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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-08-31, Page 7Sunday School Lesson _ * DAVID Sunday, Sept. 3—I Samuel 16:1- 13; Psalms 78:70-72. Golden. Text Man looketh on the outward ap­ pearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. (I. Samuel 16:7d.) David had a distinction shared by no other 'character in the Bible. He * was the first king of God’s own choice to reign over God’s chosen people Israel And he was a unique type of the divine King of Israel. David’s greater Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, Israel’s Messiah and the Sa­ viour of the world. The Israelites had demanded a king after their own heart, and Goa had let them have their own way by appointing Saul as their king. When men have their own way and reject God’s the result is doomed 'to fail­ ure. King Saul, having everything that men count worth while, was a pitiable failure, and ended his life a suicide. Yet the old prophet Samuel, while keenly conscious of Saul’s fatal and ineirrigible sins, mourned for Saul until God had to rebuke the prophet and tell him to cease 'his mourning: “How long wilt thou mourn for Saul seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?” When God decides to set a man aside, it is not for us to mourn God’s decision. The only way of safety and happiness is to agree with Goa for His wisdom and love are .perfect Samuel was divinely directed to take a born of oil and go and anoint another young man as (king, a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite. “How can 1 go?” protested iSamuel to God; “lr Saul hears it, he will kill me.” So God directed the old prophet: “Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.” Did this mean that .Samuel should tell a lie? God never directs any man to life, for Satan is the father of lies, and God is the truth. What Samuel was directed to say was lit­ erally true; he was going to offer a sacrifice to the Lord, and during the ceremony he was to anoint the new king. Arrived at Bethlehem, Jesse and his son were jcalled to this sacrifice and when the oldest son, Eliab, ap­ peared, Samuel was sure this must be the new king, for he was so fine looking. Samuel was mistaken. The Lord told the prophet to pay no attention to the tall stature or fine looks of Eliab; For the Lord seeth not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.” Man after man of Jesse’s seven sons passed before Samuel, and each time the Lord made known that His choice was not there. Were there no other children? There was the youngest, off by himself, keeping the sheep—surely he was not to be con­ sidered. But he was the one for whom God had been waiting and Samuel had the boy sent for. “Arise,” said the Lord to Samuel, anoint him: for this is he.” Oil in the Bible is a symbol of the Holy Spirit and as Saul anointed Bowel Complaints of Children During the Summer Months Mothers should look well after their children during the hot summer months. Despite all they can do the children may be seized, at any time, with diarrhoea, dysentery, summer complaint, or other forms of bowel trouble. There is a safe remedy in Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry j a remedy that has received the en­ dorsement of legions of Canadian mothers during the 88 years it has-been on the market. Don’t experiment. Get “Dr. Fowler’s” and be on the safe side. _ Manufactured only by The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont. THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, AUGUST 31» 1933 young David, “the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day for­ ward.” A thousand years later a de­ scendant of David after the flesh, who was the Son of God, was bap­ tized, and the Spirit of God .descend­ ed upon Him in a“ special anointing for His earthly ministry. David must have had some very rare and true and beautiful charac­ teristics, in his single-hearted de­ votion to God. He fell into grev- ious sin ,many years later; but when lie was confronted by his sin he made no excuses, but confessed it with a broken heart, and God for­ gave and cleansed him, as He will all who turn to Him in true repen­ tance and confession. David is called the Shepherd-King and so is the Lord Jesus Christ, Da­ vid wrote that matchless piece or literature, the Twenty-third Psalm, which has comforted more hearts than almost any other passage in all the Bible. It is one of three shep­ herd psalms, the twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth, each written by D,avid. As David was a shepherd before he was iking ( so the Lord Jesus Christ, at His first coming, took the shepherd’s place laying down His life for jtl^e sheep “I am the good shepherd. (John 10) “I am the good shepherd,” said the Lord: “the good shepherd giveth His life for the sheep.” And David risked his life over and over again for the sake of his sheep, meeting wild animals in life-and-death con­ flicts. The first of ' the three Shepherd Psalms, the twenty-second, tells or the Good Shepherd dying for the sheep. Then the Lord rose from the dead and iri>' the twenty-third Psalm we have the risen Christ caring for His sheep today, so that, “though I walk through the valley of the shadow or death, I will fear no evil.” In the third of these Shepherd Psalms, the twenty-fourth, we have the return of Christ as the Chief 1 Shepherd, to reign over Israel and the whole world. “Lift up your heads O ye gates; even lift them up ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is the King of glory? The Lord of hosts He is the King of glory.” We find David and Christ brought together continually in the New Tes* tament. When the angel told the virgin Mary that she should have a child, not the son of her husband Joseph but the Son of God, the an­ gel uttered the pliophecy: “And the Lori God shall give unto Him the throne of his father David: and He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of His Kingdom there shall be no end.” (Luke 1:32, 3(30 In the great sermon preached by Peter on the day of pentecost, by which three thousand souls were saved, Peter declared that David knew that the son of God and Mes­ siah was coming as one of his own descendants, because “God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; he seeing this before spake of the ressurrection of Christ,” (Acts 2:30, 31). These are but a few of the astound­ ing facts that show the unique hon­ or given by God to a man of His choice of David as king of Israel. BURNS BARN AND THRESHER 'Struck by lightning during the severe electrical storm which swept the district recently the large barn owned by George Hodgson, council­ lor of McGillivray Township, was completely -destroyed along with a threshing machine, three calves and the season’s crops. Mr. Hodgson resides on the 4th concession of Mc­ Gillivray Townhip. The Ailsa Graig fire department was called and after a valiant fight the nearby residence was saved from destruction. They also saved sev­ eral nearby farm buildings. The fire was first discovered when Mr. Hodgson went to the rear of his home when the storm was at its height. He immediately noticed the entire top of the building in a mass of flames. EDDIE, THE AD MAN OFF COLOUR? HOW IS YOUR LIVER? Wake up your Liver Bile —Without Calomel Your liver’a a very small organ, but it cer­ tainly can put your digestive and eliminative organs out of kilter, by refusing to pour out its daily two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels You won’t completely correct such a condition by taking salts, oil, mineral water, laxative candy or chewing gum, or roughage. When they’ve moved your bowels they’re through—and you need a liver stimulant. - Carter’s Little Liver Pills will soon bring back the sunshine into your life. They're purely vege­ table. Safe. Sure. Ask for them by name. Refuse substitutes. 25o at all druggists. <8 LITTLE LAD INJURED Frank Racey, five-year-old son oi Mr, and Mrs. Maurice Racey, Park' hill, was run over by a car while playing near his home recently. The little lad started across the road not noticing the approaching car and was knocked down and run over. The car was driven by Ewart Vernon. He was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital. London but is home again. AGED CYCLIST NJURED George Morrison, 80-year-old Parkhill cyclist, was thrown from bicycle and one wheel of the car' driven by Maurice Racey passed over1 his chest. Mr. Morrison was travel­ ling on the wrong side of the road and as Mr.z Racey swerved his Car to avoid hitting him Mr. Morrison also swung his bicycle the same way- His condition is much improved. Roaring, plunging outboard mo­ torboats. graceful yachts and the sleek, flimsy shells of the oarsmen will be acquatic features at the Can­ adian National Exhibition this year DASHWOOD OLD BOY ENJOYS MOTOR TRIP TO CALIFORNIA The following interesting letter was received by the Tim‘es-Advocate Editor from a former Dashwood boy who on account of ill health was aa1- vised by* his doctor to spend the win­ ter in Arizona, Texas or California. With my wife and son I left Buf­ falo, N. Y. January 2.8th, 1933 by way of Cleveland, Mansfield, Spring­ field, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Ind., then on to St. Louis and Springfield. Missouri, Tulsa and Oakahoma City, Oklahoma, Fort Worth, Mineral Wells, Pecos, to El Paso, Texas where we spent two weeks. El Paso' Is a wonderful place. While there we took a trip out to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. These oaves are 7'5'0 feet deep and the most wonder­ ful formations of stagmate that om? could imagine. I simply cannot describe it. There are some caves large enough to put a city block in At the entrance and down about 150’feet there is a cave which runs back half a mile and they told us that there ai;e between three and five million bats that come out in the evening and go back in the morning, but we did not stay to see them as we were out 157 miles from El Paso and quite a few hills and a strange road. We also visited Old Mexico where we saw the town of Jareuz. This place was riddled with bullets in the Villa uprising; we saw also the market place, the old Mission and the gambling house, "hone of which appealed to us. Leaving El Paso, we started1 for California going by way of phoenix, Ariz. which is quite a eity with plenty of palm trees along the streets and when we got to Yuma. Ariz., we satv the frst orange, lemon and grapefruit trees all loaded with fruit. We were quite excited and wished we could pick some. From there we went to iado, Ariz., where the dates are grown and' then on to San Bernardino, Calif., to the An­ nual Orange Show where we were met by my brother Edward, whom I had ot seen for 25 years and my sister Carrie also met us. The oranges were lovely and they seem­ ed to be as plentiful as apples in the Niagara County. The country round San Bernardino is an orange belt and you can buy 5, 6, 7 and 8 dozen oranges for 25 cents and they are nice. While in Ontario, Calif,, my son and I went out and picked a large sa<2k of oranges and tangerines and such fine, large ones. They are get­ ting 50 cents a crate for their oran­ ges on the trees. We spent about six weeks at Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Ontario. We happened to be in Ontario the day of the earthquake at Long Beach. Ontario is about *5'0 miles from Long Beach, and I was driving, at the time and did not feel the 'quake. My wife and son were not with me and felt ft plenty. Three weeks later we went all through the earthquake zone and' there were still a good many places that had not been touched; just