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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-01-23, Page 6V.V•rtorrogoe ..."...••••••1; Sunday. School '.-. Lesson Jannalan24, Lesson IV—Standards of the Kinedem—Matthew 5: 3-9, 17.20, peepll. concerning those who were outside the chosen roto o1 1Srael. It is this Dar. rovek national spirit which Jews at- teeks. It id" the privilege and duty of the disciple of Jesus to regard all lases as his frineds, ' V, 45. To do this is to do what God does, who gives bis blessings to all - 4248, C.:olden Text—Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. --Matthew 5: 8. ANALYSIS 1. THE BEATITUDES, 3-9. II, JESUS AND OLD LAW, 17-20, 'Me NEW LAW OE LOVE, 43-48. INTRODUCTIoN—Having" see:' that Jesus came to proclaim the kingdom of heaven, we now pass oi o the study in detail of some of he principles of this teaching. The Sermon on the Mount is the most famous of all ser- mons. Other discoveries pees and are fo:gotten, but this great pronounce - merit is as fresh today as wn. en was utthred, It contains much of the finest Ant bine 25 feet high and as much teaching of Jens, insemuch that some as 50 feet in diameter are to be found people will say that if we can only live (1isteibuted through many parts of Rhodesia, 3)r. J. Austen Bancroft, formerly Dawson professor of geology at McGill llniversity and now con- sulting geologist for a, large mining company in Rhodesiaamaid in describ- ing thecountry in whici he is now employed in finding, tremendous de - V. 40. If they love oily their.friends • they are no better than those who wore looked upon as belonging to the most forsaken elass, the :publicane. For these people also loved their iends. V. 47, In loving their enemies they are becoming perfect, .since they are getting lime', and more like God. News on Africa Describes Country Where Ant Hills Are 25 Feet in Height according to the precepts et this man, we shall be perfect. This is, i.t were, the ethical program of Chris- tianity, I. THE BEATITUDES,, 3-9. Vs. 3-5. The beatitudes describe the kind of blessedness, or happiness, which the true Christian is to obtain, and they tell ot the conditions which positS -of valuable ores. The aubjeot Underlie these blessings. It 15 not of his talk was "Mineral Deposits in •easy to give a very clear division; but Northern Rhodesia." In the coarse in -a more or less rough way, we may divide them into three groups. The first, given in vs, 3-5, • deal with the . which men may of the lecture he told many interest- iug things about the general nature outwardeonditices 111 of the country which was kept for the find themselves. Many ot these to British through the far-eighted states - whom Jesus was preaching were poor man, Rhodes, from whom the coun- and anxious and destitute. They did try got its name. not belong to the rich or comfortable Though the fauna of Rhodesia, will class. Many bad deep sorrow, and eventually disappear, the land is still little to comfort them. These might a great resort for big game hunters. Though there are still a large num- ber of lions in Rhodesia, these have learned to save their hides by keep- ing out of sight. One may travel 400 miles across the wildest parts of the country and not sight a lion, though their unfinished feasts will be visible, Dr. Bancroft stated.. The buffalo is perhaps the most dangerous animal. When wounded ho becomes danger- ously vindictive, following his attack- er for nines ready to charge at some Unexpected moment and secure what is 'undoubtedly a well-planned re- venge. naturally say that there wa4 no chance for thein in the kingdom of God. They were inclined to regaed their poor con- dition as a sign of divine disapproval. If Jesus had no message for this class, he would not be a world -Saviour; for the poor and troubled always form a large majority of the population. Jesus does not say that poverty is, in itself, a blessing. Blessing may come in spite of the poverty and sorrow. Por life does not consist in the abun- dance of natural possessions. The joy that Jesus brings, therefore, is inde- pendent of worldly wealth. Vs. 6-9. This second group brings es from outward to inward conditions; and we are told that there can be ..o true happiness unless the heart is Tight with our neighbor and with God. There must be righteousness, and pur- ity and peace. If the mind and heart bo set upon worldly things, and if there ave wrong desires and ambitions, then there is no divine presence, no jot. Vs. 10, 11. We should include the third group also in our lesson, since this is the crown of all. Life without some great object, some goal, some passion, is not at its best. And Jesus says that the noblest of all passions • is love forlireself. lie calls people to sacrifice for his sake, and in the glow of joy which comes from close friend- ship with him there or istake away. Study that which the Of sorrow barricaded evermore world cannot give Within the walls of cities— all this is done and endured and suf- fered by our fellowmen, though blind- ly, for our benefit, and accrues to our advantage—when we begin to under- stand this, a nobler spirit enters into us, the only spirit that con keep our wealth, our freedom, our culture from being a curse to us for ever, and sinking us into the ennui of a selfish heR.