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The Wingham Advance Times, 1930-02-20, Page 2WINGITAM AriVANC#>:-'TIMES Thursday February 20kla, 1930 riend From New York Told Him About Sargon THOMAS STACK "When a friend of mine from- NewStore .and bought a treatment, along York visited me recently and told mei with the Sargon Pills. about this new Sargon medicine, 11 "1 had only used about half a bot - ;had no idea it was going to mean the , tle of Sargon and the same quantity ,end of suffering that had made my of the Pills, when I noticed a big life miserable for years. 'change for the better. I quit having "Stomach and intestinal disorders indigestion and gas on my stomach; go hard with a man of my age and the rheumatic pains began to looser I sure had a time of it. Chronic con- their grip, and a feeling of new stipation poisoned my whole system strength and vigor carne over my en - .and a kind of rheumatic condition de- tire system! I got out my car the veloped in my back with pains and other day and can now drive around .aches practically all over my body. as much as I please without being I got to where I couldn't sleep and afraid of those dizzy spells. I'm eat - became subject to weak, dizzy spells !nu heartily, sleeping well and enjoy and finally had to give up driving Ing life in every way. my car altogether. I couldn't even drink a glass of milk withouthaving Ile Sargon Fills are the finest heart -burn and indigestion, and some thing in the way of laxative that I times the gas on my stomach was so ever used, instead of purging, they awful that the pressure would seem seem to work on the liver with a stimulating action that has to almost choke off my heart action. ' a lasting "I'm situated so that I can live cont effect and keeps the bowels regulated Portably the rest of my days, but rerfectly. there was little consolation in that "Everyone I've recommended Sar- gon to tells ins that it's doing` them None of the medicines I tried: did use a world of .good and I honestly be - any good and I had given.up in des- Zieve it will help- anyone suffering pair -just decided I might as well with troubles like mine, if they'll take `tarry along' to the end_; as best I the 'treatment faithfully." could—when my friend from New! The above statement was made by York told isle about Sargon. He said 11 ltomas Stack, well known retired that the medicine was making a big 1 business roan of 36 Beulah Ave., lit in New York and seemed to be ;Hamilton, Ont. ,doing everybody good that tried it; Sargon may be obtained in Wing - so I went down to Tamblyn's Drug ham from J. Walton McKibbon. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON 6• LESSON VIII.—FEBRUARY 23 'The Twelve Sent Forth,—Matt. 9: 35; 11:1, Golden T ext.—Th e harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His liarvest.—Matt. 9: 37, 38, THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING. Time.—Autumn of A.D. 28, in the 'second year of Christ's ministry. Place. --Throughout the cities and villages of Galilee. THE. PLENTEOUS HARVEST .And Jesus went about all the cities and villages. Galilee in the time of Christ was much 'more densely popu- dated than at present. Josephus de - Glared that it had .204 cities and. vil- lages containing more than fifteen thousand inhabitants; and Dr. Se/ah Merin asserted than the Jewish his- torian was correct and that Galilee i then contained more than three roil - 1 lion souls. s Teaching in their syna- 1 y gogues. These were all open to a 'visiting rabbi, who would be' invited s 'to speak by the "rulers" or manage i ing committee. And preaching the t gospel of the kingdom, The good news that•God had sent His Son.into t the world to save hien from their_ S ;sins and draw men to Himself. And f t :healing all manner of disease and all manner of sickness. All' diseases, a-' o •cute as well as chronic, with indifference, :never with con- tempt, never with simple eontplae- ence, but always with a deep, stead- fast, abiding pity. It was' this that made Hi:m patient and forgiving and helpful, and especially it kept in peace that tendency to judge which is strong in every moral nature." Be- cause they were distressed and scat- tered, as sheep not having a shepherd. The Jewish religous' teachers of the day were far more concerned' with dogmatic hair-splitting than with trying to help the distressed and lead the wandering back to God. Then saith He unto . His disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous,. but the laborers are few. This thought rested heavily on our Lord's mind, for it