The Seaforth News, 1930-02-06, Page 3Sunday School
Lesson
February 2. Lesson V --Putting God's
Kingdom.' first -Matthew 6: °t13
19.21, 31.33. Golden Text -Seek ye
first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things
shall be added *Unto you. -Matthew
6:33.
ANALYSIS
1. PRAYING ",0 THE FATHER, vs. 5-13.
II. LOVING TIIE FATHER, VS. -19-21.
III; SEEKING HIS KINGDOM, vs. 31-83,
INTRouuCTloN-This sixth chapter
of Matthew takes up the question of.
worship, and deals .with the; relation
which the disciple of Jesus must have
to his God. The follower of Jesus
must leern to trust -the heavenly Fa-
ther at all times, and must seek, first•
of all, the kingdom of God.
I. PRAYING TO THE FATHDR, vs. 5-1$.
V. 5. The first four verses are given•
to the religious duty of almsgiving,;'
three verses, 16-18, are. devoted to the
second act_ of worship; but eleben
verses are given to prayer, showing
that this last is the most important of
la tlhe outward acts of religion. No
person can keep his religious life fresh
and strong who does not practice the
art of prayer. Jesus warns them
against hypocrisy. If people make
a' parade of their prayers in order to
win the reputation of being religious,
then they may receive the reward of
human praise, but they do not get,
their reward from God.
V. B. The second warning is against
r•' unreality. If people repeat a formula
*without putting their heart or soul
into it, hoping that this will be heard,
they have a totally wrong conception
of God. Mere repetitions imply that
God is a hard, exacting ruler, demand-
ing penance, but if God be our loving
Father, prayer must be a form of
communion or conversation, in which
002 souls find true delight.
V. 8. We do not need to pray in
order to inform God of our wants.
"Prayer is the human side of inter-
• communion with God." We learn to
see how dependent we are upon him,
and how blessed it is to know him.
V. 9. Now begins the best known of
all prayers. No sayings of Jesus are,
more universally' used than these. In
the Lord's Prayer we have the mo-'
tives, the model and the aims of all
true prayer. It consists of seven
sentences. The first is the address,
while the remaining six fall into two
division". Of these the first three con-
cern the Father, while the remaining
ones deal with human needs. The ad-
dress is 'of infinite, significance. The
nature of God determines all religion.
How different are the prayers which
a worshipper of Moloch would make
from those which arise out of their
assurance that God is our Father!
V. 10. The three petitions to he
made concerning God are (') the hal-
lowing of his near a by which the wor-
shipper expresses his desire that no-
thing be done to bring discredit on the
holy name. The opposite of this would
be to profane his name. Every wrong
action done by a child reacts upon the
name of the f ether; (2) The desire
that God's kin,rdom may extended;
and (3) that his will be done on earth.
These petitions rise out of a sense of
the sovereignty and goodness of God;
and they take for granted that God is
able to do whatever he feels best, en
earth as well as in heaven. These pe-
titions show that God's interests must
come first.
V. 11. The first petition for our-
selves concerns' the needs of the body.
We cannot live without bread, and we
hereby acknowledge God's power and
readiness to give us what ve need.
Vs. 12, 13. The two remaining re-
quests are spiritual, and show that we
have continually to ask for forgive-
ness, and for protection against the
assaults of evil. The prayer concludes
with the doxology.
II. LOVING THE FATHER, vs. 19-21.
V. 19. While it is necessary that
we should have enough to meet the
needs of the body -the danger with
most people is that they devote too
much thought to earthly possessions,
and Jesus now warns them that they
must not love wealth. He uses the
metaphor of the bank, and shows how
uncertain are all earthly treasures.
The only bank that is absolutely safe
is that in heaven, which means that
if we love God and do his will we have
that permanent possession of charae-
ter and life -which comet he destroyed.
To love God is the truest wealth.
III. SEEKING His. KINGDOM, vs. 31-33-
V. 31. Two of the ehief concerns of
men are food and clothing, and while
Jesus does not say that we should'
neglect these necessary things, he lays'
e.pen his disciples certain dirties in
this regard. They must not bel4o
worried over them a to lose all peace
o4 mind.
V. 32. They musk trust the good
will of their heavenly Father, who is
well aware of their needs, and who ie
willing and able bo help.
