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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1909-06-25, Page 7LESSON fall --,JUNE 27 1909. Temperance Lesson. -Rom. 13: 8.14. Clomrneritary---The law of love (vs. 8- )0. j: 8. Owe no anon -"it cannot be sup- posed that the apostle meant to prohibit the contracting of debts on any accocurt, Olhrristians are indeed under the 'highest obligations to pay all legal deuiau.ds without reluctance or needless delay and with great punctuality, and they 'should avoid• all :superfluous 'expense, and carefully guard against contracting any debts which they have not a. rea- sonable prospect of discharging. They ought also to stand aloof from all ad- venturous speculations or rash engage - :melds, beyond their circumstances, and !whatever may expose thein to the dan- ger and discredit of not rendering to all their dries." Love one another -"in the preceding verses, the apostle has been . showing the duty, reverence, awl obedi- ence which all Ohristians, from tie high- est to the lowest, owe to the civil mag- istrate, whether he be emperor, king, proconsul, or other state officer; here e shows thein their duty to one anoth- er, but this ie widely different from that which they owe to the civil govern- ment; to the first they owe subjection, za vorence, obedience and tribute; to the clatter they owe nothing but mutual love, and those officee-which necessarily spring ,from it" 9. Shalt not commit, arta.-fn this verse the apostle quotes from the law as though he would say that the perfect love ;which he declares they owe to one another will enable them to fulfill all the obligations of this law. And whatever he has omitted, which the law contains, is all covered in &seeping the law of love. Love thy neighbor as thyself ---"When this is done in reality there is completeness and we keep the whole law. 13e that loves sm- other will not deprive him of his wife, of his life, of his property, of his good name; and will not even permit a desire to eater into his heart, Which would lead him to wish to possess anything that is the property of another." 'Tee Ia.w of love forbids the use of intoxi- cating liquor .forbids its sale to others, and will not permit us to assist those Irersons who sell liquor to others, either by lending them money, by renting our buildings to ,them, or in any way giving them our support and showing them fa- vor. 10. Worketh no ill -The law of love forbids the doing of anything that would injure ourselves or others. "Where ]ove reigns the golden rule is practised and he oho loves, acts toward his neighbor els he °would' that his neighbor .should act toward hims therefore this 'law of love can never work ill toward' anotber, and thus the law is fulfilled by love." Intemperance is the 'exact opposite of this. It causes men to break every com- mandment, and to work ill of every kind to,;his neighbor. II. Quietism. practice (vs. 11-14). 11. knowing the time -The nature :tui elan Deter of the period in which we live. high time -That is, the hour has arriv- ed. to awake -flow many so-called Christians are fast asleep? The aerursed •3iqu.or traffic is becoming poee'rfui. bold, defiant; is destroying our best brains sand blood; is ruining our morals; is undermining the Clristien Sabbath, one of the pillars upon which the nation reste; is filling the land with,paupers, disease and grime, and yet we sleep on peacefully as though we had no respon- sibility in this matter: salvation near- er, etc. -The period of completed and -ultimate salvation is nearer than when we first believed. We have only a little time remaining in which to work, there- fore awake from thy siumlerings and come forth to immediate action. 