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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1935-01-17, Page 7THURSDAY, JANUARY 17th ,1935 • Salada Orange Pekoe Blend will prove a sheer THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE This te no time for political wisecracking. ******** Sunday School Lesson PETER’S LESSON IN HU3IBLE SERVICE Sunday, Jan. 20th—John 13:1-17,T. Peter 5:5. Golden/ Textl: All of you be 'Subject one to an­ other and be clothed with humility. (I, Peter 51:5) When God made a plan of salva­ tion, and carried out His plan, we may be sure that He did not over­ look anything. He made His p'lan to redeem lost sinners before ever man had sinned, * even before man was created. The plan, required "the Lamh slain from from the fountain of the world” (Rev 13:8), and that Lamb was His only Son. The Father and the Son stopped at nothing to save lost sin­ ners. and to keep them saved. The opening verise of the lesson is a long one, and is packed with am­ azing facts and meanings'. At least ■six great truths stand out. 1. "Now before the feast of tlie l>assover.” More than 1,500 years earlier God had given Israel, through Moses, the passover ceremonial feast A male lamb without blemish was slain, its blood was put on the door­ posts of the house, the flesh was eat­ en according to' divine directions,) For 1,500 years the Jews1 had ob- •served this ceremonial, which point­ ed through the centuries to the death of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, whose, blood was- to be "shed for many for the remission of sins” (Matt. 26:28.) 2. Christ was .about to partake of this passover sup’per with His dis­ ciples; and it was the last time in the history of the world when the passover was observed (before its. ful­ fillment in His own deatfh. 3. ‘‘When Jesus knew that His hour was come.” Nothing in the events of the Lord’s redemptive work took Him by surprise. Hits betray­ al, arrest, trial, conviction, crucifix­ ion, resurrection were all know to Him before the foundation of the world. 4. "That He should depart out of •this world unto the Father.” The Father and the S'on had been togeth­ er from all eternity. He had come to earth to do His1 Father’s will by dying for sinners, and He was return to the Father after’ He could say, "It is finished.” 5. "Having loved His own wlhicli were in the would.” The love of the Father and the Son for "the world” of lost sinners is an amazing and beautiful thing. For sinners are, by nature, enemies of' God. "'But God commendeth His love toward ug' in that, while we were yet sinners,' Chriist died for us . . . when we were enemies, we were relconciled to God by the death of His Son” (Rom. 5: 8. 10). 6. "He loved them unto the end,” God’s love is everlasting. These dis­ ciples all failed Christ'Utterly; next week’s lesson tellis us of Peter’s blas­ phemous denial that he ever kew Christ; at the time of His arrest, "they all forsook Him, and fled” (Mark 14:50). That made no> dif­ ference in Christ’s love for them. “Love never faileth” (1 Cor. 13:8). therefore "He loved them unto the end.” These six amazing truths are the foundation, as it were, for the events, of the incident that followed. Satan had now “put into the heart of Jud­ as Iscariot ... to betray Him.” Sat­ an had been the enemy of Christ from the beginning, and will con­ tinue his active enmity until he is cast into the lake of fire. The Lord knew that Judas was the betrayer,' and He knew that "the Father had given all fchingis into His hands.” He knew also that HO was* the Creator and the Redeemer of the universe1— and, having all this knowledge, He yet took the place of a servant be­ fore these very men and performed the most menial of services for them all, even including Judas! Laying aside His outer garments, He took a towel a-md a basin of water "and began to wash the dis­ ciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.” Why? He was teaching them a lesson that every believer, in Christ and born-again child of God has needed from that day to thiis. Petor of course, protested. He did noit want his Lord to wtdslh his. feet. Christ explained that Peter could hot then understand the meaning of this but would, uhdersitand later. As Peter continued his protest, the LO'rd' (startled him’ with the answer; "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part wit’h me,” Then Peter, always ready with suggestions to improve what Christ was doing, answered: "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.” Then came a great lesison in the sufficiency of 'the Gospel of salva­ tion, and also in the need of re­ peated cleansing. “He that is wash­ ed (bathed) needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit.” The