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THE QUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

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I .'.'.'VVV V J I E c E A 3 , C C 0 Religion and Life By Var-y'Rev. Geo e C. Pitfgeun, i).l)., LL.D. nut Moderator of Dnliod Church of Canada ' i (Copyright) 3 Ipurs To Endeavour

in a recent issue of The Listener is told the (amazing story, of blind John Metoalf who opened a new on. in the building of roads in England. The story was told by Christopher Brunner. Nearly 200 yum ago Metoslf walked from London to Yorkshire alone. feeling hi. way with a staff. "Time after time he narrowly escaped drown- jng and suffocation in the quag- miree that passed for roads in the year 1160.” After as many D9118 II beset :Bunyan's pilgrim he got home filled with a. deep diuust fmr England's roads and is deter- minatlon to build better ones.

Within five years he had a con- tract to build roads in Yorkshire. He was the first contractor to dis- cover that broken stones make the best foundation for a road. be- cause their sharp edges dug into me ground and stayed there. whereas round stones were easily pushed aside. Before his death he had built 180 miles of new roads and had revolutionized travel and communication in England.

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It was his biiiidneu which awakened him to the need. I! clear sight had enabled him to pick his way. as it did with thou- sands of others. he would never have felt the need of roads pass- able in all kinds of weather and nrm enough for all kinds of traffic The handicap had become an asset.

often in history men's handicaps have stirred them to develop new sources of power. Demosthenes is called history's greatest orator. They said that his words were en- graven in bronze so firmly were may fixed in the memory of his hearers. His biographers love to describe how he cultivated his powers as a speaker. They say that he would stand by the sea. shore and declaim against the waveslwith pebbles in his mouth, that he would deliver speeches as he ran uphill. that he was encouraged by a discerning actor to persist. and did persist until he became a power in the nation and the ideal orator of the western word.

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A scholar of the past generation said that he regarded Henry ward Beecher as the greatest master of spoken speech in modern times. and described how young Beecher used to make the woods around his home hideous with his efforts to develop his voice.

Dr. J. A. Macdonald, preacher

and editor. was one of Canada's most effective oratora. He had to overcome a marked hcsitancy in his speech and labored at it incessantly until the English speak- ing world recognised his powers. A comternpornry of his. who had heard the best known preachers and statesmen of that time .in Britain and America. said, that Macdonald at his best sEB.Cl'lCd heights that few, if any, could attain. It was in overcoming this handicap that he developed his capacity to the full.

A student once remarked that Saint Paul's "thorn in the flesh" had bothered commentators more than it had bothered Paul him- self. whatever it may have been. it was a handicap which hindered him in his work. He too made the handicap an asset. He called it "a messenger of Satan" sent to keep him humble and wrote about it. "Three times I besought. the Lord about this. that it should leave me; but l-ie said to me: 'My grace is sufficient for you, for dry power is made perfect ,in weakness."

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Saint Paul was so constituted that he could not have both the physical and spiritual endownments that he desired. and the lesser was denied to leave room for the greater. so he exclaimed:-"I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknessm that the power oi Christ may rest upon me."

The believer in Christ knows that there is a. divine design to be perfected in his life and ti divine purpose to be wrought out through him. Everything that God sends or denies has some place in God's will for him. A limitation may. therefore, be an opportunity. and a. weakness real- ized a reason for drawing on God's strength. When the Giver of all good has denied us talents which He had entrusted to others and then calls us to tasks in which those talents seem necessary, we may be sure that the Living Lord moans us to call directly on Him for the resources needed for full success. And those resources are as limitless as His love.

Honesty compels us to recognize our limitations here or there. Two courses are open lo use-to resent our weaknesses and lie down in discontent. or to overcome our handicaps and make the moral power developed in the struggle a factor in advancing the Kingdom of God. By God's help if we can.

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This eolumn is reserved for news of local interest, but advertising of a newsy nature may be inserted at five cents a word. strictly pay able In advance.

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LEmGii HARD COAL is always the best. Arnfut Coal Co.

MILK - the perfect food. order another quart.

ICE CREAM the del' ' tlon of the dessert problem.

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"YOUR DOLLAR BUYS MORE- It the HUGHES DRUG STORE"

OLD SYDNEY COAL. - A. Pick- ard do Co.. are unloading cars or screened coal,

C0-OP EGG STATION for bet- ter egg returns. 80 Fitzroy St.. (formerly Swift's).

AFTERNOON TEA at the Y. M. C. An March 17th, 3.30 to 6.. Ladies Auxiliary.

