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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-01-23, Page 2* THURSDAY, JAWABY S3rd, JM1 THIS BOOK OF revelations By Rev. James Anthony Man w incurably religious. Roose­ velt knew this the othex* night as he macle the concluding words of his presidential campaign a prayer. Yet the whole trouble is that we al­ lo1# ourselves to be befuddled by making a very wrong use of what should be our guide, in plain words, we have made more intellectual humbug out of our religious na­ ture than out of anything else in the world. Take the Bible for in­ stance. What book has been more horribly handled than the book by which the Almighty as been pleased to make more known of His will to man than by any other means. And of all portions of the Bible, what part has been more the stamping ground of religious charlatans and crackpots than the Book of 'Revela­ tion? preachers have shunned it or made a start at its exposition only to find themselves in deep water and to turn from it with shak­ ing heads declaring that its ways are past finding out. For nearly .3,000 years trembling church faith has turned to the pages of the book to see in it the awful characters that have from time to time tormented the earth like a combination of pestilence and whirlwind and earth­ quake. “Here is the man, here is the circumstance,” they say, “that is spoken of in the Book of Revela­ tion.” The great majority of us have looked upon the book as a sort of weird forecasting of events yet to come with the centuries, What a relief to have a scholar ’ like Dr. E. Scott, of he New York Religious ISeminary take up this bool? and show us its real nature! iDr. Scott is a scholar the like Of whom for explaining the New Testament in language we plain people can understand this continent has rarely seen before. When he touches any phase of scholarship, classics, philosophy, science, literature, it is with the touch of a master. Best of all he is rich in understanding com­ mon sense. He has but when you crack jokes you find either hornet in it. 'One would like to book in detail, but that can’t be done. Nor can one deal with any special phase (of the book without deal with a phase of sunset ox* of an awe-inspiring picture or a por­ tion of an oratorio of noble music. Indeed this book is a bit of life and life is a unify, and must be so regarded. Perhaps Dr. Scott will allow one to say that he has a word for these special times when he deals with crisis in life and human des­ tiny, though the book was written before the present war broke out and is all the better of being so written. Dr. Scott points out the error into which we have fallen in regarding progress as inherent in the nature of/ things, We have easily fallen into the fallacy of be­ lieving that each tomorrow some­ how will inevitably find us further than today. The world does move that way. We assume ’things every day and in every are getting better and bettex* when we find the werld in its sent awful condition we feel somehow ‘Providence has not play­ ed the game according to the rules. We lose faith therefore and become despairing. Dr. Scott reminds us that Providence carries out His will in many ways and that one of them ways is my crisis and reverse, frustration, mind you, that put our easy way of regarding things ut­ terly out of the running. (Faith, we -are reminded, is a far greater thing than faith in progress as we under­ stand it. Yet this treatment of the problem of human existence in the hands of Dr. Scott lifts up the face of the reader in a confidence in the Almighty to which he has hitherto been a stranger. He sees life in a greater and nobler way. He sees all and is unafraid. Anyone wo can read the news­ paper ean read this book and un­ derstand it. And, too, not a schol­ ar or statesman can read this book Without realizing that he is under the spell of a writer who sees a good deal more deeply into life than most men ever saw before. Those beset by fears as to the outcome of things and who look hither and yonder for comfort, will find in this book the very thing they have long sought. The