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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1902-12-25, Page 7Deoember $35t114902 r ....rar• Tirm atawror strws.asconx, miwoms 'he'MolsaisPank' A Sluggish, LYINGINANANGER" Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1835. CaPit.U1 $2,500 ,Q09 Rest „ 2,S50,0SQ •ri4D OFFICE - -MONTREAL. alcason Macpherson, President. at Elliot, General Manager. s discounted. Collections made. 'rafts issued. Sterling and Amer - WI Exchange bought and sold. .st allowed on deposits. • SAVINGS BANK crest •allowed on sums of .ef afal up, comaeanded half yearly. FARMERS. Money advanced to fanners nn their own. notes with one or more en- lorsers. No mortgage required as security. H. C. BREWER, Manager, Clinton. G. D. Meraggrart BANKER. A General Banking Business transact- ed. Notes discounted. , Drafts. issued. Interest allowed on ,4e - posits. Albert street r•k-1-4'--A.SCOTT, Clinton. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Money to loan. Office—Elliott Block - - Clieton. W. BRYDONE, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR. Notary, Public, Etc. 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Bringing' Slightness and Happiness tto the World's chitchats Ever •allice, ElaZett Trirgitigt(?2,4.)1 tgarlin1:1 IriitlibY,c'etf. To. Can. al. Os DOP't uf Agriculture, Wawa, Chicago, Dec. 21.—Appropriate to the cativo:letting celebration is the fol- lowing sermon by Rev. F. pe Witt Talmage, on the epochal event of the world's history, from the text leulse 14 111, "Lying in a manger." ° How large is ea average crib? "I seppose,” you gnawer, "about feu. feet long and two feet wide. , :it is as large perhaps as an average man. ger at tile end of a horse's etall,.at which the lour legged animals munch their oats and hay, after it Jong, tir- e some clay's work,' . Yes, my friend, you are tight. Your definition is so erannietely right that in this. Christ - nits sermon I am going to preach about a famous manger; which was ouce used for a cradle. I am going to talk about -a stone manger, hewn out of the solid rock, in which near- ly 2,000 years ago. was laid A new-- born babe. About this manger' the wise men from the east and the shep- herds gathered, and over it the an- gels sang' the first lellaby in the Chant of the Christmas song, This Stone nra(114 was 'the manger of Bethlehem of Judaea. it was ' the first earthly rooting ,place of • the Divine Child, who was the ' son . of (try' the Virgin and was .also the tl y • begotten • San pi the leather' d, '• " ut while ' we inay tay in this 'Christmas sermon. to picture the manger Christ, yet we must becare- fill not to weaken our picture by re, citing too. mech. •the false legends and the fictitious stories that have been written about the Bethlehem ...khan. We must remember that the, . many Christmas f•auperstitious may be a positive hindrance and' confusion to the gospel.. student, - as the wropg use of hooks can .schnetiates, weaken .the intellect of a modern profeSslon- al. man . So to -day in this. -Christ- mas sermon upon the manger Christ We wetuld Over up ',all the fictitious descriptions whioh the fames art- ists • have painted. We would elope the lid of .every :hook . Which in le- gend. would try •toa ten uS. that on the night Jesus Wee -born 'the sheep and the • goats and the cattle and the. horse hended•the.kriee as did the wise -erten to worship . it .the feet the; newborn Child. . And in the elm, ple 'nativity • a,ccount written by the biographer St. Luke We would find foue underlying gospel pitman e6 or reasons why Jesus should have open- ed his earthly eyes .firet in a . stable and hot in a palace, . - • The whole re.ndering• of the '-verse of My text.' :reads thus: , "And this -shall be for 'a sigri 'mete you; -ye shall . find the babe. 