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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-03-09, Page 7Sunday School Lesson JESUS MINISTERING TO THE MULTITUDE (International Uniform Sunday School Lesson, March 12) Golden Text “The Son of man came not to be minjisltered unto1, but to mliniste'r, and to give his life a ransom for many,”—Matthew 20:28, Because I have been sheltered, fed By thy good care, I cannot see another’s lack And I not shqre My glowing fire, my loaf of bread, My roof’s shelter overhead, That he, too, may be comforted. Because love has been, lavished so Upon me, Lord, ‘ A wealth, I know that was not meant For me to hoard, I shall give, love to those in need, The cold and hungry clothe and feed, Thus shall I show my thanks indeed. A Vacation Planned, 30-32 How completely free from fanati­ cism was’ the Man of Galilee! There has been religious leaders who sought to validate their teaching by defying physical laws1, but Jesus ac­ cepted physical laws and obeyed them. We know that his disciples were only flesh and blood. They had to live in bodies and both body and soul could be incapacitated by fati­ gue. The disciples had been sent out on a trial missionary jounrey. Their hearts had been saddened by the death of John the Baptist. Crowds were about them so that they could not possess1 their own souls—‘even their meals were inter­ rupted—so Jesus told them to come apart into a dessert place to rest. They boarded ship and went to a desert shore. It is no crime to tqi<e a holiday. The hardest workers need a holiday the most. Over a long period the' majority of people can do more more work in six days a week than in seven, and in eleven months a year than in twelve. Teaching Out of Doors, 33-34 Because of the shortness of the Canadian summer, Christianity in our land is largely an indoor relig­ ion. We worship in churches. We study in Sunday Schools. It is ex­ ceptional to have open air services and only a relatively small number of people go to summer schools. •Much of the- teaching of Jesus, how­ ever, was> given out of doors, on hill­ sides, on la.keshores and on the road. Jesus made many references to na­ tural objects.—the birds, the^flowers the grain, the sunset. How his heart would go out in pity to slum dwellers in our great cities, or even to office and factory workers where sunlight and fresh air are denied. To sail the sea and bo tramp the hills, to gaze at a sunset or the stars is good for health, but it also has an influence upon the soul. Beauty is a revelation of God. Nature is God’s handiwork. ‘We learn of the Worker by his work. z Give Them Food, 35-40 Jesus had compassion on the mul­ titude because, they were leaderless and had no living religious' faith. He taught the people who followed him around the lakeshore, but he al­ so fed them before they returned to their homes. At the most they would have missed only one or two meals. In the light of this incident how can Christians, today feel com­ placent when children are under­ nourished and when many mothers in bountiful Canada scarcely know where the next meal is to come from? All the higher achievements of man in science, commerce, educa­ tion and religion are dependent up­ on an adequate food supply. God's provision has beep. bountiful. There is plenty of grains and fruits, yet thousands are in want because of the greed of a few, because of the maladministration of leaders and because some people lack the com­ passionate heart of Christ. It is plain evidence of mismanagement if any ope in Canada lacks food, shel­ ter and clothing. There is plenty fox* all. A Parable of Truth, 41-44 ‘ There has been much discussion as to the method whereby Jesus fed the multitude. The miracle of the multiplying of the loaves1 and fishes, however, is relatively insignificant compared with the way in whilch the truth of Jesus was spread. At the most only a few thousand heard Jesus teaching that day among the hills, but his truth has become the bread of life to millions of followers through the ages.. There is some­ thing inexhaustible in his teachings. Judged by the books and magazines being published and the mission stations being opened, Christ’s truth is still multiplying. Jesus Lived to Serve The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. His whole life wasi one of service. He served people because he loved them and saw possibilities in them. He was willing to help them with food, with healing, with truth, with love according to their special need. His aim was’ not the honor he could win for himself but the service he could render to others. It was out of his own experience that he uttered the beautitude quoted by Paul. “It is morex blessed to give than to reiceive. Jesus taught the multiture because he had compassion upon them. He fed them from the same motive and his followers should display the same practical social sympathy. This can be done in the name of man as well as in the name of God. The Son of man came to minister. Questions for Discussion 1. Can churches afford to leave relief work solely to government agencies'? 