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Zurich Herald, 1941-11-20, Page 7SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LESSON 21 PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING. Ps. 103; 107; Matt, 6 : 5-15; John 17 : 1-26; Eph. 6 : 18-21; Phil. 4 : 6; 1 Thess, 5 : 16-18; 1 John 6: 14, 75. PRINTED TEXT.—Pray without ceasing; In everything give thanks, 1 Thess. 5 : 17, 18. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.—We do not know when Psalms 103 and 107 were written. The Sermon on the Mount was delivered in the summer of A.D. 28. Our Lord offered His great intercessory prayer on Thursday night, April 6, A.D. 30. The Epis- ties to the Ephesians and Philip- plans were written in 64 A.D., the First Epistle to the Thessalonians was written in 54 A.D., and the First Epistle of John approximate- ly 95 A.D. Place. --The two Psalms of our lesson were probably written in or near Jerusalem; the Sermon on the Mount was delivered not far from the City of Capernaum. The intercessory prayer of our Lord was offered in Jerusalem. Ephesus was a great city of the province of Asia; Philippi and Thessalonica were cities of Mace- donia (northern Greece). The First Epistle of John may have been written from the city of Ephesus. Hypocrites Denounced .' "And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, they have received their reward." We need not suppose that the Pharisees went out into the streets to say their prayers, but that, when they were in a public place at the hour of prayer, they were osten- tatious in performing their devo- tions. They were glad to be seen praying, and chose a conspicuous place. As In alms giving it is not the being seen, but the wish to be seen, as to be seen in order to be admired that is condemned. Of all hypocrisies, that of pretend- ing to have intercourse with God, and of making a parade of such intercourse is one of the worst. Christ, of course, .does not con- demn public worship; it is saying private prayers in needless pub- licity, in order to gain a. repu- tation for special sancity, that is denounced. Pray In Secret 6. "But thou, when thou pray est, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut the door, pra.y to thy Father who Is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee." They rea- son we are to be alone is that we might pour out our heart without Eche restraining influence that is bound to be present when others axe near by. When we pray in secret, we are interested in noth in•g but pleading with God. 7. "And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be beard for their much speaking. 8. Be not, therefore, like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, be- fore ye ask him." Just as Christ does not condemn public prayer, but praying in public in order to win esteem, so here he does not condemn all repitition in prayer. We repeat supplications, not in order to secure God's attention, but in order to secure our own attention. God is always ready to listen to his children's needs; but they are not always attending to what they say when they bring their needs before. him. The Lord's Prayer 9. "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in Heaven. Hallowed be thy name." In calling God our Father we imply that we ars his children. There- fore, we have a relationship to him. In this relationship we are to be ever sanctifying his naive. We do so by ever remembering God is holy, and then by, so living that he himself is revealed as a Holy God in our life. 10. "Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, as in Heaven, so on earth." A Kingdom implies at least two factors,. an area ever which the Kingdom rules, and a King wiio is sovereign. The King - dole of God on earth is the domain in which God's holy will is clone In and among men. We enter this Kingdom by repentenauce, by faith, by new birth, 11. "Give us this day our daily bread." Bread is an absolute ne- cessity of life. We are not h^s.re asking for delicacies but for :'ia.t very elemental material by zs rich we may live, in the simplestbut most vital way. 12. "And forgive es our debts, as we also have forgiven our deb- tors." All transgressions of duly are debts to hint, and we need his forgiveness for them not in order to escape the penalties of our wrong doing, but in order that the loving relationship between Father and child may bo restored. We must cultivate a spirit of forgive- ness towards those who seem to have wronged us, before we vete FROM "DOWN UNDER" TO "OVER THE TOP" More than 600 pilots of the Royal Australian Air Force and the Royal New Zealand Air Force arrived in San Francisco aboard the SS. Mariposa on their way to a Canadian training field, and eventually to the European air front. Here a group of them •cheerfully give good luck signs. ture to claim forgiveness for our- selves. 