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Zurich Herald, 1943-01-14, Page 7RUSSIANS LOOKING FOR NAZI TANKS TO BUST Red Army artillery, particularly anti-tank go ns like those pictured aboe e, played an important part in the smashing Russian offensive against the Germans. The photo above, radioed from Moscow, shows a team of motorized anti-tank gun crews on the central front, where the Red Army continued its relentless sweep west of Velikie Luki, toward the Latvian frontier. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LESSON 111 JESUS WINNING SOULS John 4:1-42 PRINTED TEXT John 4:27-42 GOLDEN TEXT. — He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal. John 4:86. Memory Verse: Let us love one another. I John 4:7. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.—December, A.D. 27, Place. Jacob's well, near Ser char, in central Palestine. "Ay +upon this came his dis- ciples end they marvelled that he was. sneaking with ;a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou'? or, Why speakest thou with her?" : The expression, .'No man said,' seems to imply that no man ventured to question our Lord's reason for talking with the wo- man. There is a lesson for us in this. When we cannot under- stand the reason of our Lord's dealings with souls, let us hold Our peace, and try to believe that 'thereare reasons which we shall know one day. A good servant in a great house must do his own duty and ask no questions. The Woman's Testimony "So the woman left her water - pot, and went. away into the city, and saith to :the people, Conte, see a man, who told me all things that ever I did: can •this be the Christ?" It is almost a universal experience in every age, and ,aznoiig,av'ei:y type of people, that as soon. as they have found the Saviour they must go and tell others about it. Thus, our Lord's command' to go into all the world preaching the gospel rests solidly upon the natural, normal urging of the Holy Spirit in the regen- erated life. Some people are drawn to Christ by His teaching; some by His holy character; and some by His sacrificial death; some by the hope which He of- fers; others in other ways. 'Pis woman marveled at Christ because of His knowledge •of all that she had ever done. Earnestness and Humility "They went out of the, city, and were coming to him." We are astonished at the immediate effect of the woman's words. However, three causes may have, in a secondary sense, been at. work. Her honest, enthusiastic, solemn manlier; the circumstance that she felt the matter so ire - portant as to humble herself by alluding publicly to her sinful life; and lastly, the desire which many of them felt for the com- ing of the great Deliverer, Earn- estness and humility are the two great requisites in an evangelist; and often where we least expect it, God has prepared the way for the reception of His truth by creating in a soul a hunger and thirst after His righteousness. Think it therefore not useless to epeak to Samaritans about Israel's Messiah. Christ's Teaching "In the meanwhile the disciples prayed hint,, saying, Rabbi, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. The disciples therefore said one to another, hath any man brought hen aught to bat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat fe to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work." In these words we have a revelation at the true meaning of what He had been doing in connection with this woman. He had boon doing the will of God and accomplish, ing his work, He had dealt, with her . as to bring her face to face " with the reality of her past, and leading her forward had given to tier the water of• life. This was the will of God; this was His work. Having said this, He in- dicated to His disciples that this also was their work. "White Unto Harvest" "Say not ye, there are yet fom months, and then cometh the har- vest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look en the fields, that they are white already unto harvest." These words suggest victory, reward, ac- complishment. The ploughing and preparing all over, the sowing and the long vigil done, and at last the fields ready. for the reaiier. Two notes merge in them, those of opportunity and responsibility. Fields white to harvest constitute a call and a challenge. Is there any greater calamity in agricul- ture than lita,•est ungathered? Ts there any greater tragedy in the redemptive purpose and process of God than harvest ungathered? Joy of Harvesters "He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice. together." 'To• receive wages' describes the joy with which these harvesters are to be filled when gathering all souls and introduc- ing them into the kingdom of heaven. Sower and Reapers "For herein is the saying true, One soweth and another reapeth. I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others 'have labored, and ye are entered'_nto their labor." ' Christ is the sower; His apostles are the reapers. Aa compared with His labors, theirs might be esteemed as none at all. Belief of Samaritans "And from that citer many o3 the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the wo- AMERICAN INDIAN HORIZONTAL 1 Famous 16th century Indian. 