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.Silo filling is nearly done,
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Sunday School Lesson
ISAIAH
(Portraying the Suffering Servant)
Sunday, -October 6th—Isaiah 52:13
to 53;12; John 19:17-37.
Golden Text
With His stripes we are healed.
(Isaiah 53.5.)
One .of the most convincing evi
dences of the divine inspiration of
the Bible is its predictive prophecy.
The Old Testament contains hun
dreds of such ip;ro.phecies, written by
men divinely inspired centuries or
millenniums, .before the facts pre
dicted .came to pass. Those • pro
phecies were fulfilled to the letter
in minutest detail. No other book
in the possession of mankind can
offer any such divine .credentials as
these.
One of the greatest Messianic (that
is, relating to thd Messiah) iprophec-
ecies in the Old Testament is Isaiah
53. It was written by the pTppliet
Isaiah seven centuries before the
Son of 'God became man, lived on
this earth, died and rose again. Yet
it describes with photographic ac
curacy the experiences that Israel’s
Messiah was to have as He became
the Saviour of the world.
Isaiah was a Hebrew; and the He
brews throughout the Old Testament
naturally looked for the coming of
their .Messiah as a person of regal
glory and power, one who- should
reign over Israel and make David’s
Kingdom the leading nation of the
world. Yet here in this. Hebrew
prophet, describing Israel’s Messiah
as a suffering servant, coming in
humility, unrecognized, despised and
rejected, and dying a shameful
death. The fact that a Hebrew
prophet could thus foretell the ex
periences of his nation’s Messiah
was itself a miracle of inspiration.
Our lesson shows Jesus Christ in
the depths and on the heights. The
experiences of Christ, voluntarily
accepted, are set forth briefly, yet
fully, in .Philipians 2:5J11, which
should be read and used as part of
this lesson.
The lesson begins with God’s word
that “My servant shall deal pru
dently. -He shall be exalted and ex
tolled, and be very high.” Here is
Christ in His exaltation. His wisdom
is faultless, infalible, final. His ex
ultation is such as created man can
never know, the exaltation of God
Himself, with “the name which is
above every name.” ,
But immediately the passage in
Isaiah goes on to tell that this ex
alted Son of God shall become an
astonishment of men. “His visage
was so marred more than any. man,
and his form more than the sons of
men.” Here is a prophetic glimpse
of the awful sufferings of Christ at
the’time of His crucifixion. A well-
known commentator says: “The lit
eral rendering is terrible; ‘so mar
red from the form- of man was His
aspect that His appearance was not
that of a son of man’—i.e., not hu
man—the effect of the brutalities
described in Matthew 26-27.”
Then at once the prophecy risfes
to the heights again, and we are told
that this Man, go brutally persecuted
shall deal with “many nations,” and
that the mouths of kings shall be
closed before Him, as He declares
things that earthly (kings have never
seen or heard.
This brings us back to the amaz
ing prophecies in the second Psalm,
where we read >o,f the kings and rul
ers of the earth rebelling against
God and Christ, as 'Russia is doing
today, and then -..the awful satire
from .Heaven: “He that sitteth in
the heavens shall laugh: the Lord
shall have them in derision,” break
ing them “with a rod of iron” and
dashing them “in pieces, like a pot
ter’s vessel.”
These are glimpses of the Messiah
Saviour, and King in His glory; the
most of our lesson is. the other pic
ture; His suffering in o.ur behalf.
The strange and heart-breaking
words ‘of the pTophecy cannot be
paraphrased; they have come to- ue
down through the ages in their, pa
thos and beauty, revealing to us
God’s plan of salvation for lost sin
ners, the only Gospel, the only way
Of redemption. Here te God’s descrip
tion of the way His Son becomes our
Saviour:
“He is despised and rejected of
men; a man of sorrows, and ac
quainted with grief, . , . Surely He
hath bore our griefs and carried our
sorrow . . , He was wounded for
our transgressions; He wa$ bruised
for our inquities; the chatisement
of our peace was upon Him; and
with iHifi stripes we are healed. All
we like sheep have gone astray; we
have turned every one to His own
way; and-the Lord hath laid on Him
the iniquity of us all. He was " op
pressed, and He was afflicted, yet
He opened not His mouth, He is
brought as a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers
is dumb so He openeth not His
mouth.”
