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Sunday School Lesson
BY CHARLES G. TRUMYIBULL
(Editor of The Sunday School Times)
THE CHRISTIAN BASIS OF TOTAL
ABSTINENCE.
(Temperance Lesson).
Sunday, Sept. 23; I. Corinthians 8:1-
13.
Golden Text.
Let no man seek his own, bu'c every
man another's wealth. (I. Cor. 10:
24.)
Christions differ as to what the
Bible teaches concerning the use of,
or abs'cinence from, intoxicating
drinks. But there is no possible
room for difference among Christians
as to the principle set forth in this
lesson chapter, and as to its offering
just what the lesson title states, a
Christian Basis of Total Abstinence."
The Golden Text states this prin-
ciple, as does the last verse of the
chapter: "Wherefore. if meat make
my brother to offend, I will eat no
flesh while the world stande't'h, lest
I make my brother to offend."
Paul was discussing meat, not
drink, but the principle is 'che same.
Wiese, but our love. Moreover, our
knowledge is never all that it should
be, never quite what we think it is.
For the apostle goes on unsparingly:
"Anel if any man think that lie know-
eth anything, he knowech nothing
yet as he ought to know," Solon, it
will be recalled, admitted that he
might be the wisest man in Greece,
because all the other "wise men"
believed that they knew a great deal,
whereas he knew that he knew noth-
ing,
Then Paul goes on to show why it
might be a Christian duty to refrain
from a thing that in itself was harm-
less. For weak Christians, whose co-
nsciences were no'c fully enlightened
in this matter, might believe there
was some essential sin in, eating meats
offered to idols; and so, says the apos-
tle. "Take heed Iest by any means
this liberty of yours become a stu-
mblingblock to them that are weak."
Even a Christian, says the apostle,
may have a weak conscience, People
often make the mistake of supposing
The question of eating meats that that conscience is a safe guide. It inay
had been offered to idols in heathen be very unsafe. Indeed the conscience
worship was a most practical one in is not a guide at all, but a men'cor. It
such a city as Corinth in the first se- does not tell us what we ought to
do; it tells us that we ought to do
what we believe is right. And if we
are mistaken in our belief, the con-
science may even urge us in a wrong
direction. The Scriptures speak of
an evil conscience as well as a cleaned
conscience.
So now, says , the apostle. "For
if any man see thee which hast know-
ledge sit at meat in the idol's temple,
shall not the conscience of him which
i• weak be emboldened to eat those
things which are offered to idols; and
through thy knowledge shall the wean
brother perish, for whom Christ
died?" In other words, by your
doing that which is in itself harmless,
another person may 'tempted to do-
the
otie sante thing even while he believes
it is wrong, and thus his moral stand-
ards niay be broken down, and hie
faith be injured.
There is only one thoughtful and
loving conclusion to which the Christ-
ie], can come. He will keep far away
from even the appearance of evil,
if any one else might be harmed by
ntury. The valuble Commencary by
Jamieson, Fauset and Brown ex-
plains:
"The portions of the victims not
offered on the altars belonged partly
to the priests partly to the offerers;
and were eaten as feasts in the tem-
ples and in private houses, and were
often sold in the markets so that
Christians were constantly exposed
to the temptation of receiving 'chem,
which was forbidden (Nam, 25:2, Pea.
106:28). The apostles forbade it in
their decree issued from Jerlusalem
(Acts 15:21) ; but Paul does not
allude here to that decree, as he rests
his precepts rather on his own inde-
pendent apostolic authority."
Paul begins his discussion of the
question with a tribute to the knowl-
edge and intelligence of his Christian
hearers. "We all have knowledge,"
he writes, "that an idol is nothing,
and that meat tha'c has been offered
to an idol, therefore, can neither
help nor Binder one's spiritual life,"
Having complimented them on the
knowledge that they have, Paul gives 1 his exammple. Paul utters a ringing
a sudden and unexpected turn to the declaration of what he is going to do
discussion. Quietly ho adds, "Know- in such matters. He will even abs -
ledge puffeth up, but love buildeth 'cain,from meat for the rest of his life
up." If we are tempted to be proud if his use of flesh should cause his
of our knowledge at any point, let us brother to stumble,
always remember that it is never our Can any conscientious Christian
knowledge that helps other people to -day have any question as to whe-
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ther intoxicating liquors are causing
Wren to sin? Whether or not one
believes it is a sin, in and of itself,
to partake of such drink, one can be
in on doubt that untold misery,
poverty, sins and crimes are induced.
by aleholic drinks. Therefore the
Christian who is ready to seek, not
hie own, hut Inc neighbor's good
gladly foregoes any "rights" that he
may believe are his in this matter of
drinking, and takes Paul's high
ground, thus safe -guarding his nei-
ghbors, his community, his own,loved
ones, his personal example and teec-
imony, and himself.
