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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1962-04-19, Page 4Patio 4 The Time$-Advocate, April 19, By REV. R. S. HIL,TZ He told His disciples "I go before you into Galilee and He has been ahead of them ever since. Some think of Him as a picture on .a stained glass i‘, l‘ac1 re1.111 whom eliersonality. He is with the ch N;tonvgesp and who love Him , IIc is with the businessmen for they recognize the truths which Ile spoke. He is with men and women as they earn their daily bread for He did the same Himself. Sometimes even the Church had tried to confine Hint, Studdert,Kennedy in .his War Poems refers to. Christ as walking not on Gennesaret but on the Thames. It is an up-to-date Christ that walks out upon the scene of our modern life. A modern Christian speaking of Easter has this lo say; 'It may well be in this second millenium of christian history that the world is in the throes of a new birth, when the christian message shall pass from the Western to the Eastern world. Within a short time Christ who has been crucified will take his bleeding hands to the Japanese who will Jay the lotus flower upon them to change the wounds of hate into scars of love, To the Chinese He will bring His bruised and torn body, and the halt, the lame, and blind,- and hungry and the famished will bring their healing hands and cover up from sight those imprints of a night forever past. To the people of India He will show His open wounded side and they Iyho sought their peace in Nirvana of unconsciousness will be drowned at last in a love that will heal their souls," Easter is a message to a world continually changing, it is a message that finds expression in goodwill and righteousness so well grounded and. expressed in the life and teachings of Christ. Al- fred Lord Tennyson thought of a changing world when he wrote: "The old order changeth, yielding place to new And Got! fulfills Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world," Easter is the promise of life ei•erlasting. For life beyond the grave we have the word of Christ. No poet, no philosopher has given us com- plete assurance as has Christ concerning the heavenly home. This hope for the future rests upon the nature and character of the eternal. Creator, anti is expressed in the .words; "In my 'Father's House are many mansions, I go to prepare a place for you.'' dispensed by Bill Smiley a living personality Family tragedy "I just want to be alone" Our thank The Usborne Township School Area Board would like to extent! their thanks to those pe ople who worked and voted for the central school project in the interests of better educational facia, ties for the children in the township on April 16, Supposing your family should lose you? What would their situation be? The fact is, they'd either be ade- quately provided for, or they'd face ,serious complications -- depending upon how expertly your will had been drawn, or if, indeed, you had left any will at all! The drawing of a ,will is a serious matter for all concerned — and the use of our Estate Planning Service can effect real savings for your estate, as well as ensuring your family's welfare, We invite your enquiries, Established in Sarnia in 1889, we hare grown, with this community, Your business in our hands is made secure by neighbourly, personal service. THE INDUSTRIAL MORTGAGE & TRUST COMPANY Head arritei Sarnia °Meer. Fares!, Petrolia Agent, — Wallocchwy, Dresden, Strathroy taa-161 • 41•••••••••••••••••••••••••• Shop EXETER for Easter Exeter 'tores Open Thursday Night 'HI 9 CLOSE ALL DAY GOOD FRIDAY Sugar and Spice I look forward with the keen- donate pretty heavy to other est anticipation to the annual charitie s, y' know"; and chtirch drive for funds. Every "Seems to me that preacher year I volunteer as a canvas- has a pretty good thing, free ser, because the experience house and all"; and "I ain't provides a capsule commen- gonna sign no pledge"; and a tary on human nature, concise hundred and forty others. but comprehensive, and I en- joy every minute of it. Lake everything else, the As civilization has become "drive for funds" has been more complicated. the need of elevated. Just as the caretaker the church for money has be- has become a Superintendent come greater. Maintenance of Maintenance, the battle of costs were low, I understand, the bucks has assumed the dis- in the catacombs. Light. heat guise of a Sector Project, or a and insurance didn't amount Visitation, or an .In-Gathering. to much, and the rector didn't But the victims aren't fooled. need a car allowance, and the They reco,mize you the minute telephone and the organ were- they open the door just as n't invented yet, and. Sunday readily as you penetrate the School supplies