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Thou ble'st "Rock of Ages,": I'm
itzg in Thee.
Hceei' oft in the curzflict, when pr
by the foe,
I have fled to my Refuge and br
ed out mye'woei
How often when triale, like sea bil
roll,
Have 1 hidden in Thee, 0 Thou
of guy soul,
0 had I. my Saviour, the wings
dove,
How soon Would I soar to thy p
ence above!
How soon would I flee where
weary have rest,
And hide all my cares in thy she
ing breast!
Ah, there the wild tempest for
shall cease.
No billow shall ruffle that have
peace;
Temptation and trouble alike shall
part,
All tears fro mthe eyes, •and all
from the heart.
Soon, soon may this Eden.of prat
be mine!
Rise, bright Sun of Glory, no in
too decline!
Thy.light, yet unrisen, the wildern
cheers:
0 what will it be when the fungi
appears.
David was in great trouble when
wrote Psalm 55. His favorite son
salom fearing that,he might not
herit his father's throne, and feel
sure of the favor of many of the p
ple who were attracted by his gall
bearing and •popular attributes, vt
at the head of a strong faction b
upon dethroning their king, So lo
as the incipient rebellion was conf
ed to young inexperienced hothea
whose plans might be changed by a
passing breeze of opinion it mig
not be more than annoying to Ki
David.
But when he learned that his oet
trusted counsellor A,hithopel had joi
cd Absalom's faction, the matter a
sunned a serious appearance. Ahith
pel knew David's mind, and all .h
defensive plans. He was possesse
of more than ordinary -wisdom, an
his advice would be worth more tha
armies to the young rebels. Beside
it deprived David of him 'upon whos
counsel he had been accustomed t
rely, as well as removing one who
he had been accustomed to conside
his closest, his familiar friend,
As a succeesful, experienced gener
al, David knew the evils and suffer
ings war brought upon a people. Hi
patriotic feelings wete stirred to thei
deepest deptihs by the thought o
what the actions of Absalom and hi
friends would inflict on his country
and his subjects.. And there lurked ii
his soul that the punishment of hi
grievous sins was not complete as yet
that to some extent he was respon
sible for the impending calamities
Those were Old Testament, pre
Christian times we remember.
And musing in the night watches his
mind beset with foreboding fears, he
poured out his feelings before his God
in lamentation and need. "0 for the
wings of a dove—a homing dove—for
then would I flee away—to the cleft
of the Rock which is higher than l—
and be at rest," he cries. • And many
a weary night full -tired if life and
light, has re-echoed that wish, in the
ages which have gone by since then.
There was one, Heury Francis
Lyte, son of a British officer, born
in 1793,, well-known to most English
speaking Christians through his beau-
iti[ul death -bed hymn, "Abide with me,
fast falls the eventide," who while
setting the old Psalms into English
•verse, could get no further than this
passage in the fifty-fifth, but gave
that •as the "Spirit of ,the Psalm,"—
its Christian spirit—in the lines print-
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HIDING IN THEE
Oh, safe to the Rock that is higher
than 1,
My soul in its conflicts and sorrows
would fly;
So sinful, so weary, Thine, Thine
Thou blest "Rock of Ages," I'rn hid -
In
In
tn
• ing in Thee.
the calm of the noontide, in sqr-
rows' Ione hour,
times when temptation casts o'er
me its power;
the tempests of life, on .its wide,
heavieg sea,
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J. operator, the person calling and the person
,called. If any one of the three is at fault, the ,
,call fails,
Zucompleted telephone calls are a serious public
i; problem. We call attention to it because we want
you to have the best possible service at lowest
• possible cost,*
• Every day in Ontario and Quebec there are over
ane million local telephone calls which are block"
cd -- a waste of two million minutes a day
congestion of traffic — a source of irritation -- a
• handicap to perfect service. •
Some of these uncompleted calls cannot ba help.
ed and some are due to our own errors, which we
are constantly reducing. Many of the failures
"Line's Busy" -- "They don't Answer" — "No
one ort the Line now" — 'Wrong Number" —
originate with the other to parties to the call.
