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The Seaforth News, 1928-07-12, Page 2ourtioof School July 15—I -mon Ville -The Conversion of Saul, Aces 2-2; 6.16, Golden Text .—This is a. faithful saying, and worthy of all acoeptatlon, that. Christ Jesus come Into the world to cave sinners. -1 Tim. 1: 15. ANALYSIS 1. THU APPt:ARACE CP CHRIST, Acts 22:6-9. Il. TFIE seeRENDER Ql SAUL, 1:11-16.. INneepti TioN—The conversion of Saul was one of the meet tremendous spiritual experiences ever :known, while it was also one of the meet in- fluential events in the history of the k,aily .Ohurch. It is related three times at length is Aots, card there are also nvany indirect references to it in the New Testament. This admission of Paul to the ohurch brought into her ranks 'the most distinguishedof the younger leaders of the Jews, and ere-. aired .11 great impression ttuoaghout the Jewish world. His great ability and gifts were new planed et the lis -1 posel of the Christians, and he did more thein any other to carry the,gos- pel into avow regions. More liberal teachings on. God, man and nature ap- pear with him, and Christian theology and sociology assume new proportions. By his solf-denying labor, by his na- teval endowments, by his early train- ing and absolute surrender to Christ, Paul became the greatest of the apostles, I. THE APPEARANCE OF CHRIST, Acts 22:6-9. V. 6. Night mete, Damascus•. Sauo's 1 determiu'ation to stamp out this new reset leads him bo undertake a journey to Damascus an important city outside Palestine, but near enough to learn easily of the things that were happen- ing. We are not toad how the Chris- tian church arse in that northern' capital, but it is probable that pia-: gnims who had gone up to the Pemba -1 cast feast lied come into touch with the apostles and had carried home the good news when they returned These I disciples did not separate themsalves 1 from their Jewish comrades, but kept up all their old customs, only addling to their religion the worship of Jesus as Meersiah. They had been left in peace till this visit which now threat- ens them with ruin. - but fust of all Saul must go hirer the city not ars a Remember, hut as'.a fol lower of Christ / V. 12. One Ananias: The el weett of this man in givenin brief, but Rug- gestive N^ords, Eviden'tly' ire wits a leader among the Chriatians and was atleoheld in high regard by all the Jews, From the other acts .Its We learn of the dread which Ananias felt in undertaking this commisaion, for the evil fame of Saul had pressed:0d bin. V. 14. God of .our fathees. The God of the Chrietians ie the same God who had gelded and blessed Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and this God, will, so bestow his grace upon Paul, that great results will follow: 1. In Jesus, Paul istofind out the will of God, 2. Jesus is the righteous one, ono who fulfills all .the hopes of Israel and vv'fio will meet all the needs of mankind, 3. Jesus will give him explicit d'irectiane' for hie work, 4. The great world be- yond the Jews will also hear of the wonderful salvation of God. V...16, Be baptized.'Thie is the =- turret consequences of Saul's ironer- sion, for it is: the outward symbol of entrance into the church. He is now one of the disciples, ready to under- take whatevertaskhie-Master assigns to him. Saskatchewan Man A great light. This light was super- natural, coming direct from God due to the immediate manifestation of Jesus who now came to call his new servant. This was therefore, not merely a fiction of the ihnsgismtion, a subjective vision; but a real appear- ance of the glorifed Christ. Thera are four such appearances in the New Testament. The first Was during the life of sus on earth on the Mount of Transfiguration. One cairn to Stephen, one to John at Patmca, and this is the fourth. In his subsequent life Paul often spoke of this manifes- tation made to him, and among the other claims made by hint of his apos- tolic standing is that he had seen the Lord. V. 7. Heard a voice. There are slight differences in the three narra- tives as given in Acts 9:1-19; 22:6-16; 26:12-18, but these can be explained without much difficulty. Saul dis- tinctly i -tinctly hears his name called in the Hebrew tongue, and the qua: tion that follows is a direct and searching one: "Why persecu•test thou me?" His at- tack on these members of his church is an attack on Christ who is now clothed in heavenly glory. In the other narratives the ttort:e are added, "It is hard for thee to lack against the goad," as if Paul's mind was net at ease. He could not take real joy in inflicting such ruin, while the patient endurance of the converts must have appealed to him. He was going against his better nature. V. 8. Who art thou, Lord? The question has often been asked whether Paul had ever seen Jesus during the clays of his