Rangoon,” he
mused. "Smoke up to 15,000 feet.
Vapor up to 19,000 feet. Not a drop
of oil left for the Japs, nor a piece
of workable machinery.”
After Rangoon was gone,.Forster
tackled .foe pipe line which had run
more than 300 miles down-country
from the Burma .oil fields. He
plugged the pipe with cement at riv-
er crossings, smashed the section
pumps, wrecked bridges. Then he
turned to the oil fields.
The last job, he^safel, was blowing
up the big powerhouse.
"I’ve got 6,300 gallons of oil in
drums stored above the transform-
ers,” he said, "Got oil piped in here
to the main room, too. And the jets
will turn on after foe explosion. Nice
fire we're cooking up!”
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The swif ching o£ Dakar, French West
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the shipment of cruderubbor, among
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Sam Was Entirely for
Peace and Harmony
It was the weekly meeting of the
colored "Sons of I WiA Arise So-
ciety.” At the end of the usual
business, a loud voice yelled from
the back of the hall: "Mistah
Chayman, Ah makes a motion dat
Sam Jackson am a low-down,
sneaking mis’rable chicken thief.”
Down in the front a little fellow
leaped to his feet.
"Who makes dat motion dat
Ah’m a low-down, sneaking mis-
’rable chicken thief?” he cried,
glaring round the room.
A huge scar faced Negro arose.
"Ah makes da motion,” he said,
menacingly. . /
"Mister Chayman,’* said Sam,
quickly, "Ah seconds dat motion.”
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