—Dr. H. Van Dyke. • • TO SE REMEMBERED When we realize that every liberty, every privilege, every advantage that comes to us as men and women has been bought with a price—that the dark, subterranean lives ot those who tell day and night in the bowels of the earth, the perils and hardships of those who sail to and. fro on the stormy seas, the benumbing weari- ness of those who dig and ditch and handle - dirt, the endless tending of loonie and •plying of needles and car- rying of burdens— the fierce confederate Storni these suggestive words, "for my sake." II. JESUS AND OLD LAW, 11-20. • V. 17. Jesus would inevitably en- counter opposition from those who did not -7ree with much of his teaching. To them it was revolutionary, seeming, to oppose the traditiens of the Fath- ers. We gather from this verse that, this opposition had become vocal, f rein which we conclude that this sermon was not, given until his mission had advanced some distance. His enemies had said that he was opposing the law. Accordingly Jesus says that he has not come to destroy either the law or the prophets, he is rather the one, who f or the first time,puts full meaning; into the law. e V. 19. If any one teaches that the commandments have lost their binding force, or if any one teaches the bind- ing nature of the commandments, but does not keep thent himself, as these Pharisees were likely doing, they such could nothelongto his kingdom. V. 20. Jesus is willing to have his teaching tested by the rule of conduct, and if his followers do not show a bet- ter result than others, he will regard them as unfit for the kingdom. We might put the weed. 'goodness" place of- "righteousness," anxi thus understand his statement as h. chal- lenge to his disciples to show that their goodness surpasses that of the scribes. III. THE NEW LAW OV LOVE, 43-48. V. 43. The verses that intervene are given to specific examples of the way in which Jesus reads a neW mean- ing into old legislation; and we now have the last of these, the law of love. We do not find the actual words in the Old Testament, advocating hatred of our enemies (see Lev. 19: 19), but the had eoncauded from this pase,• e. age that -there Were no obligations n.,..eigiftrX.O.rgeggen vete • nengneggeent nn•tlen British Empire is Success of Commonwealth Proof of Practicability Says Smuts League in Itself Scene oit Montreal., showing (*Loaning ships used by British, drawn ou spot by one of aides in 170S. On of Mr. Stunuel's collection. Mahatma Gandhi India's 380,000,000 natives in the lion1 elements of Indian agitation aro pro - IOW of his palm, can mean only one foundly self-deeeivod by Irish preeed- ents which could only lead. them4 to gigantic disasters."- It 'the congress at Lahore were truly representative of all India, says the London *Sunday Times, the resolution demanding com- Platte independence would be the gravest event since the mutiny of 1857, but it adds: "In point of .fact the Congress is nothing of the kind. It is composed of some thousands of unrepresenta- tive Indians whose brains have been fermented. with ideas of Western de- mocracy. It is not even popularly elected. Even if all ,shades of Indian Political opinion were represented in it the Congress would still remain hopelessly unrepresentative of India, nine,tentbs of tb.e population of which are illiterates not caring a fig for politics:" That the Ltheral party of India, at least, lias no use for the radicalism of the Gandhi Nationalists is indicated by a dispatch from Madras to the New York Times, December 30, say - the Associated Press reminds us, -ing,. adopten a resolution calling for a "The National Liberal Federation campaign of "civil disobedience" if here to -day denounced the policy of dominion status was not granted to India by.the end of 1929. The Brit- ish Government sent a distinguished commission beaded by Sir John Simon The Stormy P Legge] thing—that the National agitation lut•s etrci itself acquired a momentum which the _ea . • moderate °all not now check, says the Indian Affairs are Receiving: .NTew York Herald Tribune, adding! Serious • Consideration "A year ago Mr. Gandhi wag plesel- - -ing for caution; he assented to the demand for dominion status only to avoid nitro radical action. Now he, himtmlf, is forced to deinan1 nide- pendence; once more, it is said, to ftwertall the more impetuous leaders wig) -would otherwise take • the situa- tion float Itis bands. 