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The Wingham Advance Times, 1925-06-04, Page 2' •'•'• ••, !TE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES Published at • WINGITAM, ONTARIO Every Tharsda.y Morning G. Smith, Editor and Proprietor 'Subscription rates—One year $2-00, Six months Soo, in advance. Advertising rates on application. Advertisements without, specific di- rections will be inserted until forbid and charged accordingly. Changes for contract advertisenienis toe in the office by noon, Monday. • WINGHLAM' ADVANCE,TIMS ,who became Jews through the rite of ciretuntasioii and through observance lof the laws of Moses. And now re- volutionary tidings reached them, !nothing less than that Peter, the head of the Twelve Apostles, had so far !broken his Jewish caste as to visit the !home of an catteaste Roman, eat his unholy food, preaelt Christ toshim and his household, and solemnly receive them all into the Christian church ladthout one of the prescribed • cere- monies of Jndaaism! N'o wonder these people, their prejudices ingrain- ed by centuries of narrow teaching and bigoted practices, took Peter fare ithn, and the feeling back of it prompted Daniel and his Meads in the heroie episode that ,opened their career. • .. 'But a voice answered the second time out of heaven," God is very pa: tient, even with a pupil that con- tradicts and rebukes liis teacher. "What God hath cleansed make not thou commen." A voice from heaven had laid down the Mosaic law at the beginning of Hebrew history, The requirements as to food and sere then made Were most salmary for the Jews, and helped mightily to preserve their purity of Mind and sssessseessusssssessessssssssseesssoss sharply to task when he returned to 'mody among the foulnesses of heath - Jerusalem and bade Milt explain his 1925 conduct, But Peter's explanation was ,s. ready. "I was in the thy of Joppa pray- ing." Peter was living, as we learned our last lesson., with Simon the tan- ner. It was the sixth hour of the day, that is, at noon, the day beginning at 6 a. m. This was the second of. the IS three times of day set apart by the a' Jews for prayer, and Peter had retir- • ed for that purpose to the housetop. s' • Eastern houses have flat roofs, and ,,,,,, ,,,,, , ,„„ ,,,,, s„,„„„,„„„as,„„,„„„,„,„„„„S • as outside stairways give access to -these house tops, they are often used s What is more disgusting than to as places for prayer or quiet medita- hear a business man in the town of '6°11 or for private conversations. For Wingham cursing the town and de- exam -Pie, Samuel talked on a housetop daring it to be dead? In the first with Saul before he annointed the 1925 JUNE Su!MolTu Ne'rfItESa 11213 411..5i 6 ' 7 L8 9710.1112111 1741511617 11J2Oi .21 i2272341S12617 1282430 . • • .11 plale what is the town, or what would the town be were it not for the peo- ple in it? The town of Wingham is one of the best little towns of its size to be found anywhere, and if ev- ery business man and. citizen boosted for it instead of knocking it, how much easier life would be. This • same man whom we refer to, (and by the way when he reads this he -will know who we mean) has done a great many things to knock the town in ad- • dition to his cursing it. A great young man as king. "And in a trance I saw a vision." He was faint and hungry, and was waiting for his mid- day meal to be prepared. His men- tal vision was the clearer for his fast- ing condition. "A certain vessel des- cending.' "Vessel" is used in its most general sense, something to hold things, a container. "As it were a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners," The great sheet filled the sky and was a symbol of the Christian gospel which was for all the many of his groceries come by freight earth. Cords were attached to the in boxes stamped "T. Eaton Co.," four corners and. let it down, those and printing travellers never fail to cords, running east, west, north, and call on him and not without an order south, being tokens that the gospel now and again. Yes, it is true he is was to be carried to all points of the only one, but we know of several compass. The meaning of these fea- who at least give their printing to tures of the vision would become outside houses, clear to Peter afterwards as he pon- x x x ,clered upoh them. "And it came even The automobile is probably doing unto. me." This expresses Peter's more to assist in ruining the young surprise