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The Seaforth News, 1934-12-20, Page 3a THURSDAY, DEC. 20, 1934. THE SEAFORTH NEWS Annual al Report ort d(JOf the Christian 'Stewardship and Finance 'Department, '.1191314, of Worth Side United 'Church, by Mrs. 3, C. Laing.) ,Another year is wearing to its close. ,Ogle of the un,ost serious re- flections the waning year ;can ,bring is that our life's record of 1004 ,can never be .changed, What we have written, we have written. It is a sob- ering thoulght that not only ehe things we have said and done, but also ,the things .1A,0 'have not said or doite, are written, and will testify either for, or .against as, 'booking back across the year, we sere much that ought to encourage us, and also much that will undoubtedly discourage us. IS.peaking of Stewardshiip a 'amcon- vi•niced Mumu it ''is only Cod who can make a report of what has been ac- complished in the realm of the Spirit, 11193+4 has been marked by. :resolu- tion on the ,part of the 'Finance Com- mittee, .to fulfil it duties in the best interests of the Auxiliary. lAt the be- ginning of each quarter, an itemized account of all 'm'oney received during the preceding quarter, 'was .placed on 'the black -board, along with a careful- are due also the Ilehtlathea Class, and ly and nr aYert ollY preparedt ed estimate of the needs of the ensuing quarter. IOcu part in time depression has been to struggle on in .the path of the ,Di- vine command, .which is :to give the Gospel to all who have it not. Tt :is indeed:gratifying, that in. the light Of conditions as we have !been ,finding them, the gifts of e91314 reveal a spirit of devotion and ,loyalty on the part of the majority of our members. IWe are pleased that the incomes by quarters came in so well during the year. We had a 'balance in each of the first two quarters, 'bait these were more than offset by 'the deficit in the third. Hence we are slightly responsible for the 'payment of interest an mon - el.,' which had to be borrowed by the Dominion (Board, to carry on the work of the third suarter, tPerhaps our greatest disappointment was our Autumn Thank Offering. 'When we consider bow we have been so sig- nally blessed, both in basket and stare, and of how, through the mercy of 'God, we have escaped the terrible tragedies and calamities that have be- fallen other nations sand people, our gratitude ought to know no bounds. (We are mindful of our indebted- ness to our !Shut-ins and Associate Helpers, for their manifest and tang- ible interest in our work. Our thanks WHEN you're ready to unpack your things ... and you've left the trunk key at home . 1 � and you've got to have it P.D.Q. Tell them so by telephone ... a Long Distance call gets quick action. • In any kind of a fix, Long Distance is the quickest, easiest way to send a message—and get a reply. You can talk 100 miles or so for as little as 30 cents. Look in the front of your directory and see the different low rates. PAGE: THREE.:„ those making special donations. We pass on a word of commendation to those who were faithful in attend- ance, and in ,the .discharge; of the dut- ies required of them. We deeply re- gret the 'passing of three of our members, which means a distinct loss to our ;Society. The 'past year has been eventful, With it came the 'beverage rooms,' trailing their death -dealing .sins be- hind then!. \Vacs and rumors of wars, earthquakes' and famine,, pests and drought, have !narked its passing; hopes raised' and ohpes blighted; pro- mises made and promises broken. All these things have left their imprint on human !hearts, and are also re- minders that our attitude ought to be one of watchfulness and prayer, By prayer we mean the cry of faith—that effectual fervent .prayer that availeth touch, At the beginning of the year we pledged ourselves to engage in prayer in behalf of the work of the Women's Missionary Society, twice daily, /In redeeming our pledge, have we prayed the availing prayer—the prayer of faith ? God intends us to learn to answer our ower prayers. Does it not seem ridiculous to pray "Thy !Kingdom Come," and then steadfastly refuse to do our best to help in bringing in the ,Kingcio.m of God. A matt may pray 1,000 times more effectually with his purse, than by there words. We toast praye with our 'hands and feet aswell as with aur voices. IIt is impossible to pray aeifislily and live unselfishly. The quiet