Huron County
School
TFIR FISH DOCTOR.
hiss Ida Mellon 'l'et'u'w 'Phis Matter
Serene:1y.
Can one doetul' &hoe that art in-
disposed? Who would Think of do-
ing so?
Well, there is an etlieial of the New
York Aquariuut, 111sa Ida Mellon,
who takes this matter eereetely, and
she is a capable fish domes and lish
nuree,
Two goldfish. apint renliy' dying.
were recently saved by tree' quiet and
skillful attention, She was obliged
to operate on the eye, of one, anti she
dosed the other whit caslnr oil, ,hiss
Mellon has a hie light workshop at
the top of the Aquarium, where site
is surrounded by all sorte of jars and
globes eontaintng languid eeeee,
ing turtles, and kindred invalids, '.'all
basking." w,• are assured by some-
body who has seen it. "in the warmth
Fairs of her curable ntirning,"
1 nt Jlydlnn thin;ts nettling of
the taeltlhtg the eyes of L.:feel es 11 .wish
beric acid solution; ate, lee outer
this day site boldly it , , rsed str 1 :whi-
tish in a hut'ket of hero.; lee anti titr:
cured them of a skin trouble winch
With slowly killing ttrent.
There was :t deadly salt -water
Parasite that was killing seamed..
salt -water fish all over the waters.
This ,Ilse elellml roue tl, ted ;he
parasite has now been named in her
honor. Pieties do not like taking
castor nil; in fact, they are very cun-
ning about it, and will hold it 1n
thelr mounts for five minutes, hoping
to get back into the water and eject
it. But with a wet rag bound round
his gills Master Fish cannot do that;
and he swallows it in spite of him-
self, and feels better,
Miss Mellon saved one penguin
which came under her care last win-
ter. He was given cough mixture
and sniffed benzoin fumes, and im-
proved.
Following are the dates of
Huron County School Fairs for
year:
September
20—Blyth
21—Howick
22—Ethel
24—Belgrave
26—Usborne Township
27—Crediton
28—Grand Bend
October.
1—Dashwood
2—Zurich
3—Hensall
4—Clinton, town
5—Clinton Rural
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FALL FAIRS
Brussels
A'cwood
Bayfield
Blyth
Dungannon
Fordwich Oct. ti
Kincardine Sept. 19-20
Lucknow Sept. 27-23
Mitchell Sep'c. 25-26
Milverton Sept. 27-28
Palmerston Oct. 2-3
Ripley Sept. 25-26
St. Marys Oct 4-5
Seaforth Sept 20-21
Teeswater Oct. 2-3
Wingham Oct. 9-10
Zurich Sept. 24-25
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Oct. 4-5
Sept 21-22
Sept. 25-26
Sept. 19-20
Oct. 5
Hike for Health
Automobile laziness is responsible
for more physical disaster than
automobile accidents, says a bulletin
of the Canadian Parks association.
The automobile, it points out, by
making it possible for us 'co go
through life with hardly any phys-
ical exercise has completely changed
our mode of living. But we have
not materially changed our diet; we
still eat 'che same quantities of rich,
heavy food. customary fifty years
ago,
The medical profession has been
sounding a warning note for some
time. Easy and quick transporation
at any time is one of the great
blessings of the autotnobile. But
the greatest of blessings is capable
of abuse. A recent investigation in
the United States shows that an
ever increasing percentage of well-
to-do people have either undergone
an operation or are suffering some
kind of physical weakiness, while the
number of sudden death of appar-
ently healthy people is increasing
at a rapid rate, These facts are all
well-known to life insurance comp-
anies.
To preserve his health, man must
exercise, and exercise regularly, The
most natural of all exercises is walk-
ing in the open air; the brisker the
pace, the better. But, though it is
the easiest of all forms of exercise
and recreation, involoving no ex-
pensive outlay and no club dues, ie
is perhaps the one form least pat-
ronized on this continent.
The blame for all this may be
placed on the thoughtless use of
the au'comobile. So strong has the
habit of riding become that many
persons will use their cars to go to
the next block, though the journey
could he accomplished much easier
on foot. Many people out for a
day's healthful recreation will drive
through the parks as fast as the law
allows, thus missing the main bene-
fits for which the parks were made,
Business men engaged in sedentary
occupations frequently claim that
they have no time for walking. They
night as well claim they have ae
time for eating, or for living. If
any more "weeks" are sec aside for
special duties, the "walk to work"'
week should be given a chance.
