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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-10-13, Page 3' TIdUiRSDIAY OCTOBER 13, 1932. THE SEAFORTH NEWS, THE CITY OF LEARNING; John Kjiox's l3 tion of I- ii it :Oanibte •s to Them " and Begins Which the Reformer Of the 'S'torn .t-1L'atcr, 'the Covenanters t and the These artcies were, .. sb to speak, /pregnant wiibh interes't, and recalled. •m'an'y :hisltoriea'l reminislcences Of stormy and cruel times, it was not for 'thes'e, hotwever, that I entered the }House, 'That chair to me was worth (them all because Knos' sat in. it, and that window through which the a's- sassin's bullet dame — and through whfoh Knlox issued late' one night ,when guarded by his friend's for fear ,of ass'assin'ation, and' sought the soli- tude of an"encl'dse'd' space in the, rear; one of his' foiend's fallowing him heard him three times in agonizing earnest- ness repeat the ,Words, "0, Lord, give. me 'Scotland, or I die." No wonder that the. English A'mbassador said *hat "Jlohn' Knox puts more life into him than six hiunld'red trumtpe'bs," 'when he was a ,man of such earnest- ness, and mo wonder that the un- fortunate Queen Mary sad that she ."was more afraid of the prayers' of !Jahn Knox than of an army of 14,- 000 men." We now retired from the building and 'took a view of the west front over which is the inscription,' '"Lufe Gad, Above Al, And . Your Neighbor as Yourself." Knox was .bur- ied in St, , Giles' Churchyard, alongside his friend, the "good Regent," as the Earl of Murray was called. The, newly appointed Regent Marton pronounc- ing the ever memorable words over .his body, "There lies John Knox, who .never feared' the face of man." We now passed' up High . street to St. Giles, entered Parliament Square, passed by the monument to that great and mighty Prince Charles I11., and soon stood on the grave of"one great- er and mightier than he or any of his race. All that marks the place .where the dust of the great Reform- er reposes are the letters, ""J. K., •15712," on the stone pavement, the stone being of somewhat different colour from those around it. It was difficult to understand, and still more difficult to describe my feelings upon this occasion. For the first time .in My life I felt as if I stood upon"holy .ground. A strange, solemn feeling crept over me. The stormy scenes of Scottish history passed rapidly' through my brain.. A grand panor- ama passed swiftly before rte. 'I saw an almost universal upheaval taking- 'place in the. world of thought. The nation's of the earth are rent, as it were, by the throes of volcanic dis- solution, the foundations of belief, which were supposed to .be laid deep down on the arerlasting rocks, are �''j'now tottering like the mountains Iwh'en aan earthquake is rending the globe. The times have came that tries men's souls, and, at such a time John Knox, like Moses of old, appears an bhe scene as a leader of Scottish people. He appears on the historic canvas as the first and greatest df the 'Scottish Reformers. Ndt like John the B'a'ptist, merely the forerunner • of a greater than he, before whome he must wane et the approach of the rising san. Knox is the sun itself, and all others in this. land are stars of. lesser mag- nitude, oom,pared to him. Through :him. the nation spoke and' the voice' of the people was .the voice of God," The ' oracle gave no uncertain sound. It /warned the tyrannical 'Stuart line that the sceptre was fast departing from them. They had been weighed in' the 'balances and were found' Wanting. ]S'o'on their - Kingdom would be given to a b.etbet dynasty:; in short "'The Lord' had done with thorn." As' Moses had led' the children of Israel out of the land' of Egylp't, so: died Knox lead his countrymen, and like him, he had 'the desert to pass, through, and died 'before be reached the promised land, for dark and cloudy days were to fol- low him—the days' when Charles Stu- """art "art reigned and 'Claverhouse cam- ,mand•ed. The canvas moves! The blue flag of Pres'byte'rianism is waving on the green mountain side, the perse outed ministers are preaching in the glens un:d'er• a cover of a friendly Scotch mist. Peden with a heavy price on his head is.giving out the words:..