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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1928-11-15, Page 7Thursday," November 15th, 1928 (c)r s T.1HIS MAN is putting up telephone poles. Early in •the morning he is out making a way for the wire that is to come. At night when the gang gets back to camp he is tired. But he likes it. There is zest in the work he is doing, for he is in new country. There have never been telephones here before. He is blazing the trial.. After him will come families and homes and stores and factories to make another city. Over the wires on the poles he plants there will be voices and laughter, business will hum, all the world will draw closer. He works with magic. The wire transforms time and distance. Today you can lift the .telephone at your elbow and within seven min- utes hear the voice of your friend in England say : "Are you there?" fr HIS MAGIC in the telephone has not come in a day. It has come with year after year of experiment and improvement. The telephone of today is no more like the first telephone than a machine gun is like a bow -and -arrow. And the telephone of tomorrow will surpass the telephone of today. Tomorrow perhaps, this telephone at your elbow will bring you the face of the person you talk with, will hold new 'magic we now do not dream of. '1 HIS IS the urge to improve—to seek and. to find something always better—which has been the definite policy of the telephone 'business since the first crude instrument re- produced the voice of its inventor fifty -odd years ago. By no other policy could the telephone have kept pace with this country gr contributed to its progress as it has done in reducing Canada's wide distances and differences of geography. And by no other policy can the telephone now meet the responsibility of serving Canada's future. ANADA'S FUTURE is at least twenty years of unprecedented growth and pros- perity. All the signs and barometers of busi- ness point to' it. All 'the shrewdest prophets of .business predict it. The signs and the prophets are so sure, and the future is so unmistakable, that within the next five years more money will be needed for ,extension of the telephone system in Ontario and Quebec than was spent by the business in :alias first forty years. rf1HE MAN pushing poles and wire into new country and the foresight which now .is Planning over one hundred million dollars of :new plant to meet the needsof the next five _.,years come from the same policy and the same purpose— to give Canadians facilities of {communication worthy of their ,.eountry and its future. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LESSON VII--TN'OVEMI3ER 18 "Paul's Experiences in Jerusalem"-- Acts 21:17.23, 35 Golden Text — Be strong iti the Lord, and in the strength of His might.— Eph. 6:10. The Lesson in. Its Setting Time—A.D. K. Place,—Jerusalem, the temple, the council chamber of the Sanhedrin, the Tower of Antonia; then to Caesarea, the Roman capital of Palestine. PAUL ATTACKED BY A MOB And as Paul was about to be brought into the castle, he saith unto the chief .captain, May I 'say some- thing unto thee? The party had rea- ched a landing and Paul could be set down on his feet. Soldiers at the foot of the stairway held back the mob with their shields. There was an instant's lull, which . Paul utilized. And he said, Dost thou know Greek? 'Paul was brought up in a Greek city, and probably. spoke Greek as fluently as Aramaic, the popular Hebrew. Moreover, he had been at work for many years in Greek countries, so that Greek would come most readily to his tongue in such an emergency as this. Art thou not then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilder- ness the four thousand men of the Assassins? .,.Claudius Lysias seems to have known that this Egyptian, whom he supposed Paul to be, could not speak Greek.' As to "the Egyptian," he was, as Josephus tells us, a famous imposter who claimed to be a prophet and led about thirty thousand people to the Mount of Olives, telling them that at his word the walls of Jerusa- lem would fall down as the wdlls of Jericho had fallen in the days of Josh- ua; then they could enter thecity and plunder' at their will. Pelix was then governor. He marched against the Egyptian, killed many of his deluded followers and took many prisoners, the impostor saving himself by flight. This was later than the arrest of Paul as the number, four thousand, shows, and Claudius Lysias must have refer- red to some earlier exploit of the Eg- yptian. But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tars- us in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city. Tarsus