12. the might --Of heathen darkness, ignorance, immorality and wretebednefs, far spent -Heathen darkness was rapidly corrinf r ' l,o an end. "The full manifestation o the sun of righteousness hi the alumina- tion of the whole Gentile world, ap- proaaehee rapidly." the slay --Of the de- )iveranee from evil; of true Christian knowledge, of purity; llappineee and pehaz:il," letf eternal ue taxi bof> thesworks of darkxese deseribed in the 'next verse, The Clhnietien is eitligecl to renounce and "(nest, off". many;thing's. He is re- quired,•to be •separate from the world (1 John 2i e; id), and to "tio'ucll not the unclean. thing" (2 (or. 6:17). let us put en -There ere some things for the Christian to ;receive and accept. The power of a living Christ living in the soul will be en "armor of light." 10 Eph. 6:11-17 we 'art exhorted to put on the armor which Cod hasprovided for the Christian. Protection is provided for every part but the back, \eliiell shows that the tll•ristian is never ex- pscted to flee from the enemy. of •light;-- Ltglit itself is an armor. That person whose aetions are open to view, who does nothing in the dark and under Cov- er, is in a eafe position. He can prove his whereabouts. The armor of ^:night" is his protection. 13. walk lionesttlly-"13e decent, or- derly and sincere in all department, an example for all eyes to look upon- Men choose night for their revels of sin and superstitious doings, but children of light (Eph, 6:11-18) must behave becom- ingly and live above smell censure." as in the day -In an open way which every one may see and know. not in rioting and: drunkenness -They are not to fre- quent p'laees where i•nternperance is com- mon and indecent conversation is car- ried oar and' alf sorts of licentious prac- tices are induleed in. strife and envy- ing -The very opposite of love, but the •,result of such practices as were men- tfoned above. 14. Put ye en..Christ-To put on Christ signifies receiving and believing the gospel. '['his fully done and held to, would stop all thought of following any sinful inclination of their nature. To be clothed with a person, means to enter into his views to imitate him, and to be wholly on his side. "Christ put on man in nature and. condition; man should put on Christ in disposition and character, He became partaker of our physical nature; we should become par- taker of His moral nature. Christ put on man, that man might put., on Christ." The flesh -By flesh. here we are to un- derstand the carnal nature, the gratifi- cation of which led to the abominations just mention. Direct none of your at- tention to the cravings of a corrupt na- ture, in planning to provide for its gra- tification. Intemperance puts off Christ and provides for the lusts of the flesh. Christ is able to so completely cleanse the heart from sin and fill it with love, that no principle of sin or desire for sin will remain. Temperance instruction. -:lice effects of alcohol are disastrous enough at best, but the injuries to the consumer are im- mensely increased by the widespread adulteration of liquors. The extent to which rank poisons are mixed and sold for pure liuuors, is startling. Any poi- son which i' irritant or stimulating in its action, and /emetic in its tendency, which benumbs sensation and makes one dizzy, will produce effects similar to those induced by alcohol. There are a number of such poisons which have been widely steed. Three cents' worth of strychnine and a gallon of water, when mixed with three gallons of whiskey, often have been sold by distillers as "pure" whiskey. A retailer buys a gal- lon of this and proceeds to adulterate it further, making two'gallous out of one, by adding stramonium and water. Stramonium, which is a powerful nar- cotic, is likely to cramp the stomach of the drinker, so a little opium is added to prevent this. Belladonna and coeulus are similar poisons often used in adulter- ations, while a large chunk of +nl isse is sometimes put in a keg of liquor to produce its narcotic esiete. It Inas been said that beer is not brew- ed now, but manufactured. Chemicals are largely substituted for hops. Dur- ing a recent epidemic of poisoning in England. ten thousand beer drinkers mare stricken with various forms of ar- senical poison, and hundreds died, A searching investigation by government experts followed, showing that what was advertised as "pure, harmless '• beer" contained Portuguese pyrites, sulphuric acid, white