2. In our home and church bud­ gets do we pay enough attention to “the fragments”? 31. Cicero said, “Elc-onomy is of it­ self a great revenue.” How? 4. Which is more important— what you believe, or what you do? 5. Why must Christians concern themselves with economics? 6. Why are there bread lines when food is going to waste? 7. Is it ever wrong to give? FIREMAN HONORED A very pleasant evening was spent in the Seaforth Fire Hall when a large gathering of firemen assemb­ led to do honor to the brigade’s treasurer, Mr. George A. Sills, on the occasion of his 78th birthday. Mr. Sills is a charter member of t'he brigade having an unbroken record of 58 years. During the course of the evening Chief John McKenzie on behalf of the brigade presented Mr. Sills with a handsome leather chair. fHE EXETER TIMES-AbVOCATE THURSDAY, MARCH 9 th, 1933 M .......,, ... „....... EDITORIAL Gives Added Enjoyment to Meals Depression Prices!! on all kinds of lumber and shingles. Call and see for your­ self or phone 12 Matched White Pine $35.00 per M. A. J. CLATWORTHI Phone 12 GRANTON. ONTARIO ZURICH •Mr. E. E. We-ido spent a few days in Goderich last week. Mrs. H. Steinbach-is spending the week with her son at London. Mr. Irvin D. Smith, of Hamilton, called on his father and brothers one day last week. Mr. Paul Jeffery, of Detroit, spent the week-end at the home of his mother Mrs. C. Ayotte. Mr. Orville Ehnes, of Detroit, was a visitor with relatives and friends in town a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Edighof- fer and son Garnet were week-end visitors with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Frank, of Waterloo. Rev. and Mrs. R. M. Geiger, of Preston and- Mrs. H. Magel, of De­ troit, attended the funeTal of their niece Mrs. Leonard Bender recently. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rose, of town have moved into the farm recently vacated by Mr. Paul Bedard on the 14th con. of Hay. Mr. and Mrs; A. T. Ross, of De­ troit, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Simon Grab, of the Baby­ lon Line. Mrs’. Ayres, and children-, of 'De­ troit, were recent visitors with the former’s mother, Mrs. Truemner. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Marner, Mrs. W. C. Wagner and son Leonard anrf Mrs. A. Melick attended the funeral of the late Mrs. W. C. Callfas at Kitchener. A firpti*ate cure for insomnia is a stiff day in the sugar bush, Bread is the staff of life, but the milk cheque is the life itself of «our business world. ****** * * The little red school and ’the little white church are the bul­ warks of our civilization. Hdg prices are due for a distinguished future. They’re begin­ ning at the very bottom. ******** Dobbin is in unusually good fettle. His winter’s exercise has done 'him a deal of good. ******** Those bank closures in the United -States are telling the mess things get into when men forget the Ten Commandments; ******** The farmer’s delight—buzzing wood with a-stiff Northeast wind blowing and the thermometer being at about twenty-six. ******* * Cautious 'Sandy is sure of living another year. He bases his confidence on the fact that every year he has lived so far, when he gets past the first of March he has finished the rest of the year. ******** Germany sowed for fifty years the dragon’s teeth of a shallow rationalism and i§ now reaping the whirlwind of massacre and fire. Victory its not necessarily on- the side of the most battalions. ******* * Gentlemen of the parliaments of Ottawa and Toronto, please keep down to business. Forget peanuts and marbles and attend to the tremendously pressing necessities of these pregnant hours; ******** Here’s wishing President Roosevelt joy of his office, though his inauguration is far more an occasion for prayers t'han it is for con­ gratulation. No president isin-ce Lincoln has faced a task one half as difficult as that which now confronts the new President of the United 'States. ******* • And now they are telling u® that in hard times men wear their old clothes for a longer period than do the women. Men make ’ a difference in this regard when it comes to socks. Queer, isn’t it, for being smartly dre-'sed is urged as essential to a man’s bus­ iness career. ******** Persons who claim to be well informed, tell us that half the population of the United States lives within daily reach of some city of 100,000' A critic of the United States says that if there are more church members in the United -States' than there used to be, that there is much less of the old time religion. It’s a bad day for rural life when it ceases to be rural minded. ******* *’ MEETING THE DEPRESSION We have just heard of a cheese factory