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Zurich Herald, 1942-10-22, Page 7SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON LESSON 43 'STEPS TOWARD SOLUTION OP THE ALCOHOL PROBLEM, -- Ecclesiastes 10: 17; Amos 5: 21-24; Romans 14: 19-21; 2 Co- rinthians 6: 17; 1 Peter 4: 1-5. GOLDEN TEXT.—Let justice roll down as waters, and righteous- ness as a mighty stream.—Amos 5: 24. THE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.—The book of Ecclesiastes may leave been writteu about 975 B.C. Amos prophesied about 790 to 785 B.C. The Second Epistle to She Coa.inthians, and the First Ep- iistle of Peter, were both written aibout A.D. 60. • Place.—Ecclesiastes m a y have been written in the city of Jerus- alem. Amos was a prophet to the northern city of Israel. The Epistle To The Romans was written from the city of Corinth. The Second Epistle to the Cerinthiaus was probably written Prom the city of Philiipi. We do not know where the Apostle Peter was when he wrote his First Epistle. Daily Righteousness 21. "I hate. I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22. Yea, though ye offer me your bus-nt-offerings and meal -offerings, I will not ac- eept them; neither will I regard the peace -offerings of your fat beasts. 23. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not heer the melody of thy viola. 24. But let justice roll down as wate-rs, and righteousness as a mighty stream." The Lord said He simply despised their feast days, and would not receive the sweet- smelling savour of their sacrifices, nos• have any regard for their peace offering's. These sacrifices were all right in their place, but they were worthless, if those offering them chose to live in constant disobedience to the laws of holi- ness. It is so easy to substitute ritual for righteousness. The ritual Is soon finished, hut righteousness is something that should mark every aspect of our life, every day of our life. Abuse of Liberty 19. "So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another. 20. Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. 21. It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy broth- er stumbleth." The Apostle has been talking in this chapter about the love which Christians ought to have for one another and the fruits of such a Iove, namely an avoid- ance of judgment of *theirs, and especially a strong determination not to do anything, even in the matter of eating and &.inking, which would cause their Christian 'brethren to stumble. Any use of Christian Iiberty which disregards the damaging effect it may pro- duce upon a weak brother is a bad use. Ilow such eating may prove a stumbling -block ie not said but we certainly can hurt others by what we drink, namely, intoxicating beverages, We have liberty for doing this, but we should not use this liberty, beoause in so doing, we are liaible to lead a► weaker brother, who looks up to us for guidance,into bondage in there things. God's Assurance 17. "Wherefore come ye out from among them, and be ye sep- arate, said the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; and I will receive you." This separation from the would was not to be physical and local and social, but moral and spiritual. These Corinthians were not to migrate to other cities, but to keep free from the intimacies and fellowships which aright ally them with idolatry; and today Christiana are to live in the world, while they are not of the world. They live among their fellow men in close relationships: yet all the while • they belong to another sphere of life. But this separation does not mean loneliness or loss. It results in a divine companion- ship which is more than campen- eation for all that the world offers. Such was the promise to God's people of old, and such is the as- surance made to his servants to- day. 1. "Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye your- selves also with the same mind; for he that hatb suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sit." Let us refuse the lawless strivings of Self• It will need resolution and determination. But victory is sure. And though there will be no ces- sation in the temptation, there will be cessation in the yielding to it, which is sin. In time the bodily desires, long thwarted, will give less and less trouble. Excess Of Wine 2. "That ye no longer should .live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God." Excess of wine is closely con- neoted with abominable idolatries. Is not any use of wine excessive, unless it be taken for some very' distinct purpose of health, pre• scribed by medical authority—aud, even then, often mistakenly. FIGHTING WORDS FOR FIGI•HTING MEN A British woman war worker chalks a warlike message on the, gun of a Covenanter tank, brought to the factory where she works to show workers how the equipment they make is used in fighting machines. 