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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-01-30, Page 2Un Sunday School. Lesson January 26. Lesson IV—Standards-of the Kingdom—Matthew 5: 3-9, 17-20, 43.48. Golden Text—Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. -Matthew 5: 8. ANALYSIS 1. THE BEATITUDES, 3-9. II. JESUS AND OLD LAW, 17-20. III. Tem New LAW OF LOVE, 43-48. INTRODUCTION --Having seer that Jesus came to proclaim the kingdomof ,heaven, we now pass on the study in detaill of some of he principles of this teaching. The Sermon on the Mount is the mostfamous of all ser- mons.: Other discoveries pass and are foegotten, but this great pronounce- ment is as fresh today as when it was. uttered, It contains much of the.finest teaehinaof Jesus, insomuch that some people will say that if we can only live according to the precepts of this Irian, we shall be perfect. This is, as it were, the ethical program of Chris- tianity. 1. TAE BEATITUDES, 3.9. Vs. 3-5. The beatitudes describe the kind of blessedness, or happiness, which the true Christian is to obtain, and they tell of the conditions which underlie these blessings, It is not easy to give a very clear division; but in a more or less rough way, we may divide them into three groups. The first, given in vs. 3-5, deal with the outward conditions in which men may find themselves. Many of these to whom Jesus was preaching were poor and anxious and destitute. They olid not belong to the rich or comfortable liass. Many ha deep sorrow, and ttle to eefi f5rt theta, These itfght naturally say that here wad no chance for then, in the kingdom of God. They were inclined to regac'd their poor eon- eition as a sign of divine disapproval. If Jesus had no message for this plass, he would not be a world -Saviour; for the poor and troubled always form a large majority of the population. Jesus does not say that poverty is, in itself, a blessing.Blessing may come in spite of the poverty and sorrow. For life does not consist in the abun- dance of natural possessions. The joy that Jesus brings therefore, is Inde- pendent of worldly wealth. Vs. 6-9. This second group brings us from outward to inward conditions; and we are told that there can be .-o tree happiness unless the heart is Tight with our neighbor and with God. There must be righteousness, and pur- ity and peace. If the mind and heart be set upon worldly things, and if there are wrong desires and ambitions, then there is no divine presence, 'i .o loee Vs. 10, 11. We should includethethird group also in our lesson,, since this is the crown of all. Life without some great object, some goal some passion, is not at its best. And Jesus says that the noblest of all passions is love for himself. Ile calls people to sacrifice for his sake, and in the glow of joy which conies from close friend- ship with him there is that which tbe world cannot give or take away. Study these suggestive words, "for any sake." 31. JESUS AND OW LAW, 1720. V. 17. Jesus would inevitably en - coveter opposition from those who did not name with much of his teaching. To them it was revolutionary, seeming to oppose the traditions of the Fath- ers, We gather from this verse that this opposition had become vocal, from which we conclude that this sermon was not given until his mission had advanced some distance. His, enemies bad said that he was opposing the law. Accordingly Jesus says that be has not come` to destroy either the raw or the for the first time, puts f el one, n earring into the law. V. 10. If any one teaches that the commandments have lost their binding fntc., or if any one teaches the bind- ing nature of the connnandment. l+ut does not keep then himself, as these Pharisees were liken doing. the, emelt could net tel ng to his kingdom. V. 20. Jesus is wilting to have his "leaching tested by the .tale of cerulea,: and if hie followers do not s.how a bet- ter result than ethers, he will regard them as unfit for the kingdom. JWe might put the word "gamine in place if "rightecusrevs," and thus understated hie statement as a chal- lenge to his disciples to show that their goodness surpasses that of the scribes. III. rsza NEW LAW OF LOVE; 43-48. V. 43. The verses that intervene are given to specific exannnle.e of the way in which Jesus reads a new mean- ing into old legislation; and we now have the last of these, the law of love. We, do not find the actual words in the Old Testament, advocating hatred of our enemies (sea Lev. 19: 19), but the rabbis had conetuded from this pan - age that there were no obligations concerning those who were outside the chosen race of Israel. It this nar ro}v., national spirit' ,which Jeeus at- tacks. Itis the privilege, and duty of the dieeiple of Jesus to 'regard , all classes as his frineds. V, 45. To do this is to do what God does, who gives his blessings to all people. V. 46. If they love only their friends they aro no .better than those