flesh, and a verse in 2 Cor. 5:16, is quoted, "Though I have known Christ after the flesh" but even if this were the case, the present vision was quite different, since Jesus had risen from the dead and ascended into heaven. se that this was the vi- sion of the glorified Christ. I am Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus was known among his enemies as the Na- zarene, and he thus uses this term to make it clear to Saul that he is the very Jesus whom formerly Saul had regarded with such anger and con- tempt. II. THE SURRENDER OF SAUL, 10-16. V. 14. What shall I do? This ex- presses loth the surprise of one over- whelmed with the great change that I aus conte to lsim, atr,d algia the great energy of this nsan who henceforth will throw himself ';ith whale -heart- edness into the new duties which he has bo fare. Ther. ie, much to be done, Given High Award Hamilton, Out.—Awards for bravery were announced by the Royal Canadian Humane Society here recently, after the board bad con- sidered a large number of cases of heroism throughout Canada in the past year. -For the second time in 25 years, the gold medal, highest award in the society's gift, was granted. It was voted to Albert J. Ewen, of Riverhurst, Seek, Mr. Ewen was -working as hired man on the farm of H. J. Skeoch, when hearing screams, he rushed to the house to find Mrs. Skeoch's cloth- ing a mass of flames and the house ou fire from a gasoline explosion. He wrapped her In a blanket, suffering terrible burns himself, carried her to safety and then returned to rescue three children. 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Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each nttntber and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Patterns sent by return mail. A Trick off the opt Ranchiing Track Bees and Bee Books 1A Million Dvv w2 ii; I ie in Most beedovers will egrets tbat the. oltarni o 'the 016 boo books is largely owing to their romantic flavor and tite picturesque classics and .rnedteval be, Mfg 'therein contained about the Wise little eroatures we are still so far !MM. urulerstanding, Until well-nigh the close of the seventeenth century the mastoreleees'of thols great bee -rovers —Aristotle, Virgil and Pliny—Were studied tie Practical handbooks, and tho exquisite poetic fancies of the older Grecian writer, which enrieh the fourth book of the "Georgics" were our old bee masters, But g n to accepted ...__ ,,.. ..: ,. ,., -. ::� �.<;, the greatest charm "Ys�'' "c'K'�>?�"` s'``»i ;:�'`: i�cs;.;.... '';ec,s±': !:\>> Y...�.:, ''i,: of the. Elizabethan and Stuart books is surely the love of bees which shines, through their pages and the writersi deligst in the 'mystery and 'glamor of one of the most ancient crafts under' the sun. The. rarest of the old English bee bootee is Hyll's slender little volume, "A profitable Instruction of the perfite PUSSY' ACTS AS A FOND "MAMMA" TO FOXES ordering of Bees," which was first r. published in 1572 with his "Profitable They are silver Mx pttPs belouging •to a breeder near Toronto,and the cat, who is mothering them takes ho arta of gardening."r It was published job very seriously, separately in 1579, and in this form -- ' is a very rare book. Edmund South- Police in London A Prime Minister's British to Extend eriie's "Treaties concerning tete right use and ordering of Beos" (1594) is 1Lp .: ItMotorsfor a# id .y o gricu tore almost equally rare and a far more in. 11� d'li 4 L'� 5 teresting book, in that it is an original Coaching Club in All Dominionsw,Qk, whereas 41y11'a is mainly a oom- t� While he labors for en earthly tion' from the classical writers. The most fascinating of the earlier lciugdOm, Prime Minister Baldaln bee books, however,is undoubtedly earlier Eleven Coaches Represent has not forgotten rho Iting'd'oan at 'Alm of lnfornl tion Bureaus Remnant of NationalExplained to Americans Charles Butler's "Feminine Men - God on earth, and his declaration oR P arches; or a:Treatise concerning Bees Pastime -of Yore sublime 'faith la the Bible as a "high by Sir Robert Greig and the due ordering of them. Where- in the truth found out by experience and diligent 'observation discoyereth the idle and fond conoeipts. which many have written anent, this subject (1609).. , . An interesting feature of the book 1s the "bee -music" associated with the after -swarms. The author gravely sets. Faith London.