that has attained to 100 per cent, in cleanliness, in equipment, and in the make of cheese. One year ago this little factory had 23 patrons. Today it has 9'3 patrons. Every ounce of matured cheese- has been sold, with orders coming in thick and fast for cheese as soon as the cheese ie>‘ ready for use. Already this little factory is' contemplating putting on a night shift. Any farmer’ -with a healthy herd of cows, with clean stables and who will handle the milk properly, has no difficulty in disposing of his product. Here is a delightfully bright spot on the horizon of a discouraged business world. The secret? The production of a necessary article in a firs'tclass manner. ***«««*« I’M GLAD HE DID IT” ‘. X. Here’s a story from real life. A country merchant related it to us: “Last -October I owed the local bank $250.00, the manager called on me -one day and told me that I was to pay that note in three months and he didn’t mean maybe. I told him times were hard and that my customers were sore put to it. “You’ll pay the note,” was all -that I could get out of him. I squirmed and wiggled and planned and did all the rest of it. By the first of February that note was paid and I was not crippled oi* hurt in any way. I had not lost a customer worth the having. I’m glad that the mana­ ger treated me- as he did. I’m $2'50.00 ahead of where I would have been had he not got after me with a boot with -a -stiff sole; And, by the way, that same manager told me that three years ago the community owed his bank about $190,000. That community now owes him less than $35,00,-0. Besides, business is better.” ******** BANKERS EXPLAIN In Canada for the last ten years there has not been a single bank failure. Canada has stood up in the firstplace in the front rank of the business world during those years amid which one­ time merchant princes' and -captains of finance have gone down like, qinepins. Yet the United States bankers have -the colossal impu­ dence to discount Canadian money at the rate of twenty pel* ceiit. Those United States bankers have .some explaining to do, and they had better be doing it quickly. German- conditions are ominous. Will the financial Neros fiddle while the -civilization goes to fire and sword? Decent men, patriotic men, Christian men nave held the flood’ about ats> long as they can. Why will not the money mag­ nates in the United States open their eyes? Have they forgotten the French Revolution? Doos the story of the Red Terror mean nothing to them? All men should know that selfishne-'s and greed carry in their very nature the- seeds of their own destruction. ******** GREEN TEA 623 "Fresh from the Gardens" of wanting work and of seeking woTk. Th© farmer at considerable expense had telephoned to folk to secure the unfortunate a job. All the goodness of heart could do for 'him was done by this farmer and his family. And the outcome? Aftei* breahfast Monday morning, the farmer’s guest informed his host that he was not seeking wonk’ but out to see the -country. “I’m much obliged to saps' like you for feeding and sheltering me for while I’m doing this.” And he was on- his way. ******** PLEASE NOTE Speaking of conditions in the United States, The Christian Century has this to say: “The public mind has almost reached the point where it re­ fuses to look at the figures dealing with unemployment, much less let it® imagination dwell on all that they signify. But the reports that are coming from all parts of the country of another large* jump in the number out of work during the first two months o£,this year indicate that the nation is nearing a condition where some action far more radical than even that contemplated in the rejected La- Fol lette-'Costigan bill will be required. Statistics compiled by Business Week show that, foui* months ago, there were more than 15,000,000' wage earners entirely out of work. Analyzed by occu­ pations this meant 17 per cent, of the farmers, 40 per cent, of those in forestry and fishing, 45.2 per cent, of those in mining, 46.2 per cent, of those in manufacturing and mechanical trades', 38.1 per cent, of those in transportation, 21.5 -per cent, of those in trade, 10.8 per cent, of those in- public service, 10.6 per cent, of those in professional services, 315.2 per cent, of those in domestic and' per­ sonal service—and 31.2 per cent, of all those who had been -gain­ fully employed as recently as April, 1930! Now, however, the Na­ tional committee on the care of the transient and homeless', after making surveys with the help of 1,3 35 social agencies in 90 8 cities, announces that there are 1,25 0,000 persons' without homes who are just wandering u-p and down the country, unattached waifs. Of these 135,000 are boys; 191,000 are women and girls; the rest are men. About 28 per cent, of the total are men more than 45 years of age. This means that tlfe point has now been passed, for thousands