arsenic and brimstone in large quantities. The brewers had over - 1' 111 Shines like the surf. Is waterproof:; and permanent. ' Peeds atxd preserves' the finest leather. WW not .self the daintiest garments. No other even half .s good. ,,1Oe, 'aa 25c., Tiny *€'.4''t�tR done the matter a little, that was all, one very extensive adulterant is wood. alcohol. This is a deadly poison, whioh sometimes causes blindness `even when handled. Being untaxed, it is " much cheaper than grain alcohol; and as me- thods have been found to deodorize it and remove the disagreeable taste; it can be mixed with ordinary (ethyl) al- cohol without easy detention; Out of 1,- 000 samples of whiskey: recently examin- ed by the pure foodcommission of Penn- sylvania, 1'`0 were found to contain the rank poison. .4 eominittee anointed by "one of the leading sussgciatiena of whiskey manufac- turers" to ascertain the cause of the re- cent prohibition wave,'accordting, to news• pavpee_sees unts, laid ,the trouble to "bad whiskey. It reported that i'enorrnious quantities of the stuff contains cocaine, wood alcohol., creosote,oe sulphuric acid." 1t is well to notethat sulphuric acid is one of the two strongest ac;ds known, and its effect on the lining of the seoan- ech may well be imagined after watching it eat iron with -great rapidity. This same eomnittee reported that this "bad" whiskey was by no moms confined to the low groggy res. It instancesoue of New York's "largest end most prosper- ous tbotels,"` which sells a poisonous oon- c-oction for which it pays $2.40 a gallon and retails at $45 a gallon. 1\7hen it is considered tlrwt even the best liquors undermine one's health and lead to nen- tal and moral degeneracy, the revelations of widespread adulteration furnish. over- whelming motives for constant total ab- stinence. -B. L. CI, PRACTICIATL APPLICA'T'IONS. The New Law. T. Love one another (v. 8). Love "fer- vently" (L Pet. 1, 22)_ Lave "without dissimulation" (Rom. 12, 9). "Love in. deed and in truth" (L John 3, 18). Love as Jesus loved. (John 15, 12). His love was not .an inward sentiment, but an attribute of being; not a statoof feeling, but an outgoing of .11imself. Love es, a testimony to the world of our diseiple- ship. "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love ane to another" (John 13, 35), 1I. Owe on man anything, but to love (v. 8). Debt leads to extravagance, lux- ury, defaulting, embezzling, dishonest failure, banruptey, and through these, to untold suffering. Tee command of God, the example of Jesus Christ,the verdict of philosophy, political eennomy and eommou sense axe all e ainat the contraction of debt. In the great Old Testament chapter showing the duties of covenant relationship, when the words, "I am Jehovah." are repeated fifteen. times, "all the congregation of the chil- dren of Israel" were taught. "The wages of him that is hired 'bail not abide all night with thee until the morning. thou shalt. love thy neighbor as tl yself" (Lev. 19.2, 13. 18) To oppress the poor by indeletedness to thee e. a, sun that cries te, God for vengeetn.•a (.Date. 5. 4). IIT. Love thy neighbor as iliyself (v. 0). Do nothing yen wou..t.not.be con tept to have doneto }r. z 53att.: 7 12). Some beautiful examples of (Rods pro- vision for the recognition. of. the rights to the neighbor are found :n' "Dent. 22: 1-8; 23: 19, 24, 25; 2e_; 10.13: 25: :3-5. Love to our neighbor proves our love to God. "Whosoever, loveth hien that begat. levetlt hien also that is begotten of him." V. Love worketh no i11 (v. 10). There are.. many employments that work ail to others: The manufactu a and sale of intoxicants; the traffic in tobaeco; gambling; the pawn shop; pernicious literature; impure pictures: horse rav- ing: dancing school;;; theatres; billiard and poo] rooms. Love to our neighbor would itnpel one to get out and keep out of all these kinds of business. They who rent their buildings for. such pur- poses or license any curse are partakers of the sin of working ill. A. rumseller lay dying in agony. The evil deeds and bitter woes of his past life rushed