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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1928-10-04, Page 6Sunday School -Lesson October w 7. — Lesson I — Paul In Ephesus, Acts 19: 8.10, 18-20;, Ephesiens 4: 11-16. Golden-Text— 'We oldenText—,'We are his workmanohlp, created in .Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before "ordained that we. should walk .in them.— Ephesians .2: 10, ANALYSIS 1. The Successful Preacher, 8-10. II. The Fruit of His Preaching, 18-20. I11. The Universal Church, Eph.,4: Will Honor Premier Work of Canada a, Political Leader to be' Appreciated> in His Return front Europe . .. Rt. Hon. W. L. MacKenzie King, Prime Minister o2 Canada, will 'be the guest of honor of the Ottawa Branch of the League of Nations Society in Canadt.'on' his return from Europe. Commenting ..editorially upon the Premier's acceptance of, the invitation, the " Ottawa Citizen commends the initiative of the soc-. tety, and continues: "There is little doubt that it will be a very success- ful, public welcome' since the League of Nations Society ;is entirely non- introduction—h]plresns was a city of partisan, iueluding members of al - great, importance and drew a large most every shade of political opinion. :'umber of pilgrims from all parts of The dinner will doubtless be endorsed the world to worship at the shrine of by Conservatives. and independents, Artemus, whose great temple was one of the marvels of the world. Paul had bs wellLiberals. tried on a previous journey to visit "The prime minister took, the view that city, but was prevented by, the. atimself that he went to Geneva as. Spirit. In the following year it li;ecaune. the spokesman of the people of Can - an important centre of Christian `iu- ada This lis to be seen in a letter flueuce. Today this part of Ephesus wbich;he wrote to Colonel 0 P. Medal has no trade; Its site is merely a col- lith, general secretary' of the League lection of ;ruins.. It is probable that, the first Christian leader to carry on of Nations ScLiety in Canada, from, tvork'was Appollos, a learned and elo- Geneva at the •'beginning of this quent native of Alexandria. He laid' month: the foundation ou which Paul proceed-, "The executive committee of//the' ed to build. - ,. society unanimously passed. a resolu- 1. The Successful Preacher, 8-10. tion, moved by -Sir Robert Borden V. 8. Evidently there was . a Targe and seconded by Mr. Tom Moore, ex - Jewish population, and Paul, as was pressing approval' of the prime Minis - his custom, '}vent into the synagogue: ter's decision to represent Canada at These Jews were bre liberal -las their" the ninth assembly of the League of 'few, because he was allowed to con- Netioxts and to attend the Sweeting in thine/his preaching fora longer period than he had done elsewhere. Por three Paris for the purpose of signing the months he continued to set forth' the treaty for the renunciation of war as message of the gospel of the kingdom en..instrument or•government Polley. of God. This is a term which is not The resolution spoke of `thq unanim- often found in Acts or the writings of our desire 04'tIie Grenadian people to Paul, and it occurs mostly in the first three gospels. The kingdom of God seek by all possible..;fifeans the .,es- is- God's' rule in this world, which tablishment of .an' ordered and peace - Jesus had come to set trp'%ipong men. ful world society, and the substitution Paul generally spett a of the living for war of arbitration;,' conciliation Christ or of the chutch;,•but-here he is and conference.' • ,,, Presented- as eagerly discussing with 'After attending the opening meet - his hearers the nature of thisldngd`o'm. Ing of ` the -'-assembly at Geneva, V. 9. The unbelieving' Jews at last, Premler� Mackenzie Icing said in the follow the example 'of 'th'ose at',' Thee - communication to Colonel ,Meredith: ealonica, :and, try to -throw obstacles in , the way of Paul's missione•,Theyfollow "`In giving expieasion`to Canadian the methods of the 'peesecutors,.and opinions I have been pleased indeed speak evil of this•,p-ew doctrine, likely to do so in the words 'of the. resole.