that he should be singled out lives of this fair country of ours than as the recipient of the divine symbol, any other one thing, strong drink in- "Upon which -when. I had fastened eluded. Seldom is it possible to drive mine eyes, I considered." Peter saw along a country road or even a back at once this was no empty dreani, street in or near Witigham late at bit a message direct from God such aight, but one encounters cars parked as -came to the ancient prophets; h. --e and lights out. These innocent "pett- must think deeply to grasp its meant ing parties" have got beyond all de- ing: "And saw the fourfooted cency. We may well say "What is to beasts of the earth and wild beasts." be done?" Not one of each kind, a sort of Noah's x x ark, but typical animals representing We understand that still another all the great divisions of the animal -weekly paper is about to amalgamate kingdom. Some of the fourfooted -with its contempory. The Listowel beasts were unclean in Jewish. eyes, Banner and the Standard are thinking and. all of the wild beast." And -creep- • seriously of uniting, so we are told, ling things." The reptiles, repulsive • x x and fould, all unclean and unfit for REMEMBER THEM WHILE ifood. They represented the lowest • THEY ARE LIVING and most degraded nations. "And • Do not keep the alabaster boxes of birds of the heaven." Some of these • your love and tenderness sealed up were clean, doves being used frequent - until your friends are dead. Fill their ly in sacrifices; most of thein, howev- lives with sweetness. Speak approvier—all birds of prey, for instance-- • ing, cheering words while their ears were counted unclean. • • can hear them and while their hearts • "And I heard also a voice* saying ••can he thrilled and made happier by junto rne, Rise, Peter," The apostle • them; the kind things you mean to jmay have fallen on: the roof, filled • say when they are gone, say before with awe at the vision. "Kill and eat". they go. The flowers you mean to Peter had been hungry before he fell send for their coffins, send to bright- into the trance, and his vision fits -en and sweeten their homes • before 'Into his physicial condition. He was .they leave them. If my friends have awaiting a meal; here comes material alabaster boxes laid away, full of fra- to satisfy his hunger, but how differ grant perfumes of sympathy and af- lent from what he had expected! fection which they intend to break "But I said, Not so, Lord." Peter laver my dead body, I would rather before his conversion had been quite they would bring them out in my -ready to say that his Lord was in weary and troubled hours, and open error. He had not yet lost his over- • them, that I may be cheeted by them confidence fti his own judgement. while I need them. I would rather "For nothing common or unclean hath have a plain coffin without a flow4, ever entered into my mouth" "Com- a. funeral without a eulogy, than a mon" ineans "fit for the common life without the sweetness of love and herd," not fit for God's chosen people, sympathy. Let us learn to anoint our theJews. Food that was counted un - friends beforehand for their burial. clean in the Jewish laws might an - Post -mortem kindness does not cheer 'Imes for the heathen, but no fragment the burdened spirit, Flowers on the of it should pollute a Hebrew mouth, coffin cast no fragrance backward Peter's boast was .that of Ezekiel he - over the weary way. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Sully): Charlie Says - LESSON X --June Peter's Broadening Vision— Acts • scox—sx ;x8 GOLDEN TEXT—Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of t persons. --Acts 10;34 THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time—A. D. as, soon after the last lesson, Place—joppa, the principal sea- port of Palestine. Caesarea, on the sea to the, north, the Roman capital of Palestine. Peter's Vision • The following account of Peter's experience is the account of the apos- tle himself, given in Jerusalem before" the church there, and not long after the event, The Jerusalem Christians Were all Jews, brought up itt the strict Jewish ideas. They had been taught all their lives that Jews alone could be saved, together with the heather* 'Another thing that's cotLspicturqs alsence a ray at base 1 game' enisni. But now the time had come for Jewish separation to cease, and forthe leaven to rniugle • with the whole lump. The heavenly voice that had given