'wrapped • in swaddling • Cie -thee, lying, in a. /man- ger." • The . manger ;is a simplified and .tender• manifestation qf the 'di-. vine love. It is, not difficult for the Average' uninspired Man to' think 'of Jehavah as -O,- God .of majeSty,-:. of power, of fiery pession, a God. who • -can hold the',sens'-ie the palm of his hand and e; Cod' who. con . unsheathe the fiery swords of lighting.. Ally; even tie) heathen • in the -darkestdays- of berbaric stipeeetitioe were able ' to tehilt -of' sach gads as that! • When the leitroclydons wee -born in . . the : Meclitoritanean archipelago and. in- stantly " sprang. up . as. fiill , grown giants and with their swiftly moving feet leaped from wave: top to Wave top and. drenched 'their bine :locks, and wide floe:nig robs *, with the White fottrn and out.�f a. mere Satan - in dedire to deetrok berled the ship-. ping upon the jagged rocks, and ea -e- el -6d the surrounding ' ciatete ' with wreckage, at was a very easy 'matter for the Ancients to picture a Neptune striking right and 'left with his .tri-. dent ad to call .him god Of the seas. When, tbe mighty- conquerors of • the east made triumphal. °aka/ afteeene try into the . city :61. Rome, with • ale- threned .kings chained to their char- iot wheels and with their legions loaded down .with eapturedspoils, after whole regions had been brought tinder' the 'shadow of the - scepter held • • • • • . • . • ISSUED' BY' . • . J. B. Rum.ball Clinton Cook's Cottonrtoot Compound • is successfully used Monthly by peer, 10,000Ladles. Safe effectual. eadiesaak your dmggist for toolds Cotton Root Com- pound, Take no other, as all Mixtures, pills and imitations are dangerous. Pries, No. box; Xt. 2,10 degrees stronger,$8 per box. No. or 2, mailed on receipt of price and two &cent stamps. The Cook CompanyMindsor, Ont. rirllos. land 2 soldandreconimended by all respOntablepruggists in Canada. • • Ns x d ' sold Clintou by H, B. Combe, R. P. Reekie, Hov- eaa and Watts & Co.—druggists. The Killep Mutual 'Firm Insurance Comijany • rarni and Isolated Town Proper- ty Only Ineured. 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Use it also for bronchitis, 1 OonSumption, hard 'colds, ! 1 and foreoughs of all kinds. i i - god of. war, it was riot a very diffi- cult metter: tO . rear thjs. gigantic townie, evert thoegh thousandsand hundreds of theolsands 01 men and i0ni0ii IILUI t I d itt .its shrine and thOugh, the wells of the templo. had ect be eovered with the' Captured trophies. Even the go - brews were And are ready to. worship .Suell' a temporal kiria, • Only the' Oth- er day the OW rabbi of the we6t de- clared hi a Chieitgo towepaper that hie people Were 'still expecting it Mes- siah Who would tome as it temporal conqueror to lead tho' Jews , back again to Palestine,. Then these mod-. • era Hebrew crusaders would again see Jerusaleaarestdeed in all its east, grandeur, • and. there Jesus would ream with' greater poWer than :the tamps King Solomon .of old. • But .though it Was not difficult to think of Cod as a God of power'and temporal .congtiest, it was difficult in the time that Jedus was born to. . think of the Father .as a God of.love • and sympathy and /naive it God who would •deign to care for • ate indivai- nal human being: • a God who Wanted to creep into the human heart's .af- lections, even as the sunbeams would .steel into the heart and give new life to the plant. It was difilettlt, in one -settee for God to Math sinful men that he did • not want to crush them, but ta save them of their own free will. It wee clifficult for him to teach all men, both Jew and gentile, that Christ *did not cone as ' a ITehrew Christ, but as thee World's Saviour, Se, if we may use an fine aglhative timeription, God tbe Father. might have epoisert to J esus Christ, in it way something like this: •-1 will riot allow thee, iny only Son, to be born in a palace. I will not, al- low thee to enter the world as an :earthly' prince, Sinful men might( then honor thee and fear thee, but they might not then take thee Into their hearts and of their own ac- cord love. thee And give themselves to • thee.. I will send thee forth as a helpless babe. 1 Will let thee ba born in' Bethlehem% of Judaea, Oct helplees that the lOWlieet of the low- ly will not have a more humble en- try into the World than thou. (bo forth my Son, not only to atone for the sills Of the world, but also to teach. ail Hinfiul Men that X ant go *•.