- by spreading reports, of th9_character tidtr of the League of Nations Society Mid habits of Paul and his followers. in Canadaquoted in your letter'. The result was that -Paul decides to go "However sltas`ply Canadian "opin- eut and form a distinct church, separ- ion may be divided over peanut' from the synagogue. The hall uestions, including the relative which Ile used was probably connected q with one' of the Several gymnasia• of merits, Of rival party leaders, it Ephesus, which were the centres for the social life of the people, where they gatheredfor recreation and to hear the lectures by distinguished speakers. Possibly Tyrannus was one of these lecturers who had been inter- ested in Paul and who placed the hall at his disposal for part of the time. In the mornings Paul would work at his trade of tent -making, probably along with Aquilla•and:priscilla;'and then in `the afternoon or evening he would meet'the crowds who gathered to hear what was going on. V. 10. Paul remains at this task for two years, with the result that the en- tire district around was evangilezed.. Paul had many helpers when' he, sent out on nlissionai`y work. It is doubt- less that this was the way in whictit the seven churches of Asia, of which we read in Revelation, chapters 2 and 3, were founclod. The success of this effort was so great that it began to tell Upon the offerings that came to the pagan emple• Gradually the pilgrims to the shrine of Artemus diminished, to that the outburst which ultimately drove Paul from the city; was caused by the Interference or the gospel with the vested interests of the priests. II. The Fruits of His"Preachirig,• 15.20. V. 18. Where Christ was preaching there always followed an awakening of the moral life. Jesus' had taught that • repentance was a. ribedfp,, ae- coinpaniment of the'lcmgdtiin Of God. Here we notice how the new converts were impressed with -the need of turn- ing from their old evil ways. The converts carie forward to ;confess in pubilo, t�ieir former sins; filled with awe, possibly by the incident told in the previous verses. •V. 19. But more significant than confession is the actual amendment of life. They abandon their old" prac- tices, and gather together 311,e. objects connected with their old superstitious worship, Magicians and astrologers abounded in"Ephesus. There was a brisk trade in the sale of book of divination, charms and many forms of spellThese superstitions, as al- ways, ha a disastrous eT•fect tenon the character, and darkened the nunds of • those who practiced such rites. The bonfire which followed i•ensind,s one of the bonfire of vanities resulting from the preaching of Savonarola at Fier enre. It was a most dramatic spec- tacle, and was like a public recanta- tion. 'The estimated value of these , books was'about ten thousand dollars. V. 20. This act .of repentance is rep- esentecl as a sign of the mighty•power of the gospel, and:. Luke tells us that the., Word of God prevailed,,., This is the close of another, csetion of ,his work. and after this' he prepares us for the journey of. Paul to Jerusalem,? IU. TIM ; Universal Church, Eph. 9: should be possible to join In cor- dit ty welcoming Mr. Mackenzie King as prime minister of Canada when he returns from.Geneva, and of hear- ing' an ,interesting account of the great Work forpeace in which Can- ada 11 partielaatinr,fi V. 11. This letter was written .to the Eohesians -r pin_ the ,prison -hos'e's' at Reiiini;'seVerei years afte sIitifehad.. left the city. It is filled with the nob- - lest teaching on the person of Christ, which is filled"with" all 'the fullness of God. But Paul is also anxious to set forth his belief on -the y'o delful na- ture of the chuffch„lvhicliJse,,regards as' the 'Body of Christ.” The`various leaders of this church are all the dir- ect gifts of Christ, who is responsible • dor the progress of his kingdom. ' V. 12. The divine gifts of the min- istry are meant to fit all true believers for active service in the church. V. 13. As all the different parts of the church work together, each doing ,what is assigned to him, there will 'ultimately be gained a condition where all will be like Christ. V. 14. Christ will lead all his fol- rors and will give stability to the ber0 so that no false doctrine or o�nl practice tvi11 arise. Vs. 15, 16 Thus will all grow up nto Christ who is the head, and who 11 direct by his wisdom and power 111 those who are united with him. ' Montreal 18 now :credited withbeing ;the world'slargest grain port, Dur - S the last crop, year ended July 31, ,028, 2.98,2447,914 bushels of grain ere Shipped from Montreal The eareet rivalas a grain port to Mont/ 041 le New ,York, which dripped 109, 1,014 budiieia in file droll year 1817- ,J .. NEW KING OF ALBANIA Zogu, photographed on the steps of the royal palace, in Tirana, on the day of his coronation, which was 'a brilliant affair. - • "Combines"' in the West Manitoba Free Press: After two or three years of cautious experi- ment, what seems like a first-class revelation in western - harvesting method ,,appears to• be, taking place this' yeas T,)I.js is iu • the greatly in- creased "use -1 otvo'comhines" in the grain fields,a,of tie -prairie provinces. In Saskatche\yantivaiane, . it is esti- mated tlikt 5,050�of these machines will be 'Used. 