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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1907-01-10, Page 7£ is 4litsirsioo6 PP!AB8O[UTE SECURITYI Cenuln4 Carter's jLlttle Liver Pills. Must Boar Signature of boo Pae.5Laitlo %Vrarper aglow. Torr assail sad as cagy to take as setter. a FOR HE.3DkCFE. cAR Rs FOR OIIIIRESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FCR TORPID LIVER. FOR CtlMSTIPA110f1. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR TEE,COMPI,LXIDI lrIF WOMEN ONL,Y KNEW '• Tatou)1 m i r untold miser - les OLrttrma..eu►�r-y.r;c. tlf b -70r I ham! OG'ieraDlcn//..+ . •s•G CURE. SICK HEADACHE. Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup Cores Coughs, Colds. Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Croup. Asthma, Pale or Tightness la the Chest. Eta. Tt stops that tickling in the throat, fa pleasant to take and soothing and heal - Ing to the lungs. Mr. E. Bishop Brand, tho well-known Galt gardener, writes:— I had a very severe attack of sore throat and tightness in the chest. Some times when I wanted to cough and could not I would almost choke to death. My wife got me a bottle of DR. 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"Their land is :••'t of silver and gold— their land also is 01 .1 of idols." That is, lo say the (cast, a Marling conjunction. Ls it also u sequence? 1, idolatry the outcome of prosperity ? God's guudness should lead mien to repentance and not to hardness of heart, and yet so fre- quently is material prosperity followed by spiritual decline that ono Can almost Vital it was in the purophel's mind to say "their land is full of silver and gold; therefore also their land is full of idols." The gooefnees was God's; it was Ile NV110 had ,toreil the pockets of the earth with gold, and had made its veins to run with : i!ver; 1lis were the cattle on their thousand hills, and Ilis hand it was that clothed the valleys with golden harvests; wine Presto and treasure house end barn we. alike bursting because Hod's hand wits upon the bald for good. Again. let it'', be said Ilis goodness should have led to repentance. But lila ideal is not always Ilse real. This con- junction of prosperity and idolatry is so frequent that it merits serious atten- tion. Is it not a condition nniiceable in our day as it was in the days of the Prophet Isaiah? have we not seen it— the increase of outward estate and the decrease side by side with that of the inner spiritual lige; temporal advance- ment with spiritual declension; the en- joyment of wealth with corresponding pomp and pageantry. and the Lessening Interest in the things that endure, the failure of the True vision oftGod? That, I say. is a condition of thinti not pecu- liar lo lite prophet's age—it is -to be seen in Canada to -day. There is something almost strangely modern in the words of this chapter; in spite of the laps() of three Thousand years; in spite of all lite differences be- tween the Orie()t and the Occident, there is u tone in the prophet's appeal that suggests conditions most funnier to its. For what sero lho things in which Israel twilled herself? They were the material wealth of the land, their abundance of silver and gold ; their milltar•y equip- ment, the multitude of thew horses and chariots; their !nighty forests; their cedars of (.ebnnon, and onks of Bnshnn; (heir high towers and fenced walls; their shipping which carried their land's produce lo every part of the world. 1 need not repeat that throe are familiar themes in Canada lo -day. Are the/ not the Old -World synonyms for "Cobalt" and "Yukon" and "Klondike?" Are not our shipping and forest wealth and in- exhaustible resources of aline and river, the theme of never-ending nrlicles and of unceasing declamation? The dangers of materialism threaten every age. lint one has only to rend our doily papers and tho magazines that flood our hand, lo see how real is this peril of Isaiah :v ago to ms to -day, and how similar through all the nges are the things that turn men away from God, and destroy in the soul the vision of things eternal. MATE(%IAI.IS\I AND IDOLATRY. Two features of a material life find emphasis in this elinpler. They are pride and idolatry. ish'ael's pride. her lofty looks, her haughtiness, her glory in the works of her own hands was the spirit that prepared her for the idolatry that had beconte cotuhnn. It is easy to see hots pride inevitably follows close upon the failure of the vision of God. 'there Is nothing that humbles a elan like the vision of the Almighty. 