8 The Guardian, Chariottetown, Sat., Feb. 20, 1965.\thian; bond nor free: but Christ
Racial Tolerance
Is A Rare
By CARDINAL McGUIGAN
Racial tolerance today seems tionlistic hates that trouble the means world
to be 4 rare virtue. It that a man respects and admi
es people of every race ant col or
It means that a man has no DOr Jew; circumcision or un-cir- bias against any nation and that cumcision: Secon - =
Bible
“There is ONE God.” I There is ONE blood:
destroy.”
Man Christ Jesus, who gave
There is ONE Sacrifice en the right hand of God.”
There is ONE Authority
last day”. John 12:48.
cept Saturday.
Gr A, Ramsay (Ch’town
Strange sight? Not
Know What The
“God hath made of one blood all nations to dwell on all the face of the earth.”
“There is ONE Lawgiver, who is able to save and to
. “There is ONE Mediator — between
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down
There is. ONE journey through life: unto men once to die but after this the judgment.”
receiveth not my words, hath ONE that judgeth him, the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the
Special Gospel Meetings continue in the Gos- pel Hall, Lower Freetown, 7:45 p.m. nightly, ex-
Speakers: D. C. Howard (Oxford, N. S.);
Inown — make the basic facts
is all and in all.” TOLERANCE ~»
Racia! tolerance, in every life, ‘| means that a man welcomes the
company of black. white. Asian and that he stands opposed to any form of discrimination bas- ed on color or blood
Religious tolerance is like- wise a good thing, and rare. It means that a man respects and admires people of al! religious beliefs
While a man should be con- vinced of the truth of his own For such a one, in St. Paul's religion he should, at the same “There is neither Gentile time, concede to everyone the right to follow his own religious convictions, and take it for granted that members of relig- ions. other than his own are ‘‘in good faith.”
Religious tolerance means that a man eschews that “bitter zeal’ which the Apostle James says is not ‘‘wisdom descending from above, but earthly, sensual devilish.”
REJOICES
While the tolerant man repud iates the sophism that ‘One re- ligion is as good as another,”’ he sees in every religion an effort to worship God, and rejoices in that effort.
Virt he is completely free of the na- r-
words
barbarian nor Scy-
Teaches
Timothy 2:5
Acts 17:26
W In his daily life he likes and James 4: lives at peace with ‘‘heretical” and men, the neighbors, honoring them and
| respecting them But; though racial ious tolerance are excellent
Himself a ransom for all.” I Timothy 2:5-6 and relig-
as
for sins: ‘‘This Man (Christ) far ag they go. they are not enoug They only touch the . fringe of true and universal tol- Hebrews 10:12 aaa Cs appointed aby ST. PAUL
There is a fundamental! toler- ance, the most important toler- ance of all, which consists of “forbearance,”” of making al- lowance for the faults and de- ficiencies of others, and of avoiding, jud_ing and condemn- ing others.
St. Paul, the archetype of tol- erance, expounds it thus: ‘But thou, why judgeth thou thy bro- ther? or Thou, why doth thou despise thy brother? for we shall
Hebrews 9:27 : “He that rejecteth me, and
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all stand before the judgment | seat of Christ:
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contentedly with others who dif- fer from us in their ways and in
means that we live happily and The Key to the Ki
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their opinions
RIGHTS
It means that we fully recog- nize the right of others to form their own likes and their own views and to maintain them without interference from us
It means that, far from de- spising others on account of their ignorance, their conceit, their mistakes, their uncouth manners, their ill-temper, we dea} with them patiently and
kindly, ‘bearing with one anoth- er, and forgiving one another... Even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also’ (St. Paul)
There are many who cry out against religious and racial bias Jesus likens the and who stride manfully with and the oppression and persecution, but to spoil.--Matthew 16:1-12 who still lack that essential tol- erance which implies avoiding harsh and hasty judgments GALL
There is gal! and bitterness in the things they say and write These public advocates of toler- ance by their oride and violence belie true tolerance. |
To be truly tolerant one has to be humble and patient, under- standing one’s own frailty and short-comings as well as the frailty and short-comings of oth- ers
It is not part of a truly toler- ant man to exaggerate or mis- represent the faults of those he
follow me.’ Matthew 16:24.
