The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-04-14, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE TIII-JISDAV, 41-liIT.
THE PAIA OF ABRAM
Sunday, April 17.—Genesis 12:1-9.
Golden Text
Thou slmlt 'be a blessing. (Gen. 12:
2.)
The Bible is the most wonderful
story that the world possesses, It
anight be called a novel; we think
of it as 60 different books, but it
is a single, connected romance or
drama of 66 chapters, There is a
definite plot running from Genesis
to Revelation, and the amazing
story is infinitely more interesting
and intelligible- when we know the
{relationship of each book and les
son to the whole, i^l
Let us take a look, this Week, at
the seven dispensations or ages in
human history recorded in the Bible,
There are various interpretations as
to such ages; the one here noted is
given to the Scofield Reference
Bible and by many other Bible
teachers. A dispensation is “a per
iod of time during which man is
tested in respect of obedience to
some specific revelation of the will
of God.” Here are tire seven;.
1. IiHiocency,—Man was created
in innocency, subject to a simple
test, and fell in sin, the first dis
pensation lasting from the creation
of man to the. fall, and ending in
the judgment of the expulsion from
den. Each age ends in a judgment.
2. Conscience.—‘Conscience was
awakened by man's act of disobedi-
. ence, and mankind’s failure to do
what was known to be right and ab
stain from what was known .to be
wrong ended in the judgment of
the flood.
■3. Human Government.—God en
trusts to man the judicial taking of
life, the highest function of govern
ment; the failure of men in this
age, evidenced 'by human pride at
Babel, ended in the judgment of
the confusion of tongues. ’
4. Promise.—-This age beginning
with this week’s lesson in the
* of Abram.
5. Law.—Israel placed herself
der law at Mount iSinai, and'
history is “one long record of
violation of the law,” this dispensa
tion running from Sinai to (Calvary,
from the Exodus to the Cross. The
judgment of the nations was that
of the Captivities; the judgment of
mankind was at .Calvftry.
■6. Grace.—This age is in sharp
contrast to the age of law, “For the
law was given by Moses, but grace
and truth came by Jesus 'Christ”
(John 1:17). “Law blesses the
'.good; grace saves the bad. Law de
mands that blessings be earned;
grace is a free gift.”
7. Kingdom.—This is the King
dom or millennial age, when (Christ
on
to be born in Abram's line, “Jesus
Christ, the- ‘Son of David, the Son
of Abraham,” (Matt. 1:1.)
could say to Abraham: '
shall all 4’amilies of the earth
blessed.”
And to Abraham’s, family and
scendants “were committed the
acles of God.” (Rom. 3:2.) Let us
never forget that the Bible is a Jew
ish book, written by Jews under the
inspiration of the Holy gpi
the blessing of the whole
family,
Abram,
God and
and land,
and Lot his brother’s son
their substance that they had gath.
ered, and
gotten in
verse is
blessing, ‘
into the
the land
When any man sets out on. a journey
that God has directed him to take,
and follows God’s guidance and
does God’s will, that man arrives.
The land was full of enemies, the
Canaanities, but iGod was protect
ing His trusting child. Abram built
an altar unto the Lord in this new
land, and at. that altar the Lord ap
peared to Abram. As he moved on
toward the south he built another
altar, and called on the name of the
Lord,
This Qod-breathed 'record is very
simple; a little child can understand
it; but it is one of the most momen-
tuous parts of all history. When
men -do just what God directs them
to do, great, and wonderful things
happen.
i iSo God
“In thee
be
de-
or-
rit, for
hu inan
obeyed
family
Sarai his wife,
and all
at 7i5 years of age,
left his home and
taking
the souls that they had
Haran,” The rest of that
brief and pointed with
“And they went forth to go
land of Canaan; and into
of Canaan they came.”
l» iiU|| ,.l
may sound rather quaint in some
ears, but the retaining of it in that
line would have gone some distance
towards preserving .the use of the
tine old word to ordinary speech.
But the fact that from 1585 to
the pre-shut day the psalm as Mr.
Kethe left it to us has retained a
foremost place among hymns in the
British people in ail parts of the
world, proves its virility and value.
It is still one of the great
giving
The
efl in
affair
supposed
by Tate
metrical
known as the New Version, which
begins its translation of the 100th’
Psalm with; “With one consent let
all the earth,” which is also a
known rendering still found in
hymnals.