1'nul's haughty spirit ton- i:bed when the light from Heaven broke upon him; doses could stand undaunted before Ring:, but nt sight of the Intel' aflame he drew near with unsandallyd feel. To see God is to be humbled. And yet, with true humility there goes ever hand in hand n fine dignity that t'; very reap but unobtrusive. \0144 Can SC(' flint excellent combination in the men win dwell among the hilts. The Ilighlnnder is a man of true humility, and yet in his very carriage there is a nalurul dignity that proclaims him greet. Moving among the mounlnins he Is :mixture, ley (heir grcntnesr, and yet, by that some greatness he Is exalted. Ener:inn sonle- shere say:; that the men that are ac- customed to be touch in great cathe- drals, even the curators. unconsciously acquire a stalely step. Is it not more teae that men who hold communion God while I n with the great x! (e wit they re I h , hum - We, ate also ennobled? ('ride most pi'rish in that Presence, but Irur dignity is thorn of fellowship with the Most High, The Inns, Then. of Ihnn humility and the' failure of teal dignity, is the Mot result that follows the loss of the Divine Vision. And with shag result ? The prophet describes it in the expres- sive terms: "The mean conn bowel!' down. and the groat man humblelti himself.' That is the picture. Man, I Inn( Utnt adc to walk cr, m w•ho alonewas nnlotuug crcale(I thineelgs Leerans :t brow that fronts the rinrs. ratan high and lowly. commonplace and noble, hews himself before the works of his own hand4. 01111 11111111110; hirnself to ;locks thud stories. THE PICTUi1E IN (:.\N.\DA 'TO -1).\1'. is that n picture flint tins no r.Heience In conditions in out Intel to -day ? You hair rend the papers, the ',niters of our owl elty w1111 111. public evidence of recent 1,01f4len1 scntidnl5; you have (read the papers from the \Vest s int their ac - remote of shnlesnle corruption and fraud. stretehiiig mer a long period of year;. and Limiting 11,11 a few eottodit. e)1,es, loll meaty. 1., it not se that lite comm:tplact' man has bowed down, has said himself. has surrendered his manhood Iefnre an 1.1.41 of silver noel gold ? What 11111401' 4licl the idol has 110 minion form, tut ohsv to of a len dal• Lor hill, In that he IM,wed; for that he shit r.'nder(sI his tiailllo',d. You have rrn.l the story of rt.nitnercin1 enlbezzle- inenl. 111.' late of haw those in (high puri• bons have leetrayrel (rust, hat sacrificed h"n•.r (o an i.101 41 gold. 11 matters not :,rel they brook' lo an ideI costing man, :housatd.; u1Nr st.nit of idolatry was the s,nue; 111ey a',l1 Miter manhood 1.r a 1 rice tt Are not the prophet's words apt to- day ? Is not the whole sad tale that is making Canada's onco bright Hume a by -word a' ; a reproach aiming the nations a repetition of Israel's defection from God ? The mean man bowel11 down, and the great man humbleth himself. Thu dignity of true manhood Mos toren forgotten and for gold men have stooped as sieves. Now 111111 Con- dition whether in Israel or Canada is not a sudden growth . 11 is the product. as one limy say. of well recogniztd laws operating in- the lives of sten. speaking with one of the const thoughtful spirits In our congregation Iho other day, 11e said to nal: "flue re- cent revelations of corruption both in political and commercial life, are evi- dence 111111 religion is far less of a vital force in individual aiid fancily life Ilam fl raee was," None of us, 1 sentare to think, will question the truth of' Hint sentiment. But have we not In those words the suggestion of two of the in- variable steps That (cad to the deteriora- tion from a spiritual to a material life— less of a vital force in inditidunl nod family life." Does not that deterioration always begin with the relaxing of per- sonal communion with God? That re - taxing may be induced by any one of a thousand causes, but in some way, per- sonal heart religion fails. The \\'ord of God is neglected; tho thoughts turn less frequently towards the Most high as the God of the Life; the habil of definitely committing to God all mailers of life, Is abandoned; the tone of life is different. The forms of religion nluy still be kept up, the hnbit of prayer on rising and re- tiring, but grndually even (hese come to be omitted, al first with a piing of con- science, Then without even this; the life once so fervent becomes cold and in- different. And what follows? 