PROVINCIAL DRAMA FESTIV- AL closing date for entries is April 1st.

READING BBTQUETS for fur- naces. hreplaces. stoves. Made with hard coal. A. Pickard 6.; Co. Phone

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LISTEN TO Lt. Col. L. F. Mac- donald. Provincial President speak on behalf of Red Cross cam- paign over CFCY Monday, March 16th. at 1:00 pm.

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH. Belfast Congregational Meeting 2 P. M. Tuesday, March 11th, to arrange for reception of Rev. and Mrs. James Heathwood. Glasgow, Scot- land. Good representation of all church organizations are requested.

TONIGHT: Hear Walter R. Shaw. Deputy Minister of Agriculture speak on Community Planning. C. F. C. Y.. i0.B0. This is another in the current series of Commun- ity planning broadcasts heard each Monday at the same time.

POLICE INVESTIGATING - A quantity of cigarettes and about three dollars in pennies were stol- en in a break at the Belvedere Service Station. St. Peter's Road The break took place in the early hours of 'ur.day morning. The R. C. M. P. are investigating.

Card Of Thanks

The Family of the late Eugene M. Glover. wish to express their sincere thanks and appreciation. to their relatives. friends and neighbours. for their many acts of kindness during their sad bereave- ment. To those who sent floral

Strange But True

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All mail systems are W. nmm oontmlied. and in no business is there more Olflciency shown.

For the first time in 100 years

Dover. libigiland. Built in i051. the ohurcih had never bebore been the scene at a wedding. 50 the Vicar presented the bride with a Bible. ' In Venesuela love letters oan be sent at half price if they are en- in rose-colored envelopes!

Bats are not birds. Their young nurse like other mammals.” Besides dancing mice, there are singing mice whose songs have a canary like wamling affect,

some nnail animals are able to live without drinking due to cer- tain ohemical action in their diges- tive traote. whereby some of 'tfi1e starch foods are changed into water!

Perhaps the most famous ex- ample of inaccuracy in fiction oc- urs in that early edition of Edgar ice Burroughs Tarzan of the Alielln which he names tigers 1 the denizens of the African jungle.

In a world that needs so much the aaurance that spirit can trium . tlhe older people can give the ceamet answers. 11! weakening physical bands can grasp spiritual reality. if dimming eyes can see God more clearly. if dearfened cars can catch the song of eternity. truly this is the victory that over- comes the world.

Only when we have learned to control our thoughts and actions. d0 W6 58001718 of our outer condltions. Impulsive youth seldom is able to do that. But age with its treasure house of experiences is able to see a clearer picture of life as it ought to be lived.

shepheds was to lead their flocks in and out of the fold. As-the sheep entered the fold at night. 'the shepherd would stand in the doorway and count them. when he satisfied hhnseli that none were missing. he would wrap his cloak about him and lie down across the opening. in this way. he be- came the door to the fold. None or the sheep could stray away with- out jumping over his body and atwakoninc him and no wild ani- mals could enter the fold to get at the sheep. . O 0

Uncle Sam's taxpayers paid more in taxes under Harry S. Truman's term of office than under all pm- vlous U. S. Prmidients. Isn't total- itarienism wonderful!

Like man, many insects seem to prefer flowery mag-mrice; hence insect pollination. Japanese beetles are especially susceptible to rose odor. They will travel far to reach the seductive trap, baited with rose-smelling chemical geranial and equipped with glass jars to hold its scented-drugged victims. Dogs and most carnivorous animals, on the other hand, prefer goaty and burnt odors. Rats cannot tolerate the smell of peppermint. During the last world war it was discovered that a certain odor was re-piilslve to sharks led to the development of n repellent which was used to protect shipwreck victims or air crews ditched at SEE.

Few of us realize the persuasive role tha't scent has played in the modern world. It was less than 200 years ago that a bill was spon- sored in the British Parliament providing a witchcraft trial for "all women . virgins, maids, or widows. that sliali , seduce and betray into matrimony any of his Majesty's subjects by the U89 of scents. paints, cosmetics . . . ”

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A bee hive is the oldest alr- caiiditloned dwelling, Half the bees remain on the inside of the hive

tlappri-n-2 their wings, This keeps the temperalure about 10 degrees lower

than the outside.

Have you ever heard of In fish with the bifoeala? Nol Wall, his home is in the South American waters and-he ins natural bifooais. the upper half of the evyu being kept above water to see in air and the lower half. with dkiferant focus. being used under water. Jun fancy thatl

Although most , ' addltionsf oxygen at 10,000 feet. one third of a million persons live comfortolbly in La P18, Boliva. the world's high his city (12,400 feet above sea. level).

