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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1936-10-22, Page 7CHRISTIANITY AS BOVE Sunday, October 2!6*—Acts 18:1-4; I Cor. 13:1-13. Gulden Text Now abidetli faith, hope and char­ ity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. (I Cor. 13:12.) It is a strang fact that the Eng­ lish love stands both for the loftiest, purest, holiest sentiment that earth and heaven can ever know, and also for the lowest, vilest, most debasing sentiment found in humanity. Love, therefore can mean two entirelj' dif­ ferent and opposed things, aud still other ijiings between the highest and fowjest. It A, can mean mere physicaljp«rssion and lust; it can mean natural affection, either sel­ fish oi’ unselfish; and it can mean the miracle of God’s own love, set forth in our lesson. We ought to make these distinctions very clear to our Bunday school classes, when de­ graded love as lust is having such unbridled license ' among young people and older today, and when it' is even approved by some teachers air written who like to think of them­ selves as “modern” and “emancipat­ ed” when, in reality, they are but reverting to old, antique sins and are in helpless and hopeless bondage to the deceptions of Satan and self. The divine love of which Paul writes in his immortal chapter is the heart of God’s own life, yet it is possible for us to have this divine miraculous love as the outstanding characteristics of our lives. When we receive Christ as Saviour, He— who is God—enters literally into us, •and takes us into Himself. Christ becomes the actual believer—'“He that hath hath life” (I John 5:12) is love” (I John 4:8.) The Holj’ ‘Spirit also every believer and “the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unlo us” (Rom. 5:5). Being born again, with a new and heavenly life, we can be miraculously freed from our natural .attitudes and sins, such as unclean­ ness, lasciviousness, idolatry, hatred wrath, strife, and the like (Gal. 5:19 21) Instead of these things God is ready to work the following miracle in us: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gen- tleiuuwZ’ and other miraculous char- ' .Wfc (Gal. 5:2.2-23), Now look at Paul’s chapter on love (Mhe old English word is “char­ity”) T Without -this divine, miraculous love, ‘though we may have the elo­ quence of men and of angels, we are “‘as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.” x We may have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries, have all knowledge and even have faith that can remove mountains, but if we have not love we are “nothing.” We may be sacrificially generous in giv­ ing all our goods to feed the poor; we may even die for some great cause, giving our body to be burned; but if we have not love, it is unpro­ fitable. Then Paul begins to describe the characteristics of love, Love is long suffering, is kind, does not envy, is not proud or egotistical, never seeks its .own interests, ily provoked, does nor does it rejoice how easy it is for other people’s iniquity! eth in the truth. Love, bears, hopes, all things. Finally: “Love never faileth”. What does this mean? People times mistakenly think it that love, if continued persi. will always win its object, ’ ways overcome all oppositio that is not true. God’s own It Thus life of the the Son And “God dwells in Love is not eas- not think evil, in iniquity—and us to rejoice in Dove rejoic- and endures A QUIET, WELL CONDUCTED, CONVENIENT, MODERN 100 ROOM HOTEL—-85 WITH BATH WRITE FOR FOLDER Take a de luxe taxi FROM DEPOT OR WHARF-250 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE not win every one. The Lord Jesus Christ, perfect in His love, did not win Judas Iscariot, nor did He win all the Jewish leaders who crucified Him. But love never fails to continue to love; it never collapses, never breaks down, never comes to an end. Love loves the unlovely, It asks tor no return, it is utterly un­ selfish. Love does not love for what it can get in return; love thinks only of giving, never of getting, “God so loved the world, that He gave.” He gave His best and His all, His only begotten iSon, even though He knew that the world to whom He gave His Bon would crucify His Son. For “God is loye.” The chaper in which that revelation is made should be read and studied with this lesson chapter; it is I John 4:7-21, and is the other great Scripture passage telling us, by inspiration, what we could never know of ourselves about love, IFaith, hope and love are all Chris- tain characteristics. God -gives all three to those who receive His Son as their Saviour. “But the greatest of these is love.” NEW BOOKS AT HENSALL PUBLIC LIBRARY Fiction Homesteaders