left as they were after the quake. Most of the buildings that went down were built of brick with lime and sand mortar. The frame and stucco buildings seemed to stand it best, although a good many were shifted off their foundations. Jn the town of Compton there is hardly one building on Main St. that was not damaged or ruined. iSome jusx looked like a pile of brick. But we were not scared at all. Then from there we went on up north to San Francisco—a wonderful drive al­ though there are a good many moun­ tains and some people get quite sick, making the trip on account of the altitude and the curves. San Fran­ cisco is the best business city in the West, but the hills in the city were terrible. They have to use cable cars. We were at Golden Gate Park at sunset and it was one of the finest sunsets I have seen. We liked Frisco very much. From there we went north as far as Eureka by way of Palo Alto ana Sanford University. This is a won- erful place. Former President Hoov­ er’s home is on the campus grounds and we took some pictures of his residence. On our way north and just before arriving at Palo lAJlto we passed through the Almond Nut groves. They say there are 35,000 acres of nut groves. The scenery is wonderful. Then after leaving Frisco ; going north’ we passed through the Redwood forest for about one hun­ dred miles. These trees are giants We saw one tree that measured 82 feet around and was 245 feet to the first limb; stood over 300' feet high. There was a tree lying on the ground that was over 300 feet long and as straight as could be. Redwood is very straight grained and can be split in one inch strips without breaking off. There is one tree that has a roadway cut through large enough for two cars to pass in the tree. They have a stump near Eureka that they hold dances on. It is 29 feet across. The bark on these large trees is sometimes 16 inches thick. When we got to Eureka I met mj- sister Mary whom I had not seen for 35 years and while were we were so delighted to see each other still our visit was quite a sad one. We ar­ rived there on a Tuesday and on the following Sunday her husband took a heart attack and died. But sucn is life and.it is well to be preparea to go any time. Staying at Eureka for three weeks we started on our way back by way of Oakland. Most of this country is cattle ranches ana nut groves and is very nice ana green as they get more rains. From Oakland we went south by way or San Jose then over to Pasadena This is where they hold the rose tournament each New Year’s Day From there over to Ontario and then! we started on our way back to Buf­ Canadian National TORONTO AUG. 25 to SEPT. 9 Inclusive 193 3 # The national, yet universal, influence of Canada’s National Exhibition, its unique displays from home and foreign lands and the international aspect and diversifi­ cation of its multifarious attractions, brings to Canadians an inconceivable wealth of education and recreation. SCULLING RACE For the world’s professional championship. An outstanding sport­ ing event of international importance. The Champion, Ted Phelps of England vs. Bob Pearce of Australia. Fri., Sept. 1st. H. M. SCOTS GUARDS BAND This famous band from Britain will thrill music lovers twice daily, afternoon and evening, in open-air concerts. Thirty other bands in attendance. " MONTEZUMA” Thrilling spectacular drama depicting the conquest of old Mexico by the Spanish. Nightly—Aug. 28 to Sept. 9. 1500 costumed characters on the world’s largest stage. DISPLAYS OF NATIONS Magnificent displays of manufactured and natural products from Canada, Great Britain, Bermuda, Trinidad, Federated Malay States, New Zealand, Africa, United States and elsewhere. AGRICULTURE The outstanding agricultural display on the continent, $125,000, prize list. Canada’s Premier Horse Show, International Dog and Cat Shows. Downtown official free information bureau. List of approved private homes available to out-of-town visitors. 46 Yonge St., ’Phone EL. 7816 k a ■ Be sure to make early reservations for the grandstand pageant "Montezuma.” Reserved seats 50c., 75c., and $1.00. Box seats $1.50 (5 chairs in a box). Mail cheque to Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto. Low rates on all transportation lines — special excursion days arranged — consult local agents. W, INGLIS, H. W. WATERS, - President. General Manager. CONSECUTIVE falo by way of the Bouldei' or Hoov­ er Dam (all the same dam). I guess it is the largest project of its kind in the world. We crossed the Colora­ do river above the dam on a ferry; the water being 12 fet deep and we were told that when the dam is com­ pleted the water at this point will be 620 feet deep. There would be enough water in the dam to flood the state of New York one foot deep As we crossed we could see the Painted desert and it was lovely. We did not enjoy the mountains very much between the Boulder Dam and Kingmon. There were so many hair.pin curves. It took us over b hours to drive 87 miles. From there we visited the Grand Canyon. We were told by the guide that the Can­ yon is 12:5 miles long and between 10 and 12 miles wide and in the centre about 700 feet deep. He also stated that the deer migrate from one side to the other through the Canyon. It surely is a wonderiui sight. Leaving there we drove through Amerilla, Texas, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Cleveland and on home to Buffalo. When we check­ ed up on the trip we had driven 11,7 60 miles and it had cost uh ?41.5 0 for cabins and apartments We made the trip in a 19 32 Ply­ mouth, 4 cylinders. Repairs 12c». for a manifold gasket. We surely enjoyed the trip and the wonderful California weather. Our health was good and I gained 10 pounds on the trip and we hope to make it again some day. Yours truly, Fred W. Shetler, 481 West Utica St,, Buffalo, N. Y.