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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1927-07-21, Page 7Thursday,July list, 1827 WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES s letSes elp ottaseh Corn uts _ Kello to eery "She on the just eat Flakes wand ice ) ,,�narntns �„ les late. e want!' biddies fta- w wonder wonderful. 4o 1 ti's'o ettogg�s • Hess. a� Kellogg's! r and crisp ilk or ere, Al. Uo a „utth rrt r honey. by. 'd add fruits o est. sola els,. d ad hotels,. of and easy' t, Served at 1 grocers. • On dint London, sip deb toLn on, Ye de by Kellogg.fxesh in Maio•, O+�ered.dndcannot Ontresales imitations ore ,lane package.tern er, fiao such wonder-flavor. ond t equal sae genuine! aviandth 1A coR F FS CORN- FLAKES 437- 4p$ and they had raiment put on theta that shone like gold. There were al- so those that meet them with harps and crowns and gave them to them; the harps to praise withal, and the crowns in token of honor. Then I heard in my dream that all the hells in the city rang again for joy, and that it was said unto them, `Enter ye into the joy of your Lord!' , . : Now, just as the gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after - them, and behold the city shone like the sun; the streets alsoi were paved with gold; and in them walked many men, with crowns on their heads and palms in their ,hands, and golden harps toing praises withal ..A Af- ter that, they shut up the gates which when. I had seen, I wished ;myself among them.,, This beautiful .passage recalling one of the, noblest descriptions ever writ- ten, that in Revelations 7, appealed'as.. might have been expected to the po- otic mind of Mr's. Gates. She wrote and sent her hymn to the evangelist some time in 1865, who writes that on receiving :ahem,— "I seated myself in my home with my little boy on my knee, and with Bunyan's immortal' zlream-book in my hand, and began to read the closing is, because of Goliath; doubtless the yilouttg shepherd did not, speak soab- ruptly, but we are given only the closing words of his address to the king. , Thy servant will go and fight With this Philistine. "Thy servant" shows Jaavid's humility in the midst of his confidence; it is as if he said, "It is my simple duty to do this as part of the ssrvice I owe to my king." And Saul said unto David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, 'There are two classes of people in this world, the Carets and the Cans, andDavid was one of the latter. For thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. Saul's servant had called David a valiant man of war, but the shepherd was much younger than ei- ther sail or Goliath, and hadhad no military training though he evidently had a 'soldierly bearing. And -David said unto Saul, Thy ser- vant' was keeping his father's sheep. David, taunted with being no warrior, did not 'hesitate to own that he was a shepherd, and not in charge of his own sheep but of his father's. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock, T went out after him, and smote him, A Successful Combat. And it came to pass, when the Phil istine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David. "Arose" does not im- ply that Goliath had been sitting. That David hastened and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. To- ward the Philistine army, David did not wait for Goliath to approach, but showed his courage by running to meet him. And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, • and slang it. And smote the Philistine in his forehead; and,the stone sank into his forehead. Some think that the giant, throwing back his head to laugh at. the onrushing sfripling, exposed his forehead td the missile, Others think that the flight of the pebble was so swift that it passed right through the giant's r bronze helmet, almost as a modern bullet would, And he fell up- on his face to the. earth. His posture showed that he was insensible; prob- ably he died instantly. So David prevailed over the Phil- istine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew. him. This is a summary of the en- tire ,,,„,„atory, n-tire,w,,,gtory, with the lesson to be drawn from it, namely, the power of God's champion to c6 iquer, even with the most unlikely, and : apparently in- adequate weapon. But there was no sword in the hand of David. Them David ran, and stood over the Philistine, . and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him. It was an added in- dignity that Goliath's own sword should be used to complete David's ttriumph, the sword with which the giant had so confidently expected to slay the young Hebrew. And cut off his head therewith. It would be a val- uable trophy of the great victory. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead', they fled. "Their champion" is literally "their mighty roan." scenes where Christian and Hopeful and delivered it out of his mouth. entered into the city, — wondering:Jacob, in giving to Laban an:account. at Bttnyan's rare genius, and like the' of his shepherding, mentions such ex- - dreamer of old, wishing myself am- ong therii, 11 David did. And "At this moment of inspiration, I turfed to my organ, with pencil in hand, and wrote the tune. The hymn seems to have had God's special blessing upon it from the, very be- ginning. One man writes me that he i,' 'd has led in the singing of - it at a hun dred and ten funerals. It was sung h at the funeral of. niy own dear boy, l h 1 t who had sat on my knee when I 1 wrote the'tune." Appropriately enotigb, Ira D. Sank- ey, whose frequent use of it at the ' Moody and Sankey services in various parts of the world won much of its. popularity for it, sang it over the dead body of Philip Phillips himself, at his funeral, in Fredonia, New York. The words are of .the simplest character, and it .would be easy to criticise them as poetry, or as a hyhi ,.._ivhich is \usually defined as a song of praise with payer to God, but they have proved their usefulness in revival meetings, in many a ser- vice, and in family gatherings about organ or piano on Sunday nights. And they do express the simple long- ings of many a Christian soul, while they may also quicken the faith of some, who are almost driven to des- pair of the future because of the fail- ures• and anxieties of this mortal - life. There are numbers of grand poet- ically conceived hymns. for the ad- vanced in grace and in educational advantages. We may well rejoice that crystal clear Hymns of a divine sim- plicity have also been written to, meet other needs,, and to round out our hymnbooks to'a glorious Catholicity suitable of all estates of men in'God's Holy' Church. THE HOME OF THE SOUL f 'I will sing you a song of that beauti- ful land, The far -away home of the soul, 'Where no storms ever beat on the glittering strand, While the years of eternity roll, 'Olt, that home 'of the soul; in my visions and dreams; Its bright jasper walls I can see, R, Till I fancy but thinly the vail in - j tervenes Between the fair' city and inc. That unchangeable home is for you / and for me, Wherei J ,. estts o f Nazareth stands; 'The Ding of all kingdoms forever is He, And He hol letli our croten in His With songs on our lips, .and with harps in our hands TO meet 'one another'again. Philip Phillips, a very well known singing United. States evangelist in the last century, author of Many tunes to gospel songs, tells us that he once sent an extract from Bun- yan's "Pilgrim's Progress," to Mrs. Ellett H. Gates, begging her to write him a hymn founded upon the 'pas-. sage, That lady, born Ellen Htintington, at Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.,. was a hymn -writer of, some note in her na- tive land, She is best remembered as the author of "Come Horne! Come Horne!", "If you cannot on the ocean", "0 the clanging bells, of time," and the hymn printed above, but wrote a fairly large slumber e, periences; but he did not come out of them so we as i d when he, arose against me,•I caught him. by his beard, and smote him, and. slew hint. The mention of the beard shows that' David was thinking es- pecially of the encounter with the lion, and presents: a ivi d picture of the young hero, so. fond of his sheep and so enraged against the ravening beast that he Leaped to the e c oses quarters with the savage amnia Thy- servant smote both the lion and the bear;, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them. This sentence indicates that David had had only two ofthese battles, one with a lion and one with a bear. Seeing he hath ,defied the armies of the living God.,/Since Goliath did not fear God,• David did not fear Goliath. And David said, Jehovah that de- livereth nae out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. - Literally "out of the paw of this Philistine," the same word just used of the lion and bear. Jehovah shall be with thee. Not "The Lord be with thee," a prayer, but "The Lord shall be with; thee," a confident statement of fact, springing from David's expression of firm re- liance upon Jehovah, the God of all just causes and the protector of their champions. A Brave Defiance. hands. j other sacred poems, i ,The extract ran as follows "Il'ow Girt how sweet will it be hi 'that , I saw in my dream that' these two beautiful land, . inen went in at the gate; and, lo, as ''So .free fom all sorrow and Pain,' j they entered, they were transfigured; !„ SUNDAY AFTERNOON July 24 DAVID AND GOLIATH -1 Sam. xi Golden Text—Jehovah is the strength of niy life; of whom shall I be afraid?-Ps..27:1, The Lesson in Its Setting. Time—B.C. 1073, David, being about nineteen years old. Place — Ephes-danunin, near Sho- choh, about sixteen miles southwest of jerusalem on the road to Gaza. A Brave Proposal. And . when the words were heard which David spake. David was so confident,‘ and inspired so . much con- fidence in others, that, in spite of much ridicule ,and the doubts cCausecl by his' youth and his small size/com- pared with Goliath, his bold words spread like wild fire, and hope arose that at last perhaps Israel's champ- ion had arisen, It had not been for- gotten howtwo young men, Jona- than and his armor -bearer, had once put the Philistines to flight, and the. pious among the Israelites knew well from their national history that Je- hovah' could use the weak to over- come the strong. They rehearsed them. before Saul, . They were faithful servants of the King, and knew that even so forlorn a hope as this might seem to be