There is no better time of the year
for early morning walking exercise
than in the fall weeks that lie ahead
But doubtless some astute individ-
ual would quickly throw cold water
on such a proposal by pointing rut
that a walk to work might involve
walking home afterwards,
WORRYING THE SWISS.
Nightingales Have Become Intoler-
able In Switzerland.
While naturalists in England ex -
'patience great difficulty in hearing
the nightingale, the inhabitants of
certain districts around Geneva are
complaining that these birds have
lately become an intolerable nuis-
ance.
One morning an Englishman liv-
ing at the foot of the Saleve moun-
tain counted no fewer than seven in
his garden and the volume of sound
was such as to drive him almost to
distraction,
Another Englishman .employed by
the League of Nations has just enjoy-
ed the unique experience of hearing
two nightingales more than 600
miles apart singing simultaneously.
He was listening to London when
tho nightingale's broadcast from
Pangbourne, Berkshire, suddenly
broke in. Almost immediately an-
other bird, on the roof of an adjoin-
ing villa burst into song. The pecu-
liarity of the nightingale in Switzer-
land is that it sings best about nine
o'clock in the morning.
To test this fact a motorist on the
League of Nations' staff had a wager
with an English delegate that he
could make the nightingale respond
to the throb of his engine at any time
of the day. The car was taken to a
spot about a mile from the centre of
Geneva and the engine was left run-
ning. Before many seconds had
elapsed the purr of the engtme was
drowned by a flood of glorious
melody,
LIBRARIES Ile MEXICO.
Distribution Inea'eases for Volumes
on All Sorts of Subjects.
Mexicans are becoming greater
readers and the demand for books on
all subjects is on the increase in that
country. This is revealed by figures
announced by the Department of Lib-
raries of the Ministry of Education.
According to this report there was a
total of 3,617 libraries in Mexico at
the end of 1927. Of these libraries
1,346 distributed books of a general
nature, 970 were for scholastic
works, 797 were for technical vol-
umes and the rural districts were
served by 608 libraries,
These libraries distributed a total
of 625,527 volumes on all subjects
last year, a remarkable increase in
distribution, as only 95,017 books
were distributed during the drat year
the Department functioned, which
was five years ago.
Last year the number of lectures
that were delivered In the libraries
was 1,223,287, an increase from 144,-
690 that were delivered during the
first year. that the Department was in
operation.
Bicyle on Wings.
4'machine said to be capable of
the nearest approach to the repro-
duction of a bird's movements yet
known has been made by Mr, G. R.
White, at St. Augustine, Florida,
His '"bird" measures 2914 Peet
from tip to tip and weighs 126
pounds. Rubber "muscles" and• the
pilot's feet provide the motive -power
for the strange -looking mechanism,
known as an ornithopter, The wings
are Constructed of a patented variety
of celluloid, with high tensile
strength, and have a maximum up-
and-down beat of -17 feet. The "tea-
there" spread on the upward move-
ment and contract as the wings sweep
downwards.
A slanting upward rnovement de-
creases resistance and at the same
time provides a,forward thrust. Each
wing has nine primary "feathers"
and eight secondary ones, and the
ability to flap one wing faster than
the other will enable the pilot to con-
trol his direction and avoid tipping
over.
Lofty Book Tower.
The book tower of the Sterling
memorial library at Yale University
is to be eighteen stories high and will
afford space for 4,000,000 books,
Spend $7f30,000,000.
Advertisers spend something like
$750,000,000 a year In bringing their
products to the notice of t)fe British
public,
Tt'AT4 'l'I1:1T BRING 'I'lli)1'kYf,pi iuietiu r. t
Sotite Things (+mtteve:It ions Do Net
like.
A short tint:, age, when the vit'ar of
a ehnreh at Uarw+'n announced as his
text "Thole shalt not hear raiF.,• w11-
tiass, sunk• the e 11 lured of the
congregation walk, el out, wt'iteo
"1'itt'sott" in Tit -bits.
This was no tsolat+'tl ease. t:nher
ctnigregatiotts have eb:14•eltr1 to texts,
and, ou cernslon, to hymns.
