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LESSON
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The Cop venting Power of the
Gospel
Acts 1643-1.1, 2544
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the Lord Jesus Christ, and thott
shalt be saved,, and thy hquse.
Acts. 16:31,
Nest to the scene of Paul's
conversion, perhaps the next
most fascinating scene in the
story of his life is that of his
night in the Philippian jail and
the conversion ,of the jailer, It
was no pretty sight as Paul and
Silas lay with their feet fasten-
ed in the stocks with their backs
bruised and bleeding. The beat-
ing had broken some of the blood
vessels, Some of the blood had
clotted,
These men were no criminals.
They were God's messengers of
the. Good News of the Gospel,
In the name of Tesus 'Christ they
had cast the demon out of a
young lady who was a sooth-
sayer or, as we would say to-
day, a fortune teller. The men
who made money from the girl's
work wereangry and instigated
an uprising against Paul and
Silas. They should have rejoiced
that another had been freed from
the.clutches of Satan but their
greed for money blinded their
eyes to the glories of the Gospel.
Missionaries still meet with this
type of violent opposition, In
our own land the opposition is
more subtle. Bid the forces that
make money on the weaknesses
and, sins of others are well or-
ganized and can fight back with
vigor when disturbed, If on.
emerges from one of the more
desperate gangs, his life may be
in -jeopardy. .for a time, at least.
The prayer and praise of Paul
and Silas Were heard by the
prisoners. How unusual it wast
Then God intervened with an
eaithquake. The prisoners were
loosed. The convicted jailer ask-
ed that most important ques-
tion, "What must I do to bet
saved?" The answer, which is
our memory selections, was a
simple one. We are saved, not
by what we in our strength can
do, but by trusting in Jesus
Christ and what He has done for
us. We are saved by grace
through faith.
The jailer was a new man.
After he was baptized he washed
the blood off the stripes that had
been laid upon them. How ten-
derly he must have done it! Then
he fed them. It was a happy
home, Jesus Christ had corn.
into their lives. And it came
about through the faithful wit-
nessing of two of God's children,
while enduring suffering for
Jesus' sake.
ISSUE 4 — 1960
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the Stria nrieS dreg Sleds trtotihd vvherevet they ga. thlti
youngster torn/516A the white Stuff telt
changing directionS .twice a year,
to help .mariners on their way.
Qn their way to what? What
lay in the WestA beyond all that
bitter Aga" In the . Vast WOrre.
silks, spices, jewels, geld. The
Old Worlds, turned east. The
long spiee and rich silk roads
led. 'there, And the p.zropean .em.,
poriums 'for both centered on
the Mediterranean, India, PPP-
sia, Araby "The Blest," were the
sources of riches and of trade,
What point was there then ,in
sailing out Into the Atlantic,
bound for nowhere? 'European•
seamen had M. incentive to make
bold transoceanic voyages, So the
Atlantic was not crossed by
Ships for centuries and, in the.
end, its opening was a chance
by-product of the quest for a
sea route to the Dee. Scholars
had long theorized that to sail
west would bring ships east, if
they sailed far enough, and, it
was the East they sought.—From,
"Wild Ocean" by AWri
Saving Water
By Treatment
Municipal water systems and
their customers, the citizens of
larger United States municipal],
ties, are overlooking a ready
water supply through waste wa-
ter treatment, according to Mark
N. Hollis of the Federal Public
Health Service.
Mr. Hollis said that, some six
or eight years ago, the Ameri-
can pulalic was• spending $200
million a year for waste water
treatment plants, but it had re-
cently jumped this figure to $400
million a year. But he thinks the
rate should be "above $500 mil-
lion." He did not say "$500 mil-
lion"; he said "above $500 mil-
lion." Members of the great
bureaucracy at Washington are
cagy about putting a limit on
any estimate of any future
spending.
If Mr Hollis said how much
water was being conserved' by
these treatment processes, the
news story did not quote him,
Possibly the reason that we are
making' slow ,progress in this
field, comes from the fact that we
talk too much about the cost
and too little about thee amount
of water we will derive from it.
The, treatment of contaminated
water for reuse by the public has
been fully demonstrated. It was
in wide use in Germany before
World War I. But there is an
obstinate popular prejudice
against turning to it in. America.
