HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-01-30, Page 6Lesson 0_ I Y. 33. They must, seek, first of all,
ether things. They anuet try to bring
and able te help,
well aware a their neede, and wile i$
the kingdom of God, Prayer for
the kingdom lima go hand in Band
Sunday Scha I
with the werk of the kingdom, They
February 2. Lesson V -Putting God's must also seek his righteousness, that
Kingdom Fiesta -Matthew 6; 1-13, is the kind of right living of which
19121, 31-33. Golden Text -Seek ye. God aPproVes The main aims of life
and hie must be Spiritual and moral.
first the kingdom of God,
righteousness; and all these things
shall be added unto you, -Matthew,
The Submarine
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ANALYSIS think of the submarlue as something
,
I. PRAYING .O THE FATHER, vs. 543. primarily direeted against our life.
II. LOVING THE FATHER, vs. 19-21. blood. Wo may WO reniember that,
M. SEEKING MS KINGDOM, vs. 31-38- but We ought else to remember that
INTRODUCTION -This sixth chapter., perhaps the. greatest preoecupation
of Matthew takes up the question of of loranoo is the guarding at the
worship, and deals with tht relation route by which she can bring an
which the disciple of Jesus must have African army into Europe. And it
to his God. The follower of Jesus
must learn to trust the heavenly Fa- is not true that the submarine \nate
thor at all times, and must seek, -fleet be of no use to Prance on the African
of all, the kingdom of God. sea -route. . . Anil even about the
I. PRAYING TO THE FATHER, vs. 5-13. to this extent. It nearl3r brought us
submarine let us keep an open mind
V. 5. Tho first four verses are given to the ground in 1916-17, but the end
to the religious duty of almsgiving; , e „.,,,, had taken its measure.
three verses, 16-18, are devoted to 'Oa) Ot "e_ '" '"r wc '
second act of worship; but eleven We fix our eyes on the submarine,
verses are given to prayer, showing but second sight might reveal to us
that this last is the most important 011 tile aeroplane and the seaplane play -
la tlhe outward acts of religion. No i,r a more decisive role in another
person can keep his religious lifo fresh war.
art of prayer. Jesus warns them
and strong who does not practice the •
against hypocrisy. If people makei „ • COMMON LtFE
a parade of their prayers in order to are believe that there are sweet
win the reputation of being religious, and gracious thinge in human life for
then they may receive the rewarci better worth knowledge than the
human praise, but they do not get base and trivial things which ton fre-
their reward from God. • fluently attract the novelist: (Writers
Ti. 6. The second warning is against of all sorts are very apt to overlook
onreality. If people repeat a formula without putting their heart or soul the existence of a vast number of
into it, hoping that this w'71 bo heard, quiet and God-fearing people in this
they have a totally wrong conception country, who lead plain and good
of God. Mere repetitions imply that lives, free from both defiling action
God is a hard, exacting ruler, aemand- and defiling knowledge. There is
ing penance, but if God be our loving enough material in the annals of the
Father, praym must be a form of quietest countryside fee a very- great
communion or conversation, in which novel in the bands of a master, and
eus souls find true delight. the greatest artist is he who can deal
order to inform God of elm wants. most adequately with common life.
V. 8. We do not need to pray in ,
"Prayer is the human side of inter- ' Plain God-fearing people have their
communion with God," We learn eo tragedies as well as thieves and har-
ed hostesses vote the party a huge
' lots and. the psychology of thole. eine.
success.
It is. youth that pays the piper,
warns Dr. Samuel S. Drury, rector of
the famous St. Paul's school for boys
at Concord, New Hampshire, and he
Where Ancient Customs Still Maintain
steseree-
SQUAW ATTENDS TO THE SPOILS OF THE HUNTER
Scene outside -tepee in a western park, where there are many Indians living
ancestors' titne.
much as
Preserving Youth
Without Gin
Plenty of gin and champagne, but
not a drop of water, and liquor-finsh-
see how dependent we are upon ,
and how blessed it is to know him. tions is not less inteeesting,-W. J.