was an important city, as we have already seen, especially famous for its university and its distinguished scholars. Paul used a polished Greek which. of itself substantiated his claim. And I beseech thee, give me leave to speak unto the people. Paul was a- bove all things a herald of the cross of Christ; he saw before him a seeth- ing crowd, with who knew how many souls in it that might be won for the Saviour. He was not the man to miss such a chance as that, but would "buy up the opportunity," to use his own words. Paul was a thoroughly brave man, a hero, and he had faced mobs many times before when he had no guard of Roman soldiers but was quite unprotected. And when 'he had given hien leave, Paul, standing on the stairs, beck- oned with the hand unto the people. The two chains used had presumably bound both of Paul's hands, and the chief captain seems to have been so impressed with the apostle's bearing that he ordered him freed; therefore he could use his hand in a gesture commanding silence, And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew language. Paul spoke in the Aramic dialect 'of Palestine, which most if not all of the crowd could understand. , They would be surprised that the Roman com- mander allowed his prisoner to speak, and that fact together with Paul's masterful gesture brought the "great silence." Published by The Bell Telephone Company of Canada to tell poll something about the telephone business and the people in it. 228 "NORTHERN" Rubber Footwear Wow' en`s "GALT" Equip your family, from baby to dad, with "NORTHERN" Rubbers, and enjoy the com- fort of good health. "A style for every shoe-- a rubber for ever, julpose!'; Mens "BROCK" 'LOOK POR IrnEsTRADE MARK TH RTIIERNChild's "SNOW" all WAITED sun, hand obmeet your aiiieede. t rthern" Rubbers and Sky1�Sh A comp! Whiter tae WINGHAM 35C, per�tb RIEJT11-11APA IF IRO M -g- I E GARDENS off their garments, and cast dust into the air. Outside the soldiers, 'who were around and on the stairs, sway- ed thousands of wildly excited men, with long black hair, in long gaber- dines, and black tarbooshlike head coverings, their great eyes shining with excitement, their features • con- vulsed and contorted ' by fanatical ra- ge; so frenzied, and for the time be- side themselves, that their teeth ;gna- shed at their intended victim as if they would fain have torn him to pie- ces, like wild beasts. The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, bidding that he should be examined by scour- ging, that he might know for what cause they so shouted against him. Lysias probably did not understand Hebrew, and thought that Paul had been making some but -flamed the pas- sion of the mob. And when they had tied him up with the thongs. "The soldiers at once tied his hands together, stripped his back bare, and bent him forward the for that horrid and And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this cit- izenship. The word was used much as we to -day speak of bestowing on some distinguished person the 'free- dom" o,f a city, that is, its civic priv- ileges. Some of the Roman noble- men who were favorites of the Emp- eror were from time to time allowed to enrich themselves by selling the Roman citizenship, and Claudius Ly- sias had thus paid a large price for his "freedom." Paul was evidently a poor man, and the chief captain won- dered how he had been able to pur- chase the great privilege. And Paul said, But I am a Roman born. Paul was born in a "free city," for Tarsus made its own laws and chose its own officials; but its citizens were not thereby Romans. Paul's father, it is conjectured, or some more distant an- cestor, had been made a Roman citi- zen as a reward for some fine service he had done in the cause of the em- pire. They then that were about to ex - into amine him straightway departed from often fatal examination by torture him: and the chief captain also was which, not far from that very spot, ( afraid when he knew that he was a • his Lord had undergone. Paul said Roman, and because he had bound unto the centurion that stood by. The him. It was not forbidden to put a PAUL ASSERTS HIS ROMAN RIGHTS Brethren and fathers. With "bre- thren" Paul asserts his kinship with the throng, and by "fathers" his re- spect for the Jewish authorities. It was a most tactful introduction. Hear ye the idefelnce which I make unto you. Paul proposed to defend himself a- gainst the charge of profaning the temple, and also the charge that he had been untrue to his nation and to the national religion. It was far more a defence of Christianity than of him- self. b.,nd they gave him