book should be on the desk of every editor, in the study of every clergyman, On the platform of every statesman as well as on the -curriculum of every university. Written for a special age, the age of the persecuted early church, the Book of evelation, Dr. Scott de­ monstrated, deals with the prin­ ciples operative in all ages and ap­ plicable to the struggle of the hu­ man spirit in all time; #■ THE .KETER TJMEMiOTOCATE LOOK OUT FOR YOUR LIUER Bppk it up right now and feel tikp 'AwThBitI Your liver is the largest organ ip your body and most important to your health. It pours out blip to digest food, gets rid of waste, supplies new energy, allows proper .nourishment to reach your blood. When your liver gets out of order food decomposes in your intestines. You) be­ come constipated, stomach and kidneys can't work properly. You feel “rotten”—headachy, backachy, dutxy, dragged out all the time. For over 35 years thou sands have won prompt relief from these miseries—with Fruit-a-tives. So can you now. Try Fruit-a-tives—you’ll bo simply delighted hpw quickly you’ll feel like a new person, happy and well again. 25c, 50c. FRUIMTIVES Liver Tablets COUNTY WINNERS IN TE^IDERANDE STUDY COURSE Exeter Scholars Well Reixi'esented GREENWAY Mr. and Mrs. A. Brophey spent the week-end with friends in Wind­ sor. Mrs. Ed Bloomfield . and daughters returned to Windsor with them aftex* spending some time at the home of hex' parents, Mi', and Mrs. A. Brophey, Mr, and Mrs, Russell Brown visit­ ed on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, A, Bakei' of the Lake Road. Mrs. A, McIntosh is visiting with friends in Port Huron, Mrs, A. Gollen spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. Wes. Mellin of Corbett. Messrs. Edison Pollock, Stanley Hartle and Gerald Carruthers of the Chatham Military Training Centre, visited on Sunday at theix* homes here. J Miss Viola Curts of London spent the week-end at the home of hex* par­ ents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Curts. Mr, Ray Elson visited Ipst Wed­ nesday evening with his parents, Mr. and ‘Mrs, A. Elson, prior to leaving for Brandon where he is en­ tering training for the Aix* Force. An eloquent speaker is one who knows just when to pause and let the meaning of his logic do its work. coW <>>* Bootbe0» ehecksBRAY CHICK HATCHERY Rhone 12-1(5, E.xetev CfcANPEBQYE SHIPKA Miss Marion Simpson* returned home after spending a weeks* w tion with her brother, Clifford, in London. Mrs. Cornelius Regan was taken to Victoria Hospital, London, where an operation was performed on her We hope fox' a speedy recov- The Y.P.S. entertained the Grand Bend Young People at the chureh on Monday evening. All spent an enjoyable evening. Mr, and Mi's. Wm. Divine, Mr. and Mrs, Isaac Tetreau, attended the funeral of the late Mrs. Peter Pefop of Bosanquet Monday last. Burial was in Grand Bend Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs, Ford McGregor and babe of Parkhili visited on Sun­ day with the latter’s parents, Mr, and Mrs. Wilfred Desjardins, Mrs. Wm. Truemner of Zurich visited last week at the home of Mr; and Mrs. Albert iGaiser. We congratulate Miss Beta Ratz. who has completed hex? three years’ training in Victoria Hospital, Lon­ don and is at present visiting hex' parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. Ratz,, Miss Dorothy Harlton, nurse-in- training in st. Thomas Hospital, spept the week-end with her par­ ents, Mr. and Mrs, Herb Harlton. We are glad Irvin Ratz is week's illness throaf. Miss Lucille confined to her bed for jthe past’ week, Masters Paul visited over the week-end with re­ latives in Exeter. Quite a numbei’ from here at­ tended the funeral of the late Mr. Chris Deitrich on Tuesday. Burial was in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Mr. and Mrs. Verne Sharpe en­ tertained a number of theix* relativ- to a duck siuppex* on’Friday even­ ing last! i • The Ladies’ Aid held a ^social ev­ ening in the church on Thursday evening last. A short program con-/ Gisting of instrumentals by Mrs, Rev. L. Turner; readings by Mrs, A. Webb’and Miss Ada Gaiser; duet by Mrs. W. Switzex- and