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The Wingham Advance Times, 1928-09-27, Page 7Thursday, September 27th, 1928 `ap.yYw.wRl o praise our Great and Gracious Lord, And call upon His name; 'To strains of joy tune every chord, His mighty acts proclaim; Tell howl He led His chosen race To Canaan's promised land; "Tell how His covenant, of grace Unchanged shall ever stand. Be gave the shadowing cloud by day, The moving fire by night; To guide His Israel on their way, :He made their darkness light; And have not we a sure retreat, A Saviour ever nigh, Theam l s e clear light to guide our feet. The Day -spring from on high? "'We too have Manna from above, The'Bread that came from Heaven; "To us the same kind hand of love Has living waters given; A Rock have we, from whence the iihoomemmeamemows. • spring • in. rich abundance flows; • That Rock is Christ,' our Priest, our King, Who life and health bestows. O may we prize this blessed Food, And trust our heavenly Guide; So shall we find death's fearful flood Serene as Jordan's tide, And safely reach that happy shore, The land of peace and rest, Where Angels worship and adore In God's own Presence blest. a Miss Hallett At her, who lived a quietly retired but useful life from 1773 to 1862 at Broxhoume first and then at Hodderson in Hertfordshire, England, deservedly ranks amongst our most highly -valued hymn -writers. From her earliest days she wrote poetry, a good deal of which was pub- WING1< 1VI ADvAticE-Timgs lished but did not find very general acceptance. She is best remembered for her charming and well nigh perfect hyipn, "Our best Redeemers ere He breath- ed," which she wrote, it will be re- membered, with a diamond on a pane of glass in her window as she com- posed it. That hymn is now found in nearly every hymnal in our lan- guage, and is a general favorite ev- erywhere, Probably its popularity is partly due to the beautiful and suit- able music, Written for it by the fam- ous hymn -tune composre, the Rev, Dr. Dykes. Miss* Auber also attempted to turn many of the "Psalms of David" into English and Christian verse, and pub- lished her version in book form under the title "Spirit of the Psalms." Rath- er unfortunately the writer of the iwith well known 'hymn "Abide me, fast falls the eventide," also published a metrical version of the Psalms 'und- er the same title, and no little con- fusion has resulted in attributing their hymns to the proper author. Harriett Auber 1,,was not quite as successful as was '1VIr. Lyte in 'win- ning favor for her versions, though several of them have found their way into many hymnbooks. .How is your subscription to Advance The one printed herewith is based Times? If you have not already sent your renewal do so at once. SirgONNWO'i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Travelling School's ..Promising Trio More good than a row of medals pinned on them is the value three young lads from the backwoods of Ontario will derive from a wonderful -week spent in Toronto. These three boys are: Rene Thibault, aged 14 ;years, French-Canadian from Ramsay; George Kingston, a little 6 -year- old Indian of Wye, and John Paul Paquette, French-Canadian of Esher, .aged 16 years. They are ardent pupils of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way travelling school car, and are up betimes each morning to attend the school on wheels the week it spends in each month on a siding in their section of the North. Their teacher, Mr. McNally, chose three boys to spend a week in Toronto and the Canadian National Exhibition, as guests of Premier Ferguson, the boys of the entrance class of the Normal School, and the Canadian Pacific Railway. Bewildered by all he saw young George Kingston scarcely spoke, although he is learning English rapidly, and even the smallest thing he saw brought a shy smile. He had never been upstairs until he boarded the train that brought him to the city, and the largest body of people he had seen together at one time was 30. He was intensely interested in mirrors and elevators and his pockets were stuffed with a collection of mechanical toys. He has not yet mustered up enough Courage to talk on a telephone and when he saw a parade of cadets in their bright red tunics it was difficult to hold him back. The two older :boys_were most interested in aeroplanes and the animals they saw at the exhibition. upon Psalm 105, or Psalm 78. Ex- cepting for the first verse the last named would appear to fit it best, or, perhaps we might say that it reflects the spirit of both of those psalms of remembrance and deliverance. As it stands in Miss Auber's stately verses, it makes a capital hymn, con- taining the elements the great St. Augustine of Hippo thought necess- ary to all hymns, praise, prayer and address to the Lord God of Hosts. It is not always easy to "Christian- ize" the Jewish hymns in the inspired hymnal known .to us as "The Book of Psalms.'• But because of our be- lief in their inspiration we cannot but believe they were "written for our 'learning," in this and every; age, and that there must be a sense in which they can be made suitable for use in the highest services of the Creator, the service His people render to Him in His temples. 