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'HELP TO KEEP OUR
TOWN HEALTHY
A great many towns and cities in
Ontario are experiencing epidemics
of measles, whooping cough and oth-
er : communicable diseases.
Fergus has found it necessary to
issue instructions through their local
paper 'asking co-operation from the
public in regard to an outbreak of
measles. A considerable number of
case of ,fin have been reported in
Guelph, and .,Brussels closed` their
schools a short time ago in order to
check colds` in that village.
As we in Wingham have not ex-
perienced an epidemic of any _kind
this ,winter,we should be most thank-
ful: and if any case that requires at-
tention does arise, report same at
once to . roper authorities.
MORE MONEY REQUIRED
BY GOVERNMENT
,:
The Government at Ottawa, in or-
der to raise additional revenue to bal-
ance their budget, are seeking new
forms of taxation and will most like-
ly increase the rate of certain taxes
already in force. Radio license fees
have already been increased from $1
to $2, an increase in the sales tax and
income tax is greatly talked of. Con-
siderable opposition to any increase'
in the federal income tax has already
been placed before Hon. E. N. Rhod-
es, Minister of Finance, .by the Com-
mercial Bureau, of Canada. Part of
their recommendations read as fol-
lows:
"We strongly urge that additional
revenue be raised through a substan-
tial increase in the sales tax for the
reason that the business people are
used to this tax and.. the machinery
is in operation for collecting same,
and further, in our opinion, this tax
creates no hardship on any class, the
citizen contributing to the national.
revenue by his ability to spend."
If the additional revenue required
could be raised by increasing the in-
come tax it would seem a better me-
thod of raising the additional mon-
ey than that of increasing the sales
tax.
Every person who buys, contri-
butes to the sales tax, while only
those whose incomes are taxable, pay
an income tax.
W INGHAM INDEED
FORTUNATE
At Kincardine they have been forc-
ed to use water from the harbor on
ay -count of the intake from the lake
being phtgeed. The water so used
was not of a good quality and caused
considerable inconvenience.
We are surely , fortunate in Wing -
ham, in that our water supply comes
from Artesian wells and is of exceI-
lent quality.
KIDNAPPINGS
Last year in the United States
there were 2500 kidnappings.. The
public; had become so accustomed to
this sort cif crime that little attetn-
• the
n was. given to it. Last week t to
20 .month- old son of Col, Charles A.
Lindbergh was kidnapped. There has
hec.n nothing happen, since the war,
that has aroused public Opinion
throughout -the world toItch a pitch.
Cli•vorntuents in the United' States are
seeking means of ;stopping these das-
tardly .crimes. The police are doing
all. in their power to catch the ab-
ductors of this child. The public are
anxiously waiting for news, hoping
told praying that this baby will be re
turned to its, parents, unharmed.
Canada is comparatively free from
such criatxes and may she always be
The Hydro investigation is being
Aird in Toronto.
Japan submits offer of peace to
China, the terms of which are not
acceptable, Other nations have plung-
ed into war only to find a peaceful
settlement difficult to negotiate,
japan finds that China is not so
.t
ea':ily broken.
call-
ed
Chinese have often
En been ll-
a
ed the Yellow race. Recent events
in the far East seem to contradict
this.
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
LESSON XI MARCH- 13
Jesus Comforts His Disciples
-John 14:1-18
Golden Text. -Peace 1 leave with
you; my peace I give unto you: not
as the world •giveth, give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled, nei-
ther let it be fearful.—John 14.27.
THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING.
Tirne.—The evening of Thursday,
April 6, A.D..30.
Piace.-Jerusalem, the upper room
of the Last supper.
THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND
THE LIFE,
Those revelations, contained in the
four chapters of John which consti-
tute our full lesson, are probably fee
most Christians : the most precious
portion of Holy Writ.
Let not your heart be troubled.
Our Lord designed the last supper
as a joyful and . peaceful feast, for
Nc well .knew the terrible hours that
were to come. 1lut how are we to
nbc,y Christ's comnnand and keep our
hearts from being troubled? Believe
in God. • "Believing is the highest
homage that we can pay to -God."