12. "And bring us not into tem- tation, but deliver us from the evil one." Of course this prayer would never be prayed except by one who desired to do the will of God. People do not pray to be kept from the evil one, when they have de- liberately chosen to live a life of sin. 14. "For if ye forgive not men their trespasses neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." The facts that this alone of all the topics of the prayer is taken up a second time, ought to Impress upon us very deeply the import- ance of forgiving if we wish to be forgiven. Pray Without Ceasing 16. "Rejoice always." Joy springs from the possession of present good. It is an intense delight in God's presence and in fellowship with him. 17. "Pray without ceasing; 18. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God an Christ Jesus to you -ward." Our true aim must not be to work much, and have prayer enough to keep the work right, but to pray much and then work en- ough for the power and blessing obtained in prayer to find its way through us to me. Christ is surety for our praying without ceasing. Christ teaches to pray by showing haw he does it, by leading us to do it in him and like him.. In the experience of our union with 'him, praying without ceasing becomes a possibility, the holiest part of our fellowship with God. Italians Produce `Ruins' to Orde :. Italians are producing his -Cori - cal monuments to order, judging by the published handbooks ;on' air raid precautions in that .cerin—: try which have reached Britain. Here are some camouflage; Mate they contain: A. line of power cable pylons can be made to re- semble the ruined arches of . a Roman aqueduct. A small reser- voir can look like a country church, complete with campanile and "bells" visible from the air. An oil storage tank can --appear to be a villa in Italian' style with shuttered windows. By William THIS WORLDFerguson t M. �I` JO 11 t.NCY WSE.ONL,/ EX -PRESIDE OP THE UNITED "te RETURN TO WASH I NGTC el AG AN COPR.1930 5V NEA SERVICE, INC. """'�•�,,,,,- he LISBON R'THcL-'AR t OF f7 ^�•• tesrzoouCEt:s WAV ON LAPP OArrA/Q1O 3z THE U. S. Department of Agriculture estimates that rats cause esti r•::sial damage of $189,000,000, although the rat population is . :d to have been reduced one-alf Aire.; half of the present number of ithese rodents 1 ve on fin the last arms. - Str2:. e' .ersie ..ons about toads. ' Waste Products Become Gasor e Amateur Chemist Makes Gas- oline From Garbage, Waste Lumber and Farm Products A building contractor who turn- ed chemist because he became ir- ritated at the ize of his gasoline bills has developed a process to convert garbage, waste lumber and farm products into motor fuel. J. W. Jean has obtained final ,patents on the method he develop - .ed in a machine shop laboratory. He says tests of his synthetic fuel • have shown it has an octane rating ,of 98.7 comparable to aviation gas- oline, and that it has developed 25 per cent more mileage than the petroleum fuel. The raw material first is ferment - „,. into alcohol and then converted into a synthetic hydro -carbon. To preclude butyl alcohol cheaply, it was necessary to develop an un- patented bacterian. He met the problem by isolating one from po- tato peelings. One hundred and fifty tons of bagasse or sugar .cane waste, he said, ,Can be converted. into 9,875 gallons of motor fuel, 66,160 pounds of carbon dioxide for dry Ice, 2,700 pounds•of hydrogen gas from which synthetic alcohol can be produced, and 50 tons of humus for the soil. By-prpduets include ammonia esalts, which, when blended with fertilizer, provide a high nitrogen Content. When the fuel is produced from garbage, a superior lubricant ,;•is developed. ”-Among materia.lr from which the fuel can be produced, Jean said, are molasses, sawdust and shav- ings, waste from paper and sugar mills, old newspapers, potatoes, fruit, nuts and nut shells, and sec.. and and third cotton crops, seldom harvested, including the entire cot- ton plant. The Gentle Hun! Although Norway has never been able to produce sufficient food for her own people, she