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Zurich Herald, 1937-10-21, Page 7Sunday Schoo.l Less n LESSON IV Christian Renewal -- John 10:7.16; Titus 3;1-11 Printed Tet Titus 3:1^11 GOLDEN TIXT — "For the grace of God hath .appeared, bringing salva- tion to all men." Titus 2:11, TH;17 LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time — The words of our Lord were uttered in October. A.D., 29. The Epistle to Titus was written shortly before the martyrdom of St. Paul, pro- bably A.D. GG. Place — Our Lora's words wore ut- tered in Jerusalem. The Epistle of Paul to Titus was written from Rome to Titus who was residing in the is- land of Crete. John Ruskin has well said. "There Is no wealth but life." The question might well be asked by every man, in the quiet of an hour when he is alone with himself and with God: "What would 1 consider to be the richest, ful- lest possible life for myself, if I could have everything in the world I should wish to choose?" Then he might follow' this question with an- other: "Is my life today as rich, deep, full, and satisfying as it can be?" John 10:7.16. The central statement in this lesson assigned to us from the tenth chapter of John, as it relates to the general subject of our lesson for t eday, is found at the end of verse 10, "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." The reason why Christ is able to bestow abundant life upon men is be- cause, on the one hand, he delivers men from all those powers which rob them of life. He delivers from the pow- er of sin, the power of Satan, and the power of death. He is able to do this because he iivpd sinlessly and can give victory. The abundant life which we have in Christ extends into every sphere of our personality. Our Lord came also to give us more abundant intellectual life. We can hardly imagine today the mental dark- ness of the world into which our Lord came. More Abundant Life Most of all, CIlrist is able, and he only, to give to num a rich, more abun- dant, overflowing spiritual life. He alone brings God into the life of man. The epistle of Paul to Titus '•-as written to him while he was working as a disciple of Christ and a laborer In the church in the island of Crete. "Put them in mind to be in subjec- tion to rulers, to authorities, to be ob- edient." The reference liege is princi- pally . to Roman officers who were in authority in the island of Crete. "To be ready unto every ,good work,' Good works have nothing to do with the cer- ta11itjt,; of our being saved, but good works certainly ought to be a part of the experience of everyone who is saved. "To speak evil of no than." There is probably no greater sin among the children of God than speaking evil one of another, and this vicious habit the New Testament continually denounc- es. "Not to be contentious." Literally, this means not to be fighters. "To be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men." "For we also once were foolish." That is. acting without understanding, stupidly, without discernment, which is a characteristic of every sinner. "Disobedient." Both. to God's laws, and the laws of magistrates and rulers. "Deceived." As in 2 Tim. 3:13, either lay the devil or by the false opinions of men. "Serving divers lnsts and pleasures." With a sort of grim humor St. Paul here flashes a sadden light on what is called a life of pleasure, and shows what a slavery it really is. "Living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another." Are not hatred and envy the cause of nearly all mur- ders, and most of the lies that people tell about others, and, ultimately, the cause of war itself? "But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, ap- peared." Of course this is a direct re- ference to the incarnation of the Son of God, for God's love for the world was so great that he sent his only be - Totten Son. Until that time men hard- ly knew, and never renew in all the wealth of its moaning, that God in heaven loved sinners on earth. Washing of Regeneration '''`Not by wgrks done in righteous- ness, which wo did'ourselves." All the good works done in righteousness, aro worthy and commendable but they can never save us. "But according to his Mercy he saved us." The mercy of God is simply his knowledge of our desperate heed, and his delivering us from the fearful consequences of our desperate condition. "Through the washing of regeneration." Literally,. our word regeneration simply means born again. Most commentators make the word washing to refer to baptism. However, baptism does not save us, but is a symbol of the washing away of our sins, which takes place when we are born again. It is that gradual