Waste water conservation at any
such figures is not good campaign
material.
This treament of waste water
is going to be especially import-
ant in Texas as time goes on.
Our surface water comes pri-
marily from a number of rather
small parellel rivers, nearly all
of which are contaminated with
various forms of waste materials.
The time is not far distant when
we will be consuming the total
capacity of these rivers to pro-
duce fresh water. We should
adopt, first, a much stricter pro-
gram of prevention of water con-
tamination in these streams and,
second, a •program of condition-
ing this water for reuse, The
two progra'rns will supplement
each other because the less coon
tamination, the „cheaper •the re-
conditioning Dallas Neivs.
"And what's your 'name?" 0;1 ;
teacher asked the little bey.
"Julie," was the reply.
"Ah, you mean Julius. We;
never use abbreviations in my
class. Now, little boy, what's your
name?"
Artswer ilseeihere On this 'page,
Ran Ambulance,
on Stolen Gas
A wet evening in Guernsey,
Reg Blanchford, a youth of nine-
teen, took his girl to her door,
kissed .her .good-night, remount-
ed his matey-bike, and roared Off
Into ille-tOlght. Two minutes later
a taxi sWung out of a minor
crossroad and flung him and his
Machine with terrific force
against a house.
Ile was se badly injured that
the surgeon who later attended
him said that he was "theoreti-
cally dead," For eight days he
was unconscious, for three
months on the critical list, but he
recovered.
That grave mishap inspired
him to dedicate his life to re-
lieving the sufferenigs of others,
In the 1930s Guernsey's 40,0 00
people were served by only one
ill-equipped ambulance with a
spare time driver. Prompt first-
aid, Blanchford realized, would
have minimized his injuries and
suffering.
He joined the island's newly
formed. St, John Ambulance unit,
bought a second-hand ambulance
with voluntary subscriptions and
started a rival service based in
a small shed.
How he developed this into a
first-class land, sea and air serv-
ice and earned the G.M,, M.13,E,,
and the, Life-Saving medals by
his bravery and resotirce, Don
Everitt relates graphically in
"Samaritan of the Islands",
Suspended on a rope he made
many hazardous, rescues from
Guernsey's perilous cliffs. In
wartime this meant running the
gauntlet of hidden minefields,
One fisher-lad, climbing a cliff,
had trodden on a mine. It blew
him on to a narrow ledge twenty
feet below. To reach him,
Blanchford and his four helpers
had to slither down the cliff,
grasping for hand-holds, fearing
that each piece of grass and , jut-
ting rock concealed a mine.
Rain soaked th'ein;' a cold' wind
lashed their faces and numbed
their fingers. When they reached
the body it took twenty minutes
to get it off the ledge and strap-
ped to the stretcher.
Several times on the way up,
with darkness falling, one or
,other of them slipped, nearly
dragging the rest down the cliff.
•On top.at last they had to thread
their way thrOugh a minefield
'overgrown with gorse and find
gaps in the brabed wire. Then
they collapsed, utterly beaten.
Ill with worry and overwork
In 1950, Blanchford went to Petit
)3ot Bay for a week's hard-
earned holiday with his wife.
While sitting on the beach he
noticed a boy climbing a near-by
.cliff.
"Rona," h e said, "I'm sorry,
but we'd better go back., Sooner
or later that boy will get stuck
up there, and the way I feel: I
,just couldn't face having to bring
him down."' *
The boy did get stuck, on a
tiny ledge seventy-five feet up.
Blanchford- phoned the ambul-
ance control room, guided. the
•crew to the cliff top, and, despite
protests, donned a canvas har-
ness attached to a 250 foot rope
and swung down. As he sighted
the boy, clinging to a sheer slab
of rock by toes and fingers, the
rope dislodged a large piece of
rock above Blanchford's head.
It fell between his face and the
'cliff, hit his stomach, knocked
him unconscious and sent him
swinging and spinning across the
•cliff-face.
When he.regainecnhis senses he
swung himself towards the boy,
grabbed him by the waist, pulled
him off the ledge, and lowered
hilri foot b3% foot to the cliff bot-
tom. Then he collapsed, bruised
and bleeding, into a rock pool.