'The deliverance of Israel fromEgypt is no more than symbolical of the great deliverance from sin, which God the'Son effected for all mankind. It is an easy tran- sition for gratitude to that greater salvation, and one which could not be distasteful to Almighty God. So ever since the Apostles set us the example (Acts iv., 23-31) Chris- tians have endeavored to reset the old Psalms into Christian phrase, believ- ing it to be well -pleasing to God to receive our praises in the old familiar spirit of His ancient church permeat- ed with the newer spirit of Christian- ity, which was the fulfilment of what was prophetical in the Jewish Church. So it has come about that not only indirect metrical versions but, in many of our most valued hymns we retain figures, phrases and memories of the Psalms, This, by Mis Auber, is not meant to be a regular version, but it does well preserve the spirit of the psalms, as they are used in the wor- ship of the Christian sanctuary. The tune St. Ursula is the composi- tion of the late Frederick Westlake, in his day well known as a composer of music for Roman Catholic use in England. ire ihis. 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The most amazing story, queerly connected with both the history of aviation and the world of art, a story Ironical and a little sad, is centered around the beautiful monument rais- ed on the aviation field of Le Bourget of Paris, France, to the honor of the. three air heroes, Nungesser, Coli and Lindbergh, on the first anniversary andon the spot of departure of the 111 -fated French plane, the "Oiseau Blanc," The monument is symbolical. It shows in a graceful attitude of flight a woman as a conqueror of time and space: It marks for ages a glorious period in the history of aviation; and ft marks the friendship between the United States and France, writes Francis Dickie, in the Toronto Week- ly Star. But the monument stands for still more—it is a prophecy in sculpture. Herein lies the amazing part of the story, for this monument raised in May, 1938, to three air pioneers wee created no less than fifteen years ago by the then little known French sculptor, Gustave Michel, and at that distant time, when aviation was far from the development it has reacted to -day, he called his monument "The Conquest of the Air." Like the great French writer, Jules Verne, who nearly half a cen- tury ago predicted in his writing many of the scientific marvels which are now every -day realities, Gustave Michel was a prophetic dreamer. For several years Gustave Michel brooded, seeking a subject that would fittingly embody the science of avia- tion. He completed his masterpiece in 1913, and in time to display it at the great annual art exhibition, the Grand Salon at Paris. His symbolic figure at once created attention. Thousands thronged to see his work, and admired. Yet, by some strange fatality in spite of all the acclaim it received no one came for- ward to purchase it, to make his own this finest work of the artist's life. Wherein lies another amazing fea- ture surroandin;g the fate of this monument which later was to be hail- ed by the great men of two nations; chance alone saved it, so that fifteen years later it should come forth to mark a great period in the history of flying upon that field where Lind- bergh landed. When the Grand Salon of 1913 came to an end the sculptor, Gustave Michel, disappointed at the failure of his work to sell after receiving the plaudits of the multitude, returned it to his studio. But he had much oth- er work gathered here, to which he kept adding. So presently he found it necessary to move his masterpiece, "The Conquest of the Air," to stor- age in the atelier of a Paris bronze firm, a second ironical stage in the statue's unusual history. And here in storage among hundreds of other ob- jects it lay neglected. The thousands of people who had looked upon it at the 1913 Salon had hailed it as a great work forgot its existence. The sculptor, Gustave Michel, gave up hopes of ever realising upon this work into which he had put so much thought and time and work. The years slipped away, and middle age stole upon the statue's creator; then in 1924 came death, and so, like many other artists, he was robbed of knowing the eventual acknowledg- ment that his work was great. In 1936 in an endeavor to raise a little money for the widow of the sculptor a member of the storage firm approached Mr. Sidney Veit, presi- dent of the Paris chapter of the Na- tional Aeronautic Association of Am- erica, with pictures of the statue,sug- gesting the sale of this in America, the proceeds to ge to the widow. About this time the queer work- ings of Pate brought to Faris Robert Jscksoa. a business man `of Concord, New Hampshire. He sawone of the pictures and purchased it. Yet at the moment no further thought came to him in the matter. He sailed away again to Ameriea. The ;.picture was laid away; and In distant France the statue still slumbered forgotten in storage. Then came that day of May 21, 1927, when