consisted of a Hallowe'en garb of the neigh- stick and some sand. boy's little girl, the minute she The the Christians made the says, "Twick or tweet. Mr. mistake of Moving to such in- Smiley, I bet you don't know element climates as that of who I am, I'm Mary." Britain, and that was the end of the infinitesimal budget, they had to move indoors. and There's ncthing new about the church needing money. I'll lay odds that St. Paul was tel• promptly walked up to the ling potential Christians to put ears into a morass of carpets up or shut up a couple of thou• and new roofs and stained sand years ago, nearly. And glass windows and furnaces he probably got the same ans• and seats and baptismal fonts wers then. and choir lofts and such. Such as: "Well, we've had a As if that wasn't enough, Jo. of expenses this year, with along came this crazy, social• the new house": and "It istic idea that ministers and seems the church is always their families should eat as looking for money" anti "Vv'e well or nearly es well, as the When the volunteer canvas- sers are in A fine frenzy of unselfish inspiration, their own commitment cards, or pledge cords, are handed Out to therm r s .0 ' 1 .'..f the chairman is on his toes. ntatt 1 Everybody defiant'v increases , his gtving by a buck or "I .- AWARDS Frank Howe Beattie Shield, best front page (Can- cent a week, glaring at his fel, oda) 1957; A. V, Nolan Trophy, general excellence for news, low.wor k e v.s, papers published in. Ontario towns between 1,500 and 4,500 population, 1958, 1957, 1956r J, George Johnston Trophy., typo. * * graphical excellence (Ontario), 19571' E. T. Stephenson Trophy, And right there, though snot. host front page (Ontario), 1956, 1955; AII•Canada lnturance too many reolize it, is tlic cll., Federation national safety award, 1953, in a x of tiro entire campaign. Paid-in•Advance Circulation, Sept. 30, 1961 — 3,505 Oh, it runs its course, like a spent rocket returning to earth. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: canatiA X4,00 Peer Year; USA 13,60 Tice catqassers are blessed Ort ED CONRAD IN 1947 Toward better understanding Few Exeter people ever knew Edward Con- rad, who was found dead in his shack near Exeter Salvage on March 24. He did some gardening around town homes and he often collected bottles from the streets. Some- times with a beard, al- ways hi old, dirty clothes, he was somewhat of a mystery to most people. He seldom spoke. Who was he? Why did - he live like he did? Where did he come from? The answers to those questions a're contained hi this letter, which orig. inaily was not intended for publication. We re. quested permission to re- print it, however, he. cause we felt it would help our readers team of some of the problems and the suffering ton. rleefecl with mental 'health, We urge yoo to take time to read this letter, Easter is the story of victory that .comes Mit of defeat. To all outward appearances the Son of Man was dead, buried in the tomb. His enemies in- ,tended that men should hear no more of Him. But Easter changed all that. For BOW iS Christ arisen, having triumphed over sin and death. Just as the seed must die in the earth, in order to bring forth new life in the growing plant, so Christ faced death that He might bring into the world life and hope for men. Wicked men did their worst on a cruel cross. but by a mighty power, stronger than the evil designs of men. Christ was raised to become the Saviour, Easter means victory for the Son of Man. .for us too, it may mean victory. He who was sub- ject to the afflictions of the flesh, tempted in all points as we, overcame, and we may overcome by the spirit which Ile will give us. Easter is the dawning of a new day, Mary came to the empty tomb at dawn and her discovery was to become the beginning of a new day for the disciples. They now talked of a Risen Lord. Their message was different. Life had taken on a fuller meaning, Easter may become a dawn for us--a starting place. into our sense of futility and failure it will bring purpose. hope and courage. It will remind us that behind all our endeavours there standeth One within the shadows. Imagine two men meeting on Easter about noon and arguing whether the sun had arisen that morning or not. After a good deal of talking back and forth, one of them looks up and says, "Why there it is." The resurrection of Christ is like that. Men may argue about the empty tomb in Joseph's Garden but there is no doubt about thousands of full hearts, here and now, full of the spirit of the living Christ. The first Easter experience has been repeating itself through all the ages. Women come with spices to anoint the body of a dead man, and they hear Him speaking to them in a garden. Men walk along lonely roads with heads bowed and in hushed voices talk about Him. "If He had only lived," they say. And lo. they suddenly find Him sitting at, the table with them. They come to build 4a• monument in words or stone or picture to a dead .'ieformer anti they stay to build. a church to a hiring Saviour, Easter means that Christ is just ahead of us. Cxeter Zime5=abbotate Titres Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Amalgamated 1924 Published Each Thursday Morning At Stratford, Ont. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Depl, Ottawa and for Payment of Postage in Cash rest of us. Ever since, most churches have been staggering along in sorry financial condi• tion. When I was a boy, the prob- lem was dumped in the par- son's lap. If he wanted to eat, he preached, Some of the most fiery sermons I heard in my youth were those based on the need — nay, the duty — to give more than two-bits a week to the church. The minister would work himself into a regular paroxysm on the subject, while his flock just sat there and looked at him, coldly. * After this system proved an utter flop, and the faithful proved as bloodless as stone, the new method came into its own. It has turned out to be. immensely successful, Church revenues have sky - rocketed. Unfortunately, what with infla- tion and the like, church ex- penditures have managed to stay ahead of revenues, until it now costs as much to ope- rate a fa 4 r sized church as it did, 70 years ago, to operate a fair-sized town, Today's campai gn is highly organized, The male pillars of the church, and a few doughty females, are wheedled into de- claring their willingness to serve. There are training ses- sions, which are a cross be- tween a sales meeting and a pep rally for these volunteers. Trern endous enthusiasm is aroused, This is fanned into a veritable flame by a special ,speaker, who tells the canvas- sers how to crack the hard nuts, Everybody agrees that if everybody else gave What he should, the church ‘vottla be rolling in greenbacks, The list of church members is Produced, it is hug it looks as though there'll have to he an addition built to the church, by the lime the campaign is over, About here the minister tries to Point nuf that it is the missing mein. her's soul we are after, not his roll. DUI nobody pays any at- tention. Sunday morning, they have a lunch after the service, and they go out in pairs, determin- edly clutching their, cards and their leaflets. To. their amazement, as the figures are tallied, they learn that the campaign has been a complete success. She's gone over the top. How come? Be- cause they, and their fellow- canvassers, carried away by the spirit, temporarily, had in- creased their own donations enough to make the total, be- fore they ever went out, But it's good fun, good for the soul, and. good for the church. So I'm looking forward to next year's campaign, "'..aasaassiaaa.• "easakaaaa a": Your library By MRS. JMS .:.,4m.g.4..6?:t • .a,„aassa,, Forty new members joined the library during Canadian Library Week, April 8.14, True the majority were juveniles but tiny are starting a worth- while habit. Your Preschool Child Here is a down-to-earth hand• hook whch shows mothers how to live with and enjoy their young children all day, every day, during , the precechool years. The alternate title is "Makin the Most of the Years from 2 to 7." The book is prac. deal and pricked with ideas for making this period pleasant and rewording for both parent and child. The author, Mrs. Dorothy Burnett, who is the mother of two thildreil, proves in these ttages that, with a little plan• sing and patience, family lift can be fun, She offers scores of sttggcstions for almnlifYing household routine; for keeping young tilled.: and hands busy on rainy clays, sick clays and hoildaYV, for introducing chit, then ,to books, crafts And mu, sic; for enotmaaitig a child's apoetile: for coping with (mar• tels and titswering (mations, it is the tive-vear mteriin, two to seven, that is eSPeelail 011)AM:1111 ,a on pareeta anti about which there is often not inneh teller* help. `Phis will be tattod to be a helpful hand- book, Making You!'' HOMO' Furnishings This book presents in detail inform al ioa A bent Upholster# lag, refiaishlog anti decorating lit the home, It it designed to aas Please turn-- to page .5 To •the editor. On behalf of my mother and family I would like to thank you very much for having such a lovely write up in your pa- per about my father. From the cards and letters we have received the past two weeks he was certainly well liked as he was well known, but, as you also said, little known about, Maybe this letter will help you to understand .just why lie lived as he did for the past 10 years, AN'e lived in St. Marys for 24 years, where Dad owned and operated a greenhouse