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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1941-04-10, Page 8THURS., APRIL 10, 1941 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD PAIGE 7 The GreafConimision .joregavereeseesosege.aege, By. "PEG" leach year, particularly at Easter time, we study the glorious story of the Resurrection. The death of Christ left the disciples and follow- ers of Jesus with the discouraging thought that He had failed traria They had been looking: for great and wonderful things, but in spite of the fact that Jesus had told them that lis would die at the hand of his en- emies yet they seemed to feel that He; . ultimately would become an Earthly King. Then eame the joyous fact of the Resurrection; Christ's several appear- ances to His disciples and others and lastly the Great Comni,ission. Jesus had come to the world, had died to make our Salvation possible. He was going back to His Home in Heav- en and it was the privilege and duty of His followers to pass the word of Redemption on to others. Jesus had asked Mary to tell His disciples that He would meet them in Galilee. There on an unnamed mountain the Great Commission was given to them. It is said that the Duke of Welling- ton was once asked if foreign mis- sions were worth while, He prompt tly replied, "Sir, what are your starching orders?" Here we have the marching orders of Jesus Christ to the World, Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, bap- tizing them in the name of the Fath- er, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. What a tremendous commission that was! Were they to go a long distance before they began to teach? bro, they were to begin right in their own locality. That task was given to the dis- etiplae so many centuries ago and the same orders are appliable to us in this generation, and further, they ara just as binding se they were to tke disciples. When Jesus chose the twelve dis- ciples He picked out men of differ- ent character. The character of al- most all of us could! be found in the disciples. The study of these dif- ferent characters is indeed very in- teresting. The work Jesus gave them to do was not easy, but yet they undertook it. The tragic death of these men will show something of what they went through, John Was banished to Palmos after being put into a eauid- ion of boiling oil; Peter, like His faster was crucified; James was be- headed; Bartholomew was flayed a- live; Andrew preached from a cross till death released him of his suffer- ings; Thomas was run through the body. These men all 'died that the way for ue to follow Christ might be made easier. They were all mis- sionaries, so are we, although, 'at times we are anything but faithful.. While in Siam, Admiral Foot in- vited some of the Royality to dinner on board his vessel When the guests were seated, as washis custom, he asked the blessing. This Tory, much astonished the King of Siam, who said he thought that only 'missionar- ies asked the blessing. • That : is per- fectly true," said Admiral Foote, but every Christian is or ought to be a missionary. "The condition of our world today' shows how far short of this we have fallen. Many people are opposed to Mis- sions, either home or foreign. Christianity and Missions go togeth- or. They cannot be separated. Even church going people .think they ,oan be, but in order to be Christian we must be a follower of the Lord and we cannot £ollew Him and disregard His Iast command. It may be that for some reason, we cannot go to the foreign or home field as a missionary, but we eau help in many ways, those who are struggling to go. If we cannot help financially we can certainly pray earnestly for the missionaries who at this time are having things particularly hard. We do not need to go away at all to be a missionary. We can speak for Christ in our •own little sphere. Our next door neighbor, our class mates, and everyone with whom we come in contact knows whether we are a follower of Christ or not. If each one of us works with God, that will give us a victorious life, and a victorious life is certainly a mission - Jesus does not ask us to go along to do His work; He with the commis- sion gives us the promise, "and, lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world." It is not some- times He will go with us but always. Speaking of tithing. So many peo- ple say, "I do not receive enough wages to tithe on." Around the beg- inning of oath year people who are earning a stated income are reggir- ed by the government to pay an in- come tax. People are afraid not to pay this tax. Why? because the gov- ernment has commanded it. It is a late on the statute books of our land and punishment will follow any dis- honesty on the part of those who fail to do their duty in this regard. God has ordered that we should pay to His cause at least one-tenth of our income. When we realize that everything we have belongs to Iiim it seems a very small part that He requires. Our free will offering conies eS APS1 OT CIJIL EASTER PICTURES Daughter's new Easter