—Memories of a century .explosive'" which Jtas helped and will ago were vividly brought to the erten- help again to bring great revivals is tion of those Londoners who were for- tunate enough to visit Hyde Park on a recent sunshiny Tune morning to see. the annual first meet of the Coaching Club. Eleven coaches, shining with brilliant varnish and bright color, and driven by men in gray top hats and frock coats, formed a picture which one observer accurately called "a a wetness that the Book is not with- out friends in high places, Mr. Bald- win was addressing the recent annual; meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society in London when be gave voice to the faith that is In him. Speaking of the "universal appeal to •These bureaus, when the organize- forth the notes, -which strikes one as mankind of the personality of aur tion work le completed, will be located. a Typical seventeenth century conceit, Lord," which, he says, must come to in British dominions all over the and in the 1623 edition this "bees ma - prancing museum of Dickensian every one who reads the Bible, he World, Stir Robert said. Rep ratrka- drigal" is expanded into four pages of glory." went on, as the London Times quotes tines from. 00 British lands ovar,Jes., music with .the words. ,Butler naively The entire atmosphere of the meet- him' `', attended the Agricultural Research avows he cannot vouch for its accur- ing was that of a quieter and! more "Itis 'that faith that animates the Oonferenice in London, et which the acy `because, in that confused noise, leisured age. The •swift motorcars Bible Society, and It is in that faith plan for the bureaus was outlined., he which the buzzing bees 1n the :besie speeding through the park seemed that they. send that Book out In all aded, and there wild be more than this time of their departing doe make, my modern anachronisms, a view appar- tongues to all peoples of the world, number of bureaus cooperatag for dull hearing could not perfectly' ap- ently shared by London's traffic police and so I come back to what I said at the development of agriculture. In prehend it, so that I was faine to make who halted all motor traffic while the the beginning. It is a' high explosive, addition to their own work the infora- up that as I' could." dignified and sedate coaches passed but it works in strange ways, and no tion bureaus will, co-opetvtte with the The old bee masters differed greatly through the park and then to Rene- living. man can tell or know how that Departments of Agriculture or similar on the merits of the picturesque cis- lagh. The only modem., touch was Book in its journeying�s through' the branrli'' of government of ell of the tom o1 'ringing" bees. Southerne the frocks of the tivomeS guests, the ,world Las started the -individual soul countries with such departments, ears: "When the swarms is up. it is men and grooms being attired praetic- in ten thousand different places into' "Throuigh the work of the bureaus not good to ring them, as some doe, ally as they would have been had the a new life, a new belief, a new con- and with the co-operation of etherna- nay It is a common thing where there• journey been made a century ago. caption, and a new faith. These things time already promised, farming is no experience to keep a stirre and This ie the onlyserviviii are hidden until some man, some pea within the next 10 toy on either with a Boson Kettle or g coachingyears wall have ac- Frying pan taking (as the common club in London. Until last year there pies is, touched beyond all this by the cess to fund of infornun'tioIlk on a were two. England clings tightly to Divine fire, and the result is one of .par with other industries meantaimang,proverb ttle rb tel r great efotbyraines tied have such means they its traditions and its picturesque Ment- those great revivals of religion which wast research divisions," Sir Robert ones and a more easy-going age, and repeatedly, through the con ries, maid make the bees angrie, and go further there were many in Hyde Park as the have startled the world and stimulat- a . to settle then otherwise they would. Flying - coaches set off who sighed regretfully ed mankind and which, as sure as we Samuel Perches, rector of Sutton in for the pre motor days when sociabil- ity are meeting ht this room, will occur Hoover and,the Waterway Essex and author of that quaint little p again. 1 volume, "A theatre of Political Flying- and good fellowship distinguished i Victoria Colonia, (Cons. : The rem- Insects" also condemns the custom. transportation and the roads as con- 'tiro much of our time in this world enation of Mr. Hoover has a special trasted with the incessant rush and we seem to be carrying on our strug- Both Purchas and Butler quote the turmoil of a petrol era. gle in twilight or in fog—friends, and interest for Canada.He is the chief .,ancient law of Christeudome," where- Theprotagonist i the' United -States of by bee owners- were allowed to pursue club will have two other meet- men who ought to be friends, hitting the internationalization of the St their bees when they swarmed wher- ings before the summer ,ends. The blindly ni the melee and wounding Lawrence waterway. His choice as Hien who are or ought to be their every they went. "This benefit