over hie soul. Suddenly he whispered hoarse- ly. "Wife. go to the drawer and bring nie those papers." With a death grasp he seized them and was gone. \\')ten they une•lalped his mold hands and ex- amined the papers they found his license. They weie his last hope. V. Love is the fulfilling of the law (v. 10). Love recognizes every sacrad relation; lore respects life, propert}. repot athin : love does store; love suffer - el It long; love seeketh not. her own; love beareth all things: love trever failet1: (1 Cor. 13: 4-8), lore in ever "awake" (v. 11) to life up the fallen even through a.c'rifice. A boy of thirteen rat at the table With his father There Was thine on the tabic. "Mutt Will you take t" asked the waiter of the' leve "1'11 take what father •tolces." ')'he father had the decanter in his hand. about to pour out the wine, and 'he dropped it sax if 11 were fir•c. 1,aying h 14 hand lovingly 0n the head of tl1 boy he said. "Waiter. 1'il take. water." 'That father loved his boy. ,A. gentleman about fifty-three years of age asked for a.:lcase of life trail be mold lay tip $5410 for foreign tnissions. This accomplibledhe asked for another lease of 11 fe until he could aerartnula.ts ..91500 for Monte missions. Then he asked for a third lease of life 1 hat hie ought lay aside $500 to endow a poor elnirelc of which he was a member. Three le ees of life that he alight be a bl•ss- mg. A. C'. M. w . SALE OF SKIM' MILK. Albany, N. Y., June 21.-T}te Court of Appeals to -day handed down a &- deem, in which it holds than the sale of skimmed milk in New York City is a erime, The Court suetatins the. lower courts in overruling 'a demurrer of the Liberrnan Dairy Company to an action brought 'by the State to re- cover $5,000' penalty for the, sale of skimmed milk. The company run- tended that the statute prohibiieg tlhe sale of skimmed milk in New York and permitting it? 'rale in cer- tain other mettles W'r , uuC.gnstitutron- a1 see uts�t4P(a,!, rkkUU Lgp a TORONTO MARKETS., LIVE STOCK. The railways reported 133 oar loads. of live stock at the city market, consists ing of 2,369 oattle, 1,404 hogs, 908 sheep and lambs, 417 salves and 3 horses. Prices generally, ruled strong at last week's quotations. The reason for such strength was that the Harris abattoir bought nearly half of the oattle on sale, and there were many buyers from outsider points. Exporters. There were over 400 cattle sold for export purposes, 380 of whioh were bought by Geo. Rowntree for the Harris Abattoir Co., at $5.85 to $6.25, for steers, and one prime quality load at $6.40. Bulls, $4.75 to $5.30 per ewt. Butchers, -George Rowntree bought for the Harris Abattoir Co., 600 butch- ers cattle; steers and heifers, $5 to $5.- 65;; •cows and bulls, at $3.50 to $5,25 per . Stockecwtrs and :Feeders. -Harry Murby reported very little trading in stackers and feeders, but' expecte a good trade before long. Mr. Murby bought about 100 stockers and feeders at prices as follows: Feeders, '1,000 lbs. each, at $4.75; stockers, 400 lbs. each, at $3.50 per cwt. Milkers and Springers. -There was a heavy delivery of milkers and springers, the bulk of which were of common to medium quality, which sold at much lower quotations, but good to choice cows were steady at the same .prices. Common to medium cows sold at $25 to $35; good to choice, $40 to $55 each. Veal Calves. -Receipts were large, prices about steady, at $3 to $5.50, but there were a few extra quality new Milk fed calves that reached $6 to $6.- 50 per cwt. Sheep and Lambs. -Wesley Dunn bought 300 sheep at $4.50 per cwt.; 350 spring lambs at $5.10; ant1 400 «aloes at $6.50 each, all of which are average quotations of his buyings. Mr. Dunn quotes export ewes at $4.25 to $4.60 per cwt.; rams at $3 to $1.50; spring lambs $3 to $6 each, or 8 1-2e to 9 1-2e per Ib. Hogs. -H. P. Kennedy reports the market steady to strong. Selects at $7.