is recorded of two other occa- sions, Luke 10:2; John -4:35, Pray ye therefore: the Lord of the harvest, that He send forth laborers into His harvest. "Art honest offer- ing of this prayer implies a wiIling- ness on our part that God should use tis. in His harvest -field in any capa- city He Pleases, CHRIST'S TWELVE ASSISTANTS And He calleth unto Him His twelve disciples. He had already ap- pointed them, just before the Sermon on the Mount (Mark 3: 13-19), half a year before this, Now He is' send- ing thein forth, 'measurably trained by listening to Him and watching Hini during those six months. And gave theist authority over unclean spirits, to cast them oast. Tlie power to work miracles would be a manifest commission front Him. Asidefrom o the good it would ' do to the cured sufferers, it would give the disciples confidence in them as ambassadors of Jesus. And to heal all manner of disease and.all manner of sickness. "Their power was miraculous; but it was an .imitation of their Lord's. We, too, may be enabled to do what Jesus did among men. Oh, for such an en- dowment!" Now the names of the twelve ap- ostles are these. Four lists of the Twelve are given us, one'in each of the first three Gospels, this passage in Matthew; Mark 3:16-19; latke 6: 14-16; Acts 1:13. All these lists fall, into four divisions, each containing the same names but not in the same prder. Peter stand first in all four lists, and with him Andrew, James and John, the inner circle of the Twelve. .Judas Iscariot ends all the lists, and Philip heads the second di- vision and James the son of Alphaeus heads the third division. The first, Simon, who is called Peter. "Peter" means "Rock" and is of Greek origin. The Aramaic form of the name, "Ce- phas, has the same meaning, His father was named Jonah. Born in Bethsaida, he came to live in Caper- nauni, and Jesus, who, probably made Peter's house his headquarters, heal- ed Peter's wife's mother of a severe fever. Peter was a fisherman, and Jesus made him "a fisher of men," "Peter was full of human nature. We are ever reading ourselves over in the story of his life. No man more human than he. In this he comes near to us and cheers us. His failities are great encouragement to all who fail, He was the epitome of our weakness, our aspirations, our falls, our hopes, our loves." And Andrew his- brother. Andrew, who name is Greek and it neans "manly," was also a' fisherman. Andrew is the "bringer," forgetful . of iimself and ever leading eadittg others to Jesus. He was a true, brave, humble, elf -forgetting soul, loyal and ever •eady at the word of connnand, con- ent to fill a little place, and free. f-roni self-seeking ambitions." James he son of Zebedee. His mother was alome, one of the women at Christ's omit. "James the 'Elder" was, with Us brother John, called "Boanerges" r "sons of thunder" because of their fiery dispositions, Living at first in l rethsaida and afterwards' in Terusa- lem, James was the first;martyr a- y the apostles, being'beheaded y :Herod Agrippa I,, A.D. 44, at Jer- saleni. And John his brother, Jehn 'as "thedisciple whom Jesus loved," s being nearest to Himself in hought and feeling. He was probab- y the youngest of the Twelve, hard- y more than a boy when; Christ call- d him, and lived to be nearly a hun- red, dying a, natural death after his anishment on the island Of Patrnos. Philip.This disci l c who carne rom Bethsaida, brought Nathanael o Jesus, and also (with Andrew) the Greeks that wished to see Jesus be - ore the crucifixion. "Philip lied walk - d with Christ for, three years and ad never the eye to see the hidden glory beneath the seamless robe, Have I .beett so long with you, and ast thou not known the, Philips' He hat hath seen rhe, hath seen the ether.' And that is precisely the exit in which Critics and investiga- ors stand to -day.. They lack image nation and vision, They are ruled nd dominated by dates and facts and ieorifes. "Seeing is believing with teat. They .leave'. no room for the iraculous and the divine." And artholorrrew., This name, itteaning the son of Tohnai," was probably But when He saw the multitudes, He' was moved with compassion for them, "Christ looked at men never 111 l�• . 