'rho abandonment of the family altar. The world that hes absorbed the I.lterest of We life encroaches upon the home. ex- cuses are found for the omission of what was once a helpful exercise. Perhaps for a lime the practice nnny h..r kepi up upon rho Sabbath, but gradually this, loo, fails, and so far as the home is concerned, the Bible Ls a closed book, and the voice of praer is unheard. The hone becomes, tis Dr. William Taylor used to describe It, "like a house with- out either foundation or roof." Oh, fathers and mothers, 1 charge you as you love ,our homes, and as you would save Them from the bane of a material life. keep tho sacred fire burning on the family allay; rebuild that altar it 11 has fallen Into decay; fan the lire into a brighter flame where it is listless; but whatever forces oppose, guard it with the fidelity with which tho vestals guarded the eternal fires on the hidden altars. I nm convinced that In enhphasizing these two thoughts 1 have laid my (land upon two of the most potent forces that have made for the unhappy conditions That exist in public life to -day. Let re- ligion fail in the •tersonal life and in the family circle, anti Ilio result will speed- ily innnifest itself in the decline of pub- li' morality. It is from these fountains that the stream of our public lite flows; if that stream is lo be healthful, the fountain attest be purr. THE CUIIE. Is there a cure? Can the dying flame be rekindled? Can these who humble themselves before idols rise again to fellowship with the Most High? 7 The s•hnlo message of the Scriptures— the Old 'Tenement and the New—Ls an 0111 - idiotic alternation to that quo;lion, els•', what is meant by this cull of Ile) pro- phet: "0 house of Jacob, collie ye. and lel us walk et the light of the Lord." Some one hos said that there are three voices which God frequently uses In sumnhnn tllntl from (1114 laser material life to nobler spirituel cnnceptints. The !li:st of throe voices is the poet's. how the messages of !nen who have heard God smell; to them in mountain, sea and starry slay, and who have brought these messages of Gad :o their fellowman; how (hese messages, 1 say, live through- out the ages; live for all ages. els for That to which they were spoken, God hos few greater giflo to petiole than n contemplative poet who lise.' apart from the world, std brings1 11 message in another Ione from Ili tt which pt•evoils. And the peel who lei speaks—I Cure not whether he wines in metre or In prose. the poet to whom God has spoken, and who sill' that nessng. Ihrehbingt in his II •art, speaks to his age, cannel but lee heard. Do y'nu want on illtulratien? God of our Fathers, Lino n of old— Lord of our far-flung battle -line, Beneath Whose awful hand Ave hold Dominion over palm rind pine; Lona God of hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget. The tumult and the shoaling dies— The captains and the longs depart— Still elands Thine ancient socrilice, An humble nnrl a contrite heart. Lord God of hosts. be with u5 yet, Lest we ((eget, Zest we forget. For heathen henrt that puts her trust 111 reeking tube and iron shard -- Ali 5nthal dust that builds on dust ,\tel guarding. calls not Thee lo guard— For (nolle. It.usl and foolish word, 1'1iy mercy on 1'hy people, Lord ! who of ns forgets hw flim ntestoge of Ihr pert broke uponethe Cnnsrienee of the nation when itrilnin w1.5 drunk with hoe own glory. and forgetful of her 11550 (rue glrealiii� \tore than any other voice of 111. lune, IUplitlg's voice w14 used of Gnd, In ret•all the it (o 5o14ter thought and nobler deed. 'rhe preacher is one with the pool. His nessnge may b0 different. but in turves., it 15 the 5)11)11'. II is hi • mission, luno to Clflt den (rola nbsorp,11411 in the !hinge of earth to a f.'II.wship with Grid. .Ind this nte.osege. Ino. if it is 1n he nffec. Ire, nhust Ise in nrtntgtt'r Ione fvm, (hat which pret►slia in 111.'. \\'o speak ahoit� preaching for necessity for 1 of his age;>stt understand Ihrisgo and yel above all tit a elan of God, a 01 God has spoken, 0410 w o age a message that t., more d0(4)11ssion of the themes men's attention during Such a preacher 1 covet for for our age. A non of lit may be, or of the city, but a a ttesage other than that which with the questions, What shall 1 \Vhat shall 1 drink? And wherewit shall 1 be clothed? Will you be surprised when I say that another voice Ls the politician's—let mo rattier sacrifice alliteration and say "statesman's." 1 have been reading recently the opeeehes of the glen. John Bright, de- livered in tho British (louse of Com- mon,, or on the public platforms of his country, during the period of his great service to the Empire. As one reads these he Is impressed with the thought that hero was a man who spoke with a recognition of his responsibility not nlcno to clan, but to God. His utter- ances have all the fervor of a prophetic appeal, and the grounds of that appear are: as suitable for a pulpit as for u plat- form. \\'e have never returned to the cus- tom that prevailed in the days . of the commonwealth, when members of Par- liament csrried their Bibles to the (louse, and it was no uncommon thing to hear the rustling of many leaves us the member., turned to chapter and Verse l0 prove a quotation. Is it too much to hope for, however, that there shall arise to political life IAl Canada, men who shall not hesitate to eller rho name of God fearlessly and