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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1927-12-29, Page 7ey, e e 'i tuber ti}tla, e•9 "! ak ave 1 c ay Da m if you do this,,the savings .. frafromyoiyour�rt�cluctive years will later on provide you with; an income. We will add interest for you and compound it half- yearly, alfyearly. Established 1871 A CRASH WILL COME A word of caution on speculation was given investors by Mr. A. E. .,r Phipps, General Manager ofi.the Im- perial Bank, the other day, at ;the annual meeting of the shareholders. In speaking of the stisfactory financial conditions lexistitig through- out Canada with the earnings of the Banks well up to the average, with tosses lighter than they:i have been for a number of years past, he said; "I see nothing to suggest that the present favorable state of affairs will not continue for another year and perhaps for several years to come. There is one element, however, in the situation which might easily become dangerous. I refer to the unlimited amount of speculation: that is going on in stocks and shares of every de- scription. To my mind, it is a boom that is taking place,` sand, just like other boonis, those who are engaged, in braying those kind of securities are buying them, not because they want them, or because they think they are worth what they are paying for theme but because they think that somebody else 'twill pay them more for the same ;,ecurities tomorrow, or next week. 1,his will only go on ar, and ivlre'elle apex has' been if the Oration follows the ser i$ooms, everybody will t once, and there is uble will develop for ks, as • tzell as the public. For t, althotigh-4A,are quite will-, ' f BARNYAR 132 A. M. BISHOP Manager Wingharn Branch ing to assist legitimate investment, and even in worthy cases moderate speculation, we are doing everything we can to restrain and control the situation, and I be eve that my col- leagues in the .other banks are fol- lowing a similar course." SMILE THE WHILE YOU • 'y.TRAVEL The "Vancouver Express" es by no means 'a joie, but you cannot help. smiling when its porters hand your baggage down because the smile has become a habit. It may be that the smile is infectious and; you caught it from the'porter when he showed you to your berth, but one thing certain is that having travelled on the "Van- couver Express" Van-couver:Express" nothing has happen- ed 'to take the smile away. The ser- vice, the cuisine, the equipment, the road -bed, the gentle -handling of this znilliaii-happiness-that is if you have acquired the habit of travelling Can- adian ,Pacific between Toronto and Vancouver. The "Vancouver Express" the con- tinents standard of railway efficiency' leaves .Union Station at 'g.00 pan. to- night and every .night of the week. For' rates, reservations, tickets, etc., consult G. L. Baker, Wingham, or any ,Canadian Pacific ticket agent. Mr. and Mrs, Jno. E. Robinson and Frances, of Catharine St,, spent Christ alas with Mr. and Mrs. Wan. Robinson of E. Wawanosh. GOLF NO MORE1 ing has spread to the highest social circles in the Province 'stoeerer call it barnyard golf. The picture chows t11is Honor ernor, and the Prime Minister, }ion. G. Iir Ferguson, giving their imprimatur. oyal Winter Pair in Toronto the Lieutenant Governorand the the beauty and the chivalry' of the horse show ring and weee to 'where cheep ere judged andlhorse shoes lritohed by serious Were the Championship of the Provincial Government known, which contestant issued the challenge,but few his top 118tt to An attendant and was etady. Mr, Ver stretebed his arras in en ;attempt to regain laid ]Be tot Welled first, landing at Meet sit feet short of t ear by three feet. Ms. Ferguson was again weak ernes second landed and theta. rolled (tu i' toting distaned, First pall, n - fly steeTHE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON W l AIN/1 ADVANCE-' .TVIES LESSON I-;lanuary xs John the Baptist and Jesus---1Viark x -3o. GOLDEN TET--I-Ie must increase but I' must decrease—John 3:go, THE LESSON IN ITS ` SETTING Tine-- The ministry of John the Baptist, was from the sunriner of A.1), 26 to JVtar.cli, A,D. 28, The baptism of Jesus was in. January A.D. 26. Place -Johan preached in tine wild- erness of. Judaea, west of the lower Jordan and the Dead