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PAGE 8A--GODERI.CH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, SEP`1 EMH •:R -t, Ili
FROM THE MINISTER'S STUDY.
BY THE REV. JAMES RE:DDOCH
He has chosen us
In John Chapter 15 v. 16 we whenever the opporturl-t,ty le,rst,sufilc'tent for Jesus to tell
read that Jesus said to His. came.,,n� them.' "1'e also shall bear
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disciples, "You have not chosen, When Jesus spoke of . i's` "�'w Imes, hecaose ye have been
me, but I have chosen you'''. betrayal, notice how the
When Jesus set out to daseipl-es said, "Lord. we .la i\e
establish the Kingdom of God two swords- And how, Ont' of
He chose a small group of men them which were with .Jesus
who would be -the nucleus of the streir.hed out his hand, and
Kingdom in the world. Twelve drew.his sword, and struck a
'men. whom He could teach serN ant of the high priests and"
privately the_ things concerning -smote off his ear-
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the Kingdom. He placed great •
value on this group and had a
high estimate of, their worth,
whatever they thought about
themselves. He called them
'The light of the world' and 'Tl
salt " of the earth', and
prophesied in the parable of the
'Mustard Seed' that from such
small beginnings great things
would come; as ,indeed they
have.
In that 'the Kingdom is
essentially a right relationship
of men to God, and of men to
each other, it was necessary
that they be united in fellowship •
This eagerness and readiness
to change the existing -order t,f
things is seen in the way they
`didn't hesitate• to forsake all
and.f ollv`rti• J esus.'
Also, they w'er•e willing and
eager to learn. I'his is seen in
the number of questions they
asked Jesus. Much 'of the
teaching of Jesus is in answer
to questions his dis`cii_ilOs asked
him, We might not have had
'The Lord's Prayer' if they had
not said. "Lord, teach us to
pray"
Their minds w ere not cloyed
to new ways of thinking: their
' rth pre from the beginning
They altict had a childlike
spirit of wonder and continually
marvelled at the things which
Jesus did. They were not hard
and insensitive Like children
they looked at Jetius with wide
and wondering eyes. One of the
conditions which Jesus laid
cion) for anyone who would
enter 'the - i; ingdoni of God.
'.iesus called a child, had him
stand in 'front of them, and
said: "Remember this! Unless
\tit change and become like
children, you will never triter
the Kingdom of heaven'.
So Jesus took them as they
were. w ith all their faults .and
-failings; and used these
qualities as a basis for training
them to be citizens of the
Kingdom of God.'
It is the same today. The
and friendship with Jesus. So'ideas were not set and ts,\;. d like Eternal Christ still looks for
He said to them 'Henceforth I those of the Pharisees w'ho 'men and women 0) follow Him,
call. your not servants: for the stubbornly refused to change and will accept us a5 we .are if
servant knoweth not what his 'their outlook. The men Jesus `"c' ,try eager to follow; if we
lord doeth; but I have called chose were ,eager to -learn and are willing to learn of Him: if
You friends'. be taught by Him. W_' will remain• loyal, and once
' In the light of this great task They were also men 1,-;'f great • hiving put our hand to the
of spreading the good news of loyalty (with the exce}stion,of plough, not look back; 'and if'e
the coming of God's Kingdom' it ,ludas ). Once they started to�,'ill "marvel at His love for us
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�f; interest to ask the follow' Jesus they
sta\'°d with and what .He can make us to
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question, Whydrd Jesus
choose • the men' He did? Con-
sidering His purpose, and all
He set out to do, what governed
His choice of men? For they
wore of His own choosing. "You
have not chosen me, (He said)
but I have chosen you":
If we had to -make such a
choice, . we would have been
inclined, perhaps, to choose
men . who all had the same
/outlook. Men who 'would. Most
readily agree with each other.
We would be inclined to favor
men of scholarship who were'
used to grappling with religious
problems. A visit to Jerusalem
.would have produced many
, such men; men who were
familiar with every detail of the the hopeless and the des.olate in dying . Sal( 1. , vans: Mo pagan officiating. I
Law; Scribes and Pharisees India. She told of her°prk with On lea�'ing the church one Y .