fellowship with Cod and the waiting before I-Iinm, are essential be- fore there can he any advance in the Kingdom of 'God, Soon we shall be face to face with the great question each one must an- swer to herself, "Have I done my best this year?" Go d accepts nothing hut the ,best, 'We have an incomparable motto for the turn of the year, in the words of Si, Paul, "Forgetting the things that are behind, and reaching forth unto the things that are before, I press towards the mark," Tne mis- ion field is setting before its the challenge " ti have set before thee age open door." Shall we accept the challenge in 119130, and enter in? New 'PPortunities are ever opening before us. Let us grasp them with renewed vigor and enthusiasm, and press for- ward towards --The Goal. —iu[. Laing, Secy. Chr. S. dr F. What is Christmas costing you ? IWe are told that at the opening of tete Christian era, Christmas, .now a time of joy and of good will, was a •eason when Christians paid in (blood and tears, for the privilege of 'wit- nessing to their love of Jesus Christ. tsy order of the wicked emperor, Diocletian, hundreds of Christians, w"Ito were assembled for the celebra- tion of tete advent of Jesus Christ, were shut behind barred doors and windows, and a torch set to the building. Their bodies were indeed 'a living sacrifice.' The pagan world was determined to wipe out this faith in Jesus Christ, and the celebra- tion of Christmas, was one of the chargee brought against Telesphorus, who suffered martyrdom in the reign i Pm A.O. !l68l-3139: To -day, far from. opposing the celebration of the day. the pagan world, pressing close about our very d9ors, is etreting other tactice, and joins in the celebration with revelry and mirth, exploiting it with high pressure salesmanship, and with the,, commercializing of !friend- ship and love: "When carols breathe like incense through our furs, l'\iut jewelled stars on Christmas trees arise, The Child, crushed faint by throng- ing worshippers, Behind a thousand counters, droops and dies," !Expensive gifts for loved ones and for friends, sometimes far beyond our real ability, and, for One whose birth- day we profess to celebrate—what ? Somewhere our marking of the day bas gone far awry, (What dict Christmas cost the Fath- er's heart ? �9Goi1 so loved the •world"tthat He gave His only begotten 'Son," For those of us, a -ho are mothers of only Sons, this is a feeble gauge to use in estimating what Christmas cost our Heavenly .Father. What did Christmas cast the Son? On that glad night for earth when all angels sang together, He emptied Himself of Ibis glory, and humbled Himself to be born of a virgin, to lie in a manger, to grow through boy- hood into manhood, tied to lowly tasks, to walk our dusty, weary world ways, to die upon a Cross at Calvary, How close are Bethlehem and Cal- vary 1 We Find this thought phrased for us in a little poem, "December Twenty -Fourth, "Tomorrow you are born again who died so many times, Do you like the candle -light, do you like the chimes ? Do you ,stop to wonder why men never see I•Iow• very closely .Bethlehem ap- proaches Calvary," 'What did Christmas cost the Son? What is Christmas costing you? And so we are reminded of the Love Gift, which means a special gifth at Christmas time for the work of our '\V.M,S—a love gift to Jesus, through our Society, for his mercies. 1t has 'been said that if each of us gave to the Love .Gift one-tenth of what one plans to spend for Christ- mas, it would make an amount great- er than our happiest anticipations. At our Social Meeting it was decid- ed that we receive donations to the Love Gift, to be used in making up the amount, regarded by the Huron Presbyterial, as our share of the ex- pense of carrying on the work of the Woman's :Missionary Society. lit has been said that there is al- ways one gift which we make at Christmas time, that gives us a big- ger 'thrill than. all the other gifts. Let us 'enjoy the thrill of making our gift to our Elder Brother, the best possible, "Christ want the best. He, in far-off ages, Once claimed the firstling of the flock, the finest of the wheat. And still asks He a Hiska own, with gentle pleading, To lay then highest hopes, and brightest talents at His feet. t He'll not forget the feeblest service; humblest loves Be only asks that of our store we give' to shim, The best we have, "Christ gives the best, He takes the