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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1931-07-16, Page 2AGS, TWO TIM WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Thurslay, July 9th, 1931 i,m„nmcmuum(Iipummm,mpsinutI q,c,,,,,mmtq,„mcm,i I FAVORITE HYMNS Sing to the Lord the children"s hymn His gentle love declare, • Who bends amid the Seraphim o hear the children's prayer. He at a mother's breast was fed, Though God's own Son was He; He learnt the first small words He said At a meek mother's knee. Close to His loving heart He press'd The children of the earth; He lifted up His hands and bless'd The babes of human birth. Lot from the stars His face will turn On us with glances mild ; The Angels of His presence yearn To bless the little child. Keep us, 0 Jesus, Lord; for Thee, That so, by Thy dear grace, We, children of the font, may see Our heav my Father's face: This pretty little children's hymn as written by the Reverend R. S. Hawker, M.A., Vicar of Morwenstow, Cornwall, Eng,, one of the most am - using, whimsical, ;and in many ways cleverest hien of his day. He was especially fond of children and kind to all dumb creatures. So attached poem ''Child Jesus, a, Cornish Carol," is one of those foupd in some of our collections. of Carols and occasional- ly in hymnals among children's hymns. Our hymn reproduced herewith, has fared better that most of . Dr. Hawker's hymns and still find a place in our hymnals; as it 'well deserves. A sweeter little Christian song for the lips of children with just the right amount of doctrinal teaching for their young minds to assimilate, it might not be easy to find. In his latter 'years Dr. Hawker's mind began to give way, and unfor- tunately perhaps for his reputation, he refused to, leave his pastoral charge of Morwenstow, even when insanity was near if not indeed a reality. He died almost neglected on August 1878, and was said to have been received into the Roman Cath- olic Church in his last moments, al- though some refused to, believe that * consciously done so. he had really, His friends collected all the data relating to his life speedily as Poss- ible and sent them to the Rev. Sa- a bine Baring Gould, well-known as the author of the great marching hymn, "Onward; Christian Soldiers,' and other hymns, who was one of the readiest writers in the country. The. result was a book "The Vicar of Mor- wenstow," which won an immense circulation and , carried Dr, Hawker s name and fame as far as the English language was used. But perhaps the fairest memorial were his animals to him, that one 'af the: Sunday in summer a < favorite sow, whimsical lover of little child- ren, of dumb animals and of man- hearing his voice, trotted up to the f kind in general, Robert Stephen open door and followed by her brood ref piglets trotted up the aisle , of his church during evening service, to get near to her master. His cats, a round dozen of them, regularly made their way into church, Hawker, writer, poet, and preacher is our sweet little hymn, which is like- ly to have a long existence in the chief hymnals of our language. The well-known tune "Nativity," by the modern composer H. Lahee is and patiently awaited the time when' suggested for our hymn in the 1904 they aright accompany him home to Edition of Hymns Ancient and Mod - the vicarage. 'Were there not clean ern. and unclean animals too in Noah's Ark?" he would 'playfully ask when visitors wondered at their presence in church. One of the animals in- clined to bad ' behavior he called Ju- das Escariot, because it was assuredly the bad ane amongstthe twelve, he insisted. Most natural of men, he once am- azed his congregation by bursting out. into a hearty laugh in the midst of his sermon one day. A milk -maid re- turning from her milking with the or- dinary wooden pail upon her head, as was the custom in Cornwall and in Wales, had paused at the open door of the church to catch a bit of the preaching and while there, the bottom of the pailgave way, and the wooden thing slipped down on to her should- . ers, her whole body being drenched with new ';milk! Full as he was of humor and ec- centric too, he was gravely beloved by his people, being blest with a lov- ing . sympathetic soul, so that what appeared quaint or peculiar to visi- tors to his church—and 'the fame of. him as a preacher and poet brought many to its services—passed as no- thing out of the ordinary to then. He was devoted to , Cornwall and its people, and in preserving its songs and folklore, learnt to compose songs of his own for there. His published books of poetry gave these a wider circulation than had been expected, and some of his ballads especially the '"Tre, Poll and Pen," one about Tre- lawny, achieved a nation-wide popu- larity. Among his other ',poems, especially. in his bdok "Ecclesia" were to be found, a number of original hymns, many of them in unfamiliar metres to suit ancient tunes, well-known ' to the exceedingly musical Cornish peo- ple. He alsowrote a number of car- ols, but whether they were all orig- inals, or old ones rescued from ob- livion by being taken down from the lips of elderly persons in lois parish, he never told us. "Welcome, that enny ways. Wensday--Ant Emmy got a letter faun her neece .witch gradgiated this munth and she sed she got a job all reddy teething Shakespeer nes year. Ant Emmy laffed and sed. Well thats, 1 on me I thot all the time Shake - speer was dead. Thirsday—At the lou fate tonite evry place I. went and began to tawk evry body wood laff and I' was pritty tickled with myself and then when 1 gat home I found my, shurt was a sticking out. Witch was mayby what they was a laffing about and mayby tawk didnt nock them so