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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1937-11-25, Page 7e 0. fs d, kt- n, k- nt he a e, e k. is n - d rn ft of dh- s. h er s, o - d to to so r- 15 01, ve ire s. g ut ne g st aear.eeear- reases.,suo ,e,••••as•-•••s.p-ee- Sunday School Lesson LESSON IX, Christia.n Fruitfulness—John 15;1.16 Golden Text.—Herela is rny Fa- • ther glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples. John 16:8, The Lesson In Its Setting Time — Thursday evening, April 6, A.D. 30. ,.-- Plaee—Probably in the upper room, where the Lord's Supper was instituted. The beautiful discourse concern- ing the vine and the branches is a part of his wonderful revelation to his disciples on the night before his cruciflxiou, Thursday evening of Pas- sion Week. This long discourse he - gins with chapter 13, extends through chapter 16, and is followed by chap- ter 17, which records the high -priest- ly prayer of our Lord which he ut- tered that night, shortly before his arrest. 1. 1 an the true vine. The nation of Israel was often, in the Old Testa - *merit, likened to a vine (Ps. 80:8- 16; Ise. 5:1-7; Jer. 2:21; Ezek. 19: 10-14). Of course the vine here re- ferred to is the grape vine, which was so extensively cultivated in Palestine. This is the seventh and. last of the famous declarations of Christ occurring in the Gospel of John, and only in the Gospel of John, beginning with the two significant words am." When Christ speaks of himself as the true vine, he as- signs to himself a place no other person in the universe ever had be- fore, or ever can have again. There are not many vines, but one. In that vine, life flows, and apart from that vine there is no true life. If We Are To Bear Fruit The husbandman expresses a re- lationship of possession and care on the one side, and of dependence and submission on the other. 2. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away. As the fruitless branch has no living connection with the vine, no more can the fruitless, professing Christian with Christ. How, and when the husbandman takes the fruit - Jess branch away is left unmention- ed; there is not one definite way or time, the process may be gradual. And every branch that beareth fruit, cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. 3. Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you. Everything which .had been conveyed in his word had been an agent A of purity, and had tended to make them clean. His revelations cleansed their minds like a sweet, fresh mountain stream flowing into a stagnant pool. And when the mind ia cleansed, the heart begins to share the cleansing. 4 -.Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of it- self, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in rne. 5. I ern the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing. That peerless expositor, Dr. Alexander Maclaren, has said that, by Christ abiding in us and his words abiding in us, "something a rtd 0S. tvov) snRi 5,6 ‘19 - see 1,0V tAl elo t tyto e Otto ..a.cess (no tn , et313'. voseaa• les" 000 eeet ee, veto. veceo oseeoee est, 010, t st. vve't • , • • ot,•-•;•..• BE 1NViORATING DRINK oF REAL BEEF FLAVOUR f great deal more than a mere accept- ance •of Christ is meant, It means the whole of the conscious nature of Christ being saturated with Christ's words, his desires, his understanding, his affections, his will, all being steep- ed in the great truths which the Mas- ter spoke." We can do many things without abiding in Christ ---we can go to church, we can contribute heavily to Christian causes, we can offer prayer, and be good students of the Scrip- tures, But there is one thing we cannot do, unless our life and ser- vice spring from our union with the Lord Jesus, and that is, we cannot bear fruit. 6. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is with- ered; and they gather them, and cast them into the flee, and they are burned. Abiding in Christ 7. If ye abide in me, and my word abide in you,. ask whatsoever ye wil and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that y bear much fruit; and so shall ye b my disciples. If we are to live a tru prayer life with the love, and th power, and the experience of praye marking it, there must be no questio about the abiding, and, if we abide there need be no question about th liberty of asking what we will an the certainty of its being done. Go is glorified among men when thos who are Christians are seen to bea fruit, to live such a life, that th world cannot help but think of Go and give him the glory. 