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Zurich Herald, 1942-07-16, Page 2�t SUN li A It SCHOOL LESSON LESSON 29 CAIN AND .ABEL: A CONTRAST Genesis 4 PRINTED TEXT Genesis 4:1-16 GOLDEN TEXT. --- By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which be had witness borne to Rim that he wens right. eons. Hebrews 11:4. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.' -We do not know when these events took place, but at least it would be 125 years after the creation of man (see Gen. 5:3). PIace.----WQ: do not know where these events took place, though, of course, it .vas somewhere in tate Mesopotamian valley, where civi- liation bega'.t. Crain and Abel 1. "And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah. 2(a). And again she bare his brother Abel. 2('b). And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." The ane brother chooses the more peaceful and emotional, the other the more active, occupation. The pastoral life seems always to have been held in higher esteem than the agricultural among the He- brews. But the agricultural suc- ceeds the pastoral in the order of civilization. Two Offerings 3. "And in process o£ tLiie it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an of- fering unto Jehovah. 4. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his of- fering: 5. but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect." The key for unlocking the mean- ing of this entire passage is found in Hebrews 11:4, where we are told that, `Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacri- flee than Cain, through which he had. witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing wit- ness in respect of his gifts; and through it he being dead yet speaketh' What seems to be im- plied is that Cain't offering was an act of mere homage; Abel's embodied a sense of sin, pan act of contrition, a plea for pardon. Cain's Anger 5('b) "And. Cain warn very wroth, and his countenance fell. We have here no spirit of enquiry, no self-examination, no prayer t God. for light or pardon,clearly showing that Cain was ar from a right state of mind. 6. "And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy oountenanoe fallen? 7. If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou docent not well, sin eoueheth at the door; and unto thee shall be its desire; but do thou rule over it." This dread warning to Cain, expressed in the mildest and plainest terms, is a standing lesson written for the learning of all mankind. Let him who is in the wrong retract at once, and return to God with humble acknowledgment of his own guilt, and unreserved Aub - mission to the mercy of his Maker; for to him who persevere;% in sin there can be no hope or help. ACTION ALOFT The First Murder 8. "And Cain told Abel. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him." One of the striking fee.• tures of this incident is the rapidity with which small sins gen- erate great ones. When Cain went in the joy of harvest and offered his first fruits no thought could be further from his mind than murder. It may have come as suddenly on himself as on the unsuspecting Abel, but the germ was in him. Familiarity with evit thought ripens us for evil action; and a moment of passion, an hour's loss of self-control, a tempting occasion may hurry us into irremediable evil. The Divine Interrogation .. 9(a). "And 'rehovah said Mato Cain, where is Abel thy brother Here is a question fitted to go straight to the murderer's con- science, Some of us go so far as to have silenced the voice within; but, for the most part, it speaks immediately after we have gratis fled our inclinations" wrongly. 9(b). "And he said, 1 know not: am I my brother's keeper': And he said, what hast thousdono? the voice of. thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground." The cry was a demand for the punishment of the murderer. The Divine Condemnation 11. "And now cursed art thou from the ground which hath op- ened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; 12. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not hencefoi;th yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and aa, wanderer shalt thou be in the earth." Cain had polluted man's habitation, and now, When he Hurting high above sand dune, 13 S. Coast Guardsman, bayonet bared, stages bit of realistic action against imaginary foe. (Official U. S. Coast Guard photo.) tilled the soli, it would resist him as an enemy, by refusing 'to yield unto him her strength;' for the future his struggle with the con- ditions of life will he still harder. The Merciful Protection 13. "And Cain said unto Je- hovah, My *punishment is greater than I can bear. 14. Behold, thou haat driven me ost -this day from the face of the ground; and trona Thy fate shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wan- derer in the earth; and it will eeme to pass, that whosoever find- s& me will clay me. 15. And Jehovah said unto hirer Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance ehali be taken • on him sevenfold. And Jehovah appointed a sign icor Cain, lest any finding hila should smite him." Anyone who killed Cain would be visited more severely than Cain as being guilty not alone of homicide, but of transgressing the divine command - meet which said that Cain was to live. Junior's Hobby Pays Dividends That litter of balsa shavinge and tissue paper with which Jun- ior has cluttered his bedroom over the years, those gashes he has put in the top of his work table with discarded razor blades have turned out to be highly praise- worthy manifestations. American youth's pre -occupation with model aircraft now permits it to make a teen-age contribution to the training of our armed forces. Hera in Detroit -and the program in being conducted on .a nationwide scale -youngsters have contribu- ted to the Navy 1,000 precisely scaled model planes highly valu- able in training men to identify ships in flight and to estimate ranges. Germans Plan To Exterminate Jews. The Germans have rnaesacred et least 1,000,000 Jews in Europe since the war began, spokesmen for the World Jewish Congress said recently. The persecution has been par- ticularly severe in the conquered countries of East Europe, the spokesmen added. Poland, Lat- via. Lithuania and Rumania have suffered greatly. They said that probably 700,- 000 Jews had been killed in Lith- uania and Poland, 125,000 -in Ru- mania, 200,000 in Russia and 100,000 in the rest of Europe. These victims were selected from Europe's pre-war Jewish popula- tion of 6,000,000 to 1,000,000. The slaughter is part of the Nazis' proclaimed policy that "physical extermination of the Jew must from now on be the aim of Germany and her allies",. the spokesmen said. Peace is a matter of people and how they live rather than of pacte and how they are written. THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson YS SHO\A TH• A T %fy. 1 OUT OF FIV, aCO A1. >NG WHEN • E11a. HUSESANr 134./'5'''' .54.