V. 9. Now begins the best known of Dawson,
all prayers. No sayings of jesis are -_-___.1,-......_e-
more universally used. than these. In
the Lord's Prayer we have the mo-
tives, the model and the aims of ad If you have something to attend to,
urges parents to keep their boys
' . go about it coolly and thoughtfullY,
away from. the rum riots ot their
elders and to let them play and sweat
as nature intended; youth being its
own innocent iutoxicant ""Rejoie%
oh young man, in thy youth," he
done, and it will afford you genuine says. "We are a long time old." Re-
gain command of the family, he urges
satisfaction. Often mach more de -1
ponds upon the -aanner it which; Parents; begin a "rule-ana-reiteon"
things seemingly trivial are perform era, .and kill the jazz menace.
ed than one would suppose. or that For a score of years Dr. Drury has
it is possible to foresee. Do every -I directed the formative period a boys,
thing well. Make that the rule 0f: some of them now leaders of Ameri-
your life, and. live up to it, and you! can cultural and Imeines lite, and he
will find it most conducive to your has an insight into youth and its prob-,
lents which is generally admitted.
Moreover, we are told, he has de-
clined offers of advancement in his
church to continue as an instructor of
youth. Recently he made an annual
report to the corperation of St.
Paurs School, and Charles Is. Haven,
ot the Boston Sunday Post, rescued it
1 ' from the oblivion which. too often he -
falls reports -the . oblivion of the
waete-paper liasket-ana We now pass
I it On to ularger audience whose coi-
1 leetive ear may be the more attentive
DO EVERYTHING WELL
true prayer. It consists o setae
sentences. The first is the addreseet and do it just as well as yea can.
while the remaining six fall into twal Do it as though it were the only
division.- Of :these the first three con- thing you ever had to do iu. your
cern the Father, while the remaining' life, and as if everything depended
dress is of infinite significance. The upon it. Then Your work will be Well
ones :Leal with human needs. The ad -
nature of God .determines all religion.
How different are the prayers which
a worshipper of Moloch would make
from those which arise out of their
assurance that God is our Father!
V. 10. The three petitions to he
made concerning God are (S.) the hal-
lowing of his nen" -, by which the wor-
shipper expresses his desire that no-
thingholy name. The opposite of thie evould. own limpluess, and. to the happluess
be done to bring discredit on the
be to profane his name. Every wrong of taose with whom you are brought
action done by a child reads upon the into contact or communication.
name of the father; (2) The desire
that God's kingdom may be extended;
and (3) that Ms will be done on earth.
These petitions rise out of a sense of
the sovereignty and goodness of God;
and they take for granted that God is
able to do whatever he feels best, on
earth as well as in heaven. These pe-
titions show that God's interests must;
come first.
V. 11. The first petition for our -1
selves concerns the needs of the body,
We cannot live without bread, and we;
'hereby acknowledge God's power and '
readiness to give us what ;re need.
Vs. 12, 13. The two remaining re-'
quests are spiritu.d, alai show that we to e: yuu get into the show the
have continually to ask fee forgive -1
neve, and for protection against thei othei evening?"
assaults of evn. The prayer concludes "Pa tsed a counterfeit dollar.,at the
cation; Begin in January what you
contemplate for him in July. •
."8. Don't hesitate to place your boy
of from 10 to 19 in unsupervised
situations in life. There is an inner
armor boys possess during these
years that keeps them from the
smirch of the world.
"9. Dela pat the smirch .that creep
into older minds into the minds of
those in the 'second deco.de:
"10. Give your glowing boy a thrill-
ing job, one that taxes Ms powers and
puts him on his own respousibility.
"11. Don't 'fiddle aromur witb. your
boy or girl. 'Metre not to make reply'
during the `secoud decade.' There
should be no rule without reason. But
you should rule I"
To vote from the interview as Mr.
Haven sets it down -briefly enough
for a topic in which all the world has
an iuterest:
"Boys like simple things. The
Modern tendency is for the parent to
with the doxology. door."
LOVING THE FATHER, vs. 19-21. "How was the show?"