-; ""Thou art Imy •liidinlg'place, Thou shalt from trouble keep me free, And 'with slongs of deliverance About Shall compass me." And the music of Zion rises high up on the air, beside their own moun- tain stream. Richard Cameron and his tfew faithful followers having heard the sound of the horseman's, bridles through the darkness, are lying low in the heather or to use the language df the pont: Visit to' ouse—The De scrap' louse and Ar- ticlesd�-The Author IRefeA as "These Ar- ticl' n'' AT - ticks" with the Chair in Iran'er Sat—Re- view ny Tines of IK'n'o 'Persecution of the under Charles Stuart Cruel Claverhb,use, &c. For the horsemen :of 'Earlshall around them were hovering, CAi Rg, And their bridle rein's rung 'Vitro ulgh the thin misty covering." The combat deepens, the sky grows cllarleer, Providence seems to be .es- traitged, or, as Nalpo'leon would say, "on the side of the heaviest artillery," The troops have found then/ out and are galloping towardsthe small band of "praying ones" on the hill side. They are now face to face with de'at'h, but still "strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might," "Their Ifacels,grew Valle and their swords were unsheathed, Rut the ven'geanloe 'that darkein:edl thieir;b'riolw was unlbreaihed; With eye's ,turned Ito 'heaven in calm resignation, •iTlhey s'an'g 'their last song to .the God Of salvation. IThe Ihullls with the.deep mournful ',music (were ringing, 'The curlew and plover in concern were s'inging, ,But the 'melody died, m+id'deriision and laughter, As !the host io'f ungo'dl'y rushed mit the slaughter. 'Though lin ami'sai and ain d'arkn'ess' and fire they were shrouded' Met the Mills 'o'f the ri'ghlteou:s' were :calm and tinlclbud'ed. Their dark eyes flashed lightning, a's'firm and unbending 'They stood' like :the ',oak ,which (the (thunder rending, The mulskets were 'flashing, the • 'b'l'ue swords 'were gleaming, 'The !helmets were 'olett, and 't'hd red !blood was streaming, ;The• hhelavens grew dark, and the. thunder .was rolling, 'When in IWe'll'wood"s 'dark Muir. lands 'the Mighty :were falling. IThe'se scenes fleshed through my brain with the 'speed of lightning. I was ,gating through the veil ;which hid the dim misty past, but for the time, the pidture to tyre was a real one; the historic panioram!a Was there, the scenes c'han'ging rapidly by the swift- est of all powers -the . power of thought. I' saw, the best. of Scotia's sons hunted like partridges on the nnountains by the cruel •Claverhousey or hiding like wild beasts in the dens and caves . of bhe earth, while the nobles treacherous as usual ,were plotting against e'ac'h :other and against the weak monarch, who unfortunate- ly filled the throne. All this was photographed vividly upon the Can- vas of my imagination, as if by some magic power, as I stood on John 1Knox's grave. Then, "I had a dream which was not all a dream,"'I looked upwards bolwards 'the everlasting mountains, and I beheld the guardian genius Which has presided over this mountain land during the dayswhen clouds' and • darkness . were round about her, as well as the days when the sunlight of prosperity bathed her hill tops with glory, .I saw her de- scend throughthe mist which had now settled• dawn upon the ancient capital, and waving her enchanting wand over the Parliament buildings, where the Scottish nobles often met to quarrel and plot against each other, end' over that grand old Cathedr'a'l 'where Knox had often ;exhonted' his countrymen, "to know God and his work in Scotland, and to stand by the gude ca'u'se," descending toward's the grave of the Scottish Reformer, on whose dust I was standing, and passing by the great and noble of the past, the immortal Bruce, the .d'auntless Wallace, the Stuart dyn- asty, witih - their "divine right of Kings," and all. She lowered •hertwand over the grave of the good old man who is toaday without a monument, except that his memory is fresh and green: in the h'e'arts of his country- men, and in tones sweet as 'those oaf the Eo.lian harp, but still penetrating as the native music of the country. A .voice which penetrated every nook and earner in "High Dunedin," said in tones that thrilled the hearts "Ver- ily, verily, I say unto you, of those that have been born of women," there hath not arisen in this moun- tain land,. a greater, nor abetter •man, than the eloquent, earnest, s'taunch re* 'farmer, John Knox. 41Twars. /the :few Ifatltlifrui ones who with 'Cameron were lying, lColnieSalled ''mlomg 'the nnist 'where the heath, fowl were 'crying, 4 4,447 •A•DO'PTiED MY WEALTHY WIDOW AT BAYFIE:LD. II -Topping back from .OS'hawa and Toronto via autogyro to London and 'thence to Bayfilelid in his huge and racy roadster, Malj'o'r Oliver Gold- thorpe struck his lake'sh'ore hionne with the annrounrlcaitnenit that his recent gun drouable's have :been taken direct Re the attorney -general' at Toronto. Locked in,: a case (he%ld in the office of Police Magistrate Chas, A. Reid are Go'ld- thorpe's