The chapter as a whole makes cry
stal-clear God’s plan of salvation,
and the glorious triumph of the Sa
viour who “shall see of the travail
of His soul, and shall be satisfied: by
His knowledge shall My righteous
servant justify many; for He shall
bear their inquities.”
It is striking fact" that there are
twenty-five prophecies concerning
Christ in different parts of the Old
Testament that were fulfilled to the
letter within twenty-four hours at
the time of His arrest, trial and eru-
cigixion.
It will make interesting study in
any 'Sunday School class to go thro’
the verses in these two chapters of
Isaiah and make a list of all the pro-
pesied details of the exaltation of
Christ, and a separate list of all the
prophesied details of his humiliation.
This brings out in sharp relief the
mystery and wonder of God’s plan of
redemption, which no human mind
could have conceived.
ENGLAND’S GLORY
There are some people who delight
■in baiting John Bull. To all such
we commend the following news
item from the London Times. It is
work; like this which makes England
great. We may associate cathedrals
with crowns and coronets and the
swish of exquisite silks and per
fumes costly beyond a king’s ran
som, but this news story makes us
think of Galilee and the pool at
Bethesda:
“Seven hundred deaf and dumb
people took part in a service at St.
Paul’s Catherdal on 'Sunday, arrang
ed fo,r the athletes attending the
Fourth International Games for the
Deaf, in London. They represented
14 different nationalities, and could
not, of course, understand finger
spelling and lip-reading in England.
“An international language of na
tural signs—a kind of Esperanto far
the deaf—was used by the officiat
ing clergy, some of whom were
themselves deaf. One after another
the chaplains and missioners went
into the pulpit .and voicelessly act
ed the prayers, hymns, and psalms.
Their looks and gestures were read
with obvious ease by every foreign
guest in the congregation. The Rev.
Vernon Jones, who, has been inter
ested in wonk: for the deaf for 22
years, preached the sermon in this
international signs alphabet and
everyone—French, ..- Belgians, Ger
mans, tSwedes, Finns, Danes, Aus.-
trians and Hungarians—understood.
His silent sOrm-oim was attentively
■followed, and many elaborated it in
finger sign to their neighbors. Boys
and girls in uniform of iScouts and
Guides interpreted it to elderly
people whose sight was dim. Canon
Sheppard finally pronounced the
benediction..”
The laying hen to a delight to her owner. Prices of the cackle
berries keep the farmers smiling.
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What of the attention now being paid to that prize calf once
display with so much interest at our fall fairs?
A prize fight is a miserable .affair, no matter what way you
look at it. When such an affair leads to colour strife and to race
riots it is high time for the public to take notice.
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Some folk1 who disregard- the rules fo.r sane motor driving do
not object to being called speed fiends. They become quite angry,
however, when they are called fools and the magistrate fine® them
and punishes them for their inexcusable folly.
You may not have agreed with all that lady radio talker said,
the other night. But there is one thing that we all agreed upon:
For clearness of statement and good articulation and for sustained
quality of voice she outdictanced the high average of our radio
talkers. Women by right have a high place in Canadian public
life,
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFICULT
We attended a farm sale this week that gave us occasion to
stop and take notice. A farmer 5 years ago bought a neat little
farm that he worked with skill and diligence. Everything was
going well with him. Little by little he stocked up and furnished
his farm, till it was a really good, going concern. Severe sickness
overtook him this summer. The sale was the result. The farm
was bought for $5,000. It sold for $3,000. These figures are ap
proximate. We have here something like a rural tragedy.
JUSTIFIED
If the League of Nations had nothing elee it has justified its
existance in holding back the threatened Italo-Ethopian war. It
has secured the nations time to think and to adjust themselves.
When the war clouds became ominous the League afforded a gath
ering place and a basis flor settlement for the peace makers and
the negotiators. That in itself is a great deal. Indeed, high hopes
are entertained that the League may yet cause the disputants to
listen to the better angels of their nature.