11 is the old difficulty of nationalistic: agitation that once it le started it can net be from the Press the World Over WORRYING JOHN BULL India's demand for selagovernMenti the correspondents agree, has taken on a new form. that threatens to put the British Government in a tight place. controlled. However narrow may be The recent bombieg of the railway its popular base, however unanee train carryiug Lord lrwin, Viceroy of claims might prove, or however dant- plosion in comparison to that set elfathe claim are raised, the agitation aging to the masses in whose name India, we are told, was a feeble by Mahatma Gandhi when he an- takes on a reality of its ewin end the flounced before the All -India Nation- leaders are hurried down the steep alist Congress at Lahore that he and elope of measures which it might be ether Indian leaders had abandoned difficult to justify on any rational their stand for a dominion status, and basis of policy." would henceforth be satisfied with The All -India Conference last yenr, nothing short of absolute independ- ence for Iuclia. The next day the executive com- mittee, by a vote of 134 to 77, voted to submit to the conference a resolu- tion demanding independence from the British Empire. And when the 2,000 native delegates, assembled for to report on the degree of self-gova neat regarding. India's future. their first ou December element that might safely be entrust - 29, they Betened with tumultuous ell to India's medley ot ranee autVee- cheeis to a .speeoli in which the fiery newts,' but the report of that coin- Fortune of War young president, Jawaharlal Nehru, mission has not yet been made public. Ethel Mannin itt the London Even - announced: "We are now in con- This investigation was started by the Jag Standard (Ind. (ons.).: It is far 112isSinnary--"I've come to do you good." Cannibal—"You can't do it; I'm on a diet." independence advocated by the Na- tionalist Congrss at -Lahore. The Liberals passed. a resolution cordially welcoming the Viceroy's announce- ' theeasier for women to get jobs and to spiracy to free India" ---by peaceful last Conservative Munstiy, means, if possible, he added, but by Labor Government of Prime Minister make money to -day than for men to necessary Ramsay MacDonald. has renewed all de so. For men jobs of any kind, 1 "Sa001masters and schoolmis tresses have to deal with ignorant children on me side and with ignor- ant educational authorities on the other."—Ber trend Bassett. "Is it necessary that one Should die to prove that he is sincere," ---Aristide Briand. The big tent where this occurred preceding pledges and reiterated the Presented a wonderful sight, the cor- promise that India shall have domiii- respondents declare. The event had. ioa status in time. But the Nation - drawn eighty thousand visitors to La- alists, becoming impatient, have now hore. Thousands squatted outside adopted a policy which, as one dis- pateh puts it, "seems certain to deal "it is not needs but markets that emend the attention of statesmen." —Clarence Darrow. on khaddar or homespun cloth spread over straw on the ground, and the sides of the tent were •decorated with manners bearing mottoes such. as "Switraj (home rule) will drive, a nail in the coffin of the British Empire." When the national flag of green, red, and white stripes was run up on the slaty -foot pole before the tent, the Associated Press tells us, the throng; shouting "Long live the regolutiont" broke throught the police cordon and swarmed toward the platform, caus- ing suclt a crush that several men fainted. On the sante authority we' read: "Mahatma Gandhi, long a leader Of the Nationalist movement, led. the -fight...against the proDOSca dominion status in the British. Empire, and in- troduced non -co-operative measures to enforce the Congress party demands for independence. These included' refusal to attend the •round -table con- ference called to meet iu London to discuss the political situation in 111- t1M, and avored boycott of the Cele teal and Provincial legislatures with entborization for a program of civil disobedience aucl non-payment • of taxes when the committee thinks it advisable." The altered altitude of Mr, Gandhi; who is supposed to hold one-third of DAM AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER E FJt4ttliA EVER SE -E A FLEA CIRCuS? • SEE x'VE HAD'EPA. ENTsiniESE FLEAS AK AS INTELLIGENT AS 14UmAN BEINGS! a crippling and perhaps a fatal blow to the 'whole British policy of con- stitutional reform it/ India." Accord- ing to a 'United Press correspondent at Lahore: "Mahatma Gandhi's program in - chutes the calling' of an extraordinary session of the „Congress next Febru- ary, with attendance limited to 1,000 influential delegates sworn to pro- claini 'civil disobedience' of British rule., Such action, it Is expected, will force the Government to declare the Congress an unlawful body, and ar- -rest the delegates. Thereupon Gandhi will mobilize another 1,000 with the same remain •continuing the program until the Government or the Congress. breaks." That John Bali is somewhat dis- turbed—especially by the threat of an Indialt boycott on English. goods -- AVMS indicated by an immediate waver- ing the price of cotton at Liverpool, witich in turn' affected New Rork. J. L. Garvin, writing in the London Sunday Observer, declares that the Nationaliste of Wirt are deliberately copying the methods used by the Sinn Fein leaders in Ireland. a dozen years ago, even to adopting "The Wearing OlCipop—"How of the Green" as their fighting song. night?" 