Mrs. Jacob Ratz and solo by Rev. L. Turner; se­ lections by Roy Morenz. The re­ mainder of the evening was spent in contests. Lunch was served and thet meeting closed by singing “God Save the King.” 4 Deputy-Reeve Roy Ratz is attend­ ing a meeting of the County Coun­ cil in Goderich this week. The national Temperance Study Course had its beginning in the brain and heart of Mr. Fred Dougall of the Montreal Witness and Nor­ thern Messenger. He not only planned its outline and its carrying out, but he largely financed it. He appealed to the Dominion W.C.T.U. as an organization through which it might be most favorably accepted. At that time Mrs. Gordon Wright was president of the Dominion W.C.T.U. She, with her character­ istic ability and enthusiasm, brought it before hex* executive and latex* be­ fore the Dominion convention, where it was enthusiastically decid­ ed that it would be carried out. Many of the members contributed a hund­ red dollars each towards the finan­ cing of the project. Fox* some years the W.C.T.U. and the Religious Edu­ cational Council have jointly spon­ sored the Course as of great edu­ cational value to oux* girls and boys. The following is a quota­ tion from Rev. Duncan McTavish, formerly of James St., Exeter and now of London. “If the W.C.T.U. did nothing else but promote the Temperance Study Course, that, alone, justifies its organization.” The present generation of voters have done little to further the tem­ per ance cause and so make the path safer fox* the oncoming generation. It has keen affirmed by many that the government Liquor Store and beverage rooms have made con­ ditions much worse than in ■ the days of the open, bar. ' The W.C.T.U, are trying to do something by way of education of oux* youth. In Oc- * tober, 1940, was held the Thir­ teenth National Temperance Study Course in our Sunday Schools that are interested in temperance educa­ tion. The Sunday Schools send in to the County Examining Board the three best papers in each of che tour* groups. The County sends the four best in each group to the Provincial Examining Board; the Provincial Board sends in the five best in each group to the National Board. Prizes are given by all in county, province and nation. In Huron County sixty-two papers were sent in by the Sunday Schools, the Sunday Schools being Bluevale; Baptist, Wingham; City Mission, Wingham; Brucefield, Hensail Un­ ited, Centralia, Zion, Elimville, James St., Exeter. The Sunday School having the highest percen­ tage of its members writing upon the examination is Zion and the shield which was won last year by , Ebenezer S,S„ goes to izion Sunday School. The following Is the list of ; names of those sending in the bast papers, The names are in order of merit; Senior .Group—Hazel Hernx* Zion S.S.; Jean Brock, Zion S.S.; Arthur Hern, Zion S.S.; Bob Hess, Hensail United -S.S, Intermediate Group-—Gwenneth Jones, James St. S.S,, Exeter; Ross Kennedy, Hen- sall United S.S,; Betty Allan, Bruice- field United S.S,; Irene Brock, Zion S.S. Junior Groups—Maida Rich­ ards, James St, S.S., Exeter; Mary Fletcher, James St, S.S., Exeter; Murray May, James St. S.S., Exeter; Shirley Agax\ Bluevale S.S. Jun- ioi*s, 8 and 9 years—Margaret Rundle, James St. S.S., Exeter; Kathleen May, James St. S.S., Exe­ ter; John Hern, Zion S.S,; Ray Jaques, Zion S.S, These sixteen, papers vincial have been sent to the examining board. HARPLEY 7 pro- One Time It Didn’t Work! and Mrs. Russell Simpson bad a narrow escape from losing their home when the pipes caught fire. The fire was soon brought under control after it was noticed. W.I. Meeting Mrs, Rupert Williams ed the Clandeboye W.I. January meeting, with dent, Mrs. Dundas, in the chair, The meeting was opened with the sing­ ing of the Institute Ode, followed by the National Anthem, aftex* which Mrs, Moores led in Prayer, Mrs. David Henry read the Scripture les­ son. The minutes of the last meet­ ing were read and adopted. The roll call was answered by a New Year’s resolution. It was decided to give the finance committee of the Lucan Short Course $3.00. Plans were discussed to make a quilt for the