//72 9. CeL.> rel fJ WH IGH MONTHS 15 IT SAFE s-0 �i ,t r oV.', 7 i�c.,x.'D ANSWER: With modern refrigeration, oysters are edible every month of the year, but they are not at their best in quality and ! flavor during the spawning season, which comes in the months spelled without the letter "r." NEXT: Snakes that still show signs o Norse In Red Army Nearly 500 Norwegian volun- teers, who escaped through Fin- land and over the sea to Russia, are fighting with Soviet army on the Arctic front, the BBC quoted the Norwegian Telegraph Agency as saying recently.. Scouting Wolf Cubs of the lst Harling. ton (Middlesex) Wolf Cub pack gathered in nearly $250 for the local Warship Week by showing in the foyer of a movie theatre a miniature model representation of a Nazi attack on a convoy. The scene included a submarine hall' submerged, a destroyer in the act of dropping a depth charge and a German plane crashing into the sea. Every detail was complete, to rung ladders for the ship bridges and the lifeboat equip- ment. * * a ILADI�I, 1 DIALING WITH' DAVE: during his spare brie,. Meredith.• Wilson peas hit parade, conga in the popular vein,. and semi -class sics in the militant war -time vein of. today. His most recent success is "Song of Steel;" a. great and'. mighty melody dedicated to the men in the war factories the• 00111V -- try over. Hear it sung by Thomas', L. Thomas, famous Welsh. bari-. tone, from CKOC lit Hamilton. some afternoon during. the• 3.30, Concert Hall Show!' Notes. from, Here ana There. In the cast of "Those We. Love," summer replacement for Eddie Cantor, are Francis X. Bushman,. matinee idol of silent. film days, and Richard Croni. well, also of the cinema city! Victor Borge,. Danish comic,. has a new contract on the Bing Crosby show! Dinah Shore, the south's great. song -bird, is sending free plat- ters of her "I can't give you any- thing but love" to service carupaa around the globe. When the Al Pearce show va- cationed on July 2nd, Tommy Dorsey took over Gail Laughton„ swing harpist on the show! Lend an ear this Sunday tae Academy Award - CKOC, 6.15 p.m.! Light, amusing - excel- lent summer dramatic fare! Mary Shipp, tall,. willowy blonde who plays the role of philandering Henry's most constant sweetheart on "The Aldrich Family" did a switch on the old' story of a• girl seeking a career in Hollywood. She is a native of the cinema city, but recently deserted her home for New York, and is now one of the busiest actresses along radio row. Mary was graduated from Los Angeles City Collette where she .majored' in dramatics and stepped from the classroom to the network broadcasting stu- dios.. During the last year She played leads opposite such exact- ing stars as Orson Welles, Charles Boyer, Robert Young and others. In New York, Miss Shipp won over stiff competition for the role of Kathleen Anderson on "The Aldrich Family" and perforated so well that author Clifford Gold- smith decided to make Kathleen a more frequent visitor in the cast. A tribute to the practical value of Boy Scout training paid by Col. R. G. Whitelaw, Director of Military Training, included the statement that among boys com- ing up for military training, those who have been Boy Scouts stand out. Wrote Col. Whitelaw in a recent letter to Mr. John A. Stiles, Executive Chief Commissioner 01 the Boy Scouts Association, "The development of character, cour- age end sense of responsibility produced through your lecture% and practical application of wood- craft, camping, swimming, navi- gation and handicrafts of various sorts, all add up to a total which makes the Boy Scout stand out far ahead of the average boy who has not had the advantage of this training." * Splendid service was given by the Boy Scouts of Norwich, Eng. land, during and following the ferocious raids of the Nazis on that ancient city. The boys' fearless carrying -on in spite. of dive bombing and fires won un- stinted admiration. They ran messages, fought incendiary •bombs, rendered first aid, and assisted in countless other ways. After the blitz, they distributed special notices to the population, guided people to rest centres, re- united families, and for inquiring soldiers and sailors secured infor- mation of families in wrecked areas. They salvaged and removed the furniture by vans and Sept trek - tarts, helped at emergency food centres, and prepared meals over fires in open spaces. They as- sisted with feeding arrangements for police, firemen and rescue workers from outside places, and guided the helpers to desired points. In addition, they looked after hundreds of injured dogs and cats. Incidentally several of the Scout troops. lost their own meeting places and all their scout- ing equipment. One troop lost ' out-of-town headquarters, a build- ing of concrete and wood built entirely by the boys over a period of several years. Facing the heap of rubble, one of the Scouts in- quired of his district commission- er, "When do we start rebuilding, Skipper?" The Archbishop of Canterbury ranks immediately after the Royal peers as the first peer of the It may be vacation time for some folks, but it's just double duty time for Meredith Wilton, Not that he doesn't like it, for the tireless NBC West Coast con- ductor and composer has always had a busy schedule. Taking over, with his orchestra, the important "Fibber McGee and Molly" spot for 13 weeks with the "America Sings" show, is just one item on the Wilson agenda. He also con- tinues as musical director of Fanny Brice - Frank Morgan show. And to add to all this, realm. The Moscow radio reported 250 illegal newspapers now are being published and circulated In Nor•• way. OUR RADIO LOG TORONTO STATIONS CFRB S60k, CBL 740k CKOL U.S.80k, CRT NETWORKS 101gc WRAF M.H.O. Red 660k W. Z N.H.C. Blau 770k WAHO (C.O.S.) SSOk WOR (M.i3.8.) 714ic CANADIAN STATIONS CFOs Owen S8. 400k CKOO 14amlltoa 1150k ,flKL Remit -ton 000k O5 TB St. Cath. 12301c CE'OP' Montreal 000k CFVR North Bey 1250k eatee a5P*(. 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