Believe also in me. "The next sec
rat ,pf the untroubled heart is like
faith' 'in the Lord Jesus. To trust
Hiro fully is to be at rest.
In my Father's house are many
mansions. The first cure for a troub-
led heart is belief in God; the second,
belief in Christ: the third, belief in
the future which Christ has prepared
for His followers. If it were not so,
I "vould have told you. Christ's sil-
ence was as candid as Hi.
speech.
He would not trifle with this great
litimen hope of immortality. Had
there been no such satisfaction for
it, he would have told them." For
I go to prepare a place for you. The
bet paraphrase of this verse is La-
ther's, "If the devil with his tyrants
'Lunt you out of the world, you shall.
'eci'auv
magi+ ;uaraanteed
still have room enough,"
And I go and prepare a place for
you. 'Of course "if" does not
imply
a doubt, . since Christ has just said.
that He would -do' this. 1 will conte
:Again. Back to this earth, back to
my people. And will receive you tea -
to myself. Christ conies to us
through His Spirit 'from hour to hour
lin the blesshrgt and sanetifi'ineaof eV-
cry circumstanees and change. He
wi0 "receive"' us in the last.:inornent
when the temporal is exchanged for
the eternal, and the open vision of
His glory: transforms us to Hia like-
ness." That where I ane, there ye
may be also. What does this mean?
Jt is the acknowledgment of Jesus.
that to Him heaven is incornplete
without us.: And if we believe -.'in
Him, and love Him; surely earth and
heaven are nothing Without Him."
And .whither 1 go, ye know the
Way. In many a discourse Christ had
given sufficient nnaterials for them
to construct atrue` conception Of the
Father's
T'atlner s Iroise,; and the Way to it . .
ClrChristoftenpeak a tea-.
s ' speaks, to us s „ s a ea -
cher to a 'nervous child, saying, "You
know uite 'well ifyou wo ld. only
u
think a'little." •
Themes saith unth him. We call
hiin "Thomas the .Doubter"; lie was
the speculator of ` the Twelve, the
questioner, albiet thoroughly loyal to
the Saviour. , Lord, •we know not.
Whither thou goest; how know we
the way?, If Christ was going to
ful-
fil the Jewish expectations of the
Messiah, his capital tity would , of
course be` Jerusalem, where He then
was. Thomas was honestly confus-
ed; but his confusion, frankly ex-
pressed, led to one of the most glor-
ic>'ur of our 'Lord's utterances.
Jesus 'saith unto him, I am the way,
and the truth, and the life. When
we go on by Christ as .the way, He
introduces us to the Father,- and we
have the truth, :He becomes the life,
by -His Spirit dwelling in us."
No one cometh unto the Father,
but by zine. Christ's claim on the
world is not only relative, it is ab-
solute. This is the fundamental con-
viction' which justifies and invigor-
ates • missionary enterprise."
CHRIST AND THE ,FATHER.
If you had known me. If the dis-
ciples had recognized Christ in His
true, His divine character; not the
s::tmeverb as that which follows. Ye
would have known niy Father also.
Seeing Christ as He is, the incarna-
tion of God, the Revealer of God to
men, involves the seeing of God:
From henceforth ye know Bim, and
have seen hint. So short 'a time in
tery coed•- before Christ's clear disclo
lsure of His Diety in His 'death and
resurrection,` that he speaks as if
those events had already taken place.
From that time the/disciples ,canoe
rapidly to understand; the real nature
,of the Saviour.
1 Philip said unto hien. This disci --
10e, like Thomas, who has just spo
iacen, was slowv :to understand, and.
lvery matter-of-fact. . Lord, shoo* us
1 the Father, and it suffieeth us. Lin
mindful of the Bible's warning that
Ino man can look on the full glory
of. God and live, Philip longed to
have his faith confirmedby some vis
• ion of Gocl such as was vouchsafed
to Moses and Isaiah. He thought
that such a vision would satisfy him,
but he was. mistaken. Heavenly pot=
tents would not have convinced one
n'hu was not convicted by the con-
stant presence of Jesus Christ.
