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The Wingham Advance Times, 1925-07-16, Page 2� I'N M ADMANCE•TI ES Published at W1bTGRAM, ONTARIO 'very Thursday` Morning A Cr, Smith, Editor and Proprietor life-long cripple and a beggar, a pttb- Slebscription rates—One,ycar $2.00, lie character. They knew that a n oaths $1,00, in advance. WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES tense signifying continued action. Table them to carry theirburdens, Power comes with, obedience, meet their temptations, and receive "And when the multitude saw what eternal life. !"Who made the heaven Paul had done." Many, if not all of and the" earth and the sea, and all them, knew the man, for he was a that in them is. Paul was speaking to nature.worshippers,, pantheists, men who had a god for the earth, another for the sea, deities in every tree, gods of the harvest ,and the flowers; the thunder and the rainbow, could of course speak Greek, and and all other natural objects, they understood Paul who had been "Who its the .generations gone by addressing them in Greek. Evident- suffered all the nations to walk in ly he did not understand the Lycaon- their own ways." If there is . orally one ian tongue, or he would at once have God, Paul's hearers might be think: corrected their misapprehension. He ing, where has He been all these gen- spoke with tongues more than the erations? Why ,has He not shown other apostles, as he himself de- Himself? Why has He allowed us to clares, but that gift did tot introduce Worship these many vain gods? Paul hire to the Lycaonian speech. "The did not venture to say why, but ire - gods are come down to us in the like- plied that God's reasons were based ness of mels." Such descents of the on. His loving forbearance. heathen gods in the image of men I"And:yet he left not himself with - were common features of Greek and 1 out witness." The Greek and Roman Roman mythology. ! gods, whom the people of Lystra "And they called Barnabas, Jupiter" worshipped; were represented as ;'He was probably older than Paul, dwelling by themselves in a distant and a taller and more impressive man paradise, on the tqp of the lofty Mt. !suggestive of "the father of the Olympus, supremely indifferent to gods." Luke uses the Greek name, `mankind, ' thein attention only to be Zeus. "And Paul, Mercury, because obtained by costly sacrifices. Paul he was the chief speaker." Mercury discloses to his hearers fhe God who THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (Greek, Hermes) was the .god of elo- is so anxious to be ,known that He quence and of commerce, the messen- ial'ways keeps evidences and tokens LESSON III—July xg ger of the gods. I of Himself before His people, and ' The Gospel in Lystra—Acts 14:1-28 ( "And the priest of Jupiter whose,sends sends messengers to speak for Him miracle had been worked before their Advertising rates on application. eyes. "They lifted up their voice, say - Advertisements without specific di- ing in the speech of Lycaouia." They f-e'tions- will be inserted until forbid and charged accordingly.. Clltanges for contract advertisements be in the office by noon, Monday. w•e140.11101,1A,4, A1"" ,,„""" 1n",N3010I31,ppVy„t1,""11111"O,1 1925 JULY 1925 Su Mo We Thi i Fr Sa 4 511-6-1I X213 14 8 9 10,11 1546 117118 23124'25 29 30 19 20 27 21 22 28 31 'G'OLDEN TEXT—Blessed are temple was before the city." That is, and remind mankind of Him. "In that they which have been persecuted for outside the city walls. The name of He did good and gave you from ri, hteousness' sake; foe theirs is the the god would be "Zeus Before -the heaven rains and fruitful seasons." g city, and his priest would be'one of Paul as a Jew knew of many grace- ingdom of Heaven.—Matt. 5:1o. The Lesson in Its Setting the chief personages in'Lystra." ous witnesses, the Hebrew prophets. Time.—Return of Paul and Barna- "Brought oxen and garlands unto the who had disclosed so much of God; „toAntioch, A. D.gates (the city gates). The oxen but he had not time, then to tell the was to 49. Place.