ded as 1. thot: SLAT'S DIARY By Ross Farquhar Friday—Mr been haveing and Mrs Ember have a grate time getting marryed and then devorced agen from each another. After they had ben marryed a few inunths he left her on acct he sed her cooking was give- ing him cronick indigeschen.' Last weak she sent him wird she had lernt to cook and they went and got mar- ryed agen. But yesterday he Ieft her agen so I gess she dident lern so mutch after all was sed an done. Saterday — Pa is offly hard to please. the either day I herd him say the garrage needed painting badly so today I got holt of some paint and begin to paint it. then he comes home and gives the a lamming for doing sutchy bad pob. I painted it badly but still he wvassent suited. Sunday—The Sunday skool teecher ast Jake today who was it felt so bad when Absolum got cot by the wile he was a rideing hors hare while g horse back. and Jake" se it must of ben Ab - solum he gess. Anyhow he sed Ab dident feel so good, he expeck. Munday — I seen Jane today and she give me back the pin I' had gave her last Easter and I sed Who is the other fella and she sed it was Slippry Huff so I went to see SIippry and sold him the pin. Teusday— Ant Emmy got a tele- gram frim her brother Ike today but she sed she; was sure sum 1 was a try- ing to fool her and put 1 over on her becuz she new Ike neer had a tipe star in Judah`s sky,"' taken from his writer and cuddent use 1 if he had it THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LESSON III—JULY 19 Social Service in the Early Church. Acts 4:32-35; 6: 1-4; 2nd Cor. 9: 1-7. Golden Text.—He Himself said, It is more blessed to give than to re- ceive.—Acts . 20;35. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING. Time and Place.—Appointment of deacons, Jerusalem, about A.D. 35: Dorcas raised from the dead, Joppa, aboat A.D. 40. Paul's second ` letter to the Corinthians, A.D. 57, from some city of Macedonia, probably Phillippi. ALL THINGS COMMON. And the multitude of them that believed. At least five thousand men by this time, and we are not told how many women. Were of one heart, and soul. Belief in Christ brings peo- ple together; it is the one essential of spiritual union. And not one of them said aught of the things which he possessed was his own. He had possessions., but so deeply did he love his brethren that he did not regard them. as his but as theirs, so far as any of them was in need. But they had all things common. The princi- ple involved is a permanent one, and may be stated as follows:, The Chris- tion should holdall that he ,las sub- ject to the calls of Christ, and the maansmaaniaismainummumemanammumme Maitland Creamery 1- BUYERSOF I CREAM —AND a a 1 ■ GGSa ...Cali a or prices... I IE UNITED 1 FARMERS' CO..OPERATIVE �l OhAy� p 1 D. l\ .7t. �!1�.I�RTF.e t!k 'In M i nto a ail P h on 42 Il alio. Here and Tk re The zoo at Toledo, Ohio. has se- cured a mammoth sturgeon captur- ed in I nice St. Clair, Canada. The fish weighted 239-pobnds and was sold to Toledo. for '$100. Feeding bees on sugar and milk at the Government Experimental Farm at Agassiz, B.C., has resulted in an average of 23 pounds more honey than on ordinary diet. This. may mean a further impetus to Canadian honey production. Capital amounting to $600,000,000 is invested in the development of 13,000,000 horse power electrical energy in the province of Quebec. Throughout Canada electric power development investments total . $1,- 400,000,000. East and west of Suez as also in London, Berlin, Paris and other famous centres, canned and frozen salmon from British Columbia was successfully marketed last year. Most of the shipments went from Victoria. Monday, August 10, has been offi- cially ffscially set as the opening date of the fourth "Buyers' Week" to be held in Montreal. The first Buyers' Week brought 251 buyers from all over the continent to Montreal; the third brought 1,100 buyers, indicat- ing the growing success of the plan. Individual holders of Canadian Pacific Railway . common stock num- bered 21,186 on September 2, 1930, and by the 1st June, 1931,' there were 34,872 holders, an increase of 13,686. This shows the growing popularity of this stock since its split into four new shares for one of the, old stock. linty of all peoples who live on the shores of the Pacific was the object behind the recent visit to British Columbia and Alaska of the Portland, Ore., Chamber of 'Com- merce who took a seven-day cruise on board Canadian Pacific steamer Princess Charlotte in northern waters. Completing a coast-to-coast holi- day trip, Viscount Duncannon, son of Canada's Governor-General, the Earl of Bessborough, and his cousin, the on. Arthur Ponsonby,. arced in Vancouver over Canadian Pacific Lines from the east recently. They went on to a six-day trip of British Columbia waters aboard S.S. Princess MagMM;nna» Ladies ' evidently alstt prefer blondes, judging by the decision t f the Alpha Delta Pi sorority who elected Miss Margaret .Jensen, blonde beauty of Bunter College, New York, as the sisterhood's most beautiful bathing girl at the con- vection recexttly held at the Cha- teau Lake. 