Sea, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan, probably east of Jericho. JOHN PREACHING The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. "The, second Gospel is the Gospel of action, and it has that character for its first statement. Even as it is written in Isaiah the prophet. Matthew has for his main purpose the discussion of Christ's life as fulfilling the ancient • Hebrew prophecies, but he is not alone ' in that xeco ni ioriof truth.Behold, I send my messengger before thy face. "Malachi" is a Hebrew word mean- ing ' "my , messenger," and some scholars' consider that the prophet used, the word to, designate his call- ing, his real name beingleft without g mention; but that is not probable. It was Jesus himself who first ap- plied this prophecy to John the Bap- tist. Who shall prepare thy way. "In the mountain regions, gions the wash ingof the hillsid heavy es by the h ivy winter rains destroyed each year a large portion of the best -laid roads. In the desert regionsthe shifting, sands, and in more fertile regions the abundant growth of weeds and shrub- bery, roake Eastern roads well-nigh g impassable sinless care is exercised for their frequent q or special clearing. The voice of one crying in the wil- derness. John was a voice, a speaker rather than a man of action; and yet his words were deeds and every ser- mon was an event. The wilderness in which he spoke was "the 'd,ry and un - peopled region extending from the gates of Hebron to the shores of the Dead Sea." The Hebrews fitly call it Jeshimon. Make ye. ready the way of the Lord. On going from Cairo to the Pyramids, uver an exceptionally goc';l road, the traveller will not fail to be told that it was built for the Prince of Wales, or for the Empress Eugenie, or for the Khedive himself, or even, rarely for Napoleon the Great. Make his paths straight. Crooked, winding roads are pictur- esque in an artist's eye, but they are enormously wasteful of land and of time. A straight road between two towns may be only half as long as a twisting road. Whenever time is a valuable, factor, as in military opera- tions, straight roads are a necessity Therefore, the Romans, desiring to strike their enemies quickly with their troops, took , great pains to build throughout their empire mag- nificent, solid, and straight roads radiating otic from Rome in all direc- tions. Such roads are typical of the substantial work the Christian church should do in preparing the way for the King of kings to reach the hearts of teen. John came, who baptized in the wilderness.' Whether John's baptism was suggested by the baptism of pro- selytes to Judaism, or by the 'cere- monial "washing". The prominence given to it in the narrative and his title of "the Baptist" mark it out as a new and distinctive rite of his min- istry. In Christian '.baptism the same moral elements appear, but with the ;significant additions of "the name of Jesus Christ" and "the gift of the Holy Spirit". And preached the bap- tism of repentance. The rite of bap- tism, John insisted, had aro meaning of value .apart from sincere repent- ance of sin, John's great,' word was "Repent!" The people's repentance, was needed to prepare the way for the Saviour. Unto remission of sins. Preparatory to the :•sending away of sins, leading up to that happy climax and, result of repentance. Of course, Christ alone could send the sins a- way, john's 'entire work was an an- ticipation of Christ's work. And there went out tanto hire all the -countryJudaea, of J , , a xrd all the of Jerusalem, Both tic Pharisees nd Sadducees went out to hear the g at preacher. The rich and poor ere there, the tax -gatherers, the sol i,ers. John did not flatter the peop,l . he rebuked them earnestly and sten ly, and yet they flocked, to him. He d not tickle their ears with fine phras .e but he roused their' consciences wit unsparing truths. ,His preaching show to the preachers and SundaY i-eeho: eaclien's sand' Christian workers of a OS that the way to draw lame nu lie d Sea. Confessing their ,sins. 1) nbtless .each person, 'oat receiving rtptism, made a pubiie stattrnpnt 01 Inc' sins, expressed his sorrow for them, declared his confidence that 8. S. LT,;SSON GALLEY TWO God would, wash his soul clean as the water washed his body, and pro- mised not to commit those sins again. And John was