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uron Exposi or
Established 1860
Xeith McPhail McLean, Editor.
rublished at Seaforth, Ontario, ev-
ry Thursday afternoon by McLean
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SEAFOI1TH, Friday, June 28, 1935.
Canada's Sixtp-eighth Birthday
On Monday next, July lst, Canada
will celebrate her national birthday
—her 68th.
Viewed in the light of years, that
is not a long span. There are many
men and women, still living, who re-
member that first birthday; while
viewed from the life of nations, Can-
ada is still a mere infant.
Yet infant and all as Canada is
among other nations, it is doubtful
if any nation the world over, has
witnessed the same changes, the
same improvements, or the same ad-
vancement that Canada has in the
past sixty-eight years.
From a local viewpoint (and the
history of one locality is the history
of most), it is hard to visualize this
district as -it was on Confederation
Day.
There was no Town of Seaforth
then; no village of Seaforth. It was
not until the following January of
1868 that Seaforth was first incor-
porated as a village.
Previous to that, and within the
memory of even the then rising gen-
eration, what is now known as Sea
forth,. was a dense forest, familiarly
known ' as "Guide Board Swamp"
from the fact that there then stood
for many years'at the ,four corners
of our present Main Street, a post
and finger board pointing towards
Egrnondville, on the south; Ainley -
on the north; and Goderich, on
the west, and the number of miles to
_
each place,
,,t It was ably a short time before
that the Huron Road had been
macadamized from the western lim-
its. of the County of Perth, and the
decision had been made to make Sea -
forth the southern terminus of the
"Grey Turnpike."
In 1867, although Seaforth was
then becoming a thriving cornmun-
ity, no one could recognize it in the
town of to -day. There were no brick
blocks, no brick houses, no cement
sidewalks, no paved streets. There
were no street lights; there was no
electricity.
There were no -telephones, no
radios, no plate glass windows, no
furnaces, no ready-made clothes, no
ready-made boots, no bicycles, no
automobiles, no special deliveries; no
town water, no bath rooms.
And on the 'surrounding farms
there were no wire fences, no• tile
drains, no brick houses, no bank
barns, no binders or hay loaders, no
steam threshing machines, no trac-
tors and no trucks.
In those days the towns did not go
out to the country; the country came
to the towns. And because the roads
were 'mere trails, and because there
were few wagons and fewer buggies,
the popular mode of travel was
horseback for the few, and shank's
mares for the many.
And much of the country produce
was carried that way by men and
women alike. No road was too long,
no load too heavy. It was necessity
that made them travel in those days,
not wanderlust.
What a change has come over the
face of our world in the space of
those sixty-eight years, and even in
the life of our present rising genera-
tion, and what change § in our mode
of living; in our advantages and our
luxuries. r
As one looks out over our Huron
County landscape to -day, one can not
help but marvel at its beauty, the
wealth of its holdings and the rich-
ness of its promise.
Has there been an equal change in
the people? Has the freedom from
pioneer hardships, our present ad-
vantages and our luxurious mode of
livfrgbronght us more peace and
Ontentment? Has it made us more
thankfig?
rtot1*hose fault issit—the
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Mr. Bennett and the Hunger
Marchers
On Saturday last Premier Ben-
nett received a deputation represent-
ing the Western so-called hunger
marchers, whose treck was halted at
Regina a week ago.
The result of the conference was
nil. Considering the demands made
by the marchers' delegates, it could
not have had any other result.
As an example, we quote the first
of the delegates' demands. This was
that the Government supply all the
hunger marchers with work and
wages on a five-day week, six -hour
day, and at fifty cents an hour.
Such a demand, and it was only
one of six, can leave but one conclu-
sion in the minds of the general pub-
lic, and that is that the hunger
marchers are not looking for ,either
work or wages, but for trouble alone.
And in the quiet but firm refusal
of all the demands,' Mr. Bennett will
have the approval of the. country.
All the delegates received at Ot-
tawa, wo believe, are foreign born,
with one exception. All are avowed
Communists.