disciples, like’all be­ lievers, were "bathed” and therefore "clean every whit” because of their faitjh in "Christ. But if we are soil­ ed by sin of any kind in our walk, as the sandal-shod feet are in walk­ ing on the dusty highway, cleansing is needed. So the apostle John wrote many years later, by inspiration: “If we confess; our sins-, He is faithful a.nd just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). It was a les'son also in (humility and loving service. "If I then your Lord and Master, /have washed your feet, ye also ought to weigh one an­ other’s feet.” The Golden Text brings this ouit; and so does) Paul’s word: “Bear ye one another's bur­ dens, and SO' fulfil tihe law of Christ” (Gal. 6:2). Let. us take from this lesson these seven great truths: 1 .The deity and eternal pre­ existence of Christ. >2. His omniscience. 3. His perfect and eternal love. 4. God’s foreordained plan of salvation. 5. The sufficiency of our sal­ vation in, Chrisit. 6. The need of repeated cleansing. 7. The duty and privilege of humble and loving service one ‘ of another. GODERICH STATISTICS There were more (births, mp-re marriages and fewer deaths in God­ erich in 1934 than in 1933 tihe of­ ficial vital statistics returns, just compiled, reveal. The figures, for 1934 and 1933 .respectively are: births, 91 and 7'3; marriages, 31 and 27; deaths, 76 and 79. The population of Goderich de­ creased bjr 39 last year, according to figures just released b<y the assess­ ment department, there being a de­ lay in compilation owing tlo- a change of officials. The present population is‘given as 4,3 44 as compared with 4,383 a year ago. There is very little change in the assessment figures, except income assessments, whiich shows a reduction of nearly $7/0’00. Babe Adopted by Town and County GODERICH—(With , legal proceed­ ings in juvenile court completed, a splendid home has been found for little "Miss Huron,” the t|wo-year- old, six-pound baby girl formeralliy adopted in> December jointly by the county of Huron and town of Wing­ ham, which municipalities are to share the cost of maintenance. When the undernourished wlait was brought to Whigham hospital three months ago it was a mere skeleton, weighing less .than six pounds, although nearing -t|wo' years of age. Today the baby girl is fat and rosy cheeked. In juvenile court the 'baby smiled and chuckled, threw kisses to C. A. Reid, juvenile court judge threw out her arms to Pnovinciol Constable Me Goy and gave him a hug. In fact' the baby was most generous in throwing kisses, and they were of the loud smacking variety. Widespread interest and sympathy has been aroused by the tliny baby’s plight and already presents, are pour ing in. They include two. hospital cribs, a sleeping robe, a baby car-, rings and many little |bu't useful knick-knacks. There have been num- ehous callers at the home and o.ne wealthy gentileman has, pla/ced his automobile and his .chauffeur at the disposal of the baby and the mat­ ron. “Miss Huron” has been gaining steadily in Weight since she came under offcial supervision, weighing now nearly sixteen pounds/, a gain of over nine pounds in four months. The ibaby cannot walk but can gipeak a few word's. James—(Poor /Mike was found froz­ en to> deaith in bed this morning. John-—(Hdw did it happen? James.—'He married the janitor's' daughter, you know. A man is known by the company he keeps. ******** And the blacksmiths sing a merry song as the roads ‘become icy. « • * * * * * * Never, do owt for nowt; if ewer ee does do owt for nowt do. it for sen.” ******** Politicians will be wise to keep ballhoo in cold storage, Jack Cannuck is thinking. ******** We’re sick) of gangsters. We’ll soon have the gangsters shot or in jail. Will American youth please take notifce, ******** That snow has 'been a godsend. And how the "owrie” cattle have blessed the rain that has-filled up the farm wells. ******** z The truthful witness bent on telling the truth and on minding his own business is hard to beat, even in a great criminal trial with eminent counsel doing the cross-examining. ******** There is something very fine in breasting the stormy winds but when there is a fairly stiff gale full of January fog getting, in it® work commend us to a warm chair beside the stove with a jolly good book and a- .d'ish of (Spy apples. ******** Oh my, those poor K. C's. so rudely stripped of their millinery of one sort or another. We wondered why they, '.have 'been singing lately with so much unction “this vain world’s empty glory is cost­ ing me too dear.” Will the poor fellows be required to buy new gowns and things? This old world gives an unsophisticated chap an awful headache at times’ ******** BAB DAYS ARE THERE! Elections1 are Iosin’ the’r charm. Just fancy