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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1959-07-08, Page 2shown evidence of civic pride. Em- ployers are seeking good, progres- sive towns, where their employees will.be brought up in good surround- ings. Gone are the days of the smok- ing industrial nests with long rows of unpainted houses. Parks, too, are 'but fair addition to a modern Town's recreational facilities, We have not hesitated to Provide schools with the latest gym- nasia and playing fields, We have a great 'big ice arena and ice-making plant; a golf course, a bowling green, a curling rink. All these facilities ate for those who are reasonably young and active, but we haven't too Much for the older people who no"-loreger *intereSted ih ailigf=c ginea ball ,,or,chasing a' puck, Berry-DOI-, the town'council and iat -.;jtidlvi(l,tia.1. donors are pre- PIMrt,ollead the way in this parks VehtUreand -it is to be hoped that there' many mote to lend a hat;s4.- 'The ;work which is to be un- dertaketi7 is ,not, of an excessively PtVensifye nature ,and the money is long way. We also beheyeAafqhe effort will go a long WAY,tb!iiinprOve civic pride and pub- lica:Wireriess of the' responsibility tozinke the most. of the beautiful stirtounOingS in which we live? FARTHER AFIELD The'CiVinigham..A0ance*Tiines W. Barry Wenger, Editor Member Audit bureau of CircirlatiOn Airtherited as Second Cleieie Mali, Pest ,tiftlet tiept. salibseriptioit kite— One 'Year 0.00, tin Months $1:50 In adveirico 0. 8, A.',$4.60 Per Yost' POrtilitt ?tete $4.00 Per yell, Advertising' ?Weil On IPPlleetlellt 1. Published at Wingham, Ontario Wenger' ittothers; Publishers . "wito is YOUR LIFE?" The words of this Practical letter ere Sharp, but like a-sur- geen's they cut In cutlet to heal. The question is bolt Pointed and per-, sorrel ' 'What 10 ... Your life?" It ee,orouts us With. whet is perhalmf the most challenging question we ear( face. SOener or later We must face up to it In the all-searching light of 'Divine Truth, • 1, Life is a precious possession' the most valuable thing we .POS- sess. None of us would part Witt it without a struggle. In grave illness we endeavour to comfort ourselves with the old saying, "while there is life, there Is hope," ut. li(e's real-value. ean Seen. only against the background of Eternity: The body is only terePorali. "of the earth, earthy'', to qiiete St, Paul, 'but the soul, our real lift„ is eternal, The body is the earthly tent which the soul, Inhabits °I°11 its life on earth. At death, the body. corrupts in the grave;,,and :the soul passes into Eternity. If' it' be the soul of the born-again Christ- ian, who has confessed faittrin the Lord Jesus Christ as. Saviour and Lord; then at death the.soul passes on to be "with Christ, 'which is far better" (Phil, 1;23,..But the soul one who has rejected, or neglected, Jesus Christ as Saviour, passes on to await the unspeakably dreadful judgment of the Last Day John 5:28, 29) It is against: this • very background that our Lord sinewd the •true value of life when He ask- ed the solemn question: "What , shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole World, and lose his own . soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?' (Mark 8:35-37). Ina the balance of eternal things one soul, - declares .jeatis Christ, is of greater vaine tharrthe whole world, • Yet precious as' life- to each • ... . . .0.4;1 nzv. DONALD SINCLAIR, Baptist. Church, *Ingham. live the Christ life''', Btit Christ, will live His own life and Owl:nigh us as we allow Olin to de so. We have Christwithin Us es we have taken inna, to he'Saviour, is our life, IV, Life is a purchased thing" "Ye are not your own, For ye are bought with a price; therefore. glorify Cod in your hotly, and in your spirit, which are God's" I Cor- inthiens 6;20, The price referred to is : explained 'clearly by the apostle Peter In I Peter Lie and 2(1,' "Ye 'were not redeemed with corruptible things as' silver and gold , : , hut with the precious blood of Christ, as of a irmih with- out blemish." V; 'your life is a passing thing—, "It is even a vapeur, that:appear, eth for a little time, and then van- ishetlx away" '(Ja'mes' 4:14). So wrote James' in reply to bia,'ques- tion, "What is YoUr liter -•That• our, lifepassing thing- we will acknowledge, but have we solemnly considerod the cmestion as to where it is pestling? To Paul death was simply a weighing of the anchor and a setting sail for the Heavenly Pert, The literal rendering of the clause, "The time of my departure is at, hand," 'is, "The