Jesus saith unto him. The great
Teacher is always ready to repeat
His lesson, even for the slowest pup-
il. Have I been so long time with
you and, dost thou not know nte,
Philip? "There is an infinite pathos.
in these words .... What must be
the sorrow in Christ's Heart when to-
day He finds disciples who are will-
iag to live without that knowledge
of himself which he has a ,rii,•ltt . to
expect in thein?" He that hath seen
me bath -seen theFather; how sayest
thio, Shciw us the Father? : "Jesus
does not say, 'He that has seen me
has seen the. Creator,' or the Infinite
and Eternal Energy. It is not God
as force or as law or that is mans-
fasted in Him; but '.God as the Fa-
Ether"
tyelievest thou not that I ,.am in i tine
Father, and the Father in nee? This
assertion of oneness with the Father
iivas not new in Christ's' teaching, it
has been made publicly in. Philip's
phcarm ; see John 10:38. The words
that I say unto you I speak not from
myself. When we read Christ's
, wc• rds in the Gospels, we are read -
ling God's. Ilut the Father abiding
in one doctln his works. The miracles
';cif our Lord were, so wonderful that
they proved themselves to be of Clod,
and, liras proving„ they tarried His
!worth; with them into the realer ni
I Deity.
Believe inc that T ata in the ]•atit-
ei•, and the bather in tic', '1"liis is
an appeal to, r:nan s spiritual faculty,
isittate and ibsca t "tetebk meet;
elo'it s holiness what' i•';' sisys it and
i ase tvs th k per•fe c t li a,.; iM t,c,cl,"
1 ch.( • beiiet'e Luz. f(,I" tine w.ery.
t^:+:i, arta Who, in the 'eiv,ht i'2
'tliwag w,x;,i,ts,,emit, say °'tit it 'Christ's'
miracles may be • believed or . not,
taught or not by the Church? Our
C.,
Lard ;+�t, them beside :Hie doctrine
as all-suffieient evidence of His De-
ity.
PRECIOUS PROMISES,
Verily, verily, I say unto you.
Christ's usual form of emphatic kii•
troduction to some specially import-
ant saying. He that believeth on roe.
With the belief for which the Lord
had already given sten indutiahle reasons.
The works that I do shall he do also.
The miracles which •the disciples
wrought were wrought not in their.
own name, but in His. And greater
works than these shall he do. To-
day we ere in the midst of the great-
er
g reat
er works. Greater than the opening
of blind eyes is it to open spiritual
} i
eyes, for the eyes of sense must soon-
er or later be closed in the darkness
of, death. Because I go unto the Fa-
ther. Christ thus definitely connects
His piediction with the increase of
power from on high given at Dente -
b cirif-
Pente-
cost. That the Father may1
est e,g
ied in the Son. Our prayers, are to
be in the name of the Son, but they
are not to be addressed to the Fath-
er Who sent the Son, and Whose
glory is therefore 'increased ' by all
that the Son doesto
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` e s bless mankind.
Ife shall ask anything in myY Y g
name, that will I do. i The promise
is so vast that it must be repeated;
it is too large to enter the mind at
one hearing.` The text is exceedingly
,
bra ad.
If ye love me, ye will' keep my
commandments, •Christ is the most
lovable being Who ever existed, and
it logically follows that men should
love Him, and that the love we ;bear
Ilim should make us strive to be like
Him by keeping His commandments.
And I will pray the Father, and
He shall give you another Comfort-
er, that He may lee with you far 'ever.
Here we see the Holy 'Trinity.
"There are three persons mentioned,
all of them doing something for our
salvation,, •'I will pray,' says the Son.
`I will send,' says the Father. `I will
comfort,' says the Holy Ghost"
Even the Spirit of truth. 'The Holy
Ghost has been working througlf the
ages for the enlightenment of His
people, He has• been talking of the
things of Christ and revealing them
to us." 'Whom: the world cannot re ■
eeive: for it beholdeth him not, nei-
ther lcnoweth him. Worldlri gs may
perceive the facts of science, but they
cannot perceive the Holy Spirit,be-
cause he is known 'by means of low ■
ly faith and fervent spiritual affec- ■
tion, Ye know Min; for he ahbidetI it
with you, and shall be :in you. Christ
abode With hien, and the Spirit dwells I �Ia
in them,.