Interment was in St, Peter's '
whose lives ` were already lepers and with children who wondered what kind of witness
Cemetery, Colborne Township.
dedicated to the things of God. have been` abandoned either ' we were making. Everything. pallbearers .. were. ,Frank
Yet we find Jesus choosing because their parents are both We do testifies to some,extent to Ste hen Campion
dead or are sick and ,unable to what we are, even when we Campion, p
fishermen and taxgatherers. testify falseay. Others may not and Tim Evans; all'grands as , t
The most unlikely material for care' for them; of the decear'ed.; Bob Lucas, i
undertaking so great 'a task. She showed ,us 'pictures of 'get' all that we say, or discern Dr ,Kenton Lambert and Roy
some c f the people she helps what we leave unsaid, what we , t
Thee continually quarrelled faces cannot, or will not, or do not Dunt'
.E'en after �--'lifiey;.._ nil eco. ie :. ___._ ..
forsook Him and fled' we read As we respond 10 His call to
that Peter followed Him afar follo�ti', 'Jesus still .Says. "You
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off. even to the high priests' have not chosen rile, but I have
palace Their loyalty was at chosen you".
Some churches will try
credit. card giving system
The follow ing is ap article
which ;ippeal'.'� in the •current
edition of the Huiron Churcltt
News, a. =1tuhllc',itton of The
Diocese of Huron (Anglican
Church of (','nada I . Its author,
Thc� Rev G�oftrt 1)ibbs is a
Landoll -rector
amount to the church _•of hi's
choice each month,
donation to the local church.
"Although we feel the most
Americans can an drrcharge desirable way to support iihe
everything from gasoline to'
church is through individual
furniture on credit cards. The giving at services,'; said the
--national credit card debt stands Reay. Richard J,, Anderson of
at somewhere around $lG the Episcopal Church, "the
billion - about $80 for every changing times might make-
, man, woman and child in the this impossible,"
"' Some financial experts have
country and the churches .are
making this experiment to cash indicated that bill payment and
in on 0 national habit. other kinds of money„ tran-
It is also an attempt to make sactions will be made by
.contributions to churches more electronic means within a few
regular than- church at- years, replacing 'cash and
tendance, cheques.' •
"This will provide the local Under the new plan chur-
church with regular income chgoers will receive a year-end
\t'hether or not the local statement listing all their: tax -
congregation is in attendance," deductible contributions . as
said .Beatrice Newman of, the envelope holders do now in this
National Council of Churches. diocese•
Church officials s�iy that Churchmen do nbt know how
widespread implementation of ' their parishioners will react.
automatic donations could help Some may consider the ex -
to put the churches on a firm periment cold, impersonal and
financial basis and solve the big decidedly unchurchlike.'
problem of declining offertorie$ "That's why we are having
in • the summer .months when ,, the pilot program - to, find out,"
vacationers either forget or says Mr, Anderson. .
choose to forgo their weekly Participating denominations
include the Episcopal Church,
Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ), United Methodist
Church, United Church of.
Christ, Reorganized Church of
Jesus Christ of 'Latter Day
Saints., ..• United Presbyterian
Church in the U.S.A., Lutheran
Church-MissouriSynod,
Presbyterian - Church . in . the
MRS. MARGARET CAMPION " in-law, Barbara. Armstead and U..S •, American' • Baptist
Mrs, Margar-et.E_..Camp'ibm. _granddaughters . Martha ar�d "Churches in the U.S.A. and
Goderich,. ' dial.. Wednesday, Jody, all off' London. Sh°e ...Was
Ghureh of the Brethren. °' '
August 27 in Alexandra Marine predeceased by her son Paul. I'n�all cases, church officials
an'dGeneral Hospital, Funeral service was say, each congregation will e
• " She was born in Goderich to `-Satu'rday, August. 30 at •able to decide for itself whether «
' James . and Anastasia (Lacey) McCallum Funeral .Home with to make the switch to credit or
Farr. the resided 'in Goderich Canon G. G. Russell. continue to use the traditions}
and Toronto duringher lifetime Interment was in Maitland collection plate:
An sna s? The participating
'and was a member of St. Cemetery. Pallbe~arers were Y g p p g
" Peter's Church. '• Jim. Buchanan, Maitland® banks are charging G5 cents a
Montgomery, Mark Mon -
Companies
and the'credit card,
Surviving are her husband, g 5 (Com anies will take 3 percent
A. Carl Campion; ' two. tgomery, Bruce Grigg, John p
daughters, Mary at home and .McGraw and .Edgar Rathwell, °° of every donation,
Mrs. John (Evelynne) Evans, 1•._•. 1• _,..,_ r_.._..-�.•_•._..\:.�..__ •
By GEO-I= I'RE.Y DIBBS
It had to conic. It was only a
platter of time
Tithing by credit card has
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arrived.
