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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-05-29, Page 7Sunday School Lesson May 25. Lesson VIII—Jesus Describes lee the ..Future of the Kingdom—Ma - thew 25, 1.13. Golden Texts -Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is,—Mark 13: 33. ANALYSIS I. THE PERIOD OF WAITING, vs• 1-5. II. THE SUDDEN. GALL, v. 6. III. THE FINAL RESULT, vs, 7-13. INTRODUCTION - The twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth chapters are directed to the disciples of Jesus, and to the whole Christian church,and are meant togive solemn warning to all believers concerning the approaching return ofe Jesus, who will come to judge and rule the world. This truth of the imminent. return of the Lord- rune through h the gospel of Matthew, This section in- cludes three parables of warning:. (1) 24: 45-51, the Faithful and Wise Sere - ant; (2) 25; 113, the Ten Virgins; (3) 25: 14-30, the Ten Talents. Here we notice how Jesus makes use of these parables to drive home simple yet severe lessons. on the problems of life and religion. There is nothing in all the range of religious literature to be compared with the parables of Jesus. I. THEPERIODOF WAITING, vs. '1 5. Some one has said that we maydi- vide the parables into two groups. The first consists of those _that deal with the kingdom and'can be distin- guished by the formula which intro- duces them, "the kingdom' of heaven is likened unto." The, second .group consists of those that deal with the individual. Here we have one, of the. lt..rables of the kingdom, but it °con- cerns only one aspect of this doctrine. Sometimes Jesus treats of the present kingdom as if it were already formed on the earth, and revealed itself in a new ecndition of life end society, The seed parables refer to this present ' kingdom. However, there is also the future- aspect of the kingdom, which will be manifest when Christ returns on the clouds of'. glory. V. 2. In Jewish marriages the usual custom was for the friends .of the bridegroom to e,/ act the bride to the house of her husband who came forth to meet the procession and wel- come the bride. But in this case the imagery is changed, since the groom now goes into a far country to meet the bride, while the friends remain behind to be in readiress to welcome him on his return. V. 3. The lumber ten was the sym- bol of completeness 'and here repre- sents the membership of the kingdom. The division into twoequal parts is significant: The ,olish virgins had taken enough oil in their lamps for their immediate use, but had made no provision for the future: Religion had made no deep and lasting effect upon thisclassof follower. The oil mrt V be regarded as the. resents of n genu- ine p love for God and desire to do his will. V. 5. Dining the period of waiting for the bridegroom they all slumber. We cannot impart grace to those who will not take it. V. 10, The wise virgins enter and enjoy the blessings of the feast along With the bridegroom, and the door is shut as 1f all further chances of enter- ing were now exeluded. There is a1 - ways this serious tone in the teaching of, Jesus. Notice that in 'the Sermon on the Mount Jesus had said, "Nott; every one that with unto me, Lord Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven." V. 1$. Here the lesson of the parable is given. Jesus mean's to lay stress upon the duty of watehfulnes... Life is,a probation where we have our op- portunities for service and for the learning of divine truth; but the time is very brief„ and when this is over, we shall appear before the judgment seat of Christ. People ask whether Christ has come or not. Ile carne at the resurrection, and at every great crisis in history.. He conies to every one at death, but there still remains the great final day when Christ will'' appear to judge the world and to bring in the finalking- dom of heaven. "United' Empire" 'Melbourne Arugs: This . Rother- brook Empire, as it might be called Portmanteau -wise, after the'fashion'o3 Lewis Carroll, is at present. impos- sible, if only because of Australian policy.. A country which , prohibits the. export. of stud sheep to South Skull on Side of Rock Commemorates "Soapy" Smith A Ruthless War "I detest Lieutenant. Junger's piti- less Nietzschean 'philosophy; but I pay tribute to his honesty, his cour- age and his extraordinary` power of eloquent and yet exact description, free from sentimentality and exclaim ation marks,"—A Reviewer in the Daily News, Most readers who get 'Coos° 125, by Lieutenant Ernest Junger, will agree with the foregoing,for the au- thor's views are typical of the extreme section of tale German military ma- chine, ruthless in war and making everything -subservient to "the will to win." I•Iere is a eharacteristie'pas- sago which speaks for itself:— "Time works .with heavy tools, and in the battle for some slag -heap of horror, over those wreathed smoke rival conceptions of the world's fut- ure are locked In demoniac strife, it is not a question of the few thousand men who may perhaps be rescued from destruction, but of the dozen or two survivors who are there in the for at this very moment Soviet agents nick cif time to. turn the scales with are excavating the foundation of thea their machine-guns or their bombs. country with a view to the eventual, That is a view of the world's destiny collapse of the social and economic which few have the iron nerve and superstructure. masculine force to bear, and yet one "According