--Lystra, Derbe, and back to were for sacrificing to the supposed men of Lystra about Isaiah, Jere- Lystra, !conium, Antioch, and Perga gods, and the garlands were for miah, Hosea, and the rest of the in Asia (Minor), then returning to adorning the horns of the oxen, or glorious band of human witnesses. Antioch in Syria. iperhaps to decorate a temporary al- He could only appeal to the truth. Paul At Lystratar. "And would have done sacrifice. underlying their own nature -worship; A Lystra "And at L stra there sat a certain with the multitudes. for their own Jupiter was regarded 'man." Perhaps he sat in the market- "But when the apostles, Barnabas !as the god of rain and of the har- place or soni:e other much -frequented and Paul heard of it." They must have Ivests, and Paul pointed them to the square, brought there by his friends had lodgings near by, and the. songs ,true Giver" of all material blessings, that he might beg, like the cripple at and outcries of the crowd would an- without whom no drop of vivifying ry 'the Beautiful Gate of the temple nouce that some important event i rain could fall and no shoot of green whom Peter healed. Paul would seek was in progress. •They may have in- spring from the earth: "These all," such a place to preach in, where the quired what was going on. "They rent Paul declared, "bear witness to you rowdswere, since probably there their garments."Among Gentiles andof 'the loving care of the one true was no synagogue in Lystra. "Impo Jews alike this was symbolic of hor-' God." "Filling your hearts with food. tent .in his feet, a cripple from his ror at some terrible sacrilege. .Thus :and gladness." The food for the body mother's ° womb, who never had the high priest rent 'hisgarments i gives cheer and courage to the heart; walked. Dr. Luke had made careful when he .chose to pretend that Christ Paul's expression is vividly condens- inquiry into the medical features of had spoken blasphemy. "And sprang led. The words have a rhythmic flow, the miracle, as this description shows, forth among the multitude." By- run- , and some think that Paul was quoting he would realize the life-long ning out they expressed their eager- from heathen poetry. ..-e-1 1ing hardening and shriveling ness to stop the sacrilege as speed- I "And. with these saying scarce re- of muscle and tendons. ily as possible. "Crying out." Making strained they the multitudes from do - "The same heard Paul speaking." their voices outrun their feet. ing sacrifice unto them." It -was a The Greek 'implies that he heard the "And saying, Sirs, why do ye these temptation," to receive the sacrifices. apostle several times, so that the things?" Note the courtesy of Paul and allow themselves to be worship- message sank into his soul. Very and Barnabas even when they were ped. What an influence they would likely Paul told" about Christ's mire.so dismayed and agitated; they had gain! With that ease they could ac- :ies of healing, and he may have re- time to say "Sire." Note also their.' complish their mission! cited Peter's cure of the Jerusalem insistence on the "why." Supersti- "But there carne Jews tliither.from cripple, and have told the story of ,tion is unreasoning; Christian faith Antioch and iconium." This must his own blindness and recovery of knows its reasons and can give them. have been after sortie days or weeks, sight at the word of the Lord through And finally note the 'apostles' . horror which Paul and Barnabas filled with dallies. "Who, fastening his eyes of lean -worship, and consider how 'earnest and faithful teaching. Hatred upon him." Here again we meet Paul's well persuaded such men must have is powerful to move men; it brought concentrated gaze, which was noted,been that Jesus was no mere l�ian !those bigoted Jews a long way., some n the case of Elymas and which is but God Himself before they would !hundred and thirty miles; but love mentioned later when Paul is before worship Hun. "We also are men of I had brought Paul and Barnabas 'tt the Sanhedrin. This characteristic like passions with you." Having .the (much longer way, and love prevails of Paul was probably due to some sante feelings, subject to the same ' over hatred in the .end. "Atid