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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1935-02-07, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1»35 ENEl'ER WOMEN’S INSTITUTE The regular meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Archie Ryckman on Tuesday evening with a good at­ tendance. The president, Mrs. Har­ ness presided. Following the open­ ing exercLes the roll call was ans­ wered by a funny story. It was de­ cided that the Institute have a tag day to assist in helping Canadian National Institute for he Blind. An old time party was planned for the purpose of entertaining the Institute and their families on Friday, Feb­ ruary Sth in the Town Hall. Miss jeckell gave a splendid talk on “An Imaginary Trip Across Canada." A vocal duet by Miss 'Mabel Follick and Miss Forsythe was much appreciat­ ed. Mrs. F. Reid and Mrs, E Stone gave an instrumental duet. A con­ test and lunch followed. The meet­ ing closed with the National Anthem IL---... .............................................................. EDITORIAL Got that woodpile attended to? ******** The cold snap was a bit hard on the woodpile and the coalibin. • ******** January .has done well by us as far os weather is concerned. • • * * * * t V Cautious Sandy has all his seed grain well fanned and, sifted. •i f 4' SALADA TEAklfllirillal ■ fan CLANDEBOYE W, I . Mrs. Alex O’Neil and Mrs. Moore Cunningham were joint .convenors of the monthly meeting held at Clan- deboye, with Mrs. James Dixon pre­ siding. The Scripture lesson was read by Mrs, A. Hedden. During the business session a letter of thanks was read from the Children’s War Memorial Hospital, for the white gifts and fruit donated by the members, A paper cn Education, sent by Mrs. Risden, of Thorndale, was read by Mrs. George Young. Miss Jean Hod­ gins also gave a paper. The prizes for the apron parade went to the oldest member, Mrs. A. Paton, and second to Miss M. Reid. Prizes for the Bible contest went to Mrs. Karl O’Neil and Mrs. Jas. pa- ton. The convenors for the February social evening are the Misses Jean Hodgins, Helen Flynn and Merle O’Neil. Dobbin and the car have been running neck and neck this win* ter. * ♦ ♦ * * • * * One twelfth of the year has gone! Now what proportion of those New Year resolutions have been carried out? f n < now has a blend for every purse AMALGAMATING OFFICES OF SHERIFF AND CLERK GODERICH—On "February 1st the offices of sheriff and .clerk of the county court of1 Huron County wil‘1 he amalgamated. Sheriff G, C. Mid­ dleton retiring and County Clerk Robert Johnston assuming both po­ sitions. As yet no official announcement to this effect has been made (from Toronto but both officials have con­ firmed it and the news is generally known. ‘The fee system is to be abol­ ished and a straight salary paid for the dual position, affecting a saving of between $4,000 and $5,000 a year, it is stated. Sheriff G. C. Middelton, who re­ sides on his farm near Clinton, was appointed, by the Ferguson Govern­ ment in-July 1927. He has been an active, painstaking official and per­ formed his duties with dignity. He also is a successful farmer. GRANTON OLD BOY RETIRING FROM MINISTRY Rev, A. J. Langford, formerly pas­ tor of St. Marys, is retiring from the ministry after forty-one years of ser­ vice. Although still comparatively young and very active, Rev. Mr. Langford -has decided to retire and make room for a younger man. His thirteen years’ pastorate at St. Clair Ave. United Church, Toronto, has been most happy and successful. Rev. Mr. Langford is recognized as one of the outstanding preachers of the United Church. His resignation was accepted with great regret by the congregation. Born in London Township, a. short distance from Granton, Mr. Lang­ ford graduated from Victoria Uni­ versity and has held charges at Dres­ den, Ridgetown, Kincardine, Mitchell St. Marys, Peterboro and Toronto, Two younger brothers, Rev. Fred Langford and Rev. Dr. Frank' Lang­ ford are also United Church minis­ ters, the former being a theological professor al Victoria University and the latter being Secretary of Chrie- tian Education for the United church of Canada. ‘ * REV. J. E. MILLYARD ACCEPTS CALL Announcement of the accetan-ce of a call to the I-Iyatt Avenue United Church, London, was made by Rev. <T. E. J. Millyard, George St. United Church, Peterboro. Mr. Millyard will he succeeded by Rev. M. Parr, present pastor of the Hyatt Avenue church. The exchange will take place in June. Departure of Mr. Millyard will bring to an end a pas­ torate of six years at the George SR. church, longest