who were looked upon as belonging tothe most forsaken class, the publicans. For these people also loved their friends. V. 47. In loving their enemies they are becoming perfect, since they are getting mord: and more like God. News on Africa Describes Country Where Ant Hills Are 25 Feet in Ant hills 25 feet high and as much as 50 feet in diameter are to be found' distributed through many parts of Rhodesia, Dr. J. Austen Bancroft, formerly Dawson professor of geology at McGill University and now con- sulting geologist for a large mining company in Rhodesia, said in describ- ing the country In which he is now employed in finding tremendous de- posits of valuable ores, The subject of bis talk was "Mineral Deposits in Northern Rhodesia." In the course of the lecture he told many interest- ing things about the general nature of the country welch was kept for the British through the tar -sighted states- man,- Rhodes, tom whom the coun- fly 'gee its nanee Though the fauna of Rhodesia will eventually disappear, the land is still a great resort for big game hunters. Tbougb there are still a large num- ber of lions in Rhodesia, these have learned to save their hides by keep- ing out of sight. One may travel 400 miles across the wildest parts of the country and not sight a lion, though their unfinished feasts will be visible, Dr. Bancroft stated. The buffalo is perhaps the most dangerous animal. When wounded be becomes danger- onsly vindictive, following his attack- er for miles ready to charge at some unexpected moment and secure what is undoubtedly a well-planned re- venge. TO BE REMEMBERED When we realize that every liberty, every privilege, every advantage that eomes to us as men and Women has been bought with a price—that the dark, subterranean lives of those who toil day and night in the bowels of the earth, the perils and hardships of those who sail to and fro on the stormy seas, the benumbing weari- ness of those who dig and ditch and handle dirt, the endless tending of Seems and plying of needles and car- rying of burdens— the det'ee confederate storm 00 sorrow barricaded evermore Within the walls of cities— all this is done and endured and set fered by our fellowmen, though blind- ly, for our benefit, and accrues to our advantage—when we begin to under- stand this, a nobler spirit enters into us, the only spirit that can keep our wealth, our freedom, our culture from being a curse to us for ever, and sinking us into the ennui of a selfish hell. --Dr. H. Van Dyke, 'tli-'icii.;ry—"I've come to do you good." Cannibal—"Toa can't do it; I'm on a diet;' "S'hoelemeters and schoolmis- tresses have to deal with Ignorant children on ern side and with ignor- ant educational authorities on tee otber."--Bertrand Russell. Is it necessary that one should due ti, Prove that be is sincere; Aristide Briand. "It is not neede but markets that contend theattention of statesmen.' --Clevence Darrow. Scene off Montreal, showing old sailing ships used by British, of Mr. Samuel's collection. drawn on 9 pot by one of aides in 1758, One Mahatma Gandhi India's 380,000,000 natives in the hol- low of hisalm n P can urea onlyIre o ,thing—that the National agitation Inas elements of Indian agitation arm pro- foundly self -deceived by Irish preced- ents which could only lead them to The Stormy Petrel' itself acquired a momentum which theigantic disasters." If the congress moderate can not now check, says the at Lahore were truly representative New York Herald Tribune, adding: of all India 'sa Indian Affairs are Receiving s the London Sunday y Times, the resolution demanding com- Serious Consideration plete independence would be the from the Press the d i gravest event Since the 'mutiny of World Over 1857, but it adds: WORRYING JOHN BULL "In point of fact the Congress is "A year ago Mr. Gandhi was .plead- ing for caution; he assented to the errand for dominion status only to avoid more radical action. Now he, himself, is .forced to detrital(' hide pendence; once more, it is said, to forestall the more impetuous leaders who would otherwise take the situm tion from his hands. It is the old difficulty of 'nationalistic agitation that once it is started it can not be controlled. However narrow May be The recent bombing of the railway its popular base, however unwise its train carrying Lord Irwin, Viceroy of claimsmight.prov e, or however dam - India, we are told, was a feeble ex- aging to the masses In whose name plosion in comparison to that set off nothing of the kind. 