there drivers find that by traveling in brothers. A'bor but the light President would undoubtedly give that ie of ringing;' says Perches, "that if groups they avoid much of the diffi- gproject a fill! and lead to culty caused by the practical monopoly which comes from that Book can resuure than ever 'before being you have says agar you that of the country roads by motor cars. II ht that twilight or dispel that P keep bees, you may give notice there- fog. The Kingdom of God may be brought on the Government at Ottawa by to prevent wrangling, if some of very far off, but this society works_ to sanction -what water power users theirs should rise at the same. time, on through good times and through and transportation interests want in But if they will not be stayed, but crit times in faith, I wish this roc -'the United States. A Republican vin - hastening on still, go beyond your Stuffed Peppers tory in November neat will be warn- bounds, the ancient law of Chrlsten- Iety all that is good, and I woald say ing to Canada to bringpublic o m - for myself before I close that it I did P dome permitteth you to pursue them Green peppers, allowing two to each ion to bear on the Governmentat'Ot- withersoever, bub our common law is person, are to be prepared by remov- rot feel that our work, and the work taws to prevent any cession to the of all of us oto hold the same faith more uncivil, and .,acids no such privi- ing the seeds and white veins, and -United States of rights, which should' lege, for if your Bees bee out of your and ideal, whether in politics or in by a few minutes of scalding. Flil bring, and which do belong, to this ground, your property Is lost, if you them with a mixture of oho civic work, wherever it may be—if I peed veal ,did not feel that that work teas done 1 Dominion. bee not more courteous.' But in the whole range of bee litera- Stir Robert Blythe Greig, chairman+ of the Board of Agriculture for Scot= land, has just arrived in Ottawa to arrange with Canadian` Government officiate for the inauguration of the plan of the British Government for an extensive chain of agricultural infor- motion bureaus, to phi t Throe volition peopl's—as many. ae ,toe whole pepalation Of Ontario old Prince )Sdward Isltese — are facing starvation at :the Present Me- ment in the province of Sttantang, 'China, send ohne Million cf them ars doomed to tile before aid caro reach them, according to AnWoiean observ- lers who have been elver the fanuina. stiiielcen region to devise relief meees- ures. All these unfortunates live in a hundred square miles of territory, a section now as barren' as Death Valley in California, says Reginald Sweet- land weetland in a special cable from T.i'banghed to the Mileage Daily News, One trill - Pion of the throe,, he thinks, probably can manage to keep soul and body to- gether until relief can come from the United States, provided it comes 'eat the next 'three or four motets, The second mullion is doubtful, lund the third cannot be eaveds The suffering extends to many other millions, we,: are told, butt th particular area de vastated by battles as well es drought is the centre of the 'cotes tz+ophe. To quote 1VIr. Sweetland fur- ther; "Roots of trees -and shrubs and blades of dried grants constitute the see food for the mil'lione drifting de- spairingly ovor the province trying to find nourishment It is not too much to say that these millions have not had the semblance of a meal in many months, Other millions' have left the province and gone to Manchuria, Par- ents have sold their sons and dau'gh ters for ,aa little as $5 each for the purpose of buying their pasowge from the stricken area., "While Shantungprovince has al- ways been notorious as a famine area, this year is the worst in,the `nation's history, the natural famine causes be- ing severelyaggravated by the politi- cal'connditions, and the fact thatthe farming fends have been turned into battle-fieldis for the Nationalist and Northern forces. Lack of rainy ban- ditry, locusts, excessive taxation, and warfare, these open a ,lingering death for 3,400,000 people. "With Shantung ' under Nationalist rule it is expected! that the political abuses which aggravated the stricken.: area are likely to end. For example, Gov. • Chang Chung-cheng exploited the, province by collecting four years' advanced taxes from the farmers, com- pelling thousands .to forsake' their. homes. The resu'it was that crops were not planted. This year the seeds veero deg up by the starving millions and eaten before they had a chance to sprout. Thousands, peaceful resi- dents esidents of Tsinan, evacuated that city owing to the Japanese occupation, de. depending upon the starving villagers to support them." "An unfortunate vision of thou- sands of monest, hard-working farf- ers struggling grimly to hang on to their little