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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-06-24, Page 6SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.. LESSON XIII Mesages from Genesis -- John 1:1-5; Luke 17.20-32; Galatians 31G-8; He- brews 11:1-12 ; 2 Peter 2:4.10. Printed Text Hebrews 11:3-10, 17-22 Golden Text — "These all died in faith, not having received the pro- mises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. — Heb rews 11:13. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time -- John wrote his Prologue about 90 A.D. The teaching of Jesus recorded in Luke 17 was given in the winter of A.D. 30. Paul wrote the Ep- istle to the Galatians about A. D. 57. The date of the Epistle to the Heb- rews may be placed about A.D. 65-A.D 88. Place There are so many differ- ent places recorded in various pas- sages that it would only be confusing to enumerate them, except to say that most of the examples of faith given in Hebrews are from events which Took place in Palestine, in which country also Jesus taugh, Paul wrote his Epistle to the Galatians while at Corinth. We do not know with cer- tainty where the Epistle to the Heb- rews was written. "By faith we understand that the world's have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which do ap- pear." There are fifteen special in- stances of the work of faith in this chapter, in addition to the general enumeration beginning at verse 32. Here in the third verse we have the first specific instance, namely, that it is by faith in God's revelation to us how creation took place that we be- lieve that the world was framed by the word of God, i.e., by God speaking, and that the visible world was not made from things that already in ex- istence. "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts and through it he being dead yet speaketh." The offering of Abel is re- corded in Gen. 4:4-5, where we read. that it 1, as accepted by God, who, at the same time, refused the offering bf Abel's brother, Cain. The offering of Abel was a slain lamb, while the offering of Cain was some product of the ground. It would seem that God had told these brothers that an ani- mal sacrifice was necessary when making an offering for the atonement of sin, and Abel, by faith in what God had said, and carrying out God's command, showed himself to be a true man of faith. "By faith, Enoch was translated sq . that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translat- ed him; for he hath had witness borne to him that before his transla- tion he had been well -pleasing unto God." The reference here is to Gen. 5:24. Enoch pleased God because he had faith in God, and God, in turn, delivered him from death, and took. him to glory because of his faith. This does not mean that all people who have faith should expect to be trans- lated as was Enoch. Hovever, it is clear from the New Testament Scrip- tures, that all who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, when Christ returns to his church, will not die, but will be caught up to be with the Lord, under- going a change but not suffering the death (1 Thess. 4.17). "And without faith it is impossible to be well -pleasing unto him, for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarded of them that seek after him." To ques- tion God's justice is to show a lack of faith, and this is sometimes a hard point with Christians who have endur- ed must suffering or great losses. We must throw ourselves completely on the love of God and believe that he does all things well. "By faith, Noah, being warned of God, concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the right- eousness which is according to faith." Here again we note that faith on the Bart of Noah was not only a convic- tion Of the truthfulness• of the warn- ing of 'God, but actually acting in the light of that warning — God warned him that judgement was coming, and that only an ark would ever preserve him during the flood; Noah believed that warning and prepared the ark. "I3y faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an .inheri- tance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went." God's call to Abra- ham is recorded in Gen. 12:1-3. Abra- haan had no idea of the nature or the location of that land to which God was calling him. He knew that God called him to go, and that God had promised to give him an inheritance, and he simply followed the leading of cod until lie came to that place that God then told him was to be a perpet- ual possession for his descendants. "By faith he