Beginning next January, 10
Protestant denc.minations in
the Philadelphia area will offer
church -goers the choice of
putting their usual donation on
the collection plate or charging
it to a credit card or bank ac-
count.
The two-year, experimental
project is sponsored by the
• National Council of Churches,
and by signing an authorization
slip once, a churchgoer - or a
nonchurchgoer - will be able to
authorize Master Charge or
BankAmei Tcard or his bank to
transfer . auton'iatic'ally, ,a 'set
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TOTH[SE. AREW Ell }�'� though I Wolk through the valley
„ l thr ,hudow of death I shall fear no
Ica Thou ort with me
—,23rd Psalm
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ay, I listened to witness to Christ is just in our Funeral mass was Friday, •
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Last Sunday,
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Sister I'vana wli�r spent over 40 being there serving and loving
August 29 at St. Peter's Church !
years working and living with the unlovable, the sick and the with the Rev. Fr. Raymond i,r_..�,•, ,.\..�. � "'
among themselves who would whose hands feet and
be the greatest in t e ing om.• , � '
They were undoubtedly am- ' by leprosy. Though ,terribly what we say and what we do
bidisfigure ey were clean, and adds to what is good or whatass_.
wtious. The we have "oft Petern in their es there glowed a, bad in the world..And,what we
was Lord have forsaken
ail, what are,•we to get?" They certain p ace,'a ,quiet ac- do is more important than what
• h K' d have been partially eaten away khow' ;how to say. Nevertheless, '
t ce a dtrace of we say.
n even a
were slow to understand what cep an ,
humor. Normally we can tell the
Jesus was. saying, and even .
presumed at times to tell•Jesus These are the • outcasts of quality of a person's life by
societ and thegood Sister told what he is witnessing, that is, in
what He ought to do. Some of y how he acts 'out his Tri
them • 'were extremely i1.1.=- us of finding one young leper
sick and drying oil the platform terpretation of life, his sense of
• to
his despised condition many , world, n e.
James and John wanted Jesus p ' The. true Christian is the
to call down fire from heaven to people spat, on "him as they
• wipe out a Samaritan village passed by. Transporting, hi m to person who. 'has caught" the
that refused' them its. "her little „hospital .she cleaned vision of Christ's' glor"sand who
No him up gave him some is freed by God's' .Spirit to
ick -name 'Boanerges' which nourishment and. made him as openly witness -for• Him. In fact
comfortable as possible. � 'us ca'n't heli doing' so.
means, H•e• told her he' was a high -
Could make no 'claim t� Some of uis, however.deaden
'� rill
mpered• what is im ortant to him in this
There was the occasion when of a railway station. Because of p
•ld a d his
heli Ain God.