conforming of the mind, more and more, to that new' spir- itual world into which he has been in- troduced, the restoration of the divine image. "Which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Sa- viour." All the spiritual blessings of the new birth and of the new life are represented as flowing down to us from and out of the one fountain and well -spring of the love of God the Father. "That, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." To be jus- tified is to be declared just, and, in the epistles of Paul, it means that a sinner before the throne of holy God is declared just or righteous• "Faithful is the saying, and con- cerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto .men." Good works are simply doing those things that bring good and blessing to other people. There are good works on a strictly materialistic basis, such as supplying clothes, food, shelter, and relief in physical distress, minister- ing to the sick, and the lonely, and the inipoverishecl; but there are good works on a higher plane, such as un- folding the word of God to those who do not know it, bringing comfort in an hour of tragedy, leading others out of darkness into light, ignorant men and women,' praying with others and for others, faithfulness to those who need us, etc. That_ greats. pas-,, sage in Tim. 3:16, 17 reveals the su- preme spirituality of what we call good works, and no man can do good works unless he is a believer in the Lord Jesus. Notice especially• the word "careful." The word implies two things: "Bring your brains to bear on these truths that are being thus constantly examined; bring them into your hearts through your minds, that they may filter into the shape the life. Carefulness means the occupation of the mind with the truths that produce holiness of life. And then, secondly, there must be a direct and continuous effort to in- crease our faith. "But shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain." "A factious man." The ward in- dicates a man who is determined to go his own way, and so forms par- ties arties and factions in the church. "Af- ter a first and second admonition re- fuse; Knowing that such a one is perverted, and sinneth, being self - condemned. The meaning seems to be that, after a first attempt to in- duce this person to desist from his perverse and self-willed conduct, Ti- tus is to waste no more time on him, because he knows his efforts will be useless. 'It is a kindly fate that has not given us the gift of seeing ourselves as others see us." —Will Durant. D-3 Lod Tweedsmuir Opens The Cote of Renermbran ce The upper picture shows His Excellency the Gover nor -General cutting the ribbons across the Gate of Remembrance which he officially opened at the Field of Honor, Point Claire near Montreal. On the left is Major John Molson, president of the Last Post Fund, and on the right Norman Holland, first vice- president of the Fund... The lower picture is that of the imposing Gate of Remembrance. Teeth Render 4000 Jobless Buffalo—Halbert I. DeFreet, 45, drove home after having all his teeth extracted. Police Lieutenant Wil- liam Marmon reported that De- Freet, feeling faint, pulled his 'car to the curb. It hit a pole. Then ,1t1 other poles fell down; near -by house and street lights went out; an elec- tric light standard exploded; 4,' men were unable to work in eig"it industrial plants because the power went off. Tossed in Atlantic, Bottle is d..etur..ne George Hodges and1 'sister Nor both of Stratford; Ont.,`when retuti ing from a vacation in. England .m September, 1936, tossed a bottle over- board in the Atlantic Ocean contain- ing a brief letter. On September 3, 1937, the bottle with the letter somewhat watersoaked was picked up on the coast of Iceland and sent to the Hodges family in' Stratford with the compliments of the British consulate -general, Reykjavik, Iceland. Written on the original after it was found were the words: "Found on Hjorleifshoft Strand, September 3, 1937, by Jakob Gudlauzsson, Vik 1Vlyrdol, Iceland." Meteorite In Crusher Ruins Equipment Excavation dining road -building operations from the limestone ridge in which it had embedded two miles from Earlton, on the main highway south of Englehart, Northern On- tario, a large meteorite found its way into a crusher, but, proving too hard for the machinery, damaged the equipment so seriously that repairs A MILD BRIGHT CIGARETTE TOBACCO IN THE BIG PACKAGE TINS 25 Church Struck By Lightning The picture was taken of the spire of St. Joseph's Church, Riviere des Prairie near Montreal, which was struck by lightning in an elec- ` trical storm. The first was not noticed till dark, being inside