'season, .compared with- leg than six hundred in the 1127 'crop ,fear Everywhere, ample: anent �l� 1ers. report that thein. trou- ble is nor. in making sales but in sup. plying ?leers already receiveds",: Experiments -jn the use of the com- bine in Western Canada began in 1922, which means that the advant- ages claimed for them cannot yet be considered as fully proved. Enough data, however,' appears to have been collected to suggest that -u der Cer- tain conditions," whiblt 'arb not ex- tremely difficult to obtain, very great economies in 11ervesting,eoats. call be achieved. - Britain and the U. S. A. Lev; ,Mares in,the National Review (London) : , Had:,;: Great Britain: -been "agin" the League of Nation's, nothing could have kept the United States out of it. We say this without feel- ing any•. resentment of America's re- pudiation of the Covenant—however much wemay resent the means em- ployed -because; difficult as are Anglo- American relations•they would be In- finitely worse if the United States be- longed to the League, and every meet- ing of that body,,,, and every interne, tional problem ori its agenda could'be made an Angl'l .mericanr issue by Anglopho'be journals pandering to the Irish -American and the German-Ameri- can 1 lig fan Ameri-can gallery, and Washington poiiti dans, seeking opportunities of 'court. Ing popularity by some anti-British de- monstration. Atlantic Air Travel Will 'Not Be Louis Nov WORLD'S LARGEST _AIRSHIPS NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN MOTHERLAND c' Britain to Raise Emigration Issue Presence. of Canadian Premier in London to Be -Utilized to Discuss Plans London.—W. L. Mackenzie King, the Canadian. Prime Minister, who has beenattend'ing the League Council meoti�iig at Geneva, is expected here about Oot, 3 on a fortnight's visit, and is to be entertained by the Canada Club on Oct. 10, The opportunity of Mr. Kings pres- ence is likely to be taken by the British Government to discuss plans for unemployment workers desirous 02 proceeding to Canada, but nothing le known in informed circles ;regarding the stories in circulation to the effect that definite proposals will be placed before him for mass emigration to the overseas dominionthrough the agency of a nonparty commission under Lord Levet which was authorized to raise £60,000,000 to finance such"a move- ment. ' Speaking at Merthyr, George, Lans- bury, one of the Left' Wing Labor lead- ers, advocated another proposal, un- der which the British. "Government, in- stead nstead of endeavoring to place the British unemployed overseas, should raise £ 100,000 to provide for them at. The British government it building two dirigibles, one for a weekly service to Australia and the other to ply home upon the 'land. between London and New York, The picture shows a'vieW of the outer side of the passenger saloon of one of the airships and part, at the main. promenade deck; looking forward from the port side. • Play Causes Fuss Pact Against War Clemenceau Busy Lists ••5I Nations Oi .War. History Three Nations Adhere and 33 Marshals Foch and Joffre-also Announce Intention- ',Writing Accounts of Mexico is •Ltest - • Struggle, Washington.—A total of 6Y• nations have now adhered to the Pact of Paris AUTHORS "WRONG" renouncing war .or else_ have signified their intention to -adhere, Frank B. Published Stories of Marne Kellogg,. Secretary of„Sta£e, has an- Battle Nothing But pounced, followings the. receipt of a note from Mexico .expressing its in- Fiction.- tention to sign the -treaty. ” Paris—The histories of the Great Since`' the membership of the League War and the unprinted degends of. of Nations totals' onlya•t4 members, the conflict are "all wrong" and the this moans thatmost of the important principal Froneh actors in the,. four nations of the world have- now..an- yours' drama of the- western 'front pounced themselves in favor of the are -Writing their versions of events antiwar treaty. In addition three im- for posterity.' • 1 portant nations not members of the One outstanding characteristic in League—Russia, Turkey, and the Un -1 the struggle is living in a little fish- ited States—have adhered or signified' erman's hut in Vendee: He prefers