111 Cream E 3: ry .trid a NTE L THE UNITED FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE i1w ll� • Ot 11 11 *MONNIMMil. EEC :;s 1 Maitland Creamery Poffltry CAL. US FOR PRICES. COMPANY, LIMITED. VVInghaxn, > . Ontario. Phone 2111 lei ■ iR • • ■ MOM mil c d b f e h h t F ip t a t1 ti in I3 the surname of Nathaniel, who came from Cana of Galilee, and who was Called by Jesus "an Israelite indeed, i» whom is no guile." "These words, when sounded to their depths, reveal the finest compliment Jesus ever paid to a newcomer," Thomas. He is call- ed "the doubter," because he question- ed the reality of Christ's first appear- ance to the disciples after the resur- rection, when Thomas was not pres- ent, and Christ won His, complete be- lief by appearing again when Thomas was there. Thomas was not so much a doubter as a hero, for he alone, when the other disciples shrank from going with Jesus on His hazardous journey to raise Lazarus frons the dead, said boldly, "Let us also go, that we may die with him," - And Matthew the publican. It is charact- eristic of this humble disciple that he sets down here the fact that he once was a hated and despised tax collec- tor. His other name was Levi and his father was an Alphaeus°whose son was James the Less. "Only those who have been much forgiven can in- terpret the great Forgiver. It was a publican redeetned whofirst saw the infinite room for sinners in the heart of Jesus Christ." James the son of Alphaeus. This is James the Less, so called perhaps because he was a short man. His mother, Mary, was one of Christ's followers, but of His own personality nothing is definitely told us. And Thaddaeus. He was also call- ed Lebbaeus, meaning. probably the same thing, and was the same as the.. Judas (Jude) so carefully distinguish- ed from Judas Iscariot. He was prob- ably the brother of James the Less, but we are told nothing moreabout him. Simon the Cananaean. Note that it is not "the Canaanite." This is Simon the Zealot (Simon Zelotes, equivalent 'to "Cananaean"), a mem- ber of a fiercely patriotic party, own- ing only God as their king, and stren- uous for the strict observance of the laws of Moses. And Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. "Iscariot" mean "of ICerioth," a town in Judah, the only member of the Twelve who was not from Galilee. THE CHARGE OF THE TWELV These twelve Jesus sent fort. They went forth by twos. "We ma conclude that, after a little at the be ginning, our Lord seldom had. th Twelve all with. Him; sometimes onl two or four. The others would b out on their message. Hence, perhap we may understand how a great par of the labors of the Master had no been recorded." And charged then saying, Go not into any way of th Gentiles. Later, after the gospel wa well established among the Jews Christ bade His followers reach ou into all the world. Plants .must b thoroughly rooted and growing stout ly before we take cuttings from then to propagate' them. And enter not in to any city of the Samaritans, Thes Samaritans, occupying the centra third of Palestine; were part•Jew and part heathen in descent, and old guar rels had been perpetuated and embit- tered. To' press the gospel upon the Samaritans would render it most of- fensive to the Jews. In almost His h y e y e s t t e s. C ' n c 1° t„final words our Lord specified Sam- aria as a field for evangelizing. But go rather to the lost sheep 'of ,ille house of Israel. This was neces- sary initial stategy, this was Christ- ian statesmanship, By a long course of providential 1 o d.ential training the Jews were best fitted for the good news of sal- vation, and readiest to receive it. Nearly all the early Christians were Jews. And as ye go, preach, "Keep on preaching" is the force of the Greek, They were not to settle down in any one place,which would be by far the easiest course, but were to sow the good seed far and wide. We are not to think of the preaching as for sea discourse, usually, but as private con- versations. Saying, the kingdom of heaven is at hand, Their first task was to arouse a feeling of expectation and of hope. "Better days are dawn- ing; you need no longer be miser- able, slaves to sin, bond servants of dread, You have a heavenly Father, and His reign on earth is near." Heal the sick raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast vitt demons. Our Lord did not bestow upon the Twelve at first what we would call the lesser powers vers of` miracle working, such as healing minor diseases, but placed within their reach the most tremen- dous miracles, even raising tate dead. To Christ the one was as easy as the other, and it was Christ's power that they were to exercise. Freely ye re-, sewed, freely give. Christ had made no charge for His teaching and heal- ing, and His disciples were not to do so, Any taint of commercialism destroys the force of the gospel. Christian services are indeed priceless, and to take any kind or amount