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The Wingham Advance Times, 1927-11-03, Page 2SUN AY AFTERNOON November 6 Gelden Text: Let justice roll dowo as waters, and righteousness as a might stream, -- Amos 5124, THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time. — The prophecies of Amos were delivered about B.C. 793 and were probably written down soon after they were delivered. Plae. — They were spoken in Beth- el, an important city in the south of Israel, and they were -written prob ably in the home of Amosiat Tekoa, six miles south of Bethlehem, twelve miles south of Jerusalem, in the kingdom. of Judah. Hear ye this word, -- The Book of Amos begins: eThe words of Amos," that is his utteraitee, his prophecies. Chapters and 4 begin in this same impressive way. 'Thus our Lord "Verily, verily I say unto you. Which I take up for a lamentation over you. 0 house of Israel, The word translated "lamentation" signi- fies not a Spontaneous effusion •of • natural emotion but a composition, louger or shorter as the case might • bee constructed with some art in a definite poetical form, and chanted usually by women, whose profession it was to attend mourning ceremon- ies for the purpose. The virgin of Israel is fallen. The dirge is metrically as follow: The virgin of Israel is fallen; She shall no more rise; She is cast down upon her land; There is none to raise •her up. Hebrew poetry is usually in parallel lines of ',about, equal lenghts. She shall no more rise: she is cast down upon her land. "Cast down" has a crashing sound •in the Hebrew, mitshah. It must be remembered that as this time the Northern Ring-- dom .under jeroboam IL was at the • height of its power, having an ex- tent as great as in the days of David and Solomon, and such prophecy as this must have seemed ridicu- lously improbable. Thele is none to raise her up. Israel, when conquered by the Chaldaens, fell because for generations the land had scorned those that would have led it along wise and strong ways; the country had had many that would have raised, her up, but constant opposi- tion, to the prophets hardened the people's •hearts tintil at last there was nu one to speak God's will, and the nation finally become completely destitute of NV) rthy and capable leaders. It was Judah and not Israel that returned from captivity. TRAMPLING UPON THE POOR 11k your $41S, They say, "How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?" They ask, "What cloth God know? Can He judge through th4 thick darkness?" But God, the Omniscient, knows ail men's sins, their number and their heinousness. "Be sure your sin will find you out." Yet that afflict the just, that take e bribe, and that turn aside the needy in • the gate from their right. -"Bribe" means a • "ransom," and is, the same word, as that trans- laeed "atonement." Therefore he that 'is prudent shall keep silence in each a time; for it is an evil time. In a • good time a wise • nation, upright, and keen - sighted men willbe encouraged to make criticism, to bring accusations, to redress wrongs, to institute re- forms, o set on foot social and poli- tical improvements. Sad is the time and unfortunate the nation if such men are eompelled by dictates of ordinary prudence to stay their pens and hold their tongues. Amos would, not keep still, but he was a • very imprudent man, he knew he was taking his life in hs hands. ESTABLISHING JUSTICE Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live. • In spite of his terrible prognostications of the ruin that is to befall Israel, Anios leaves open a door of hope. God will not reject a repetant and sorrowing people. And so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say. Jehovah is the God of power; he commands all the hosts of heaven, If he is with a nation, the nation is irresist- ible. Israel said that he was with them, regarding then- prosperity and poweras a proof. Hate •the evil, and love the good. They had just been told (verse 14) to seek the good and to refrain from seeking the evil; now Amos goes farther, bidding them to hate the evil, when ,of course they wbukl not eeek it, and to love the good, when of course they would seek it, Once more "the gate" means the courts, buying and selling conversations, all social intercourse. Justice is to be set up there, made at home, almost as if it were a person. Whoever gots there is to be sure that he will meet Justice. It may be that Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be gracious unto the retnnant of Joseph. No division of Palestine was set apart for "the tribe of Joseph," but a division was granted to the tribe of each of his sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, and EPhraim