8 He belonged to the --- tribe. 12 Pattern block. 13 Less common, 15 English coin, 16 Tree., 18 Metal. 19 Warble; 21 To hurry. 23 Mental state of an army. 24 Exists, 25 Grieved at heart. 28 August (abbr.). • 3•Helps. (abbr.).. 49 Male relative. 4 Climate. 29 Sleepers 51 Want. couch. 53 Extortioner. 5 Transposed 30 Greek lettee. 55 Tenant of, the (abbr.).. 31 Finish. crown. 6 Derby. 35 Ream ('abbr.). 60 ---or 7 Bristlelike tip. 37 City. wonderful 8 Mistee (abbr.) 39 Label. powers were 9 Standing 40 Pomeranian ascribed to,erect. dog. him. 1'Operatic 42 Crazy. 61 He was the melody. 43 Preposition.----- of a poem 1 i, Fellow. 45 Fold of string, by Longfellow.14 Half an em. Answer to Previous Puzzle SADORADUNCAN DR a. i ORELI;:;SOURE 111V1 47 Sun god. VERTICAL 48 Compass point 2 Notions. 33 Two plus two. 59 :Antiquated 1 16 He vaas a. — or tribal leader. 17 Leng grass. 19 Lacerated„ 20.Fabulous. 22 North America (abbr.). 23 Volume (abbr.),.. 26 Right (ebbs:)'. 27 Excess:9> 29 Beetle t`'• 32 Churcltititie; 34 Grain.' ' 36 Lunar orb. 38'Strife. 41 Variety of coffee. 44•Middle mute., ,46 A puddle. 48 To scorch., 50 Gaelic. 52 Biblical. , prophet., 54'Throughe 56 Red Cross (abbr.e. 57 Dutch (abbr-.1.!i 58 Look. 59 Postscript (abbr.). F itt P—fulling a Fast One! WHY DO YOU GALL MA PE-6A5US e7 man, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did." Just this one woman had brought all this about, She had brought it about for the reason that she her- self had been radically changed in character by the power 02 Christ, and filled with a high en- thusiasm for souls. By her simple timeliness and activity in wit- nessing, she set a marked re- ligious movement on.foot, and led many souls out of darkness into light, and out of death into life. Request of Samaritans "So when the Samaritans came unto hint, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days," In reading this passage, we cannot but be re- minded of a similar incident, not long before this, when John and Simon asked the Lord, "Where dwellest Thou?" With the result that "they abode with him that. 'day." Our desire to abide with Christ is only the echo of His de- sire to have us abide with Him. Saviour of the World "And many more believed be- cause of his word. And they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have. heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Savi- our of the world," It is a great hour when a young man, brought up in a Christian home to believe in Christ as the Son' of God, and the Saviour of the world, because of his faith in the testimony of his father and mother, finally comes to know Christ in a very personal way, not because of what some one else has said, but - because he lra's heard the Lord speak •cut of His own Word, and knows whereof be believes by a personal experience. Canada Plans Cut In Wheat Acreage Lowest Mark Since 1918 Objective For 1943 Acreage reduction is no guar- antee of smaller wheat crops, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics states in a report on the wheat situation, but crop conditions next year are not likely to be as fa- vorable'as this season and if acre- age; reduction is carried out. next Spring the 1943-44 crop year should see an improvement in the statistical position iif North Amer- ica. The objectives for Canadian ag- riculture in 1943, including wheat, were outlined at a Dominion - Provincial .eonfereuce early in De- cember. The Bureau said Canada's wheat acreage reduction. ,program next year will be "quite drastic." The Bureau said Canadian farm- ers have been asked to reduce wheat acreage to its lowest level sine 1918 and if this goal le reach- ed it will mean a reduction of .more than 11,000,000 acres or 39 percent from the peak level of 28,700,000 acres attained in 1940. Alt efforts to curtail wheat crops through the medium of re- duced acreage were frustrated in 1942' by the unpredictable weatber- inau:'A brand of weather was serv- ed up in Canada and the United States which resulted in record yields pee acre and the production of enormous crops. Edison Forecast Rubber Short.. ?fie Thomas Alva Edison was a prophet as well as a great inven- tor, his son, Gov. Charles Edison, has learned. A magazine article quoting the inventor as predicting the war and the robber shortage was received by the Governor from a friend. The article, written in 1927, stet, ed: "The United States never has had and never will have on hand enough rubber to run the coun•' try for more than a year. "Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and I have been considering what this country would do in case of a war which would cut off our rubber supply. "Don't make any mistake about that war, It will come, We may run along for a good many years without it, but sooner or later na- tions of Europe and Asia will combine against the United States. The first thing they will do will be to cut off our rubber supply." 