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The Wingham Advance Times, 1932-02-18, Page 2PAGE TWO TH WINGHAM A.D yANOE-TrmEs. Thursday, Fe 18th, 1932 eseedeseeed:::•;c:K;i BROW J'OU'RE sure to enjoy the brilliant performance of the new Pontiac Six. Once at the wheel you will im- mediately thrill to its new power flow. There is a thoibugh sense of satisfac- tion in stepping away from the crowd when the traffic light blinks. And speed! -- there's all you will want and motet This new power peak comes from Pontlac,is high compression design. But Pontiac engineers haven't gone too far—regular ga'so- lines can be used. And more — Pontiac's reputation for economy will be continued. When you drive the car you will admit it is an outstanding GENERAL MOTORS VALUE P7-20 DEALER Listen to General Motors' Broadcasts of all Maple Leaf, Hockey- Team's home games from CFRB, CKCL or CFCA at 9 p.m. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. LESSON VIII --FEBRUARY 21 Jesus the Good Shepherd. John 10: 1-42 ;along the highway by a brook, lead- ing a flock of sheep to a higher and, greener pasture that was above •on the side of the mountain. The travell- er called to the shepherd and said, "Give me your hand, and come up over the rock, for you wiU get wet as you wall: along the pathway!" But eeolderi Text —Jehovah is my shep- he said, , ; herd; I shall not want—Ps. 23:1. "Nanathe sheep canna climb the rock, and they wadna. start' THE LESSON ITS SETTING. till gin I clod up there. I mun gang IN before the sheep, gin I wad lea.d Thne.—October 11-18, A.D. 29, the them!" And the traveller said, 'This third year of Christ's ministry (the is. true shepherdbooc1,—not to climb feast of tabernacles). December 20- up some other way, but to walk be - 27 of the same year (the feast of dedication). fore the sheep." • Place.—Jerits-alem. To him the. porter openeth. "The FOLLOWING JESUS Holy Spirit is the porter who opens the gate of the human heart to This le.sson is closely- connected with last week's, the healing of the Christ. And the sheep hear his man born blind. That' man must voice. "When several flocks are have rejoiced in this discourse and pe.nned in the same fold, the animals • felt that every word of it was in- naturally get mixed during the night. tended for him. But there is never any trouble on -Verily, verily (Amen, amen) isay that score, and it is one of the pret- unto you. Christ's usual mode of tient and most interesting sights to emphasis, introducing art especially watch the sheep and goats hurry out important utterance, v.-hich Christ- of the fold at the sound of the call ians would do well to ponder ;with of the shepherd. They will pause for exceeding care. He that entereth not a second or two, listen attente e13, by the. door in the fold of the sheep. and then trot along to range them - esus as the Lamb of GodHe selves unerringly around their own ei-. as also the Good ShepherdHis shepherds," And he calleth his own e. seople were His flock. But climb- sheep by name, and leadeth them out. !tie up some other way. The under- This was one of the great uses of "the incarnation; it as to humanize 3liepheed or porter would be Watch - God, reducing him to human parson- ing at the door, so that the thief, if he got in at all, must get in over the )alild'; that we might believe in that wall. The same is a thief and a rob-IParticular and personal love in which leer. "To reap the fruits of the truths 'He reigns from eternity." Christ taught, to enjoy the advant- I When he hath put forth all his ages of Christianity without one sen -J, OW n. The heavenly Shepherd Falls timent of reverence and gratitude to to him only his own; there is no the discoverer, or of homage and mention here of the goats. He go - love for the teacher, is to prove a nth before them. The Eastern Mien - robber, is to show the thief." herd does not drive his flock before But he that entereth in by the him, but leads the way and they fol - door is the shepherd of the sheep. low after hirn. So it is with Christ "One summer morning a traveller and His sheep; we are not driver al was standing upon the side of a great (rig the path of life. And the sheep eriountaie. As he stood there drink -d follow him: for they know his voice. ing in the beauty of the scene, he IThe sheep listen and continue graz- saw a shepherd of that country pass ing, but if any one else tries to pro - I I des; ined for lily ro Service arta uaranteed • Airepo atom'? 