the metal - Sheathed steeple. The upper blurr shows the smoke and Iiame coming out the top of the steeple, the lower bluer being the spotlight of the Montreal firemen, who got up inside the spire and cut a hole through the flooring of the compartment where the fire had been smouldering. costing approximately $2,300 were necessary. • The big chunk of mineral was "skinned" on one side in the crusher, B. W. Hartley, Naileybury geologist, who secured it later, said, and its various component parts exposed. Nickel, iron, olivine and iron oxide have been identified, he' said, and he believes that some bright crystals in the mass arc composed of cope- .nite. The meteorite is estimated to weigh over 300 pounds; at its longest point it measures twenty-six inches, and is fourteen inches at its greatest girth. "Plf;ywr.r;hts should learn to tell .the ct: y h a:l few and as short, simple words as possible." ---Noel Coward. Norwegian Woman On Turkish Stamp p Sigrid Undset, whose latest novel, 'The Faithful Wife," was announced for publication last week, is one of that small group of women who, not members of royal families, have been pestaily honored while still living. A likeness of this Norwegian writ- er, now 55, who received the 1928 Nobel Prize for Literature, appears on one of the Turkish stamps which cornncnoratecl the twelfth car.,„rens of the International Allh nae of Wo. men for Suffrage and Erlu:.l Citi- zenship. "The oily punishment that does any good !s what comms to a lean naturally.” ]t VIRGINiA RALZ Barbara Stanwyck .surprised evens her closest friends when she got on a boat headed for the Panama canal and the Paeifie coast instead of one going to London where Robert Tay for is. She said she has no idea when she and Bob will. meet again. It has Barbara been raining so con- tinuously in England Stanwyck outdoor scenes of his picture have ' been delayed and : his almost - daily i cablegrams sound pretty. blue over the prospect of a long absence fronts Hollywood. She won't go over to see, him, though, partly because she is all' signed up to make a lot of pictures 111 Hollywood. Gordon Miller, who threatens to be. come a matinee idol, reached pictures. by the hitch -hike route. He is slated for the very important role opposite Deanna Durbin in her next picture, "Mad About Music." He hitch-hikedi from his home in Flint, Michigan, to New Orleans, where he went to the Plantation night club and offered to sing for his supper. He sang himself into a steady job. Universal's picture talent scouts heard him and signed' him up. The same men who picked Tyrone. Power and Don Ameche out of obscur- ity and guided them to film fame think that they have a new matinee idol in the person of Dick Baldwin, whom you will see in the Ritz Brother's new picture, "Life Begins at College." Baldwin was just about to leave Holly- wood, discouraged over his failure to get parts, when he was called to the Twentieth. Centry-Fox studios for a test. A day later he was given a con- tract. An anniversary celebration that meant much to motion -picture and ra- dio folk, took place a short time agog at Loew's State, one of the few re- maining vaudeville houses in New York. On its sixteenth birthday, play- ers who got their start or revived their careers there sent telegrams and; encouraged the manager• to keep the, vaudeville alive, • Among the many famous names who gracina.tod from this theatre are the radio pets Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Martha Itayc, James Cagney, Walter Huston who played a dramatic sketch fifteen years ago, and Joe E. Brown, who was one of a team of acro- bats who called themselves artists. Screen stars too numerous to men- tion have played personal appearances there. and it was during an engagement of Buddy Ro- gers and his band that his romance with Mary Pickford first became wide-' ly known. Joe E, Brown WINTER. FA 19 37 • Everybody in rural Ontario should visit the Royal this year. It shows agriculture in all its branches. Brings together the continent's outstanding authorities on agriculture and livestock. Bring the tinnily, reap the benefits and pleasures of this "Regal and im- perlat Year". GLOR1 :iii, .i S Ii A'•rl' S a;. 1. Dazzling horse Show. Beef and dairy cattle, horses, sheep swine, pout• try, foxes, minks, flowers. Exhibits of the choicest products of fields, or- chards and gardens of the country. Canada's Greatest Fat Stock Show Feature attract! ane, er' y clay. Brill, Vint displays of hoi•seniuziship. Some- V.hin; difteront every minute. >ea;:c Ectihvay Fares a vemb€ 16- - 2 Royal Coliseum TORONTO ire? ,,:/ rnatainab 7nri'.c: W. A. Dryden, Mgr., 217 t31y Toronto.