'It is composed of some thousands of unrepresenta- India's demand for self-government, tive Indians whose brains, have been the correspondents agree, has taken fermented with ideas of Western de- on a new form that threatens to put mocracy. It is not "even popularly tbe British Government in' a tight elected. -Even if all shades of Indian Place political opinion -were represented in it the Congress would still remain hopelessly unrepresentative of India, nine -tenths of the population of which are illiterates not caring a fig for politics." That the Liberal party of India, at least, has no use for the radicalism of the Gandhi Nationalists is indicated by a dispatch from Madras to the New York Times, December 30, say- ing. "The National Liberal Federation here to -day denounced the policy of independence advocated by tbe Na- tionalist Congrss at Lahore. The Liberals passed a -resolution cordially welcoming the Viceroy's announce- ment regarding India's ,future," Fortune of War Ethel Mannan in the London Even- ing Standard (Ind, Cons.): It is far easier for women to get jobs and to make money today than for men to do so. For men jobs of any kind, by Mahatma Gandhi when he an- nouuced before the Ali -India Nation- alist Congress at Lahore that he and the claims are raised, the agitation takes on a reality of its ewn, end the leaders are hurried down the steep slope of measures which It »tight be other Indian leaders had abandoned difficult to justify on any rational their stand' for a dominion status, and basis of policy." would henceforth be satisfied with nothing short of absolute independ- ence for India, The next day the executive com- mittee, by a vote of 134 to 77, voted to submit to the conference a resolu- tion demanding independence from the British Empire, And when the 2,000 native delegates assembled for to reporton the degree of sellgov- their first full session on December eminent that might safely be entrust- 29, they listened with tumultuous ed to India's medley of races and re- cheers to a speech in which the fiery* ligions, but the report of that com- young president, Jawaharlal Nehru,I mission bas not yet been made public. announced: "We are now in con- ThI's investigation was started by the spiraey to free India"—by peaceful. last Conservative Ministry, but the means, if possible, he added, but by Labor Government of Prime Minister war if necessary. ( Ramsay MacDonald has renewed all Thea big tent where this occurred preceding pledges and reiterated' the still less remunerative poste and big presented a wonderful sight, the cot: promise that India shall have domin- appointments, are desperatelyscarce, respondents declare. 'Phe event had, ion status in time. But the Nation- whilst for women they open up on drawn eighty thotfsand visitors to La-,alists, becoming impatient, have now every hand, and the number of wo- here. Thousands squatted outside adopted a policy which, as one lis- men .earning g salary, or making in on khaddar or homespun cloth spread' over straw on the ground, and the sides of the tent were decorated with manners bearing mottoes such as "Swaraj (home rule) will drive a nail in the Boffin of the British Empire." When the national flag 09 green, red, and white stripes was ran up on the sixty -foot pole before tee tent, the Associated Press tells us, the throng, shouting "Long live the revolution!" broke through the police cordon and. swarmed toward the platform, caus- ing such a crusbi that several Hien fainted. On the same authority we read: "Mahatma Gandhi, long a leader of the Nationalist movement, lea the flght against the proposed dominion status in rhe British Empire, and in- troduced non -co-operative measures to enforce the Congress party demands for independence. These included refusal to attend the round-table'con- ference called to tweet in London to discuss the political situation in In- dia, and avored boycott of the Cen- tral and Provincial legislatures with authorization fee as program of civil disobetlience and non-payment of taxes when the committee thinks it advisable." The altered attitude of Nr, Gandhi, who is supposed to hold one-third of. The All -India' Conference last year, the Associated Press reminds us, adopted a resolution calling for a campaign of "civil disobedience" it dominion status was not granted to India by the end of 1929. The•Brit- ish Government sent a distinguished oommission'headed by Sir John Simon patch puts it, "seems certain to (teal a crippling and perhaps a fatal blow to the whole British policy of con- stitutional reform in India." Accord- ing to a United Press correspondent at Lahore: "Mahatma. Gandhi's program in- cludes the calling of an extraordinary session of the Congress next Febru- ary, with attendance limited to 1,000 influential delegates sworn to pro- claim 'civil disobedience' of British rule, Such action, it is expected, will force the Government to declare the Congress an unlawful body, and ar- rest tree delegates. Thereupon Gandhi will mobilize another . 