HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-11-11, Page 7REMEI14,8RANCE
Ten million spirits — restless and sighing,
Scarce yet their bones are mingled with dust,
"They died 'ter peace" -- an ,all -glorious vision
"To end all ware," their sacred trust,
Little white crosses, what do they stand for?
Naught but an emblem of trust that's betrayed;
Tlie. "vision" is blurred, the,war clouds have gathered, •
And men have forgotten, the promises made.
Oh, Man- of the Cross, look down now in pity
.0n a world all bewildered with friction and hate;
13ring back the "vision" that ten million died for,
Raise up the arose of Peace ere 'tis too late!
M.AUD K RR
LESSON VII
THE CHRISTIAN MINISTER
2 Timothy, Chap. 4; 2 Timothy 2:. 1.4
Printed Text -1 Timothy 4: 6-16;
2 Timothy 2: 1-4
Golden Text—Neglect not the gift
that is in thee. 1 Timothy 4: 14.
71 -tie Lesson In Its Setting
Time.—The first epistle of Paul to
Timothy was probably written A.D.
63-66, and the second epistle about
A.D. 67.
Place.—Second Timothy was writ-
ten from Rome, where Paul was a
prisoner,
The first epistle of Paul to Timothy
was probably written about A.D. 66,
immediately before Paul's second im-
prisonment, while the. second epistle
to Timothy was written shortly be-
fore martyrdom, while he was a pris-
oner in Rome, A.D. 67.
Paul could not emphasize the im-
portance of the truth which he un-
folds in the first three verses of this
chapter more than to say that this
matter had been expressly given by
the Holy Spirit. .
G. If thou put the brethren in mind
of these things, thou shalt be a good
minister of Christ Jesus. The word
here translated "minister" means, lit-
erally, "a laborer," "one who serves."
Nourished in the words of the faith.
These of course, refer to the Holy
Scriptures. And of the good doctrine
which thou hast followed until now.
People aro bound to believe some-
thing, and, if they are not instructeei
in divine truth, in the truth as God
has given it to us, then they inevit-
ably will receive error, the false teach-
ings of men, partial truths which can •
never satisfy, and which so often lead
to tragedy, disaster, and wickedness.
7. But refuse profane and old wives'
fables. The..fables here spoken of are
those childish, silly, impossible myths.
Practise Godliness
And exercise thyself unto godliness.
Christian people ought to train their
spirits at least as carefully as the
athlete does his muscles. The self-
denial, and persistence, and concen-
tration which are expended in athletic
pursuits put to shame the way in
which Christians go about the task
of doing their religion.
3. For bodily exercise is profitable
for a little; but godliness is profitable
for all things, having promise of the
life which now is, and of that which
is to come.
9. Faithful is the saying, and worthy
of all acceptation. What is promised
s
'f ted o4 p
Ay os.X a 4up cop e�oa s
trot t c ,y Set Ogler Naate9
O�SEpost 22 153 tate onto'
,, �sl�a�e�uL�a"artis�est, 1........
p'SLO.Cottt gt,
Weis
THE INVIGORATING DRINK OF REAL BEEF FLAVOUR
is life, i.e., the very highest blessed-
ness both in this world and the next.
St. Paul means exactly what our Lord
means when he says, I am come that
ye may have life and may have it
more. abundantly:
10. Por to this end we labor and
strive. Because we have our hope set
on the living God, who is the Saviour
of all men, especially of them - that
believe. 11. These things command
and teach. The great motive power
in the life of the Christian minister,
that which keeps him from fairiting
by the way, from giving up in despair,
is that he is in fellowship with the liv-
ing God, with whom some day he will
be in glory, who has appointed him to
the supreme work of bringing men to
know and accept the Lord Jesus
Christ as Saviour. God is the Saviour
of all men in so far as he sent his
only begotten Son into the world that
whosoever should believe on him
would be saved, and have everlasting
life.
12. Let no man despise thy youtb.
In the early church a bishop was not
appointed until he was at least fifty
years of age. But be thou an ensam-
ple. Here it means that Timothy was
to be ,a model for other Christian be-
lievers. To them that believe, in word,
in. manner of life, in love, in faith, in
purity. "The five words describe five
stages from the most defined external
to the most defined internal charac-
teristics—speech, behavior, love, faith,
purity; love, as it were, belonging
equally to the inner and the outer self
and combining all."
Working Whole-heartedly.