clothed with camel's hair. Not camel's skin, but a rough garment m'a'deof the coarse hair of camels. And had a leathern girdle about his loins. Much attention was ordinarily paid to the girdle in men's attire, as to the necktie in the mod- ern masculine costume. It was of the finest linen or cotton, often rich- ly embroidered with gold or silver, John's girdle, however, 'was like that worn: by the present-day Bedouin of the desert, merely a strip of untan- ned leather. And did eat locusts and wild honey. He could catch the lo- custs, and the Levitical law recognized them as proper food. He could, find Plentiful store of wildbee honey in the caves and holes of the rocky crags ,, aboundul which in the J aean wilder- ness. der- ness. JOHN PROPHESYING. � s G And he preached, saying,There cometh after m t eh e that is mightier h g than I. There are few ways in which a truly great man more sure ly shows his greatness than in his humility. John was a masterful man and especially master in his eagerness to discover the Master of masters.— The latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. The latchet was the leather thong which bound the sandal to the foot and, it was a slave's task, as the foot- sore traveller entered, to loosen the latch+efs, remove the sandals; and bathe the hot and dusty feet. I baptize you in water; but he shall baptize you in the Holy Spirit. John was the Baptizer. The most conspic- uous onsPic-uous sign of his ministry was bap- tism. P tism. The baptism over which heP re sided was an exterior symbol, but Christ's baptism would supply the in- ner P reality, Christ's baptism was in. water, but that would have had no efficacy if it had not been also in the Holy Spirit, surrounded by Him, bur- ied in Him, risen in Him to the sec- ond birth: JOHN BAPTIZING And it came toass in those days. Y The days of John's preaching and baptizing. That Jesus came from Naz- areth of Galilee, ..In that obscure vil- lage of Palestine's northern division our Lord had spent His boyhood and young manhood„ It was situated a- mong- the northern hills overlooking the Plain of Esdraelon, the most ex- tensive plain in the Holy Land, a stretch of country crowded with his- toric memories. And was baptized of John in the Jordan. And straightway. The vigorous ad- verb is one of 1Vlark's favorite words, used overand over in his Gospel. Corning up out of the water he saw the heavens rent asunder. "He" re- fers to Jesus.Welearn that oir Sa- viourpraying time, o wasp y ng at the t rne, for prayers seem to have been an ac- complishment of all the critical ev- ehts of His life, On this glad occasion the veil of sense was swiftly parted Mike a curtain, and He beheld, the familiar scenes of the heaven He had left, some. such vision of glory and beauty and peace as will burst on our delighted eyes the other side of the gates of death. And the Spirit as a dove descending upon him. The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity took at this time the form of -a dove to symbolize peacefulness, gentleness meekness, and love, those qualities which were to characterize the min- istry of our, Lord. The appearance was an assurance to Jesus that God was with Him, and from this tune a new power must have infused His human life and energized His human badly. And a voice came out of the hea- vens. Twice again while Christ was visibly among men this divine voice testified to the Saviour, Thou art my beloved Son, in. thee 1 am well pleas- ed. We are not told that any but John the 'Baptist beheld the descent of the Spirit, but as he saw it, others. also may have witnessed the won- derful onder ul occurrence.. So also we are not told that any,but Jesus heard the 'con- firmatory voice, but we may ,infer that it was *heard by all present. Stomach Gas Drives Mari From fed "I had gas so bad 1 had, to ge'• alp nights ort account of the pressur en in 1 used y heart. r ,Adlerika and e been entirely relieved." --R. I', r ger. Even the 1+IIIST spoorftil lerika relieves gas and oft w: amount of o COMIN 111SOF TiiE G OLD ANI) N b"W C1ONID1TiOND OP PRAIRIE IE PROVINCES.: It Would Rare Takeo an Exception. alllr Optiipistic Mau, lis 4,8(17, 'Who Ovoid Have Predicted What These Provinces have Become To -day. One of the things that links three western provincial capitate with the days