should neverthelessbe brought to his attention. And he sent for him, The history does not tell us why Saul did not himself go forth to meet Goliath; perhaps it was not thought best to risk tlic Icing's life in single combat; more than like- ly Saul was at that time in the midst of one of the .fits of profound mel- ancholy which came upon him more and more frequently in his later years and seemed to ;told him from all ac- tion. And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail ,because of hila. That EAST WAWANOSH COUNCIL T53 in bur.. Sol,., Gra;y ur'u scale packages. ing curtailed; by conditions well known to most feeders and with the demand for feeding cattle from the corn belt states becoming stronger each year, the Canadian west is find- ing no ` difficulty in disposingof all• its feeders to those markets. Ontario farmers . who consider themselves and, their farms adapted to finishing beef cattle will do well to study the business in its existing conditions. They will likely arrive at the conclusion that in order to main- tain their businesson a paying basis they must save their likely heifers and cows, use a well-bred beef type bull and thus make their own feeders. Present prices are tempting and too many good young heifers are finding their way . to market when they should be following their natural function of reproducing calves for fin- ishing as baby beef and bandy weight butcher cattle. The pure' -bred producers might well take a lesson here too, There are usually too many bulls for sale at prices that cannot be expected to realize profits for the breeder. It is better to use the knife more often and sell baby beeves at profitable re- turns than to beg buyers to accept young bull's that were never intended to make high class producers. Council met on July 8th, with all the members present. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. A communication was received from the Western University, asking the Council to provide a scholarship to assist young men and women from this municipality at that seat of learning. Received and ordered filed; T'he Treasurer presented his half - yearly statement to June 3oth., show- ing a balance on hand at that date of $2,197.43. As this amount would not be sufficient to finance the township along till the `taxes are forthcoming, a by-law was read and, passed povaering the Treasurer to borrow a further amount to meet the ordinary expenditure. . As the law "now demands that an inspector must be appointed to en- force the Weed Control Act, it was moved by Mr. Kerr, seconded by Mr. Stalker, that Joseph Chamney be appointed Weed Inspector, to be paid at the rate of 3o, cents an hour. Only one tender being received for the cleaning out of the south branch of the Hallahan drain, this matter was laid over till a future meeting. Moved by Mr. Stalker, seconded by Mr. Campbell,. that after deducting the expenses in connection with the Confederation services held on July 3rd, that the „balance be handed over to the Bible Society.—Carried. The following accounts were paid: The Blyth Standard, advertising, $i; C.O.F., Belgrave, hall rent, $40; A, Porterfield, rent of road allowance, $2; Municipal World, supplies, $io.gt; G. M. Robertson, grading, $113.75; G. Johnston, world on Harrison's hill, con. 6, $597.79; C. Caretr, patrolman, $69.25; J. Stonehouse, patrolman, $147; J. Vincent, patrolman, $26&70;' G. Wightman, patrolman, 176.63; G. Coultes, patrolman, $296.4o; S. Mc- Burney, patrolman, $230.75; T Rob- inson, patrolman, $286; W. McGill, patrolman, $222.38; J. McGill, patrol- man, $279,65; W. J. Cole, patrolman, $312.25; J. Gillespie, superintendent, $59.50, Council adjourned to meet again on Tuesday, August 9th. A. Porterfield, Clerk. A SUGGESTION TO BEEF • RAISERS And he took his staff in his This staff was not a shepherd's crook, but a stout walking stick which David proposed to use if he was forc- ed into hand-to-hand combat. "Thy rod and thy, staff, they comfort me." And •chose him five smooth stones out of the brook. This brook occu- pied a "valley within a valley" be- tween the two hillsides on which the opposing armies were encamped. And put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his wallet. The bag in which David placed the pebbles may have been his usual sling equip- ment, or it may have been his trav- elling scrip, used to carry his provi sions on the walk from Bethlehem. And his sling was in his hand. We are told in Judges 20:16 that the members of the tribe of Benjamin, just north of David's home, were so expert in the use of the sling that even a left-handed man could hit a hair with a stone shot by this weap- on. And he drew near to the Phil- istine. And the Philistine came on and. drew near unto David; The earth seemed almost to shake beneath the giant's ponderous tread. His massive armor glittered iii the sun. His great form towered over the bushes. The ;Philistines raised a mighty shout, as if they had already triumphed. And the ,man that.. bare the shield went before him. The shield, -bearer was an important .officer, attending leading soldiers and carrying the large shield with.wltich they protected their bod- ies while in combat, This shield alone must have been large