'He 'adds, however: "TheSinn Fein Newpop—"Between New York--eThe British Empire as a precedent for the League of Na-. Lions was bent out by General Jan Christian Smuts., former Premier of South Africa, sneaking et a monster dinner here, 'In the Empire, he pointed out, one quarter of the Dome lation of the world, representing all, Tacos, olore and creeds, were living together in peace With no army or navy required to enforee it. lie asked why this condition could not be extended to the whole world. The dinner was a part ot the cele- brations arranged in the United States for the tenth anniversary of the founding of the League, • Some 32 organizations interesting themselves in securing the entry of this country into the League, participated. The British Empire 'of to -day, the General said, was nothing else but a Leagae of Nations in itself. The only way to secure perpetual peace was by applying the same idea, on a larger scale. The success of the Empire is Proof of its practicability. General Smuts said his mission wee not to engage in propaganda for the League, but merely to lay the fade before the people in the 'United States. In not more than ten years he predicted the whole human race, including Russia, would be represent- ed at the Council table of the League. "It would be a very serious and. very tragic thing," he went on, "if,' when all the, nations of the world gather there,. the seat of the founder 'and inspirer should, remain vacant." Tribute to Wilson Ili this and other references be pale tribute to the late President Woodrow Wilson as one of the main forces iu bringing the League into existence., Mrs. Woodrow Wilson occupied a seat of honor next to General Smuts. The United States, he pointed out, was bound to enter into international conferences whether within or with: out the League, The pact of Paris required it, In this way the method of conference for disposing o inter- national disputes would become uni- versal and once this came about peace would be guaranteed without fail. ee. gradual disappearance of onPoal- tion to the League in the United States was noted by Jobn W. Davis, who presided. There was not one responsible person in the country now, he said, who would. say the Lea. gue was dead, was a failure or should be revised. still less remunerative posts and big appointments, are desperately scarce, whilst for women they open up on every hand, and the number of wo- men earning a salary, or making in businesses of their own, a thousand Pounds a year and more is steadily it slowly being added to, both here and in America. . . It is especially embittering for men that all the op• portunities for money -making and commercial success generally, which have resulted from the upheaval of the war, have gone, not to the men who fought, but to the women who stayed home, o.ncl those not the wo- meu who were called upon to sacrn lice sons and husbands either, but to that 3'ounger generation of women— my own generation—who were school girls 111 1914, and whom the "War touched but lightly. did you sleep last MAN corr IN to SeC tsiq Fix:" CIRCUS ANA LOT ‘i4111-4 tsiq 86ST PeRFORMERS! walks." Russia and Religion London Morning Post (Cons.): To resume relations with Soviet. Russia and to give free entry to her repre- sentatives and agents has always seemed to tis a monstrouS folly from a political point of view. There is, however, a consideration far stronger. Soviet Russia is the avoWed and im- placable enemy of the Christian faith any form of religion whatsoever, The intention is clear and unashamed. Religion must be destroyed not only In Russia but throughout the world. in order that the social, economic and poiitieal theories of Bolshevism may take root and flourish. Religion is first to be destroyed in order that the world revolution may follow. &or. • ••• Industrialized Western . Canada Victoria Times (Lib.) Throughout the West during the year 1929 thee has been a very satisfactory expansion ht industrial development covering all, lines of manufacturing which pertain to the West, and it has been a year in which new industries producing articlenot hitherto manufactured have been established—another year ?of investigation into trade possibilitiee,v bringing into the West -many repre- sentatives of important organization, from which have resulted new arbn- cies; new expansion and new and at- tractive prospects for the future. 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