before Confederation Is that each oe these capitals was":'ttone time a centre of tine Eur trdule, trays an article in. the Montreal Family Herald and Weekly Star. Winnipeg stands on the site of '.Fort Garry, Edmonton, on the este of old Fort Edmonton, and Vietoria was once Fort Victoria, a coast trading: post. Winnipeg's association with the fur trade in fact goes very far back.: The old Northwest Company and the Hudson Bay Company both had trad-• ing posts at the mouth of the Assinl bolas, and as early as 1738 LaVeren- drye, the famous Canadian explorer,. had Fort Rouge built within what. is to -day the capital of Manitoba. Fort Edmonton was an important distributing point for the Hudson. BayCompany or o C f its operation n on the p Y Pe upper waters of the Saskatchewan and north to the Athabaska and they Mackenzie River country.. Similarly Fort Victoria wasfor years the headquarters of the company's trade on the. Pacific ooast. Things, have changed considerably sine the days of. Fort (carry„ Fort Tfldmonton and Fort Victoria, Those• trading posts were occupied by a handful of white,,traders, with their half-breed boatmen and hunters;: In- dians roamed about the country that is now the four western provinces; countless herds of buffalo blackened the plains. . To -day busy modern cities cover the sites of the old trad- ing posts threegreat provincial buildings rise majestically : from where 'Indian tepees or camp -fires once stood; thousands of square miles of wheat fieldshave taken the place of the old grading grounds of the buffalo.; and two transcontinen- tal railway systems follow the river systems that were once the thor- oughfare of the fur trader. In the year of Confederation,. Win- nipeg was exactly five yeare of age; Manitoba had not yet been created out of the old Red River Settlement; to reach l0astern, Canada it was ne- cessary either to travel by canoe down the Red rivets to Lake Win- nipeg, up the Winnipeg to the Lake of the Woods, from there by a series of small waterways to Lake Superior, and by the Great Lakes and the Ot- tawa river to Montreal, or to take an equally roundabout route through American territory. The Canadian Pacific Railway was still a thing of the future, Edmonton was • still a trading post in 1867, and much more. remote from Montreal than Dawson City is to -day. Victoria, like Win- nipeg, was a baby community, al- though it had been through the hee- .tie experience of the Cariboo gold rush. It would have been an excep- tionally optimistic and far-seeing man who could have stood in any of these places in 1867 and predicted, what they would become sixty. years afterwards. The charter members of Confeder- ation were Nova Scotia, New Bruns- wick, Quebec, and Ontario. The ear- liest recruit was Manitoba, the old efts Red River Settlement in Rupert's Land, over which the Hudson's Bay' Company ruled down to the surren- der of the territory in 1869. In the following year, that is, on July 15, 1870, the Red River Settlement with some adjacent territory was erected into the Province of Manitoba. This was done by an Act of the Parlia- ment of Canada, for the Confeder- ation Act of 1867 conferred upon the Parliament of Canada power to admit other provinces into the feder- ation and to create new provinces out of acquired territory: The creation of Manitoba was pre- ceded by a period of .trouble known as the first Riel rebeIlion... This up- rising in 1869 and the first half of the following year directed, the at- tention of Eastern Canada to the. West beyond the Great Lakes, The small military force led by Col. Gar- net Wolseley reached Fort Garry on August 24, 1870. The rebel: leaders had fled and order was at once established. Donald A. Smith (afterwards Lord Strathoona), of the Hudson Bay Company, acted as administrator for the week following until Sept. 2, when Adams G. Archibald, the first Lieutenant -Governor, who had trav- elled by way of Chicago to the end of railway construction in Minne- sota, arrived at Fort Garry by canoe from Pembina. Col; Wolseley and the regulars of the Red River Ex- pedition left Fort Garry the next day and began their journey to Lake Su - Parlor and on heels to the East. Ih.October a census of thernewly- made province showed the population to be 11,968. Of this total 1,566 were white, 9,840 