• the divine love have been manifested a More eiMple way than by Christ.** cradle being the manger Of Xlethieliern of Judaea? On Clet, 20, 1$95, I was brought face to Mee with the true teachings • Of the manger Christ as never be- fore. It WAS one of the most over- when/ling days or my We.. It hap- pened in litethlehen3, of Judaea,. I was Sitting in the Greek Catholic church, which is oupposeti to have beca •ereeted directly upon the ideate, • nal spot where Jesus was born, la that hallowed place I had read over and ov r again e aCCOant t nativity until it seemed as though the walls of the eastern edifice were changed into, a stable and the light which was burniag upon the. altar Was a candlelight held in the carport-, ter Joseph's hand, and while I read the nativity account over and over X sOddenly heard the eon whisperings 93 a chant. I listened and at lirst said: "It Cannot be. No; ant listening only to •the echoes of ray own, imagination." But the faint chanting began to grow louder. Then • X saw a raultitude of, people coming throagh the church door as the shep- herds must have • once crowded through the entrance of the ancient . stable, Then the procession °tune nearer and nearer and laid at ma teet the body of a little. child. As I sat there and looked at the' face of the dead baby. NVIIOSO funeral. was now taking place,erey heart 'went out • In sympathy to the 'poor mother. I seemed to be carried back to the timo when the Divine Babe lay in VOA stable manger, shielded by the Xnother love,' which is always a divine love, and, standing by the 13ethlehein Manger, with the. dead body -of that , village babe at my feet, I Could re. You in the mane surroun& ings could have realized, that .0cal's love for all his children is a tender, pleading, yearning :love, divine love which "passeth' all underatana- ing" and which abides with us • throtigh life mail beyond death. ' The Manger Christ was given as a hUman example for sinful man to fol- low this side of the grave. He came to. prove that by the grace of God it ie possible for a liunian' heing to overcome Sin; 'he came to prove it beeeuse Christ was. born just is we are, bone of our bone; and flesh of our flesh. He was tempted just as We are tempted. Therefore we must continually, .bee 'the Holy Spirit's power, strive to, be like him or else .we can be hone of his. GOil 'the ra- ther gave to ,,sinful men the hnrnan example. of the manger:. for A par - Pose. .God practically tellies. to you and the and say: "0 .sinful man, ,arcetir salv-ation was not Wrought out for you- by an act of atonement pee- fornied in heaven; To e redeem. you from sin .more was needed than sac- rifice. ,It was necessary, to set be- fore .you ,an ideal life. Therefore my only; begotten Son batik mien • .hitai a' helpful form and •ainetig you that 70u might see .what huinan na- ture cen becoine when God to it. .. I Allowed: Christ to lie in a quer:ger that you, 0 childeeii, might copy his life when Jesus was a little biate. did 'this thee you, 0 maa. d woman, • could copy his matured• Ix when you are in the greet earug- gl •of .ettrng daily: livelihood:. I ' this sp you might forevereliave e ore'youe .eyee• the power -WA' huh man example; who. was tempted. .as you are tempted, and yet • Who by 'the. Power of the •Holy Spirit sinned not:" It is not sufficient for us to say we are as good as Average men, We are not truly geoil until, by'. the grace of Gad, we become like Jesus; the Son 'of God, • , " • . The ingriger ''Christ emphasizes the feet that inflaite 'results which may affeet,all,, the, heavens and the earth --results which will Startle the u.te. •moet circurederenoes of the universe as well ae the great Centre can some- times bedirectly traced to seemingly infinitesimal causes. : When a prince or, a:princess, the child of a go eat king i about to be born; eseca tally .if the prospective lefent i5. to be heir to the throne: a member of the Cabi- net awaits' the arrival •ie. One of the •anterocans of the ioyal palace, • The artillerymen are .cletalled to inemedi- a e y thunder forth the neWs • of the