became a sojourner," Tho word sojourner means "one Who lives in a place without the right of citizenship," and, consequently, "one who lives on earth as a stranger." The idea is perfectly expressed in 1 Peter 2,11, and also in Phil. 3:20 — "our citizenship is in heaven." "In the D---3 land of promise" Of course this re- fors to Canaan, which is called the Land of Promise, simply because God promised it to Abraham and bis' dos': cendants,, as we read eentinnally in the book of Genesis. "As in a land not his own." Abraham never actually did come to possess'tha Land of Promise. It belonged to the Canaanites when God promised it to Abraham, and, dur- ing tris life and° the lives of Issac and Jacob, the land, except that particular portion in which their families lived, never was their awn.. "Dwelling in tents, with • Issac and Jacobi the heirs with flim of the same promise." This trait of dwelling in tents, pitched to- day in one place and tomorrow in an- other, indicates the temporary, un- settled nature of Abraham's abode in Canaan, which his. immediate de- scendants, Isaac and Jacob shared. "For he looked for the city which hatbto ';foundations." This city, of course, was riot an . earthly city, no matter how great or glorious it might be, but a heavenly city, "the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusal- em" (Heb. 12:22), which is • so contin- uously referred to by the apostleJohn in the last two chapters of the book of Revelation, "Whose builder and maker is God," Literally this might,. read "of which :architect and "master • builder is God." "By faith, Abraham, being tried, of- fered up Issac; yea, he that had glad- ly received' the promises was offering up his only begotten son. "Even he to whom it was said, in Issac shall thy seed be called. "Accounting that God is able to raise up, even from the. dead; from whence he did also in a figure receive him back." The refer- ence here is to the events described in Gen. 22.1-14, There is one marvel- lous statement here which is not even found in the records of Genesis, name- ly, that Abraham believed when ho was about to offer Issac, that God would actually raise Issac up from the dead, and that not in some long-dis- tant onadis- tant future, but, then, so that the pro- mises of God concerning the seed of Abraham would be kept. Abraham also knew that God's world would be kept, and he knew that if Issac died, the only thing that could happen so that God could keep his promises would be that God would bring his dead son back out of death again. "By faith Issac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. The reference here is to Gen. 27:26-29 and 39 and 40. These promises to his two sons concerned the future in which he had absolute confidence be- cause of his faith in God's revelation. "By faith, Jacob, when he was dy- ing, blessed each of the sons of Jo- seph; and worsbipped, leaning upon the top of his staff." The reference here is to the remarkable dying pro- phecies of Jacob, which he uttered after he went down into Egypt, re- corded in Genesis 49. When it says he worshipped leaning upon the top of his staff, it simply means that he was too feeble to rise and kneel, or stand, and that he bowed his head in an at- titude of prayer while resting his hands, probably on the top of his staff while reclining on his couch. "By faith, Joseph, when his end was nigh, made mention of the de- parture of the children of Israel, and gave commandment concerning his bones." The reference here is to Gen- esis 50:24-25. Joseph, though hund- reds of miles away from the land that God had promised to his great-grand- father, Abraham, to his grandfather Issac, and to his father, Jacob, was absolutely persuaded that that land belonged to Abraham's seed, and that some day the descendants of Jacob would go back to that land to receive it according to God's promise. These mighty patriarchs lived, spoke, plan- ned, travelled, and blessed their chil- dren all in the light of, and in accor- dance with the word of God which" had been given to them and in which they had such implicit confidence. To sum it all up, these men lived by the faith in God's word. Wheat Stock In Store Decrease Canadian wheat in store on' June 4 decreased 2,773,345 bu`s'hels corn- ered with the previous week and 107,584,336when compared with tlie. corresponding date in 1926. The amount in store was reported as 55,- 314,699 bushels compared with 58,- 088,044 a week ago and 162,899,035 last year. Wheat in ,'rail transit amounted to 1,550,107 bushels against 6458,072 at a comparable date last year; wheat in transit on the lakes totalled 3,239,207 bushels as against 4,313,810. Canadian wheat in store in the United States amounted to 6,456,978 bushels; com- pared with 7,267,355 a week ago and 14,697,265 at the same date in 1936.; Those with nothing to say usually take too long to say it. : uebee Chronicle -Telegraph. It is better to try to •do something and :Fail than to do nothing end.suc- ceed.