twenty .guns, variously val- ued at between $11,000 and $1,500. But at home in B'aylfie'ld in his luxuriously Burnished study, he retains same rem- nants of the collection which he claims he has gathered' from: the four 'corners of 'the globe. They include a IGernean machine gun as ready for ac- tion as the day he took it 'single- hanlded on Vi'my Ridge, and the bar- rels of a $1,200 Glenna', Krupp • gold mounted shotgun, Major Goldthorpe has a history/ that reads like the dreams of the fairies, 'Thirty-six years ago be was b'oris on the outskirts 'of ,Goderi:ch the son of Allbent Gold- thorpe, a well-to-ido fartnler who to- day is reev'e o'f the township of Col- borne. Reeve Goldthorpe I c l i s is a promi- nent Conservative, aniember of the criminal audit board of Huron county,� and a member also, of the special o-efg Con mi:ssioit now engaged by the county i investigating alleged., excessive cost the administration of justice in Huron Co ttl:ty, "7: was at the 'school of_practi'ca science in Toronto intending to' be 'come an engineer when the war brok out," the major told' The Star at hi home, He 'sat at Ibhrealefast in ,the li Mg room, canpeited with oriental ru and enriched with lovely antique fern lone. The maid tip -toed, back and forth carrying his light breakfast. Hesmoked) as he spoke reluctantly, at 'first, it seemed. As he dra'in'ed the coffee cup his toe pressed somiuswherle in the rug and the :maid, in answer to .the signal, reappeared. ' I enlisted io, 119;1'4 and i,n Janu- ary 1913 Heft St. John, N, B„• on the Missinalbie with, a thousand' others. She was sunk by a torpedo on her next trip.” IWiibh incl I'mlIperial. artiilery he served in Trance, Regains, Egypt, Africa and back again to bhe west front till hle was mustered out in !Garoad'a in 169119. He came .b.backto Go- id'erilch and took a job in M'dEwees garage. One summer evening Mrs. 1lkl n Stott, wealthywealthy'Detnoit widow, sat on the veranda of the Bedford hotel, As a car flashed past a child ran before it. Death seemed certain Inc the oh lid' when the d•ri tier, regard'- less of 'his awn safety, w'hee'led the machine like a bucking broncho and saved 'her' by a hair's breadth.breadth.'Mrs. Stott, thrilled by his ready 'thinking,. inquired about him. She was then .living at her Baylfielad hoame, twelve miles down the 'l'at'e shore, attended 'by a private secretary and a retinue of servants, All she lacked, was.a chauffeur. Goldthorpe was engaged in' that cap'a'city. L'alter ']'Drs. StottStottlegially adopted pian as her own son, ]Hence he ,calls her mother. AEverylbody around Godari'c'h semis. agreed on the view that Goldthorpe is a likeable fellow, without a mean streak in him,; with. a `great capacity for lavlis'h spending and, with a soul for celebration that has given hint a great collection of acquaintances in scattered cities in America and Eur- ope. Fiore big anton'dbile's p'ark'ed arottnit thesummer home at 'B'aylfield tell part'' of the story. Here a tin sedan, There .a big cream coupe u,p- holstered'.in pigskin that used to carry' a' $1'0;2'00 price tag in its sales - roam. A little spee'd'ster in the offing. ISiticking out from the rest is a white 'heavy . raadster, a lithe thing, with . a :Ducsereberg motor, Goldbhorple- has "had it rolling 104 miles an hour." In the mouth afthe. ,B'aylfield river is his boathouse. To -day it 'covered his speed laun'ch, powered by a motor the had built tip ander his own super- vision. It turns up 400 horsepower and shoots the launch around, the lake at better than 50 miles an hour. :During the past couple of days he poured 1170 gallows of gasoline through its insatiable tank, scouring the shore'l'ine for the body of hs and Bayfield neighbor, Eric Chapman, who, with two other Lon - dopers, .went down in an 'attempt to sai'l a 30 -foot open •boat, to the Harms- worth races. One of Gol'd,bhorpe's proudest pos- sessions is his German ma'chine gun. It is a battered, punctured and re- conditioned' relic of No Man's Land. (Goldthorpe sparkles when she loosens up for a moment on his w'ar-time re- collections: With'muscles tense, and eyes flashing he whi'plp'e'd a sword front its 'sheath and wielded it like someone who `could mean business. "It wa's' read to: the 7vilit when that happened," be said, as he pointed to the, tip broken off." That was an inter- lude to the, story of the Geran'an gun. had been Up on olbseraation duty with the infantry at Vimy Ridge," he' said. "Anal weavt over toward this gun.. There were,still three Germans ion It when we 'came up. I gave .them a, Mills 'bamub . and two went out. I one occasion,' he