3. "For the time past may suf- fice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walk- ed in lasciviousness, lusts, wine- bibbings, revellings, carrousings, and abominable idolatries: 4. -wherein they think it stlrange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you". The attitude of worldly people wasting their lives in riot- ous living toward Christians who utterly spurn -such orgies of in- iquity is the same today as it was when the Apostle Peter wrote, 1900 years ago. A man who refuses to drink -With a number of other men on a train, or in a restaurant, may often have to ,stand ridicule. Chris- tian people who make it known that they do not gamble may have to he thought of as strange. We, by our salvation, have been sep- arated from worldliness, which leads down to destruction, and know a path of righteousness, tibe fruit of which is a joy, and peace, and increasing strength, and un- selfishness, a holiness of life, and righteousness of conduct, whish the world has never known, out- side of union with Jesus Christ. There will come a time when we will just have to make a definite decision in our own life, whether we acre going the way the world goes, or the way the Lord leads. The wages of one is disillusion- ment, and death, whereas the fruit of the other is holiness, and peace, and eternal life. Judgment Awaits 5. "Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead." Judgment awaits men on the other side ed death—the judgment seat of Christ for his servants, to adjust their rewards, and the final judgment of the ungodly: but it is also true that we are now in the presence of our Judge. A Weekly Column About This and That in Our Canadian Army .lit is quite a few weeks now since I was urgently chided by an editor for getting too personal about the Reserve Army, but it can't have been too bad because he published the article anyway. If you give a columnist an inch he always takes the proverbial ell, so here goes a little more about the men who are training them- selves for home defence. What brought the whole thing up was a suggestion made before the parade was dismissed the other night by the colonel that the best way to bring the regiment up to strength would be for every mem- ber to being in one recruit. Tide suggestion appealed so strongly to a private soldier in one of the companies that he turned over to the battalion for .recruiting pur- poses 500 agate lines of space which would otherwise have been devoted to advertising his own business during the mouth of September. Another incident worth mention- ing is the case of a private soldier who spent 14 days with us at camp. For this he drew pay at the rate of $1,20 per day and when his cheque was handed to him he bor- rowed a pen from his company commander and endowed it over to the colonel with the message that there were no strings attach- ed. In due course the Ladies' Aux- iliary of our active service unit acknowledged to the soldier a con- tribution of $16.80 to its weal fund. It is interesting to note that both the private •soldiers referred to are Jews. You can't help being personal about a Reserve Army which la looked upon as so personal an in- stitution as is illustrated by the two oases I have mentioned. Botch of these men are of categories that do not fit them for active service, both own their own businesses— they train in their own time and no generous employer makes them a present of two weeks' holiday in which to go to camp. - These men are not unique, in fact it is pretty safe to say that they are representative of the calibre of the soldiers of the Re- serve Army as it is now consti- tuted. In other words, to the reserve soldier of today his unit is a per- sonal taring, it is something to which he devotes not just the after -work hours two nights a week, 10 full Sundays in the year and 14 days at camp, but a good many minutes of fun time during the day. He may not consciously think it, but in the back of the mind of every man who, though he may be working hard at a war job, puts in these extra hours in training for the eventuality of attack upon "CO LISTEN TO ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM. ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS EACH SUNDAY AT 2 P.M. CFR 1 - 860 On Your Dial hie homeland, there is the realiza- tion that had it not been for train- ed citizen goldiers, the story In. Yugoslavia and Russia would have been very different, History bears out that a country possessed of a trained citizen -sol- diery in peacetime is in less dan- ger of attaok than the country whioh has not taken this Preen - time. There must 'have been some- thing wrong with Hitler's intelli- gence eervice, It obviously fell down badly so far as Russia was ooncereed—and his own intelll- gence should have, told him what to expect from the Yugoslays! A few years before the outbreak of ware in 1914 a melodrama was produced in England under the tittle "An Englishman's Home."' This play demonstrated with ter- rific stage effects and blood and death what happens when untrain- ed citizens attempt to defend their homes against fully trained invad- ers. If the lesson of this play had been learned and peaceful peeplos had been prepared undoubtedly the 1914-1919 war would have been shorter and this one might not have occurred. It is not only for the warlike arts that we should prepare our- selves in peacetime, there are many peaceful arts that become not only virtues but stern necessities in time of war. The first of these, beyond doubt, is defence against inflation. It can the more rapidly become successful if, like military training, it has been carried on during the softer years of peace. We were unprepared on both .c,^ants, and on both counts the Individual Citizen's Army was re- spousible. We found that we had more pennies in our pockets for luxuries, if we elected, or allowed to remain in office, politicians who pared down the budget by failing to provide funds for military train- ing. Having saved those necessary tax pennies we wasted them on unnecessary frills—and now we find it hard to forego those frills. So hard, in Pact, have we found it that we have welcomed the set- ting up of governmental boards and commissions to compel us to dis- continue our wasteful practices. The Wartime Prices and Trade Board, one of the many wartime bodies we have created, is very much in the position of the in- structors of the Reserve Army. We have placed ourselves under it just as volunteers place themselves under