the Mosaic law had an- thoritY to revoke it, and it was not for mere man to say No to God. "And this was done twice; and all were drawn up again into heaven," This repetition of course implies not only that the underlying truth was, important, but also that Peter was hard to convince. Three times Christ had been obliged to repeat His injunc- tion to Peter, "Feed my sheep." Peter's Visit'to Cornelius Peter came out of his trance in a state of great persilexity. He had received an undoubted message from the Lord, but he was in dotiabt about n n d its exact meaning and at a loss how to apply it to life and conduct. For- tunately he was not left long i doubt, "And behold, forthwith three me stood before the -house in which we were." They had. travelled thirty Roman miles and had been two days on the way, their arrival being time by God's providence exactly with the termination of the vision. It wa.s o o is o e such an exact correspondence as brought Philip and the Ethiopian 't the crossing of their paths • on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza. "Hav- ing been sent frorn Caesarea nut me." On one side was Peter's vision, and on the other side Peter's task, embodied in the three messengers. "And the Spirit bade me go wit them, making no distinction." Th message from the Spirit had come t Peter while he was on the housetoO; and while the three messengers wer rapping at the door below. Go with them, "nothing doubting, the Spirit had said.. "And these six brethren also accompanied me.". They were Jewish Christians, as we learn from Acts so: 45, and Peter wisely, took them with hini that they might after- wards testify to the reasons for the step he was taking, and to.the effect of his "words and action. It is prob- able that they were Christians who were accompanying Peter on his round of the churches and were lodging with him in the tanner's house; not the "we were" of verse Is. "And we entered into the man's house," This was the next day after 1 they left Joppg. They had travelled northward along :the Mediterranean, and had probably spent the night halfway, at Apolionia. "And he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his beese," "The angel," the well-Itotwo angel of whom all Peter's audience had heard, for the story of Cornelius had often been told by this time. With this narrative before us, we cannot question the fact that .the Bible re- veals the existence of a higher order of beings than ourselves, who are in- terested in • our • spiritual welfare. "And say, Send to Joppa, and • fetch Simon, whose surname is Peter." The angel gave other information, telling where Peter was to be found. "Who shall speak unto thee 'Words, whereby' thou shalt be saved, thou and all thy house." This is not 'in the first account of the angel's words, but Cornelius was praying to be. shown the way of eternal life for him- self and his household, and -the angel pointed to Peter as able to show him that way. No one who truly seeks salvation seeks in vain. "And as I began to speak, the Holy' Spirit fell on them." There was a little Pentecost that day in Casarea. It is a great mistake to suppose that the first Pentecost at Jerusalem was the end of blessing; it was only the beginning. Peter omits an account of his address, which contained mat- ter perfectly familiar to his Jerusal- em audience, though marvellous in- deed to the roomful in Caesarea. He began with the. powerful utterance, the fruit of his two days of thinking since his, vision atid the central teuth of our lesson; "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respector of persons; but in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to Him.". "Even as oil its at the begiiining," As at the feast of Pettecost, after another remarkable sermon, by Peter. "On us," the Cheistians of Jerusalem who are now venturing to sit in podg- meta on these Geotiles •of •Caesatea to whom God has vouchsafed the same blessing—yes, mid ou the very Saito apostle through whom the great TharsdaY, Jane 4t111, Sa1, is ivm.i,riii ii'iliiiir 1 I INII; Yik,11110,11 1,00 411 IV. \\\ ' I '\ u •-•.''''''' ...".-'-' '-'.. 7 /ssaR 1 a6,\\ , fccpal) _ • .7 SETta S4E.NT --• aa* '''ass ••."----ass ilkTN -14-• ' -7--:-- • as` , .... . `oiss:.... --- s, .os vivo. 1.4 • • ffS• s'asserts as as / • ass. -ass as -rtilS ¶10T al EATliETS- DOES TAKE PEP OUT OP °NEI kiOtiO SANM 71AERE NO PERPETUAL ' KOTION 9 v I ts” •VIAE( WERE.. PERIAANErsat.N WED!! tif#' 4r) ' LOCS$Et)!! 