I will not leave you desolate (mar-
+, n, "orphans"): I come unto you.
"What is your sorrow? Bring it to
Jesus. .And if you will utterly sur-
render your life to Him, you shall .1
come to know the supreme felicity of `
His; indwelling."
and now quieted child. to her breast,
suggested to her the beauitful idea
of Jesus clasping
trot 1cd
and
sor-
rowful people to his kind heart, and
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soothing and healing and comforting 1
them. A few years late, and this
well-known hymn, 'Safe in the"' amts
Jesus' of ,lchit., came from her gifted mind."
writer's t nt f �hh
The own account a the
actual writing of this hymn is as fol-
lows:
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` " 1 � ria 30 18G8 Tar. .. H
'Ut Ap , V1 ,
Doane came into tiny house and: said:
'I have exactly forty minutes before
my train leaves for Cincinnati. Here
is a melody. Can you write words
for . it?' Then followed a space of
twenty minutes, during which I was
uiunnscious of all else except the
work I was doing. At the end of
that time I recited the words: "Safe
in the arms of Jesus" to Mr. Doane.
He wrote 'thein down and had time
to catch his train:"
The hymn always sung to its own
melody, has always been popular, and
first appeared in W. H. Doane's col-
lection, "Bright Jewels," published in
1869.
Dr. Doane—he: received the degree
of Doctor of Music from. Denison
University, . Ohio,—was a nnisical
composer who devoted his talents to
the cause of religious music, chiefly.
for Sunday Schools. He was a Con-
necticut man born in 1831, and al-
though an active business man, de-
voted much time to religious the Baptist enter-
prises.Hymn-
of
prises. He edited
al 1886, and published several little
books of 'sacred songs in conjunction
with Rev. Robert Lowry ` such' as
"Sabbath School Gems, "Little Sun-
beams," "Silver Spray," etc.
Francis Jane Crosby (Mrs. Alex-
ander Van Alstyne) died. in Febru-
ary, 1915, at the age of ninety-five.
She was born in Putman County,
New York State. "When I was six
years old, she wrote, "a slight cold
caused inflammation of the eyes, Our
Sihome,,
u nal, doctor was away froth
so a stranger was called in. He re-
ct-'taxmendcd the use of hot poultices,
which practically destroyed' my sight.
When :this sad: calamity became
t
leixowrt the unfortunate- man tleou ht
,6.
•n.
if best to leave the neighborhood, -a d
we never heard of lihima again."But. I
have not for a moment, in more than
eighty-five years, felt a' spark of re-.,
sentment against hint; for I have 'al-
ways believed that the good' Lord, in
bus infinite mercy, by this means'
onsecrated. me to . the wvo'rlc ! that I.
a
aastill znitted todo.
At nine years of age she was writ-
ing verse as follows:
"0 what a happy soul I aint,
Although I cannot see;
I ain resolved that in this world
ContentedeI will be."
will
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Att fififteen.she te end the. New
York Institution for the Blind, where
she remained for eight years as a
pupil and for fifteen' as a teacher.
She became an eager student and
learned to be a fair musician, But
her soul was .wrapped up in poetry
and site published two books of
poems while at the Institute. She
had a faculty for . writing° simple
songs, and .we :owe to her` many old
time secular favorites such as "The
Hazel Dell," "Rosalie," etc.
Fanny Crosbie as she called herself
Blind in
left the Institution for ,theB
1858, to marry a blind fellow teach
er named Alexander Van Alstyne,
with whom she lived happily for 44
years. He died in 1902, 'having been
organist at different New.. York
churches as Wet as a :teacher of vo-
cal and: instrumental music. In 1863
she met W. B. Bradbury, a writer of
simple hymn tunes, who wanted sante
one to write verses for his' music,
land for whom she wvrote her first
1,.
hymn: "Tlere's,a cry from Macedon-
i#a.„That begana a icing g life of similar/
work
work for Mr. Bradbury, Philip Phil-
ips (the Singing Pilgrim), TI, 1',
Main, Dr, Lowry, H. Doane, Ira
az : w� y, W.H
e, P 1..,F. ] •.