’The famous old tune, always
to the best known four lines in oui’
language, beginning, “Praise God,
From Whom All Blessings Flow/’
but hearing the title “Old Hundred,”
was composed by a French I-Iugenot
musician, Louis Bourgeois, and first
made its appearance in the French'
Genevan Psalter in 1551, as the tune
to a French version of Psalm .cXxxiv,
There appears to be no doubt that
Mr. Kethe wrote h is yers ion of Out
Psalm to suit this tune,
thanks-
hymns of opr race, -
doxology sometimes
the hymn-books is a
the Rev. J. Mason Neale,
to have been based on one
and Brady, authors of that
edition of the Psalms
append
modern
AWW
by
well-
some
sung
call
un-
li er
the
will establish His Kingdom
earth at His second coming.
God called Abram to leave his
country, his kindled-, jhiss ’father’s
house, and go “unto a land that I
will shew thee.” • The great Abra-
hamic Covenant (more fully set
forth in Genesis 15:18), is in seven
distinct parts, as brought out in the
Beference Bible mentioned:
“I will make the great nation.”
“I will bless thee.”
“And make thy name great.”
'And thou shalt foe a blessing.”
“I will bless them that bless
thee.”
“And curse him that curseth
thee.”
“In thee shall all families of the
world be- blessed.” •-
With no other man "in the history
of the huina-ir-’race has God ever
spade 'isuch a covenant as this—ex
cept as it was confirmed, to Isaac
and, Jacob, Abraham’s own family.
God is very patient. He gave Adam
a wonderful opportunity, and Adam
failed. He gave iSeth and his -des
cendants a wonderful opportunity,
and they failed. He gave Noah’s
descendants a wonderful opportun
ity and they failed. And so it was
continued; even this present Age of
Crane will end - in man's failure,
with God’s necessary terrible judg
ment; the Millennium, or Kingdom
Age itself will end in failure, with
another judgment (Rev. 20:7-1'5).
In the new Heaven and the new
earth there will be no more failure
(Rev. 21:22).
"When -God called Abraham He
was looking down through the ages
to the seed of the woman who was
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FAVORITE HYMNS
All people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice
Him serve wjtli fear, His praise
forth tell,
Come ye before Him and rejoice.
The Lord, ye know, is God indeed;
Without our aid He did us make;
We are His folk, He doth us feed,
And for His sheep He doth us take.
0 enter then His gates with praise.
Approach wjtli joy His courts
Praise, laud and bless His
always,
For it seemjy so to do.
For why, the Lord our God is
His mercy is for ever sure;
His truth at all times firmly stood
And shall from age
This stately old
hundredth Psalm is
use, and familiar
speaking, people,
said by ancient Jewish commentat-
oi s to have betn written for service
of thanksgiving, and sung when the
thankofferings were being present-
td to God. It may not have
one of the most ancient of
hymns of the Church of the
Testament, but was probably
work of some poet who wrote in the
days of the second temple, after the
return from the IBagylonian captivity.
Its call upon all the word’s people,
both within and without the Jewish
fold “all the earth” the Bible mar
ginal reading runs—would point'to
a jate days, when the conception of
the God of Israel, the God above all
other Gods,
ideal of a
praise and
everywhere,
and Guardian.
We owe this fine metrical version
of it to one of the refugees driven
from England to Frankrort and Gen
eva, on the continent of Europe, by
tl/e bitter and fierce persecution of
Queen- Mary and her fanatical hus
band Philip of Sp^i'n. His name
was the Rev. Wm. Kethe, and he
was for over thirty years Rector of
Childe Okeford, in the South of
England. He served with Queen
Elizabeth’s forces as chaplain at
Havre, in 1563, and later in other
foreign fields. But we first meet
with his name an in exile at Frank
fort in 155'5, and at Geneva in 1557.
Pc-ssibly he was one of those the
exiles left behind in 1’559 when lib
erty was restored by Mary’s death
and the ascension of “good Queen
Bess,” to complete a translation of
the Bible, and the metrical version
of the Psalms. But this, we are not
certain. He died in 159lS.
'It was in the year 1560 or 1-5 61
that Mr. Kethe’s version of the 100th
Psalm first appeared in what was
known from the printer’s name as
Daye’s Psajte-r, published in London
with the music to which it is still
sung as reproduced above. Just one
copy of this Psalter, is now known
to exist, and the- words are exactly
as here reprinted.
The third line of the second verse
is worth noticing. In Daye’s Psalter
this, ran:
“We are his flock’, he doth us feed,”
In the Anglo-Genevan Psalter pub
lished in 1561, “flock” is spelled
“folks/’ But in an edition of 1585,
printed In London, probably through
a printer’s error transposing the
letters o and 1, the word appears as
“flock,” which has been its common
but not invariable form, ever since.