- 85 to $7.90, fed and watered at the market, and $7.60 to $7.65 f.o.b. cars at country points. FARMERS' MARKET. The offerings of grain on the street to -day were fair. Wheat Steady, with sales of 200 bushels of fall at $1.38 to $1.40, ads 100 bushels of goose at $1.25. Oats steady, 400 bushels selling at 61. to 62c. Tray in fair supply and steady, there being saes of 30 loads at $14 to $15 a ton for No. 1. (Inc load of straw sold at $13 for bundled. Dressed bogs continue firm, selling at "*10..50 for heavy, and at $10.75 to $11 for light. Wheat, fall, bush -. .$1 38 $ 1 40 Do., goose, bush .. 1 25 0 00 Oats, bush... - .. ...... 0 61 0 62 Barley, bush... .. .. .... 0 60 0 63 Rye. bush. 0 75 0 00 Peas, bush.... ... 0 05 0 07 Hay, per tort... ... 14 00 15 00 1)o., No, 2... ... 8 00 10 00 • Straw, per ton.. .. 1:3 00 0 00 Dressed hogs.. .. .. 10 50 11 00 Butter', dairy.. .... 0 20 0 24 Do.. inferior .. .... 0 17 0 19 Eggs, dozen.. .. . 0 21 0 23 Chiekens, broiler.. Ile0 30 0 40 Do., yearlings, ]b... 0 17 0 18 Fowl, 1 b... .. , , .. 0 12 0 15 Celery, per dozen.. .. 0 40 0 00 Potatoes, bag.. .... .. ..1 65 1 15 Onions, bag.. . .. 1 65 1 75 Apples, barrel,. .. .. 3 00 5 00 Beef, hindquarters., 9 50 11 00 Do., forequarters.. .. .,13 50 7 50 1)o., choice, carcase.. 9 00 '1 50 Do,. medium. carcase7 00 8 00 Mutton, per ewt .. 10 00 1.2 00 Veal, prime, per cwt... 1) 50 11 00 Lamb, per vett, . , .. 14 00 15 00 SUGAR MARKET. St, Lawrence sugars are quoted as fol- lows; Granulated, $4.50 per cwt•, in barrels, and No, 1 golden, $4,30 per cwt.. in berrels. These prices are for'de-• livery here. ('ar tote .Se less. In 100 -Ib. bags prices are 5e less. OTHER MARKETS. WINNIPEG WHEAT MARKET. \\"bait • .lu1y :111,29 3.4. 1htober *1.91; 1-2 bid. Oats duly 55 1.2e, ()delict' 78 1 2c bid. IiIl I'I' l sI 1 1'.\'F'I'i.l'; 'MARKETS. 1.,nndou cables for rattle are s1sady. at 17 1-2 to 14 1.4e per Ili. for comedian steers, dressed weight; refrige)'ct1or beef is quoted at 10 3.8 10 10 5 -dc per lb. NEW \'Ol•11< SI'(;AR MARKET. Seger, raw, easy: fair refining, :3.36e to :3.421; centrifugal, 96 test, 3.86e 'to 7.113r: molasses sugar, 3.17e; refined, quiet.. I".L11'' ('TT1;1?SE MARKETS.. 191atrl<x'. Ont. --735 boxes eheceste booth <ed., sill sold at 11 9-16e, to 11 54e'. Woodstock, (.(nt. • To -dao) 725 white, 2,100 colored sales at 11 4 10e. • ' rel 0111, - } o -clay 4.127 boxes hoarded: all sold at 11 8.4e. MONTREAL LIVE STOCK. Montreal, --About 475 head of bu(ell- eVe cattle, I,1'(17 ea Ives, 120 in'riclt• caws, 450 eines) an41 1411a s. and 4(1) flat bees 1 Products Ar..., a,r aF to. neer .r e le Because they are n'iade of the choicest materials and guaran- teed to be absolutely pure. Libby'"$ Veal Lal makes a delight- ful dish for Luncheon and you will find, Libby's Viett a Sausage ' eel Pt P and Beans Ev miser Milk equally tempting for any meal. Have a supply of Lb by's in the house and you will always be prepared for an extra guest. You can buy Libbys's at all grocers. Lib y,. Mc:; ell! & Libby Chicago were offered for sale at the east end abattoir this forenoon. Good cattle were not toe plentiful and brought firni rate., but the grass-fed strock were rather muumuus and some of them brought low figures. Some heaves sold at 5 3-4 to 0 1-4e per pound. but they were not extra; pretty good animals sold nt 4 -1-2 to 5 3-4e; grassers -at 2:3-4 -to 4 I.4e per pound. There were some superior 11111(11 cows on the market that soil at $55 to $60 each, the other,; sold. at $25 to 4150 each. Calves sold at $2.50 to $10 each, or :3 1-2 to 6e per pound. Sheep sold at 4 to 5e per pound; lambs at from $3.50 to $6 rash. hood lots of fat hogs sold at about 8 1-4 per pound; old sows at de per sinned. "I am looking for a husband," re- marked the worried woman. "Why, I thought you were already married," said the merry one. "So I am," re- plied the worried woman, "and I spend most of my time looking for him." T By Lydia E. Piik am's Vegetable Compound I)ovedale, Sask.-" I was a sufferer from female weakness - monthly periods irregular and painful and a bad discharge. backache and, wretched `head- a:che, and had felt weak ever since the birth of ray twins. I tried doctors but got no relief. I be- gan to take Lydia 1:. 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