01,61,4:44. Ssirre.RFIELO--• nec-rousot. row. Corp. blessing came at Pentecost, so far as human agency was concerned! , "And I remembered the word of the Lord." Peter had himself heard it, for it was spoken just before Christ's ascension, probably in the upper room in the house of Mary the mother of Mark, in Jerusalem, and all the. apostles were present. "How He said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit." The reference is to the baptisms in the Jordon per- formed. by John the Baptist._ Luke recorded this prophecy early in his book. It was spoken on a most 'solemn and evalted occasion, and was so gloriously fulfilled' soon afterward that it could not be forgotten. That promise was one of the chief founda- tion stones of the church. • "If then God gave unto them the like gift as He did also unto us." Pet- er lays the responsibility for thA whole happening on God; no mere man, not even the chief ofathe apos- tles, could summon the Holy Spirit. Only God could send Him forth. "When we believed on the Lord Jes- us'Christ " The coming of the Spir- it did not cause the faith of the ear -'s ly Christians, but he ealne itt response to their faith-iilled prayers W� - ship of Christ. So with Cornelius and his household and friends; if they, had not already believed on Christ,' the Holy Spirit would not have bless- aass-arssaresesees ed Ahern with His presence and pow- er. Human faith is the doorway through .which the Spirit enters. "Who was I, that I could withstand God?" • Peter implies that he might have wished or sought to withstand God, so revolutionary was the very idea of receiving Gentiles into the cBurch without their becoming Jews through circumcision. Indeed, did he not at the beginning- rebuke God with his "Not so." "And when they heard these things they held their peace," They, like Peter, were afraid to oppose what was manifestly a decision and lead- ing of God, Others, however, remain- ed bigoted and insisted that all Gen- tiles should submit to the rites of Judaism before they we admitted to the Christian Church, and hence among Christians — a schism • of which we ase to hear much further on in this history. "And glorified God," For the vast opportunities of groactly arose the first serious dis- cussion thus opened to Christianity, and for the revelation of God's air- einbracing love. Every new vision of God's character leads men to glorify Hhn, •"Sa.ying, Then to thosGentiles, also hath ol grantect reperiteilee i 4," All our troubles will fly, THE 12th OF JULY We'ra beating bur 'clrufraS 1 On the lath of (Written for The Advance -Times) T. A, Calhoun, London.- l'When the winter is long, And. the cold is severe, !And snow has been falling The most of the year, ;We }lave one consolation I When snow drifts are high, They'll be all melted down - By the lath of July. The Spring may be late, 1 And the IVIareh winds may beat, And April showers I Be a drizzling sleet, But worry and fuss Will not brighten the sky, We must patiently wait For the tzth of July. , • . 91 May flowers may not - • In abundance be found, • White frosts may occasitmally Cover the grciund, - And June may not always Be pleasant and dry, But we all may deperld On the Nth of July. i . Otte thing I. am learning And learning •it well, .. That scolding the...weather Ixr atOtil alter the spell, 'Bat of this I am sure • —• TO SEARCH FOR TREASURE IN FAR NORTH Is•Sasiss•-• 15 .ON ) Five men from Hull England all unmarried and of ages ranging from 22 to 0 sailed from Liver,. pool recently by CaPadiat Pacific S.S. Montclare on the quest of a rich vein of silver, said to be hidden in "No )/kan's Land' t)i the Great Northwest. The mine is claimed to be in the vicinity of the Mackenzie River, District of Alaska, and is located in a cliff hundreds of miles from eivilization. The last port before striking the trail will be Wrangell* Alaska, The party Is led by John Riley, engineer, •aged 5l who had much experiease itt the ICIondike gold region.. The rest of the party are 'Thomas'Thompson* sailor, aged ge; Joseph lVfillard, lei/eller! aged 22; Roloert Flemming, engineer, aged 36, and Ernest $tarkes con. Idetiotter, aged .82. When they fmd tminit he e, they Will stake and return to Hrigland to form m a to. poly /or ite development, As they passed through Saint Sohn* N.H.* the party WWI full of confidence and hope to return to the Old Country by next October. , • 1,