HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1959-03-25, Page 5WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1959
ZURICH Citizens NEWS
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The Needle -Point
(MRS. NORMA SIEBERT
You are only what you are
when no one is looking.
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THE LENTEN SEASON
During the Lenten season peo-
ple of every religious faith are
spending more time in self an-
alysis. Abstinence through Lent
and special Lenten services make
us more religious conscious than
at any other time of the year.
We are sometimes asked t"What
is your religious faith"? Could we
not all, regardless of specific
faiths, give the same answer: "We
have faith in God, our Father,
Jesus Christ His Son, and Eternal
life after death." Are these not
the important things after all?
Do they not form a very common
ground upon which all religions
can meet?
Christ, through all his teach-
ings, went out of his way to
emphasize tolerance. His meeting
of the Samaritan woman and the
parable of the Good Samaritan
both had this purpose in mind—
teaching us that we are all of
equal importance in the sight of
God, regardless of our superficial
differences.
We all enjoy the friendship of
persons of other faiths. Usually
the subject of religion is left
carefully out of these friendships.
Would this not be a good time to
discuss with our friends this vital
subject—not out of critical curios-
ity but that we might explain
our different viewpoints and see
each other in a more tolerant
light?
With the threat of Communism
gaining force, the fear of com-
plete annihilation from the atomic
bomb, with Dominion and news-
papers giving favorable publicity
to the teaching of atheism to our
children, is it not time that the
Christians as a whole, ought to
close their ranks against those
threats to religion.
Never more than now has man
needed a faith to cling to. May
this Lenten season see a renewed
determination, a renewed sincer-
ity of purpose as we enter our
B.A., Woman's Page Editor)
various church doors on Easter
morning.
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Nineteen Centuries Later
Here is a man who was born
in an obscure village, the child of
a peasant woman. He grew up in
another village. He worked in a
carpenter shop until he was 30
and then for three years he was
an itinerant preacher.
He never wrote a book. He
never held an office. He never
owned a home. He never had a
family.
He never travelled 200 miles
from the place where He was
born. He never did one of the
things which accompany great-
ness. He had no credentials but
Himself.
While still a young man, the
tide of popular opinion turned
against him. His friends ran away.
One of them denied Him. He was
turned over to His enemies. He
went through the mockery of a
trial. He was nailed to the Cross
between two thieves.
His executioners gambled for
the only piece of property He had
on earth while he was dying and
that was His coat. When he was
dead He was taken down and
laid in a borrowed grave through
the pity of a friend.
Nineteen wide centuries have
come and gone and today He is
the centrepiece of the columns of
progress. I am far within the
mark when I say that all the
armies that ever marched and all
the navies that were ever built,
and all the parliaments that ever
sat, and all the kings that ever
reigned put together, have not af-
fected the life of man upon this
earth as has that One Solitary
Life.—Dr. Philip Schoff (1819-93).
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The Destiny of Three Trees
Three trees stood in their forest
clan,
Where each tree grew for the good
of man.
We three trees prayed a humble
prayer,
For each tree wished for honors
rare.
The tallest tree prayed that it
might find
A spot in a palace where men
were kind;
It prayed that its strength might
ever be
Used to harbor royalty.
The second tree asked to be used
in a ship,
To feel the waters lash and whip,
As its proud prow hit the hissing
spray
Voyaging to countries far away.
The third tree lifted its branches
strong,
And it asked that its prayers
might not be wrong,
But it wished to stand so straight
and tall.
It would point an upward way
to all.
And the woodmen came to the
forest man,
As woodsmen will for the good of
man;
They put one notch in the tallest
tree,
Two in the next, in the third one
three.
The first tree's timbers, strong
and fine,
Were carried away to Palestine.
Where, far from the palace for
which it prayed,
In a humble barn that tree was
laid.
But in that stable a King was
born,
And His presence was hailed by a
star at morn,
And angels sang and shepherds
came:
The wide, wide world now knows
His name.
The tree that prayed a ship to be,
As a fishing boat sailed Galilee;
The master sat in its prow one day
To talk to men of the holy way.
The tree that asked that it not
pray wrong,
Became a cross, tall, straight and
strong;
It lifted aloft the Holy One,
By whose sacred blood men's souls
are won.
—Rose B. McClamont
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Zurich Mennonite
Church Sees
Easter Cantata
Thirty-five persons participated
in a special Easter Cantata which
was presented at the Zurich Men-
nonite church on Sunday evening,
March 22.
Irvin Martin, director of the
cantata conducted the meeting
Member„ of both local Mennonite
churches and the EUB church took
part.
The program sought to portray
the Passion of our Lord, and its
accomplishment, in terms of the
Cross and the Resurrection.
There were choral numbers, and
selections by octettes, ladies' and
men's quartettes, trios, duets and
solos, interspersed with approp-
riate Scripture readings by the
pastor, A. Martin.
Rev. E. Gingerich led in closing
prayer.
The service was well attended.
Easter Program
"He Is Risen",
On Radio, Sunday -
"He is Risen" a special Easter
program, will be heard on The
Mennonite Hour broadcast Sun-
day, March 29, over local radio
station CHML, Hamilton at 7.30
to 8.00.
"Jesus Christ is Risen Today"
and "He Lives" and many other
familiar Easter songs will be sung
by The Mennonite Hour Chorus
under the direction of J. Mark
Stauffer. Other choral groups par-
ticipating include the Ladies' Sex-
tet and Men's Quartet directed by
Earl Maust.
The broadcast opens with port-
rayals in word and song of Ch-
rist's suffering and death, accord-
ing to Norman Derstine, Program
Director. The scene then shifts
to the cold sepulcher and finally
to Mary's personal encounter with
the Risen Lord. The significance
of Christ's resurrenetion for men
today climaxes the program.
You are invited to hear "He is
Risen" this Sunday on the world-
wide broadcast of The Mennonite
Hour.
Merchants Losing Trade By Not Using
Home Town Paper -- -- Meaford Editor
Addressing the Rotary Club at
Meaford, Carl Manore, editor and
publisher of The Meaford Express,
said, "Local merchants are allow-
ing a great deal of business to slip
out of town just because they do
not take the trouble to tell the
people about the goods they have
to sell."
"Some merchants," he said,
"feel that they have all the busi-
ness they can handle. Others want
to add to their volume but make
no special effort except to wait
in their stores for people to come
in. Some even fail to take the
ice off their sidewalks to provide
safe and easy entrances and others
fail to dress their windows, and
some fail to let people know when
they are open."
The result is that people shop
the easy way. They pick up the
morning and evening papers carry-
ing the ads of aggressive mail or-
der houses. They order where
they get quick service through
local outlets.
The merchant who uses dodgers,
Mr. Manore said, must prepare the
copy, must have it printed and
then pay two cents to have it put
through the mails. Many times
the one waste basket in the post
office is overflowing with bills and
unwanted mail, but never a news-
paper.
Talking about circulation Mr.
Manore said that one paper some-
times serves as many as three
homes. IIe quoted the case of one
business man who had never sub -
e
scribed to the paper but quite
often came into the office to com-
plain about something that had
been printed. On checking it was
found that he received one from
a relative.
"Just one mistake," the publish-
er said, "and you know how many
read the paper." The Home Town
paper, he said, gives the average
citizen service from the cradle to
the grave. Many times, without
a penny earned or a kind word
spoken for the favor. Birth and
funeral notices are printed free of
charge. "There would be an awful
howl made," he said, "if one stuck
to the whole truth in the final
story in some cases."
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