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Seett vide appn'ntod •,.alierinteitdent -with liwrxrliauarters st 21trotito. needs of his church. And with great power gave the ap- ostles their witness of the resurrec- tion of the Lord Jesus. "It has been often observed, since then that when unity and liberality prevail in a con- gregation the preaching bas greater power because . of its greater favor with the people; whereas, in the ab- sence of unity and liberality, the most; forcible preaching often fails of vis- ible results." And great grace was upon them all. "That is, the apos- tles were pleasing and acceptable to all." For neither was there among them any that lacked. This is the reason for the favor in which ,the Christians v�ere held, For as many as were pos- sessors of I:atids or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold. The imperfect tenses in the Greek imply that it was not a general sale. of all the real estate owned by the Jerusalem Christians, but a continuous process. ainst the Hebrews. "The Grecian Jews" were the Jewish members of the church who spoke the Greek lan- guage. The other party "the 'He- brews, were the Palestine Jews, who spoke the .:Syro-Chaldaic, or Aram- aean." Because their:widows were ne- glected in the daily ministration: The widows who spoke ' Greek thought they did not have their share of the money and food that were given away, and their friends complained to the apostles about it. Now it may be that they did have their share, but did not understand that they did; and perhaps they did not; we cannot tell now. And the twelve called the multi- tude of the disciples unto them. The church must be above suspicion of any wrongdoing, and all complaints against its leaders and members should be investigated promptly and fully; and if any wrong is discovered, it should be set right at once. And said, It is not fit that we should for- sake the Word of God. That is, the "n teaching and preaching of the great truths revealed by God through his Son. And serve tables. This "may refer to the distribution either of food (as it Acts 16:84) or of money (Matt, 21:12)." Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you. seven. Hien of good report. A' man's reputation has much to do with his influence, and no one can afford to be careless regarding it. Full of the Spirit and of wisdom. Letno one despise the humbler Christian services, the taking of the the furnace collection, the ,care of t , the sweeping of the floors. They, as Well as the sermons and the anthems, ieOuire the Holy Spirit, the divine And laid them at the apostles' feet. The apostles were the leaders of the church, and received the church funds in. their representative capacity, And distribution was made unto each, ac- cording c cording as any one had need. Here we have the beginnings of chnrch or- ganitation. THE FIRST DEACON'S. Now in these days. The days of-. ter the release of the apostles des- cribed in the preceding chapter, and their eontiuued bold preaching of the gospel. When the number of the dis- ciple was multiplying. All teaching and preaehiag that is of this sort is sure of of the teettlts. There arose 5 murmuring of the Grecian Jews ag. wisdom. Whom we may appoint ov- er this business. If the selection had been made by the apostles, their choice might have been thought,like- ly to repeat the favoring of the He- brew widows. But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word. Prayer is the power behind all Christian work, as every Sunday school teacher must constantly bear in mind. DORCAS THE HELPER. For as touching the ministeringof the saints. This was a contribution for the poor, Christians of Jerusalem, which Paul was collecting from the Gentile churches which he had found- ed. His purpose was two -fold: be- cause the persecutions had placed the mother church in dire need, and in order to prove to the Jewish enemies of the Gentile mission that the heart of the. Gentile ehurehes was with the Jewish 'Christians. It is superfluous for me to write to you. It was un- necessary for hint to urge the general. pian to which they had d heartily as- sented long ago; all he needed now to plead for a prompt completion of the promised gifts. For I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia. Patti was probably in Philippi at the time of writing, the Macedonian city where Paul had first established Christianity in Europe. He had come there from Ephesus, from which he was driven by the mob, and was on his way to Corinth, That Achaia (southern G.reeee, of which Corinth was a leaditig city) hath been prepared kr a year pest, Praise, when it can honestly be giv- ,en, is ate of the most effective promptings to good works, and a matt so tactful as Paul is certain to use it. And your zeal hath stirred up very many of them. Christian leaders are right in using this prin- ciple to commend good causes and to stimulate generosity. For this reason the most humble and retiring Chris- tians often give openly, in order to set a good example and make known their practical belief in the effort un- der way, But I have sent the brethren, Tit- us and two unnamed companions; one of them may have been Luke. That our glorifying on your behalf may not be void in this respect. That the Corinthian -church • may measure up to the high reputation for gener- osity which Paul had given them. That even as I said, ye may be pre- pared. The apostle was anxious that their completed gift should not fall behind the expectations of the other churches, Ile perhaps feared that the, discord itt the church there might have dampened their zeal for giving. Lest by any means, if there come With the any of Macedonia. Paul seldom travelled alone, probably on . account of his poor eyesight esi ht and the generally poor health which rendered the attendance of Dr. Luke so useful to him. And find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to sharee in this confidence. '"We, have another inetailte here of whaie5 we might call the gentleniattly in - alum of the apostle," yAutomotive , I3uilding' Building, world slarg- est ar . 1 g- est and finest motor show structure, will display advance models of the 1922 motor stirs and •autotnotfve pro ducts at the Canadiaat. National Ex- hibition, August 28' to September; 12.