prince's, -birth from the • gaping mouths of the. great 'Adel: eaunon Tae messengers. have their steeds sad - ed and Lai led, ready • to speed away to " ariziounce the arrival to the different public officials. The tele; graph wires thrill with joy as s000 as the expectant mess•age is sent to the farthermost parts of the toyal donaitine. But no such joyful and ea- tional .expeetancy greeted the earth-, lY birth of the Son of dod. :No mes. senger that night earried the news, up to the. Jerosalem palace of Bloody' Herod the Great. No 'retinue Of for- eign ambassadors stood' near to Offer their congratulations -to- an eat•thlY. king. Jesus' birth from a worldly standpoint 'was • an frisk nificant Erevent.ewsilbecnszaisn baorsntaibnleAn ortiletho• wlisaes. bern in a Bethlehem khan. Mary the • • • n in . e bras . solehm hour of a womarVe life had no bed upon witieh to lie, no ' unlese that . pillew waS the rough coat: of her noble though humble husband or a pile of straw pushed under ho head. . by a sympathetic stableman; no fondle at-, tendant; unless e that woman attencia ant was the kind hearted hostier's wife,who had acme ia to aid her troubled sister. So our second birth may have been in the estimation of the world a seerningiY insignificant event. But if We thereafter, only make a right ape of our,lives their • spiritual inflaence will affect all time and eternity. The news of our spirit- ual birth will. be heralded all round the heavenly kingdom, It. will. -‚set again the angels to chanting a ew song. Our second birth will hot only 1)0 h d d , but In the great judgment day when all na- tions shall be gathered before the throne the fat of that second birth Will summon forth Jesus, In the world's history• has it not often been revealed that the most in- significant of causes tan bring forth the most tremendous and farreaching results'? It seemed to be an insig- nificant matter When, many years ago, it humble Pliritae With his tam - Oa and a party ot friends wanted to Migrate and sot sail for Atnerlea. Ilut when the nriglish refileer at the Uttic maport towtt refused to let that humble Perittut leave the Calla - try of Xing Charles he changed whole leaves in the book of history. When Witter Cromwell turned his back up. on the mightYllwaves of the Atlantic Ocean he turned his face toword adarston moor and Islip bridge and Naseby and Preston until at last Oliver OromWell became the ruler of Ilngland and King Charles" head ftIJI :rtwath4tes.troke of the public execution. The manger Christ teaches that even hi the darkest days of an earth- ly Christian's life be le never out of sight of an oinnipotent Father's pro- teeting care. As We clitnb tale teqat • Three sizes; Ord. entAgil for Mr ordinary 4 • acid; i4‚, jest tight for br04Ch5t1rry h01111.1. . nets, hard °olds, eta; tii most economical - for emote omit Red to sea OS balm. . •.1, O. AIMS C•., parelf, NOS i ... ; . .. 1001181118110411111081081111" Oat alai • 0. ....4•55 • .0111•014.4. a••••••• 450 4,4k r Ae•.M. ,4#1, • •"' helghte Igloa wilitat is builaed the little village ef liethleltenr and Walle cciong the deserted strove in the mid- night luau. vf 'the Mat Chriettatas day end tee the little candle -light ot stalaeman's lantern tatting about itthii‘glitalaPt if% utibirYtinl'Ilite C‘}oirdgirith'ell Father had deserted and 'left -alone .letitiS the Divine Mon. But did he? Could Jesus d .ring any One of his earthly life 'truly say that the Mt Inc Father had forsaktn him as he Once in dying agony waked upon the cross? Oh, no. 1\eeks m. perhaps months ha. tole the tottivity God had prepared. it plate, by . wh i h t li , J tif cult Chriee N1101441 1.4.4 1010 10 0$0111)0 the 111111710"7 0105 sUoril of the bloody tyrent, Der- od, weeas er no haps Inenties. before Jesus wee horn the strange etar ap- peared in the far east. That star even thee had guided the three wino men over the mounteits and thretugh i through the werningsa of these thr co the villages nail over the long, not, thirsty deeert that they should be able to kneel at the manger, it was wiseenea that Jesue Would be able to esealat into lagYP a In the