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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1957-02-13, Page 7By Rev., .Barclay Watrc.0 0.4o furnace of are; there shall bf wailing and gnashing of teeth. We must not ignore the Mpg. dom of our Lord, He will 'hie uph. If we do not turn from out sins and love Him we Shall bw cast from our God's holy pres« ence to dwell with the wteltet to eternity. Perils Of Travel It is natural that a wife shOu14 get suspicious when her husband arrives home with his cloths smelling of perfume. ,Espeoialir when this happens day after day, So there were quite a, ntlinbet Of suspicious wives in a North of England town recently-until they learned the real reason whr their husbands came home reek, ing of scent. The men-clerks, electrician, miners and so on-all use a cer• tarn bus for their journey horns from work. Girls from a toilet soap firm also travel home in the same bus, all of them smelling as glamorous as,„ film stars aft°, their day's work in the factory, And of course the smell cling. to the men passengers becaus• in the crowded bus they oftelt sit next to the factory girls. One happily married man said that when he first went home in the bus, his wife looked puzzleilV while his moths-in-law looked annoyed. Another man said the" his wife, after sniffing his coato asked him point-blank: "Whet/ the girl friend?" SLOW SUCCESS Thirty thousand copies at Handel's famous oratorio 3 "Messiah" 'have to be print every year. Yet when Han himself tried to sell it, there were only 127 customers --- and the composer twice went bank., rupt. i Matthew 13: 3145, 44-52. Xingdom Parables for Today Memory Selection: The king- dom of heaven is like Unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it. Matthew 13:45-46. Jesus Christ will ever remain the Great Teacher of all time. With short fictitious narratives called parables he taught great moral and spiritual truths. He compared familiar earthly pro- cesses with truths in the spirit- ual realm. The mustard seed is very small but the herb which grows from it sometimes reaches a height of fifteen feet. So the kingdom of our Lord from in- significant bninnings spread over the Roman Empire, over Europe, America and is now ex- panding to the ends of the earth. As a little yeast trans- forming a great amount of dough so the Kingdom of Christ has transformed individuals and nations. The social order has been changed. Slavery, polygamy and other blots on society have giv- en way with the advance of the Gospel. The sick and aged re- ceive care. Justice and liberty are established. The parables of the treasure and the pearl illustrate the value of the kingdom. When a person realizes the intrinsic value of the salvation from sin provided by Jesus Christ he will be willing to give up all to obtain it. An agnostic professor in a Hindu college asked Sadhu Sundar, "What have you found in Christianity that you did not 'have in your old religion?" He answered, "I have I o un d Christ." To know Christ is life .eternal. In the parable of the net and fishes Jesus teaches that a day of judgment is coming. Those who have received Jesus Christ will be separated from --thbse who have rejected Him. The rejectors shall be cast "into the AN Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking DEB EMM MOUE 0000500 DOME WOCEME2 WERE MUM MUM OEMI DOW BM= DUE DUM BEEMUE WOOM BEOEff OBELUM BEM rain! mom BEM Cif® nuo DIME UMUDE mosumun MEM EDWEEME 000151M OEM non UNDAYSCII001 LESSON A Nation's Worth pietism. and accepting ,an, unjust and unfair evaluation of our-_• selves, we shall be in grave dart,, ger of losing our resolution and with it the vision and creative ideas the hour now demands from us.-W. Lionel yraser, from 4 letter in !Pie (!London).. WHAT? NO TOAST? - A crenmery .turns out nearly four million pounds of butter annually, aided by this giant aluminum churn. The churn, scientifically designed to insure rapid production as well as .high quality, turns out butter in one-ton batches. Stuck To His Cello Modest, pipe-smOking Pablo Casals, the world's greatest 'cel- list, was eighty on D.F.cember 29th, and some of the most prominent Musicians were recently Invited to be among 100 cello layers- a for the concert werld, who staged a special: concert in his honour; This Spaniard who has thrilled, the world by his superb Play- ing, has used the same 'cello for more than half a century, He confesses that his most uncom- fortable moment was when someone had inadvertently placed his beloved instrument on a hot radiator with the result that the varnish was rendered sticky and the tone, to his sen- sitive ear, was ruined!' Never- theless, he gave .a' fine perform- ance with it in that condition. Casals was once stopped by a proud mother as he was leaving a concert. She introduced her daughter to him, saying: "When my daughter gave 'a recital on the 'cello recently, the critics said that she played) the Brahms sonata as well as you do." * Casals shook his head, sighed and replied: "That's. not 'nearly good enough!" This marvellous old man is still at the height