their intention to adhere:not-to be molested and spends most The most important nations' which of his time walking. in the garden. or have not fallen into line behind the locked In his study scratching away treaty to renounce war are Argentina,' with This pen, . Only his 'valet lives Brazil and Chile. In addition,' Co1om- in the hut. Surrounded by his bia, Ecuador, Adghanistan, Persia,' books and his memories, "The Fath - Norway and Paraguay have failed to er of Victory': J's touching up his ac - communicate, either for or against the, count of the war and Georges Clem treaty. � enceau probably will leave the great - Mr. Kellogg understands that a• est record for future generations. copy of the ,Russian adherence is al-! In another retreat—this time in ready in the diplomatic nail pouch of Brittany—Marblial Foch' is Paring the French Embassy, and' should be over scraps of writing paper, his war received here shortly. 1 snaps and notes. In time, he will The details of the means by which, start writing and from the rugged each nation shall join in the pact have coast near Morlaix will cauls the im- now been completed. An adhering , rassions and the revelations of the nation can either send a plenipoten-i Allied . Commander. tiary to the State Department to sign Marshal 'Joffre has just concluded a note of adhesion or it may send such his life stoiy'`tvliicit was written at a note direct. These nates are to be his pretty country home above the filed with the treaty in the archives Seine at Louveolennes. Embittered of the State Department. I by ten years of • criticism and ,anger - At the same time, certified copies 1 ea by the efforts of many war authors of the original treaty, with all its to shift the responsibility for the signatures, will be sent to all of the adhering countries. The most recent countries signify- ing their intention to join in the treaty are Spain, China and Mexico. "So many errors -have been•.printed Only three countries besides the orig- in histories of •the war,'- he - said. inal., 15 signatories have actually ad- "The -published stories of the -first hered, namely Peru,°Liberia• and Ru- Battle df -the Marne are nothing less mania. than fiction, and many other phases war, to,,hit ,; shoulders, Joifre may publish parts of, kis memoirs. Errors Printed . Tourists Sherbrooke Tribune (Lib.) : Not so long ago, when the Province of Que- bed was the only province in Canada to permit the saki of liquor, malicious tongues took pleasure in saying that it was for the sake of getting a drink that Americans used to flock into Que- bec. What are these slanders worth to -day when Ontario and the other provinces, formerly ,prohibitionist; now allow the sale of alcoholic liquor? Usually a job is as big as the man in it --and often several sizes bigger. Put a laree man into a small job, and he increases its size just as surely as inhaling air expands the chest. of the war have been erroneously re- corded by historians,. "I wrote the story of my part in - Great care the war as -carefully as I could;- des- of the engine. troying untruths with-,trutlts and us - Balkans' Advance Medieval Ox -Drawn Plows in Bulgaria to Give Place to Up -to -Date Imple- ments SaIla—Far more than half of the 900,000 plows used in Bulgaria are nothing but steel tipped wooden hooks on 'the end of poles pulled by oxen. The .poorwork produced by this instrument results in insufficient crops and •' has caused tremendous material losses to Bulagria, yearly. The Minister of Agriculture is now distributinga large numberof mod. ern farm tools to the peasants every year through the Agricultural Co. operative Societies and the Agricul- tural State Bank, Last year the department sold 18,. 000 Iron plows, harrows, drills and t ultivatois, 20 Per .cent. cheaper than the market price. This year it will. distribute 32,000 such ample ments-on the 'same liberal terms, gip ing the villagers three years in which to pay for them. It is interesting to note that this work of the Government has so popularized better tools that in spite of the low prices given by the state institutions private dealers in farm implements have sold more than ever before. Interesting Indian ileums i oto " Near IVIldlanet Farmer Unearths Rerniuder5 Indian and Irencil Ocetip, ation :of Our Firo'V w.DY Which Caves a Wye l`tange Of r OGGUlpa'' tions Implements of Peace and War Valuable aid interesting relics of Indian tribes have been unearthed re.' cantly by Archibald Edwards, while ploughing on his farm on the Pena tang Post Road, five miles south of the town of Midland. Mr. Edwards was born on en farms immediately behind arid dfscoTa les 116 made here' as a iloy show' that it Was- also asalso the site of an Indian village and of one of their potteries. One sandy field always been of'na use for culti- vation; as it was burnt by: the fires in which the Indians baked their earth tinware vessels. Many steel tome, hawks bearing the mark of the gov- ernment of France were found. ` They had been traded for furs and other' valuables. Old coins beaking various Rostand's New Play : Napo- leon IV Causes Offence to England Critics Paris.