HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-01-25, Page 3THE EXETER T1MES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, JANUARY g5th, 1034
STANDARDS OF THIS KINGDOM
Sunday, January 28.—Matt. 5:1-48.
Golden Text
Blessed are the pure In heart; for
they shall see God. (Matt. 5:8.)
People who reject orthodox ■Chris
tianity are often heard to say, "The
Sermon on the Mount is good enough
for me," It had better be! For the
moral standards of the Sermon on
the Mount are hopelessly high, ut
terly impossible for the natural man
to live by. Those who reject "the
theology of Paul," as they call it,
and the new birth, and the blood
atoneipent of Christ, and talk about
living by the Sermon on the Mount,
do not seem to realize that it is pos
sible to live by the sermon only
after one lias received an entirely
new life, a new nature, by the new
birth from above through faith in,
Christ as Saviour. This lesson should
help to make that plain.
The great discourse begins with
the Beautitudes, or the "blesseds.”
The entire discourse is spoken by
the Lord Jesus Christ, with all His
divine authority.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit.”
He begins, “for theirs is the king
dom of Heaven." Poor in spirit is
contrasted with pride or spirit. The
proud man thinks he has something
in himself that is worth while; the
poor in spirit knows that he has not,
and is willing and eager to receive
all that God can give him, He is
humble, teachable, therefore God
can do everything for him.
The meek are blessed "for they
shall inherit the earth.” Meekness is
not weakness. iMoses was the meek
est of men—and he had tremendous
strength of character, forcefulness,
power. IJ'esus Christ was meek be
yond all men—and He was omnipo
tent. Meekness is full surrender to
the will of 'God. When Christ comes
again to reign’ over the earth, it is
the meek who will literally "inherit
the earth."
There is no blessing promised to
those who hunger for* money, for
prominence, for power or authority
or fame oi’ reputation. But there is
a great blessing promised to those
who- “hunger and thirst, after right
eousness; for they shall be filled.”
Righteousness is the characteristic
and character of God Himelf, and
only those who are "filled with all
the fullness of God," through faith
in Christ as Saviour and Lord, can
be filled with righteousness.
The pure in heart are blessed, ‘for
they shall see God." And the heart
of no man is pure by nature—"all
have sinned." Only "the blood of
Jesus Christ, His Son, cleansetli us
from all sin," and gives the purity
without which men cannot see God.
Peacemakers are blessed, “for
they shall be called the children of
God," This beautitude has often
been referred to those who bring
about peace, or maintain peace, be
tween warring or hostile nations. It
would seem to go much deeper than
that, and have to do with "the peace
of God, which passeth all under
standing” (Phil. 4:7), and those
have who are "justified by faith . .
through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Ro
mans 5:1). Soul-winners, those who
bring men to Christ as Saviour, are
the true peacemakers.
And blessing is promised to those
who are "persecuted for righteous
ness sake.” This is martyrdom.
This is true witnessing to the Lord
Jesus Christ, even if it means the
laying down of life. There is eternal
blessing promised for that.
Then the Lord calls His ,disciples
"the salt of the earth." Men 'Without
Christ are “dead in trepasses and
sin”; and dead things suffer corrup
tion, decomposition. In the natural
world salt is a preservative, and pre
vents decomposition. Thus the Lord
has placed His Church of true be
lievers on earth as an antedote to
the natural corruption and decom
position of humanity with God.
Another parallel: JA) Chinese girl
in a mission school, when the teach
er asked the class to mention some
of the uses of salt as an illustration
of Christians, said: "Salt makes
people thirsty." True Christians, liv
ing "the life that is Christ," make
those around them thirsty for the
water of life.
And the Lord calls His disciples
"the light of the world. There
is only one way a human be
ing can be truly light, and that is
by having Christ as the lire. Paul
■was such a light, for he could say,
To me to live is Christ." Every true
believer can say the same, and by
surrender and faith can shed forth
the very light of God in this dark
world.
The Lord put His seal upon the
Old Testament as He declared that
He was not come "to destroy the law
or the prophets; I am not come to
destroy, but to fulfil.” Let us never
forget that the Old Testament is as
truly, literally and infallibly God’s
Word as in the New Testament. We
dare not contradict Christ in this.