sittin’ in one’s dinin’ room, listenin' to the big fellas speilin’ fer all ther worth and .fella not bein’ able to shout “Yer all haywire! Ya don't know nothin’ about it! Yer a tratir to yer country!” no. matter what comes in over the wires. There’s no chance fori a fight ner fer ’n argyment with yer neiglibers ner nobody. Yev jist go sit there 'n take it. There’ no giftin’ half tight on good loyal whiskey and farin’ through the air .on the way home behind old Dick and Dexter shoutin’ 'n rarin’ like ole Ned. No1 siree! Them .good old days is all gone. Ye jest can’t bang a. radio, on the nose. The’s no shakin’ hands with the big bugs. Ther’s no watchin’ ther faces beamin’ ’n steamin’ up that whar .the big fella’s cussin’ the other fella. The hull thing is as tame as a last year’s bird’s nest and as harmless’n all that as the burnt end .of a rye straw. The wust uv it is that Betty’ll soon know as much about govern­ ment as the res' of us. In fact some wimmin '11 soon know as much politics ac the .average man—all .but the swarin’. M* ******* WHAT ABOUT IT? Almost everywhere one hears the question "What arc we going to do about it?” People who talk this way have been dis­ cussing the social and economic and ejcclesia/stical situation con­ fronting us. Yes, confronting us and nothing less. On all sides we hear croakers telling us that everything is going to t'he dogs, "From, the /sole of the foot to. the crown of the head we are full ■of wounds and bruises and putrifying sores” they would have us believe. No words in holy scripture are as sweet in their mouths as “there is none that doeth /good, no not .one.” However, it is well to note that those who wail the loudest are doing the least to infuse new life into the present circumstances. They survey the vally of dry bones- that their imagination has created but have no plan whereby bone may come to his ‘bone to be covered with skin and breath to he given them. Worse still, these (crepe hangers find a piece of dir/ty linen .sweeter to their taste than is an all day sucker to a three year old. When asked “what are we going to do about it?” these folk airily tell the world that nothing can be done about it. - But something constructive can be done when the public is in earnest about "it.” The proof? 'Some people are finding their way out .and what some have accomplished others may do. First, let us remember that the good we have ihas 'been secured for us at a tremenduouisi cost of effort and treasure. These town­ ships and railroads and canals and mines and cities and towns and fisheries were not made ours by dudes and waiting maids.' These schools and ch.urtehes are not here because of some happy chance. Dame fortune did not send us our homes and our law and order. Courthouses and mighty industries and the blessed privilege of earning our daily bread did not come to us 'because of the incanta­ tions of some witch of Endor. No, our civilization has come to us under the blessing of God through the struggles and tears; and sacrifices of the best men and women of the race, great hearts of whom, the world is not worthy. Surely the first duty of every Canadian is tOi find .out the value of the jewel, to appreciate the priceless jewel -of which he now finds himself the possessor. The second step is to see that that jewel of which we are so justly proud is to have the setting that will cause it to show1 its best value to the world. The jewel is1 .ours. There is no, fault to he found therewith. With its settting no one is quite satisfied.’ It is our duty to see to it. up to the limit of our means to see that that jewel /shines and sparkles till its light 'becomes the life of every son of Adam. For we are free men, no matter who says anything to1 the contrary. If we have disabilities we have .brought them upon our­ selves. If we wear chains we have had our full share in forging them and rivetting them on our .ankles. If we 'have not freedom to buy and /sell where we will, we people have our full share in raising the traffic barriers. If we are in a .financial depression we humans have our full share in bringing it on. The old law that “Whatsoever a man soweth .that shall he also reap” still is as operative as it was 2000 years ago. A. But if what men have done men can undo, Men made slavery. Men abolished slavery and that by no/ miracle Put through greatly daring and greatly, enduring. As men .survey the evils of their time and wring their hands in thein self-imposed impotency the great Creator criest “Why stand ,ye here idle?” In a word, tire evils of the present day will not. be cured by wails and idle chatter. |Men must .see that the limitations of society as sochsty now exists are the outcome of the alction or the inactivity of society. No