13. Till I come, give heed to read-'
ing. This refers not to private read-
ing, but to the public reading of the
`Scriptures in"church- services or
wherever people are gathered together
The early Christians were accustomed
to such public reading in the syna-
gogues and availed themselves of -it
in the work of propagating Christian-
ity. To exhortation, to teaching, The
.first word refers "to that form of pub-
lic address which is especially intend-
ed to excite the feelings and impel to
action; the second to that public in-
struction, in which the purpose is to
enlighten the understanding by rea-
soning, either in unfolding and es-
tablishing truth, or in exposing and
refuting error."
14. Neglect not the gift that is in
thee, which was given thee by
prophecy, with the laying on of the
hands of the presbytery. "Three ele-
ments in Timothy's consecration to
his present. office were: (1) _certain
prophetic utterances similar to that
by which St. Paul himself and St.
Barnabas had been marked out for
their apostolic ministry (Acts 13: 1,
2); (2) the actual ordination by St.
Paul; (3) the recognition and testi-
mony of the Ephesian presbyters sig-
nified by their taking part in the lay-
ing on of hands."
15. Be diligent in these things; give
thyself wholly to thein; that thy pro-
gress
gross may be manifest unto all. Let
none of us who are preaching forget
that -our people will know whether
we are really working or not. Our
sermons will show it. Our conversa-
tion will reveal it. There is no man
so speedily discoverefas an idle min-
ister, and there is no man who is vis-
ited by swifter contempt.
16. Take heed to thyself, and to
thy teaching. "Fix thy very best and
thy very closest attention on thyself.
No Longer Grade
Pupils Numerically
New
Method Adopted to Prevent
Feeling of Inferiority
The numerical standing of pupils in
the public schools has been abolished
this year, so parents wlio: used to tree
to see their children stand "well up"'.
in the class will have to be content;
with knowing merely that their stand-
ing is "excellent." The numerical
standing gf pupils on the monthly re-
port cards has been stopped, a local
school principal explained, in the in-
terests of `plodders, those children
with average ability who work hard,
but never reach the top,
For Parents Only
The department of education, lie
Painted out, does not want these chil-
dren to grow up with tare idea that
no natter how hard they work they
are inferior to a number of brighter
stn dents.
There will be a grading from now
on according to ability, but this is
more for the information of the par-
ents and not to classify the pupils.
Parents will note the designations
Excellent, Good, Fair, or Poor, op-
posite the various subjects on the
youngsters' report cards.
70,000,000 Canadian
Spoons on Order
J. Lyons & 'Co. Ltd., tea - mer-
chants of London, England, have
placed an. order for '70,000,000 wooden
ice cream spoons with the John Lewis
Industries of Ship Harbour, Nova
Scotia.
This is thy main duty as a pastor."
Continue in these things; for in do-
ing
oing this thou shalt save both thyself
and them that hear thee. Salvation
does not depend, of course, upon what
one does, but what one does, and
thinks, and planse will determine
whether that person will waste his
life or save it for great and glorious
achievements. This likewise applies
to the hearers of a gospel preacher—
it has been shown in more than one
historic incident that a minister whose
own life is strong, and holy, and
Christlike has bee.'. a tower of
strength, encouragement, and help to
his own people in hours when, other-
wise, humanly speaking, they would
have gone to pieces.
Soldier of Christ
1. Thou therefore, my child. Tim-
othy was Paul's child by faith, not
according to the flesh. Be strength-
erred in the grace that is hi Christ
Jesus. "Timothy was to retreat with-
in those concentric clreies—grace and,
Christ -two circles "wi�i-Ieh are, after"
all, but one, for grace is Christ in ac-
tion and in presence. It is, after all,
himself, as our secret, our refuge, our
resource."
2.. And the things which thou hast
heard from me among many Wit-
nesses the same commit thjta to faith-
ful men, who shall be all, to teach
others also. There is hal anything
more important in all the Christian
church than the responsibility and the
opportunity of older ministers and
teachers depositing the riches of their
learning, and faith, and experience in
the hearts of their younger brethren,
that the great treasures that are in
the Scriptures and that are available
in Christ may never be diminished be-
cause a generation arises ignorant of
these holy and divine themes.
3. Suffer hardship with me, as a
good soldier of Christ Jesus. "The
Christian man, above all, the Chris-
tian pastor, is to think of himself un-
der this similitude.