After rescuing a boy scout who
had fallen into a Cliff gully, he
went down a second time to re-
trieve the lad's wallet contain-
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log his money and return rail
and steamer tickets,
"It's all part of the service,,'
Blanchford told the scoutmaster,
During the German occupation
he kept his ambulance ping on
stolen or smuggled gas, char-
coal or horSes, Once he and his
assistant, Charles rroorne, re-
solved 'to :raid a locked German
gaseline'. ;drum store not f00
Yardslrom a German billet, The
Malaga if they were caught
would be a long prison sentence
and maybe a concentration camp.
They drove up with their van
under a cloudy threeelnarter
moon and unscrewed the rusty
hinges from the door, They
grunted and heaved to roll one
of the heavy drums up a ramp
of two planks into the van. Then
they heard a car approaching
rapidly.
"It's the 'greenfly' (Germans)
all right," Froome whispered.
"They look like officers,"
The vehicle came down the
middle of the road, Blanchford
knew that its masked headlights
would pick out the lower half of
the van. The moon suddenly
broke through clouds. It was .as
if a spotlight had been turned'
on them. He closed his eyes in
despair. Then he heard Froome
whispering:
"They're turning off. They're
going to the house over there,"
Climbing •noisily from the car,
the Germans vanished into the
house, The night was silent again.
The two men heaved the drum
into the van and rolled out a
second. It was halfway up the
ramp when one plank snapped
with a crack like a rifle-shot.
The drum thumped to the
ground. Both froze as an up-
stairs window in the German
billet opened and someone peer-
ed out. Another window opened
and there was a conversation in
German. Then the windows
closed. No search party emerged.
Desperately, the two men jam-
med a piece of the broken plank
under the intact one, heaved the
drum into the van, shut the store
doors, rescrewed the hinges -and
drove off at full throttle. The
ambulance would have gas for
some time to come.
Once when a gang of thugs
blocked the path of the ambul-
ance, Blanchford accelerated and
forced a way through. A man
leapt on the running, board and
tried to grab the wheel but
Blanchford swerved and flung
,him off. The ambulance *forged
on, picked up the patient and
took another route back, to the
hospital.
By 1954 the land-sea-air serv-
ice, run on subscriptions, had
eleven men and two secretary-
nurses on the permanent staff. It
also had a deficit' of almost
£2,500 before the States author-
ity came to its support. Last year
the men worked 10,800 hours of
voluntary overtime, an average
ofntwenty"hours. a week on top
of (heir routine forty-four.
Blanchford himself has been•
continuously "on call" for nearly
twenty-five years. This splendid
story of his pluck and determina-
tion is a monument to the Order
of St: Jcihn motto; Pro Utilitate
Hoinioum, "For the service of
mankind.",
Service, indeed, and enough
drama)or twenty novels!
FLAINTIFF BECOMES
.DEFENDANT
William; Shaw, 58, called
Rochester, N.Y,, police to report
that someone claineing to be
• Policeman had snatched his wan
-let containing $80.. Detectives
who 'arrived on the scene atn
rested Shaw for public intoxica-
tion.
I won't say that Inn unlucky
But let me tell you something,
Jack,
If I started on a shoestring
Button shoes would soon come
back.
MR BOMBER? — Richard Latta,
19, stands in Detroit, Mich., po-
lice headquorters after being
accused of threatening persoris
with bombing from the air 'If
they did not pay him money.
for one farm enterprise. This
means that all hogs from a farm
unit or enterprise must be
marketed under one registration
pletely separate operation is
necessary to qualify for regis-
necessary to qqualify for regis-
tration as a farmer producer.
That Forbidding
North Atlantic
In Europe, seamen have always
known the North Atlantic as the
Western Ocean, In the early
days the untamable and little-
sailed sea, which sent its vio-
lent storms to lash at them and
— beset their seaports and their
beaches With the noisy, fearful
challenge of its gales, seemed un-
conquerable. The march of these
wild Atlantic gales against all
Europe is most severe in those
areas where men are the best
seamen, and yet seafaring pro-
grest here was slow at first, as
compared with that made in
kinder seas. Arab, Persian, and
Indian dhows crisscrossed the
monsoonel waters of the Indian
Ocean at least two thousand
years before European - seamen
could manage anything other
than coastwise passages in the
oPen waters of the North M-
lantic, and the Mediterranean
was at least a galley-filled sea
while only the Sargasso weed
drifted on the surface at the,
broad Atlantic.