—Sherbrocike Record. A girl can :cress herself when a little tot, and when she grows.. up goes only half-dressed. -»- 3randon Sun. 11 By VIRGINIA DAL Joan Bennett is so bomesiole foithe stage that she has signed up to work with a Cape Cod stock company .this summer for a 'few weeks. Some of the motion picture , producers eyho. have planned busy summers for ti1elr players wish that she wasn't luit% so: thrilled at the prospect. Her infectious enthusiasm lias sent half of Hollywood 'scurrying to ,eir,' bosses to ask if'tliej, can't havnu�v9 of absence- tooe BetteD'avis writ c go, but Warners have big plans '4for. her. Josephine Hutchinson wants'her annual fling on the stage. And d41zt Crawford and Francbot Tone are act- ing mighty mysterious; reacting plys and time tables. Add one more picture to the cur- rent list of those you simply have to see, Metro -Goldwyn- Mayer's "Captain Courageous" is -ijne of the finest pictilres of all time: Thew, is not a woman in Tklie cast, but even the Young girls wlica;'.do think any iidtiire withorlt torridleve scenes" le a wsi "out confess that :.: they never even my the romantic angleizr. &'relid�e this 000. It 10 ;lie Bartholomew story of tee G u ester fishing fleet which Spencer Tracy and youaeli'ette. die Bartholomew do the finest izGtiug of their careers. Indeed, it is the eirst picture in which young Bartholomew has had a chance to show that he is not just a sweet and 'handsome .lad with pathetic eyes. He is a grand ac- tor. As soon as Ernst "Lubitsch ;finishes directing Marlene Dietrich and bort Marshall in "Angel" he its going to turn actor for a few days. ' :Long ago .when he was an _actor; • n :Germ- any,. hie great ambition was 'i.o play Napoleon, and just nozi.`'it, happens that Cecil De Mille is, soa.i'ching the highways and byways fora malt to play Napoleon in 'Buccaneer." . ub- itsch got into *costume ' i id make---u:e presented himself to De Mille, an l he was hied at once. imensls Guld To Ideal.. The woman who Baan 5 should decide `whether ealee.wal l e to lose weight from head` to Riot` or simply an ing1 o, ,two ' here and there. If the former, 'a diet aswell as exercise routines'should be snapped out. If the latter., exercise and : pas- sage—not diet -are what count.,, First of all, And out what your di- mensions ought to be, ' If you aete 5 feet 6 inches and under". "ao' years of age, your hips should,` measure; no mote than 37 inches; waistline no more than 26; bust no more than;; 34. If your bones are big, therefore heavy, and if . your flesh is firm ?and solid, you can'eyeigh as much as'.'135 pounds, yet retail' the ideal 'd men - cions; However, if you have tiny bones and your flesh has a tendency to be soft, you may have to come" down to as little as 120 pounds to have hips that are no more than' 37,; and so :on, In other words, dimensions -e, nod; weight—should be your lirilnat'y con cern.' If your: hips, when compared to wnistiine, legs and bust, are #ibout three inches too large, start rolling on the floor each and every morning. Simply lie on the floor with au ldes together and hands clasped 'high above your head. Keeping shoulders. and arms on the floor, slowly roll the. lower half of your ,body from side to side, See that each roll . exerts pressure on the fatty spots on hips and thighs. This exercise, if ,;done every day, is sure to produce satis- factory results. Law on 'Soil Drifting A couple of years ago the legis- lators of the province decided; that the time had come to take some com- pulsory action, and a soil drifting measure was passed which made it possible , for neighbor to' sue nes llbor if drifted soil 'j caused .clailan± ,to land. We have never heard of the * i. being invoked, but it:rnight be a goad thing if it were. It•tnight focus pub- lic attention •: on' the problem anal bring about inoie concerted action in this phase of farm lehabil.itatioil walk iii the West. There is a strong tete enct we have noticed, for faineers 't v that s z'1 drift* ce'.nti of inetli tls' it e ufhr tli other 2elloyv;"` a a: not. apply theirs at 1 cine.