V. 33. They must seek, first o all,
other things, They nnrst try to bring
in the kingdom of God. Prayer for
the kingdom must go hand in hand
with .the work of the kingdom, They
must also: seek his righteousness, that
is the kind of right living of which
God approves. The main aims of life
must be spiritual and moral,
The Submarine
Manchester Guardian (Lib.): We
think of the submarine as something
primarily directed against our life-
blood. We may we remember that,
but we ought also 'to remember that
perhaps the greatest -preoccupation
of France is the guarding of the
route by which eve can bring an
African army into Europe. And it.
is not true that the submarine would
be of no use to France on the African
sea -route. . And even about the
submarine let us keep; an open mind
to this. extent. It nearly brought 06
to the ground in 1916-17, but the end
of the war we had taken its measure.
We fix our eyes on the submarine,
but second sight might reveal to us
the aeroplane and the seaplane play-
ing a more decisive role in another
war.
COMMON LIFE
We believe that there are sweet
and gracious things in human life for
better worth knowledge than the
base and trivial things which too fre-
quently attract the novelist, 'Writers
of all sorts are very apt to overlook
the existence of a vast number of
quiet and God-fearing people in this
country, who lead plain and good
lives, free from both defiling action
and defiling knowledge. There 1s
enough material in the 'annals of the
quietest countryside for a very great
novel in the hands of a master, and
the greatest artist is he who can deal
most adequately with common life.
Plain God-fearing people have their
tragedies as well as thieves and har-
lots, and the psychology of their emo-
tions is not less interesting. -W. 7:
Dawson.
DO EVERYTHING WELL
If you have something to attend to,
go about it coolly and thoughtfully,
and do it just as well as you can.
Do it as though it were the only
thing you ever had to do in your
life, and as if everything depended
upon it. Then your work will be well
done, and it will afford you genuine
satisfaction. Often much more de-
pends upon the 'canner in which
things seemingly trivial are perform-
ed than one would suppose,' or that
it is possible to foresee. Do every-
thing well. Make that the rule of
your life, and live up to it, and you
will find it most conducive to your
own happiness, and to the happiness
of those with whom you are brought
into contact or communication,
"How'd you get into the show the
other evening?"
"Passed a counterfeit dollar at the
door."
"How was the show?" -
"Well, I got my money's worth."
STRONG WILL
In some cases the strong will is a
demon, and the intellect but its ser-
vant and slave; but 1f t e choice be
fixed on noble objects, than the strong
will is a king, and the intelligence is
its minister and best guide. The
right direction of the energies of a
man, therefore, is of the greatest im-
portance, and the time to secure thie
is in youth.
CONSCIENCE
The conscience requires to be en-
lightened. God's law is written up-
on it; but the lettering is like that
of an old inscription,where the words
are filled up with moss and mould,
so that they are apt to be misread
and requireto be.recut. James Stalk-
er.
Where Ancient Customs Still Maintain
SQUAW ATTENDS TO THE SPOILS OF THE HUNTER
Scene outside tepee in a western park, where there are many Indians living much as t
ancestors' time.,
ey did in
heir
Preserving Youth
Without Gin
Plenty of gin and champagne, but
not a drop of water, and liquor -flush-
ed hostesses vote the party a huge
success.
It is youth that pays the piper,
warns Dr. Samuel S. Drury, rector of
the famous St. Paul's school for boys
at Concord, New Hampshire, and he
urges. parents to keep their boys
away from the rum riots of 'their
elders and to let them play and sweat
as nature intended, youth being its
own innocent intoxicant. "'Rejoice,
oh, young man, in thy youth," ,he
says. "We are a long time old." Re-
gain command of the family, he urges
parents; begin a "rule -and -reason"
era, and kill the jazz menace.
For a score of years Dr. Drury has
directed the formative period of boys,
some of them now leaders of Ameri-
can cultural and busines life, and he
has an insight into youth and its prob-
lems whioh is generally admitted,
Moreover, we are told, he has de-
clined offers of advancement In his
church to continue as an instructor of
youth. Recently he made an annual
report to the corporation of St.