of his powers, according to many critics. Said one recently: "His nobility of character and sweetness of na- ture are as remarkable as his monumental artistry." Casals has always believed that to be a good artist it is ne- cessary first to be a good man. He is so modest about his own accomplishments that, althOugh he has composed some excellent music, he has forbidden its pub- lication until after death. Hanged First, Married Later If you visit the Oxfordshire hamlet of Great Tew they'll tell you of Mary Smith who, many years age, got Married three days after she'd been hanged for murder. And they won't be pul- ling your leg. The story is true.. Mary Smith was just an ordi- nary country girl. She met a dashing young man who pro- posed marriage--and suddenly disappeared when it became plain that Mary was going to have a child. Overcome by shame, the dis- tracted mother stifled the child sop after it was born. She was found guilty of murder and con- demned to death. After the hanging, the execu- tioner cut down the body. The chaplain said a last prayer. She was then taken in a cart to the mortuary where two doctors certified her dead and then went home, leaving the corpse to the silence of the mortuary. One of the two doctors, how- ever, returned to collect some- thing he'd left behind. While he Was there he thhught he heard a sound. He glanced around, but could see nothing- except the shrouded corpse. He was about to leave when he heard a groan, unmistakable this time. 'Thinking someone was hiding there, he made a thorough search and while he was doing' so, he was shocked to see the "corpse" sit up. Mary Smith was still alive. By a miracle she had survived the grim ordeal oftbeing hanged. In those days, if a murderer did survive execution, he or she was often given the benefit of the doubt. After medical attention.-Mary was given wine and a good meal. Her neck bore all the marks of the rope, but it had not been broken. Whether her heart had actually stopped beating for a few minutes is not known. This sort of thing has .happened since then, and it may have been something of this kind that de- ceived the doctors who had signed her death certificate. Two days later the ex-mur- deress was formally pardoned and released. She was met outside the jail by the man who had wanted to marry her before the dashing lover appeared on the scene. He proposed and was ac- cepted, and next day the couple were married. Mary Smith lived -happily for the rest of her life and became the mother of several children. We do not need to pay regard to what President Nasser thinks Of us, nor indeed do we have to care much that it is acclaimed abroad by those who seek to pull !us dew that British Influence in the world is zero, that we are finished and Se on.All that will change, It has been like it be- But what dismays me is the View, which appears to gain in- creasing acceptance by too many in our own country, that this low assessment is justified and that we are in fact a second-rate nation. . My opinion is that quite the contrary is the case, end that we shall do well to re- sist this mesmerism with all our might. If we review our achieve- ments and our contribution to world affairs, we are brought, I believe, to the conclusion that they entitle us to first-class ranking. In the economic field pur record speaks for itself. More than one-half of the world's trade is conducted in our currency, sterling. The commod- ity markets, insurance, shipping, money and exchange markets, and the international banking system are linked together in the' City of London and provide the 'most efficient service of its kind in the world for all to use, a friechanisiri, a technique, which is unrivalled. And it is not sustained by mere wealth. It is based on trust, mutual confidence, and the power of good judgment and sound common sense. It is the moral worth of a nation which matters more than anything else and there is no doubt that our sense of fair play and inte- grity of character still form the true foundation of our entire social and economic systems. In engineering, nuclear ener- gy, aircraft design and construc- tion, art, literature, and many Other spheres we more than hold our own, but my object is not just to chalk up our qualities. I am merely trying, in all modes- ty, to show that we have much to offer which, the world needs, if we will only allow our incor- rigible and superb optimism and confidence to reassert them- selves. The tasks ahead are tre- mendously difficult and they ex- clude complacency or lethargy, but, sunk in a bog of self-depre- SHAGGY CAT STORY fractory beast by lighting a fire under his belly. The farmer did this, and the gag-line was that the animal moved just far enough ahead to burn up the wagon. I doubt, myself, if this ever happened, but on the' basis of "what I tell you three times is true" the thing became a peri- patetic clipping, a classic of, American journalism, true be- cause it was in print, and some- where along the line a law pre- venting a recurrence was added to the story. I suspect the nai- veté of editors toward .certain topics accounts for the wide cir- culation of such items. • • • And I think politeness to hens Is another such. The word polite- ness' is added to the story after it leaves the poultry expert, for the poultry expert doesn't ex- actly mean that. I first heard the thing around 1920 or so when I was a 4-H boy with a flock of Reds. My father paid for the feed and I sold the eggs, and I never did better in my book- keEePaieilhg.fall we had county con- tests and• hen shows, and always remarks from poultry experts. Prof. 0. M. Wilbur, the head of the hen studies at the University of Maine, got up one year and told of his ,experiments with noise around poultry flocks. If you yank the door of the pen open and barge in swinging pails and baskets, the hens will clamber to the rafters, scramble under the nests, bunch up in the corners, clobber each other, and go into a molt. Hens are like that. But if you stop outside the door and whistle, cackle friend- liness, call out hello, or just knock, the hens will turn and face the door inquisitively and won't take fright when you ap- pear. s • I know that I have put this into previous dispatches; and I know that since 1920 I have never gone into a hen pen with- out, first knocking and Stating with, elocutionary dignity, "New is.the time for all good hens and true to come to the aid of the parity." This is a mild witticism between me and my hens, and, while it amuses them a great deal it should not be scrutinized too much by htithans. So, the thing is nothing which makes news at this late date, and certainly Michigan State Univer= sity has no special claim on it. It is tandy for filling odd corners of short columns, and possibly has an amusement value to city scribes. Not that ibkinattera too rnuch. A great Many kind folks con tinue to send nee clippings, each thinking f may find grist therein', and my gratittide is shown by the' feet that I usually do, inclu- ding this One. CANDID CAMERA CATCHES COPYCATS' COOL CAPERS :-- Herd are two of those irrepressible creatures up to their pointed ears in 'other people's, business. They're copycats, all right, but. In different categories. The "copy" with which morose-looking' "Nosey", below, is concerned is newspaper copy on the editor's desk of,a newspaper. Nosey must be reading of a cat-astrophe, to• judge from his expressiorb "Freshie, above, shows that . though you may no! be able 'to teach an old hound 'dog new tricks, a cat's hep to mimicking a certain guitar-belting Singer who is enjoying a measure of popularity these days. Freshis kept things moving at fhe Empire Cat Club Show. START SLOWLY An unsigned communication from a New YOrk City reader brings me a clipping I have seen many times before. This clipping is now "making the rounds" and is prompting all manner of edi- torial comment here and there. That it appeared in this news- paper January 8 is significant because I firat Vovered the sub- ject matter here at least eight years ago. Thia clipping says the poultry expert at the University of Michigan says politeness to hens- makes them give more eggs. Hens respond to thoughtful and considerate dealings. This is something the poultry farmer kneW many long years ago and which: the "expert" at Michigan couldn't have advanced at all recently if he expected it to be news, Clippings like this are an in- teresting bit of journalism. Years ago a clipping began making the rounds to the effect that, "Maine has a law forbidding setting fire to mules." The 'first time I saw this it seemed an amusing nug- get of curious lore, but after it began being printed and clip- ped, prined and clipped, and ap- peared in any and every publi- cation I picked up, I began to wonder about it. I couldn't 'find 'that Maine had any such law; Maine has arson, and vandalism laWs, and laws forbidding cruelty to' dumb ani- mals, and setting fire to mules would of course be a crime in our courts, but 'any state 'cer- tainly has the same provision, and there is nothing specific about it as to mules writes John Gould in The Christian Sciende Monitor. * * Indeed, there Is little logical likelihood that Maine would have such a la*, because the state ,hes never been much of a place for mules, I can remember only two pairs that I've 'Seen in my time. A fellow from Ala- bama inherited his uncle's salt., Water farm lip here, arid when he came to take over his prop- erty he brought two aged mules with him, which were something Of a novelty. And I know of an- other pair, years agO, ' over in either Bowdoin or Litahfield-,- I used to 'see them on my way to visit Uncle Niah's folks. Other than that, I daft' knew Of any other mules" in Maine, al, though of ,course there, haVe been others. TO enact tion specifically fOrbidding ig, tilting Mules would therefore seem to be laViah attention to something almost nonexistent: I. did consider the chance that "mule" in this context meant a spinning menthe, of which we have many in our textile- mills. But other than general prove- sloris against deliberate tOtribtia- tibil of anything not -properly burnt, I couldn't find anything got