pastorate Jn^tlie hundred years’ history nf^^Wngre- gation. Plans are now complete for the holding of the proposed L61st batta­ lion reunion which will be held in Clinton the first week in August. The chairman of the reunion committee is Col. H. B. Coombe and the secre­ tary G. M, Counter, The district chairmen are as follows: Goderich, Maj, A. H. Jane; Exeter, M, W. Pfaff Hensail, W. O. Goodwin; Seaforth, B. O. Muir; Brussels, F, W. Burchell Bayfield, H. R. McKay; Blyth, W- Cowan, The committee is interest­ ed in securing the addresses of the surviving members of the 161st bat­ talion. Consider the Ant. .Ho is so busy he break's tip other people’s picnics. The ice harvest has proven bountiful. Some harvesters picked out the stormiest days of the winter to do the garnering. ******** Have you done your share to mak’e the proposed Old Boys’ Re­ union a reail success? ******** Who’ll be the first to offer to supply souvenirs for the ap­ proaching Old ^oys’ Reunion? Time’s passing! ******** Now that the county councils have settled things and the days ■are a bit 'longer we can get to work again. ******** How many folk away in the future will be aible to say: “I was born in the year of the Exeter’ Old Boys’ Reunion? ******** The Englishman’s onetime fear cf the “poor ’us" helped whole generations to up and scratch while the dusting was even partly good, ******** Again we remind our readers that some of the best bargains in merchandising to be found in the province are being offered by our local merchants. * * * * • * * * * Exeter is in need of doing a good deal more than it is doing for the recreational life of the young people of the town and of the neighborhood. ******** These .meeting being held in various parts of the county to show ‘how bots and all such nasty enemies of live stock' may be got rid of are all to the good. ******** WHAT THEY WANT The papers report those murder and kidnap trials because that’s what the people want to-read. ******** Just as we expected, iHerr Hitler is looking for more territory. At any rate .he’s doing something besides dispensing charity and his people are doing something besides looking for handouts. * * * * * * - * * SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE PLEASE; Some rulers have investigated business with a vengeance. Still others have done a great deal .of axe-swinging. Let’s get some­ thing done, gentlemen, in the seats of the mighty They tell us that the infuenza is coming our way. A great many have been saying that the present epidemic of bad colds is the Influenza. Don’t be too sure. Influenza is a serious illness. So don’t, be too sure that you have “had it.” * * * * * * * * “Were I so tall to -reach the pole, • Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my souil, The mind’s the standard of the man.” * * ****** OMINOUS While we are busy congratulating the province on its recent cheap loan, have we stopped to. think that cheap money very likely means that industry is lagging and that cash is not greatly in de­ mand? In a town where livery men do a rushing business the price ■of a livery horse is likely to be high. The same rule applies to the hiring of money. When money is cheap it simply means that mon­ ey is not in active demand, ******** THOSE RELIEF MEASURES We are hoping that the citizens of this community are keeping in­ formed regarding the various, unemployment schemes that promise t?oon to be afoot. In regard to these schemes, we are inclined to say that the 'fewer w*e have cf them the better. -Let us not be understood, however, as sawing that we are op­ posed to helping the weak or the unfortunate. To take any such stand would be for us to show oivnselves as less than human. There always will be those who simply cannot fend for themselves. There will be too, those whom sickness overtakes and for whom the blows of outrageous fortune have proven too heavy. Such cases must be tak'e'n care of and will be taken care of. What we mean is that every person should be trained and obliged from his earliest days to pull Ills weight and a little more, due al­ lowance being made for the underprivileged, physically and men­ tally. Disaster'follows failure so to do. In other words, all should be taught from infancy thati there is real pleasure in service, that old fashioned work’ is a real delight to the healthy minded. Further, each child should be encouraged to plan his little day and to spend his energies wisely. Play is the part of childhood, as it is the part of all life. But children should learn from the very first that they have duties to discharge as well astpleasures and games to enjoy. The boy or the girl at fourteen who has not some idea of what he is-going to do with his life is sadly in need of waking up. The youngster who is soft-fingered and non-iselfreliant at fourteen is a poor affair. Let no one forget this. 