Greengates The Clansman. The Amercian Flaggs Miss Buncle, Married Anne of Windy Poplars Stories of the Doctor' Morten of the Brie Island of Sheep Gone With The Wind They Walk In The City An American Hero Cold Cream The Little Candles Gleam Love Without Breakfast Rachail Rosing Brachen Turned Brown Murder of the Mirth Baronet [Fletcher Dell Oppenheim Oppenheim . Service Wallace Wallace Lincoln Chapman Sherriff Birlian Norris Stevenson Montgomery Cameron Roseman Buchan Mitchell Priestly Brouson Appin Glenn Chapin Spring Wynne Keeper of the Door •Governor Marx Secret House of Fear The The Mr, The Flad 2 The Mixer The Peel Trait Under the Mosquito Curtain, Wynee Dearest Grose Non-Fiction Dr. Dafoe’s 'Guide Book for Mothers [Dafoe Men. Against the Sea Nordhoff Folks Say of Will Rogers Payne Christ’s Alternative to Communism [Jones Fellowmen ' Morton Marks of an Educated Man [Wig gam Haliburton Pitkin Nicols Dane Our The The Life No Place Like Home Broome (Stages Flying Carpet Signs at Forty­ Juvenile Fiction King(Little Jack Spratt The Pied Piper Wodsworth The House That Jack Built Wheeler Adventures of Mary Contrary, Talbot Story Book of Aircraft Larkspur Two Boys Two Boys Two Boys Four Little Puppies The Little Dutch Tulip Girl, Brandeis The Wee Scotch Piper Sham O’Day of Ireland Hoosier School Boy on in Eskimo Land, in Australia in. India Petersham Abbott Murray Burns Redcliffe Dixon Secret of the Old Clock The The j Red Rowans Irish Twins Eskimo Twins Brandeis Brandeis Hudson Bay [McMurray Keene Perkins Perkins Cameron Judson Jack and Jill Trap Lines North Meader Juvenile Non-Fiction Models to Make Stubbs COMPLETES CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD NORTH OF BLYTH The Towland Construction Com­ pany has completed the construction of 5.2 miles of pavement on high­ way No. 4 from Blyth north. The pavement is the first to be laid by the Government in North Huron. It is expected that highway No. 4 will be completed north to Wingham at an early date. A surprise party was held recent­ ly for Mr. and Mrs. Leo tFlanagan, ClandebOy®, to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. Gifts were pre­ sented to Mr. and Mrs. Flanagan and a social evening spent in games and dancing. Lunch was served. Kidney Weakness Responsible .^* For af ‘ Your lddheys health. They a-i fore it is well to Keep careful watch ovor them. If they fail to fully perform their function, body poisons aro left in the blood and "without their proper elimination good health is not possible. Doan’s UTidtidy Pills being a stimulant diuretic, act directly oh. the kidneys and assist them in flushing away irritating body poisons. Give them a trial. lly sentinels of your filters of your blood, there- ering •Got the storm windows on? Baloney dollars won’t make a country rich. The frost caught a good many mangle fields. The folk who drove out Old Man Depression? The folk who did the day’s work. So Alberta is thinking of getting rich by living within her own line fences. That sort of thing has been tried—and found useless! The world outlook is getting brighter. Strange to say the remedy has not come along the lines suggested by our popular mag­ azine writers. IN THE INTEREST? OF WORLD PEACE Every battleship and every airplane and every regiment equip­ ped by Great Britain is a guarantee of world peace. »*♦«♦*** Old timers who have access to old diaries and old traditions tell us that winter came down on this part of the world 57 years ago about the 10th of October and did not let up till the last of March. So there you are. <****••* LATE And the bank has served notice on Edmonton that she has reached the limit of municipal borrowing. It’s a pity that that good city had not smelled a rat some time ago. ♦ **»*♦♦♦ IDLE So that James Bay route that has -cost this country such a penny is likely to be idle next year. So much for heeding folk who do not know and who do not understand. The trouble with a whole lot of Canadian statesmen is that they do not know enough. **«»**«* THAT SNOW We resented that snow storm. Sunday night we had a killing frost. Monday was cold, raw, shivery. Monday night we had a mean fall, and on Tuesday morning the ground was covered with snow. It made us feel queer as we thought of unharvested potatoes and mangolds and turnips and beets and carrots. In any case, summer’s past. • ••****• 400 HUNDRED YEARS A MARTYR October 6th was the 400th anniversary of the strangling and burning of Wm, Tyndale. It seems that this wonderful man deter­ mined to translate the Bible into the tongue of Englishmen. For this “crime” he was tried for heresy,.found '“guilty” and martyred. There’s a deal to think about in the foregoing words. Soon after the martyrdom of