man these days can afford to- try to play Robinson Cfugo.. This is the law of .the jungle—< The law runs forward and back’—■ The strength of the pack is the wolf. And the strength of the wolf is the pack.” Each man among us must take up the white man’s burden. Yes, 'and every man who can lick a sipOon must be up and doing in a better way no matter how oi’ where he carries on. We have heard this sort of thing till we are tired of hearing about it, Yes, tired of hearing but not of doing, for those who sincerely strive are only too rare among us. We would swim but we don’t like the water. We’d adventure hut we shiver at the risk, at the danger, at the deprivation, and, let us be honest, we shiver at the labour. At the bottom we’re afraid of work. Yes, we’re afraid of the toil of compelling men who are able to work to get to work. We find it easier to .give a man an old pair of trousers than to insist that he labour with .us. We extend the helping hand but will not undertake to give skill and strength and willingness th the hand that is now idle and every day becoming more impotent. We allow our schools to continue teaching youth to be soft handed to allow our churches to teach an outworn creed and our govern* meht and business houses to practice methods that were obsolete before, the Frank had crossed the Rhine or the Huns had hurled Roman citizenship to ruin, if we are underlings, the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves, England’s wisest taught UU /centuries ago.. But more about this again. ' DANGEROUS It seems that Herr Hitler .is not satisfied with some of the things that British editors are writing about matters in the &arr and has sent word to John Bull, Esquire, that this sort of thing must be stopped. Let us see, didn’t some one by the name of Wil­ liam send word that the Contemptibles must be stopped? Yet these men were soldiers and not editors1! Adolph dear boy, be­ ware those nimble fountain pens! ******** DEFINE THE ISSUE There is no doubt in the world but that things financial and social are in anything hut a satisfactory condition. While labour is the lot of man tens of millions of humans simply cannot go forth to requited toil. That at least is what we are told. Men who say they know state that these millions with thinking brains and forming hands cannot function. Men like Ramsay Macdonald affirm that things cannot be light while the condition that brings about this unhappy pass continues. His gracious (Majesty. King George, speaks of anxieties. There are still other informed people who tell us one out of every thirty adult humans living in Am­ erica- is valuless as an economic factor. There are, too, in the seats/ of the mighty those who say that nature is over abundant. These affirm that this bounty should be destroyed whether the bounty consists in beef, pork or grain or other substance that exists in greater abundance that immediate consumption calls for. In the midst of this super abundance there exists. a poverty so grinding that millions of our people have not anything like sufficient food or clothing, Wealth and poverty exist side by side without the one being able to serve the other, no matter how high the goon intention of the rich man may be. On the -one hand we have .governments made up of able and benevolent men who are willing to do anything in the way of giving every subject the facilities' .for living a normal life. These governments, moreover, are pos­ sessed of unlimited wealth for carrying out their good intentions. And, further, the governments are supported by the cleverest men the beet universities can provide. 'Churches jn city and country alike, have exhausted the resources of benevolence and of piety to meet a situation unexampled in complexity and urgency. For, while church and state, 'corporations and individuals have been debating and planning and working with the utmost serious­ ness the patience of the sufferig multitudes has been sorely, tried. Indeed that patience is approaching the breaking point and even among much-enduring Anglo Saxons the earthquake and the storm of social and policital upheaval with all their retrogression to- bar­ barism may emerge at any time. In the meantime, no one has defined wh'at is wrong. We do not know what the real issue is. We have heard nO' end of talk about what ought to 'be done. Yet in all seriousness, we have not heard what, is the root cause of our distress. We need some fireman who will tell us where lies the centre oif the combustion that is consuming our civilization.We need some wise physician who will isolate the germ that has .polluted our life. /Till the issue is defined we must .continue stumbling into deeper calamity. We need some tone w/ho will go. a little deeper- than