We plan now to give publicity to common faults
112 telephone usage irt the hope that there May
be a mutual effort to maintain high efficiency of
telephone service, /
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Mr. Lyte bad taken high hnziors as
a poet in Trinity College, Dublin,
where he was preparaing for the prac-
tise of medicine. Sone influence
touched him however, and he turned
to elle study of divinity and in 1815
was ordained to a curacy in Wexford,
Two years later lie was working at
Marazioti in Cornwall, Eng, While
there a brother clergyman fell sick,
and he attended him as a priest of the
church and an agenda/1'i friend. Be
wrote after his death: "lie 'died happy
under the belief that though he had
deeply erred, there was one whose
death and sufferings would atone for
his delinquencies, acid be accepted for
all he had incurred."
Lyte was deeply affected by this
death scene and he says t "I began
to study my Bible, and preach in art -
other manner than' I had previously
done," Tn body as well as soul he
Was affected, for his health was nev-
er the same after that heavy strain.
He wrote several valuable devotion-
al and other works including "Poems
chiefly Religious,' and "The Spirit of
the ?saints' front which sotne of our
choicest- •hegnitts have bech taken, as
for instance: "Par from my hcavcriiy
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home," "God of mercy, God of Grace'
"Pleasant ,Nre thy courts above,'
"Praise my soul the King of heaven,'
etc.
These versions .of the Psalms were
written solely for the use of his own
congregation of fishermen at Lower
Brixham, in Devonshire. There it
was that he died in 1847 soon after
Writing `Abide with me!" It was the
importunities of friends who recog-
nized the beauty of his versions of
the Psalms, that caused him at last
to agree to their publication. He had
written them he said for his own sim-
ple-minded folk, tlieir literary merit
entitled them to no further use, Hap-
pily for us his shyness and mod-
esty was overcome, •and the world
agrees that few hymns possess higher
literary merit „than the seventy • or
eighty which hymnal compilers have
derived from this saMe "Spirit of the
Psalms," one of which was, "0 had
1, my Saviour, the wings of a dove."
• Ottr tune was written by the sing-
ing evangelist, Ira D. Sankey',. for W.
a Cushing's hymn "0 safe to the
Rock that is higher than I." The ap-
propriateness'of the choice of the tune
of this hymn will be apparent to those
who care to give a little study to its
words and to those of Ur, Lyte's
touching'verses ,
. eg"
1930 CAR MARKERS
• WILL USE LETTERS
• Ontario's 1930 Remise markers will
bear a combination of letters after the
English fashion, it was disclosed yes-
terday by I•Ion. George S, Henry,
minster of highways, in announcing
the awarding of tenders for nexe
year's plates,
The contract, which will' run into
about 500,000 pairs of markers, vvettt
to General Steelware, Ltd., and the
Canadian Color Type Co., at a total
price of 12.9 cents per pair. The
first firm makes the plates and the
second does the lettering.
The flew markers, which will be
white with black lettering, will beer
no more than five digits each, includ:'
ing the initial letter or letters. Time
9,899 will be the highest numeral
which any motorist May attain.
For instance, all Toronto end York
county •markers will begin with one
of the letters front P to Z inclusive.
A.other populous counties, such
as Wentworth and Middlesex, may
have to be awarded two or more let -
tors there will not be enough letters
in the alphabet to serve the require-
mentseof all the eounties. Thus some
of the smaller counties where tars arc
fe-wer will be given e eotribittation of
two letters, On all markers the pun-
ctuating dash will be placed between
the letter and the number.
l3AD FIRE AT TEESWATER
• Fire, which caused damage eto the
extent of $2,200, broke •out in thc
blacksmith shop of Howard Philips,
at Clinton and Elora streets, Tees -
water, Wednesday night, The loss
is partly •covered by. insurance. The
shop was burned to the ground. The
volunteer fire brigade was called into
action and the -fire-fighters experienc-
ed considerable difficulty in prevent-
ing the fire from destroying the
Grand Central Hotel, adjacent to the
shop. The rear of the hoteb caught
fire, but little damage was done. Dr'
Gillies, who lives across the road from
Philip's shop, noticed the , flames
breaking out at 6.30 o'clock and turn-
ed in the alarrn.
• Travelling 95 miles an hour, an air-
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160 acres of land near Bellingham,
Wash., in one hour and forty minutes.
Graham was assisted by W. A. Gran-
ger, owner of the -land, who dropped
the seed from a sack in a six-inch
stream through a door in the cockpit.
The auarter section was seeded with
alfalfa, timothy .and clover, about 800
pounds being used altogether,
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