Their expenses from Regina to Ot-
tawa and -return are being paid by
the Government, but they are going
back with the declared intention of
continuing the hunger march east,
and en route to create as much trou-
ble as possible.
Having. spent so much money on
these Communist leaders, What the
Government should do is to expend
enough more to have all of them, of
foreign birth, deported, and the rest
kept behind the bars at the public
expense.
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It Will NotAlwaps be the Other
Fellow
On Saturday evening last, between
.Stony Creek and Grimsby Beach,
within three hours, there were sev-
en motor accidents; oyer a score of
people were injured, some of 'them
very seriously.
Over the rest of the Province
there were several motor fatalities
and other scores were injured.
You read these things with horror
and you marvq,1 at the stupidity and
the criminal carelessness- of those
motorists, don't you?
But in your mind there is a firm
and fixed belief that all the stupidity,
all the carelessness and all the speed
mania is possessed and exhibited by
your fellow drivers and not by you.
Isn't that about it?
Well, next week -end is a holiday
week -end and a long one. The motor
trafficon our highways will be im-
mense and it will be congested. The
• kind of traffic that breeds accidents.
Are you going to be in it? If so,
That are you going to do? Are you
going to take chances in cutting out
and in; in trying to pass on a hill?
Are you going to take chances and
step on the gas on a nice smooth
piece of highway, or are you going
to take chances by gazing on the
nice bits of scenery about you?
Or are you going to take thecworst
seat, or anywhere else but under the
of all chances and drive from the back
wheel?
No doubt you will do one or all of
these things before the week -end is
over. But before you start out, on
your week -end travels, just try to fix
firmly in your mind, or paste it on
our windshield, this truth: "It will
not always be the other fellow who
has an accident. This time it may
be I."
WHAT OTHER PAPERS SAY.
"Oh To Be iii Hu/1W
(Montreal Star)
In these days when harassed taxpayers take
time out to dodge the frantic taxgathererr there
is one spot in the country where peace reigns
and the s•tin shines. For the eighty-fifth consecu-
tive year -count 'ern, eighty -five! --the first of ,
May saw every last cent of resh/ence taxes paid
in Goderich Township in Heron Coenty, Ontario.
It is no wonder that the township clerk flaps his.
wings and croves and that the tovin of God.erich,
lying within the bpsom of this • most blessed
township, demands, aid gets, a corner of the
front page. Hovv they do ft they do riot say.
Possibly the taxes are not so very high, but in
these (lays any tax at all is high, much too high,
and for a whole township of people to rush out
and pay at Mast one of its taxes in full on the
nail, year after year—and some of them such
year!—reads More like fiction than fact.
Anyway, there it is, and all over Canada fax
eollectors are sighing, "Oh to he in Huron, now
that spring is here!"
Years Agone
Interestipg items picked from
The EXpositor of fifty and
twenty-five years ago.
From The Huron Expositor of
July 3, 1885
A little girl named Edna Dennis,
of Brussels, had a very clo§e shave
for her life ree,ently. She fell into a
salt well, the lid having been taken
away. She was discovered and taken
out at once.
On Saturday Mr. Samuel Sheir, of
Usbonie, near Kirkeon, raised the
frame of a large and eommodious
barn, 'being 50 x 70 on stonework.
Mr. Samuel Brown, of Kirkton, built
it.
The following improvements are
noted from, •the west end, Tuckers
smith: George Crich is erecting an
Addition to his barn; Robert Pteacock
litie built a substantial board fence
the full length Of his farm; Mr. Copp
has finished the stonework for Mr.
Edward Turner's new barn; Samuel
Cooper has recently been employed
erecting an ornamental fence around
the residence of Robert Landsbor-
ough; Mr. Elcoat has replaced the
barns he had burned with the steam
thresher last summer; James Martin
has put up a commodious implement
house.