9. Even as the Father hath love me, I also have loved you: abide y in my love. 10. If ye keep my com mandments, ye shall abide in in love; even as 1 have kept my Fath er's commandments, and abide in hi love. Here are two fundamenta facts, which nothing can ever' change, clearly announced by our Lord: first, that God loves Christ and, secondly, tha Christ loves us What our Lord is urging upon his fol- loWers is that they should realize in their own lives these mighty truths and abide in, the love which Christ has for them. 11. These things have I spoken un- to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. It is very, very significant that the Lord Jesus, with a single exception, never speaks of kis own joy until the darkest night of' his life, the night of his betrayal. The Lord Jesus had a joy that night which no one could take away from him because of at least four things: his knowledge of God's over -ruling and guidance in ev- erything that was happening to him; in his consciousness of the Father's. love; in his realization that he was doing the work of God, the greatest work that anyone could ever do, lay- ing down his life for men; and, fin- ally, in the conviction that he was, in his death, going home to his Father from whom he had come. Now, though in a different degree, we hays exactly the same springs of Mr, and we have than. because of the. words which Jesus has given us: we know that all things work together for good, that our lives are divinely plan- ned, that suffering has been fore- seen by God, and will never destroy our souls; profoundly do we know that we are loved by the Father, and by the Son, and that nothing will ever separate us from that love; we too have a divinely bestowed pur- pose in our lives—naznely, the bear- ing of fruit; finally, we know that when we depart- from this life, we shall be at home with the Father. 12. This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. 13, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Friendship's erivileges V. Friendship with Christ and its Privileges, John 15: 14, 15. 14. Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I mommand you. 15. No longer do call you servants; for the ser- vant knoweth not what his lord do- eth: but I have called you friends. "The liberty to claim the friendship of Jesus, the power to enjoy it, the 11 8. e e r n e e r e d d e y s 1 rr- : Giaut13u11,, Memorial to Eflicon litere•W! This, is an electric light bulb, but it would not fit in your floor lamp. Its size—it is 14 feet high=makes it impossible for such purposes, and it is also a trifle heavy. It is rnade.ef 6,000 pounds of glass, and a steel skeleton of the same weight is included in the eneemble. The bulb is to surmount the 310,000 rnemerial to Thomas A. Edison at Menlo Park, Na. Off -screen romance is having a big influence these days in casting pic— tures. Paramount has given a three- year contract to John Barrymore and. his wife, Elaine Barrie, and will fea- ture them together in a picture as soon as a suitable story can be lo- cated. Making pictures, eatatte b. M. Barryniore used to be a nig to directors. Some days he was three hours late showing up for work, and sometimes he disappeared for days. When he did arrive on time, likely as not he would make such caustic remarks to his fellow players that their nerves were practically shattered. Marriage to the young and ambitious Miss Bar- rie has changed all that. She has grace to prove it in all its blessings —all come to us as we do the things .he commands us. " For all things that I heard from my Father I have made known unto you. _ These twelve men were Christ's confidants. Re opened his heart to them. He kept nothing back from them. 16. Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you. "The stability of the connection of friend- ship between the Lord and his dis- ciples is assured by the fact that its origin lies with the Lord and not with man. That whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give you. "These are the dos- ing words of the parable of the Vine. The whole mystery of the Vine and its branches leads up to the other mystery—that whatsoever we ask in His ,name the Father gives! Our faith in the teaching and the truth of the parable, in the truth and the life of the Vine, must prove itself by power in prayer. The life of abiding and obedience, of love and joy, of cleansing and fruit -bearing, will surely lead to the power of pre- vailing prayer." D-3 made him settle down to work in earnest. —0--- A mysterious Mr. Gallagher flew into New York and began escorting Janet Gaynor to theaters and night .clubs, but the Twentieth Century - Fox publicity department wasn't fooled for a minute. They knew it was Tyrone Power all the time, and made him come out from under his assumed name and attend a huge cocktail party in his honor. There are big plans„allead for young Mr. Power. He will play Disraeli. Ann Miller, who played Ginger Roger' dancing partner, is playing the lead in "Radio City Revels" op- posite Milton Berle, the air comic. Her . discovery -is one of those strange tales of Hollywood. She and iieee mother. ;Went to California and almost .starved while she was trying to . break into pictures. Finally, defeated, she took a cabaret en- gageraentiin San Francisco and the very firstnight she played there, an R. K. 0, scout saw her and signed her up. She had been trying to get into his office for three years! At last the quarrel between Fred- die