hour for setting sail has come." Knowing that Your life is ',a passing thing, have.Yoli made the necessary preparation for the 'jour ney you must take at. death into the eternal? Eternal life' is the offered Gift of God,i, It cannot be earned or bought by us'; this has been' dOle'for .sikert-' flee of God's Son in our. place. It. Is a; we must take to. our- salves, by faith: ?Arid this rs the record, that God bath given.to us eternal' life, '-and this life is 1'J HIS SON -Iff:' Piet ItATH-- THE SON HATII;'1.,,WW and lie Una' ;bath not thb Son., bath .not 'life!' I Cohn 5:11, To receive eternal life we must' receive Christ into our hearts, tor whom we have Christ, we have eternal life, What is Your life? Is it Christ? Or is •it self? Is' it for time, or for eternity? ...04.1.ittleilem*Irell41,9ifillPlii 4 0.4.9**1041 0111.******.. ... isimill.004001.11.***iireiipeteporilieerperrept;iPpeuerilirose!grvii ONE MOMENT, PLEASEI III, Your . Life is a powerful :thing We may preach by What we say;'.we may . Preach by what we do; but we Preach most elbquently by What we are, :A Christian life ,its own message, It Is the most powerful Gospel' sermon a Christian can preach, St. James asks "What is yolir of is, it is •evert more precious to 0001 4641 life Is a soul for whom Christ died, The death of Christ is the measure of one Soul's worth to God, Have we given suffiCierit thought 'to this amazing value plac- ed upon the sin-stained human soul of GO? A value so great that it cost God nothing less than. His only and beloved on for the Sinner's redemption, "GAO conr conimendeth His love toward Os, in that, While We were yet sinners, Chriat died for us," (Bomans 5:8), II, Life Is a precious privilege-- the most precious we have, There- fore it should be lived in the light of the Cross of Eternity, Shortly before her death, Elizabeth Fry.. the great emancipator of prisoners, said to her 'daughter "Since my heart was tou'ehe4d at seventeen 'Years of age, I 'believe I have never .awakened from sleep, In sickness (min. health, by day.,or, night, with- out my first thought being how I might ,best.gerve,my 'Lord," life?" and St, .Paul replies, "To live is Christ" (Phil. 1:21); "Christ liveth in me" (Gal. 2:20); "Christ . . is' our life" (COI. 3::4). Paul did not say, "To me to live is to Him' as Christ lived." That would be'imPoSsible. Nor. did he say, "I pattern-my life after Christ." Nor, "I live the Christ life." W can't do that. Nor did he say. "I live for Christ" or "I live like Christ". :But he did say, "To me to live as Christ." Paul let the Lord Jesus live out His own life in him and through him. Paul simply moved out and let the Lord Jesus• move in. That is the secret of what we call the "victorious life." You 'and I can't live the "Christian life". You can't live my life, and I can't live your life,. We' can't • • Each year, I look torward •,tO summer as a camel must-looh'for-• ward to •the next waterhole., :Each year, .with child-like faith, anti.. cipate golden months •of a: gentler life, an escape from the controlled;; Chaos that normally Makes, up .our family life. ' .11 • "What I'll do , this sumitier.'9 ' muse is bleakest April, "is get an' early start on things. Fix the place a bit, right off ,the 'bat. Get that fence propped up, get the' backyard plowed and sow some seed. Clean out the shed and the cellar in May, Get 'Seine -stone , laid in the patio. Get that hedge trimmed up." And so on., • . !'Then", I dream, on, "I'll be all set to get some fishing, and 'some golf, and some swimming. Haven't swum more than • once a year in the last ten years. It'd ,he good for me. And this year I'm going to get in some sitting too, •on ,the. lawn, under. the Abode tree,. with a. good took and a. tall tdrink;-Going to slow it doiro, getieasy, restore my youth and vigour," * * "Sure will be nice" I maunder on '"to have the kids on holidays. No more pressure of. School and music lessons and Clubs and 'heck- ey games and exams. They'll just drift around with the other kids In the neighborhood, way we Used to when we were kids, and we'll hardly know they're alive". * * Strangely 'enough, I can start thinking like this in April, and in the first week of July still be tell- ing myself that summer, and easy living, are just around the cor- ner. Then, one fine hot crisp day, I come out of the anaesthetic and realize that summer is not only here but now, and life is not a.bit slower, easier, lazier, It has mere- ly changed' its costume, from that of a priaon guard to that of an at- tendant in a mental institution, • * * Ask me the kings