and he certainly loved the work. We all helped and really enjoyed working and having fun to- gether, We were a wonderful- ly happy family and our house was the centre for all the chil- dre.n in the neighborhood, be- cause Dad and Morn let all our friends come and were welcome at any time. Friday night we could stay up 'till 9:30 so all the gang would be at our house ; bout 7. We would play games for a while and then we would climb up onto the old milk stand and have a real old fash- ioned singsong. One night right in the middle of .a song the stand broke, we were real. scared but no one was hurt. and Daddy just stood and laughed at us, so we laughed too. After that happened we just sat On pa ils or boxes, Sometimes Daddy would play the violin and we'd dance. This went on all summer long and in the winter months we'd go skating or toboggan- in. Many times the gang would come back to our place. Mom and Dad were always home when we got back and they'd have hot chocolate or toast ready for us. It didn't seem to make any difference to them whether there was any extras with us. On Saturday night the stores were open till 10 p.m. so we could go to town. Each of us got se on Saturday for hells. ing Mom and helping in the greenhouse. Maybe it doesn't seem like very much money but when four girls put it together we had 20e. We would buy something for ten cents and .we'd share it and with the other 10e, we bought two ice cream cones for Mom and Dad, Believe me, we ran like mad to get home before they melted too much; Mr. White would push tire ice cream way down in, because he knew whom they were for, Worth writing about I realize this letter must sound rather °cid to you hut when a person has memories like this, it's worth writing about. I could tell you, too, there were times when we had hi work really hard to get all the, spring planting done and there was hoeing to do most of the summer. We were up at. 4;30 a.m. so we could get fin- ished in the garden before the sun was too hot, but when it was finished we could go swim- ruing or, fishing together and we had a barrel of fun, Mont and Dad never .quar• select and as We grew up we realized there weren't_ many homes. Where people had as Duch fun as we did, I think Of the many t es Mom played the piano so we could Leann to dance, Daddy hail two left feet when. it came to dan- cing but he had fun trying. I WAS the first to work nut And one by one we got jobs but we still lived at hilinth anti helped by paying out' Share, 'rite winter months seemed to be the hardest times, Dad worked at the (*tat Star Flour Mills in the Wi P ter months, so We didn't ewe anyone, l) Addy waan't, murk for saving; we. 'knowhe liked the horses and if Mont could accent that Net it wasn't for Us to say any- thing. Iriftoelr years „ligo Daddy's mother died en ,htly 4 and it was in .0etreaer of that year we 'first noticed hOW trill"ci cat h C wa,i at times, Then., lid would he fine again, Th. Then., rota, or the ileXt year I. WAS Married, Not beol at home so thttch I guess nOtited more. Than the others that he wined very quiet for A While and then he would argue and get cross. AL first we ignored the things he would say, but when he, started talking about the war all the time we knew he needed Medical help. We asked Dad to see the doctor; he went for awhile but he said we were .trying to poison him and he would just throw his medicine away, Mom and the two girls and two sons who were still at home were having a hard time to keep him happy and satisfied. We were worried about Dad be• cause he was so different. Af- ter about two Years he still wasn't any better so we asked him if he would let us take him to a doctor in London and he said no, "I just want to be alone." The neighbors were troubled too, they realized how difficult it was for us, Daddy was so nice to everyone but his fam- ily; it just didn't seem pos- sible that so much could hap- pen in so short a time, Let him have his way The doctors said the only way was to just let him do as he wished; that, sometimes the, mind affects people when they were about 50 years old, and as long as Daddy didn't be- come violent they couldn't send him for treatment and it would be better for everyone concerned to let Dad do as he pleased.. For awhile Daddy lived in a. little cabin in St. Marys, he would stay there for two or three days at a time then ire would be home again maybe .a day or a week . we never knew, but he was always able to come Keine. Mom never locked the door. This went on for sometime, then he bought a small truck and trailer and went to Exeter, There have been times when Dad has been to see us here at Earldom sometimes it was for three or four days and then he'd he gone again. We have been to see Dad too and — Please turn to page 5