hearts we offer, And fills them ,with His glorious beauty, joy and peace: Ansi in ,1-11s service, as we're growing stronger, His calls to great achievements still increase. The richest gifts for us on earth, or in the heavens above, Are hid in Christ, In Jesus we re- ceive The best we 'have. `And isourbest too much? 0 friends let us remember, How once our Lord poured out His soul for ps, - And in the prime of His mysterious manhood Gave up His precious life upon the Cross— The Lord of Lords, by whom the worlds were trade, Through grief and bitter tears, gave The best He had,,, HURON NEWS New Constable Installed— IJno, !Ferguson, the new county en- forcement officer under the L C. A. and resident county constable ap- pointed last week by the County Council to assist High County Con- stable Percy McCoy, has lost no time in getting started on his duties. He appeared at Goderich on Monday for duty, His family is still in iB'lyth but will be moving to Goderich in due course. lir. IFergusou, like -lir. Mc- Coy, is Trish, having been born there, but he moved to Canada some years ago. soon afterwards settling in Blyth where he has been chief of _police and fire chief for several years, 'Citizens of Blyth express great regret at his loss to the town as he has always been prominent in public activities. Barrister W. M. Sinclair, Brussels The commuttity of ,Brussels suffer- ed a real loss in the recent death of Barrister W. 1I. Sinclair, who passed away at the fancily residence in (Brus- sels. Interment took place in the Brussels cemetery. W. M. Sinclair was born seventy -dive years ago to Donald and 3fa.rgaret Sinclair' of Si. Marys, and eighteen years later the fancily moved to Sirussels. lir. Sin- clair studied law and was admitted to the bar in ;11006 and the same year married Grace ,Ronald, and began to practice law in Brussels, which has been his home ever .since. Seven year; ago he suffered an illness from which he never ,fully recovered and which gradually forced him to relinquish his practice. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure. He is sur- vived by his wife, 'Grace !Ronal!, one son, Ronald Mansfeid, of Miami, Florida, and two daughters, firs, Donald Clarke and hiss Ruth Grace, both of Hamilton, Ont, Killed by C.N.R. Train at Crossing — john E. Booth, aged 34. of \Viml- ot was instantly killed and A. W. :rut e of London, ndon aged ale was very ally injured shortly after noon on Dec. S, when their light motor car struck by the C.X.R. train at the Hu - ton Road crossing of the railway,just cast of the Goderioh town limits. Grieve was driving, The impact could be heard for a long distance, the motor car being hurled forty or fifty feet and strewn along both :ides cf the right c'1 way. Booth was our the side which w'as >truel:. and was hurl- ed through the air out of the car, striking a telephone pole and dying instant!,. Grieve' w -as picked ftp with a badly crushed chest. '.Ile was rush- ed to tete hospital, The fender on the train, which is of the Deisel type, was dislodged and bumped along un_ derneath, bringing the train to a stop, The engineer, Jas. Norwood, suffered his second accident in less titan two months, the former having been that in which the car driven by Jackson Jerry and 'Willard Legg was struck at the crossing at the 9th concession, Coroner Dr, 07Dwvyor of Zurich was located after it was ,found that prac- tically all other ,coroners within call- ing distance were employees of the C.1NIR, and could not act: R , i t rc , YxlktiP4.N••.f1,4, til t ilM;14 • We ire Selling Quality Books Books are Well Made, 'Carbon is Clean and Copies Readily. All styles, Carbon Leaf and Black Back. Prices as Low as You Can Get Anywhere. Get our Quotation on Your Next Order. • Seaforth News SEAFORTH, ONTARIO, Bayfield Native Passes In .Galt. tk native of Baylfield in the person of Rev, Charles T. Tough, passed away in Galt. Rev. Mr, Tough, a vet- eran,United Church minister, was eighty years of age, and had spent the last six years am: retire,nent. Hs was born in-tBavfield Anel graduated more than forty years ago frown Knox College Toronto and entered the Presbyterian ministry. Ile was a strong advocate of church union and became a United Church minister af- ter the Church union vote. About thr year 11910 he took the charge a` Shakespeare and he remained 0,,, until I1O9211. During that time he eh cleared himself to all with whom