-etet1 gridg Mtr+ Herald. Milk Protection For Tourists ordinary raw milk heated to 142 de- grees',in a dduble boiler ,for, thirty 'ali- auto ; and then chilled is free from dadgereus baeteria, This Process is called pasteurization, and from pas teui'ieed znillt there is little: or no like- lihood of contracting bovlu.e tuber- culosis, diptheria, typhoid fever, un- dulant fever or septic sore throat. •To- 'rnnto' and almost 5 other Canadian centres make pasteurization compul- sory for the Protection of their" peo- ple, But when their people go touring the country, this protection, and the protection afforded by a pure water supply, can no longer be exercised by the home municipality. It remains for tho individual to demand pasteurized milk and government tested water at the resorts which he patronizes. The Health League of Canada is go- ingne promote this form of tourist safe 41by listing the resorts in Ont- ario which furnish guests with pas- teixrized milk only. United States tourists are beginning to ask for such information, and to some this will no doubt be a deciding factor. It will, at any rate, do much to promote public health, There have been in the past, re- sorts which prided themselves upon giving their guests "mills fresh from. the cow — not Iike the poor stuff you get in the city." Such milk, unfortun- ately, may be full of harmful germs. The, cow may have tuberculosis, or it may have been wading in a typhoid - contaminated pool. Pasteurization is a simple process which removes the liklihood that any disease will be transmitted, w en Nest -Share espons hf.E At T For eater Government Mrs. Roosevelt Says We're Working Up to a New l .a Of :Citizenship SYRACUSE, 'N.Y.—Women must carry a large part of the responsibil- ity for' br:nging about better govern- ment and a better order of living, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said in an address at a dinner clirnax'ng the an- nual State Conference of Democratic Women here. "We're just wcrking up to a new era of citizenship," Mrs. Roosevelt said in discussing women's civil responsib_lit;'.: "We're doing a tremendous thing in this country," the speaker said. *`We're proving that democracy can function. There are not so many democracies that we can afford to neglect doing our share of the job, because the whole basis of democracy is the zees aonsibility of the individual citizen. Otherwise we can very easily slip into the type of government we can. see in other countries today." "Any girl who is needed at home has a job 'Just as surely as the girl who operates a machine in a factory." "The *uits of the free spirit of the men dcenet grow in the garden of ty- really," — Stanley Baldwin. You may be able to get Austral°a, China and Russia on your radio. But try and get,ten dollars on it at the dealer's. - Quebec Chronicle -Tele- graph. RA She S She said, "I can never endure It—the weight of this pain," She not knowing that bodies procure" Somehow the strength to retain.' Every grief that assails thein. Shel said "1 shall never survive!" She not knowing how one may hal bled To the bone,and still thrive. She believed that the end Of her life would appear any day.. But her back and her heart learned' to bend— And the years passed away. "Seeing Eye" Dog Is Guide Miss Lucy Senkeivitz, B.A., of Gth Avenue, Rosemount, MontreaI— who lost her sight and her right hand in a dynamite explosion at a picnic six years ago—with. her German Shepherd dog "Vic", trained at. the "Seeing Eye" Inst:tutc, Morristown,. New Jersey, to be guide and guardian of blind.folk., She has returned to Montreal delighted with the new-found freedom that the intelligent animal helps her to obtain. The special harness which the dog wears, witex a rigid loop handle, enables Miss Senkeivitz to sense the movements of the dog. The photograph shows the dog guiding her through traffic. ,. 1'�lQi4+8IlJP•&IE'• SL°O32C?. 14DL4R-S' yi: ILU2914 PS", Six crews which fought for supremacy in the head-oi-the-river race on the Rifer Yarra, near Melbourne, Australia, are shown in this beautiful twilight scene as they stroked up the garden boraered river in their final evening practice for the race. Tie -Up of Hollywood's Latest Love Birds ti On obedient wife is One while has-, band his terd her to do What S'lie,, 1 loarse who .sloes it:---i<iti:heiier Recors, andd. The film Colon/s. i1 west newlyweds, William Boyd, star of the "Vlesterns,""and his vivacious bride,. race Bradley (picture left), and Dick I+'oran, s'.nging cowboy, and Mary Piper Hollingsworth, 42o ere iiiairied in a Mexican hamlet, niado,tltese pictures of happiness in Hollywood.