Bartholomew and Metro -Gold- wyn -Mayer has been ' settled and Freddie will soon return to tweak. Under the new agreement he will . get two thousand dollars a week for ' forty weeks, anel three thousand a week for six weeks of personal ap- pearaeces. Also he gets a dollar a week additional for pocket money. He'll need it, with a. twenty-five thou - owed for lawyer's sand dollar bill fees. One of your tried and true friends of radio, *hem you may not know by name7 has just made a great suc- cess on the New York stage, but he is still on the air. It is Clayton Col- lier. You have known him as master of ceremonies for both the Leo .Reis- man. and Eddy Duchin bands, hero of the "'Pretty Kitty Kelly" sketch, and chief doctor in the story of "Girl In- terne." With all his rushing about from 'radio rehearsals to stage per- forthances, he never seems to be in a hurry, is always quite unruffled and casual in manner. —0— • Just the other day Warren Newell, a laborer at the 'Universal studios, wiped out the dis- grace of ten years • are when he was discharged from a minor league base- ball team for drop- ping a flyball in a • =alai point in the ninth inning. He made a real catch! AliCe Faye, catch - her heel in the hem of her dress, toppled over a six- teen -foot ledge and would have landed on theater seats below if Mr. Newell hadn't rushed to the rescue and caught her just in time, , —0— ODDS AND ENDS,-13ing Crosby was So delighted with the smart dia- logue in Carole Lombard's picture, "True Confession," that he insisted on having the author Claude Binyon, write his next. It will be staged at 13ing's oWn race track, and Mary Car - Mite Faye ,11151mrsispir LISTEN... on74.449 'CANADA -1937,, I M pERiAL TOBWO'S INSPIRING PROORAM Every Friday Night on a national coast to coast network. lisle will play the lead, as usual, be- cause she is the only actress Bing can make love to without making his son Gary burst into tears . . . Robert Taylor will be back in time for Christmas and if he ever goes away again he will insist on Barbara Stan.. wyck having a telephone installed at her ranch retreat . . Lanny Ross, having worked over his new radio program until it suits him and every- one else, may make the next "Broad- way Melody" for M -G -M entist Records Death Sensations Bolleved to Have Passed Away While Testing Gas In Own Chair, Pen In Hand, • Detectives disclosed at Pittsburg this week that a scrawled note pur Porting to tell of Dr, Nathan Saul's sensations as be slowly "went under" an anesthetic gas that accidentally caused his death. The tweety-seven year-old dentist died of asphyxiation, according to Dr. T, R. Helrabold, who performed an • autopsy, The note, found beside the dentist's chair in whin Dr. Saul rest ed, read: "Sight is good . . . hearing is de. creasing . . eyesight is decreasing . , . pulse is bad . . . smeller is." . . The fragmentary notes were writ- ten with a pen on a large envelope and trailed off into Lllegibility. Detee' tives Edward Scanlon and Thomas Ilfulvhihill said they were working ou the theory that Dr. Saul was testing, 13y A. R. WEIR *** What the STARS foretell for those born on November 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30 and Dec. is t and 2nd. GENERAL—If the date of your birth is listed above, the :sun was in the Sign Sagittarius when you were born. This makes you en- thusiastic, hopeful and optimistic by nature. You should avoid carelessness. You love harmony, truth and justice and are greatly given to demonstration of your affection, having r. nature that is remarkably expressive. It would be to your advantage to guard against unkind speech when you are aroused. NOW FIND YOUR OWN BIRTH DATE NOV. 26—Your lucky number is 4. The keynote of your planet is Prosperity which this year is indicated in yoar business and financial prospects though some annoyances go witn it which are soon overcome. Social activities,however, are not so brightly de- fined though you are too optimistic naturally to allow them to in- fluence you. NOVEMBER 27.—Thursday is the most favorable aay in the week for you. Some very important developments are shown in your business affairs bringing a considerable increase in your income. You should cultivate respect for authority and control your im- petuosity. NOVEMBER 28.—The 4th, 13th, 22nd and 31st are your lucky days. This year is important for business affairs. There should be a slow, steady improvement bringing more prosperity and suc- cess. Be cautious in your correspondence. NOVEMBER 29.—There is a strong love of drama in your nature and you should be particularly clever in comedy or drama. The years 1937 and 1939 are good years for you. You will receive some favorable news and be very successful while on an important journey. NOVEMBER 30.—This is a changeable period for you financially and diflculties with elderly people should be avoided, also disputes with workmates though a gain and an agreement is shown. Much happiness is.denoted socially. 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