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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1984-04-11, Page 24= ' """Ir •" "rin1777;•• '7" ' c'n'.7'•^717-7.7;p'il,,"",,F777 7'17 • • • Crossroads—April 11, 1984—Page 7 '••••••.., • Let's Talk ASSORTED FLAVOURS JELLY POWDERS JELL -0 CASE OF 24-280 mL TINS ASSTD. FLAVOURS SPAGHETTI, SPAGHETTINI, LINGUINE MACARONI OR SMALL SHELLS 85 g PKGS. t OR • • ' '' .. . KIDNEY BEANS • • VAN *CAMP BEANS. WITH PORK, VEG. BEANS IN T.S. BROWN SUGAR BEANS 24 16 12 SMALL - MEDIUM - LAR.• CANADA DRY SOFT DRINKS ASSORTED VARIETIES SPECIAL SPECIAL DELMONTE VEGETABLES 12 oz. KERNEL CORN, OTHERS 14 oz. TINS FR. CUT GR. BEANS OR PETITE PEAS NEILSONS FRUITPLUS YOGURT SPECIAL FISH FRIES 227 g FISH & CHIPS 283 g PKG. OF 8 99 SECRET ROLL-ON OR SOLID 60 mL 60g BRUNSWICK SARDINES IN OIL PKG. OF 4 TINS (4x100 g) 1.79PKG. HEREFORD CORNED BEEF PRIMO VEGETABLE OIL McCORMICKS ASSTED EASTER CANDIES 4 VARIETIES TO CHOOSE DOMINION SOLID HILLBILLY RABBIT 170 g SIZE DELMONTE COCKTAIL OR PEACHES ELECTROSOL FOR DISHWASHERS PEEK FREAN COOKIES 2 VARIETIES 200 g SIZE 28 oz. TIN 17 EACH FLEECY FABRIC SOFTENER 3.62.99 ROBIN HOOD ALL PURPOSE OR VELVET CAKE & PASTRY FLOUR 2.5 kg 2.49 COUNTRY HARVEST CRACKERS 5 VARIETIES COUNTRY HEARTH 225 g GRANDMA MARTINS 4 411 LITTLE PIES COAST REGULAR BAR SOAP JOIN OUR SAVE -A -TAPE PLAN TODAY COUNTRY HEARTH GRANDMA MARTINS PIE SHELLS 454 g3 s 189 COUNTRY HEARTH GRANDMA MARTIN 4 TART 255 g • 49 SHELLS 12's goddli MAPLE LEAF CHEESE SLICES INDIVID. WRAP 20's 5°° g 2.99 PEPPERIDGE FARMS PATTI SHELLS 10 02 COUNTRY HEARTH GRANDMA MARTINS MINI -TART 198 g SHELLS 12s I •29 The creed of self-denial By REV. LEE TRUMAN Toward the end of his tragic, yet dedicated life, Gen. Robert E. Lee attend- ed the christening of a friend's chilci. The mother asked him for words that would serve as a guide for her son to help him on thu long, difficult road to man- hood. Lee's answer was to put into words his life creed that had borne him through the desperate struggle which had centered around his life, a creed which had given him a great place in American legend, not as a rebel general but as a great man. Robert E. Lee put it into five ,words. "Teach him," he said, "to deny himself." "Self-denial?" Unexpect- ed, coming from a man who should have been bit- ter because he had lost so much? No one has record- ed what the young mother said or felt as she heard these unexpected words. Even more, I wonder how this advice wOuld strike the average parent today as they choose the, guide- lines for their children. Self-denial is not empha- sized as a part of our cul- ture, either for church or --Tor ourselves. Adirefifsing is aimed at creating dissat- ,isfaction with what we have. Good advertising creates wants and in time we feel abused or underpri- vileged unless we get our wants fulfilled. I talk about self-disci- pline to most teenagers today and I am quickly turned off as being a bore. While traveling in Austra- lia, many of the persons I talked to there think of America as the land known for its spoiled children and discontented adults. Self-denial is a hard les- son. To learn to get along without is a major life les- son. To know that what life is going to ask of us can be more important than what we are entitled to ask. This our foreparents called ma- turity. Things that we take for granted are most often the product of hard work and great dedication of our forebearers. In recent years, these achievements are being laughed at or scorned, but those who are laughing are exhibiting a moral and intellectual flabbiness that can be fatal to an individual or a na- tion. When standards are dropped to the lowest com- mon denominator with very little being held as sacred, there is potential life disaster in the offing for that individual. Life today is not any eas- ier thank it was in the gen- eration of Gen. Lee, but it does offer tremendously rich opportunities. Above everything else, it offers a struggle. A struggle that will never be won by the self-indulgent. To deny ourselves is to miss many of the nice, easy things so pleasant to enjoy daily. But if we end up by serving something bigger than ourselves, we can fin- ish our days by attaining greatness even in defeat. To know that you were not beaten in the most im- portant challenge anyone ever faces — the challenge of growing, maturing and being alive, all of your life, is to be an achiever in the biggest sense of the wird and we cannot do it with- out learning what Robert E. Lee knew and practiced. a WE WILL BE PLEASED TO SERVE YOU IN: letti Street ()wit nights e weak till 930 HANOVER ELMIRA 232 Arthur St. S. Open Wed., Thura and Fri. evenings LISTOWEL 975 Wallace Ave N Open Wed., Thurs and Fri evenings FERGUS 735 TovVer St. S. Open Wed., Thurs. and Fri. evenings WINGHAM Corner of No. 4 and 98 Hwy. Open Thurs., Fri. evenings RING ZOG Albania was proclaimed a kingdom on Sept. 1, 1928,atkd Zog.I was elected king.