(Editor's note: — The follow- ing material relating to tomor- rows Sunday School lesson is based on copyrighted outlines produced by the Division of
accuses of intolerance eee: National To practise tolerance we 1 °U arenes In e
U.S. and is used by permission.)
should aim high, we should aim By R.H. RAMSEY
oe rid of every antipa- TODAY'S LESSON fan “Loving one another with the with Christ's public and private charity of brotherhood. with condemnation of the Pharisees
; d Sadducees. Both _ groups
honor, preferring one another... anc had journeyed to Magdala to if it be possible as much as in denuiad! of (Jesus all benrenly
y / ; Il men”’ (ay aah Pesce) witha s " sign as proof of His devine au- : : thority, that He was the Son of God and the Savior of man. In RAIL WAR reality, they were not looking During a railroad rate war in for an actual sign, for they al- the mid-1880s. the fare from ‘ready had plenty of those. What Kansas City to Los Angeles— they wanted was an ‘‘out,” a some 1,700-miles—was just one Way to escape acceptance of
| Knowing their hearts full)
enlace hans Ba SA
really! We're getting used to seeing pictures of our own
We're getting used to the concept of a wniverse instead of a world. We the moon’s soon te become a landing place.
with space — does our thrust into the physical un- of life and death any simpler to us? Certainly position, today. The more he explores, the more vast him. The more he learns, the more he discovers how | know.
man realizes how great the hand of God has been this universe, we live in. That's why people every- astronauts, space pioneers — are men of religious Sunday, and see for yourself.
jwell, Jesus rebuked them scorn- fully, telling them they were far more skillful at predicting day-to-day weather than they were at reading the ‘‘signs of the times’ already predicted for them. -
Alone with His disciples, Jesus continued His upbraiding of the |Pharisees and Sadducees. liken- ling their doctrines to the leaven, or yeast, which eventually caus- es bread to spoil. In the Phari- sees’ case the leaven was hypo- crisy;. for the Sadducees, ma- terialism.
Now let us consider the great- est crisis in the public ministry: of Christ. For two and a half years our Lord had been teach- ing, preaching, performing mir- acles and living a life of absolute righteousness. If His disciples were ever to know that he was the Son of God, they should know it now; and if they did not know, His mission had failed. Thus He asked the dis-
was The disciples’ answer failed to satisfy Him and He made the question more personal: what did the disciples themselves think of Him, for they “had all been with Him long enough to know who He truly was. Because Peter was usually the spokesman for all the disci-‘ ples, we believe that all — with
Pharisees’ hypocrisy Sadducees' materialism to voice and pen to put an end to leaven, a contamination causing bread
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Though the people a prophet,
GROUPS UPBRAIDED
Jesus Answers Great Question |
and relief’
revealed in His joy at Peter's answer. Here, for the first time in the Gospels, our Lord specifically calls an indi- vidual ‘‘blessed.’’ and Christ is well aware that the answer came not from Peter's own frail knowledge and opinion, but was revealed to Him by the Father in Heaven
With his deity acknowledged, Christ discloses His mission to build a church designated as His own, of which He will be the head. The word Christ used for church was ecclesia, a com- bination of Greek verbs mean- ing ‘‘to call out of.’’ What a per- fect descriptive word for the Church of Christ. for that is what all true Christians are — men and women called out from darkness into light; out of slav-
ery. into freedom; out of a. life of SP ee
sin and self into a life o a. holiness. Naturally, Christ was speak-
ing the future tense, for His church did not yet exist; it
would begin with the descent of |
the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
And it would be built upon ‘‘the |
rock,” a phrase which, through the centuries, has proved par- ticualrly thorny and has led _ to literally hundreds of differing interpretations and opinions as to the meaning of ‘‘this rock."’
The word Peter in the Greek is -petros, meaning a separate stone, or a fragment of stone broken off. The word which Christ used here is petra, mean- ing a great, massive rock. Peter, that is, petros, was part of that rock, but the actu al rock was not Peter, but that which Peter had just confessed —that Christ was the Son of the living God.
Significantly, if we trace figurative use of the
the word
ciples who men were saying He ~Rock’ throughout the Hebrew we find life again in the King-
identify Jesus as Peter, speaking disciples, declares Him the Son of the living God.—Matthew 16:13-17.
MEMORY VERSE:—“Then said Jesus unto His disciples, if any man come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and
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by King
for the
His deity acknowledged, veals He will build a gives the disciples the power of sal- vation.—Matthew 16: 18-20.
Jesus predicts His death on the Cross, but aseures them He will rise again. —Matthew 16:21-28.
Christ re- Chureh and
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used symbolically of man, but always of God. Peter had found the foundation, the petra, and by being brought into living | touch with him, had become pet- ros, a part of the Rock
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Now Christ turns to an equal- ly thorny problem, that of the | “keys to the kingdom of hea- ven,’’ the duty and responsibil- ity for which He conferred upon Peter. Theykeys are the Gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ and persona! witness of Jesus Christ, the only means by which men are admitted into the Kingdom.