1 ADO REPORTER IBEX FROST "Outside the wind is howling , howling , howling, Flakes of snow driven by the icy blast of winter pile in gently' curved un- dulations around that lone cottage in the wilds of nature, The roar- ing of the storm drowns out the stealthy raising of a latch and the quiet tread of a masked figure as, dagger in hand, Jasper sneaks up behind his unsuspecting victim. There is a quick flash of steel an unearthly shriek which sets the shivers running up and down your, spine .. and all is still except for the bowling of the wind. Sudden- ly . ." If you like that sort of a story, a real spine tingler, your station should be 'CFRB, Toronto, and your time 10 to 10.80 Sunday night, "The Hermit's Cave" You've. no doubt heard the series before. These stories are back on the air once again, exciting, hysterically dramatic and thrilling as ever. "This is London calling." There will be few owners of a radio receiver in Canada who have not heard those words with their English intonation. The now familiar identification of broad- casts originating in Great Britain was first heard at 9.30 a.m. Lon- don time, December 19th, 1932, and came from a small studio in the heart of the British capital, as a little studio audience of five people listened. That audience consisted of five men . two secretaries, a studio pianist, a news -reader and the well known commentator Vernon Bartlett. This was the prelude, so to speak, of the first of the series of in- ternational transmissions of the B.B.C. which was to be heard six days later and which carried the voice of His Late Majesty, King George Vth to five continents . . Dee. 25th, 1982. The transmis, sions were directed at that time to the members of the British Commonwealth, were picked up by short wave receivers at strategic points, and then rebroadcast ever the standard wave lengths. To- day "This is London calling" ie a phrase rebroadcast either di- rectly or by means of recordings by over three hundred stations In the American sphere ... in Can- ada, the U.S.A., Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii ... as well as by stations alI over the world where English 'is spoken or understood. The tremendous expansion of fighting fronts in which soldiers of the United Nations face the enemy has 'necessitated an ever iudreasing scope of B.B.C. trans- mission service abroad. Thus is radio playing its important part in co-ordinating the step of those who march along the Road to Victory. Last October marked the be.. ginning of a new era in the •Can-- adian educational system. IM lowing the lead given by the heti works of the United States, the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- tion, three months ago, began et: eoeoperative series of school pro.- grammes ro.grammes which found educational authorities' collaborating officially to provide classroom lessons over the air, With the completion of the experimental period, the plan is being considerably expanded in the New Year. Every Friday Morning at ten o'clock over the coast to coast network, schoo)C children will be entertained and instructed by the "Heroes of Canada" series. You might call it an easy way to study history, Many and many a boy or girl in Canada to whom the text -book pioneers of this Dominion have remained until now nebulous fig- ures, igures, will find these builders of the past emerging as living, vital people, •current day radio voices to interpret the courage and ac. eomplishments of the heroes of yesteryears. . . . in a modern dramatic setting. As part of this series, the last Friday of every month will be devoted to "Cana- dian horizons' dealing with na- tional events, or with special achievements of man, as they af- fect the Canadian way of life. Then again, Canadian children are to participate in two of the Col- umbia "School of the Air" series, Mondays and Thursday mornings at 10 o'clock in which young Canada will exchange with young America stories of exploits and people who have contributed to the building of North America, Yes, History made easy. Makes some of us grown-up folk wish we had had the chance to do like- wise in our own clays of the little red school house, way back. Wanted—A Camel Dye The Soudan was a supply base for four armies, the British, the Indian; the Soudan Defence Force tend the Ethiopian. Among the mare unusual activities was an 'attempt to find a fast dye as t -a i )uflage for white camels. LISTEN TO 930 ttems of Interest From Ontario Weekly Newspapers EACH SUNDAY AT 2 P.M. Cs~ RI3--860 on your dial PEGASUS WAS At".! IMMORTAL HORSE MIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson PA @PIC " * EAN HAS MORE SQUARE: MILES OF ovArse THAN THERE ARE Sa uARE MILES OF .1A/V ON THE ,if/V77.. : Ae427 -:!/ -: COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, INC: T. M. REO. U. S. PAT. OFF. DURING WA Tt1 ES• pT IS PERMISSIBLE TO FLY THE FLAG s 74',. N7Y--O44e? Neg4e " A .0A '/ 0 etZ4 , 1 s�a, 9NARENTS HOLD CHILDREN DOWN WHILE THEY'RE GROWING UP,, Says LILY DALE MEYER$, PFioeni,>cy .91.744z;v74. 19 I 1/ f r •1, 6-1 NEXT: Are humming birds poisonous? By J. ILLAR WATT MA'S AN ETERNAL NA( 0 'dNer Maned 1,Y Tho Boll Syttplaa{a,Ino,)