Tyndale the Bible was to become the Book of England. With the Bible’s coming to its own the name of Tyndale was honored and his executioners were to be thought of according to their deeds. The great translator’s name never will be forgotten. No work has done more for English-speak­ ing men than the task accompanied by this scholar and faithful witness. *••••»** IS THE BIBLE A CLOSED BOOK? Practically every Anglo-Saxon and Celtic home in western On­ tario has a Bible. We’d like to know lrow many read it with any­ thing like care? Yet, that was Cromwell’s Book. It was Lincoln’s Book. It was the Book of the pioneers of this part of the province. It is the Book that has survived the wreck of Empires. It incul­ cates the highest morality. It lies at the foundation of the world’s best jurisprudence. Wherever society heeds its teaching the weak are safe, the criminal is brought to justice and the free spirit of man attains liberty. In its pages God has been pleased to reveal more of His will to man than He has done in any other way. No man and no nation can afford to neglect its message. We wonder, sometimes, why this Book is neglected. debt. Still less ao uieac. t__w ..™ practiced by at least one of the provinces of the Dominion. x these and other reasons that appeal to them, they are a bit hot un­ der the collai’ and see, they believe, a way to lesser burdens by sep­ arating themselves from the Dominion, Nothing like free discussion. -Surely! It is fine to see a body of young Canadians really thinking. It people but think, they will in the main, think right. Our trouble in Canada is with people who don’t think. THIS SETTLES IT “A long and extremely severe winter” is predicted by “French peasants” and the news is thoughtfully passed on in a message from Paris. “The storks of Alsace are leaving for sunnier climates, and the wild boars are leaving the woods. Either of these signs according to peasant traditions, means a hard winter. The -time has come (it always comes) to talk of weather signs, And how the winter will approach on harsh and hideous linesr For, sure as eggs are eggs, and as September nears its close, We always get the ame old tales on models such as those, The rats in Bessarabia are now making for the coast; That means a- winter more prolonged and colder far than most. The berries in the woods of Thrace are numerous and red; That always means a winter that the peasants view with dread. A pundit at old Heidelberg says weather cycles show The winter will be marked by wide and long-continued snow. In Upper Finland all the frogs are now in frantic song— That always means the winter will be hideous and long. The same is true of cormorants which, by some strange caprice Are massing now in numbers, on the shores -of sunny Nice, The camels at Damascus are now eating fit to burst— That neve? happens save before a winter -of tlto worst. So every dayr and every way, the portents now agree That we are in for trouble with the largest sort of T. O ain’t it kind of agencies to fill this joyous cup And send along such tales to che.or the British publie up? Lwclo—In the Manchester Guardian fc & i/ac/a BrownJ-abel THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, IQStf SASTi E BOARD OF EDUCATION The meeting of the Board of Edu­ cation was held in the Public Lib­ rary on Tuesday evening, October 13 th at 8 o’clock. Absent W. H. Dearing and J. M. Southcott. Min­ utes of previous meeting were read and approved, Principal Wethey reported for Oc­ tober; number on roll 160; aggre­ gate 3164. Staff had been complete through the month. A full afternoon field day for local pupils only had been held at which Board members and several citizens had assisted ma­ terially. New shield, donated by the Board had the names of the three boys and three girl winners in their divisions. The South Huron Field day was held on October 2nd and was very successful. Tabulation of the work of the graduates had •been made seventeen to receive gra­ duation diplomas. The principal stressed the good work of the staff in all departments. A memo from Mr. Koch suggest­ ed the purchase of a solution for the preservation of the scientific speci­ mens and also some repairs to drain pipes from the Science room. The chairman on behalf of the Board congratulated the principal, staff and pupils on th© success of their field day. Messrs. Lawson and Creech were asked to look after a case to hold the trophies. Building Grounds Committee to look after leakage in pipes also any necessary changes in the lighting. Public School Principal reported: No. on roll 213. Gravel as desired had been brought to the school and was an improve­ ment. Supplies had been re­ ceived with one exception, and it