At a meeting of the shareholders
of the Seaforth Recreation Grounds
Committee, held on Tuesday last, the
company was formally organized by
the appointment of the following of-
ficers. and directors: President, Dr.
'Coleman; vicespresident, F. Holme-
.sted; treasurer, E. 'C. Coleman; sec-
retary, Alex. 'Wilson, Messrs. A. H.
Ireland, W. 0. Reid and M. Y. Mc-
Lean were . appointed Directors; Dr.
J. G. Sctott, F. H.olmsted, D. D. Wil-
son and J. S. Roberts were appointed
a committee to draft bylaws, and
rules.
Mist -.S, Maggie Wilson, daughter of
D. D. Wilson, distinguisbed herself
at the Brantford Young Ladies' Col-
lege by carrying off the highest hon-
ors of the college. She was awarded
the gold medal for general profici-
ency in all subjects of the senior
year.
Mr. Robert B. Laidlaw, of the 9th
concession of Morris, left with us on
Tuesday a stalk of Seneca wheat,
-Which measured 6 feet 5 inches.
There were 99 pupils writing the
Eentran.ce to the high school examina-
tions on Wednesday and Thursday.
•Mr. D. C. 'Dorrance, a former
teacher of Leadbury and latterly of
Winthrop, has been engaged to teach
the Leadbury school.
• A good gravel sidewalk, leading to
the school, is among the latest im-
provements Hensall.
,Mr. Robert Cann, of Lumley, is nOw
engaged in burning his third kiln of
lime this season.
The .village of Wingham was the
scene of a terrible &Owning a,ccident
on Saturday afternoon, the victim be.-
ing a deaf and dumb boy. The boys
were in bathing among whom were
the McKinnon boys. The older one
gat beysnd his depth and the other
one heroically went to his aid, Robert
Cairns, a boy of 14 years, and a good
swimmer, succeeded in bringing him
to shore.
Mr. E. Bowman, of Zurich, has sold
his Grove farm on the Sauble Line to
Mr. C. Denommy for the sum of $2,-
200.
•
Front The Huron Expositor of
, July 1, 1910
• Ti C. Postlewaite has been appoint-
ed Chief of Police at Goderich, in
place of Chief Yule, who is going to
Calgary,
Prior to leaving Brussels for their
new home in Owen Sound, Dr. and
Mrs. Field were presented with a
leather covered easy chair and a ma-
hogany rocker.
Mr. and Mrs. James Horney, Gode-
rich, celcibrated their golden wedding
on June 21, 1910.
- One of the old landmarks of Us -
borne Township will soon pass away,
when the Eden Church will be closed,
Rev. W. H. Butt, of Centralia, preach-
ing the farewell s rinon on Sunday
afternoon, June 19. rty-seven years
ago this church was dicated to the
worship of God and e • since then
was the centre of influe e and power
in the community, A very pleasant
item on the program was the presen-
tation of a complimentary address, ac-
companied by a beautiful diamond
ring, to Miss Minnie Lux -ton, the very
efficient organist.
Mr. Charles Fritz, of Zurich, is a
skillful fisherman as well as a good
•business man, as a few days ago he
brought home a 20 -pound basket of
beautiful bass, weighing from one to
two pounds.
Mr. James Sims, of Bls-th, while
shoeing a horse recently, had the mis-
fortune to get hit in the face by the
animal kicking.
MT. Jas. Hoggarth of Hensall has
very much added to the appearance
of his dwelling by having it painted
and putting a very good foundation
and erecting a neat stable.
Mr.' J:" Stacey, of Hensall, has the
contract for .painting the Manse.
The howlers of Hensall have equip-
ped their beautiful new greens with
a gasoline engine to operate. their
forte pump for watering. •
Some of the farmers around Hen -
salt have commenced baying.
Mr. Alex. Munn, of Hay Township,
is erecting a handsome brick dwelling
on his fine farm.