This is to be regretted as altering,
and that not for the
Kethe’s conception
tho
ths
oiir
and
the
word folk as a synonme for people’
attend
Strat-
engag-
unto;
Kame
to age endure.
version of the
in very c’omimon
to all English-
The original is
been
the
O|d
•the
had expanded jnto the
God who desired the
service of all people
of whom He was Father
better, Mr.
which foilowls'
translation of the Bishop’s Bible
poetical version which preceded
so-called, authorized version,
ran, “for we are His people and
Sheep of His Pasture.” The
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25 YEARS AGO
Ernie, the son of Mr. Samuel
Hicks, Usborne, sustained a broken
ankle by jumping form the rig when
his team became frightened last
week on the boundary line between
Usborne and Biddulph.
Mr. T. E. Handford won the first
prize, a $35.00 roller at the Clinton
spring show last week, with his
team of Agricultural horses.
Melinda Wendland left Tuesday
for Sebringville, where she will live
with her grandmother and
school. i
Mr. Win. Melville went to
ford last week where he lias,
ed to work with Messrs. Kurtze &
McLean.
Dr. Homer Kinsman, of Sarnia,
spent Sunday with relatives in town.
His ]ittle daughter, Margaret, re
turned with him.
Messrs. -Sam Sanders, Exeter N-,
and Paul Boa, Jr., of Kippen, left
Tuesday for Halbrite, Assa., where
they will spend the summer.
Mr. John ,3haw, who has been en
gaged, with Mr. C. B. Snell as elec
trician has accepted a similiar posi
tion in Listowel and went with his*
family to that town Tuesday.
Messrs. Hunter and Harton, im
plement agents have dissolved part
nership. The former wi]l carry on
the business, the latter intends" go
ing west.
The woodwork at the Canning
Factory was commenced this week?
Mr. Wm. Balkwill is the foreman.
last
the
are
by Mabel Eljiott and Dorothy Haz
elwood. .Some literary numbers
were -gf/ven: “The House iby* the
Side of the Road” by Marybelle
Duffield and poems from the book
“Let Nothing You Dismay” a book
written by George S'hervill, of Eng
land, were read by Clark Shervill.
Severn] mouth organ selections by
Norman Williamson, a newcomer to
our community were greatly appre
ciated, Mrs. Brooks was his accom
panist. Interesting and humorous
readings: “When P.a’s Sick'” by Ma
bel Elliott; “Pa and the Burglar”
by Dorothy Hazelwood; “The Mes
sage of Easter’’ by Jean Morley
brought to a close a most enjoyable
program. Mrs. Hazelwood pro
nounced the benediction which clos
ed the meeting. Afterwards those
present took part in a few contests,
week
neat
away
at
15 YEARS AGO
Mr. John Luxton delivered a fair’
chunk of a hog in town
that 'brought the owner
sum of $80.2'5.
The following teachers
for the holidays: Miss Quinn,
Kitchener; Miss Dobson, at Toronto
and Miss Quackenbush at Merlin.
Miss E. Down, of Albert Street,
has sold her residence property to
Mr. M. Elford, of Usborne, who in
tends moving to town next fa]l.
Master Fred Manns, son of Mr.
Gordon Manns, of Brantford and
formerly of Exeter had a miraculous
escape form instant death in that
city on
working
building
in a bag
and he .was dropped out wit it. For
tunately he fell upon telegraph
wires which * broke his fall finally
ending in an ash barrel below.
Mr. Lome Hicks, son of Mr. An
drew Hicks, Centralia, received word
by telegram that he had been the
lucky winner of an Overland Five
car awarded by the Every Women's
World for having the correct ans
wers to a puzzle put on by them.
Mr. C. W. Robinson was in Strat
ford this week attending a meeting
of the Orange Order.
Miss Eloise Baird, of the Conserv
atory of Music at Brantford, is
spending the week at James Street
parsonage.
Miss Vera Muxworthy, teacher at
Palmerton, js spending the week
with her parents at Main Street
parsonage.
Saturday last. He was
on the fourth floor of the
when he became entangled
which was being swept out JF, . .. .. ~
and sed
But every
i
Book Salesman: “This book will
do half your work.”
Business Man: “Good; I'll
two.”