Paul's School, and Charles P. Haven,
of the Boston Sunday Post, rescued it
from the oblivion which too often be-
falls reports -the oblivion of the
waste -paper basket -and we now pass
it on to a larger audience whose col-
lective ear may be :the more attentive
now that the boys and girls have re-
turned to school and the hectic holi-
days are over. The great educator
sat in his study and talked of his
views on youth and their more diffi-
cult parents. To begin with, we set
down the rules for parents which Mr.
Haven summarizes from his inter-
view with Dr. Drury:
"1. Make the second decade of
youths' lives breezy, wholesome and
simple.
"2. Provide the spur of necessity
for them, especially if you are,
wealthy.
"3. Don't invite other people's
children to parties primarily arranged
for elder people.
"4. Dea't destroy young people's
characters in order to make one of
your parties 'successful.'
"5. Don't offer children in their
'second decade' liquor, unless they are
your own children. (Which rule Dr.
Drury really. directs to members of
the 'second decade' themselves. It
sons: Don't drink unless at your fath-
er's table.)
"6. Give your boy or girl at least
a month in camp, a cruise, or a
course- at a citizens' training -camp
during the summer vacation.
"7. Don't postpone your child's edu-
cation. Begin in Sammy what you And save them from the menaces
contemplate for him in Snly.
"8. Don't hesitate to place' your boy
69 from 16 to 19 in unsupervised
situations in life. There is an inner
armor boys possess during these
years that keeps them from the
smirch of the world.
"9. Don't put the smirch that creeps
into older minds into the minds of
those in the 'second decade.'
"10. Give'your growing boy a thrill-
ing job, one that taxes lits powers and
puts him' on his own responsibility.
"11. Don't 'fiddle around' with your
boy or girl. 'Theirs not to make reply'
during the 'second decade: There
should be no rule without reason. But
you should rule!"
To quote from the interview as Mr.
Haven sets it down -briefly enough
for a topic in which all the world has
an interest:
"Boys like simple things. The
modern tendency is for the parent to
deprive children of their childhood
and youth of its youth. They seem td
want to hury their children forward
to the point where they can't fit in.
"During the years from thirteen to
eighteen, children like the pleasures
of the: out-of-doors. They like the
simple food, rough games, and a good
sweat. Parents who supply their
children with luxurious and costly
foods are doing them no favor. -It
seems to me the whole function of
parents at this time is to keep youth
young.
"The high-school boy and the board-
ing -school boy are fundamentally
alike, except that the boarding -school
boy often lacks this tremendously im-
portant factor in the formation of his
character -the spur of`necessity. The
parents who do not furnish this factor
to their boys will deprive them of the
sand and grit necessary for them to
possess if they are to share the re-
sponsibilities of the family life -and
all families have problems and. re-
sponsibilities." -
Against a certain class of women,
Dr. Drury reserves a special warning:
"Do you know that there are wo-
men who will destroy the character
of yonths in order to make their
parties 'successful?' One of my boys
recently told me that he and a friend
of the same age had been invited to
a party during the summer vacation
and that when they arrived they
found plenty of champagne to drink,
but that when they asked for a, drink
of water a servant had to make a
special effort to get it for them.
"I am a total abstainer myself. I
have -been a total abstainer for years.
But I don't demand or ask total ab-
stinence. All I ask boys is this,
'Please don't take anything to drink
except that offered you at your fath-
er's table.' This will, I believe, save
them from the evils of gin, and worse.
that confront all young people."
Dr, Drury advises• giving work to
boys during the long summer vaca-
tion, and eighteen, he says, "1s none
too early for parents to send their
boys out into the world and into un-
supervised occupations. There is no
armor of innocence about a boy un
till he reaches the age of twenty
years that protects him from the
smirch of the world. One of the
greatest mistakes elders make is to
assume that the smirch they may
have received from the world Is also
upon their boys," And that brought
reporter and educator to the "rule-
O'ith-reason" precept:
"The day of the premptory father is
gone. That man is rare who can say
`Go here. Go there.' and expect
obedience to -day. There is plenty of
cheerful obedience, however. But
there must be no rule without reason.
The wise father is he who is willing
to be reasonable.
"But when he 1s reasonable with
his children, be can't be forever fid-
dling around with them. 'Theirs not
to reason why. Theirs not to make
reply. Theirs to obey.'