having weakness of vision remaining from sins, equally sure -to die, very far Ipersuaded the multitudes." It would his three days of blindness. "And see- from gods. "And bring you good not be hard to persuade them that Mg-, that he had faith to be made tidings." So Paul was- a Mercury after their old religion of lust and super- -whole, This was manifested in the all, a messenger of God! Literally, Istitution was true and that the pure Brian's attentive listening (no beg- Luke wrote, "evangelizing you." That and simple religion to which Paul ging while Paul spoke!), and by the is just what Christianity is, good land Barnabas pointed them was false. lighting up of his face whenever the news and nothing but good news. I Men go easily in the way . of their apostle said anything applicable to No wonder it has gone around the I familiar sins. From worship to ston- his pitiable case. world. "That ye should turn from ing is not a -difficult transition for "Said with a loud voice." The cure these vain things unto a living God." !idolaters. Paul had another experi- vas not merely for the benefit of the cripple but was a "sign" to all the people of Lystra that the words of Paul concerning Christ were true. Inerefore Paul spoke loudly enotigh to be heard by all the crowd before him. "Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped up and walked." The first verb is in a Greek tense denoting a single act, the second in another Idolatry, whose symbols and appara- tus Paul and Barnabas saw before them, ws "vain," empty, profitless; the idols they worshipped, like the statue of Jupiter in the temple be- fore which they stood, were dead and ence of mob fickleness later on the is- land of Malta, and the great illustra- tion is that of' Christ, the crowd crying "Hosanna" oneday and "Crucify Him!" almost the next, "They stoned Paul." How Parl's mind useless. 'But the apostles had been must have flashed back to the sten- telling the people of a God who was ing of Stephen, and his part in it, alive who could indeed come down and how he must have exulted in the into their homes and hearts and en- thought that now at last he was mak- ing some reparation! Paul refers to im essamme this stoning in 2 Cor. et:25. Barna- bas escaped it because evidently he was far lest prominent than Paul. • "And dragged him out of the city, N supposing that he was dead." If this 1111 had been a Jewish .city, the stoning N would not have polluted it, but would IN have taken place outside the walls, N I ININ INNIS kV EI LEM NI MI 0 0 THE HYDRO SHOP COOK BX ELECTRICITY See Our New McClary Electric --- Ranges — Watch f .;r Announcement of Our Electric C «ok ng Demonstration awls ingharn tJt�lxi Block. ies Phone 156, "He rose up, and entered into the city Someone noticed that his pulse was beating, and Luke, if present, may have applied restoratives. Paul open- ed his eyes, and was gradually lifted to his feet, We may imagine that the darkness had fallen when the, discip- les stole forth. to the scene of the stoning, and that it was under its friendly cover that the apostle, sup- ported tenderly in the arms of his friends, painfully made his way into Lystra, "And on the morrow he went forth with Barnabas to Derbe." • BROTHERLY LOVE CONTINUES To the Editur av the Advance-Toimes Deer Sur,— That ould brother Matt. av moine does bate all fer shtubbornness, an I had made: up me mind that I wud- den't minshun pollyticks to him anny m'&re, but, shore, 'twas his own fault that he got me slitarted, an he has only himsilfto blame if he got the wurst av the argymint. Lasht Toosday wake, afther we had our dinner, he asked me if I wud go to the U. F. 0. Convinshun wid him. I.tould bine it wus no place fer a re- spicktable Tory to be seen, an 1 tought I cud do more good be shtay- in at home an hoein the .garden. He. said he hoped I wild hev more sinse as I got milder, not maynin army of- finse. Whin I wus wurrukin away wid the hoe all afthernoon tinlin that iviry wade I cut down wus ayther •a Grit arr a U. F. 0., I made up me moind that I wud git even wid me bould bye whin he got homer— About foive o'clock hecame