lie came in contact. His Iaast charge was that of Draconi and Metz con- gregations, ,, egations, .where he served for eight years before his retirement. HI leaves to nrourn their loss his wife, one sone Charles L., owe daughter, Helen (Mrs, Dr. Gordon Murray) of .To- ronto, and ,five gtandc'hildreti, 'Inters trent was made in Paris cemetery. Fifty Dollars Up In Smoke— IDuo to the kindly -intentions of his sister, a young farmer of the 6th con. of 'Elderslie, is the loser of $50 in bills, II -le had the bills and some coins parked under the paper with which; the dresser drawers in 'his bed- room were tined, and was keeping it there to pay some ,accounts ,when he next came to town. The sister, who was returning shortly. to the Pacific Coast, thought she'd clean' up the dresser before she left, and in re- moving the old :paper lining site piok- ed up the bills, too --sand money and' all went up in flames. Needless to, say, the sister felt quite badly when - it was discovered what had happened: IOhesley Enterprise. MacEwan-Beattfe— Tlee marriage took place in 'Knox Presbyterian 'Church, 1Goderich, of Mrs. IEuphemia 'Violet Beattie, dau- ghter of Mrs, Cox and the late Wil- liam Cox, :Goderich, to Peter J, Mac Ewan, well-known retired manufac- turer of Goclerich, Mr, and !Mrs, Mac - Ewan will reside in Goderich, Popular Traveller Retires.— rA well 'known: and popular figure - who has paid regular visits to Sea - forth and district for the past forty- eight years, retired on Saturday, in the person of W. C. Cunningham of, Toronto. To those in the newspaper^ business, or rather to those who were - engaged in the newspaper or station ery business with the past half cen- tury, 11r. Cunningham needs no in- troduction. He is known throughout the country an being an expert sales- man of the ,Buntin, ,Gillies 1St. Co Ltd, of Hamilton, and daring the years he has sold their products in Ontario, 15 has never been said that he 'oversold" any of his customers, •He has al'- ways .ways been regarded as one of the • most honest and reliable paper trav- ellers in the province, tForty-eight years ago he started in the business. with ,Barber -;Ellis of Canada Ltd. and he was in their employ over two • years before joining the Buntin Gil- lies first, and that he :has been with them ever since is evidence enough of his integrity and ability. Last Wed- ,tesday, Dec, 5th, he paid his last of- ficial visit to Seaforth. When b,ee first began 45 years ago he lead such) an extensive territory to cover that he came to this district only about five or six tines a year, :Of recent years with a smaller area he came a- bout every five week -s. !There are few places 10 the Dominion he has; not vieites. From 1080 to 1908 het made, twice a year, a business trip to the Pacific Coast and four years the other coast trip to ,Halifax. Though Mr. Cunningham''has reached advan- res 1 years he enjoys the very best of health, and is always jolly and soci- able. EATING A CHURCH The old .fashioned Christmas r.rorirwes hearty appetites -.and nc, athy :; tn,nq human beings. 'One ,•: thestrangest items of Yule - tido new, comes from an Alpine vil- lage where, it was reported, thous- ands of famished rats had "invaded a. garage and devoured a motor car leaving only the iron frame work." Milt the record f.,r strange meals is surety held by tete dogs w1 ' ate . church, Somewhere iu the North pious Eskimos built a church with r: frame of walrus ribs, covered with walrus hides. IIt was a nice church, but betweetz morning and evening service one Sunday it was torn to pieces and de- voured by a pack of hungry dogs. Its Quality Sells It, --The fact 'that- so many thousands of intelligent people continue to use Dr. Thomas' Eclectric 'Oil speaks volumes for its healing efficiency: Ever since it was First introduced it has grown steadily in public favor, owing entirety to its manifold usefulness in relieving and healing sickness. As a specific 'for. cuts, burns, scalds, and various in fl.amniatory pains its reCord is be - cord is beyond ,reproach. IBO;RN Rau -'At ;Shanley Township on Nov- ember 216th, to Mr. and Mrs. Char- les 'Rau. a •sotr. Horner—!Alt Varna, on •Deceait'ber ;5, to ifr, and Mrs! Albert Horner, a daughter. Visitor: "How mulch do yotr eartn- here 1 (Clerk to 'Famous Lawyer; £;1•�._ 000 a year—ii1 per 'week in re cash and, the rest ingoo.' acls'ce Want and 'For Sale Ade, 3 weeks S'Os 'i.