But the Old Testament is law,
righteous law, necessary law; while
the New Testament reveals the won
ders of God’s grace, bestowed upon
those who receive His Son as their
Saviour. So Christ showed that true
righteousness not only keeps the ex
ternal requirements of the Old Test
ament law, but is an innermost
heart condition, where only God can
The external get of murder is sin;
but so is auger or hatred in our
hearts toward a fellow-man,
Adultery is sin; but, says the Lord
"Whosoever looketh on a woman to
lust after her hath committed adult
ery -with her already in liis heart,”
In such matters as these the iSer-
mon on the Mount demands impos
sible miracles of righteousness in the
human heart. But the truly Chris
tian life is always a miraculous life,
lived out by the Holy Spirit within
us after we have received Christ as
Saviour and have yielded ourselves
unto Him as Lord.
The climax of miracle-impossibility
comes at the end of the lesson chap
ter: the miracle of loving our enem
ies. The old standard was to ‘love
thy neighbor and hate thine enemy.
But I say unto you, Love your enem
ies, bless them that curse you, do
good to them that hate you, and
pray for them which despitefully use
you and persecute you.” Only thus
do we show that we are truly "the
children of your Father which is in
Heaven.” This miracle of love was
described by Paul in I. Corinthians
1)3': it "suffereth long and is kind.”
Beareth all things, believeth all
things, hopeth all thing, endureth
all things. Love never faileth.”
THE late CHARLES WARD
Death claimed a weii-known and
highly respected resident of Mitchell
in the person of Charles Ward, who
passed away at the Stratford Gener
al Hospital, following an illness of
only two weeks. The late Mr. Ward
underwent an operation and was be
lieved to be getting on nicely. The
deceased who was in his 70th year,
was born in England and came to
Canada with his parents when a
small boy, locating at Cshawa, lat
er moving to St. Marys. Forty years
ago he married Catherine Murray
for ten years resided in .St. Marys.
While in that town Mr. Ward was
foreman of the J. D. Moore Company.
Thirty-years ago Mr. and Mrs. Ward
moved to Mitchell where Mr. Ward
was appointed manager of the Mit
chell branch of the Whyte Packing
Company and held that position at
the time of his death.
WHEN SHE LOST 28 lbs.
She Gained Energy
This young woman’s method of
reducing overweight is evidently as
beneficial as it is effective, and a
letter she writes is therefore worthy
of publication:—
"I am 24 years of age; height 5
ft. 5$ ins.; and a short time ago my
weight was 28 lbs. above normal. I
was listless and without energy.
Now after taking Kruschen Salts
regularly I have lost 28 lbs, in
weight, and have much more vitality.
Also I have a very good complexion
and I do not have face blemishes of
any kind. 'Surely this must be due
to my having pure blood, and I at
tribute the fact to my taking Krus-
ctyen Salts.”—(Miss) M. S.
Kruschen .combats the cause of fat
by assisting the internal organs to
throw off each day those waste pro
ducts and poisons which would
otherwise be converted by the body’s
chemistry into fatty tissue.
ONTARIO ELECTION IN SPRING—
OR FALL
TORONTO — The all-absorbing
question—the date of the Ontario
general election—icame just a little
nearer to being answered when
Premier Henry addressed a gathering
Conservative workers.
"I can tell you here,” said Mr.
Henry, "it will be some time in the
spring— or some time in the au
tumn.”
MRS. JOHN F. NANGLE
A well-known and highly respect
ed resident of Lucan, Mrs. John .F.
Nangle, passed away after an illness
of two years at her home in Biddulph
The deceased, whose maiden name
was Louise O’Leary, was the daugh
ter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
O’Leary, of Mount Carmel. She
leaves her husband and two sons,
George, of London and Charles,, of
Chicago; 3 sisters, Mrs. R. Kearns,
of Renfrew; iMiss Annie and Mrs. L.
Devereaux, of Seaforth, and. one
brother, George, of Parkhill. His
Lordship Bishop O’Connor, of Peter-
boro, and Rev. Dr. O’Leary, of Tor-
onta, are .cousins. The funeral, which
was largely attended, took place to
St. Patrick’s Church, Biddulph,
whore requiem high mass was sung
by Rev. F. McCarty. Present in the
sanctuary were Rev. Mons. McKeown
and Rev. Fathers Quigley Glavin. and
Doyle. Interment was in the adjoin
ing cemetery. The pall bearers were
Thos. Benn, James Blake, Patrick
La/verty, Thomas Nagle, Joseph Ry
der and Jerome Whelhan.