were of mixed White and Indian' blood, of whom 6,767 were Frenob-speaking,' and 4,088 llinglish-speaking, and 553. were Indians .settled on the land. Other iadiiir.;ts numbered 11;265. n ltdare1t 16, 1871, Lieutenant Governor Archibald spend the first first Legislature islature ox soden of the { Manitoba. Lon en's ]FRasemont Sto London;„15tt*iattd, has thou Sands of.. basement acorea, 'kitehene, tad eel - 1 p ' 'eU belorp Ilia high-. r level CY 'tb B1tk dt tlraitiri9s� ttjt Oat 600 aril yereeliel d '1,m 91 rc t u P:CACE ON EARTH I 771e peeee movement, of which we Bear so eatii ii at the present day, not, by any means, of modern origin. It ,lid riot have its birth in this cen- tury or in, the last. It began with the annunciation to the shepherds on the plains of 11ethlehenz inure than nine - hundred years ago, when the an- gel brought the joyful news of the birth of the long -expected ;Messiah, and the heavenly host sang, "l'eace ort earth and good will among men.,, But• even ages before this great ev- ent, fraught with such blessings to the world, inspired seers and, prophets foresaw the day for which Christmas in all lands are now praying and work ing, when war with its horrid cruelties and oppressive burdens shall no long- er be the arbiter of international dis- putes, but when the principles of jus- tice, riglsteousness and love shall con- trol nations as well as individuals. Isaiah spake of the coaling of one who should be called `The Prince of Peace' and he declared that the time would come when the peoples of the earth. would "beat their swords into plow- sharesand their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword, against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” When we contemplate the mighty armaments of all the great world powers to -day and the burdens still 'sting upon the people by the pro- s;,, cies of naval and military equip- ment, in spite of the terrible experi: ences through which the world has so. recently passed by reason of war, the day of which the Hebrew prophet spaloe and the heavenly choir sang at the birth of our Lord may seem yet a great way off. - But great revolutions sometimes oc- cur with startling suddenness when conditions' are ripe; and there ane movements today in different lands which lead us to hope that the earl, of this inhuman conflict among the nations of the earth is drawing 'near. Certain it is that war and the thought of war are becoming more repugnant to the people of all civilized lands. War is now coming to be thought of not as the path of glory for any na- tion, but at best as the last and only resort—an awful necessity: One of the most significant utterances since the Great. War was that of Field -Marsh- al Sir William' Robertson, who de- clared that war was "all right fifty years ago," but is now "a fool's game" When a titan of such standing in mil- itary circles declares war to be a fool's game, surely it is timefor statesmen. everywhere to revise their thinking. Even assuming that, until barbarian'' and bloodthirsty peoples come under! the influence of Christian civilization it may be difficult to avert war, sure- ly the time hasfully come for the 1 great nations of the earth to .enter into a permanent alliance of peace. In a speech made more than a guar - ter of a century ago in Halifax, the Canadian Minister of Labor said: "Wax should - confined to the brute te creation alone. Militarism, that mil- itary tyranny which is the curse of Europe, has no 'attraction for Inc, or, I hope, for Canada. It is contrary to the genius and, education of our peo- ple. Militarism cannot thrive in Can- ada amid such conditions as are coin - mon in our land." These words are even more significanttoday, after what we have learned of the nature and fruits of modern warfare, than they were when uttered twenty-six years ago. In a few 'days mere we shall be singing our Christmas carols, and "the old, old story," ever new and full of living interest to old and young, will be told over again in thousands of homes and churches throughout the. land. Already we are feeling the in- fluence o fthe Christmas spirit. Our thoughts are being turned to tite poor and fleetly andsuffering, and bene- volent enterprises are being set on foot for 1liiii relief. At no season (,f the year ar.c such efforts made