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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-10-14, Page 7r4.,, tR :pie) j Sunday School Lesson lea a p° -- James proceeds from his specific dis- cussion of speech to the larger quos - tion of wisdom. The understanding of things human and divine and their causes. It is the word used to de- scribe the wisdom of Christ himself (Matt. 13:54).' James refers to the need for wisdom at the very begin- ning of his epistle (1:5, 6), and now returns to the subject once again. Let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. Meek- ness in the New Testament "included submissiveness to God as well as gentleness towards man. 14. But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. The word here translated faction might ' be more accurately translated "riv- alry," expressing the strife existing among different individuals or groups of individuals. There is nothing more tragic in the world than to see Chris - tion teachers, and officers in the' Christian church striving among themselves for superior places of honor, and angry if someone else gets more praise than they get. To ". glory with their tongues of superior wisdom, while they cherished jeal- ousy and faction in their hearts, was a manifest lie, a contradiction of what they must know to be the truth. James now turns from bis discus- sion of wisdom in general to a char- acterization and development of the two lands of wisdom which :nen may have, one bearing evil fruit, and the other bearing fruits of righteousness. 15. This wisdom. That is, any such wisdom that allows jealousy and fac- tion in one's heart. Is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly. That is, it does not have a divine origin, but derives from the natural plane on which unregener- ated men live. "It belongs to the lower impulses, not the higher, in man's nature. Devilish. The orig- inal word here really refers not so much to the devil himself, as to de- mons, and as partaking of the nature of demons or unclean spirits who are represented as possessing the souls of men, and reducing them to the level of madness. 16. For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. In I Cor. 14:33, God is said to be the author, not of confusion, but of peace. The word here trans- lated vile means good for nothing. 17. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure. (See Prov. 2: 3-6).. "The purity of the heavenly wisdom does not consist merely in victory over temptations of the flesh, but in freedom froi1 worldly and low motives. "I cannot win inn from impurity to purity if I am not pure." LESSON UI CHRISTIAN SPEECH AND CONDUCT—James, Chapter 3 deaden Text.—Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, Ephe- sians 4:29. TI-IE•LESSON IN ITS SETTING. Time.—The date of the epistle of James is greatly disputed, The au- thor died in 63 A.D. Some place the epistle the year before this, while others date it as early as 50 A.D. The exact date cannot be determ- ined. Place.—Probably James wrote the epistle in the city of Jerusalem. The author of this epistle was the brother of the Lord Jesus, and is re- ferred to directly only twice in the Gospels (Matt. 12:46; 13:55; Mark 6:3. Cf. John 2:12; 7:3,5). He was, of course, a'Jew, brought up in the strict teachings of the Jewish synagogue, devoted to the law of Moses, zealous in living a righeous and godly life. His was probably the first epistle written in , the early „church. It is against this general desire to be prominent as instructors that St. James is here warning his readers. In teaching others, they were in dan- ger of forgetting to teach them- selves; to possess faith and to do nothing but talk. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. 3. Now if we put the horses' bridles into their inouths, that they may , obey us, we turn about their whole body also. James here begins the subject which occupies almost the entire chapter, namely, that of the control of the tongue. What James here means is that, if a man has his tongue under control, i.e;, his speech, he will be thereby keeping under control all the organs of his body which will lead liim into sin if not mastered. A Tongue Controlled 4. Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the im- pulse of the steersman willeth. 5. So the tongue also is a little member, and •Loasteth great things. As a horse uncontrolled is worthless as far as man is concerned, so a chip when driven by rough winds is cer- tain to founder on the rocks or the beach and be smashed to pieces. "Speech can guide into right ways, escape dangers, battle successfully with storms,.and conduct into restful harbors,, but it can •also wreck -.elect- -shatter .and-shatter lives and drown in bottomless floods. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6. And the tongue is a fire. The tongue can inflame another with the passion of anger, or the poison of suspicion. The world of iniquity among our Members is the tongue, which defil- eth the whole body. "You sully your lips and do'grade your whole nature when you suffer yourself to speak the tainted and tainting word. Pas- sions kindled by unscrupulous lan- guage spread through various chan- nels and Courses until the whole cycle of human life is in flames. And is set on fire by hell. "The fire of man's wrath is kindled xrom beneath as the fire that cleanseth is kindled from above. 7. For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. 8. But the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poi- son. Augustine well remarks: "James does not say that no one can tame the tongue, but no one of men; so that, when it is tamed, we -confess that this is brought about by the pity, the help, the grace of God." The aposle now calls the attention of his readers to the great but mys- terious truth with, which we are all iicquaieted—that with the tongue great good and great evil both may be effected. 9. Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we inen, who are made after the likeness Of God. 10. Out of the same mouth Cometh forth blessing and cursing. "How great are the possibilities of ' ii tongue which is under divine eon- •rrol, cleansed and anointed! What Sorrows it can comfort, what wounds it can heal, what strife it can still! It is also God's mightiest instrument for the pulling down of the strong- holds of sin, and the upbuilding of bis kingdom. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. It was abnormal that a man should bless God in his pray- ers or creed and yet so despise or speak evil of members of his own family, inasmuch as he and his fel- low -men were the offspring of a com- mon Father. 11. Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? 12. Can a fig tree, nay brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither can sat water yield sweet. For similar figures of speech 'used by our Lord, see Matt. 7:16-18; 12: Two Kixtds of Wisdom Who is wise and ttiider5tattling. among you? Ina most natural way, Queen ;retry Sees Error In Labels Queen Mary an expert on antiques, last week visited the .Antique Dealers' Fair in Mayfair, London, England. In the course of her tour of the exhibits she noticed two bronzes la- belled William Duke of Clarence and Princess Adelaide. She promptly called the exhibitors and suggested they should have been labelled King George IV and Princess Charlotte. The exhibitors admitted their er- ror and changed the labels. It Has Since Disappeared Pilot Johnny Martin, with hie Pe a pesudi of rare value, The ennui. i has vanished, and Martin woull like to find it. because there or, only two of its kind known to exist. in this eountry. p_4 A Ten ,r Goal Reached Foremost among the coveted honours won by Bell Telephone first aiders was the Dominion -wide Championships for women and men --a goal which Bell first aid teams have been striving to attain for ten years. In 'the picture two, Bell Telephone fist aid graduates are giving an exhibition of how head, arm, and leg injuries should be cared for. In the background are the trophies won by the .different .Bell Telephone teams, Left to right: the Ontario Provincial Shield and the Montizambert Cup: emblematic of tile � Canadian Championship won by Team No. 4, To- ronto. The Sir George Burn Trophy, All Canada Ladies' First Aid Championship, won by the Accounting Ladies' Team, Toronto. The Wallace Nesbitt General Trophy and the Quebec Provincial Shield won by Team No. i, Montreal. Approitimately ninety-five out of every hundred Bell Telephone male plant workers are now qualified to render First Aid. 1 vie By VIRGINIA DALE If you thought Deanna Durbin a remarkable talented youngster last year when you saw her in "Three Smart Girls," you will think she is died Men anda Girl." Her voice, al- ways good, has'dev- :•.:.:,• elo ed so amazingly �( '*;> that she ranks;' with the :best of semen prima. donnas. Even more startling , is the development of this quiet fouteen- year-old as eat,; ac- tress. She- -,!plays nothing short. of a baby .genius when you !tee "One Una - comedy, farce or tragedy with 'the deft assurance of a veteran. Sup Ported by Stokowski, that most bril- liant of conductors, no nervous qualms weaken her.. voice, and in scenes with Alice Brady, Adolph Men - Jou, and Mischa Auer, those persist- ent scene stealers, she more then holds her own. ' RICO has already finished the screen version of "Stage Door" with Katherine Hepburn and Ginger Rog- ers in the leads. The dialogue, ev- eryone says, simply sparkles, and al- though Hepburn and Rogers are at their very best in it, Andrea Leeds and Lucille Ball, who play small roles, draw a big share of the enthusiastic comment. Deanna Aux biz Very few actors enjoy success in Hollywood for more than five years, but producers never find a newcomer who .can handle .4.laii Ha'e roles. He has just signed to play Little John in the new versh.n of "Robin Hood" with Errol Flynn. It is the same role he played 15 years ago when Doug- las Fairbanks ina,e the picture. It looks as if all Hollywood will be trying to congregate on .,the