of England, and get most of them. Ask me the Ten Commandmenbi and P11 reel off six or eight of them. But don't ask me where May and June have gone. They have fled down the footless trail with all the trent- zi.ed months that went before, the only work I've done around the place Is the annual job of fill- ing the canyons in the lawn, left by the coal truck, * * The fence still leans at an al- coholic angle, The &Aug borders are a riot or peenies and Plantain, btu-deck and begonias, The hack yard Is a veritable jungle of hay, relieved only by the presence of eighty feet of eaveatrougha, de- posited there in 'March where they came off with the lee, In the midst of this jungle lives one wild ordinal, mortar& of all he surveys, And sruveys le a Melee of raga,. bones,. ,bottles, old sltoes and othythink eke gran- lel pup who is chained to the clothes line can pick up within his Orbit. , , • • * :4< • The back shed is the answer to arsonist'S drearn Beneath the crouches the ,cellar, looking ikrid ,smelling like some loathesome Monster which, has just erawled otit"Of. the priMeval ooze. The only time I've been into the "patio" is dig some worms. You'd need, a. helicopter tb clip my cedar hedge. * • * * And it' Wet' as though I've been neglecting things. I've been fish- ing' twice, golfing hardly at all. f' :tried. swimming the other day with the kids. Got in as far as my, knees 'and they, splashedme. Rini white and qUaking to the car and had to have an immediate restorative to prevent shock Once, just once, I have had the lawn chair out. The dog knocked over my drink and then the phone rang' which• finished that, ** As for the kids; I used to think they, were around a let when they were' school. ''Put now, you can't turn around without falling over a kid. They're up with the blasted •birds in the .Morning, and you can't scare them to bed at night. Their conversation has only two theme's:' "What is there to, dO?" delivered' in whining ac- cents; and "When are you going to take us swimming?" in threat- ening vein. * * Summer you're just a teaser. You promise and don't produce. You heekon and when we run, your thumb drifts to your nose and you wiggle -your' fingers. Reminiscing FIFTY FIFTY YEARS AGO A quiet wedding •took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 1'. Graham, Centre Street, yester- day morning at .5.45 o'clock, when their daughter, Miss Agnes Flo- rence, was united in marriage to Mr. Bryson Cochrane, marble deal-, er, of this town, A special meeting of 'the town council was held on .Friday even- ing to give first reading to a by law for the raising of $6,000 which Will be used to provide a water- Works 'system tor domestic pur- poses, • The interior of the Brunswick tiote1 has been repainted and thor- oughly overhauled and one would' hardly think it the stone house. The outside of the building will be repainted and When all the im- prOVements. are completed this hotel Will be one et the best in Western Ontario, Mild MeVittie pf Toronto is visiting with her cousin, Mra. John tftchol, Mini L. Merit has returned home from Sudbliry for a two months' Visit, lyfroi, Good, Of Entersont IS,„ visiting at the home of her brother, Mr. W. F. VanSione: ' • 0 _'0 -'.1) FORTY YEARS AGO J. A. Brandon of Beigrave took a` trip to Chatham on .Monday and brought a new Grey DOrtalteeial. The sidewalks .:are being put in hetter shape and the town is, tak-, ing. on a gala' 'apPediance in Preparation for Old Home week. Mr. A, M. CraWford will .give a Plowing dernOn re stratio . With a. Fordson tractor , at, the home 'of Mr. John Whitechurch. Mr, and Mrs, W, R. Dyer are at' Walkerville attending the funeral of a nephew who was the Nictim of an automobile accidePt- Mr. Paul Powell, the popular clerk of Turnberiy,,•Township,,:is: confined to4ita.tiedf .:1•10, was aver:. come by the heat while:working; rif the fields. Miss Beatrice'Andeson Whd'hai been a member of the high school staff here for several years,' has accepted a position on the staff of the Goderich Collegiate Institute, where.she will teach Commercial. Mrs. P. IJ, Croak of. New York City is visiting with her parents, Rev, and Mrs: J. F.,Dingrrian.' Mr. and Mrs:-°William Adair and family moved. their household effects to Kincardine en Tueiday. We are sorry to, lose this estimable family from otir'thwn. - 2 • . • '0-0-0 ' TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO A street 'carnival will be held on Thursday evening, tinder the aus- pices of the Chamber of Com- merce. Mayor J. W. Hanna and. Council- lor D. Geddes atteride a confer- ence of mayors in