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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1949-06-22, Page 4• • n June 27 VOTE R. S. "Bob" etherington Your LIBERAL Candidate NORTH HURON He advocates the following Policies (1) STABILITY OF FARM PRICES By insuring the retention of overseas markets for all surplus farm production and application of the farm Prices Support Act to guarantee a floor price well above the cost of production. (2) GOOD LABOUR RELATIONS In co-operation with the Provincial Governments to further collec- tive bargaining by setting tip all. the required procedure necessary and a recognition by the Government that the worker owns the job and entitled to a fair share of the profits front industry. (3) ADVANCED HEALTH PROGRAM Extensive research to assist in preventing disease. Construction of greatly increased hospital facilities, followed by a comprehensive National I-Iealth Insurance Plan. • .• (4) SECURITY AND WELFARE An all out effort to produce Low Cost Housing for all' who need homes. Continued and increased allowance for the old, infirih' and children and all those who, through no fault of their own, are , not able to obtain a decent standard of living. $11111111111 HEAR THE CANDIDATE at 10:10 to 10:25 p.m. FRIDAY, JUNE 24th - CKNX 920 VOTE LIBERAL - VOTE HETHERINGTON The North Huron Liberal Association 11118411111111111114111.118111811111111111114.41 As k for le either way . . 6ith trade•nsarits mean At same thing. Authorized bottler Of calk•toili TWO OOnfract with Coca•COI• Ltd. STRATFORD BOTTLING COMPANY TELEPHONt. 78 STRATFORI5, OM% THE WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Wednesday, June 22, 1949 THE MEAN OF AMSTERDAM (Continued from page three) Christ, and at the end Of their address- es they sat down together as Christ- ians and smiled and shook hands as brothers should, is a mark of the hope- fulness of ,L world 'Christianity as a bridge of the gulf between peoples—as a channel of understanding and co- operation even from east to west and west to east. I wish I could adequately describe for yon the day the message of the Assembly was read for the first time, You have no doubt read the message in your own denominational periodic- als. Bishop Berggrav stood at the speak- er's desk and read the message. The hall was crowded, and, as he read, a tense silence seized the entire throng. Ere he concluded, you could have heard a pin drop in the large assemb- lage. I want to say with all reverence that I believe the ,,Holy Spirit was present, When you read the message will you remember that, in trying to report the important and essential meaning of such a gathering, it is dif- iicult not to speak in sweeping general- izations., Let me try to impress to you the major impressions I received: (1, The World Council of Churches now is. It is a fact. It is like a baby just born. It will require all kinds of care, but it is there and I am proud to think that I was there at its birth. It is a baby yet but at least it is there. it is no longer in its provisional state. You will hear folk say the World Council of Churches is not this and it. is not that, Quite so, but it is! Streng- then it by God's grace. Make it the power it ought to be. (2) The World Council of Church- es is there for a practical purpose. It is there to reconstruct the life of Europe. Those who have helped and those who have been helped were there. In view of the colossal task of material reconstruction and spiritual regeneration, so very little has been possible. Gifts of every kind have flow- we are apt to exaggerate what has ed into the Churches of Europe but been done and, not realize the almost bottomless pit into which it has been poured. It would be ungracious not to acknowledge the volume of help that has been given but it would not be true to the facts to fail to point out how very great the untouched part of the problem is, Has the Christian FROM ALL OF US" We appreciate the co-operation you have shown during, the period of change-over to the new, greatly improved'Common Battery" system. WINGHAM now has a completely modern telephone system. The introduction of this new system is part of our continuing development program designed so that you may have more and, better telephone service at the lowest possible cost. It means greater teiphone value to every user. W. G. HAMILTON; Manager. GE rouR • HU'N D1RWD S of satisfied DURO farm families tell us they don't know how they managed before they got DURO Pumping Systems installed. 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LIMITED Asodon • Hamilton • Toronto • Sudbury - Winnipeg • Vancouver OWNING AND OPERATING METALS LIMITED Calgary Edmonton - Vancouver WO, 4111111•••••••••.....