to ILuo Min News may be proud to live In a time when Agency, the Commissary of Finance such a spirit has shaped events to of the Soviet Government hoe decided "Red ' Claws" In China How can Russia and China be friends? Are "Moscow's red claws" again grabbing at China. Russia's !duplicity with China has gone far enough, tbey say. Their concern is the more acute be- cause of an approaching Russlan- Chiaese conference. Those simple-minded people who think that China'sgrievances against Soviet Russia are to be remedied, de- clares the Canton China Truth, must .have received exude shock when they learned that Moscow 'has all the time been •conducting "a non-stop intrigue" against China. This weekly goes on: "This state of affairs has reached -an alarming stage in view of the fact that the two countries are running the Chinese Eastern Railway as a Joint enterprise. "We are not alarmists or jingoists, Africa and plunders its own people Smith tough H shot f' the fun of it and rob its moiled of tempered steel, upon the appropriation of six million e. se ng sugar u erc cheaply bed them:whenthere was nothing better to do. He hada tre k of appear ng Soapy' m was a oug `guy e s q men or "Though few may emerge from rubles for the economic exploitation whit lir and better h 1 l i to foreigners. is a long way from be- ing e- to wrap 'a cake of soap in a five dollar bill and selling it to a gullible cue. Ug tin that state of grace which .the tomer for a few cents. .Because of that they called him "soapy" up in Skag- willwillth 'Empire requires. , Australia „ have to be born again to discover wry in the gold rush days of 98.- But Soapy": was too tough and too slippery that kingdom. , even for the rough frontlet of the north. One day 'he was a bit slow on the . draw, He was shot and killed and burled' with hit antagonist, whom he had mortally. Wounded, in the little cemetery adjoining the town. When news of his sudden and long hoped for death arrived the townspeople.appar- ently ;thought something should be done to commemorate the ead of a deeper - ate career 'Someone had said that "Soapy" was as hard. as rock. So they painted a skull on .5 cliff and lettered Soapy's naive on It, To -day tourists to Skagway stand and'photograph.this relic . of a day' that is on more. Alaska and the Yukon are sunny places of green hill sides and flowers, of, placid lakes and roaring rivers, of great peaks and deep valleys when the boats ^nils° up there in the summer. time. This year the service is to be augmented by the S. S. Prince Henry, oS' the Canadian National Steamships. The CNS "Prince Rupert" -and the "Prince George," of the same line are al- ready known for their comfort and seaworthy qualities to the thousands or tourists who 'each year make the voyage up 'the well-known Inside Passage to Prince Rupert and Skagway. Two. other now steamers' now being built for the Canadian National Pacific Coast Service, the Prince Robert and the Prince David, will ply between Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle, 'Necking may be Pronounced inno- cent, but it's not spelled that way," Woman in the Home Frances F. O'Donnell in the Forum (New York) : Whatever node of life l There is no appare. t difference be- tench to develop the most perfectly tween the wince and foolish. No sag -.rounded; the most genuinely success estion of rebuke is made in the fact ful, the happiest woman at the head that they siert. It intimates the nee- of the home, is the erode that will cessity that lies on all of going down e make the best mother—and torso-; Di ciples ordinaryhe n l ebody acannot beirs of sooeu- quently the hest child. I don't care pied always and on* with the exoee- where she spends the hours of her day, t tation of their Lord's appearing." how much wealth' enables her to give Il. THE SUnDEN CALL, v. G, her children "advantages," or how V. 0. Two facts about the second hard she tries to be a "good" mother, coming are very clearly stated in the an unhappy evoihan is a bad mother. New Testament: (1) There is the cer- Whether or not she is conscious of the tainty of the return. This we hear blight she casts upon her child, he frons the life of Jests, and from all will be influenced by her attitude of the apostles. The Book of Revelation defeat and disappointment. is filled with this prediction a the c.rtainty. of the return of the Lord, Behold I come quickly, (2) The see- Mistaken for "Red" and fact is the uncertainty concerning the exact time. Jesus told his dis= ciples that no man knew of the clay and hour when the Son of man would return Hence we herr so much of the suddenness of the return. He will cOni like a th' f in the night. IIL THE FINAL RESULT, Vs. 1-13. V, 7, Everything comes to an end, authorities posted two plains -clothes even the delay of the Lord, and now army officers outside the building. every one is fail of activity. "Whoa Without informing the military, police life is closing l.ehind, and eternity stationed two plain -clothes detectives- Opening before us; we are all aroused:" at the same place. The two parties 'V. 8. The foolish virgins represent mistook each other for Communists, those who have not taken advantage of and hi the fight that followed one the long days of grace to listen to the detective was killed, the other was call of the Saviour, and to follow his' wounded, and one officer also suffer= commands. ' ed injury. V. 9. At first it might seem strange that the wise virgins refused to give a little of their oil to