The lawn party oh Friday evening
of last week at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. James Aitcheson, Roxboro, was
a huge success. The following ifro-
gram was given with Mr. M. Y. Mc-
Lean as chairman: Song, Anderson
Scott; reading, Miss Ethel Kerr; song,
Miss Belle MacKay; recitation, Jas.
Scott; song, Mr. Sinclair; song, Miss
Bessie McMichael; recitations, Miss
Ethel Grieve; song, Mr. Wm. Bright;
song, Mrs.' McGuire; song, Mr. John
Scivieottss
rs, Edge & Gutteridge, Sea-
forth's well kno4rn contractors, have
received several large contracts from
the C.N.R., amounting to about $90,-
000. 7
Mr. Dan Shanahan has ono of the
prettiest driving horath in Seaforbh,
lirein'g htight chestnut.
BETTER -TO BURY
THE DEBT CORPSE
. (From! The New York News) ,
With the rolling around of June
15, we all got another sniff of a
corpse that has 'been reclining in the
road for some time now—the corpse
of war debts.
There were the usual reminders
from Washington to our various Eur-
opean war -debtors that they ewe us
such and such amounts. These re-
minders drew the usual replies a
tl Niko ,wlealthqr twe're having, lisult
it?" except from "little sucker Fin-
land," wthich paid up its usual $165,-
000. And there were the usual scorn-
ful remarks in most of our news-
papers, with mue'h sours comment on
the fact that France can build a
Normandie and England a Queen
1VIarry and both of them can maintain
large armaments but neither of them
can pay the money they "hired" from
us to fight the World War.
`VVle think it is time for us to 're-
cognize that the war debts are dead,
and to get the corpse out of the read.
We aren't going to collect that money.
Should any European government ex-
cept Finland's attempt to pay us up
now, it would be thrown out by its
people and replaced by a government
pledged to go on repudiating. This
may be deplorable; may indicate a
sad decline in national morals since
B.C. (Before the Cyclone); but it is
a state of affairs that exists. It can
profit us nothing to put our eyes to
facts and scream that the facts ought
to he otherwise.
Our trouble is that this is an age
of debt repudiation. RiasSia repudi-
ated all its debts, internal and exter-
nal and pre-war; France repudiated
80 per cent. of its debts to its own
people; Germany finally quit paying
under the Dawes and Young plans;
Italy devalued; England went off
gold. Getting around to the home
folks, our own President Roosevelt
repudiated 40 cents on the dollar in
American 'internal debts; and we
don't think any substantial number
of people really want that undone.
The reason why all this has hap-
pened is that we thought we pould
invest, say, forty billions -in war, and
get back no.t<only the forty billions,
but twen.tyt-five billions or so more in
interest. It can't be done., (War does
not produce, .,dees not earn' money; it
destroys wealth. Hence to -day's
world-wide debt repudiation. It is a
ease of have to.
een in the
County Papers
• Whitechurch Man Shot in Wrist
Mr. Joe Kelly, who has been living
at the home of his grandmother, Mrs.
James Cornelius, Wihitechurch, was
shot through the left wrist: on Mon-
day morning, when a ¶22- rifle he was
carrying was accidentally discharged
as, he climbed through the orchard„
fence. Fortunately no bones were
broken. Dr. R. L. Stewart was call-
ed and dressed the deep flesh wound.
—Wingham Advance -Times.
Truk Strikes Cow
On Friday' evening last a cow -
belonging to MT, Clinton Sweet, of
Usborne, was struck by a motor
truck driven by Mr. Albert Duffield
for the Swift Canadian Co. The ac-
ne war debts' corpse is delaying
cident took plate on the St. Marys
world recovery, particularly Ameri-
road. The eow had one leg injured.