duek- nees of that Bethlehem night angel wings wore spread • over Diet huMble stable, angel forme surrounded the virgin mother and angel voices greet- ed the newbox•te Monarch of the ages ' with it heavenly' eon -g. They eangeto loud that the shepho de upon the hill- sides fell down in a swoon. And se in the darkest days of (Mr lives, When we feel that see are forsaken by , God and man, God's angels are watching us, Cod'fi eyes are seeing us, elod's ear Is bearing us. clod's protecting love is all around .us. We are no more forsaken by Cad • than the manger of Bethlehem was celes- tially forsaken on. the •night : that Je- sus was, born. - ; The oniniprertent God will not for one instant, even in the de*est of daye; turn a deaf or an unheeding ear to the weakest and most leeinieds of all his children. .One day the -baby [boy ot a *distressed father and moth - sweet, girlish ..cva' er was orery . sick. When theie . little the night Of the crisis . of the disease eht came to her father, Than, in her girl was about to be put to heti- on y, she said. "Papa, • won't you pray to God to -night that . baby lei -Other might get well? I am Only a wee little bit of a girl,. and God might not be willing to hear ake pray, but Ood would always have time to listen to you pray, for you are a greet big. Strong man.." With that the • sobbing father took his lit- tle giel into his. arms as he said : d'Oh, my darling, God will have time to hoar .you peay for your baby bro- titer: rt.- you will pray,: My darling, for your little brother, though** you are a little bit .03 a :girl, God, if .ne- cessary, will turn to the angels and say: "Angels, stop that singing. Stop that singing right away. way down on earth there is a wee .litile bit of a girl wh ie praying foe Ake her baby brother, a 1 want to lis- ten!' ?' And as .tha atristiale fath- er spoke to his . littlei'„,. giei ' I say. to: you, in this .Christreas sermon,:. no inatter; 0 num or woman, how huh manly helpless you may be; no mat- ter how • dark your days may .deem -to be, God is always ready to listen Lo your Cry ik youwill only all up- on hint for, help. GOO is always ready . to protect you with his .love, even as his guardian -angels and the star of :the east hovered over, the meager on the night that Jesus was born: Thus, . my dear people,. itt this Christmas • sermon, I have tried to I preach to yiatt a manger of hope arid of good cheer and of goaPel triumala '1 have tiled to preach Una hind of sermontbecause I Want thia Christ- mas to be the brightest and the hap- piest and the merriest of all your, lives. And uow 1 want to Sum up all my parting advice before we sep- arate for the holitlay festivities of the coming week. I want you to mare into your homes two ambitious. The first is to make this Christmas the happiest day, in it teznperal sense, of your children's lives. Lift high your Christntas tree and light the candles. Give as many preseetS it you can afford to your loved ono, as the wise men brought the gold and frankincense and myrrh. to Jews. Make the home merry with frolic and ftm. And, if It must be so, let, your yelotit.r:oenn eftottr tisinstutalyeegoadcyleathrIngsnig the second tylvice is of far greater importance. In the evening hour of Christmas night, when the tired limbs and heavy eyes are about ready tor bed tell the little (MOS as well as the big ones of the fondly circle the' great underlying principles of the manger. Lit. the crose • as high as you can. Tell • them- why Je. sus was born and why Jesus had to . Then the Christmas day will truly be a happy -day and also a holy day. And so, one and all, 1 bid you farewell for the most- sacred and the best wok of the .aear. 1 wish you. in a true, pure, spa itual sense a merey, • ,inerry C b, r is t nuts ..• • • , . ' To Clean Marble. • • Take two parts of common soda, one, part of pumice stone and one part of .finely powdered chalk; elft all through a fine sieve and mix with water, then • rub it well over the marble, and the stains will be renaoved. Rub the mar. ble over with salt and water.'" 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