••••••••••••••••••••••••• • Church helped in real relation to its power to help? Generous and sacri- ficial giving will be required for a long time to come, The World Council of Churches is there to tackle the greatest tragedy of our day. A single denomination could never hope to do this, It is impossible for us here to visu- alize the depth of need in Europe, I met people in Holland who had lived on hyacinth and tulip bulbs. I saw in the Conference Ministers who had the trousers of one suit, the vest of anoth- er and the jacket of still another. I saw one brother who had a brown shoe and a black shoe on. It is useless for us of the Western world to talk of our democratic way of life as being a superior way unless we do something to help our brethern over there. (3) The World Council of Church- es is there to guard human rights and liberty. There is an involved problem. Here in Canada we know that free- dom of speech and freedom to wor- ship means and so we are inclined to say what have these things to do with us, but there 'are Churches in the world where they are not free, They have no hope of freedom and you can- not have freedom isolated in a world like this, If freedom ceases to exist in one place, it will soon cease to ex- ist in another., The United Nations have agreed to accept the World Council of Churches as a witness on behalf of these perse- cuted groups. Tjiey would not listen to a single denomination but they will listen to the Council of Churches and things will be written into the doctrine of the United Nations that only a Christian Church could write. BecauSt of the presence of the World Council of Churches, we kilow that true free- dom is, we who are bond servants of our Lord Jesus Christ, For that reason alone, if we had not a World Council of Churches, we would need to invent one, e There is so much more that could be said, but I must close. Karl Barth in an address before the Council said, "We must not look to the Churches as if they could cure our ills, but to the God of the Churches with whom nothing is impossible." To- night I point you to that God, Let us follow His leading. Let us pray— ., 0 God, we pray for Thy Church, which is set today -amid the perplexi- ties of a changing order, and face to face with a great new task. Baptize her afresh with the life-giving spirit of Jesus. Grant her a new birth, though it be with the travail of re- • • pentance and humiliation. Bestow upon her a more imperious responsiveness to duty, a swifter compassion with will of God. Put upon her lips the suffering, and an utter loyalty to the ancient gospel of her Lord. Help her to proclaim boldly the coming of the Kingdom of God and the doom of all that resist it. Fill her with the prop- het's scorn of tyranny, and with a Christ-like tenderness for the heavy laden and down-trodden. Give her- faith to espouse the cause of the people, and in their hands that grope after freedom and light to recognize the bleeding hands of the Christ, Bid her cease from seeking her own life, test she lose it. Make her valiant to give up her life to humanity, that like, her crucified Lord she may mount by the path of the cross to a higher glory. Amen. PHIL OSIFER OF LAZY MEADOWS By Harry J. Boyle Around here the main topic of Con- versation these, days has to do with the scarcity of moisture, At the store or the grist mill or the dance in the schoolhouse. every farmer is concern- ed about the way his crops are drying up, No matter how hard you work or how scientific you become, the matter of getting enough moisture to make your crops grow is something that's beyond you, In some places they have licked it pretty well by means of ir- rigation but here amongst \these hills of ours it would be a neat trick to make irrigation work, There are a number of people I would like to invite out to visit me at this moment. I suppose the sun has put some bitterness in my veins be- cause ft would be a subtle means of informing them just how wrong they are about living in the country. In the first place there's that chap at the trust company in the city where I have to pay my mortgage. Possibly, the trust company doesn't pay him enough money, At any event, he seems to be most warped in his view of farm- ing, Every time I talk to him...he tries to make me feel that I am the one re- sponsible for hint paying three dollars for a beefsteak when he rides on the train. He complains about the price of eggs and the price of milk and ends up the, conversation by saying. "Boy, you fellows out on the farm certainly have it soft." There is another type of fellow who bumps info Me occasionally who Sneers at tne, He tries to give the int. pression that I am sort of a ratka. teer and that he knows about my racket and isn't g(Ang to tell anYbotly. He gives the impression that I am a DILL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA mighty smart fellow who outwits the income tax people at every turn. He is also convinced that farmers during the war made themselves great piles of cash which they have cached away in convenient places, ready to be brought out for use during the lean days of a depression. Another type is my preying rela- tives from the city. They swoop down in the fall and load up with every con- ceivable type of produce and plunder to tide them over the winter. They think it's all a lark. After living on a farm is just so much fun. You work a little in the spring to put in the seeds but then you sit back and let Mother Nature provide for you. I wish all those types could watch the pastures burning up these days. I wish they could follow us from dawn until dusk, trying in a. pitiful way to conserve the water supply and also to keep the garden truck from drying up. Maybe, it would convince them that farming has many hazards and that Mother Nature is not always a benevolent creatuee.