was seri't to East N.' H. vtills at the 1WJA. meeting.. The Africa, only to be takep ill with ladies of the, three, cctt'gregations of malaria, Invalided ,back to Eeglaud, the parish, Sit. Jiarnes, Middleton, St. he was soon ready for service again,: fiolhn's,. Varna an'd'Trinity, served din- e,: and he elected to :take his place with'nor in:: the basement (of Knox Church. his old }cattery cm the west front, The afternoon meeting e b .P ted withof A humorous story is told' by Gold-; the Litany, followed' by a hymn and t'h'orpe of one of his west front 'ex- dev'ationalexercises in charge of . the •p'.aicn'ces, "We had been after 'Fritz rural dean, 'Fite Rev. R. 15, Jones was a1 pretty strong," he said, "and had one of the speakers at this session. posited hint back. I found myself His subject was "Meditation," and he e 'chasing,two Germans who /tan' dwelt on the words of the 23rd a tthr'ough the basement of an old Psalm, "When eve meditate on the :church: I fired nearly fifty pistol words' Of this psalm we cannolt help gs shots at the pair, but I was so tired 'feeling a spiritual buoyancy in re- float running around after them that gard to life in these words. We must not a bullet‘touched them, Finally, ask ourselves, 'Are we carrying our while I was searching in. the b'a'se-' religion, or is our religion carrying g mend for them, I learned they had us ?" Our Bible contains Many 'neap- escaped. When I got out they were ings to bhe word sin. It sometimes four h undred yards arway 'laughing at :moansa missing of 'the mark or a me. The fast sight .I oaught of thein 'passing over the line, lilan refuses to was when one turned aocl thumbed 'fallow the straight road' mad ' takes. his nose at me," some line of his own; this is sin," The Soulvemirs came from all this ex- s'peake'r 'went ori to, say that shin, may perience, These are, the things he be found in a ,false harmony, discord .cherishes ar'oirnd his Rayffi!eld home in the houos!e 'life or away from Monne: today. He 'does mat put a money "We must meditate on this oon'diti'on Value on his curios, though in the and feel the need of ,conversion, which fish held at the magistrate's office means a a turning around, ootnan:g out are plenty of substantial cash value,. of darkness to light, In g or a s St. Jcihrt The most prized of that lot is the stated, being born again: We are our - gold 'maturated shotgun, a beautifully selvles esse'nti'al spirits and we are here Nand -made and hand-dbched piece. to do good. For his game .guns he has telescopic A very inspiringiris address was given rsights up to six magnifications. Just ty Miss Schulte. She c'ho'se as her n'ow aeroplanes are his paramount theme "What are the Mission Fields, Iholb'by. As is spen'din'g naany :days at and Who are 'the Mis'sion'aries?" The London airport flying regularly on hits fields are ripe to h'a'rvest , but the awn commercial pilolt's license, anti ;ta'blorers are few. Our 'Lord said, 'Be- taking trips with what haplpens along gin here at Jerusalem.' Any of us In that w'ay he made the autogyro need not go ,far to hear the call. I'f tlfght tb Olshaw'a avid, back at dawn. we look out into our Own parish, we Gol'dthorpe's other hob''byis d'o'gs as can see the need and it is there we Pets and oamlpan'i'ons. Three of thein can satisfy the ability of Most of us." a German police'dio:g he brought from Mists. Schulte 'b'rought oat the . fact Germany, an Irish terrier and a that many are forgetting- the call at siprinlge:r spaniel -frisked .around, him 'oarr 'own 'door to see 'the wider .call. on the l'a'wn and begged for a gaine 'We as a people do not rise to r!e- tviibh' arubber ball. sponsnbi:li'ty. The leadership , of our {sa^ own ohuec'h should be emelt as :to ap- peal to each and all of us. The great problem of the church today is the "teen" 'age of the 'Sch'o'ol.We should bring to them a knowledge of re- sp'onsibility and: try to guide •them. by our example, by being en:thusi- astie and by ,emphasizing the spirit- ual part in our A. Y. IP. A. and vari- ous churoh organization. The spirit- ual side should always be combined with the material," Rev. R. J. Bowen in a very hum- orous and pleasing manner, spoke on the actual work in mission fl lis. IRev. W. A..Tovenalreid' spoke next. on the.AY,P.A,'•s Work. He said that "The A.Y2P.•A, is . a child df . the Dio- cese of Hunan and he felt it one of shot the third and kept the gun. I't's mine." Again as he showed The Star a trench periscope and an eighteen - power pair of binoculars front his nallection of war souvenirs, he was re- minded of another in'ci'dent. "I was ,a captain in the 262nd' Imperial's," .h'e said. 