of families, where the heroic fight is being waged to hold the home together. Actual family disintegration has set in. And it seemed only yesterday when Americans, were lifting -their hands in horror at reports of the homeless -children of'Russia! SLATS' diary Friday—wel Ant Emmy’s peace was here again at our house for her supper tonite and it was the first time we new she had went and got marryed. Ant Em­ my ast hei’ how it happened and she replyed and sed she had wen-t with Fred for a good wile and got so tired of his pet­ ting and kissing and etc that she up and marryed him so now she is very very happy. Saterday —- Joe Hix wasseirt sc lucky in marryed £ife. he was a telling pa today that it wassent very safe for him to stay out late he gess. liesed the 1st time he stayed out late his wife just heav­ ed a big sigh when he cum home and then last Thursday nite he stayed out late agen and when he cum to his home she heaved a flat iron at him and he has been layed up ever since. -Sunday—'Ant Emmy has a hard time getting use to the langwidge ■the young folns are- useing this day and age. For a -long time she has ben wandering whut they ment wen they sed sum 1 passed out and now she has lernt that it is the same as in her young days when they swon- ed. .Munday—I gess the teecher is of the a pinion we are a dum set. To­ day she give us whut she -calls a general test. 1 of the kwestions was: What is a Polygon and I sed it was a man with to menny wives, and she marked it rong. well I never did no mutch about lawse ennyhow Tuesday—I started to the pitcheT show but I stops in the drug store and they was a cross-eyed woman calling up some friends and I got instructed in watching her use the dile telefone and fer-got all about the pitcher intill to late. But even then In Bad Condition Headaohes and Dizzy Spoils Mr. Neil Crawford, Hamilton, Ont,, writes:— “My nerves were in such bad condition I found it almost impossible to get a good night’s sleep. I was also bothered with headaches and dizzy spells. I tried many different remedies, but they did not seem to give me much relief, but after I had taken Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills I could hardly believe the change they had made in my condition.” $oT sale at all drug and general stores; put Up Ohly by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. WHY TIIE GRAY HAIRS COME It will be remembered that two weeks ago last Saturday night -the weatherman concocted one of the dirtiest nights of the season. Well just after supper one of our farmers who finds himself hard put to it to make ends meet, went out to the barn to give the cattle their last once over for the day. Just as he reached the stable, ho came across one of the most woebegone specimens of humanity that he. had seen for many a day. The poor chap looked to be about thirty years of age. He had no bundle with him and seemed destined to perish if lie were not sheltered and fed. He was taken into the house, given his supper and as good a bed as the premises possessed. He was fed and sheltered all Sunday, and provided with breakfast Monday morning. Meanwhile he- had spoken THAT DEPRESSED FEELING IS LARGELY LIVER Wake up your Liver Bile —Without Calomel .. You are feeling punk” simply because your NU?n8£ 1 P0ULlnS J,tS tW0 P0Un<i8 of liquid bowe s’ Digestion and elimination befng poison^ ’ y°Uf entlre sy8tem ifi What you need is a liver stimulant. Some- oi,lin^nl?LS°eS 1Arthertillan-salts’ '"ineral water, wl’inh , \ candy or chewing gum or roughage which only move tbe bowels—ignoring the real cause of trouble, your liver s ♦.??kexTCatr1e,'l’s Little Liver Pilis. Purely vege­ table. No harsh calomel (mercury), Safe. Sure. Ask for them by name. Refuse substitutes. ^5c. at all druggists. 53 I had plenty of entertainment enny ways. Wensday—Ike Neff marryed his wife a cuppie yrs. ago and he says it was bcauz she sung so- well. But now he says mebby it wood of ben just as well if he had boughten hls- self a canary instead. Thursday-—Jake has just been rea­ ding t-hat fish kill muskeeitoes and now he is trying to by him self a gold fish to take to bed with -him next summer. NEW LEGION BRANCH FORMED AT LUCAN A new branch of the Canadian Legion was formed Thursday night at Lucan. About .30 ex-service men were in attendance at an enthusias­ tic meeting. Col. Duncan Ross was elected provisional president and Rev. Mr. Harrison secretary. Veter­ ans attended from Granton, Lucan, Denfield and Ailsa Craig. Captain John Gore, zone representative, out­ lined the objects and assisted with organization. DURKIN—BEATON In the chapel of Metropolitan Church House, Toronto, Alice Louise daughter of Mrs. Alexander D. Bea­ ton, of Clinton, was married to Oliv­ er Durkin, of Waldeinar. Rev. K. J. Beaton, brother of the bride of­ ficiated. Following the ceremony a reception was held at the home of Rev. K. J. Beaton.