"The parents must again take com-
mand."
RESTRAINT
There is always, and everywhere,
some restraint on a great man. He is
guarded with crowds, and shackled
with formalities. The half hat, the
whole hat, the half smile, the whole
smile, the nod, the embrace, the posi-
tive parting with a little bow,' the
comparative at the middle of the
room, the superlative at the door;
and, if the person be "pan hyper se-
bastus," there is a hyper -superlative
ceremony then of conducting him to
the bottom of the stairs, or to the
very gate, as if there were such rules
set to these leviathans as are to the
sea -Hitherto shalt thou go, and no
further, Cowley.
Wonderful Leper
Cures Being Made
6,000 Victims Await Former
Society Girl's Return
From U.S.
IS RAISING FUNDS
New Orleans; -Far out in the China
Sealies an island, Culion, on, which
6,000 lepers are hopefully awaiting
the return of a former New Orleans
society girl.
Folklore 111 India ' told wonderful
tales of lepers who went into the
woods and came out healed. Dorothy
Paul. Wade, her doctor husband, and
six nuns have made such tales come
true. Not for one leper; but for 1,500.
While Dr. H. Windsor • Wade, fa-
mous pathologist, ministers to the
needs of the stricken who have gath-
ered on the island from China, Japan,
Siam, Palestine and India, his wife
is touring the 'United States in an ef-
fort to gather $2,000,000 with which
to carry on the=work in the largest
leper colony in the world. She has
raised a million and three-quarters,
and when she reaches her goal she
will return to Culion;bearing with her
hope for those stricken with what
was once termed an incurable dis-
ease.
Dr. Wade and his wife went to the
Phillippines seven years ago, intend-
ing to stay two years. Becoming in -
treated in the treatment of lepers,,
they remained at Culion, and have
watched 1500 cured lepers sail joy-
fully away.
Mrs. Wade formerly was a leader in
New Orleans' younger set. She la
vivid; she is beautiful, with a beauty
which the cool eye of a camera can-
not catch; she is an accomplished
actress.
Boats Steer Clear
'How can I describe my life so that
you can get a picture of it?' she asks.
"Much of the time my husband and
I are the onl- white persons on the
island with the exception of the six
nuns who live there. The island is
flat, sun -baked. Small native boats
sail by, for the most part giving the
island a wide berth."
Visitors come and often. stay for
weeks to consult with her husband,
not to while away the hours on a
South Sea isle, but to watch with in-
terest the efforts being made to bring
life and hope to the lepers. Out-
standing men of science and medicine
gather there.
"I remember one atfernoon," she
said, "when I served tea on a Chinese
tea table to a Harvard medical stu-
dent, a Siamese prince, a Chinese doc-
tor and a priest from Madrir. But
even when I have no visitors I am
never bored or lonely. I have a pony
and ride and hunt. I write lots, too."
Mrs. Wade is a writer, a poetess
and a member of the Authors' League
of America.
"Manila is only 200 miles away, yet
we seldom go there. Two hundred
miles in one of the native sailing
boats often mean: ; a journey of a week
or more," Mrs. Wade said.
In the seven years the Wades have
been at r ;:on, she has returned to
Amer': but twice, both times for the
purpose of raising money to carry on
the w'oric. Coming this time at the
personal request of Leonard Wood,
former Governor of the Phiiippines,
Mrs. Wade has lectured in 50 cities
and has almost reached her goal of
$2,000,000,
Record Shipments of Apples
Halifax. -Shipments of apples this
season to British and other markets
from Nova Scotia totalled 862,405 bar-
rels up to December 31, 1929, an in-
crease of 285,671 barrels compared
with the corresponding period in the
previous season.
The 1929 crop of apples in Nova
Scotia was 1,846,860 barrels, an in-
crease of over 750,000 over 1928. The
total crop in . Canada last year was
8,702,370 barrels or about 465,000 bar-
rels more than in the previous year.
WOUNDS .
The wound caused by the laneehead
is curable, but that caused by the
tongue cannot be cured, -Arabian
Proverb.
ADVICE
Advice is not disliked because it is
advice, but because so few people
know how to give it. -Leigh Hunt.
"Everything my husband touches
turns to gold."