'The Germans were pressing us very hard. Our battery went into the fight with :2'60 men and. only seventeen were.: still alive. I was on tfiethird gun, firing into them` with level bar- rels as close as the ,gate." ' 01 -le point- ed a .coulple of hundred yard's alcro'ss the lawn). 'Finally only myself and Murphy, an Iri'shmran, were telt We, were driven back but were keplt in action for two .weeks, longer, I had a beard when we came out." IIn his tenlipie is a hard lump of shrapnel. ,Seventeen times he said he was wounded three times decorat- ed. Three tim'els he crashed with 'aerolplanes. Once his pilot was killed alt, ;the :controls an'd the . machine swept into the 'shattered remnant of a tree. He was pitched lout to the Igr!ound, but tame back c still ready for service, Cleared from hospital on HURON DIEANERY. The semi-annualconvention of •the deanery of. Huron was ,held in Bayfield on Thursday. The morning session commenced' at 14 o'clock with the service of Holy Communion in Trine ity Church at which the celebrant was the rural dean, Rev. F. H. Paull, a's'sisted by Rev. K.McGloun of 'Clin- ton, Following this service the Dean- ery Chapter met and discussed mat- ters of busin'es's pertainiulg to the :deanery. The W. A, of Huron Dean- ery mot. at. 11 o'clock in I{nox. Pres- byterian' Church, with the presiden't, 'Mrs. F, H, Paull, in the chair. The meeting was addressed Iby Miss Lena Schulte of London, ` the newly -elect- ed diocesan Dorcas secretary. After giving a 'brief review of the history of the W. A., Miss Schulte dealt with several problems of the work of the present day. She rem'ind'ed her hearers that money is net the only gilt +we have to .offer to the Master, but there are our talents and our lives as well. "The W. A. is one society winch can use all ,these .gift's through its various Iform:s of activity." After the address a distcussion period on Dorcas work foll'owe'd', during which Miss Schulte gave .the meeting niany hel'p.fu'l sug- gelstous. /fid -'day :prayers were tak- en by Rev. E. I-Iaye's at the meeting of the deain,ery chapter and by Rev. J. 'problem he felt was to incorporate Phone 334 Seaforth, Ont, the greatest contribubibns sin'c'e the church came into ,being. Clergymen felt the /need of combining the .Young People into one ,great body • and in June,' 1903, through the combined ef- forts of Canon ;Brown and Archbishop D'avi'd Williams 'the A.YJPJA. extends from coast to coast and a': vast number of young people are united in this great organizistion whose motto .is "For Christ and. the Church," It is very significant that the spiritual life is being deeply enriched. The sapeaker 'felt that this organization' was a ,great bridge to connect the Sunday School and the Church.' It holds the Young PAGE THREE, g ■mr' NO MORE PILES How to End : Painful Piles/ Without Salves or Cut -ting It takes only one bottle of Dr. J, 5. ,Le onhardt's prescription —.IIIEM- 'R!OIIID to prove how easy it is 10 end: 'itching, bleeding or protruding piles. This internal remedy acts quickly even in old, ,:stubborn cases. HIEM- ARIOIIID succeeds becattse it heals- and restores the affected parts and drives out the thick impure blood in the low- er bowel—the cause 02 piles. Only an internal medicine can d'o this,: ,that's' Why salves and suppositories fail. Chas, Aberhart and druggists' 'every-, where sell IIIE'M-IRJO'I'D Talblets' with guarantee of money back if they do not end all Pile misery, the young people into the fabric Of the church, He felt thiat if the youth were obtained ia the " 'teen" age they were secured for all time. He brought before those present that alt the age the yodhng peolpie a're so 'full: of energy, pep and. viae, which can.. not :be ,suppressed and it is at this :time that many ";Enid wrong chan'ne'ls. The chief thing to make a success of the local lbraet h is to have a definite aim. }Tlhe three principle should be used to build up the worship of God in' the parish and, he felt it necessary to bring Nome to each the great resap'on- sibililbies. He felt that leaders and members of the executive should be chosen with greatest care for he felt that as the leaders and executive, so is the 'A.Y.IP.JA. Following his address he answered gudsltions pertaining; to A. Y. P. A. work. Among other Mo- tions in the period which follotwed We're motions of thanks to the speak- ers, to the Indies of the three congre- gations off the p'aris'h and .to the con- gregation of Knox Presbyterian Church for use of their church on this o'doasion. 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