" •
V. 19. While it is necessary that "Well, I got my money's seditli."
we shotld have enough to meet the 1
needs of . the body, the danger with i • . 1. STRONG WILL . •
"2. Provide the spur of necessity
' most people is that they devote too t In some cases the strong Will is a for them, esteicially if you are
.
much thought to earthly possessions,
and Jesus now warns them that they demon, and the intellect but its ser- wealthy. . i
must not love wealth. He uses the. vane mid slave; but if the choice he . '43. D,on..)-t itiviLb' ' &her ' 'people's
metaphor of the bank, and shows how fixed on noble objects, the.n the strong children to parties'primarily arranged
uncertain are all earthly treasures.' will is a king, and the intelligkice is for elder people.
The only bank that is absolutely safe its mi.iister and best guide. . The "4. Don't destroy young people's
is that in heaven. which means that rii.elit direction of the energies of a characters in order to make one of
if we love God and do his will we have man, therefore, is of the greatest im- your'Parties tsuccogefula t.,
that permanent possession of charac- poi,.:::.:3, and the time to secure this "5. Don't, offer children in their
tee and life which cannot be destroyed. , is in youth. -
To lege God is the truest wealth. 'seeond decade' liquor, unless they are
your own children. (Whieh ride Dr,
III. snEKING HIS KINGDOM, vS. 31:-33.. •
. CONSCIENCE Drury really directs to anembers of
V. 31. Two of the chief concerns of ;
Wonderful Leper
Cures Being Made
6,000 Victims Await Former
Society Girl's Return
From U.S.
they did in their
And save them from the menaces
that confront all young people."
Dr. Drury advises giving work to
boys during the long summer vaca-
tion, and eighteen, he says, "is none
too early for parents to send their
boys out into the world and into un-
supervised occupations. There is no
armor of innocence about a boy un -
till he reaches the age of twenty
years that protects him from the
smirch of the world. One of the
greatest mistakes elders make is to
assume that the smirch they may
have received from the world is also
upon their boys." And that brought
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IS RAISING FUNDS
New Orleansee-Far out in the China
Sea Iles an island, Cullen, on which
6,000 lepers are hopefully awaiting
the return of a former New Orleans
society girl.
Folklore in India told wonderful
tales of lepers who went into the
woods and came out healed. Dorothy
Paul Wade, her doctor heishand, and
six nuns have mule such tales come
true. Not for one leper, but for 1,500.
While Dr, 11. 'Windsor Wade, fa-
mous pathologist, ministers to the
needs of the stricken who have gath-
ered on the island from China, Japan,
Siara, Palestine and India, his wife
is touring the Mated States in an ef-
fort to gather $2,000,000 with which
to carry on the work in the largest
leper colony in the world. She has
raised a million and three-quarters,
and when she reaches her goal she
Will return, to Cullom bearing with her
hope for those stricken with what
was once termed an incurable dis-,
ease.
• Dr. Wade and his wife went to the
Phillippines seven years ago, intend.
ing to stay two years. Becoming In
trested in the treatment of lepers,
they remained at Culion, and have
watched 1500 cured lepers sail joy-
fully away.
Mrs. Wade formerly was g leader in
New Orleans' younger set. She is
vivid; she is beautiful, with a beauty
evhieh the cool eye of a camera can-
not catch; she is an accomplished
actress.
Boats Steer Clear
'How can I describe my life so that
you can get a picture of it?' she asks.
"Much of the time my husband and
I are the on"- white persons on the
island with the exception of the six
nuns who live there. The island is
flat, sun -baked. Small native boats
sail by, for the most part giving tho
island a wide berth."
Visitors come and often stay for
reporter and educator to the "rule- weeks to consult with her husband,
not to while away the hours on a
with -reason" precept:
"The day of the premptory father is South Sea isle, but to watch -with in-
terest the efforts being made to bring
gone. That man is rare who can say
'Go here. Go there.' and expect life and hope to the lepers. Out -
obedience to -day. There is plenty of standing men of science and medicine
cheerful obedience, however. But
there must be no rule without reason.
The wise father is he who is willing
deprive children ot their childhood to be reasonable.
and youth of its youth. They seem to "But when he is reasonable with
want to hury their children forward his children, he can't he forever Ra-
ta the point where they can't fit filing around with them. 'Theirs not
"During the years from thirteen to to reason why. Theirs not to make
,eighteen, children like the pleasures reply. Theirs to obey.'