eying this kind of mule.. A' Couple bf lawyer friends got hi- teregoo In the thing, and off and on they' looked thrbtigh their books,. and they told me the item had tie; tahcithg. there was always: a "hick Character" yarn in folk litiniOri. Used in vaudeville' and ShOWs, about the farther Who., had a stubborn animal. Depend- int Ott where the story got, told, it Was a herse, mule, Mt, yak, (idtidedr, or whatever, , and Th. atety was that satneboilY told, the`e -fernier he: Could Start his 114' COCKTAIL SUIT-After-five suit, above, matches the color and formality of a lady's cocktail dress. Designed by Brioni of Rome, it ,feaures an iridescent mohair jacket in burgundy red, with. Roman cuffs and lapel edgings of Dupioni silk in a paler shade of red. Mushroom pleated white shirt, slim black mohair trousers and black calf- skin shoes• with throat banding in pale red silk round out the ensemble. Biggest Bell Was. NeVer Rung Into the doctor's surgery rushed a distraught woman cry- ing: "Doctor! Please come quickly. My husband has swal- lowed a mouse!" "Hurry back to him," said the doctor to humour her, "and try waving a piece of cheese in front of his mouth. I'll be along as soon as possible." When the doctor reached the house ten minutes later, he found the husband lying on a settee with his mouth wide open, while his wife waved a kipper close to his face.. "You foolish woman," said ' the doctor, "I told you cheese." "I' know that," she retorted,. "but I must get the cat out' fir§t!" FOR WINNIE - Pictured is 'a Tiffany-designed, gold medal- lion, first award, ever made by the Pilgrims of the U.S., which Was presented to Sir Winston Churchill, Obverse -side :(top) shows a pilgrim, flanked by the American eagle and British lion. Reverse side hails Churchill as one "who has done more: than any man in history to advance the unity of the English-speak- ing peoples". A proud'-father was talking ,about the intelligence of his son. "You know, dear," he told his wife, "I think he must have got his brains' from me." "He certainly must have clbne," replied the wife. still got Mine." T. EY 30. riobe' • - B. Acknowledge 31. Fairies CROSSWORD it: ErgteaP ed 34. Light bloW PUZZLE.; 11. Stain, , 35. Showy, dreee 13. Atittinibbile 38, Started-'.1 19. Vigor 39. Dormotfee 22. Timepiece 40. Obliterate ACROSS 2. Speedily 23, Forgive , 41. Canceled 1. Knock 3;• Steersman 25. Clog., friend 43. GO quickly '-'''' 4. Ugly old 4. Hovel 26. Charge, 45. Grown boy, woman 6. Landing ;Place 2 8. Weep 48. Old-timer V. Peeted• of the, ark. 29: Working , 47. Spade • 2; Gourmet I. Veil told gathering 49. Born 114. Each 1111111111 Killillill Miliiiiiiiiiiill 11111111111.11111111 11111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111all 111111111111r411111i1E " MINE 1111111111916111111111 MINIM MINIM! 11111511§1§3 ill ill 50 ;,..111 MINI 111111 MOM 11111111111111 5.111111i1111111111111111111111111111111 MUNIMINNIMMINIMIUM 111111111111111111111111111111111111111 It was a teenager's first visit to a perfume counter. Her eyet roved uneasily over the lurid trade navies : Night of ,Passion, Mad Etribrade, Vitally, she mustered though tentage' to approach a saleslady.. "tketise she E' but have you ahythite able for fora beglitherl," !Most Men have twO sides to Oriii the side their Witted knew, and the Side they think their wives don't knoVisi The ringing of church bells -is,a4ainiliar sound at Christniat or Easter. But bells have sig- nalled many other events. They have roused garrisons of threat- ened towns, signalled victory in. war arid given, Warning' of fires; earthquake's and !ether disasters. But the world's largest bell, Weighing 200, tons and cast 1723, has never been hung nor rung 1<notim at Tsar Italoicol, King of Bells, as :it was broken. While editing alter jeWeiSi gold plate and ornaments had been thrown into the Melting ore by the Empress Anna's supersti, tietta subjects in Moto*. The bell still stands there to= day, and is used as a chapel. It is 16 feet high and 68 feet round the heae. Early hells were Made Of plates riveted tOgetifer. Catil= lona contain at least tWeitty, four bells and the world's finest in. the USA:, all of british inerinfacttite. Omer a period of forty yeara a woman collector Of bells, MISS Hazel Hicks had assembled 20 rare SPecitheria, 'They include a i,000 year-old SerWegiati. Co"-' bell and a Mekitaii bell Made of•Pure lava Oldest firm of ijell-fotifidera in Eritain 'was begun in 'White, chapel, London, In 1570 and hai Made bells' ever 'Shide.. Centuries ago: there 'Waif a. general belief. that. the 'ringing .nt church .heliS "banished the devil! and disper'se'd lightnitit 16. Of the, root Of the mouth- 16. Scamp 7, AWRY 8. Tear ,• 0. Small Mail '21. Still 32.' A°hiitei'd*IPlial ii Welke id ' water , ,s. iPiikti)ftivt, the' 1 8. Corpule n t 7.,Sprinish• coin 9. Assail It. Vattern, , 52.' Little, Ito Attention' ILLIttgd 42. Cage: 44. Cage 45. Nothing bili . 48; Of life. 48 Net particular 50, January *(SP.) 51. Sand' ,2, Touchy' 3; Breed of pheatilliti , ,, It Spread' looitelY 'E. Et 41441gal AnSWer eiSeWhere of this oat&