1,000 with the same result, continuing the program until the Government or the Congress breaks." That John Bull is somewhat dis- turbed—especially by the threat of an Indian boycott on English goods- was indicated by an immediate waver- ing the price of cotton at Liverpool, wtdch in turn affected New Rork. J. L. Garvin, writing in the London Sunday Observer, declares that the Nationalists of India are deliberately copying the methods used by the Sinn Fein leaders In Ireland a dozen years ago, even to adopting "The Wearing of the Green" as their fleeting song. I3e acids, however: "'Phe Sinn Fein businesses of their own, a thousand pounds a year: and mote is steadily if slowly being .added to, botb here and in America, . . . It is especially embittering for men that all the op- portunities for moneymaking and commercial success generally, which have resulted from the upheaval of the war, have gone, not to the mon who fought, but to the' women who, stayed home, and those not the wo- men who were calledeupon to sacri- fice sons and husbands either, but to that younger generation of women— my Own generation—who were school girls in 1914, and whom the "lar touched but lightly. ,Cldpop—"How did you sleep bast night" Newpop—"Between walks." British Empire is !Sir William Clark League in Itself Success of Commonwealth Proof of Practicability $ays Smuts New 'York—The British Empire as a precedent for the League of Na- tions was held out by General Jan Christian Smuts, former Premier of South Africa,- speaking at a monster dinner here:, In the Empire, he pointed 'out, one quarter of the pgpu' ]anon of the world, representing all races, colors and creeds, were living together in pease with no army or navy required to enforce it. Ile asked •why this condition could not .be extended to the whole world. The dinner was a part of the: cele- brations arranged in the United States for the tenths anniversary of the founding of the League. Some 32 organizations interesting themselves: in securing the entry of this country Into the League, participated. The British Empire of to -day, the General said, was nothing else but a League of Nations in itself. The only way to secure perpetual peace was by applying the same idea on a larger scale. The success 09 the Empire is proof of its practicability. General Smuts said bre mission was not to engage 1n propaganda for the League, but merely to lay the facts before thepeople in the United States. In not more than ten years he predicted . the whole human race, including Russia, would berepresent- ed at the Council table of the League. "It would be a- very serious and very tragic •thing," he went on, "if, when all the nations of the world gather there, the seat of the founder and inspirer should remain vacant." Tribute to Wilson In this and other references he paid tribute to the late President Woodrow Wilson as one of the main forces in bringing the League into existence. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson occupied a seat of honor next to General Smuts. The United States, he pointed .out, was bound to enter into international conferences whether within or with- out kithout the League, The pact of Paris required it. In this way the method of conference for disposing o inter- national disputes would become itui- versai and once this carie about peace would be guaranteed without fail A gradual disappearance of opposi- tion to the League in the United States was noted by John W. Davis, who presided. 'Tbere was not one responsible person in the country MOW, he said, who would say the Lea- gue was dead, was a failure or should he revised, • Russia and Religion London Morning Post (Cons.): To resume relations with Soviet Russia and to give free entry to her repre- sentatives and agents has always seemed to us a monstrous folly from a political point of view. There is, however, a considei'atioa far stronger. Soviet Russia is the avowed and im- placable enemy of the Christian faith -of any form of religion whatsoever. The intention is clear and unashamed. Religion must be destroyed' not Only in Russia bet throughout the world in order' that the social, economic and political theories of Bolshevism may take root and flourish. Religion is first to be destroyed in order that the world rovo1utlon may follow. In h strialized Western Canada Victoria Thnes (Lib.) : Throughout. the West during the year 1929 there has been a very satisfactory expansion in industrial development covering all lines of manufacturing which pertain to the West, and it has been a year in which new industries producing articles not hitherto manufactured have been estabiished—another year gf investigation into trade possibilities, bringing ihto the West many repre- sentatives of important. organizations, from which have resulted' new agen- ies, new expansion and new and at- motive prospects for the future, "Theman of fifty has usually come, to terms With the world and the devil and is suffering from fatty degenera- tion or sclerosis of the conscience."— Dean Inge. MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER GCNI5,111E Ea5 ARG. pts IN'tgLl.1C3,CiN'f AS HUMAN silt! lily iN 'Ifl >s6'- 1,A F44A' cRtus q b Lair Milli MY Be' T PitzroRM S: Can a Flee Commit Perjury? 