whist - lin up the walk lookin as plazed as a two year ould coult at the fall fair wid a rid ticket on it. "Well," sez I, be way av a shtarter, "an who got the nominashun?" "The prisint mimber Mishter Jawn King," sez he, "an he inks, loike a shmart man so he does." Probably Paul had fainted away ear- ly in the stoning, and his death -like condition deceived his persecutors in- to thinking 'that, they had completed m their horrible work. IN "But as the disciples stood round MI about him." Among them was prob- if ably young Timothy, who seems to have lived in Lystra, 'and who was • among Paul's converts made during ® this visit. Later he became • Paul's • helper in missionary work, and to N I !rim were addressed the last of Paul's ® letters that we possess. These dis- ciples took their lives in their hands st in thus gathering around what was N I thought to be the dead body of their leader, probably . to give it burial, Barnabas must have been with them, unless, as is possible, he was absent from Lystra, at the time on an evan- �� gigumm niumm**I**d gelistic tour to some near by village. "Did ye hear him shpake?" sez L "Shure ye can't tell how far a frog will jump be the graveness av his back," I sez. "I did that" sez he, "an ... -a foine shpache it wus intoirtely, showin how the ould parthies had nearly beggared the counthry be buildin too manny railroads, some..thrains pullin cut av Ottawa wid only tree arr foor passen- gers in the fursht class coach," he sez. "Yis," sez I "an wus he afther tell - in ye that the mosht av �thiin wus mimbefs av Parlymint tiiraveilin on passes? I don't mane Tory M. P's," sez I, "fer they hev a perfickt roight BE YOUR OWN FIRE _ DEPART" ENT By ERWIN GRE"ER (PresMdent Greer College of Automotive Engineering) How gasoline burns or explodes is what puts fear into the averag kilan and makes him stand. at what he considers a safe distance while he watches his car or truck go up in smoke. If the fuel tank corn twined twenty, ten or even one gal. lora of ordinary black gunpowder, his fear would he exceedingly well ,kounued, since weenevei` fire reaches any part of a mass of gunpowder; itall explodes in; a small fraction of a second. Fortunately gasoline alone is not only non -explosive but will not even burn unless it is first evaporated and the vapor in con- tact with the oxygen of the air. Even if the gasoline tank is un- der nder the cowl or under the front seat, there is little danger of its contents being ignited from a,car- buretor fire unless it is allowed to burn for several minutes. If the gas tank has its screw cap in posi- tion, the walls of the tank must` be almost red hot above the liquid surface line before the fuel inside the tank will be set on fire. Henc.s it is perfectly safe to fight the car buretor fire before it has had timet to heat up things too much. . The first thing to do, of course, is to close the . valve in the pipe line between tank and carburetor - The next is to smother the fire. 1 1 Aga — T..._.- -... - r,m Pouring on water is worse than useless because it will simply float the lighter gasoline and oil to the surface and make it burn, better. A wetted cloth or bag, however, is ef' fective and may be used. Anything that will not itself burn very rapid• ly will do to shut off the air supply from the burning gasoline. Wool does not burn so fast as cotton, hence 8, woolen coat, overcoat, laprobo, rug or blanket lacy be the handiest thing to push up tightly around and over the burning fuel. If wool is not at hand, cotton fabrie of any kind if fairlythick will answer. !Load, .: dust, sand, even, sugar, salt Or flour, wheat, barley, or otherr threshed grain, in fact anything that will stop or greatly slow down the flow of air will do the business. 