was the most powerful tribe of the Northere Kingdom, which therefore is often referred to as "Joseph," • I hate I despise your feasts. The They hate him that reproveth, in reference is to the three great an - the gate. The gator gateway of a city was the centre of business and of ebeia.1 meetings, and also the place where • court was held. The thick stone waltsaffordcel protection from the sun's rays. Seats were doubtless • ranged' along the sides of the en- trance, A large part of the popula- i tion went in and out of the gate to and from their labors in the fields. It was easy to get witnesses for a trial or commercial transaction. And they abhor him that speaketh up- rightly. Worse than hate, they ac- tually abhor a Irian who takes the part of some one" who is wrongly Accused, some one in danger of being ...oppressed. Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon, the poor. There were many ways of trampling the poor in the days of Amos: high rents • ' for lands and houses might be re- • quired, they might be imprisoned for trifling debts, extortionate interest might be demanded and obtained, unjust charges might be brought against them and heavy bribes be insisted upon by officers of the law, unfair and ruinous taxes might be levied, they might be dragged off to military service, they and their children might be held down in obscurity and refused all opportuni- •' ties for promotion. And, take exac- tions from hitn in wheat. Theepoor • farmer gets into difficulties or ie brought into them, and the rich oppressors obtain by trickery or by highhanded demand a large part of his crops as the price of his extrice- tion. Ye have built 1iouses of hewn stone. House in which the masot's work was conspicuously elegant, costly and substantial houses whose owners expect to enjoy them the nuat festivals, whene the people were required to make pilgrimages to worship in their holy places, namely, the Passover, the Feast of Weeks, and the feast of Booths. God has no pleasure in the forms of religion when the heart is not right with hint And I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. The splen- did sacrifices and public 'gatherings of the three great feasts. •Yea, though ye offer .me your burnt -offerings and meal -offerings, I will not accept them. The burnt -of- fering (of animal flesh) was con- sumed upon the altar, and signified complete devotion to the Deity. Meal -offerings were of corn or flour. Neither will I regard the peace - offerings of your fat beasts. '.In a peace -offering the fat of the victim was chiefly burned an the altar, the meat being eaten by the priests and the worshippers in a sort of com- munion service. Take thou away from the the noise of thy s,ongs. Even the psalms used in the wor- ship, to modern thinking perhaps the most spirituual part of the ceremony, were obnoxious to God because they were hypocritical. they Came from, the lips only, not from loving and obedient souls. For I will not hear the melody of thy viols. A resonant box. most likely, however, it was a small, portable harp. But let justice roll down as waters, and righteous- ness as a mighty stream, Not cere- monies, but justice; not religious songs and temple music, but justice; -- this is what the Lad tequiree.of his worshippers. • And this justice must not be like most of the Pales- tinian wadies, reduced in the dry season to a mere niernory of waters, met of their liveand to leave them a bed of dusty gravel, but it as perpetual possessions to their must be an everflowing ("nzighty"') posterity. But ye shall not &veil in stream, constant and dependable, • them. They shall be captured by perpetually serving every man .how- , the enemy, and shall have alien occu- ever pbor and • humble. It is a Pants, as actually occurred, 'The beautiful . picture, a . lofty ideal, opposite is Prophesied by Amos needed as lintel' in our days as in when he sPeolcs ,of the return from that of Antoe, exile. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not dririli the wine thereof, liven before the swiftly growing and early bearing vine could bring forili grapes, de- etruction, would come upon the na- tion if it did not repent, li'or X know how manifold are you tran$grcssicnts, and how mighty are MADE A MESS OF IT, bought CHEAP remedies, got (o). Use Mrs. Sybilla Sealers Toesilitie for Ilronchitis, Croup, C.)afinsy, •Head Coids, Catarrh, Sore Throats and Tonsil ills, Success or motley bade C. `McAvoy, Witgliam; J, R, AIlan, Wroxeter, The Valde sugaring industry is en the up -grade again. The' yeariy Sugar production with its equivalent in syrup decreased from 22,000,000 pounds In the '80s to 20,000,000 pounds a few Se*A0130 age. For 1925 Production