11-7 ente lopolit 100: Asks Co-operation High Commissioner Urges Study of Empire Trade, by Manufacturers AVOID COMPETITION, Hamilton, Onto ---Study of the ques- tion 'how manufacturers in different. parts of the British Empire can best work together, was 'recommended by, Sir William 'Clark, British High Com— missioner to `Canada, in addressing .al dinner at the Canadian Club here re d'ently, Although no one expected the Do- minions deliberately to retard their' own progress in the interest of Great Britain -it would not be to the n-lti mate Merest of the Mother Country for" them 50 to do—Sir William' thought Empire manufacturers should study how they can best avoid um, necessary competition with 'one another's special products; ' how, they can eo-operate for getting the, best out of the markets of the Em- pire and, "beyond' that, for joint at- tacks on markets in other lands." "Co-operation is not perhaps quite• so difficult as it may sound," Sir Wile - Ham said. "No manufacturing conte try, however diversified its production,. is ever wholly self-supporting. Ger many, before the war, then our most dangerous Industrial competitor, leas also the second largest importer of British goods. The United States, now I suppose the largest 'industrial producers in the world, is ' also our' third best customer to -day. Every, country has its special aptitudes, its; special .facilities; much of ,their re- spective production can dovetail, eo• to speak, lute one another's without conflict of interest, It is a question which requires expert study by those who know industry from within, a'. study in rationalization on a large scale with the "'hole Empire as tbe basis:' Sir William said he noted the busi- ness men of Canada bad formed a committee to consider the questions at Empire trade in relation to the Fortin coming Imperial economic conference, anil British chambers of eommerce bad taken the same step. "There should be no better guarantee for the success, of 'tbe conference," be added, "and I hope in one form or an- other the subject of which I have, spoken will receive some oe the con sideation of those committees, whieli are committees of experts in the fulls est and best sense of the word." Declaring men were taking' a' larger and broader viemy, with. less self -inter eft than prevailed during the last cen- tury, Sir William said no good could come to codntry or to Empire by run- ning a business into losses or throw- ing away good trade. tut it was possible too to look beyond the limits of the immediate affair; to think in terms not merely of ovhat was easiest and perhaps ac little more profitable now, but to recall, as he had endeavor- ed to show, "that in the long run front the purely business standpoint each: one of our peoples is deeply concern - (I in the prosperity of the other mem- bers of the commonwealth; and bear- ing these things in mind, to try in the every day wont of businese man- agement to do a little ErPlre heed- ing as well." . Trial Careers or Marriages? Regina 1, Woody in Plain Talk: I feel sure that trial careers would avert many more divorces than com- panionate marriage ever will; and that the resulting knowledge of what she was actually worth in dollars and cents to the business world would more surely convey the yet unrealized knowledge to many a frivolous eve - man who threatens to leave home foe a "career" that business is not all pleasure and that the odde in mar- riage for women always have been, and always will be, two to one in ` favor of her happiness. . It is the false glamor of ease and excite- ment surrounding success which so often blinds the uninitiated to the actual amount of work involved andl whieh leads manyan immature young wife into believing that a "career" is, all play, while marriage, due to her, own disillusionment, seems -to her, merely a dreary round of hard labor. Prev,ous contact with a career would most surely teach her that in both business and marriage work is fairlee evenly divided, and lead her to real; ize along with Stevenson, that "to travel hopefully is better than to ar- rive, and that the true success is te labor:' English Manners Mary Borden in Harper's Magee zine (New York) : In England people, care' less about good manners than good form. The English people are in general too insensitiveand too lacking in curiosity to have really, 'geed manners; for the lack of cunt: carry means lack of sympathy and a wide indifference to what othersfeel or think. Being very modest people, or, what is 'the same thing„ exces- sively proud but not vain, and with,: an intense positive dislike for shove ing off, their manners on the whole are better than one might expect; for though they don't care a rap abort pleasing, they don't care either about showing thou' displeasure, and sq, probably they show little or no sign of any kind, Indifference is than prime social quality; that t(lees not make for the 'gaiety of nations' goes witbout saying,