Galt, last week. Rev, E. L. RobeRs A,'Iliewly ap- pointed rector of St.'Paul's Church,. was inducted on Thursday evening; On Monday another pioneer of this district, Robert John Forbes, passed away at Belgrave. Miss Jean Webster daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Withal; Webster of WeSt Wawanosh, was injured in a car accident at Stratford. She was recently engaged as teacher at the Junction School, near Wing- ham, replacing Miss Gladys Ire- vi rldMniaLerslie Deans •of Detroit spent of Huron, called at the rectory on the week-arid at his home here, Right Rev. C. A. Seeger, Bisher Miss P. Morton of Toronto was the guest of Mrs, H. C.,,MacLean last week, Mr. and Mrs. .7, J. Evans left On Wednesday to spend the summer at the cottage at Timagami, 0 - 0 - 0 FIFTEEN YEARS A00 Canvases shown at the Western Ontario Art Exhibition, LondOrt, in- elude five paintings by Winghare ladies, Mrs, Ada Torrance has two pictures on display one an Atlantic' Coast scene and the other a health- ful tall study of "The Porka of the. Credit", Mrs. W. B. MeCoots plc- tore is of Spring floweri, Mrs, W, W, Armstrong has two pictures, oothnneei ooa.thse6rth, aenourtarrattjtit:eY i rnenitanad of and- the dance held at Holmes' School on Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. ,The Austin, Who were recently married, were presented 'by their neighbours and frienda with a purse of money, The addresa was read by Alex Sproul and the press- Wititicitl WAN *001'4;100n *Woe, Sugar and Spice By ° • ,.06*****AlTil*****011tllefl . *4.1! . lt .. eq . pi ........ ipipWWWWWWW0491010"!!"” .... '14141" . ... " .. Por hot weather comfort 1 TAKE I.D.A. ENGLISH STYLE Health Salts 1 POUND TIN 59c Special Prices E EFFECTIVE JULY 8th to 14th . 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Call us today. heating,letus helpYou choose the ANTHES , • ANTHES PERCY W. CLARKE Plumbing — Heating — Sheet Metal Woirk, PHONE 205 VVINGHAM, ••• ebetiigetistic Centre' Centre St. REV. W: W. LODER, Pastor Tues.-8.00 p.m.—Youth Fellowship Meeting ThurS.-8:00 p.m.—Prayer Meeting Sunday Service 10.00 a.m.—Sunday- School Classes for - all ages. 11.00 a.m.—Morning Worship . 7.30 ' - VISITORS. WELCOME • '( 111*111111*** ... ......... 11111* lllllllll **** ll i ll ll llllllllll lllll lllllllll gnlrf 1' 15c •.. .,• . • THE SALVATIQNARMY drd; in4batn SUNDAY SERVICES 11:00 a.m.—Holiness Meeting 2.30 p.m.—Sunday School 7.00 p.m.—Salvation. Meeting Tuesday, 8.00 p.m.—Prayer•alld Praise Service. Friday, 8.00 p.m.—Youth Group All Teen-Agero Welcome There's a welcome for YOU at the "Arnie a li I ' . s. Pi** 'Two Ad,voiwa-Tiow/,'Iv/4414/04, 440/1 s* 460 OPEN PARKS PROGRAM ACCOrdillg to the latest word, it is altogether likely that some wor,k will be undertaken this summer to clean, up the bank of the Maitland River between the Howson clam and the McKenzie bridge. It is to be hoped that this will be only the first Of a series of improvement projects:: which will eventually lead to the beautification of the entire river system. The first move- will 'be to level down the river bank, root out the bullrushes and other water weeds along the foreshore and plant some grass and fast-growing trees. When the area reaches its new status it will provide a beautiful and readily accessible picnic area. for townsfolk and tourists. With the gates ,,at the` dam, repaired and the water je,v,,1,s . back to normal it would also, be cinife feasible to include a swimming',ci wading area in the .stream as'well If you would like' to 'look ,a.".'f*; years into ,the future you 'may ualize a parkway reaching.:fro#i Victoria Street at the south:; Eirsi Busk north and 'east. ,of Ythe town. It's a dream; quite'trAte,,,bitt it is One• of the most fascinating dreams we. can harbor. There 'may be sbtne, Who -have'' small interest in the' outdoors ; to. say that such a.pragratti..isc a'''Waste of rifpney . . . hut nothing Could be fartherfrom the truth. To be iittei- ly practical for a moment, beantifi: cation of this town is likely to ,h one of the soundest investments we new era ,in travel, as a hobby, can make. Just look at the cointritw7 is Upon; us. Europe has become the ities which have benefited frOnt the goal'Of.bundreds of Canadians who establishment of new industries, hi' years' gone by never went farther Most of them are places Which have . aliod.' than Florida. 