Old automobile tires are worn as sandals among the poorer classes of Mexico, Cuba. and tlirsnil. The unusual sandals are secured to the feet with leather straps. They can be made at home at a cost of only a few cents.

Crocodiles have their own dentists in the sharp-eyed Atrican plovers. These birch actually walk right into the crocodii.e's mouth. pick the food from between his teeth and give them a thorough cleaning. l

The crocodile simply loves this kind of painlom dentistry.

GERMAN GETS POSITION

BONN, (AP)-The West Ger- man government announced Tues- day that the first German has been given a leading post, in the United Nations food and agricul- tural organization. He is Count Siegfried von der Recke. a top official of the West German atri- cultural ministry. The 5448!!” old count. has been named FAO representative, for South and Central America.

RECORD TRAFFIC

0910. Norway. (CP)-A record number of tourists visited Norway last year. 600.000 compared with 530,009 the previous year. The Nor- weglan Travel Association estim- ated 'i0 per cent of the Visitor!

were from Sweden.

Lenten Meditation

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10 Columns of Tbs Times, london

FREEDOM AND I'll FALL

That man is born free and k everywhere in chains is more than a. slogan of revohition; it belongs to the paradox of human nature. successive attempts at finding a solution to it by way of social and economic programmes end not only in disappointment but also in the curtailment of civic freedom.

The story of the garden of Eden is rightly regarded not as the record of a single event at the dawn of history but as the mytho- logical presentation of a perman- ent faot in spiritual experience. It has no doubt been irrievoualy misinterpreted. There have been phases in Christian thinking when the total corruption of man has been made almost the centre of theology. But this is both unscrip- tural and sub-Christian. Christian- ity is about the goodness of God, not about the badnem of men.

And the fundamemai scriptural affirmation is that God made man in his own image. Man's goodness, therefore. is "prior" to his sinful- ness; and only because he is a child of God -6 a moral and spiritual personality -. is it pomible for him to be a sinner. Thus the very notion of 8. fall carries within it the promise of recovery.

The phrase "original sin" may be unfortunate, and probably few could now endorse the theory of a taint inherited from a primal an- cestor. still less can that inheri- tance be equated. as it was too long, with sexual desire .- which would make race suicide s. relig-

ious duty.

Ilut, however ststod. the that re- mains that no hfe ever starts with a. clean slate on which it can free- ly write Just What it clmoies. It comes into a total situation in which there is a "gravitational pull" dragging the beat motives off their course. and in which it is harder to go right than wrong. Original sin is the label for these facts which. however interpreted. are there.

in tile heydey of nineteenth- century evolutlonism the tradi- tional Christlan teaching about the fall was decried as illibaral and reactionary. More bitter emper- ience and less facile thought are forcing men had: on the recogni- tion of the truths to which this doctrine bears witness.

it might also be said. indeed. that original sin is the one article of religion in which many cori- temporary men believe w though they may call it historical dew- in&. But because they cannot: also believe in God. they are re- duced to despair or moral cynic- ism. Nothing but faith in God can bring back confidence.

The answer to the fall of man: is the Gospel - the good news 01! reconciliation to the purpose at the heart of things through the work of God in the Cram and re- surrection. The Christian life rests) on the conviction that God him- self has entered into history with its moral conflicts and contradic- tions, and in a human life won the victory in which through Ohriri men may be partakers. In that emancipation is the true freedom.

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tributes, letters and cards of sym- pathy.

IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of my Fa- ther, H. Wesley Mcxenaie, Bay Fortune. who passed away March 15, 1947.

Tonight the stars are shining On a low and silent grave,

Thorn sleeps without dreaming One I loved but couldn't save.

Lovingly remembered by daugh- ter Blanche (Mrs. John Black), Bay Fortune.

A IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of a dear una- band and Father Howard 8. Weeks who passed away on March ma. 1949.

Four years have passed since that day. When one we loved was called away. God took him home-it was ills

within 0.1. hearts He llveih mu.

Remembered by His Wife Daughter Lolita. Sons. Harold and Lorne.

IN MEMORIAM

in loving memory of my dear Husband. Robert A. Madiienzie, Cavendish. P. E. 1.. March lath, I952.

I have lost my life's companion. A life linked with my own.

And day by day I miss you more Al I walk through life alone.

I miss you Bob and always will.

Your vacant pl ee no one can fill.

Down here I ourn, but not in vain,

For up in henven some day we'll meet again.

Lovingiy Remembered by His wife.

Always and

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