can recovery. What we ought to do
while the radiator and one .of the
is to bury it decently, under some
fenders of the truck were bent and
sort of agreement. We don't need
the headlight broken. ---Exeter Times -
gold. We need trade. If a debt -
burying 'agreement giving us trade
preferences with, our debtor nations ,Kicked in Face
sould be worked out, that would be Mr. E, Broderick, of town, stiffer -
fine. But the main thing is to get ed a nasty accident on Wednesday
rid of this legacy of ill feeling and afternoon last week, when he was
suspicion from the war. kicked in the face by his horse which
Those big ships, for example, can he was unhitching. He suffered -as
be sneered and wise -cracked at to broken nose as well as other facial
injurie,s. He was taken to St. Jos -
one's heart's content; but they do
eph's Landon, where he re-
leing goods and money and people
!rite and Out of New York, about the
mained for a couPle ofdays before
only Atlantic port big enough for being brought to his home.—Exeter
them to enter,. They mean. life—
Times -Advocate.
gacts and people in circulation ---as
Honored Before Leaving
against the stagnation of death. For Mrs. Page, of Thamesville, who
our own selfish interests we shou/d with Rev. Mr. Page, Will move to Ex -
do all we can to keep 'those ships 'eter the latter . part- of this month,
baCk and forth. One of the beat where Mr..Page will succeed Rev.
things we could do to that end would Mr. Stainton as pastor of. the James
be to get the corpse of the war debts pSrtreseeenttelJdwith
alovelyChureh,wasrecentlywereficeontlyr
.basket at a joint meeting of the
Women's Association and the Wo-
men's Missionary Society of Croton
cUariteit.ed Church—JExeter Times:Advo.,
Family Reunion
Some sixty members of the Troyer -
family -herd 'their annual picnic in
Jowett's Grove, -Bayfield, on Satur-
day, June 8. •A fine programme of
sports was run off, which was enjoy-
ed by all present. Next year the pic-
• nic will be held the second Saturday.
in June at Bayfield. Committee for
1936: Mrs: Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Troyer, Hensall; Mr. Cecil Oke, Rus-
sell 'Coleman, 'Seaforth; Mr. J.
Troyer, Toronto; chairman, Elmer
Webster, Varna; secretary, Mrs. Geo.
Johnston, Varna.—Zurich Herald.
ThreeInches of Rain
The rain storm of Sunday night and
Monday morning was one of the
heaviest downpours we have had in
this section of the country for some
time. From 9 o'clock Sunday even-
ing until the rain stopped about
a.m. Monday, three inches of rain fel/
and in some parts of the tow -n cellars
were fiooded. Mrs. J. McCool's cel-
lar had about 5 inches of water in it
and J. H. McKay's cellar was, very
badly flooded. The water on the
lawn was 11/2 feet deep and it flowed
into •the cellar. The cellar of the
Gurney ,Block had 1 feet of water
in it. The rain and wind storm on
Friday evening did very little dam-
age in these parts but in mime lo-
calities considerable damage w a s
done.—Wingharn Advance -Times',
Prominent Business Man Passes
Another link in the already, badly
shattered chain of old residents of
the town was severed on Thursday -
evening when Richard Thorne died
at the family home in his eightieth
year. In the death of Mi.. Thorne,.
more fully understood the freedom of Mitchell loses a public-spirited citifert
the Christian position than Paul; no and a competent and painstaking'
man was ever more entirely ,lifted
besiness man of many years' stand-
out of the mist of superstition and
ing. The late Richard Thorne, shoe
formalism merchant, who had been in business
into the clear light of free, woods,
Devonshire, England, and
eternal life; but with this freedom. he in the same store for rnore than fifty
e
ren which prompted him to eXclairn:
carried a sympathy with weak hreth-
years, was born in St. Giles -in -the -
"If meat make my brother tyliffend, to Canada with his parents, the
cam
I will eat no flesh while the world late Mr. and Mrs. William Thorne,
'
standeth, lest I make my brother to when he was 12 years old, landing in
y
offend." on the day of Confe,deration,
Jul1, 1867, and from that city com-
Quebec
ing to :Mitchell. In the year 1922
the deceased made a trip to the Old Land to visit the scenes of his boy-
hood days in Devonshire.—Mitchell
Advocate.