te, still discordant voices of the world and to contribute to the sum of hu- man happiness. Why 5110111:1 not this spirit be prolonged thoughont the year No one dcnibts the blessednese it would bring. *With bitter strifes azul heartless competitions for ever P111 away, and peace ; reigning in all our homes and communities, the world would be a paradise once more:. There, is only one way in which this great consummation can be and the Christmas season ren anew of this way. It is the Christ into thf,, lives ofit nations that b1 pgs ter peace and gout 'axll. T which the Cb a. old aniz ositiet separate men each other,'t tile camps drawn t FALL AIRS tl)tirielalle lierald)� Not Dundalk's, alar 0 great, more for that matter, 'i'ltu C ,editor 5001115 to think their home' is succumbint„ to indcffi,>.renlztics, after summing the matter up, co eludes: "To' our way of thinitircgt it lack of interest amonga considerable number of people in the town) and surrounding district whether- the show lies or dies," The I•Ianover. Post speaks up and says its ,'fall fair receipts hate been most encouraging, it proceeds "Of course we have a number of people in our midst who have only a lukewarm interest in our show, if they have any at all. Brut the dir- ectors have gone ahead, done their best, spent money on improv nnunts and on attractions, and the crowd has. responded. We do not believe that the: real intention of the fall show, vise,; to foster an interest in home products- by roductsby means of competition, is increas- ingl'- ing yearby year. In fact, it would ap- pear that that element of the case is getting re g ng"iso unsatisfactory year after year." That's just where fall fairs are fail- ing- in their original purpose. Many fairs have become more of a midway show and amusement centre rat:h;ir than educational along agricultural lines. Purely agricultural the good fairs would lose much of their inter, - est, hence the midway, horse races, ladies' work, baking competition,'flor- al displays, etc. If the people, as the Dost points out, are indifferent when. e it comes to making entries, whatelse' can. the directors do :but encourage midway troups and circus outfits to come and amuse the crowds at the. fair? The best fairs are the ones where competition is the keenest, and where. competition t s keen there will be more entries and the more entries tire bit- ter and biggr fair. -Speaking.of local our £air, the. hall was never better, and proved that as far as the localladies are concerned there are a goodmany very much in=` tereeted in the fair. The ladies' work cooking, preserving, and floral en- tries were very heavy. The root and fruit displays were average, and con- siderable interest ,was manifest in the children's work. In the live stock section is where the fair fell down this year. The mo- tor car arat truck is showing its ef- fect on theeneality and quantity -of horses exhibite - .,Qti ndalk: fair used be a regular horse 'show. Qday e a few horses res ar e exhibited.- • z sI entries were fair and poult oult� tries. large. In the cattle classe dividual breeders of special carried off most of the prizes. wasn't a single hog exhibited. are plenty of fine hogs in the c but people did not bring the That was a pure case of indiffc People who own cattle, sheet swine say they come me to see the and passup the prizes for the ofseeing the show. If everybody that, what would become of the fairs, Where peopletake an unself interest in fall fairs, the fairs p: both from a financial and educe standpoint. THE COMET. Wise men tell US of a cornet Soaring thru the starry sky, That the light emitting from it Soon will reach the naked eye; And a thousand times is larger Than the earth those, sages say; And this mighty fiery charger Now is coming our way. It is greater, they inform us Than the ancients ever knew So the thing. ntitst b. enormous Tf, the half they say is true; It is filled with deadly gases, \Vhi'ch it Scatters like the hail Killing .everything it 'passes With its miniere e11er of tail. Sh+otiri this fiery fleing rocket Hit our planet in this flight Sure and certain it would knock it H:ltor shelterout of sight; 'l'hen the banker and the beggar 'Would at once be equal worth, With the: hoeztir`and bootlegger tet hit the earth, t least a cinder 'ts fiery grates shower Ciroit