4. No soldier on service entangleth
himself in the affairs of this life; that
he may please him who enrolled him
as a soldier. A soldier cannot be at
the beck and call of noncombatants;
he cannot be called on the telephone
and asked to serve on this or that
local committee for sponsoring every
conceivable movement that has noth-
ing to do with the great w'r in which
he is engaged, or into which he ex-
pects soon to be called. So a minister
of the gospel must not be so crowded
with secular engagements, and civic
movements, and certainly not with
political causes, that his great task of
witnessing for Jesus Christ and doing
Christ's work is sadly neglected.
Ch? nese Launch Drive to Assist Country
LISTEN...
CANADA -14I3
IMPERIAL TOBACCO'S
INSPIRING PROGRAM
Every Friday .Flight
on a national
coast to coast network.
y{�4
Highway Proposed
From Mexico City
Right to Alaska
"Dream Road" 3,790 Miles Long
May Some Day lige Con-
structed.
Supporters of the proposed motor
highway through British Columbia
from the United States boundary to
Alaska, last week studied statements
by two political leaders and decided
the road would be built—but they
still couldn't tell when.
The Princess Der Ling, former Lady in Waiting to the Empress Dow- - The highway—one major uncom-
ager of China, and Chinese consul T. K. Chaing assist in the raising
of funds and clothing in Los Angeles, Cal., for the purpose of render-
. Ing relief i,o tato victims of the fighting in war-torn China.
For months you will he hearing
about the great success of the film,
"Stage Door," partly because it is
such an entertaining picture, but
more because it is proving a turning
'point in the careers of the many
young actresses who appear in it.
Katherine Hepburn, so long totter-
ir mr the brink of whimsy and ob-
livion, returns to the
early forthright man-
ner of her great suc-
cess, "Morning Glory"
and really tugs at
your heart strings,
Ginger Rogers proves
to be a fine' dramatic
actress, Andrea Leeds
and Lucille Ball make
Katherine dramatic bits stand
Hepburn out so effectively that
they nave already been rewarded with -
leading roles. Constance Collier, for
many years a great idol of the Lon-
don and New York stage, proves that
she can be equally effective in mo-
tion pictures.
Jack Benny has every reason to be
proud of his wife's motion picture
debut. In Paramount's "This Way"'
Please," Mary Livingstone tosses non-
sensical lines about as deftly as she
does on the nation's favorite air pro-
gram. This picture also serves as the
film debut of Fibber McGee and
Molly, those pleasant homey folks of
the radio, and brings back Buddy
Rogers. He isn't as young and exub-
erant as he used to be, but he can still
lead a band. Crowded as the picture
is with big-time favorites, two
youngsters manage to walk off with
a large share of the honors. Betty
Grable is a little bombshell of viva-
c'ous beauty and Rufe Davis proves
to be the most hilariously -entertain-
ing of all hillbillies with an imitation
of a man sicking his hound dogs on
a pig in a potato patch.
With Ruth Mix, daughter of Tom
Mix, starting on the first of four
cowgirl pictures she will make for
Grand National, this young company
is assured more Westerns for release
during the coming year than any
other company. Tex Ritter is mak-
ing eight musical Westerns for them,
and Ken Maynard is coming back
from his tour with the Cole Brothers
Circus to make eight dramatic West-
erns for them.
Frances Dee retired from the
ecreen long enough to have two
babies and br:ng thea up to the tod-
dling age and when she. returned to
play in "Souls. at Sea" she was not
at all sure that she wanted to go on
with her careor. Now, however, she
finds that working doesn't keep her
away from her babies very much and
she enjoys being able to swap pro-
fessional studio talk with her hus-
band, Joel McCrea. Paramount is
equally enthusiastic over her return
and will put her hi the lead of
"Dream Of Love."
ODDS and ENDS — The Warner
Brothers are in a frenzy because the
Mauch twins are grow;ng so fast,
they .tire outgrowing some scenarios
written for them... Lionel Barry -
More has gone off" to England to work
D-=3
in Robert Taylor's picture being film-
ed at Oxford.... Norma Shearer ex-
pects to get started on filming "Marie
Antoinette" any year now when she
can get just the actors she wants in
her supporting cast.... Rumor has
it that Cary Grant will be known as
number one comic of the screen when
"Tho Awful Truth" with Irene
Dunne, and "Bringing Up Baby",
with Katherine Hepburn are shown
.... Joan Crawford wishes that fans
would write and tell her what sort of
role to play next. She does not want
to sing or dance, though she does
both well, but will try anything else
her fans suggest.
Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper and
Claudette Colbert have all been mark-
whgle Paramount officials
searched for just the
right actor to play a
very important role
in "Bluebeard's 8th
Wife." They were
getting discouraged,
when they happened
to go to a party
where "The Prisoner
Zenda" was shown,
and assoon as they
Gary Cooper saw David Niven they
c,. -rased -that's our man." • Luckily,
he was just on his way back to Eng-
land, and Sam Goldwyn, to whom he
is under contract had no immediate
plans for him.
jr
In Texas (U.S.A.), lightning often
strikes down into the sand and the
heat incite the sand into long strips
of 'jagged glass.
pleted portion of the "dream road"
from the far north to Buenos Aires
in South America—would provide a
continuous 5,790 -nine motor road
from Mexico City to Fairbanks,
Alaska. That distance is consider-
ably less than half the total mileage
of the completed Pan-American High-
way.
ighway.
President Roosevelt Favorable
Comment favorable to construction
of the United States -Alaska section
was made by President Roosevelt in
the "good will" visit to Victoria on
Sept. 30. The President said he
thought the project would be "ad-
visable" as such as governments of
Canada and the United States "find.
it's time to do 11."
Less than a month later, Premier
T. D. Pattullo of British Columbia,
returned to the Pacific Coast from
Ottawa and Hyde Park, N.Y., where
he visited the President, to tell inter-
viewers:
"The highway will definitely come.
Look at it this way—Alaska and the
United States- are two neighbors, and
the only way they can get overland
contact is through our territory."
Delay for Financial Reasons
Apparently the pri.•cipal delay in
starting work on the highway lay in
financing. Engineers' estimates have
placed the cost at about $12,000,000
so far as Canada is concerned —47,-
304.000 for the 504 miles yet to be
built in British Columbia, $4,680,000
for the Yukon Territory's 480 -mile
stretch.
Already completed in the Pan.
American highway is a completely-
paved
ompletelypaved roadway from Vancouver to
Mexico City. Another 832 miles, for
the most part paved, runs from Van-
couver to Hazelton, B.C., on the
Canadian National Railways north.
ern line to Prince Rupert.
fl
Autt0000lmiztoacaleorir
atw Can
Beaute l &bid
You Sell k For
'Add 15c Postage
THAT is what everyone says
when they see this new
OXFORD BASKET WEAVE
BIBLE. No illustration could
adequately picture the beauty
of its warm -toned DARK
BROWN cover with the unus-
ually attractive basket -weave
grain. You, too, will be sur-
prised that so beautiful a Bible
can be sold for such a low price.
The Basket Weave Cover
The cover is a triumph of the
book binders' art. Unique in
appearance, it offers a volume
which it is a delight to own no
matter how many Bibles you
may have. Not only is the
binding beautiful, but it is dur-
able as well. It is made of the
finest quality DuPont Fabri-
koid. The cover is overlapping
protecting the rounded brown
edges.
Interesting Helps
Contains interesting and invaI-
uable "Aids to Bible Study."
and 4000 questions and answ-
ers relating to the entire Bible.
Colored Pictures and
Presentation Page
Has eight full-page beautifully
colored pictures by the famous
illustrator .Arthur Twidle and
the new Historical Presentation
Page printed in two colors.
New } Oxford Reference Bible Also contains six colored maps
Printed to England hi a new and beautiful df Bible lands.
sear ince typo specially cut or this edition.
Printed on oxford Bible paper. Size or page
7" x 4s"", thickness 3's". Dover is Morocco-
Otte, overlapping edges, rodnd 000ate'Es, gilt The bold, black -faced type
edges, Remarkable values $1.24 makes this Bible a. pleasure to
acre so ?dotage read, Although printed with
A nor a non EVERY naso limited tints at those speolal such easily read type, the vol.
Prionis for a
Prions and every Bible is sold with The cam- ulna measures only 6% x 4%
late vortrantoe of satisfaction or •mono), re` x 1 illell. Packed in an attract"
fute/e : ao*U tesee must be el par Si Tor- ive Brown gift box.
onto. Re earn to tareiude postage,
Publishers Agency of Tor nto
73 ADELAIDE ST., W. --- Suite 421
Bold Type
TORONTO, 2