their sergeants and officers, and we are learning from it just as privates in the Reserve Army learn from their instructors, how to discipline ourselves so that we may become fit to meet the rigours of campaigning. War Workers Face Problem Of Tires Most industrial war workers are being carried to their jobs in auto- mobiles having tires that will be worn out before next winter is over. Nearly all the rest must face the same conditions before the end of the following winter. These conclusions are derived from a survey being conducted in Massachusetts, and apply to con- ditions found there, but they have much more than merely regional significance. The survey is still under way, and is being conducted by the State Planning Board. Probably its findings are broadly applicable to hundreds of muni- tions centers throughout the coun- try. The percentages of tires of the war workers that are expected to remain in service each month are as follows: It is estimated that one quarter of then will be worn out and unusuable by the end of this month, that half of them will be gone by March, that less than 20 percent of them will last through next year, and that by June of 1943 only two or three percent of the tires will still sur- vive in service. These figures are based on data covering only seven localities, but there is so much similarity in the figures for the different plants that it seems like- ly that they may be fairly repre- sentative of such conditions else- where. Perhaps the most important con- clusion at which a reader arrives • after studying the situation, is that gasoline rationing can provide only an inadequate and ineffective solu- tion for these tire problems. Re- treads are needed and promptly. The data forecast a rapidly ap- proaching war worker transporta- tion crisis. POP—Quite Used to It! CAN YOL 1 TAKE A LOT 01 GAS 2 6,3 RADIO REPORTER lily FROST He's back again ... that pride of the youthful generation that daring, trouble shooting, dare devil aviator of the airwave, . Jimmy Allen! So, ladies, If those youngsters of yourshavd an unfortunate habit of getting in your way around the kitchen just when you're preparing the supper,, take them over to the radio at 6 o'clock any day Monday through Friday and you can just about bet dollars to doughnuts that from then on it will be part of the regular routine of the household. Jimmy Allen brings his thrilling and inspiring adventure stories to young Ontario through CFRB To- ronto. There is just one thing. If Junior suddenly starts pester- ing you to get a certain brand of breakfast food, you'll quite un- derstand that he has visions of be- coming another husky, adventur- ous addition of Jimmy Allen him- self. * * Another old friend has just re- turned to the airwaves, that per- ennial star of vaudeville, screen and radio, Al Jolson. Assisted by comedian Parkyakarkus, veteran Al started a new series of variety shows over the Columbia Broad- casting System last week. Tues- day is the night, 10 o'clock the time, CFRB is included in the hook-up. Here is a show the ex- treme versatility of which will surely appeal to every member of the household. It has good music, a plentiful sprinkling of the ab- surdities and laughs of Parkyakar- kus, while Al Jolson himself with his inimitable style and individual interpretation of the songs most of us know so well rounds out a presentation which as a sparkling nightcap should prepare you for happy dreams. * * * Since 1934 when the Lux Radio Theatre first went on the air, Monday evening has always been regarded as a highlight of radio enthusiasts of the drama. In fact this top -rating dramatic broadcast now boasts to have an average listening audience of thirty mil- lions. Monday evenings 9 to 10 o'clock has seen an ever inereas- ing number of radio sets in opera> tion the continent wide, tuned ie the 114 Columbia stations whe carry this popular program. IProrrt now on, Monday evening will pro' vide an even greater opportunity than before for lovers of dramat,14 art to indulge their preference. Immediately following the Lue Radio Theatre will follow a sex'- ies of plays by the Screen Guild Players, both programmes origin- ating in Hollywood. The sponsor„ Lady Esther. * Personality of the Week It has been said that some people succeed by what they know, others by what they clo, and os. few by what they are. The per- sonality behind that friendly fem- inine voice you hear Monday through Friday mornings 10.30 to 10.45 over CFRB, Mrs. Aitken, succeeds on all three counts, She's slender, sparkling, vivacious, al- ways sniffling, and always has something amusing to tell. For many years Mrs. Aitken has brought to her morning listeners interesting items of home nem international affairs, current books, and happenings around town and country. But Mrs. Alii - ken has many interests outside of radio. Currently she is in charge of all womens' activities assoal- ated with the Victory Loan Cam- paign. It was Mrs. Aitken who co-ordinated, organized and super- vised the Womens' Section of the Canadian National Exhibition, Most housewives know of her cooking schools, many have at- tended them. One thing you prob- ably don't krow is that Mrs. Ait- ken has long instructed a cooking school for boys, yes, boys! Just young lads gathered from the homes in a certain section of downtown Toronto. Every Wed- nesday evening these youngsters learn how to prepare and cook a dinner, and not only that. When the dinner has been cooked, they all sit down and enjoy it, and carry away with them not only the memory of a truly enjoyable meal, but the recipes and instru.e- tions to pass along to. mother. 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