was to follow. All the teachers had attended the Teachers’ Convention at Goderich. Many interesting mat­ ers had been discussed and particu­ larly the report of the delegate to [ O. E. A. at which a greatly revised curriculum was discussed and which the Deputy-Minister was hoping 1 would be adopted soon. Some spell­ ing and third Reader Manuals were needed. The Prinuipai was congratulated by the Board on having been made president of the South Huron Teach­ ers’ Association. Per Mrs. Beavers and F. J. Del- bridge: payment of following accts: Central -Scientific Co., supplies $114.21; Brownings’s Drug store chemicals $3 8.77; Grigg's Station­ ery, books, stamps, express, etc. $'16.5 7; also the- adoption of the High and Public -School reports. Carried. Per J. N. Willis—adjournment. K. MacFaul, Secretary Hensall Girl Wins Third Pi Announcement has that Miss Marion Drum Aid Hensall girl, was a1 April 1877; but its growth and prosperity from that time have been unparalleled by that of any other Western Canada village during the same period, Among its early attributes was a population of about 350, which since that time has been increased to about 750. Six general stores, a large steam furniture factory, steam grist mill, 2 large hotels, two ehurches, school, first class storing, shipping, mail and telegraph facilities and mechan­ ics of all kinds once completed the ■business section of Hensail. The Messrs. Petty (by whom the village in Yorkshire whence they came) al­ so ran a pork packing establishment at which they packed nearly two thousand hogs annually. Mr, James petty presented the London, Huron and Bruce railroad with the station grounds occupied by them. He was one of the first im­ porters of thoroughbred stock into Huron County, and for many years dealt extensively and successfully therein. Since that time the growth of Ilensall has increased wonderfully. Kensall is not on the highway, like most villages. It is much to the pleasures of the passengers of the Arrow Coach though, to drive down our main street. No one's attention could help being attracted by its beauty and scenery. Before you come to the business section you notice our beautiful houses and lawns. Nearly all of our houses have flowers, even if it is a few flowers in pots in the windows. Then they all have trees. Near the north end there is a lot of tall evergreens and maple. Now as you pass the post office, which is kept painted nicely, you come into the business section. It is made up of seven general stores 3 clothing stores, a butcher shop, an important grain market, and onion market, one hardware, two shoe stores, two cobblers, three churches, a school, two barber shops, six garages, a drug store, a beauty shop, a harness store, a bake shop, a bank, a hotel and a telephone of­ fice. There is quite a difference from the business section of fifty years previous. In. the year 193:5, Hensail cele­ brated their fiftieth anniversary by having an Old Bo-ys’ Reunion. Invi­ tations were sent out and for three days the small village held as many people as a city. In January, 1935, a new business man came to town. He was a very musical fellow and was anxious to start a band. By January of this year they had a band of thirty men. It seems to increase all the time. The Chamber of Commerce of Hensail, just lately leased a section of the Canadian National Railway Reeve goes Out working on the streets to keep it clean. In winter1- sands submitted, irum . of central and western Ontario . Miss Drummond’s essay is as fol­ lows: “Hensall is my home town. It is a very brisk village on the London, Huron anti Bruce railroad, near the northest cornel’ of the Township of Hay. The village plot was laid out in October 1877, by George and James Petty, who came here from England about 1854, and settled in the sec­ ond concession of Hay, and in 1874 purchased the south half of lot 21, concession 1. The first house was built on the site of the present village about the snow is kept off the streets, and whenever there is a heavy downfall of snow at night there is always a clear passage in the morning. How this is, is because we have two men with ploughs who are willing to clean the streets. In fact, every one is willing to help to keep our village neat. We also have a health inspector who goes around to every yard, each month, to see if it is kept clean, because it would never do to let the pride of our villages fall. This year the scenery is prettier than ever, though, and I think it would be worth yOul’ money to take a trip on the Arrow Coach to Hen­ sall, or a vacation in the summer and enjoy its scenery, if it is only a short vacation. Your Succes^ PURlfSTFCOUR Best for all your Baking ... ... PB336