of pay for them cheapens them sadly,. casting a blight on the entire church. He that receiveth you receiveth the. They would be received as ;tea- chers by pupils and as guests by hosts, This sentence is •a comfort and inspir- ation to all who are :trying to do ecoggioacrimaco DON'T' MISS THIS GREAT 0 0 c► p "GORDON" QUALITY SHIRT SALE COME .EARLY SHIRT SALE 0=le oaloo Q 287 "GORDON QUALITY" SHIRTS For Men and Boys CO ON TI -E BARGAIN COUNTER • THIS WEEK END Sale Starts Friday Morning at 9 o'clock. A ONCE A YEAR EVENT This is the Biggest Yet 92 • Choice Broad cloth Quality SHIRTS All have Separate Collars. All Sizes from 14 to 17. tri O $1.69 Each - 2 for $3.00 80 Fine Lounge and Outing Style SHIRTS 49 are with Collar Attached. 31 are with Separate Collar. Slightly Counter Soiled. Sizes 14 to 17 in each. $1.39 Each - 2 for $2.50 58 M E N'S AND B OYS' FINE SHIRTS Boys' Have Separate Collars. Men's are Without Collars. Printed Cambric, Zephers, Broadcloth, etc. Sizes 13 to 17, $1.19 Each -`2 for $2.00 57 Men's and Boys' Counter Soiled. SHIRTS Cambric and Zepher Cloths. Sizes 1n Sizes 12to 17. While they Iast. 89c Each - 2 for $1.50 "WALKER" Stores, Limited 11 SHIRTS AS LOW AS 89c =o=y1 SIHI 3ZWS IIIIHS.1VIIMNV tTl 2 u Christian work:: their all-powerful Lord identifies Himself with them, Inierges His infinite power in their 1 ltasks. And he that receiveth me re- ceiveth him that sent me, It was not merely the earthly Jesus, the human Messiah Lha t would thus addHimself to their weakness, but the divine Sa- viour, the. Son of God, in whom dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead. He that receiveth a prophet its the name: of a prophet, That is, as a prophet, recognizing his character as la prophet and honoring the office of 'teacher as represented by him. Shall receive a prophet's reward- This is a wonderful statement of the value of .appreciation. Give worthy honoi to those deserving of honor•, and yon thereby' prove yottrself to have kin- Idred qualities, and God will reward you in the same way He rewards `them. And he that receiveth a :right- eous man in the nameofa righteous than shall receive a righteous man's reward. Christ will not have His' hearers forget that faith must be pray- ed by works, even the splendid faith of a prophet,. The teacher must not rely on words, he must accompany. them with a righteous life; and our appreciation of such a life indicates the presence of righteousness in our lives. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little heees -a cup of cold water only, in the i',tttne of a disciple. That is, as a disciple of Christ, snaking the gift in Christ's name and for His salve. In the hot, parched land of Palestine ' a cup of cold water would often be the most precious gift that could be proffered; but it would. cost nothing, acid so. Christ says "only," By "these little ones" Christ inay have meant the dis- ciples, whom He is sending forth de- fenceless and ineitperienced as child- ren; but more likely He pointed to some children standing near, and us- ed thepi• as the final member of His descending scale. Verily I say t nt you. Christ's favorite means of em- phasis. He shall in no wise lose his reward. An understatement, which is often the most emphatic statement: so far from losing his reward, be will receive it in the most liberal measure. Win Grand Challenge Cup F ollowing their victory in the Eastern Lines championship of first-aid teams of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Windsor Sia - tion police team, of Montreal, ear= ried off the Grand Challenge Gttp" for all first-aid teams on the Cana dish PaCific system, defeating , team from Nelson, B.C, winners of the Western Lines chatnpiortship, hi the all -lines final at Ottawa re- Gently, The Montreal team obtain. ed 186 points out of a possible ;2,/5, 'and Nelson received 168, he trophies were re res e nt cI It Hewitt H. Bostock, P, C.,y on, Seieal er „o£ the Seetate, at a pleasant informal dinner, The teams were judged by Colonel Charles A. Ilod etts, C.M.G., V.t ., M.D., D.P.H., director of the :St. ,,Tphn Ambulance Asseeiatio i, Cana. . than Branch. .Above is the Mont• real polite team: left to right, standing: Constables E. G. W Tres, .A.H, tot y Stott, ,and 0, Toitilinsoit; stt� ting: Constable W. II. Allison, first-aid aptain : of team), C. G. Miller; i st aid instructel, for Eastern Lines, and Constable W. W, Peter. ,son. Individual cups, donated b' Zr, I'1. A, Beatty, chief surgeon and medical officer of Canadian Pacific, were presented to all eneted,ters of the team.