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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. Just One More Week to Secure One of the *UYTFFN DDIVF’sJLnAjbk JL JL^J* w * JTsibJLJLa^^MdF TO BE GIVEN AWAY FIRST PRIZE $5.00 FIVE PRIZES OF $2.00 EACH TEN PRIZES OF $1.00 EACH These prizes will be given to the subscribers of the TIMES-ADVOCATE who pay their sub­ scription this month. Coupons will be issued for each year’s subscription. On February 1st at 2.30 p. m. the draw will be made by Reeve W. D. Sanders and the holder of the first number drawn will be given a prize of $5.00. The next five will receive $2.00 each and the following ten will receive $1.00. All subscriptions paid in before the draw is made will be entitled to a coupon. VRb W1 lk| B— B M > Hkl W M < 1 Subscription $2.00 \g\r INI W ■ Subscription $2.00