help out their In the three British Army centres companions. Why would they not where time -expired soldiers are taught share their possessions? But the par- some trade, about 3,000 men are train- able makes it clear that this is stn- ed .every year, the vocations ranging possible. If the wise give their oil from valeting and waiting at table to Ulm will not be enough for both, anti electric wiring, building, motor build - TheLor., will have none to meet him, The meaning is that there are certain ing; and all forms of painting and things we can never give to others.' decorating. Detective Killed London—An anti-Communist eoup wont awry in Helsingsfors, Finland, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch said recently. To prevent Communists from smug- gling pamphlets into a barracks, • TWO OR THREE DOLLARS No man can eft in misery's mental rocking -chair and wish himself into success. Success owes you nothing. You owe success every faculty you possess. If you want success, the only way to win it is by Intelligent industry. Until you get these truths firmly r services are Reed in your head au e ,Y 1day,no worth t o or throe dollars a w More. MLITT ALMOST ANYBODY Right where you are now, do the very best you can with what you've. got and do the thing now. Almost anybody can accomplish al- most anything if they have all the tools and all the time they think is necessary, YOUR SECOND SET Beneath the surface of the skull, just above your collar button is a O, doctor. 1 have sent for you, eel, brain that you seldom use, and all be- cause you must do some tall thinking before that brain wit' worm tainly; still I must confess that I have not the slightest faith in modern medical science." "Well," said" the doctor, "that doesn't matter in the least, You see, a mule has no faith in the veterinary surgeon, and yet he cures him just the same.' He: "Something seems to be wrong with this engine, it " She: "Don't be foolish; wait Until we get' off this main Toad." these flaming plains that offer no shel- ter but the- mettle in a man's own heart, and though these few resolute in aim and act, may still find fate turn against them and deny them their goal yet I feel as surely as T feel boy - thing at all that a gain will be scored that can never be scored out. "For they who can come through this—and, as I say, there can only be a few—what can there be that they could not 'come through? And so I see in old Europe a new and com- manding breed rising up, fearless and fabulous, dfnsparing of blood and spar- ing of pity inured to suffering the worst and to inflicting it and ready to stake all to attain their ends—a race that builds machines and trusts to machines, to whom machines are not soulless iron, but engines of might which it controls with cold reason and hot blood." . /j reiee "Say, this novel is all bound wrong. It starts with the last chapter and ends with the first" "It's all right, only you've gotten hold of a copy of the 'Woman's Edi- tion'. Summer Days Lake and river tined remain to Canadians the contelete and perfect holiday. F::om ;Niagara, Toronto and Kingston the holiday ships move to the lower St. Laweence and Saguenay rivers. This glimpse of the Laurentians and the lower St. Lawrence is typical of the summer days on these famous trips. (Photo by Canada Steamship Lines.) of Northern Manchuria. "A committee to be headed by 'the Soviet Consul in IIarbin, and com- posed of representatives of various Soviet commercial organizations in Manchuria, will be appointed to attend to_ the carrying out of the details of Moscow's new program in China. 'This is a rather mild statement, but the same agency wen; on to say that Soviet forces stationed near Man - chilli total two battalions of infantry and cavalry troops, 120 field guns, 90 machine-guns, 11 armored cars, and 6 armored trains. "Friends of Soviet Russia may argue that this has so far not done any harm to China. But let us reed another story from the North China Daily News of Shanghai. "That Shanghai daily has just pub- lished a report from Indo-China stat- ing that Southwest Kwangsi has gone Bolshevik. The towns Posen and Lungchow have been in control of the Reds for three months," The Communists spread terror throughout those districts, we are told, and foreign missionaries and others were stripped of their possessions, even to the ehoes on their feet, It is related in the same dispatch that "a Russian emissary and a Shang- hai paid agitator appeared on the in flames." h Ince scene and set the see p We read then: "Those who live in Shanghai, ilan- kow, Tientsin, etc., may have no idea Stow the Communists behave when they capture a town, but the Canton- ese know very well what the Reds did when they were in control of Can- ton on December 11, 1927. "The most densely populated part of the city was reduced to ashes, and thousands of innocent people were killed. Besides, there were the usual footings and outrages by ruffians and thugs who joined the Communists on the spot. - "Of course no Communist 00up d'etat was complete without the pre- sence of Red agents from Moseow. "In view of the sinister designs and intrigue of Soviet Russia on China, how can the two nations maintain friendly, relations?" Are You So Important If you ever feel very important and think you are ludispensabTe, here is something that will tape you down a peg. Every tWVenty-four hours ninety-six thousand human beings leave this lir and still the world gces on. If the world can continue to go e