enough totally to' hid` David,; And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him. With 'the : scorn that big men and stupid Bien ars likely to feel for small men and brilliant men—not : that the big men are necessarily stupid and small teen, necessarily brilliantl For he was but a youth. Goliathhad expected to be inch by the most ex- perienced and mature fighter in the ranks of the. Israelites, and here was a mere boy ;And ruddy, and 'withal of a fair countenance, He was not bronzed, as a warrior would be, by long exposure to the weather in arclu- ous marches, his face seamed by hardships and 'battered by" blows. MUST WAR ON WEEDS who have been less concerned about. weed control get busy and clean up on the weeds. Only by united action is there any hope' of exterminating the weed scourge, and to this etid the co-operation of every possible person is needed. We are no longer request- ed to war on weeds, we are now. compelled to do it, and town and township. officials should. see that the act is enforced. Make Ontario a land free of weeds, of valuable farms and attractive highways. We wish to draw the attention of farmers, and every owner and occu- pant of land, to the advertisements which are being published in these columns in regard to the extermina- tion of weeds. Under the provisions of the Weed Control Act of 1927, sow in force, the destruction of nox- ious weeds is, no longer optional, but is now compulsory. Every occupant of land and every owner of unoccu- pied land is required to destroy all noxious weeds before their seeds rip- en. Municipal councils are required to destroy all noxious weeds grow- ing upon the highways. According to the Department of Agriculture many million dollars worth of farm products are ruined' annually by weeds and it was through the pres- sure brought to bear on the Govern- ment by the Department that weed destruction has been made compul- sory. Thrifty farmers who have ben endeavoring to keep the weed ,pes under control will welcome this new law as it will make their neighbors SEND IN THE NEWS The editors of newspapers are of- ten blamed for partiality in their no- tices of churches,societies and fam- ilies, amilies, when the fact is the parties most interested are the ones to blame. Thenewspaper doesn't possess a suf- ficient force of reporters to send to every church service in the range of circulation, and it must needs depend on some person to send in the news. Many pastors or leaders of the con, gregation do this, and their items are gladly' printed, but the paper is found fault with by other churches who ne- glect to send in their notices and the charge of partiality is made. The ed- itor may belong to one ortwo of the societies in town and naturally hears all the news in reference to his par- ticular organizations, while the other societies, by keeping their items to themselves, miss the little mentions they would gladly receive. EAT LESS—WALK MORE (Renfrew Mercury) Of old it was said that people dig their graves with ,their teeth, and physicians today who write for the press confirm this ancient saw. Not only are people advised to eat less, but they are told, to chew their food carefully -to niasticate•it„,thoroughly. At the same time everybody is coun- selled to eat more in the way of green vegetables, on which some un- thinking people would fain have the Canadian Government impose a pro- hibitory customs tariff. On top of it all there is the councel for persons: engaged at sedantary occupations to take more exercise, and the exercise usually recommended is walking, which in,these days is almost a last art. Beef cattle raisers are realizing a period of better prices for their pro - duet. The price cycle has been a long time at the bottom of its normal curve but would appear to be on the up swing. Unfortunately, the inevit- able turn for the better has 'found many, farmers unpr'eparetl, to step in. and take advantage of the existing conditions: Feeder buyers are finding that the supply of feeding cattle for Ontario farms is limited. It has been posstbl; in past years to buy western' •'ock- crs and feeders in.,p,ltnost any gtsan- toty and of desirable equality. With the volume of the range cattle bw iness of the southwestern states be - 'ONTARIO Exterin.te ` ee Many million dollars worth of farm products are ruined annually by weeds. The loss in rental and sale value incurred by weed -infested farms is incalculable. The weed pestilence has be6ome intolerable. Exterminate weeds on every square foot of land on your own property, on unoccupied lots and farm lands, on every highway and lane, in city, town or country. WARNING Under the provisions of The Weed Con- trol Act 1927, now in force, the destruc- tion of noxious weeds is no longer optional. The destruction of noxious weeds is now compulsory. Every occupant of land and every owner of unoccupied land is required to destroy all noxious weeds before their seeds ripen. Municipal councils are required to destroy all noxious weeds growing upon the high; ways. Let everyone co-operate to end the weed nuisance; The Department of Agriculture Province of Ontario Parliament. Buildings, Toronto JOHN S. MARTIN W. B. ROADHOUSEHON. J DeputyMinister Ministerr �':4