WE’LL SEE
Public opinion is veering from the old Charivari custom. For
the most part these gatherings amount to nothing more than a
good natured prank where exuberant youth blows off surplus
eteam. In fact the gathering is taken as a maiuc of esteem that
the newly, weds would regret were the revellers not present. How
ever, the rowdy element is obtruding itself and fun is turning into-
mischief, and pranks are being replaced by lawlessness. Very
properly grave authority is stepping in to remind the youth that
people who attend to their own business must be protected on every
occasion. Anyone who makes a nuisance of himself in this country
simply must take the consequences. There is not a youth in this
country that does not know when he steps beyond the bounds of
propriety. Magistrates know this and are poor affairs when they
are not governed accordingly.
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FIRE DESTROYS DARN
IN GODERICH TOWNSHIP
GODERICH—A fire that started
at 4 o’clock Sept. 24th in the barn
on the farm cf Harold Montgomery,
concession five, Goderich Township,
resulted in the total loss of the
building, grain, stock and imple
ments. Damage is estimated to be
in the thcu-ands cf dollars. The loss
is covered partially by insurance.
Shingle* <>n the house and a
neighbor’s strawstack were ignited
by sparks, but saved by the efforts
of neighbors. Windows in the house
were shattered by the intense heat.
Included in the loss were 100
tone- of hay, 2,0b 0 bushels of grain,
16 pigs, 10 calves and a- horse and
the farm implements.
TWO UNHURT IN
PECULIAR MISHAP
One Car Crashes Train Near St.
Marys; Second Driver Also Involv
ed.
Two persons escaped injury when
their cars became involved in a pe
culiar -double accident after one of
the machines had crashed into a St.
Marys-Ingersoll mixed C.P.R. train,
east of St. Marys on the 10th con
cession, recently.
Gordon Hubbard of -St. Marys,
driving a car owned by Lloyd Greg
ory of the 10 th concession, East Nis-
souri, was travelling south on the
road when he crashed in the last
coach of the mixed passenger and
freight train. Members of the train
crew were unaware of the accident
and the train went right on to In
gersoll.
Miss Elliptt, of Ingersoll, driving
in the opposite direction .slowed
down while the train went by and
then when she saw the other car
crash into the -ditch, became confus
ed, lost control of her own machine
and sent it into the game ditch and
into a farmer’s field. The London car
was not badly damaged but the car
driven -by Hubbard was completely
wrecked with the driver escaping
by a miracle .
G,P.R. officials did not learn
whether or not the crash had dam
aged the last coach of the train- which
was struck by the car. Vision at this
particular crossing is good in one
direction, the direction 'from which
the train was coming, and the driv
er of the car could give no reason
for not seeing it.
HOW TO BOOST BUSINESS
CATTLE DROVER DIES
Dublin district lost one of Its
most prominent citizens when Jas.
Cronin, veteran cattle drover died
at the age of 70 years.
He was born in St. Columban,
Huron County, and ,had spent his en-
tire lifetime in Dublin district. Ha
leaves besides his wife, three sons,
one daughter, four brothers and
four sisters.
SEAFORTH MAN INJURED
Kenneth McLean of Seaforth, re*
ceived painful cuts to' the face when
a light truck which he was driving
crashed into a tractor truck, owned
by the Department of Public, High
ways, at the Mor.risbank corner,
north of Brussels, on Thursday, The
highway truck was driven by Leslie
M, Clayton, who escaped serious in
jury. Three stitches were required
to close a wound over McLean’s left
eye.
GOODS STOLEN AT CLINTON
The Clinton Hardware Company’s
store- was broken into- during Wed
nesday night and a number of ar
ticles stolen. It appears that pre
parations for a hunting trip were
under way, as the .loot included some
ammunition, a hunting knife, flash
lights and jackknives. Entrance was
effected by forcing open a door at
the rear of the building and smash
ing a glass panel in a door to gain
access to the main store.
HURON EXPERIMENTS WIJH
NEW TYPE OF ROADWAY
The County of Huron is experi
menting with a new type of roadway
on a mile long strip west of Bruce-
field in Stanley Township. If the
process is satisfactory, it is expected
it will be used where needed on all
country roads.
The process, new in Huron County
although it has been proven else
where, involves the use of salt, -of
which there is an unlimited supply
at GodeTich. The Stanley Township
■road was scarified to, loosen the
packed surface, then 25 tons of
salt were laid. A road machine was
then mixed to salt and gravel and
the mixture was leveled.
Forty miles of Huron roads, pre
viously had been treated with a mix
ture of clay and calcium chlo-irde.