'Occupation is a great -character builder and happiness insurer. Every youth at twenty-one should have some sort of stake in the community and should foe making his own living. By twenty- one ho should not be leaning upon anyone or dependent upon any­ one but himself. The day he is twenty-one <he should see clearly that he must 'pump or drown.. Schools, churches, homes, lodges, the public press all should teach this doctrine. Yet this is the very point at which all of those agencies have most lamentably failed. Meanwhile the cunning and the foolish have exploited the youth of .the land by encouraging them to believe that “the government” is bound to take care of all and sundry, no matter what their ca­ pacity for labor or their power to get on under the man-making power of self-thelp. And therein lies Canada’s peril. Yellow Label 1 BROWN LABEL - 33c >/2 lb. ORANGE PEKOE - 4Oc «/2 lb. All leaders in their class Sunday School Lesson PETER- PREACHES AT PENTECOST Sunday, Feb. 10—Acts 2 Golden Text Then Peter said unto them, Re­ pent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall teceive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 2:38.) • There has been one Calvary since the world began—there will never be another. So of Gethsemane; it is unique in time and eternity. We do not always realize that there is only one Pentecost; it can no more be re­ peated than Gethsemane or Calvary. It was God’s consummated time for doing what He had never done -be­ fore and will never do again; giv­ ing, once for all, the gift of the Holy Spirit poured out upon the Church the whole body of believers. Thus the Holy Spirit came to abide with and in the Church forever, fulfilling the promise made by the Lord to the disciples before His crucifixion (John 14:16.) From tht day to this, “Every believer is born of t-he Spirit, indwelt by the Spirit, and ■baptized by the Sprit, thus sealing lnm for God.” The Lord Jesus Christ had told the disciples that they should re­ ceive power after the Holy Spirit had come upon them (Acts 1:8.) Our lesson tells of the fulfillment of this promise. The disciples returned to Jerusalem, obeying the Lord’s com­ mand to do so (Acts 1:4, 12) and continued to pray, in company with other believers until “the day o‘f Pentecost was fully come.” On this day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came upon all the assembled believers. There was “a sound from -heaven as of a rushing mighty wind,” and the appearance of “clov­ en tongues like as of fire.” The be­ lievers were “all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them ut­ terance.” The miracle character of this event appeared from t-he fact that, as a result of this outpouring of the Holy ■Spirit, men from many nations t-hro’- who had come to Jerusalem at this time, “Jews, devout men, out of every nation under Heaven,” recog­ nized their own various languages as the disciples spoke, “because that every man heard them speak in his own language." They were amazed and at a loss to account for this, for they knew the disciples were Galil­ eans. Among the different nationalities thus hearing their own language at Jerusalem were: Parthian©, Medes, Elamites, dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judea, Cappadocia, in Pentus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, Libya, Rome, Crates, Arabians. -Some of the crowd mocked: ‘These men are full of new wine.” It was about as intelligent an explanation of tli© niir&olQS ^iv©n tv svtiic&l -uiid ip*** norant unbelievers. Drunken men cannot converse correctly in lang­ uages they never spoke before. Then Simon Deter did a difficult thing-—so difficult, that only God could have enlightened him and em­ powered him to do it. He was a .'fully forgiven and restored Peter now—not the cowardly man who had denied his Lord with oaths and cur­ ses, ut an new creation of Christ. He preac-hed one of 'the greatest sermons in the history of the Chris­ tian -church. The Scofield Reference Bible shows what an inspired mas­ terpiece of skillful construction, un­ answerable logic, and convincing truth this sermon was. Peter’s theme was: “Jesus Is the Messiah.” And “No message could have been more unwelcome to the Jews” who had rejected Christ and crucified Him—the Jews whom Pe­ ter was addre-ssing. ‘Peter, there­ fore, does not announce his