Cornish Family Reunion at Exeter
The second Cornish reunion of the
family of John Cornish, Sr., was held
at Riverview Park when relatives
were present from Exeter, Centralia;
Holmesville, Grantor), Woodham, St.
Marys, Kirkton and Clinton. After
supper the president conducted the
election of officers, which resulted au.
follows: President, Mrs. Ed. Penhale„.
Exeter; secretary -treasurer, M isa
Dorothy Cornish, Clinton; sports com-
mittee: Clayton Cornish, Woodham ;
Jack Elliott, Exeter;' Delmer Skinner,
Centralia. The prize for the oldest
person present went to. John. Cornish,
Exeter, aged 78, and to the three
youngest babies, Donald McGill, Gran-
ton; Shirley Keller, Exeter; Bever-
ley Skinner, Centralia. Those com-
ing the liongest distance were Mr.,
and Mrs. E. J. Trewartha, Holmes-
vilIe.—Clinton News -Record.
Miss Isobel Porter
'Miss Isobel Porter, a life-long resi-
dent ofGoderich, and daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. James Porter, died,
at her home on Colborne Street on
Wednesday, June 12. Miss Porter,
who had a host of friends, received
,her early schooling in Goderich and
had, always been active in her per-
sonal interestse- particularly in the
Presbyterian Church. She was a•
member of Knox, Church and gave
many years to the Sunday School and
to the work of the Wlomen's Mission-
ary Society. Interment took place in
Maitland cemetery, with Rev, D. J.
Lane officiating. Many of her,old ac-
quaintances gathered at her home for
the funeral services. Pallbearers
were W. H. Robertson, Thos. Gundry,
John Salkeld, Harry Salkeld, L. L.
Knox and A. D. IVLOLean. Surviving
relatives are two brothers, James, in.
'Grand Rapids, Mich., and JOlin in Los
Angeles Cal., and two sisters, 11/Irs.
(Dr,) Illineks, who resided with Miss
Porter, and Mrs. Jane Wilson, of
;Waustia, Wii:1--,-IGoderich, Stain
under the sod.
JUST A SMILE OR TWO
Mrs. Henpeck (sarcastically) — I
suppose you've been to see a sick
friend—holding his hand all evening.
Mr. Henpeck (sadly)—If I'd been
holding his hand I'd have made 'some
money.
•
"How did you get off in your ac-
tion, for compensation against the
man whose dog bit you?"
"He had a clever lawyer who prov-
ed that I bit the dog."
"Want to leave me, Mary? I
thought you were quite comfortable.
What is it for --something private?"
"No, ma'am, Ws a sergeant"—
Troy Times Record,
Pilot: "Would you like to have a
hop in my airplane?"
Darkie: "No, suh; I stays on ter -
rah firmah, and de more firmah de
less torrah."--Calgary Herald.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
(By Isabel Hamilton, Goderich, Ont.) rq-,, • •
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Lord of the worlds, with strong my texnptation does not lie that way,
eternal hand, I might use wine regularly to enjoy
Hold us in honor, truth and self-com- a needed stimulant. I may feel quite
mend: xonvinced in my own mind that mor -
The loyal heart, the constant mind, ally I am not one white the worse of
The courage to be true; doing so. But I cannot detedmine
Our wide extending Empire bind, whether I am to indulge myself or
And all the earth renew. not without considering the effect my
Thy name is known through every conduct will have 9n others. There
Done; may be among my friends some who
Lord of the worlds, make all the know that ,theirtemptation does lie
lands Thine own., that way, and whose conscience bids
A: W. Wilson. them altogether refrain. If by my
example such persons are encouraged
PRAYER to silence the voice of their own con-
science, then I incur the incalculable
Help us as a nation, 0 Lord, to lay guilt of helping to destroy a brother
up in our hearts and minds the trea- .or
1 whom Christ died.
sures of Thy word so that our hap- ,We most use our Christian liberty
piness may be that of a people whose with Christian consideration of
God is the Lord. Amen, others. Never was there a man who
S. S. LESSON FOR JUNE 30, 1935
Lesson Topic—Liberty Under Law
(Temperance Lesson).