Rabbit—an intimate, revealing close-up. A portra't attachment lets you get close-ups like this. Note the sketch below. IT WON'T be long now before the have new Spring outfits to display! The children's Easter fun should be fittingly recorded — in intimate close-ups (a portrait attachment helps there) showing them with Easter baskets and the brown or fluffy white Easter bunnies they re- ceive. Make sure that you get an "off to church" picture, a snap of Mother picking or arranging the first bou- quet of Easter flowers. Let your cam- era write the day's history. Don't include too much in each picture -- keep your camera close, and get the little, luteresFeiog details that snake a picture dive! And when you put ,the pictures in your album, date each one. A memo of day and year gives added value to the 8annily's pioturehietory book. 322 John vara Guilder Easter Rabbit is prowling around the corners of the backyard, tuck- ing brightly colored eggs and bas- kets of candy into snug, concealed spots, Shortly we will be seeing the annu:id Spring fashion parade to ehmreh, and yellow jonquils will be nodding in every breeze. April 13 is Easter, and the ques- tion now is—have you your cam- era polished up and loaded, ready to memorialize that eventful day in pictures that you will treasure in later years? There are dozens of pictures that can be made on occasions like this, and each one has memory value. You probably need new sna,pshote of members of the family—and will they pose enbhusiasticaliy when they 0 8' O, o 8, subject; C, camera Lower two cameras with portrait attachments. with many cameras, you must be six to eight feet from your subject to get a picture. But slip a portrait attachment on the lens—and you get pictures at three feet six inches, or even nearer with some cameras. Result: big images of little subjects, and better pictures. BRITAIN'S VICTOB.IOUS AUSTRALIANS One of the most spectacular episo des of the war has been the irresisti ble sweep forward of the 'British forces against the Italians at Sidi Barran, and Hardie. In these actions a great part was pl ayed by the Austrailian mechanised units, and in this picture a detachme nt is seen roaring over the western D eseet into action. in addition to our tenth. Over nineteen hundred years have passed since Jesus Christ gave the great commission to go out and teach and preach the gospel. If people, you and I included had given as God required us, the gospel would long e'er this have been preached, in all the lands of the earth. In many in- stances we have refused to give it with the result that many have never yet heard the good news. Our gov- ernment here will punish us if we do no obey her laws, and we may be sure God will hold us responsible for our ommission to follow His laws. If we would just put aside this amount of money we would haze plenty to help all causes we are ask- ed to, and what a great deal of pleas- ure we would receive from it. Make it a rule of our lives to give to God's cause until God stops giving to us. Let our first return to God for His sacrificial death for us be ourselves. When we have done that then we will be ready to in a small way, help to carry out His Great commission. Lol I am With You Always I'm footsore off, and weary, For the way has been so long, And the storms that beat around me Have been so fierce and strong; I've climbed up dreary mountains, Whose paths wore rough and steep; I've waded through deep waters That were so cold and deep. • When faith is weak and faltering, He whispers words of cheer; Those whom I love may suffer, But I will help them bear. And when at last in heaven I stand by His dear ;race, Mine eyes shall see with rapture His unveiled, beautify). facet "PEG" In The Letter Box The following letter was received by. Mrs, George Carter from her hus- band, who is now in England. Middle Atlantic Ocean, February 20th, 1941 Dear Marg. and All:— Well, here I am bouncing and plun- ging and weaving along well out in the Atlantic ocean. I am going to write a few lines each day and let you have the whole letter after I had, I used to think I had been some rough weather up in our lakes but be- lieve nee I've never seen anything that compares with this, This is the 18th, largest ship in the world :Lid is bouncing around like a cork, It is 700 feet long by 87 feet wide and 60 feet tall, quite a boat, eh. I could name her but the censor would only stroke it out. We have nice cabin;,. good meals and the stewards look after us real well. Most of the boys have been quite sea sick but believe it or not I ani still as large as lite. I have had some darn queer feelings though, sometimes you take a step and the floor isn't there. The next step you may start walking uphill at the same time everything is rolling from side to side and you are always teetering backwards or forwards. Best thing I've found is to get hold of something substantial and really hang on. It is shat you would call fairly rough as they would not allow anyone on the forward deck as wav- es were rushing right over. If it hadn't been for