1 ezr Amps • lit the elegise Wingham Utilities Commission Crawford !flock. '* Phone 156. Look 6r** -1-C1414'4.416 !hd, ia 00104MR A+Ailio. rso duce the same peculiar cries and gut- tural sounds, they look around with a startled air and begin to scatter." And a stranger will they 'not fol- low, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of the stranger. Christians should be so familiar with the voice. of Christ that they can eas- ily distinguish it anywhere, for the world is full of His imitators, on the platform, in books and periodicals, and in,private life. JESUS THE DOOR. We are dealing .with the Infinite, and "there is no searching of his un- derstanding" (Ise, 40:28). Therefore in His attempt to make His disciples understand. who He was and what was His work in the world, Christ could not stop with a single meta- phor. Jesus therefore said unto them. Because they were confuse:1.1)y what He had just said. Verily, verily, I say unto you. Again Christ's not - of emphasis, as in verse 1. I am the door of the sheep. The door of ac- cess to the sheep, •as in vs. 1, 2 and the door of entrance for the sh-ep, as in VS. 9. And all that came before' me a.re thieves • and robbers. Of course, Christ did not refer to Moses and the prophets and John the Baptist, the great religious leaders of the Jews of whom }Id:often spoke in praise and whose teaching's he I-1bn- srlf followed loyally. He meant the false religious 4eaders of His race whom He so, bitterly denounced as "scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites." But the sheep'id not hear them. The people had, given up expecting relig- ious help from the Pharisees and their like. Those false shepherds ne- ver led them to the green pastures andthe still waters. But when Christ spoke, the common people teard Him gladly. • I am the door. "The door is the crucial point; pass the door and you are all right; but turn back at the door and you are all wrong." By use if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture. The moment that a poor sinner trusts in Chist, G:id shuts the door. There he is, and thtre he shall be, till time shall be no more. He is secure." The thief cometh not, but that he i may steal, and kill, and destroy. How tan We tell a thief from an honest man. 1;y his selfishness and cruelty. The thief is all for himself. He.. takes •ne thoueht for others' rights, or peace, or comfort. If only h may , have more, he is entirely willing that all others may have less. • 1 came i that they may have life, and may have it abundantly: "The man most alive is the man who puts to death the lower part of his nature, his self- ielitiess, his greediness, his cOvetness, his vanity, his pride." JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD. I am the good shepherd. The true shepherd as distinguished from the hireling shepherd of the neat verse, The good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep. To the mind of Christ this shdpherd-life is the very • shadow of the cross, He fleeth because he is a hireling, •and careth not for the sheep. • A. man does what he does because he is what he is. ; I ant the good shepherd. This is I the gracions refrain of this passage, • which is an anthem of heavenly love, Even as •the rather knoweth me, and 1 knoweth the rather; and 1 lay • down my rife for the sheep, If our • Lord's dedication to the work of re - (kerning men %vas free, make your dedication to His service free like- Sk, ise." FAVORITE HYMNS AN10.910115026101a Just as I am, Without one plea But that Thy Blood was shed for me, And that Thou bidd'st me conte to Thee, • 0 Lamb of God, I come. The advice, simple es it was, mot her need perfectly. She retired to, her room, her mind overflowing with a refreshed idea of devotion, and on her knees wrote out what she found there:—"Just as I am, without one plea, save that Thy blood IN'a S. shed for me,"—the whoie hymn, excepting. perhaps the last verse 'which may have been added afterwards. One of her 'useful little ,handbooks "The Invalid's .Hymn Book" was about to be republished in an enlarg- ed form and in it, the hymn which was destined to find a place in all the hymnals'of the language and to be translated into many otherslangtiages appeared in 1836. Either before or after that' publicatiOn, The words were printed on a single -sheet and glad- ly received by many on the Torquay beach, and around Brighton. A lit- tle later Mise Elliott published an- othet, of her books, the one entitled: "Hours of Sorrow, Cheered and Com- • forted" ip which "Just as I am," ap- peared with •the concluding verse added, "Just as I am, of that free ldve, etc." • The service the hymn has rendered to the Christian Church is beyond eetiniation. It is full of teaching, ex- pressive of a tree theology, a strik- ing treatise on the text: --"Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out," and a true hymn of a Christian pouring out the soul before the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." • Rather unfortunately the Rev. Dr. Moule, a distant relative of the fam- ily bas furnished Dr. Julian's great "Dictionary of Hymnology" with an- other account of its composition, making out that it was written in 1834 and es:pressed the writer's re- gret that she could not take part in a bazaar being held in Brighton. His acount of its publication all