losing four thousand people every hour ,it may not miss me much and 1 might: not miss you very mach. "Christian Treatment of Jews It's Hard to be a Jew .Among "Christians" Discrimination dogs his steps—it has sines Roman solcliers, cruelfiete One to vent their anti-Semitism,. "He must," writes Dr. Frank Gavin; a professor in the General Theologl- cal Seminary, "acquit himself in ad- vance of tral of indictments prepare before he came into court—nay, more —of condemnations passed before evil donee was collected,"„ Small wonder, then, writes Dr. Garbo iar Lng Church - pal), thatThe "protecivitive hardness(Episcoen- cases the conduct of those who, feel their' outsideness." Dr. Gavin tells us, for instance, that it is three times ae hard for Jewish boys to enter certain 'medical colleges as for other boys. Often they have to try' from five to forty- six colleges before they .can secure admission, and we read: "Last year some six hundred such boys, who could not prosecute their studies in medicine here, made ap- plication at Edinburgh, of whom . but thirty could secure places. Of Ameri- cans studying medicine abroad a (Ifs - Proportionate number are constituted of Jewish boys who could not secure admission to an American . medical college. "Many of these boys are well above the average in intellectual prepara- tion, the capacity for consistent hard work, and the keen desire to study medicine. "Lest it be thought that a prospec- tive medical student, rejected again and again, is not likely timber for the profession, Dean Schwitalla's paper, delivered last winter, gives the verdict of the St- Louis University Medical College on such cases: the evidence is clear and unmistakable the so-called 'multi -applicants' furnish' not the worst but the most promising ma'erial on the basis of class stand- ing. grades, and general competence. Because a boy's name happens to be Greenblatt be experiences obstacles whih would not come his way did he bear an Anglo-Saxon name. "If the quota system in colleges and universities exists to prevent the do- minance by the Jew of the tone of the under -graduate life of the college, it ie out of place in a professional school, where the best competence and ability must be secured and trained, for the Public good. Discrimination can 'not be justified on grounds of common sense; why penalize society and the public weal by excluding keen- ly alertand intelligent possibilities ilities t from making their potential contribu- tions to the general good? "-The Jew is, of course, an indivi- dualist. "He tends to an originality and in- dependence which mystifies, baffles— and often flouts—the easy-going group action of typically non-Jewish soeietR But such individuali,m and instinc- tive independence are valuable assets in life—especially in the sientilie world, where all the sedulous train- ing of the student is designed to as- sist him to an independent and fresh view of evidence." Such discrimination, says Dr Gavin, makes for the development of al, those things against whip our religion is doing battle: embitterment of life, coutrlotion of personality, frustration of vocation cramping and paralysis of eapaolty, incentive and creative pow- ers. "It offends every principle or fairness. It flouts every canon of social integrity and honest dealing of man with man." But its evils do not stop here, and this is a point to be remembered: "The instances, momentous in num- ber and appalling in the aggregate, e where anti-Setnitisin operates in hos, tile discrimination against the Jew— ' socially, politically, economically, or culturally --'do the Jew less harm t (great as it is) than they do the non - Jew: The Mollification of principle and the release of evil instincts are corrosive and subversive of the es- sential qualities of Christianity. "The cripping and paralyzing effect of nun -Christian actions by alleged Christians vitiates the effective pow- er of their Faith in their lives. "How rim Jews ever reveect. or love the religion of ('hr.st:lare +vim rx- perirnee ie daily life euth n01 ,1'seen treatment from the protest followers of Christ?" TEN SHORT LAWS There are ten short laws to govern mankind and they all sum up like this —Play Fair. BEWARE OFCAR STRAIN When the ear le new do not seek to force speed as such action often places an undue strain which will prove injurious to the engine. A Green Layer Makes a Fat J ilyard. 10\ ''','—YoUt�+tlolvole, IT'S MOW muni me tiENCey CASA it You W`PeE. Ft 'SIG tt VAC JUDGC, 1S ii; I J YOU'RE-. 121611T. r; eualqucniT TAx DcPr. x. 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A Williamsport mast, harassed a good deal over making out his income tax return, finally hit upon a simple formula, which he now offers tree of charge to any who may be perplexed' in future. Re listed as dependents one wife, a sedan car, three goldfish and two children. Ile then mune- plied his grandfather's age by six and seven -eighths, subtracting his tole - phone number. Next he added the size of hie hat and subtracted the number of his ear. Atter these pro• ]iminaries, the rest etas easy. Dee ducting 91,000 for keeping his wife for the whole year,he divided the Ter ma]nder by the number of lodt.cy rte belonged to, Multiplied by the e`cetrio lights in the house, divided by {h f, size of his collar. This gave his gross in- come which after 'dividing, by !tie chest measurement and eiebtracting his automobile male age, gave the ti Jt amour, owed 0 the ,Government— Williamsport Pioneer, ,