bits of holdings with no better outlook than a slow, painful death for themselves and families"—, such is the word picture drawn by a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian after a motor' trip of 360 miles in the stricken area between Peking and Nanking. It is estimated that 2,000,000• starving people are flee- ing for their lives out of ..Shantung into Manchuria, where they hope to find land to cultivate—"t'ie greatest folk migration in the world today," the New York Times calls it. From that paper we get these further facts and figures applying to the larger area affected: "Three years of bad crops, war con- ditions, merciless government, bandit.. ry, locusts anti lack of rain have brought at least 4,000,000 people bo a state of dependence, and as many. more to destitution. The Times cor- respondent a month ago estimated that 9;000,000 people in that region were suffering, Conditions grow worse, and must continue to do so until ate• other crap .comes, unless outside . help is received or the inhabitants migrans to where food can be had." Another cable dispatch, quoted . by the Atlanta Corn ititution, gives theme details: "Horror is blended with pity at tales of sbmmg some Who have strangl- ed their aged parents in order to keep them from the pangs of starvation, Strangled their parents and then start- ed afoot on the 1;000 -mile journey the free lands of Manohuri.a. Infauuk_ .� cide is now generally practiced: in, the famine districts by parents who can barely keep themselves ` alive, or who can not endlure to see their children dying of slow stareatian. Every daY the ,;women of a'ux villages bring in they babes who have been picked up, half-etarv'ed and frozen blue, from wayside and from ditches.' Some die within a few hours of their rescue." or pork and rice, chopped onion and in the faith and the hope that at some parsley cooked together in Whenbubbe.dap, it may be 1,000,000 years hence, The Hardest Thing ture surely the most fascinating book long enough to blend. the pep -the Kingdom of God would spread Is that dainty little play, "The Parlia- of a era filled, put ons tablespoonful -The hardest thing in starting work. ment of Bees, with 'their proper of cream over each and bake gently over the whole world, I could have In the time. we fiddle around before P P char - for one hour. no hope, I could do no work, and I getting underway we might have the asters. Or, a Dee -hive furnieht with would give my office over this morn- most difficult job half done. Things Twelve aH... moos, as Pleasant as ing to any one who would take it." i are rarely as hard- to do as we think Profitable . - . By John Dave" (1641). Robbing•the Mails _ `they are going to be. We suffer most All the characters, with the exception of Oberon, are bees; the sweetness of Toronto Mail and Empire (Cons.): i in anticipation. It's- really fear that , The successful hold-up in the Tinton In1n3IgraitOn keeps us from starting. The water's fancy is exquisiteand throughoutone Station has been a revelation to most Toronto Telegram (Ind. Cons.): The line when we get in. The least pain people. There was an idea that a immigration investigation at Ottawa comes whoa we plunge. The wind Is The mail coach loaded with treasure would reported on most phases of colonize- coldest when we dawdle along the rfor medanent of Bees" has ever be guarded by men with loaded guns. tion, but failed to answer the one bank.Capper's Weekly. been performed' .and it is so delicate — The public are amazed to learn that burning question: How are vve. to that Perhaps it is impossible. there was in that mail coach hundreds bring in settlers, while we try to keep 1f we wanted to shirk we would Eleauour Sinclair Rohde, in Garden - of thousands of dollars to be had just them out? Until this problem has organize a labor union of runners and Craft in the Bible and Other Essays." for the taking. The gunmen would been worked out the immigration will saythat we would cut down the race not be so successful 'f the Government be laboring under a handicap second to five miles and we would loaf.— were not so stack a trustee. ' Only t0 Its present head. Clarence De Mar. 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OLD LONDON SQUARE SOON TO BE CLOSED Lond'cn.--Three Crowns Square, an ancient inclosure within the precincts of the Borough Market, Southwark, is to be closed. Thomas Haynes, clerk of the market trustees, addreasiag a spe- tial session of justices held to sanction this action, said the Borough Market was opened in 1755 and there had been previously -•a similar institution in eko:is proximity for 700 years To faeillitato the citstribution of produce it was proposed to :utilize the square ars a private road. Mr, Haynes recalled ,that at one time a statue of Charles I stood 'e' evo ft watchhonew in the square.