guarding the blasted prisoners I think I could enjoy my- self. There are several hundred air- force aboard, rciviliens and a lot of Newfoundlanders going to join the navy. out a light showing. A watch ia kept ! night and day and all guns aboard are manned. This is certainly a beautiful ship, there are smoking rooms, lounges, picture shows, canteens, a library, sports room and dozen od other things. It it wasn't for the guard duty on the prisoners it would be swell, they are a damn aggrevating lot, If I had my way they would be put below decks and kept there. Saw two ships on the horizon today. They were watched with field glasses from the wheel house for quite some time. I guese they have to be suspicious of everything afloat. Friday, Feb. 28th, another very rough and stormy day is almost past. I can't find words to desoribe the ocean as it has been today: Over- head the sun shone, it hailed, rained, snowed and never in my life have I seen wind blow so hard. It picks you off your feet at tunes. Just prev- ious to going to supper tonight, a hugh wave broke over the ship, bat- tered some doors open on the deck and tons of water poured down through the ship flooding staterooms, hallways, dining room and everything down through all the decks. We were pretty seared for a minute or two; the prisoners then started to howl and wanted to know if we had been tor- pedoed, when the fellows saw how seared theyi were they started yelling, women and children first, and really frightened them, We saw several strips quite near us today. They said tonight that we were about 800 miles from Ireland. We saw a show Tont Brown's School Days, a very good picture. Just to let you know how they feed us, here is an average meal, soup, then fish, roast beef, pork or lamb, potatoes sometimes, always two kinds of vegetables, Pot of tea and coffee on each table, after this comes a steamed pudding generally, something like a Christmas pudding, then they bring you ice cream and a thin wafer and last of all either ap- ples, oranges or bananas. What do you think of that for a meal, some swish to us, eh. We have had roast fowl twice, Saturday, March lst, last night and this morning were some of the wildest hours I have ever seen in all my life. I think the boat done every- thing but turn up side down. A large bombing plane that was wrap- ped and lashed down on the forward deck broke loose and was alomst lost. The sailors had to work like trojans and with high waves breaking over the bow managed to get it fastened clown again, after having to turn the ship around to run with the storm. The lifeboats hanging 30 to 40 feet above the water vete all filled with water this morning. At breakfast six of us sat at one table, Travis, a soldier and I an one side and three strangers "on the other. The bacon, eggs and coffee bad just been served when the ship took a lurch sideways and everything, breakfast, chairs and all landed in a heap 20 feet away, a- way, against the side of the ship, but we had lots of company from the other tables; it sure wa a mess. The waiter told us that the dining room was nothing, we should see the kitchen. Eggs, coffee pots and pans all over the place. If I could have hitched -hiked a way home then I thins I would have come. We can't have much farther to go ow and the gang are all in good spirits as the weather is a little bet- r.eBy the yarns and jollying you wouldn't think that .we were in the ar zone and liable to meet up with trey any minute. March 3rd, we are still bowling eerily along and are Iooking for- ward to reaching port sometime soon, The weather has been much nicer to- y and I noticed seagulls around so e must be getting closer to land. on remember me saying I had broke e crystal in my watch, well, One the prisoners we have on board, sed to be a jeweller and he had a ystal much, too big so he took an xdinary nail file and made a real b of fitting a crystal in my watch. March 13th, Well, received two big sells today, first, sighting land after t seeing any for eight days. The n te w Thursday afternoon, Feb. 27th, five Je and outside of real rough weather things are mach the same, m It really has been rough though, last night I gave up a dozen times. I throught the waves would pound the da boat to pieces. We have one negro w in our section and he was sick and Y turned so pale that the sergeant said th to him, My word, .Thompson, you of will soon pass for a white man. Fun- 'u ny thing, each day I feel better said cr 0 th better until now; I am always •ready before the meals. We are new well into the _danger zone and every precaution is being taken, we sail during the nmgbY with- no second was meeting John Cuning- hame, Gordon's boy, on board ship here. We had quite a eonflab. Was real pleased to find someone from the old. home town aboard, I think to- night we are going through what is known as the North Channel, so should reach land tomorrow. I have guard duty tonight so will finsh my letter after I land. Don't worry and love to all. "George." 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