PARA 





PARABOLA 



paper, and the refusal of the Egyptians to .-up- 

 1'lv it to Europe was one of the causes which 

 led to the employment of othrr .substitutes. It 

 continued to be used in the Eastern and the 

 Western Empire until the twelfth century; but 

 after that period was superseded by parchment 

 and by paper made of rags. 



The plant i-- nearly extinct in Lower Egypt. 

 However, it still prows, in the Jordan Valley, 

 in the neighborhood of Jaffa, in parts of the 

 nd in .Sicily. It is a large plant 

 with >traight >tems. which grow from four to 

 en feet in height ; it bears no foliage what- 

 the coarse, sharp-edged teaves springing 

 :ly from the rootstock. The flowers are 

 lacking both in sepals and petals, but are sur- 

 rounded by bri-tl. -. In recent years the culti- 

 vation of papyrus for paper has been resumed 

 on a small M-ale in the Nile delta. A planta- 

 near Alexandria has been -own, and the 

 harvest transmitted to an English paper mill, 

 where it i< manufactured by modern machinery 

 into a paper of good quality. The papyrus fiber 

 i- :d-o a-'. 1 in the manufacture of rope, sail- 

 cloth, -and a I--, coarse garments and mats. R.D.M. 

 PARA, pah rah', or BELEM, baleX', the 

 1 1 of the province of Para, in Brazil, and 

 of the greatest rubber markets in the world, 

 i- -iniated in the northern part of the coun- 

 try, about eighty-five miles from the Atlantic 

 Ocean, and on the eastern bank of the estuary 

 of t: Kiver. Para is one of the mo.-t 



delightful cities in Northern Brazil, having un- 

 usually attractive buildings and homes and a 

 picturesque setting in the midst of a great tropi- 

 - r arden, back of a spacious bay. "Who goes 

 to Para stays there." is a common saying in 

 Brazil. It has all the institutions and public 

 buildings common to a modern, progressive 

 itro da Paz i* one of the line-i 

 i houses in South America. To the safe, 

 harbor i- due the commercial activity of 

 the city. Trade in cotton, dyewoods, 

 hon _' 'table and animal 



prod iio-t of the cacao. i.-in- 



glaas, rice and dim- i from Brazil come 



There is rail connection with i 



Population. 1913, 



estimated 1:0.000. 



PARABLE, i>. i short story which 



uses HP i everyday In 



illu-v pintinl truth. It 



form of ai ' k and I 



writ- IIP parable, but the 



finest example, of tin- 

 i in the Bible. 



One of the U-t-kuown Old Testament para- 

 bles, told by Nathan to David, is that of the 

 poor man'.- on. ewe lamb, which the rich man 

 seized and killed when a traveler called at his 

 door for food. When David became angry at 

 the rich man's cruelty. Nathan turned upon him 

 with thewonk "Thou art the man" (11 - 

 XII, 1-7). 



Jesus made use of many pantile- in Hi- 



The parable of Tin < 



tan (Luke X. 30-37). the -torv of a wax; 

 who helped a stranger that had fallen among 

 thieves, illustrates the spirit of true neighbor- 

 liness. 



There are several parables in Matthetc XIII 

 which illustrate the growth of the Kingdom of 

 God among men; these include the parable- 

 of the mustard seed which grew into a i: 

 tree, of the leaven that made light the whole 

 loaf, of the wheat and the tares that gre\\ 

 gether until the harvest, and of the -ower who 

 -owed -ei-d in the different kinds of soil. 



Three parables in Lnkt- XV picture the joy felt 

 in heaven over a wanderer's return to the King- 

 dom : the.-e an the parable- nf '/'' , /../^' > 

 Tin Lo*t ( ',>'/! and Tin Pruiliyal Son. 



The parable of Th> 7 



\.\V. 1-12) illustrate- two classes of people 

 who desire citizenship in the Kingdom. l-'i\ 

 met the conditions and were admitted, but 

 failed and found that the door \\a- -hut. 



The New Testament panNe- have injured 

 many beautiful hymn-. 



Consult Dods' r<n-l,!< x <( < Lent; Murray's 

 Jesus and Hift Parabli n. 



PARABOLA, parab'ola. If you are 

 baseball and hit a high "fly." the ball n- 

 first rapidly, then more -lowi\ . then eutVfJ 

 more and more toward the e:mh until at la-t 

 it is coming almost, directly downward. But 

 for the effects of Q 

 friction with the 

 air. the curve- 

 which the ball fol- 

 lows in di 

 ing would ' 

 actly the opposite 

 of that by which 

 . and 



A PARABOLA 



Any |x>lnt In li 



po 

 a as fur from tin* Ilin- a It a* It 



the whole curve , from ,,. |H(lnl , T , 



from the time the M"als ,>: r 



lull i- hit till it Hi caucht would b- a para* 



:lv dt-M-nbed. a parabola i> 

 which e\ei\ point i- (|u:dly distant fmm . 



in point and a certain Ptraight line. In 

 of the ball, the point would be ?< 