Red Cross and each membex* is to make a block. The February meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Charlie Carter. Current events were given by Mrs. Young. The guest speaker, Mrs. Morris, gave an interesting talk on the prob­ lem of .educating ■children to-day. Mrs. Chown of Lucan favored with a hymn. A paper on education, pre­ pared by Blanche Robinson, was given by Mrs. O, Cunningham on the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill. The contest was won by' Mrs. Wilmer Scott and Mx*s. Harvey Dundas. The meeting closed with “There’11 Al­ ways be an England.” Lunch was then served ^y the hostess and com­ mittee. entertain- for their the presi- to report that Mr. improving after a with septic sore Lochnex* ‘has been and1 Donald Webb A young lawyex* had just opened an office and hung out his shingle. The doox* of the ante room opened, and he thought, “Ah, a client! I must impress him.” So, grasping the telephone, he said firmly. “No, I’m very sorry,, but it will be absolutely impossible for me to take youx* case fox* less than $2,'0Q0.......No, I’m very* busy with, several other very important cases and I simply can’t take your case fox* less.......No........No.......No,. I’m very sorry, goodby.” He. hung* up the receiver. HIr client seemed really impressed The young lawyex* asked briskly. “And, now, what can I do fox* yov’”; “-Oh, nothing much,” came thcx solemix reply, “I just came in to connect yoiur telephone.” Miss Siding weeks with Mr. and Mrs, Ross Love. Quite a few of the farmers and their wives of this district attend­ ed the U.F.O. conference in London on Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Isaac Bestprd spent one day last week with Mrs. Verne Ridley. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hartle spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Murray. Messrs. Gerald Carruthers, Edi­ son Pollock, and Stanley Hartle of Chatham spent Sunday at their homes here. Miss Mabel Harlton spent Satur­ day with her Hickey. Mr. and Mrs. urday evening Robt. Murray. Mabel McLeod of Cameron is spending a couple of STAFFA Nagging, Dragging Pains In the Back The regulax* monthly meeting of the Staffa W.M.S. was held at the home of Mrs. (Rev.) Aidworth, Mrs. Cecil Bowman presiding. Mrs. Aidworth read the Scripture lesson. Mrs. Bowman gave a short talk on the theme ‘‘.Finding the Way through Bible Study.” The trea­ surer’s report for 1940 showed an increase of $33.05. It was decided to distribute holiday cards fox* 19 41. The life of Dr. and Mrs. Dan Nor­ man, Japanese missionaries, was re­ viewed by Marion Bon. Prayex* was offered by Mrs. .Cecil Bowman, A social half-hour was spent, .Mrs. Aidworth serving a dainty lunch. Many women have to do their own housework, and the constant bend­ ing over, lifting, making beds,, sweeping, ironing, sawing, so neces­ sary to perform their household duties puts a heavy strain on the back and kidneys, and if there were, no kidney weakness the back would be Btrong and well. Doan’s Kidney Pills help to give­ relief to weak, backache, kidney suf­ fering women. Doan’s Kidney Pills are put up in an oblong grey box with our trade- ----L u, “Maple Leaf” on the Mrs. Be *not that Little Miss Muffet—• So the saying goes— Sat on a tuffet To show hexv new hose. humor, too, one of h.is a pearl or a aunt, Mrs. Joseph jpt _ ___ ” Doan’s.” A. Gollen spent Sat- with Mr. and go ovex* this A that Gemgfe Bonnard ShdW, the* tall and very thin writer, is a vegetar­ ian, One. day, the late G. K. Ches­ terton, who was very stout and full-bodied, loved meat—met G.B.S. at the theatre and. Chesterton re- marked! “To look at you, a person would think there was a famine in England. “And, to look at you,” replied Shaw, “he would think you were the cause of itt\ More Statistics Seven out of evex*y ten men can’t it. whistle a tune...but few will admit ■ Only one successful man in 2’3 can play bridge. One -man in every seven knows how to play golf. * * * Look at Your Label mark a wrapper. Don’t accept a substitute, sure and get The T. Milburn Co., Ltd.. Toronto. 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