—Maurice Rostand's new play, "Napoleon 'IV.," has raised such a storm of internationalcriticism that the author has begun to modify lines blaming England and Queen Victoria for the death of"the only son of Na- poleon III. French papers were so bitterly criti- cal of the play that English authori- ties are reported to be satisfied that protests from them are not needed. Rostand's version that the Prince was killed in a Zulu ambush when British officers purposely ran away be- cause of a plot which is blamed on Queen Victoria herself, is ridiculed by critics" They consider it an insult to England. Rostand, however, maintains that a dramatist has a right, to utilize lits - tory, even legendary accounts, as they were known at the time of the play's action. No diplomatic action is foreseen, particularly as Rostand is changing several lines and is considering cen- soring a passage referring to Queen Victoria as responsible for having plotted the death of the Prince in or- der to wipe out'the last of Napoleon's line. One alteration was the change of a phrase referring to the death plot from "that is the English manner" to "that is the common way." A Strange Looking Engine House HUGE POWER CAR ON BRITISH DIRIGIBLE R-101 has been taken to give the engineer free access to ing facts to replace fiction. I have documents. to -Prove everything I as- serted I hesitate to pubiisit my memoirs because there is no use in starting a controversy. But- I may be obliged to pfiblish• chapters,.•,now and again, just, to put historians right." Gailieni, hero of the Ourcq, who sent the Paris taxicab fleet out to stem the enemy tide1on the heights of Meaux,'sIea" before his memoirs were well started, He 'could have told much about the feat of turning a retreating army in its tracks to whip an overconildent foe. all parts Patriotism and Peace Sir I•Ierbert Samuel in the Contem- porary Review (London): Nationalism and internationalism, the fatherland and the world, patriotism and peace— these are not antagonistic; they are not opposites; they are complemen- tary to one another. The -true word was said long ago by Seneca, "Every man is born brio two communities-, the Cosmopolis and his native 'city," To harmonize the claims of the two is our daily task. . New Kingdon ,Holds Ceremony • Cleremonles at coronation o KING 18 .CROWNED Zogu of Albania, at Tirana ;,rho capital of the llttle,Balkan'country, Ontario C l•'rn Causes Comment dates of bygone centuries and one of 1213 , A.D. were found in or around the Edwards house, whish in early days was a tavern-' - Fine Stone Hatchet The recent find fnrh,des f...`„0 head, of. an •Indian tomahawk eats d tnaim h kind of ironstone, rounded at one end and flattened at the other. Tet the centre at each side is a small groove. The i,anr1iA was formed by- ,splitting a sturdy stick for a short distance and binding the stone- head between the forks with'thonga: Another article was a perf'ec't sped. meat of an Inidian bone sewing needle and portions of two other needle of more substantial make. The needle fs: about eight inches long and tapers from the point which is exceedingly sharpto about half an inch 'at the top. This was used for sewing elath- ing and wigwams made of strips of • skin sewn with leather thongs_ The heavy needles were for sewing heavier material Two interesting pipe bawls were found, one a very clever c 8 ing Irl a fox's head, from a very ic.. d staue. This piece represents the era in which the American aborigines had attained the height of their artistic achieve- ments. One pipe, smaller, was made of a sandy material, baked in a fire. It is extremely crude in shale and de- sign and perhaps was the work of a boy making his first pipe. When one reads from an authorita- tive source of cornstalks that grow to a height of fifteen feet, one is alinost ready to believe that the nursery tale of "Jack and the Beanstalk" ough'l: to be a bit inflated in order to bring it up to