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hair, after all?"
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Many Speeches
Are Now Read in
British Commons
Growing Tendency to Break
Away From Very Old
Tradition
Still Several Good Extempore:
Speakers
But None Can Excel Late Mei
Bonar Law in Speeches
Without Notes
Visitors to the public galleries of
the British House of 'Commons lately
have discovered a growing tendency
to break away from that very old tra-
dition that members may not read
their speeches.
In the case of Ministers making
statements which may be of interna-
tional importance, of course, reading
-and very obvious, slow and careful
reading at that -_has always been per-
mitted. Mr, Lloyd- George and Mr.
Baldwin have both, in their time as
Prime Iinister, read' sections of
speeches in this way.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald finds it
necessary' to do so on occasions, and
is quite frank about it. There Is al-
ways open reading too, of answers to
Parliamentary questions. Those;
'cases, however, are usually the limit
of exception to the tradition.
Lately, however, Socialist Ministers
and back members have broken the
unwritten rule.
Miss Margaret Bonfield, the Minis-
ter of Labor, read the greater part of
her speech introducing the Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill from typescript.
It was a very clearly stated exposi-
tion of the Bill which did the Minis-
ter credit, but it was read. Mr, Ar-
thur
rthur Henderson, the Foreign Secre-
tary, reads a great deal, but he does
it very cleverly. Lately he has done
more extempore speaking, and has
greatly improved his style.
Perhaps the greatest offender of all
against the tradition which the older
members would enforce was the lady
who recently read almost every word
of a speech from a sort of loose-leaf
ledger -and did' not conceal it.
Good Memories
There are, of course, several excel-
lent extempore speakers on both sides
of the House, and while none can ex-
cel the late Mr: Bonar Law in mak-
ing long speeches without reference
to notes, there are some who approach
very nearly to his gr'eat skill,
Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the ex -
Minister of Health, is one. Mt'. Win-
ston Churchii is another, although it.
is said that his principal speeches are
learnt off by heart before he comes
to the House. yr. A. M. Samuel, the
Financial Seere`tary to the Treasury
in the Iate Government, made more
than one intricate financial speech
without a brief.
Mr. William Graham, the President
of the Board of Trade, can recite
strings of complicated figures without
a reference to his notes, and Mr, Ar-
thur Greenwood, Minister of Health,
can do much the same thing with
knotty legal points and clauses of a
Bill.
The House of Commons has lost
its old habit of three -decker orations
with the arrival of members who all
want to talk, but it would be a pity if
it gave up the old tradition which is
uow being assailed.
Pat called at the post ofltce to see
if there were any Christmas postcards
for him. "Your name, sir?" asked
the postmaster. "What's that to do
with you?" replied Pat. "If there
are any postcards for me my name
will be on the front" "But I must
have your name," cried the postmas-
ter, "otherwise how can I find the
postcards?" "Well, then, it's Pat
Murphy," the Irishman volunteered.
"No letters or postcards for you sir."
the other replied. Pat grew angry.
"I'll teach you to • fool me like ,that,"
he s7louted. "But I'll get even avid ye.
Not' one bit of that is my name 'at all
at all."
Panting and breathing heavily, a ,
little boy was pushing a handcart,
obviously much too heavy far him,,
up a steep hill. A kindly passer-by
put his shoulder to the wheel and
helped him. When they got to the
top of the hill he turned to the boy.
"I cal it an outrage to give 'a .child
like you a job like this. Why don't
you tell your employer It was too
heavy for you?" 'I did," was the re-
ply. "And what did he say?" ; "H9
said: 'Go ahead -you're sure to find
some fool to give yen a lift on the'
way'!"
IDLENESS
It ie a mistake to imagine that this,
violent passions only, such as
bition and love, can triumph over th a;
rest, Idleness, languid' as it is, often
masters them all. She, indeed, in-
fluences
nfluences all our designs and actions,
and insensibly' consumes and destroys
both passions and virtues, -La Roche-
foucauid.
CONSEQUENCES
Not till water runs up hill, and day,
turns into night, may men rationally
expect to escape the consequences of
their evil deeds.
PROVERBS
Proverbs are the wisdom of wia,"
men, prepared. in portable dosed fell
the foolisbt