audience unto this word. The 'hated word, "Gentil- es," exploded their passions; for they had been silent 'up to that point, though they could not have been oth- er than angered by Paul's account of his conversion to Christianity. And they lifted up their voice, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth, for it is not fit that be should live The essence of Paul's iniquity, in the minds of the bigots, was that he had associated with the despised Greeks and treated them as brothers. That was the terrible crime for 'which. he deserved to diel Arid as they cried ort, and threw served. Paul had a nephew the son of his sister who evidently lived in Jerusalem. At once, disregarding his own safety, the brave young fellow went to his uncle and told him of the plot. Paul immediately sent his ne- phew to Claudius Lysias, who per- ceived that prompt action was neces- sary, as the enemies of his prisoner were evidently numerous, powerful, and determined. The soldiers, with Paul, set out at the third hour of the night; and, guar- ded by two hundred soldiers, two' hundred spearsmen, and seventy hor- semen he travelled all night, and rea- 35C a` per1b 513 Mr. and Mrs. John Mullin spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mullin at Lucknow. Mr. and Mrs. Day of Hamilton, spent the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Manary of Crew. Much sorrow was cast over the community here on Saturday night, when it was known that Alvin Mc- Donald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Mc- Donald, 13th con., had passed away. He had only been sick a short time,. nothing had been spared to save his young life. He was in his 21st year, and what makes it even sadder, he was the only son left, two brothers ched Antipratris. From this place predeceased him. Seven sisters sur - the soldiers and spearmen returned to vive him. We extend our sincere Jerusalem, and the horsemen conduc- sympathy to his parents and sisters centurion (a captain, a commander of one hundred) had been deputized by Colonel Lysias to superintend the common soldiers who were binding Paul, and he would later superintend the flogging. Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemiled'? Both Paul and the centurion knew well' that the Porcian Law forbade under heavy penalty the scourging of a Roman citizen. To claim falsely to be a Roman citizen was an offence punishable by death, so that Paul's implied statement that he was a Roman citizen carried its own substantiation with it. Roman into chains for safekeeping, but only to bind him, as here, for the purpose of scourging. The very next verse shows that Paul was kept in chains, and, indeed, he wore chains several times during his career of hardship and frequent imprisonment, sometimes for years at a time. And when the centurion heard it, he went to the chief captain and told him, saying, What are thou about to ( do? For this than is a Roman. Captain and colonel seem to have been on rather intimate terms, or else the bluntness and freedom of the ques- tion arose from the centurion's fright at their joint peril before the law And the chief captain came and said unto him, Teal me, art thou a Ito- 1: man? ...And he said, Yea. "Is it pos- sible that you are a Roman?" The question seems spoken in a tone of. horror, perhaps of indignation because' in talking with Lysias before, Paul had simply stated that he was a Jew i of Tarsus, ted Paul to Caesarea, and handed him over to Felix, the Roman governor. Antipatris was about fifty-two miles from Jerusalem, and twenty-six from Caesarea. With Paul Lysias sent a letter to Governor Felix, acquainting him with the facts regarding the pris- oner, and telling him that, as it seem- ed to be a dispute over Jewish law, he had asked Paul's accusers to go to Caesarea, there to state their case against Paul before the governor. In the meantime, Felix would keep him safe. PAUL PRESERVERED FROM HIS ENEMIES But once more the apostle was pre - in this sad hour. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Vint of Strat- ford, spent the week -end with his sis- ter, Mrs. Wm. Baldwin. Mr. and Mrs. Manning and family motored up from London, and spent . the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Alton, ASHFIELD Mr. and Mrs. George Lane and son, Clifford, spent the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Raeburn, near River- view. Mr. Jim Little, 'near Currie's Corn- ers, is spending a few days in Hamil- ton. lUWYMforl' AX'?S POMMY 600K -FRSE Pratt Fbod Company of Canada.t.iratted 328 •L'`':'"r31��''1• UGHINING UGH SYRUP !liable,,NIGHT COUGHS FAMILY SIZE .a TRIAL 5 BRONCHITIS