is today being compelled not only to send large quantities of food to Germany but also to feed a Ger- man occupation army estimated at 300,000 men. Recency Reichs - commissioner Josef Terboven warned the Nor- wegian people that they must either comply with the Nazi regu- lations or face starvation. "It is a matter of indifference to Ger- many," he said, "if some thou- sands or perhaps tens of thou- sands of Norwegian men, women and children starve and freeze to death during the war." Redlciing the Weight Letters to and from the forces in the Middle East reduced by the airgraph process to tiny films, weighed only 500 pounds. Had the letters been sent by ordinary post they would have weighed about thirty-five tons. POP—Slipping Back t© Youth «nJdi�Vld�u°� FEaL DONT-IGYS' YEARS YOUNG>=R ALREADY 1 RADIO REPORTER DIALING WITH Amongst radio's favorite come- dians is Screen Star and stage actor Frank Morgan, His ready wit and impossible stories head- line the Coffee Time program NBC -RED (WEEN) Thursday nights at 9 D.S.T. Meredith Wil- son's music --- Baby Snooks and John Conte also star on the sli<w. Santa Claus — Jack Frost and all the other characters of the Christmas season so dear to the youngsters, come to life on the air from CFRB every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday after- noons at 5.30 D.S.T. With lots of special sound effects — plenty of action, and a great big bundle of the Spirit of Christmas, these thrice weekly Santa Claus shows .are looked forward to by young and old alike! On the Sunday Nov. 2nd prog- ram of Songs the Soldiers Sing (5,30 D.S.T. CKOC) listeners were invited to write in for the words of a dramatic skit fea- tured frequently on the show, "The Londoner and the Hun". When the Saturday morning Nov. 8th mail had been counted, the -week's total had reached 954 re- quests. The program, featuring the stirring march and ballad tunes of the Empire, is widely DAVE: listened to throughout Ontario, Clifton Fadirnan'a (MC. Infer,. mation Please) new show is American Defense effort "Keep 'Em Rolling." Aired Sunday nightd on Mutual, show is top -(liter all the way thru, (WOR, WGR-11,30 DST.) Rudy Vallee's Thursday night NBC show has been renewed for another six months --7,..which. is mighty good news. John Barry - more is the maestro's foil on the show, (WREN). Among the great weekly drama« tic shows on the networks is the CBS Screen Guild, Sunday night at 8.30 D.S.T., WGR, WJR. Got musical ability? WGN's "Chicago Theatre of the Air" on Mutual is offering .'$10,500.00 for an original All-American Opera. DIALING AROUND 1150 The Saturday morning chil- dren's corner — Good Deed Club at 9.45; Once Upon a Time, 10.15 a.m. Sundays at one — and NBC's famed singing trio The Ranch Boys, dedicated as much to YOUR War Savings effort as Hamilton's — The High School Shows, Friday at 8.00 — the All-Star Show Wednesday at 8,00. For a fine evening of balanced listening, catch Thursday from 6.15 till 9.30 D.S.T. on CKOC. OU TORONTO STATIONS CEEB 860k, CBL 740k CICL 580k, CBY 1010k U.S. NETWORKS WRAF N.B.C. Red 660k WIZ N.B.C. Blue 770k W,ABC (C.D.S.) S80k WOR (M.B.S.) 710k CANADIAN STATIONS CFOS Owen Sd. 1400k CKOC Hamilton 1150k CHML Hamilton 900k CKTII St. Cath. 1230k CFCI+ Montreal 600k CFCH North Bay 12301 CFCO Chatham 630k CFPL London 1570k ()JCS Stratford 1240k CFRC Kingston 1490k WIC Sault Ste. M. 1400k ADI C.611i1, KIrkend L 560k CKCR Waterloo 1490k CHAC Montreal 730k CKCO Ottawa 1310k CKGB Timmins 1470k CKSO Sudbury 790k CKPC Brantford 1380k CKLW Windsor 800k CKNX Winghem 1230k U.S. STATIONS WEBR nutfalo 1340k WHAM Rochester 1180k. WLW Cincinnati 700k WGY Schenectady 810k KDKA Pittsburgh 1020k WHOM Chicago 780k WHEN Buffalo 930k WGR Buffalo 550k WKBW Buffalo 1520k WJR Detroit 760k fel SHORT WAVE GSE England 9.51m GSC England 9.58m GSD England 11.7..,,tn GSE England 11..`(6m GSI,` England 15,141n GSG Eng:and 17.79m GSt' Englfwd 15.31in GSW' England i.7.81m EAR `pain 9.48m a;?Q( Spain 9.86m RAN Russia 960m RNE Russia 12.00m itV9e Russia 15.18m W( t Schenectady 15.33m WC::AB Phila. 18,27,n WRUL Boston 15.15m Wsin:: N. York 11.83m • Ift4QuIsmvE CREATURE HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle 1 Inquisitive t rCi to U M woman of the Greek Myths. a Flow. 11 Striped cloth. 22 Distant. 13-- gave her a closed box. 14 Flour box. 16 3.1416. 17 Little devil. 18 Turned pale. 20 Flat plate. 22 Fat. 45 T1 ansposed 24.And. 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