theme until he covered every '.possible Jew­ ish objection.” These were orthodox Jews; they believed their Bible, the Old Testa­ ment Scriptures. Peter quoted these Scriptures, and proved conclusively that the Old Testament prophecies had been fulfilled before their eyes. W-hat was occurring at that mo­ ment, in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit was in fulfillment of the pro­ phet Joel (2:28-32), said Peter, Then Peter talked about the man who had been crucified a few weeks ago, Jesus of Nazareth. But He was “a man approved -of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves know.” Christ’s divine credentials were the miracles—let us never forget that. God had foreordained that this Jesus should die: “I-Iim, being de­ livered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.” This was straight, terrible language Peter was using. But God had also foreordained that this Jesus should be raised from the dead: “Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death; be­ cause it was not possible that He should be holden of it.” Their great kind, David,, prophes­ ied all this. And Peter quoted fa-m­ iliar passages from David’s Pslam (16:8-11). The Jews wer© perfectly familiar with this Psalm, and they must have started, shocked, amazed as they realized how identically it fitted t-he facts of the death and res­ urrection of Jesus, A full quotation and application of David’s prophecy is given in verse-s 25-35 of this les­ son. It was crushing evidence; n-o Jew could honestly deny it. Then came the climax of Peter’s great sermon. He now declared his theme after working up to it step by step; he made the tremendous, dar­ ing, overwhelming and ‘unanswerable pronouncement: “Therefore let all the house of Israel knew assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Christ and Lord.” Peter’s hearers were cut to the heart. They cried out in agony under conviction of sin: “Men and breth­ ren, what shall we do?” Straight, savingly, came the answer “Repent and be baptized every one cf you in the name'of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is unto you, and to your children and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” They heard, and they answered, and “about three thousands souls” were saved that day; GREAT-WEST LIFE REPORTS GOOD YEAR The forty^second annual statement of the Great-West Life Assurance Company published by Mr. Pickard, who represents the Company in this district, will be of particular inter­ est to policy-holders and friends of the Company. The Conpany finished the year 1934 in a strong position showing encouraging gains all along the line. New business, including annuities, issued during the year amounted to, $70,751,300- while the total insurance' in force, including annuities, now amounts to $570,439,554.00'. Both these items show a good increase over the previous year. Assets have increased to $138,245,129.00 a vast sum contributing to the essential needs cf industry, of agriculture and of home building. During the year the Company launched a program cf improved life insurance service, including rate changes, new and revised policy con­ tracts and new equipment and aids for its agents—it is a position to give the buying public the -best in life insurance. PRESS SECRETARIES BE PROMPT The 'Times-Advocate is well equipped to handle news mat­ ter for publication. It takes all week to set up the matter for the paper. Press secret­ aries should kindjy note that reports of meetings held on Friday, for instance should be in the printers’ hands by Sat­ urday, or not later than Mon­ day. The last day or two be­ fore press day the linotype is bu-sy setting last minute news so that it is usually diffi­ cult, and sometimes impossible to handle press secretaries’ budgets which should have been in the printers’ hands sev­ eral days earlier and which cannot be given precedence over late news. The hot news must be handled if possible. In the rush of press day, items that should have been in hand • earlier in the week are the ones that are left out. It’s a Kidney Warning When the Back Starts to l©te Do 5ron over feci that you. simply can't go any further; that you must have rest from that lame and aching back; relief from that constant dead- tired feeling; freedom from those stabbing, darting pains through the small of the back* One of the simplest and most effective remedies for weak, lame and aching backs is Doan’s Kidney Dills. They act directly on the kidneys and assist, them in flushing nuay the irritating kidney poisons, and when this is done there will bo no more backache.