BRIDE ELECT SHOWERED
An enjoyable social event topk
Iplace at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Revington, Lucan, when friends
numbering around 70, gathered to
honor Miss Thelma Blair R.N., The
home was beautifully decorated in
a color scheme of pink and white
streamers with pink and white as
ters and autumn flowers. Two decor
ated wagons qf gifts were presented
to the guest of honor, drawn by
little Elaine and Lyle Revington,
dressed as bride and groom. Miss
Blair was completely taken by sur
prise, but responded in a very able
manner. After the presentation a
short program wais given, a reading
by Miss Florence Mitchell, Centralia,
and a solo by little Miss Cook, of
Granton. A delicious lunch was
served following the program.
Ho Retained Possession
An eccentric old farmer once put
up the following notice: “I will give
this field to any one who is reallv
contented.”
When an applicant came he would
say: “And are you really contented7
The usual answer was: “I am.”
“Well,” would rejoin the farmer,
“what do you want with my field?”
WE BIT ONCE MORE
Once more this continent has fallen before the pugilistic fever.
Once more folk have staked their hard earned money that they
greatly need for business, or, it may be, for bread on a contest be
tween two persons neither'of whom has contributed one iota to the
progress of the race. All of which proves that people have no encl
of money to sipend wh&n the highpressure salesman and the astute
but conscienceless advertiser and the unscrupulous promoter get in
their work. Here is what th Hamilton 'Spectator has to say:
“Is it not time that sportsmen began to view these ballyhooed
heavyweight pugilistic encounters in their true perspective? When
a fight adds no -cubit to the stature of sport and results in kindling
racial passions, surely the moment has arrived for a reconsideration
of our attitude towards boxing.
“We yield seend place to none in our admiration for the man
ly-art,” but when it is degraded by commercialism and results in
arousing the basest passions >of the spectators it ceases to be the
“manly art” any longer and must be placed among those contests
which made Rome hysterical during its decline, and which have
been abandoned by all peoples having any pretence to civilization."
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IT’S UP TO THE YOUTH
■News columns tell of escapades of the youth of Western Uni
versity that do anything but bring credit to that institution. The
writer witnessed some of the performances o f those students
last Wednesday morning and is surprised at the restraint of the big
daily whose columns we refer to. We need not go nto the miserable
details qf what went on. Business men were annoyed, business
men whose money went to the upkeep of the University. People
on the street corners and on the streets were obliged to leave the
sidewalks where motor traffic was at its busiest. Ordinarily good
behaviour was utterly ignored by the youths who are being provided
with- educational advantages at the public expense. The whole
procedure had but one redeeming feature, the expression of puzzled
disguest on the faces of all who witnessed episodes characterized
by coarse dull vulgarity unrelieved by a simple feature of whole
some fun.
Further, we have'the best authority for saying that at a recent
conventoin of youth called together to train leaders to lead other
youth in religious work, in religious work, mark you, that some of
the delegates did not get to their billets till 2 a.m. while others did
not get to their billets till 4 a.m. Comment on such conduct is
not necessary. To mention it should be sufficient. If youth -does
not know what to do in view of such conduct when attention is- call
ed to things as they are, the sooner civilization gets itself a blanket
and takes to the reserve the better,********
JEW BAITING
In view of the Jew baiting so popular in some quarters-it is
well to give attention to the following remarks of the Hamilton
.Spectator, in this connection we draw attention to tile remarks
made in our hearing by a young, farmer‘ Who is niaking steady pro
gress. During the last five years he has found himself ahead in
th(e business game every year. “Farmers who have kept tq their
knitting have -done all right. If they rambled all over 'Creation,
had a whale of a time generally, and bit off what they could not
chew, ibf course they/ have taken a good licking. I have noticed
that the young farmer who has been left a good deal of real estate
with some money to boot along with a swelled head and bad habits
has gone to the wall. There are all degrees of this class and they
have suffered according to their folly.”
Having failed to drive large established Jewish business houses
out of ousiness, the Nazis are planning to take them over on the
instalment plan. The method proposed by the Nazi party’s Econ
omic Information agency is the application of the iron heel to busi
ness. It would reduce the value of a Jewish business, buy it from
the proprietors at a “bargain” price, and sell it to good “Aryans”
on time.