reverently on lite floor of the (louses of I'arlinment, and who shall as fearlessly enforce the principles of the moral law u.; binding alike upon the nations and upon individuals. Emphasis is being daily placed less and less upon the dis- tinction between secular and sacretl, and 55e are realizing that if •the spirit be right, every service may be u service for God. His voice may as truly come to us through the statesman as through the preacher, and Il cony be that to one -in the political arena, the great honor may be given of calling our land from rho worship of the material to an apprecia- tion of the true purpose of national life. But lest we go away thinking that the work of opposing materialism In lite is to be confined to those who stand in public places. and wield large power in the world, let each one of us remember that each has a sphere in which -his in- fluence can bo felt. "Not many wise men of the flesh; not many noble; not many mighty are called; but God hath chosen the weak things of this world to confound lite mighty, and the Things that are not to bring to -.taught the things that are." No lire is powerless, and the weakest tiro surrendered to God becomes an in- strument limitless in its possibilities. Only lel us every one, like Noah of old, be a preacher of righteousness, to our- selves. in our homes, and in our busi- ness life. Let us tnngnify Christ; lel us hold up and ever seek to Illustrate the principle's of rightecusncss and of truth which Ile taught. Let every heart face lowar(1 flim to -day, and then let us everyone, by life and word, say hence- forth to all whom the may reach, "Oh, House of Jacob, come and let us sulk in the light of the Lord." So shall it he ours lo serve our generation, and to ac- complish something for the true pros- perity and for the permanent good of the land we Imo). "011 Christ, for Thine Own glory, And for our country's weal, We humbly plead before Thee Thyself in do reveal ; And may 5ve know, Lord Jesus, The touch of Thy dent' hand, And healed of our diseases. The tempters power withstand. "Our Snvl oir Ring defend us, And guide us where we go; Forth with Thy message send us, Thy light and love to show ; Till Iirevl with true devotion, Enkindled by Thy Word, From ocean unto ocean. Our lend shall ossa Thee Lord." A ST01IY OF POVERTY. Woman Burned Rend Child's Body to Save Funeral Expenses. A gruesome case twins heard at Totten- ham Petite Cnurl when a married wo- man named Jessie Byers. forty, of 17 Holm Villus. Victoria (load. Edmonton, London. England. was charged with burning the Indy of a child on Novem- ber 25, runtrary to the Cremation Act. Detective-Serge:ens Hawkins, of Stoke Newington. depo•ed that on Tuesday he went with Detective -Inspector \larlin to the prisoner's house. In reply to va•inus questions she snit! her husI:lnd was out of work. 110 was n pian(. -forte maker, and had nothing In do with her business, tor which she alone was responsible. `•;he further said, "I have five more chit. (lien. Incl 000 Is dead, now lying in the bock room." On the way lo the police station the prisoner said, "1 sent for the mother two or three tithes. 1 burnt it because 1 did not know what lo do. 1 do this to (rake both ends meet." CHINESE I'OO't iBINDING. :\ correspondent writing from Pekin says that the En►prerse I)ow-trger•. 1e•,In- ing that her imperial edict issued set. r - al veru, ago. calling upon l:hinese fathers and mothers to slop the custom of binding their daughters' feet, was nal being obeyed as universally as a s edict ought to be, e5 inceil cons ire nt the new.4, milli the re several grand councillors, present al the lime, underwe greenble mustier of an Majesty's hands. SIIE WAS SliSPICi People are more interest then !Ivy mot In be, re nulhurity. lien It is q II(' toe 5• i0n1111e. A fri into serl..u• trouble 1•uldneis 1 r ethyl hyd Ing of M, wife, wit to be Dors. \\'o lhu c and secoii limo mast which the pressed framework - exquisitely seldom d careful r truth and as a whole, the end and contain. not to inform of time it look part of his inflltile order in which the ev yet concerning the spec the firmament divided the lite waters. His solar da lirmai nent.• his stars set to moot "to divide the light from netts," his Homeless sea-tnonst other details are the framework, framework only of a marvellous r tion. What, then, is the profuun truth and message of the Genesis 1111 lice of creation? It is the message \lonolheisul, the crystalization, in pu lied form, of Israel's rich and wonder heritage of faith in the only true G handed down as this heritage had be by ward of mouth from father to and from generation to generation 0 tog more than a decade of centuries from the litne of the earliest ancestors of the Hebrew race. It reveals God to us, and it reveals him as the infinite and absolute Creator of all things; the 80- pre►ue Master of life to whom we also belong. It tells us (hot man, the end and goal of creation on this earth is made In tho image id God's spiritual nature, capable of following in n mea- sure the workings of Gods mind and of employing his forces. (''OnISClotis of his relation to God, and bound to hint by ties of Imre, man strives lo imitate God in his life. "In Inngunge of unequaled simplicity and sublimity" our Bible nar- rative sets forth every one of these essential truths. 