Bing Crosby set soon, for Bee Lillie, the elegant Lady peel no less, is going to play opposite him. If you missed Bee on a recent Vallee hour, you. should shed One tear at least. She gate the sketch ''that she has done innumerable times 'Two down double damask dinner napkins. please," and it was even funnier than before. Maybe Eddie Cantor is awfully siniut i.o stivitch his radio program night competition is going to be even more fierce than uss uai this winter. There will be Sack Benny, of course, Phil Baker, acid Joe Penner, but in addi- , tion there will be two big screen fa. vorites with new progranie — Rosa- lind Russell and Ty - from Sunday nights to Wednesday,' be- cause the Sunday mono Por. or. Robert Taylor had'bet ter hurry back from England if Ile doesn't want Tyrone to displace him as Matinee Idol Number One of the younger set. Eddie Cantor Humphrey Bogart is getting to be so popular on the screen that pro- ducers are toying with the idea of making a hero of him, but every time they bring up the subject, Hum- phrey takes to his heels and runs away. He played a smirking hero once, back in 1930, and neither au- diences nor directors wanted to see him again. It wasn't until he played the murderous Duke Mantee in "Pet- rified Forest" that they forgave him. Since then he has specialized in the deepest -dyed villainy in "Black Le- gion" and "Bullets or Ballots." In "Dead End" he is so magnificently villainous that hero or heroine, Joel McCrea and Sylvia Sidney, have a hard time distracting attention from ODDS AND ENDS — Constance Bennett is going to slake another goofy comedy like "Topper" as soon as she and Countess di Frasso launch their cosmetic company ... Erin O'- Brien Moore, who plays "Nana" in "The Life of Finite Zola," is being boomed by thousands of admirers for the much -disputed role of Scarlett in "Gone..With,the Wind." . • C afry y inky, lh d Readhig "Inds ubtecl McGill Psychologist Questions Claims Made By Two U.S. Scientists Opening guns have been fired in an international controversy in science and it is believed that Prof. Chester E. Kellogg, of the department of psy- chology, McGill University, Montreal, has gained a direct hit off Prof. Ernest Wright, chairman of the department of English literature at Columbia Uni- versity, New York City, and Prof. J. B. Rhine of Duke University. Telepathy What proportions the controversy will reach can scarcely be estimated as yet but already outstanding med- iums, including both daily newspapers and scientific journals, have been used to carry the verbal bullets. The controversy is in that ever - popular subject—is it true that there is a basis of fact in the claim of clairvoyants and mental telepathists that they receive information in a way which does not involve the ordinary senses of perception? Are there mind- readers? Can knowledge be conveyed through the air without the aid of usual means? Professor Kellogg, of McGill, does not say< ``no", but lie does say that the research which Professor Rhine j has carried out, and concerning which Professor Wright has written much, is "quite inconclusive." Simple Experiments Professo?' Rbine's experiments have been carried out in a field which Is labelled scientifically as "Extra -Sen- sory Perception." His tools are quite simple. He uses a pack of 25 cards of five different designs. To test out clairvoyance, he asks his subjects to identify the cards which are faced down. To test telepathy the subjects are asked to call the cards imagined in the mind of another individual. Laws of Chance By the laws of chance, five hits in 25 guesses would be expected. Pro- fessor Rhine's subjects achieved as high as nine Bits. Professor Rhine claims that chance could not account for these results. Professor Kellogg's refutation of the American savant's- results and conclusions involve a technical oat- line of the laws of chance and a matte eiiiaticai discussion of the statistioai motlioda involved. Playing Bridge By Teievisioils An account of a. recent television l game of bridge is given by the British .Bridge World end it speaks of ether gainer to follow. The television program consists of a display of the four hands on a blackboard, They are introduced byl a commentator who indulges in al little semi -humorous backehat with a' colleague while instructing listeners on the pitfalls and possibilities of the deal. Four first-class players appear on the removal of the blackboard and have no inkling of the hands allot.. ted them, which are prepared 4in the four slots of an ordinary duplicate container. Then they bid and play the deal. She Lost Her Grip Mrs. Lydia Harris has her own ideas of saving her hosts annoy- ances. Finding herself locked out of a third floor apartment, she went to the fifth and tried to lower her- self by a rope to a third floor ledge. The rope parted. She is in hospital. At The Mordkin Ballet Two members of the world -famed original ballet troupe, directed by Mikhail Mordkin who are presenting new ballets this season never before seen in America.