The trouble with the Jews in Germany was that they were suc
cessful. They heeded the fable of the ante and the flies; while the
Aryans were wasting their substance in the degenerate post-war
days, they pursued the virtues of thrift and self-restraint. The
Germans now lack the reichspfennings necessary to buy out Jewish
businessmen, and must resort to the time-payment system to seize
the fruits of the endeavour of others.”
Let’s sit down and whine-
Until business is good.
Let’s grumble and pine
Until business is good.
Let’s kick and complain,
And display our distain,
From all boosting refrain,
Until business is good.
Let’s quit eating meat
Until business is good .
Let’s turn off the heat
Until business is good. s
Let’s buy no more clothes,
Or attend any shows,
And shut off the hose
Until business is good.
Let’s pay no more taxes
Until business is good.
Let’s lay down our axes
Until business is good.
Let’s build no more schools,
Or obey traffic rules,
And pawn all our jewels
Until business is good.
Let’s not shine our shoes
Until business is good.
Let’s holler for booze
Until business is good.
Let’s, blame all our cares
On the bulls and the bears
And rest in our chairs
Until business is good.
Let’s hide all our cash
Until business is good.
Let’s live upon hash
Until business is good.
Let’s stop paying bills-
And quit taking pills
And shiver with chills
Until business is good.
Let’s quit paying rent
Until business is good.
Let’s live in a tent
Until business is good.
Let's go without socks
And quit -winding clocks *
And invest in no stocks,
Until business is good.
Let’s stop driving cars
Until business is good.
And quite smoking cigars
Until business is good.
Let’s stop e'ating pie
And lay down and die
So the undertaker will cry;
“My! business is good.”
By Lion Frank W. Savage
“Austin Chicago Lion’s Club
RECEIVES SENTENCE
Dr. R. M. Lambe.it, Strathroy vet
erinary, and live stock trader was
sentenced to one year determinate
and one year less one day indeter
minate in the Ontario Reformatory,
Guelph, after being fo.und guilty of
converting trust money to his own
use. County Judge Joseph Wareing
passed judgment and sentence re
cently. Before giving judgment His
Honor stated, that without doubt
Lambert fraudulently converted a
sum of money in access of $1,5'00 to
his own use when he held this mon
ey in trust. This was the profits
from live stock deals in which Rich
ard iBurgess, Tilbury and Charles
McLean, western buyer, were in
share with Dr. Lambert.
Play Safe
Poilly—Shall I go to a mind-read
er or a palm reader?”
Paul—Make it a palm-reader. Un
doubtedly you have a palm.
W. C. T. U.
The regular meeting of the W. C.
T. U. was held on Thursday, Sept.
/19th in Main St. Church, Miss Hart
noil led in the Devotional Exercises
emphasizing God’s care flor each in
dividual. Mrs. Pearce presided over
the remainder of the meeting. The
Clip sheet on narcotic drugs was
studied. It showed the great need of
knowing the danger of the effects of
narcotics, In the United States,
many cities, for the last six years
have observed the last week of Feb
ruary as a special anti-narcotic Edu
cation week when instruction .on this
subject has been given by the spok
en and written word in pulpits and
the press and the schools and clubs
of bureaus of health and education
and by public officials. The League
of Nations is seeking to -check the
evil by limiting the world supply.
Forty-four nations including Cana
da’s have signed the Narcotic Con
vention Articles of the League o'£
Nations tvihch will become interna
tional law where satisfied by the 25
countries most directly affected.
At Christmas Turkey took this im-
portant move. The following is
from the “Globe” Turkey’s Christ
mas gift to the world was a decree
by President Kemal. The decree
closed three narcotic factories; re
stricted 'poppy planting and pledg
ed support of the League’s program
for .restriction of narcotic traffic.
Switzerland has greatly reduced the
manufacture of horin and morphine
and both Japan and China are wag
ing a vigorous educational campaign
against the opium traffic.
Both Old and Young Liable
To Summer Complaints
Few people escape an attack of diarrhoea, dysentery(
or some other bowel complaint during the summer
months.
These attacks may be slight or they may be severe.
You Can’t tell when they seize you where they are
going to end. Let them run for a day or two and
see how weak and prostrate they will leave you.
On the first sign of any looseness of the bowels
get a bottle of Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild Straw
berry. Take a few doses and see how Quickly you
will get relief*