The keys, properly used, are the power for saving men, nat for barring from salvation: for
SPRING PARK UNITED CHURCH
Dunkirk & Kirkwood
Minister: Rev. Clayton C. Lewis Organist: Mrs. Ron H. Atkinson Director: Mr. Roy M, Smal!man
9:30 a.m.—Sunday Church School
11:00 a.m.—Nursery "i
11:00 a.m.—‘'FIRST DUTY TO GOD”
Men's Choir: “I am Thine, O Lord”
—Adult Bible Study Group
—‘'God and His Purpose”
“You are Welcome to Worship with Us”
7:00 pam
admittance to the Kingdom of heaven, not for barring from | the Church of Christ. And any
+TAAn ho as Sincerely.and.com-J
pletely accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior, who walks after the Holy Spirit in fellowship and cooperation with all other men,
indeed holds the keys to the Kingdom of God ' Because the Kingdom of
Jesus is not of this world, the keys confer no political autho- rity or power: their power is spiritual, that of holy and re. demptive influence, and are to be exercised primarly in the saving of men.
After forbidding the disciples to begin immediately proclaim-_ ing Him the Son of God, Jesus began to talk of His coming suf- fering and death upon the Cross, and His rising from the dead on
a the third'day. When Peter protes-- ———=
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fed against, Christ's — death. | Jesus reprimanded htm sharply for paying heed only to the things of man and failing to sub- mit to the will of God, even though we lose over very lives for His sake, for only then shall
Scripture, we find it is never’ dom of God. Charlottetown Bible Chapel
7:30 p.m.—Gospel Service
235 Cumberland St., at Longworth Ave.
11:00 a.m.—Bible Hour and Sunday School
“Holding fast the faithful Word”
the possible exception of Judas Iscariot — agreed with Peter in his confession of Christ as the Son of the living God
The anxiety with which Christ asked this searching question is
Prophet Attacks Fetish And Magic
On the occasion of the 50th an- niversary of the arrival of Pro- | Phet Harris in the Ivory Coast, the Bible Society has published | an illustrated leaflet containing | the record in Acts chapter 18 concerning Simon the Sorcerer and the Ethiopian Eunuch. Prophet Harris had an amarz-: ing influence on the people. Like the Apostles, he attacked fetish and magic, People who had liv- ed for generations in bondage’to | their fetish burned them at his word.
THE CHURCH FOR ALL ALL FOR THE CHURCH -
The Church is the greatest factor on earth for the build- ing of character and good citizenship. It is a storehouse of spiritual values. Without a strong Church, neither democracy nor civilization can survive. There are four sound reasons why every person should attend services regularly and support the Church. are: (1) For his own sake. (2) For his chil- dren’s sake. (3) For the sake of his community and nation.
Harris depended com- pletely on his Bible, which he al- ways carried with him; those who met him said that it per- | |meated his talking and thinking. The multitude of churches that grew up and remained for years after his departure always dis- } played a Bible in the place of | honour, although rarely was there at that time anyone able to read it. The
(4) For the sake of theChurch « President of the Ivory itself, which needs his moral and ial Plan Coast recently declared that the
Prophet played a role of prime importance ‘in freeing the region from the wicked customs of fet-
support, te go to church regutarly and read your Bible daily.
— Walas John Hebrews II Samuel 2:6-8 3:16-20 “6518-20 , 22216-25
ishism.
a — It is hoped that this anniver- | 12:22-28 18-15-19 sary edition of 280,000 copies will |
encourage the people of this re- |
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(Mendelssohn )
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Rochferd Square Anglican Church of Canzda
The Ven. Archdeacon J. R. Davies, M.A., Rector The ReVerend Canon E. M. Malone, M.A., D.D. Honorary Assistant Priest Miss Suzanne Brenton, Lic. Mus. Organist Mrs. B. W. Patterson, Choir Director
Feb. 21—The Sunday called Sexgesima a.m.—Holy Eucnarist a m.—Mafttins 9 a.m.—Sunday School 11:00 a.m.—Chora] Eucharist and Sermon 7:00 p.m.—Evensong The service in the morning will be conducted by the Rev. Canon G. F. Arnold, MA. BD. Secretary Diocese of Nova Scotia
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St. Paul's Anglican Church
Established 1769 by Royal Foundation The Rev. F. Louis Elias, L.S.1., Rector Organist and Choir Director George A. Thompson, F.R.C.0., (CHM) A.R.C.M SEPTUAGESIMA 8:30 a.m.—HOLY COMMUNION 9:45 am—SUNDAY SCHOOL, Junior, Senior, and Bible Classes. 11:00, a.m.—SUNDAY SCHOOL, Primary, Beginners Classes, . and Crib Nursery. 11:00 arm.—MORNING PRAYER & Sermon
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MORNING .
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—Glason (The Junior Choir) You are welcome to worship with us.
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