urging us to keep on with the method of trial and error that so far has done previous little to show us where our calamaties are springing from. .Still more do we need direction as to principles and measures, that will heal the hurt of our distressed civilization. We need one who will bring the salve rather than the one who will deepen the wound. Tricks and dodges have had their day. The mere opportunist has proven himself a poor affair. We need someone who will define the issue. More still, we require people who when the issue is defined will have the good sense to act wisely. HOME AT BAYFIELD DESTROYED BY fere BAYFIELD—Fire .of mysterious origin completely destroyed t'he home of Thomas Castle in the vil­ lage of Bayfield. Damage was esti­ mated at between $4/0(010 and $5,000 and was partly covered by insurance! The fire started in a room on tihe second floor of the frame house. The family was downstairs and did not learn of the fire until it was 'too late tio- save -anything on the second floor. (Some of the downstairs fur­ niture was saved from the flames. The members of the family were left with only the clotlhing they were wearing. Wiss Broadfoot Dies Suddenly Member of Pioneer Tuckersmith Family has Heard. Attack The sudden' death of Agnes Eliza­ beth Broadfoot which occurred early on Saturday at the home of ihe.r brother, Alexander Broadfoot in Tuckersmith came as a .shock to her friends and the whole community. Miss Broad'foot was in her u/sual health and wag coming down stairs with a lamp in her hand along with her mother, an aged lady in her 90th year, when s'he was seized with a heart attack and fell, expiring in­ stantly, Fortunotely the light went o-ut and did not ignite. The deceased lady who was high­ ly esteemed was a daughter/ of Mrs. Broadfoot and the late James Broad- fcot pioneers of Tuicker-smith. She was in her /55th year and a valued member: of -the Egmondville United Church. ( Surviving are her mother, two bro­ thers, Alexander and A. J. B^oadfoot and two sisters, Mrs. William Black and Mrs. George Black, all of Tuokr ersmith. The funeral took place on Monday from the residence of her brother, Alexander Bro ad foot, on the 4 th /con­ cession of Tuckersinith," interment took place in the Maitland Bank cemetery, Seaforth . WHALEN Miss Ruth Millson, o'f Lucan, spent -the week-end under the parental roof. Mr. Roy Parkinson, of Devizes, spent the week-end under the par­ ental roof. Mrs. (M'ilne Pullen was a recent visitor of her sister, Mrs. H. Hern, of Zion. The January W.M./S. meeting was held at Mrs. Frank -Gunning’s home cn Thursday afternoon last with twelve members and -two visitors present. (Mins. Harvey Squire was in charge. Following the opening exercises, Mrs. '.Hazelwood led in prayer and1 the Scripture lesson was read by Mrs. Roy iSwitzer. Several items of business were discussed and Mrs. Milne Pullen favored wiith a (piano solo. The Devotional Leaflet was read by Mrs. E. Squire. Singing and prayer closed the meeting. On Friday evening -at the church the annual ,S. S. meeting was held having been postponed from the pre­ vious week. The following officers were elected: Supt.. (Mir. J. Hazel­ wood; Ass’t, Supt., Mr. L. Gunning; Selc’y, Mr-. Will Morley; Treas., Mr. Wilson Morley; Pianists, Elva Mor­ ley, Ruth Hodgson, Velma Squire and Gladys Squire; (Miss. Supt., Mr. E. Squire; Adult Class teacher, Mr. Frank Gunning; teachers of other classes1, Mrs. W. Morley, Mrs. Hazel­ wood, iMns. E. Squire, Following this meeting “Family Night” was organi­ zed and the following officers were elected: president, Harvey French; Asst., Mr. Thos. Gunning; Sec’y, Gladys (Squire; Treas.. Howard Mior- ley; Organist, Elva Morley The /of­ ficers of the “Treasure Seekers” ■class for 1935 are as follows: Teach­ er. Mr. D. A. Johnson; Aset. Teacher Mr. John Hazelwood; P-res., Howiard' Morley; 1st Vice, Harold Hazelwood Sec’y, Ruth Hodgson; Treas., Mary Morley; Auditors, Will French and Grafton Squire. Pays to Advertise Bill—-“I hear you advertised for a wife. Any replies?” Ed.-—“Yes hundreds of ’em.” Bill—'“Good, what did they say?” Ed.—‘‘Oh, they all said, 'You can have mine’.” Headaches Have Their Use A Warning Something is Wrong 1 Blood J Bitters JJ Headache is not a disease, but a warning symptom that some dis­ ease is lurking in the body caused by the failure of -tlm system to rid itself of Waste and poisonous matter. Frequent headaches should not be allowed to continue. Their cause should be sought for and, when found, treatment should be directed towards the cause, not the symp­ tom. However, whatever the cause, you will find in B.B.B. a remedy to work in such a way that the headaches will eventually disap* pear and you should not bo further troubled with them.