17,�Sanit y, I 31rss, W. F. S ted,
win and others. "I havewr
tt ten pro-
bably
ably abott eight thousand' siie once
write itt answe? to the question as
t i r many limns n
0 1 alt t y y she had written.
It has been said, that she was under
regular contract with the publishers,
Bigelow and Main, of these compos-
ers' boeks to write so many hymns
a .week for which she was duly paid.
Several of her hymns. are well-
known to this generation as for in—
stance, "esus keep me near ' the
ane , J p.
cross," "Pass me not, 0 gentle Sav-
iour,"
"Rescue the perishing," "Sweet
hour of prayer," and' "Lord at Thy
Y ,
mercy seat."
Foe some reason or another her
hymns first appeared over varied
r l Dale,
pseudonyms such as Ella a D l Jenny
V., Jennie Glenn, Kate Grinley,-Viola,
as well as over her own names, Fan-
ny Crosby and Fanny Van Alstyne,
and owing to this curious habit, she
has seldom received full credit for
her contributions to sacred song. g But
her simple hymns have been sold up
to many millions of copies, and very
few English speaking Christians are
not familiar with: some of them,
In the privacy of his home the vil-
lage butcher was telling his wife of
the arrival of : a new resident.
"She carie in today,"he= said, with
.enthsuiesm, "and I can tell you she's
y, broughtP
a real
lad . u select and ex-
clusive. She doesn't know one cut o'
meat from another, or veal from mut-
ton."
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FAVORITE HYIVINS
Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe on his gentle breast,
There by his love o'ershaded,
Sweetly my soul shall rest.
Hark! 'tis the voice of angels,
Borne in a song to -ane,
Over the fields of dory,.
Over the jasper sea.
Safe in the arms of Jesus,
Safe from corroding care,
Safe from the world's temptations.
Sin cannot harm me there,
Free from the blight of sorrow,
Free from my doubts and fears:
Only .a few more trials,
Only a few more tears!
Jesus, my heart's dear .refuge,
Jesus has died for me;
Firm on the Rock of Ages,
Ever my trust shall be.
Here let me wait with patience,
Wait till the right is o'er;
Wait till I see the morning
Break on the golden shore.
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In "Friendly Greetings" a maga- in
zine published by the Religious Tract k {
Society of ,London,, England, we arc lm
told: "On one, occasion in the City i
of New York there was a great rush y`?
of panic stricken people. Na one
could tell what might happen; iron -1
en limbs or even loss of life. Ant. �■
ongst the frightened •crowd was a! ■
mother with a little girl by her side.
The child was weak and delicate and
terribly alarmed at the • noise and i■
e. 'i emotion around her, and she cried ?'■
piteously. Lifting her gently from
the ground the tnother tenderly fold- eloi
ed het to lrer bosom whispering. ' as
she did so, "Hash my little one, you 444
are safe tow ill StSt,fher`-s arai'I;S,'' A
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1.1,a uld probably soon havee :(' beyc.n for'- T1Ai
;" ,t1, ,i,' but. :itt -•eWitnes,s of the 010 -
ti e r s fiction s.l,ol>C of at 10 Fanny iPIM
he, bk and ib ;Arent• tt is ever iia- .ir
t,re cclup.+it.iict i,tiiti.I. ['✓ie'tlt}autht
f the uta.+tiger fokditag lrcr tretanbling
Is to -clay the favorite newspaper
in 2,000 homes in this district.
There it reaches an army of buy
ers, counting the number of pos-
sible grown-ups in each family.
NOW MR. MERCHANT,
isiz't that the very army of pros-
pects you're trying to reach?
Aren't they the folks who should
know about your wares, your
Saving Prices? Then up and tell
'em with:
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