wonder Jesus gave them the
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ro `Sons of thunder They co p he just
and Considering school graduate.• who had our sensitivity to God and p
'scholarship,
contacted leprosy just before. ,• s. We are the losers,
how much Jesus had to teach our witness. 45
he •was to .enter 'college. hlis' for it is a fact of life that when
f Galilee than � p.mr Y were sb terrified ����; •
he}p or wi Hess to
them they were more familiar •. f .1 t fied the 't others we
with the Sea o
With studying! disease might infect the rest of also help ourselves. (Read
They had no long tradition of them they thrust him, out. of Romans 12,1
ceremonial experience behind their home. For •a long time he would -that when others look
travelled from pillar to post, at us they would say what two
them like, the hevftes. The from city to city seekingbel
enemies of Jesus might have pw well-to-do Indian ladies said of
WFien it� "
been much more willing to co- but finding none
11 � in the ,form of "Sister lvana-"when, one day,
operate if He had gone to f,ina y „gym.'they 'tcame-upon her caring°for
Jerusalem to call men from the Sister Nana'}t was too late for ° the sick on the city streets. One
Sanhedrin; or .from among the his physical body but when he tasked the other, "Why' is she
Lev ites or the Scribes. •• , died he did so with someone at I g th'lthe Her friend
loved him and
So why -did Jesus choose the
men He did? What qualities of
character commended them to
Him? First, they were eager
for the coming of God's
Kingdom, even though they had
some strange ideas about what
it would be like. They were
dissatisfied with the things as
they were. Peter, James and'
John had possibly been
followers of John the Baptist,
and 'were under the impression
that the fiery Johr1. was the
herald of a revolution:
At least one of the men whom
Jesus chose was:a.•"Zeatot'. Tlie
Zealots were men who were
eager for open rebellion against
their Roman oppressors, and
were ready to take up arms
his side wh4i coin ' .
showed'com assion.°plied, "She does it because
We also saw slides of babies the is a Chr'istian...no one else
brought to'he home so full of would,act that way,
worms and, so emaciated from Sister 'Ivana's witness
malnutrition they looked like. need "fir words, How
ugly, scraggly,' scared little yours -and -mine?
animals, Yet; pictures taken a
few months later revealed what_
love, care and food could
transform .., bodies rounded
out in soft chubby curves,
bright eyes and smiling faces.
In many countries like India
missionaries • are nn longer
allowed to `Christianize' as
they have in the past. "Our
has no
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NORMAN R. STEPHENS
Norman Richard Stephens,
128 Britannia Rd. E., Goderich,
died suddenly August 25 in
Hullett Township as the result
of drowning: He was 22.
He was born November 19,
1952 in London. He lived in
London and Dungannon before
corning to Goderich. 14 years
ago. He worked as a'sailor.
He was a member of
Dungannon United Church and
an adherent of Victoria St,
United Church.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Terry Mitchell whom he
married in Goderich August 12,
1972: his brother, Donald
Broughton of London; his aunt,
Jean Broughton; his foster
father, 'Pete Kowalocki; and
his, mother-in-law, Lou Swan.
Funeral service was Friday,
August. '29 at Stiles Funeral.
Home with the Rev. Leonard
Warr officiating.
Interment was in Colborne
Cemetery. Pallbearers were
John Stanbury, Dick, Lit-
tlechild, Mark Dauphin'"' Mel
Irwin, MikeSudyk and Mervin
Blackwell. Flowerbearers were
Norm Culbert, Jim Smith, Glen
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f'aulkner, Jim McKinnon,. Mart
Van Nunhuys and Jim Hayter
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MURIEL.ARMSTEAD
Mrs. Muriel Armstead,
Goderich, -'died Thursday,
August 2-S in Alexandra Marine
and General Hospital. She was
75,
She was bornf February 8,
1900 in England. She worked as
a nurse's aid in Alexandra
Marine and General Hdspital.
She was ar„ member of St.
George's Anglican Church,
Surviving are her daughter -
Bob McCALLUM
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1975
Sunday School for all ages 9:30 a.m.
Worship -at 11:00 a.m.
SERMON: "DON'T MISS THE PICNIC"
Marvin L. Barz, Pastor 524-2235
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Lord .Jesus Christ" Romans 5, a1.
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10:00 a.m. Sunday School Teacher Instruction
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(All. departments of School)
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15TH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY SEPT. 7
8:30 a.m. • Holy Communion
10 a.m. Morning Prayer and Sermon
'(Nursery)
The Rector will officiate
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The Rev. Ralph E. 'King, B.A., B.D., Minister
Miss; Clare McGowan • Visiting Assistant
Mr. Lorne H. Dotterel - Director of Music
18 WATERLOO ST S ' 524-9341 } , ` " Sunday School for ages 3 to 9 from Worship at 10:00 a.m,
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1975
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