Lesson Passage—Romans 14:13-21;
I Corinthians 8:9-13.
Golden Text—Romans 14:21.
Seeing the scripttires of the Old
and New Testaments contain the
rules of life there is no excuse for
man being ignorant of what is re-
quired of him as his brother's keep-
er. In to -day's lesson we read (1)
that no man is to put a stumbling
block or an occasion to fall in his
brother's way; (2) destroy not him
with thy meat, for whom Christ died;
(3) for meat destroy not the work of
God; (4) it is good neither to eat
flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything
whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is
offended, or is made weak. Paul in
this part of his epistle sets down his
concePtion of loving large -hearted-
ness between man and man.
.'Paul says it is "Good" not to drink
wine (a word for our time and its
conditions), and not to do anything
in which your brother is stumbled,
or entrapped, or weakened. Yes, this
is Christian ° Liberty; or liberation
from the strong and subtle law Of
self; a freedom to live for others.—
(The Expositor's Bible).
I Corinthians 8:9-13.
Apparently a good deal of ill -feel-
ing had been ardUsed in the Corinth-
ian Church by different views held on
"the eating of those things that are
offered in sacrifice unto idols. Paul
declares that, for his own part, he
has no scruples at all saying, "Meat
commendeth us not to God: for nei-
ther, if we eat, are we the bettor;
neither, if we eat not, are we the
worse."
If, therefore, I had to consult my
own conscience he says the matter
would admit of prompt and easy solu-
tion. T would -as soon eat in an idol's
temple as anywhere else. But all
have not the conviction we have thit
an idol is nothing in the world. Some
are unable to rid themselves of the
feeling that in eating sacrificial meat
they are paying an act of homage to
the idol, Their conscience is weak,
but their conscience is their con-
science; and if they feel they are do-
ing a 'wrong thing and yet do it, they
do a wrong thing, and defile their
conscience. Thus slid Paul seek to en-
lighten his converts.
bur own sooiety similar cases
arise. 1, as a Christian,, and knowing
that the earth and its fullness 'there-
of' are the Lord's m,ay feel at perfect
liberty to drink wine. Had I only
myself to consider, and knowing that
Marcus Dods, D.D.
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WORLD MISSIONS
Frances WillArd Said in 1893
A straw cannot bear the strain to
which a rope is equal; a rope cannot
bear the strain that an iron bar can
meet; and so some natures failed in
the time of iinminent danger; they
had not the staying qualities; they
lacked the power of resistance; for
this they were not to blame; but a
wise leader looks out before he puts
such as these on guard, even as the-
shipebuilder testa his material. Pine,
is a beautiful wood, but we do not
put it in the hull of a ship; we want
"heart of oak" to hold us safe against
the thumping waves; and in every
great reform the sifting process must
go on, the assorting of materials and,
alas! oftentimes) such a testing as
threatens to cause disaster before we
know just how' muell pressure differ-
ent fractions can endure that are be-
ing combined in the great 'totality of
the ship that shall carry the Union
over to its better heritage, its prom-
ised land of a clear brain, a steady -
beating heart, and a hand that does
not tremble.
A. presidential campaign always
lowers the moral atmosphere for a
year before it begins and a year af-
ter it is over, Legislators become
timid, politicians- proceed to 'hedge'
journalists with an eye to the loavea"
and fishes furl their sails concerning
the issues that have at best only a
fighting chance; the world, the flesh,
and the devil get their innings, and
the time is not yet. All this savors
not of the things. of God or of hu-
manity. The readjustment of fpoliti-
sal parties is still inchoate; men's
'hearts are failing thenx for fear. The
financial panic has riveted the atten-
tion of the public on their own dan-
gers and disasters, but pixthibition is
still quick with fighting blood and its
:enemies know this even better than
its frienda.—From Annual Address,
Pro -m The Canadian White Ribbon
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