'Usually a small car• buretor lire, to put out .promptly, Will not do enough injury to the nnaohine to prevent ready starting utter things have cooled dowa enough to l erntit turning on the gasoline again, Thursday, July . =6th., r e' There LIS only way t Ilt efiks s:.i ill sae This igi tit --larked "the room. as mike possible; dor* tb windows, raise one of -the blinds where the sun shines in, about, eight inches, place as manyWilson's Fly .Pads as possible on plates (properly wetted with water but not flooded) en the window ledge where the light is strong, leave the roont closed for two or three ,hours, then ,sweep up the files and burn thew., See illustration below. Put the plates away ortt '0E the reach of , altar" until 8h.' gwred in another room.. to all thim favors, seein, as they are the min who are wurrukin fer the ! besht interests av the counthry, an there ain't manny av thirn annyway,. so if duzzent make much differ to the expinse av runnin the railways, but what roight hev a lot av Grits. an U. F. O's to free passes at the ixpinse av the counthry, whin not wan in twinty av them ivir saw Woo in a year befoor they got into Parleymint? Shure, they are only blockin the whales av progress, wid spaiches about tings they don't undhershtand, not knowin what they want an bein dishappointed whin they git it. 1 hev heard av that sillybrayted rail- way shpa.ich av Jawn King befoor" I sez. "'Tis iloquint ye are gittin, Tim, me bye," sez he, "I heven't heard sich a flow av wurruds from ye since yer tame av oxen ran away whin we wus byes loggin on the back fifty. The Grits are bad enough, but it sames to me mosht av the debt av this coun- thry wus piled up whin the Tories wus in power. If we cud hev a rale economical Progrissive Governmint fer a few years—" . "Yis," sez I, "If we cud is roight. What about the Droory Governmint, fer inshtance?" sez I. "Hould yer whisht, Tim," sez he, "an fill yer poipe whoile I tell ye about a spaich a shmart bye named Shelly Bricker made. Av coorse he said some harrud tings about" "Jawn Joynt M. P. P., but not havin the pleasure av that gintleman's acquaint- ance I tink mebby he is no betther arr no Wurse than anny other Tori, !What I wanted to tell ye wus Mishter Bricker showed that the Tor- Mr. H. C. Gray of Niagara Falls, ies had paid 5i pur cint fer money spent the week -end at the home of 'his whin they moight hev borried it fer a parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Gray. lower rate an saved the counthry a lot av money,." "Indade," sez I, "an did he tell ye about the Draory Governmint payin 6_. pur cinton a loan at 94 ' whin the Quebec Governinnt wus borryin at the same rate an sellin its bonds at 99? Mebby he forgot to minshun that fact" I sez, an how manny tousands av dollars the bond min av Toronto made out av the dale. Aven the Grits bad as "they- are wud'hev had more sense than to do a ting loike that." Just at this point in the argymint the missus called us to supper, . an Matt. didn't same to want to minshun pollyticks since. Mebby 'tis his good manners arr mebby because he can't hould his own wid me. Yours till nixt wake, Timothy Hay. Bitten By A Lizzard "Wilma Huffman, of. Culross, dau- ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Royt Huffman, while playing around a pool of water last -week was bitten by a lizzard which sprang at herand bit her on the arm. The child's arm was badly swollen and suffered intensely." This report appeared in the London Ad- vertiser last Thursday, and of course is not correct. The Cargill corres- pondent must have had a joke play- ed on him. The News editor phon- ed Mr. Huffman about the report and he told the News that Wilma had blood poison in her arm but• as to how she got it they do not know. The little girl is progressing favorab- ly at time . of writing.—Teeswater News,. We Guarantee Y . u'll Be Satisfied 6 Skilled buying, quick turnover, continuous and careful inspection of every store, and consistent low prices,.. guarantee every purchaser at DOMINION STORES a satisfaction in buying fresh groceries which cannot be obtained elsewhere. Jar Rubbers 3 doz. 25 MAPLE LEAF HES f ., L � ! RIVERSIDE BAYSIDE BOXES FsKING'S PLATE NORWEGIAN IN OLIVE OIL PINTS 1 05 e DOZ. QUARTS ON ke 1 «�, 400 . CANTED !ATOE S c INDIA PAS.., SOAP A REAL TOILET SOAP DOZ. CE FOR YOUR PRESERVING T !LET PAPER ROLLS min 4 lb TIN CURLING BRAND ORANGE MARMALADE 59c CROWN OR EEHIVi CORN SYRUP Ila '1")tlel WaSOMM SOAP FLAKES 1 Oc ' (GUEST SIZE) a,:, 1c C p E