is equal to 26,512,289 pOund o sugar. ' .After one of the nuldest winter in the known history of the Rocky Mountains, the Brae! tourist season WAS ushered in during the fire week in. April, when a distinguished group of Australians, under Sir Prank Heath, of Melbourne, took the general drive through the surround- ing mountains. s • On the last leg of the 129 -day Round -the -World Cruise, the Cana dian Pacific liner "Empress of Scot- land" passed through the Panama Canal, and Miss Katherine Kinney, a passeuger, was elected to operate the controls of the two Miraflores locks. In doing this the young lady raised the vessel fifty-four feet. A toll of $17,211.25 was paid to clear the vessel at the canal. Sir John • Piekford, Chief Scout Commissioner and Cozemnissioner for Overseas Scouts and Migration, recently laid before E. W. Beatty, President of the C.P.R., his plans for assisting boys over seventeen years of age to come tb Canada. Sir. John said that more British boys were going to Australia because the age, limit for assisted passages t� that country was higher than Can- ada's. • Increasing prosperity in the agri- cultural industry, resulting in re- awakened interest in the acquisition of Canadian farm lands, hae had the result -of raising the average value of .western farm lands from $37 per acre in 1924 to $38 per acre in 1925. For the year Prince Edward Island shows the highest increase at $45 per acre, compared to 4o, in 1924. • Of the grain stocks at the port of Vantouvet, which are being steadily exported, European markets received practically 27 million 'bushels and the Orient 20 million bushels of the 47,640,647 bushels of the 1925 crop, which had been shipped. to Van- couver. The amount of grain in store a,t Vancouver is seldom more than 4,500,000 bushels. All local trains coming into Wind- sor Station, Montreal, from the Eastern Townships brought supplies of maple syrup which increased rapidly daring April. Similar ship-' moats poured into the Place Viger Station from the Laurentians. DO- fiainion Express 'officials stated that • the quantities were well up to the • average of former years, while the quality was also up to the mark. With the inauguration of the new "Redwing" special train servioe on the Canadian Pacific Railway line between Boston and Montreal, a group of prominent Bostonians were invited to Montreal on the initial trip of the "Redwing" from Boston. Montrealete went to Boston on the same special. The "Redwing" cuts several hours off the old schedule between the two cities. According to the weekly crop re- port of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way the spring opening of the 1926 season, after one of the finest win- • ters ever experienced itt Western Canada, finds conditions very favor- • able. Feed was plentiful and winter • losses less than usual. Prospects for coming 'season are fine owing to good moisture. There is a. live demand for new machinery. A. British Columbia hen, a,, white Leghome has taken the world ret- ord in egg -laying with a tot at of 348 eggs given in 360 days, The, hen was entered by the University of British Coftembia in the Domin- ion Experimental Farm contest ex- tending from November ,ist last year, to the same date this year, Previous egg -laying records were held by New Zealand (342 eggs per year), .in 1923 and by Australia (347 eggs) in 1924. Last year the honor of "establishing a record for this continent went to a hen in Puyallups, Washington, with 335 eggs laid in 'the year. excellent specimen of bull moose with an antler spread of, 42 'inches was seeured reeently in tho woods of Nova Scotia by James W. Stuber, sportsman -editor 'of Cohere - bus, Ohio, Who headed aa expedition into Nova Scotia for the ,purpose of securing exhibits for the Ohio State, Museum, In reporting on his trip at the tourist/ department of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Mont - teal, where details of the expedition Were arranged, Mr. Stubor stated that, according to guides and okl, residents in the dietriet where the moose was killed, it eeas one of the finest sneelenens taken out ie secs • 14".C.1 4,. • : WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES „Thiersday, November erd, Z92? rt tTth 1/4 inCh Strong Elastic Black or White 10 yds. for ...25C 54 inch Wool SERqV;: 986 yd 64:00.01•1060 MEN'S RAYON MUFFLE'S Bargains 'S9c Galore • All Over' The Store • . Real Values vestftsrefaalffurazfanammomutcamactratmeenreempsfemsr. Leather Mitts Childrens' Knitted .Mitts Good Colors Very special 27c .54 inchWool Vlannel 1.19 yd LADIES RUBBER APRON 9or T r ir,64t/ , vv aluer Store , f (t1;t ;)/(. ‘Tio For •i-.' 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