1l nluces God, Nature and man in right relation to each other. Yet notuntil we turn from the Bible to the creation myths of other ancient peoples. even 1110 Most enlightened— with (heir gods and goddesses many, having infirmities and passions like ionto men. gods who are born and who die, who quarrel and hate. who marry and who commit the most shameful wrongs— and contrast these strange aberrations of the human mind. unenlightened by the Divine Spirit. with the calm sanity, the ethical purity, the dignity, the jus- tice anti the benefleenee of our Genesis nal relive can we fully appreciate the profounder truth and the sublimer reve- lation to mankind which Ihnt narrative comlains. '1'o hint, however, who has caught the vision of that larger truth and message, the poetic and artistic form in winch that truth is clothed. viewed at Inst in right plersp.eclive. must seem 05011 more cxquisilely beautiful and appropriate than ever before. 11 do SIX the Verse 26. The two preceding verses, 21 and 25, together with 26-31 inclusive, describe the work of the sixth day. In our image — \Ve note ngnin the ";dural of majesty" which on this selenl11 and important occasion, w hen n being is to be created in God's own image. God himself employs. Tho only other passages in vIileh lite plural is used by God himself are Gen. 3. 22, "I1e1101d man i; become like one of us"; 11.7. "Colne pet us go down, and there confound their language'; and Ise. 6. 8, "Whom shall 1 send, and who will go for us?" Likeness—The likeness of himself in which God created man forms the ground or basis of man's pec-.Hereate above the louver animals. Tint likeness io 011 itnm:devinl resemblance, consis- ting priulnrily in the pose.=.i,.1► of self- consciouo reason and n bre will. Lel deal have (1.nhinion—Thi.: dnmin• ion which !glut Itns over all the earth, he Itas by virtue of his superior mental and s ,' a , f. . p ail lel endcwmr n ,. 28. God tdeosed them—Thr II.'ssin similar to the one pronounced upon lower animals, only fuller std of lar scope. The dominion, how, t er. man is to exercise over the t 0011 to first achieve by ub.lnimg it. effort to subdue rct•.s of n bring them it ro peel 1111111 fs still en 30. To every . t of the e 1 have given every grecs herb An ell at, rather Ihnn n real thins. i, here pielured by 31. Very good()-Tlie clu the entire work of el stage of the ,1tie .s 1 ole the Creel now in silo sepnrnle tion with of the wit 1. Fin of being forret o In 0 In ou a sepn work 11n 9 Hey is not private benevolence. tho authorities may recover the Chet meals from parents or the Hoard Guardians." Tho 'Times remarks that the "measure is an excellent illustration of the truth that, if a nation does not do the right thing at the right time and in the right way, it is certain to be compelled sootier. or later to do the thing in a hurry and in the wrong wny. It has pleased this nation under successive Governments, both Unionists and Liberal to shirk lite gravest of social problems--Ihnl of the moral condition of the plass of its citi- zens. 1t has pleased our Legislature to light the paltry battles of party and oc- cupy itself wittl the squabbles of sectaries who ought to have been giving I) the practical moral education of Iho people the lisle rind energy they• have spent in trying to make their respective shades of doctrine prevail. Now we have to deal with largo numbers of men who air, unemployed becnitse their mortal con- dition slakes them unemployable, and with numbers of children who are unfed because their paints have grown up from childhood without ndrquate moral discipline and training. \\'e have to deal with these things in unseemly haste, by the methods of the empiric, 111(1 under the dictation of persons whose theories and aims, however little they may know it, aro PTIOFOUNDLY ANTI -SOCIAL. This bill is well meant, but it proceeds fn Iho wrong way ; yet if we urge the right way, the answer—and it is a weighty ono --is that. oldie the grass grows, the steed sleeves. 'there are children who must sant food white s endeavor to make up arrears of work inr•ulcating upon their par18 the of providing for their C T more than this. Moro ago we gray tntcrfe economics l' .11 o had sell I,. se pet 1