'remains quiet on the Berlin front, More than 15,000 Canadians -",„willjcbtiverge,, on Europe this year, WHAT ABOUT ::THE sayi::Beatrice Riddell in The Finan- POOL?' cia,t Post, he majority will be frbin Canada, although fa's- ,S everaL,people have ,asked'ifs,',•re- s'e'tviee, and "over the poll" cerktiy. whether or not the sWuninnag flights , are luting more Westerners, pool',:is a dead issue: Th.e. answer -;is 40.4,-;:of:.the .trippers are choosing that' it is more:alive than, it ever the, eatry ,s,iimmer and spend four to but the entire oliesti on i$ being gone into ifiore ititefrsely than-TVas'otign -; • ,,,,.After „seeing, the grand collection ally intended. Ofrreglor Slides :which Mayor R. E. . At first it was decided to' fifth McKinney: brought back from his right into a building progrant,,With Eiirop,ein; trip, we can easily under a town-wide canvass for funds; .44 stand the' attraction which lures so since that time there have beenanany • ma'am ,Canadians abroad. His pic- fresh suggestions as to the, location, tures, even ,change our mental pic- type, of construction and.rnethods'Of titre of ..Moscow,. :We had always financing. Several of. theSe,.sii.ggi'S- imagined -thati city as, a monotonous tions have great merit 'and 'the Corn:- grey, both.in.architecture and popu- tion, but,that, is far from the truth. The biiildings are 'colorful and ap- pal-pqy the' characters are equally intereSting. .•The mayor has an ap- titude, for .getting right in there for the pictures • and 'information he warits;, so: collection, 'includes a fec.y....tsliots which might even be "firsts" for international journal- ists..: and-his tale of how he finally ROt..into, the Supreme .Praesium Wilding is 'well worth hearing. Mr:, McKinney showed some of his. Slides' to a small audience up at CKI\PC on Friday morning and they were.certainly 'most interesting. However, the particular theme we' had in mind was the greater knowledge of other nations which is inherent ,with increased travel abroad. 'A person who has visited the pronoun is pretty loosely em- the Soviet Union does not feel that ployed. The "they" of course isflie, : the'Red'S' area, faceless mass of war- group of people who are making thet, mongers, Waiting the best opportun- ity ,to spill innocent Western blood. The Russians then' becoine human beings, with ambitions and fears like the rest of, .us. If only the process could he reversed so that more people from the Soviet could learn the same truths about us, the ten- sion .of international fears would, diminish. 'to a tremendous degree.. . .Canadians, of course, are only hem' ginning to have any real sort of in- ternational outlook, Now we are finding that Frenchmen are great . cooks --, that, Germans are great in- dustrials and that Italians have a fine sense, of huMor, If this travel trend continues our whole national outlook will he broadened and vastly improved, The insulation which was prOvided by the wide waters of the Atlantic Ocean is no longer of any 'great importance, it leaves tis na- kedly exposed to the stabs o our enemies, but if may at 'the 'same time expose us to better underStand- nig and greater Christian tolerance xs ,well, mittee has taken • the- extra time necessary to sift, all of them!, which entails ,correspondence and trips afield to look at other Pools. There FS little doubt that i'inajOr--- ity of the people . 'iri..W,ingham and district are t anxiou ,s see.: .a pool constructed,: and-some theset are audibly-chafing at the delay. How- ever, we do believe that all'of these folks would' agree that if we are gb- ing into the pool project we wanCto see the best that can be had for the money we can raise. There is one additional thought in this connection. Most of the ,folks Who have talked to us about the project have freely used the word "they", —"What are they doing about it?" Why don't they get into action?" —and so on. We feel that' effort to carry, out the plan, and, be it said, they are for the most part, the same people who are expected to carry out all the other communitjt projects-, They are the willing ones who come out to the meetings and don't beef When they are asked . to take On the necessary jobs. There is plenty of room„ for more helperS in every one of our undertak- ings iii Wingfidm, and some of• dive men who are 'now trying to handle ten or a 'dozen major responsibilities would he only too happy to, have more' advice and mote assistance. iiiinsibmisoliessieseireeeneressmous l ll Was lll • l ll a • ll *pi llllll I lllll el llll *lee ll ll lll ll llllll l lllll 111110.11i1 l ji ll I lll I llllll llllllll 111111140 llllll ingbant . Rev. C, F,Johnson, L,Th. - Rector Mrs. Gordo•n. Davidson - Organist Seventh Sunday after Trinity, ' 11.00 4Am-11/laming Prayer NO EVENING SERV= ut'fi Churcb (ANGLICAN)