'of the out-of-doors. They like the "The parents must take cora-
simple food, rough games, and a good mend."
sweat. Parents who supply their
RESTRAINT
Children' with luxurious and costly
foods are doing them no favor. it There is always, and everywhere,
seems to me the whole function of some restraint 011 a great man. He is'
parents at this time is to keep youth guarded with crowds, and shackled
young. , with formalities. The half hat, the
"The high-school boy and the board- whole hat, the half smile, the whole
Mg -school boy aro fundamentally smile, the nxl, the embrace, the p05!-
H"e parting .with a little bow, the
now that the boys and girls have re-, alike, except that the boarding -school
turned to school and the hectic boll- boy often lacks this tremendously im-
days Ore over. The great educator portaut factor in the terreatIOR of his
sat in.hjes study and talked of bis character -the spur ot.necessity. The
totem on youth and their more diffie parents who do not:furnish thisfagtor
cult parents. , To begin with, we set
down the rubes for parents which Mr.
Haven summarizes from his inter-
yieW with Dr. Drury:
'3. Make the second decade of
youths' lives. breezy, wholesome auclsimple. •
gather there.
"I remember one atfernoon," she
said, ''when I served tea on a Chinese
tea table to a Harvard medical stu-
dent, a, Siamese prince, a Chinese doc-
tor and a priest from Madrir. But
even when I have no visitors I am
never bored or lonely. I have a pony.
and ride and hunt I write lots, too."
Mrs. Wade is a writer, a poetess
and a member of the Authors' League
of America.
"Manila is only 200 miles away, yet
we seldom go there. Two hundred
miles in one of the native sailing
boats often means a journey of a week
or more," Mrs. Wade said.
In the seven years the Wades have
been at Culiou, she has returned to
America but twice, both times for the
comparative at the middle of the purpose of raising money to carry on
room, the superlative at the door; the work. Coming. this time at the
and, if the person be "pan hyper se-, personal request of Leonard Wood,
bastus," there in a hyper t;merlative , former Governor of the Philippines,
ceremony then of 'conductino him to Mrs. Wade has lectured in 50 cities
to their boys . will deprive them of the
.to the bottom of the. stairs. or to the , and has almost reached her goal ot
sand and grit. necessary for them
-Possess if they are to share the re- very gate, as if there were such rules $2,000,000.
sponsibilities of the family life -and set to these leviathans as aro to the
all families hare problems and re- sea -Hitherto shalt thou go, and no ADVICE
sponsibilities."
Against a certain. class of women,
Dr. Drury reserves a special wavning:
"Do you know that there are etto
men are food and clotning, and evhile The conscience requires to be en- the 'second decade' themselves. It
neglect these necessary things, he lays at it; but the lettering is like that er's table.)
Jesus does not say that we should, light:seed. God's law is written up- runs: Don't drink uniees at your fatla
1 on his disciples certain'sdaies in of an old iuscription, where the words "6. -Give your boy or girl at least
this regard. They must not be so are fillecl up with moss and 'mould, a month in camp, a cruise, or a
'worried over them a to lose all peace so that they are apt to be misread course at a citizens' training -cutup
0# mind. ' and requireto be recut -James Stalk- during the Rummer vacation. -
will of their heavenly Father, who is Or. "7. Don't postpone your child's eclus
V. 32. They must trust the good
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know how to give it -Leigh Hunt.
men .who will destroy the Character Halifax.-eShiptrients of apples this
of youths in order to mate their. season to British and othreg markets
parties ;successful?' One of my boys from Nova Scotia totalled 002.408 bar -
recently told .me that he and a friendl
cels up to December 31, lam an he
of the same age had been invited to crease of 285,671 barrels compared
with Lite corresponding period in the
a party during the summer vacation.
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and that when they arrived they previous season.
found plenty of champague to drink, The 1929 crop of applee in Nova
but that when they asked for a drink Scotia was 1,846,860 bartol. an in -
of water a servant had to make a crease of over 750,000 over 1528. The
special effort to get it for them. ' total crop in Canada law. e ear was
'II am a total abstainer myself. I 3,702,370 barrels or about 4O5,000 bar -
have been a total abstainer foe years. robs more than in the prc‘i!.year.
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