HONOR HANK TELLER
Prior to his departure for Brant
ford R A. Walters, teller for six
years in the Seaforth branch, Bank
of Commerce, was entertained by
the choir of First Presbyterian
Church at a supper held in the school
room of the church. A pleasing fea
ture of the occasion was the presen
tation of an address, read by the
choir leader, M. R. Rennie, and the
gift of a defroster for his car, pre
sented by James T. Scott.
SO YEARS AGO
Farmer-Glavin-At St. Peter’s Cath
olic Church, McGillivray, on the 15tn
inst., by the Rev. Father Kelly, as
sisted by Rev. Father Gahan, Mr.
Dennis Farmer, to Miss Kate Glavin
all of McGillivray.
The Exeter Salt well is doing a
thriving business. In one day 13
cords of wood was consumed.
On iSaturday night the member of
the Exeter Brass .Band gave Mr. Wm.
Grant an oyster supper upon his
leaving Exeter for {St. 'Marys. They
all assembled in ,Mr. Ferguson’s Oy
ster Parlour.
Mr. W. Keddy, of C'on. 2, Usborne,
came very near losing 2 pair of val
uable heifers on Friday last by the
falling over of his strawstack. One
of them was nearly smothered.
Mrs. Jas. Wood, Con. 2, Usborne,
left here on Friday last for Whitby
to visit her mother who is very ill.
iMr, William iMoir, of Usborne, has
returned home from Manitoba, look
ing as well as usual.
Misses Jennie and Agnes Murray
of Rodgerville, have gone to put in a
term at the Goderich High School.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. John Perkins, who has been
conducting a milk route in Exeter
for some time has gone out of busi
ness, quitting Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Barrows and Miss
So Bad With Her Nerves
Became Sickly and Kim Down
Mrs. D. Carlson, Lillesve, Man., writes:—"Six
years ago I was very bad with my nerves and became
sickly and run down. A friend told me about Mil
burn’s H. & N. Pills, so I decided to use them. After
taking one box I felt some benefit, so I continued
until I had taken five boxes, and I can truthfully say
I never felt as good as I do now. I sleep well;, my
appetite is good; I put on flesh; gone is the tired,
worn out feeling.”
For sale at all drug and general stores; put up only by
The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.
Mabel left last week jor London to
reside, having sold their hotel busi
ness to Messrs. Palmer Bros.
Miss Nellie Moir, of Brooklyn, N.
Y., daughter of the late George Moir
a former resident of Exeter, is one
of the number of nurses that the
United States Government is dis
patching to Italy to care for the in
jured in the recent earthquake.
15 YEARS AGO
iMr. John H- Aiiurew, wno recently
sold his farm in Usborne, will move
to Exeter shortly, and has purchased
the red brick residence of Mr. Geo.
Connor on the corner of William
and Victoria Streets.
Mr. Wilbur Martin has sold his
fine home on Elizabeth Street to Mr.
Michael Elford, of Usborne township
We understand Mr. Alfred Melicto
of Crediton has bought out a hard
ware and furniture store in Zurich.
Mr. Chas. Snell has disposed of his
fine brick dwelling on John Street
to Mr. Josiah Kestle, of Stephen,
who recently sold his farm.
Mrs. J. W. Taylor returned Wed
nesday from St. Thomas, where she
was visiting her sister, who under
went an operation.
Miss Loretta Lambrook is able to
be up for a short time after her
operation of last week.
Miss Charlotte Dearing is laid up
for a few days the result of a nail
through her shoe and foot on Mon
day.
|Mr. Ed. iShapton, of '.Stephen, had
his buggy considerably damaged
while driving home on Saturday
night. His rig collided with another
going in the opposite direction near
the railway crossing.
A number of the Exeter Oddfell
ows drove to Hensail to attend the
funeral of the late J. C. Stoneman.
Mr. Wm. Montieth, of the Thames
Road, Usborne, has sold his 100-acre
farm to Mr. Andrew Campbell. Mr.
Montieth intends going West in
March.
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