is wrong, and to the present writer it is evi- dent that he has confused our hymn with Miss_ Elliott's "Thy 'will be Just as I am, and waiting not To rid my soul of one dark blot,— To Thee, Whose blood can cleanse each spot O Lamb of God, I come. Just as I am, though toss'd about With many a conflict, many a doubt, Fightings and fears, within, without, O Lamb of God, I come. Just as 1 am, poor, wretched, blind; Sight, riches, healing of the mind, Yea all I need, in Thee to find, • 0 Larinb of God, I come. Just as I am, Thou wilt receive, Wilt w evlceo:me, pardon, cleanse, re - lie Because Thy promise I believe, O Lamb of God, I come. Just as I am (Thy love unknown Has broken every barrier down), Now to be Thine, yea, Thine alone, • 0 Lamb of God, I come. Just as I am, of that free love The breadth, length, depth, and • height to prove, Here for a reason, than above, O Lamb of God, I come. This beautiful hymn, by common consent allowed to rank amongst the finest in our language, was the work of Charlotte Elliott, •a Christian, maiden lady, for many years a semi- ievaIid. Daughter of a • gentleman who lived at Clapham, dear London, and in Brighton at certain times of the years, she was born in 1789, and spent the greater part of her life at the latter place, of which her broht- er was Rector. Several of her sum- mers she spent at Torquay, the lovely seaside resorthin South Devon. •She was thoroughly well educated, an accomplished writer, and compos - ,di a great deal of poetry, most of it of a sacred character, which she pub- lished in tracelet form for free dis- tribution, collecting it afterwards in. to little books which had a wide cir-1 culatiche Numbers of people got to; ktow of her and like another poet- ical writer, Francis Ridley Havergal, she had a lame correspondence to ;attend to. • Among other friends who frequent- ; ly visited her was the saintly French Hegenot evangelist De Henri Caesar Malan who spent a considerable tune England, where his piety, learning and eloquence were highly esteemed. His son became a much valued and talented clergyman of the Church of England. • To him Charlotte Elliott once re- marked that she foiled 'it hard at tittles to draw near to God in pray- er,• she, was so harassed by the af- fairs of her past life so troubled ov- er her inability to offer to God the perfect heart and soul with which one should be furnished who would approach the Lord God of nosts, etc. The •experienced old. physician of souls regarded her thoughtfully. "You must cut the cable which binds • you to all that troubles in the past," he said. Come to testis Cheitt tiat as you are, trusting in His great love and outpoured blood to cover over and wash away t11 that hinders your service 1" 1' VantilteS with bread and, as a geneya1 table syrup! • A nourishing ,and delicious food that builds healthy bodies. Particularly re - Commended for growing children by . expert diutitians. An economy. food that the whole family will enjoy. ' Send 10c for "Canada's Prize Recipes 200 practical, home -tested recipes. • The CANADA STARCH CO., Llinited, MONTREALjj t 10111111MidiERIEMENMANIUMEW done" which was published at the date he ascribed to the publicatioe of "Just as I am." The almost equally beautiful "My God and Father while 1 stray," with its refrain, "Thy will be dope," is in, every respect more likely' to have been written under the strain of the writer's feeling ,of uselessness while others were busied in -useful social service, than the more intimately spiritual "Just as I am." If this little article should meet the eyes of the editors of Julian's Dic- tionary, it may be •they will think it advisable to examine into the ques- tion of- the occasion of the writing of. this popular hymn a little careful- ly before another edition of that in- valuable book is issuecL A number of Miss Eliott's hymns appear in our hymnbooks, and about -a hundred and fifty of them have been' employed in them at one time or another. She died in 1871. Many imitations of the hymn have been written and tunes beyond num- ber composed fo'r it io be sung to, As well known •perhaps as any of them is "Misericordia," by Dr, Hen- ry Smart, the well known •composer, a younger' contemporary of its writ- er who lived from 1812 to 1879. • "I can't remember the words of that new song,' said the girl. , "That makes it easier," returned her father, who was trying to read. "Now all you've got to do to make home happy is to forget the tune." • After the last of the dinner guests had take their departure, Mrs. Mor- gan rang for the cook. "Nora," she began, "I found a rub- ber glove in the soup to -night." "Oh, thank you, mum!" 'was the. grateful grateful reply. "I thought I'd lost it." Young—"The modern girl with, her powdering and rouging makes me furious." Mac—"Me, too. • Every time I look at a daubed mouth I see red." 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