The somewhat e:'rt-utrio vicar—
now dead --'i 1 11 t,, ,:;hire p5'1311
was at vari:evlce wnh til dooi;, i lid
fur two ;;nntluy.;, morning and even-
ing, he preached from the test, 11111 'ti
from I. Coriutltiaus xl., 'Watt shall
I say to you?"
fie said so much that his coimrr-
etttten agreed that tele 11 he nnnu11.d
the pulpit CS the next :Seedily teem-
ing they world wale out as he an-
nounced ItL', kat. They a,;stttned 1t
wrnil.i he )h:. sail,, and they' had had
more thea euetn:h of it.
N%h,-titer he had heard abntit the
plat is not known, bits his text was:
"Depart from me, ye workers of
iniquity," and — ',yell, the exit was 1
not quite the success hoped for. 'Phe
ultimate effect was good, however,
for the local equine, lessed with a
sense of humor, arranged a parochial
meeting, and harmony was restored.
In another parish, the vicar, al-
though a very poor preat:her, persist-
ed in discoursing for fifty minutes or
an hour. As a petition for shorter
sermons had no effect, the congrega-
tion walked out during the singing
of the hymn before the german.
To counter that, the vicar preach-
ed at the commencement or the ser-
vice,
ervice, but, alter one experionre, the
people waited outside until he had
finished, and then entered. UltitnaLe-
ly the bishop intervened, with the Je-
suit that the vicar, going to the Welter
extreme. cut his sermons down to a
bare three minutes! Brat brought no
protest.
Another parson. in charge of a
north -country parish, never used the
pulpit, but walked up and down the
central aisle as he preached. As his
style was fierce and denunciatory,
and he had a big, booming voice, his
congregation did not appreciate his
nearness, and most of them walked
out regularly. That continued until i
he went to another parish.
Bad health affects one's outlook ce ,
life, but that scarcely justified a Nor-
folk reotor m having, Sunday after
Sunday, such lugubrious hymns as
"Brief life is here our portion,'
"Days and moments quickly flying," i
and others of the same type. As be
was deaf to requests to " be more I
cheerful in Iris selection, his congre-
gation walked out every time they
were asked to sing one of the gloomy i
hymns. It was only when the choir II
and organist followed suit that he
gave Way.
Some parsons' wives are helpful in
the parish, and popular; others are
not. In one country parish, when-
ever the rector's wife entered the
church the entire congregation walk-
ed out. That continned for months,
untie an exchange of livings ended
the trouble.
Most "walkings-out" aro arranged,
but one that was not happened at a
seaside town when the parson took
as his text "O ye bels!" and became
personal. In five minutes the church
was empty.
FRONT -WHEEL DRIVE.
Rase of Control Remarkable and
Skidding Stopped.
The problem of imtrarting the drive
from the engine of a motor -car to the
front wheels has exercised the minds
of inventors ever since motor - cars
came into tile. There are some 150,
different patents tiled in the liriti;n
patent office, designed to effect this,
but the new Alvis car will be the first:
to be put on the British market as a
practical proposition.
The great advantage claimed for
the front wheel drive is that skidding
is practically impossible, as the
power is applied to the wheels ex-
actly in the direction In which the
car is going. Also there is no gyro-
scopic action to overcome which is
set up by rear -wheel drive.
Capt. Malcolm Campbell, who tried
the new Alvis recently, described the
steadiness and easy control round
corners as astonishing. For this rea-
son it is likely that high speed cars
in future will be of the front -drive
type, as well-known racing motorists
like H. O. D. Segrave and Malcolm
Campbell say that at the very high
speeds like 200 miles per hour it is
not in getting the last ounce of power
from the engine that the difficulty
lies, but in steering a straight course.
Bringing Australia to London.
A few weeks ago the Melbourne
(Australia) City clock striking six
was heard by a number of people sit-
ting in a saloon car in Lincoln's Inn
Fields, London. The car Wtte fitted
with a six -valve supersonic wireless
receiving set, and the aerial, rigged
to the top of the car, was about eight
feet of copper trolley wire, similar
to that used on electro trams.
A grease nipple on the motor -car
frame was tho earth connection.
There was little atmospheric inter-
ference, and news announcements
and music came through perfectly,
Sand and Gravel fits In Canada.
Natural deposits of sands and
gravels occur in all provinces of Can-
ada, and as a consequence of this
wide distribution, the low value of
these materials, and the ubiquitous
demand chiefly for filling and struc-
tural purposes, there are a very
largo number of pits operated in this
country,
Village Without a Child.
The little village of Caldecote,
seven miles from Peterboro, England,
with a population of nearly 1,000 in-
habitants, is now probably the only
village in the world without children.
Highest Inhabited Place.
The highest inhabitated place in the
world is the Buddhist monastery of
Raine, in Tibet. .It is 17,000 feet
abovo apt -level,_ ...
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