The Conditions were Very dif-
ferent. In the trepid waters of
the Indian Ocean there wets
clearly defined seasons which
brought their own Winds tha
good north-eager, with clear
visibility and ideal sailing con-
ditions; the turbulent seuth-
Weger, Whith could blow hard
but at least provided easy means
to sail home again. There was
Wind to go out with and and
abeaer to return With, and,
the northeast season, there was
a reasonable asstitance of con.
tinned good Weather, Fishernien
working front open beaches
child develop craft suited to
their ptirpeSee, arid Mariners
Could' learn 10 extend coastwise
passages' to ocean wenderin0
at far as the Monsoon blew,
I'rirtiitiVe ships, could sulfite, in
such conditions, end did. Even
in .10d, many shah ships con,
Wined to sail Eastern seas.
But in EuroPe it Wit not O.
The North Atlantic, beyond the
tfapic'd edge, detild bloW galeN
at any seasbn, and there Were
no seasonal Windt, Obligingly
Shipping amides to British
Columbia is like carrying,, coals
to Newcastle. Yet that's what
happened last year.
Apple production in British
Columbia last season was the
smallest in many years. About
4.2 million bushels were •har-
vested, compared 'with six mil-
lion 'bushels the previous, ,year.
To take up the slack, Ontario
and Quebec producers shipped
McIntosh apples to the west ccest
for the first time in the mem-
ory of veteran officials of the
Fruit and Vegetable Division,
Canada Department of Agricul-
ture.
Normally, B.C. ships apples
eastward — especially later var-
ieties and varieties not produc-
ed by growers in the east.
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The sudden reversal in this
trend has brought a warning
from -the Plant Protection Di-
vision of the federal. agriculture
department that eastern ship-
pers must live up to regulations
laid down under the Destructive
Insect and Pest Act.
W. A. Fowler, chief of the
division's plant inspection sec-
tion, points out that the move-
ment of apples from Ontario to
British Columbia is prohibited
unless fumigated under the
supervision of an officer of the
cliviSion. This is because of the
Oriental fruit moth.
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Further, since the apple mag-
got is known to exist in eastern
apple growing areas and not
in B.C., apples may be exported
Only from orchards shown by
inspections to be apparently free
of the maggot.
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Economists with .the Canada
Department of Agriculture have
revised an October quarterly
forecast of hog marketings, in
the face of a marked slowdown
in production.
They now predict an October-
to-December marketing of 2,2
Million hogs, an increase of
about seven per cent over the
same period in 1958. The earlier
forecast called for a boost of
19 per cent.
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A spokesman for the market-
ing, section of the Economies Di-
vision said he looked for a 15
Per cent increase in eastern
Canada- 'during the last three
months• last year, and a two
per cent decline in western Can-
ada.
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This year?
Indications are for a decline
of roughly 15 per cent over last
year's booming hog market.
The total output in 1959 is ex-
pected to be 8.6 million, where-
as this year it may fall to 7.5
million or lower.
In revising their figures, the
economists predicted a decline
of four to five per cent in the
first quarter of 1960 instead of
'the two per cent mentioned in
the October prognosis.
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The Agricultural Stabilization
Board's support of the price of
hogs by outright purchase ended
January 9, and after that date
support was to -take the form of
deficiency payments.
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Producers who have not regis-
tered for participation in the de-
ficiency payment program should
apply immediately. Forms may
be obtained by writing the Ag-
ricultural Stabilization Board,
Canada Department of Agricul-
ture, Confederation Building, Ot-
tawa, or from the nearest office
of the federal department's live-
stock division.
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Application cards• for„ regis-
tration are being mailednfo pro-
ducers. These should be com-
pleted and mailed to the Data,
Processing Unit, Canada De-
partment of Agriculture, Ottawa.
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In the case of a farmer hoeing
a son or a partner who owns
some of the hogs marketed,
only one name may be registered
a, Teetits 33. Chegs piece.
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