date. A farmer in Ontario is said to have displayed stalks of this height when he learned that a New or grower was modestly expressing some pride over his own growth of twelve feet and six inches, an altitude for corn that might even arouse a Tit- tle feeling among such well-known climbers as the membersof the pole: bean fancily. Iowa and some of the other carts producing states have not been heard from, but if they each report stalks proportionately taller, it will not be. long before one reads of stalks twenty- five, or thirty feet in height, and the calling out of hook and ladder com- panies to harvest the crop. Of the Ontario stalks it is regprded that the ears begin to appear eight feet from the base, a distance which would seem to indicate a need of at least step- ladders in the harvesting. The corn- stalk evidently does not intend to be totally outstripped in skyscraping activities, and may yet attain propor- tions that will make it the envy of the rest of the vegetable kingdom,, in- cluding its room mate in the succotash- tin the well-known lima bean, To paraphrase an old ditty: "Little drops of water, little grains pf corn, make the mightt cornstalk, our countryto adorn, '= Editorial in Christian Science Monitor;. MO OASES 1�.111t1 gig ark1;PaiFli Pe$ 11R1T to 11}5100 5 1vinr§ itt .144 4143, 1.)911I l4dffgaf i Aiill I hi-TP41 psaeti st ills Wil`; oR dolnil it olt,lkot Large Tooth One other object that excited much interest 'vas a tooth about three inches in length. The root is two and one, half inches long. This has been idem tilled at the Royal Ontario Museum as the lower incisor tooth of a bear, pos- sibly of a species now extinct. • Other objects found by Mr. Ed- wards were two fragments of pottery decorated in conventional Indian style with clots, scratches and circles. These discoveries call to mind fan- tastic and other theories on Indian origin, ai Isict'habits which engaged Europe:: and North America near the end of 'VS' last century and the open - of fife present' century. Oldest and most widely known theory is that the American aborigines were descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, It was originated by the late Lord Kingsborough, one of the foremost students of mankind, after a Prolonged study. He based his claim upon the similarity he found in many customs and words of the Recttaan with those of the Israelites, One 01 the most outstanding arguments ha brought forward was that Indian priests wore breast plates of bead's and circles of swan's feathers around their necks and had used these articles of dress for centuries before -the whits man discovered them. Lord Kingsbog ough claimed that these were the our vivals of the breast plates and mitres worn by the prteses of the Israelites. He also found that at harvest time the 'Indians hehl a ..great -'religious feast, including a dance around a fire and the shouting of the two words Haleu-Maleu-Haleluial and Yo-He-Wah,• These were interpreted to mean IIai1e, latah and Jehovah. The latter bear•' ing a close relationship to the original ,. Hebrew word, Ye Jali, which -meant' Jehovah. tnd1an Welshmen— A second theorysupported. by many was advanced in 16344' by Sir Thomas Herbert in his book, ',Travels. It was revived at the opening of the 16th century and was one of the most popular,, This ancient seller thought the American aborigines were de-, scseendaiitts of a colony of Welshmen, planted on Ameiican,safl 1n 1110, by Madam, son of a Welsh prince,. Owen, Gwyneth., sir Thomas ,pointed out that many, Indian words were exactly the same in pronunciation and meaning as many Welsh words. Modern Theory It is now claimed that at one time a•great Miocene bridge connected the North American continent with Asia. Across this came:various tribes them' the old world. Subsequently, this bridge disappeared. The whole theory seems to be, supported by the discov, ery of Father Greilon, a Jesuit mia- sionary, of a Huron woman of Tartary, Her story was that she had been traded from, tribe to tribe north untiI she crossed the bridge tato Asia: Tha "People of the Plains" develop" ed painting•to the highest degree, o,( the'Indian worlcj, These tribes sgers mostly. those of rho Algonquin, ais Athabas 5il ieations and for the ns,ppset� rt tb v Ort was ponllneit t4 $n 1 tt;e_I W, wa>;u.s; The designs'eere f ta, t0 n filagree and the rhythi and, $qlo;•ins were, of an excoptiona character- . Fait sR these flays 0 co toot ync a'�1 i`t at yoµ, P4 itT-1 }} 35 7Qu S•4.R P7 i .>i�. i -.,Awa;i.c: t . , eaQ, "'Yee—marria, qi au