WHALEN
take
The Y. P. S. held their regular
meeting in the church with a small
er attendance than usual. The pro
gram was prepared by the Literary
committee and Mrs, Will Brooks
was in the chair. Mrs. John Hazel
wood led in prayer, Ruth Hodgson
read the Scripture Losson, Tho to
pic “The Cross of Christ” was taken
by Dorothy Hazelwood; “On The
Easter Morning” sung by Jean Mor
ley, Jean Ogden and Maida Morley
was very much enjoyed as was also
the duett, “My Mother’s Bible” sung
.slats’ diary
Friday—Ant Emmy had a letter
frum her neffew over in Jackson
caunty and he
has been a going
to -college for sev
eral yrs. and now
he sa\ys he is a
going to be Roads
skoller. Ant Emy
thinks that will be
a. mitey nice thing
and mebby they
will get sum de
sent roads now in
Jackson County.
-Saterday—Wei]
ma was skarred
tonite. After pa
got payed and
cum homt he tuk
a Nap and when
he awakened up
why ma was his-
tericle
she had lost her ring,
thing was all rite after a wile be-
cuz pa found the ring in his pocket.
But they was a five $ bill gohe.
(Sunday-—-Well I gess ma and Mrs.
Gillem will Quit rdieing around to
gather enny more. Mrs. Gillem was
a giveing her huSband fits today
and ma agreed with her and now
Mrs. Gillem wont spetak to ma at
all.
Munday-—We]l we had are gener
al test today and I think I will get
a good grade. A lot of them got
stuck on the kwestion What is a
Senator but I remembered seeing
him with a Beard and a horses bod-
dy, so Igss mebby I got 1 on the
rest.
Teusday—Ma ast Joe Hix if he
that times wood be enny better if
they wood bring back beer agen
and Joe replyed and sed well if we
had beer it would sent like old
times was better anyway.
Wensday—-Well the skool board
says they wi]l half to close the sk'ool
a month early this spring unless
they get sum more money. Well I
spose it will be just are luck for the
sltool bond to got the money,
Thirsday---Mrs. Crunch is offly
kind Hearted but she ail so loves to
fish so now She ha fixed up ft Hite
without no hook on it sb she wont
hajf to hurt the little Indigent fish.
ZURICH
Mr. Clayton Bossenberry and Mr.
Herman Messinger, of Detroit, spent
the week-end at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Wagnr.
Mrs. Lennis Callfas and children,
of Kitchener, visjted with her par
ents Mr. and Mrs. A. Melick re
cently.
Mr and Mrs. E. E. Weido and
daughter Dorothy were Sunday vis
itors in Goderich.
Mr. Clayton Hoffman, who spent
his vacation at his home here has
returned to Galt to resume his du
ties as principal of one of the
schools there.
Mrs. A. Aulerick and Miss Eliza
beth Truemner, of Detroit, vjsited
for a few weeks with Mr. and Mrs.
A. Prang.
Mr. David Jeromette, of the Blue*
Water Highway is pi the London
hospital taking treatments on his
eyes.
Mr. Lawrence Corrjveau, of De
troit, is spending a few weeks with,
relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Manson, who
have lived for the past year at Hen
sail have moved back to their farm
on the Goshen Line. Mr. and Mrs.
Lome D. Manson, who have been liv
ing on the farm have moved to
Thorndale.
Word lias been received of the
death of Mr. Martjii Schweitzer
which took place in San Antonio,
Texas. Deceased was well known.’
in Zurich having lived here a few*
years before moving south. He was'
born and raised in the Dashwood!
district later going west and locat
ing at Cavelier, N. D., Mr. Sweitzer,
was in his 6Sth year. His late wife
was Miss Doljy Morenz, of Zurich,
predeceased him in 192*6. (He is
survived by an adopted daughter
one sister and four bortliers.
FORMER EXETER LADY DIES
The death took plains in Blenheim
•on Thursday of last week of a form
er resident of Exeter, in the person
of Mrs. Emma Soutlicott, widow of
the late Edwin H. Spacknian. Her*
husband predeceased her foiy two
years' and since his passing deceas
ed 'had been in frail health. Ten
days ago she suffered a severe ill
ness, culminating in pneumonia and
complications!, which she was unable
to withstand. She and her late
husband moved to Blenheim more
than 40 years ago from Exeter, and
had lived there continuously until
their death. She is survived by 3
daughters and one son, Freda and
Fred, at home; Mrs. G. C. Ruther
ford and Mrs. Gordon Wilson, also
of Blenheim. One brother, Fred
Soutlicott, of Venice, Cal., survives.
The funeral was held on Saturday,
afternoon at the family residence by,
Rev. H. V. Workman, and interment
in Evergreen cemetery in Blenheim.;
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