Lindbergh landed on the Bourget field. When Mr. Robert Jackson read the cabled news an association of ideas turned his thoughts to the picture he had purchased 'when in Paris the year before. . He hunted it up, studied it intently. As he did so there dawned upon him the brilliant idea which was to bring from obscurity a great work of art. Immediately Mr. Jackson ca- bled an oiler' to buy "The Conquest of the Air" and offer it to France as a tribute to Nungesser, Coll and Lindbergh. Permission to place the statue on the exact spot au Le Bour- get field from which the French ]tiers had taken og wap given by M. Pain - leve 'Minister of War. A pedestal 12 feet high was designed by lir. Carrere and executed by M. Iltrhodiensae. The dedication statement, "ro those who attempted and to him who accomplished, Nungesser, Coll and Lindbergh," was by M. b'lendin, former Minister of Aerenautic s and president ' of the .Aero Cilb de France. The statue was unveiled by Miss Sarah. Jackson, daughter of the don- or, in his presenbe• The another of Nungesser andsome of the 'most re- presentative men of France and the United Settee were present. Few of those who attended this ceremony had knowledge of the queer inside story connected with the sta- tue, the store within a story, known only to a few peeple In the Montpar- nasse quarter where artists dwell or gather to talk of an evening over a tare table. d.{tNA Y $lonntaains, by 'i'heh, Hoary Colors, Still Appear Portion of the 'On - redeemed Primeval Barth. The Canary :Tates were regarded by mariners and people of a bygone age' as the ease of the world and in the minds of many were purely mythical. If any of the ancients had wished to peer over the edge of the world, writes John Jeffries in the London Daily Mail, his first move would have been to institute a seareh for the al- most mythical Canary Isles. At the uttermost limit of these ut- termost isles, possibly he might come to where the last doubtful slope of the earth was reared against infinity. But more likely, as he drew his jour- ney's end, the valley itself would give. way beneath his feet or the hill would crumble through in an awful tissue; Such was the repute of the Canaries. The men of a later age grew se- curer in their knowledge led a of the ocean and of the earth, yet even they thought the islands to be the home of magicians, or else a place of un- canny bliss where dead heroes wan- dered. And now we in our time have : ped all these illusions, but the land which gave them birth, still seems is retain them. Here at least, at Santa Cruz of Teneriffe, as you stand upon the heights above the many-coloree town, the mountains which you sec= stretching their contorted summits eastward almost cry out to you, "Give us back our magicians!" Those mountains are still living, in so far as their soil and rocks can live, in the age of Merlin. Neither husbandry hoc trade nor war nor any of the arts by which men have swept the earth clean of imaginings have prevailed over them. Far below ships make a thoroughfare of the tame< waters and upon the mole by which the fruit -steamers lie, bales of ba- nanas and packages and barrels in their hundreds are piled ready for tho winches. But the great coast rises from that little surf of commerce breaking up- on it, rises from the puff of dust o1 the harbor works and from the patch of the town itself and from the roar: which creeps for a span at its base high into a skyline of abracadabra Gorge and ravine, headlined am cape, peak, thrusting from the over- hang of peak and hollow scoopn. from the bowl of the crater, the whole wild island side springs up- ward in the march to enchantment. Perhaps there may be in distant seas beyond the Equator some paral- lel for these mountains which, by their site and shape, by their aspect of chaos and on undiscovery, by their hoary colors, still appear portion of the unredeemed primeval earth. But in the nearer parts of the globe it has not been my own lot tc find any such. Long, long ago out of a seething volcanic welter the3 broke, thundering into crests as they came. Universal fire ringed th. m round, while piercing hot hurricanes seared them into their innumerable ridges. • , So, as time passed, when the fury of their genesis had been abated, with hardly a change Of outline they must have stood revealed by the first of all dawns, by the new cold light, which grew on them as the winds grew, and was as if the winds were taking sub- stance. And thus they have remained, be- coming more and more stubborn ant spellbound, as the world arrnnd, through cycle after cycle, gravitated and settled its frame to the Will of God and awaited the creation of man. The selfsame they stand now, that magic league -long line of mountains from Santa Cruz to Anaga Point in Teneriffe, eight mountains and eight gulfs, scaled like the flanks of .he crocodile or the lizard, with as m ;ny levels as the swaying leaves of :fie forest, superb and hopeless, outlaws of Heaven, expecting the incantations which come not, calling in vain for the wisards who never were. 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