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Flesherton Advance, 5 Feb 1930, p. 2

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Sunday School Lesson February 9. Lesion VI. Warnings and Promises Print Matthew 7. 12, 15-27. Golden Text Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast Into the fire. -Matthew 7: 19. ANALYSIS I. THE GOLDEN RULE, V. 12. II. THE FINAL TEST, VS. 15-17. INTRODUCTION Thii chapter touches on .the duties which a true discipic of Jesus owes > his neighbor. Among these th tic* a first place is given to a generous feeling toward thers, while a * 'MTV judgment is passed upon the haSit of unloving criticism. It is, of course-, necessary for us to exercise our power of judgment, and we cannot help but feel the distinction., between right and wrong; but Jesus is here condemning the censorious spirit, which is unfortunately %'ery widely spread. An old writer n this subject gave three excellent rules: (1) Judge not without necessity; (2) judge not without knowledge; (3) judge not without love. I. THE GOLDEN kL'LL, V. 12. V. 12. This so-called "Golden Rule" is ;i law fit for universal application, nd we might say that society will be getting near its final form, if this haJ become the rule by which each one guided his life. If, before we did any- thing to others, we stopped, and put ounelvM into their rosition, rnd de- ci:!e,l to do to them what we would like to have others do to us, then the worries and troubles of the world -..-ild be greatly reduced. If business and government and family life were run on this principle, we would have f the (|uarrols and war" which Declares Vancouver Garrison Would Have Retained Alaska Policy Was Recommended by Hudson's Bay Company Governor Long Years Ago View of Interior of Pauline Chapel in Qulrinal, Home, during thy wedding ceremony of Crown Prinre Humbert of Italy and Princess Marie Jose of Relsium. prevail. in danger because the foundation is giving way. So in lif.- everything de- pends on the stability of oar foundn-| tion. Merely to profess our fr.ith, and never to practice what we profess, is like building on the .sand, and the day of tempest will destroy it, but if we try to live up to our belief, then, when th' dav of testing comes, \ve shall nol fail. To believe in Christ and to fol- building our This rule is one of the great contri-il ow his cpnwwh 1 U made by Jesus to the conduct house on thc roc \ Old Time Stuff An outdoor museum, The Romance Of Buried Treasure By CLIFFORD COLLINSON It lias become the habit to think of buried treasure in forms of pirates of iife. It wns not absolutely differ- from anythin .; that had ever been t*ji -!."n before. There were sayings somewhat like it, and, in fact, Jesus here ..tales thai he is merely putting into a brief saying th^ teaching of the npturos: -Jhis is the law and the lines in Western Canada, in which, original!,, of Jesus ! concreto cast8 of the 8ke lcton 3 of '? in the perfect expression and Snani-i-i galleons, but Just tnink for a moment of all the vast riches belonging to vanish^ kings .-Mid fain-i ons pcnnrals who, fn>m the li< < of history, liav,- plundered the! races of men. Where is the loot of; extending ancient Hone, and whore the glitter- along the right of way of railway, ing (return of Samarand? Whare| is (lie vnst wealth of Antlorh airl : , >- I "Come of 'lio Kreat which is or.- given to this truth, but of all in that wonderful life ^ o fully illustrated his law of leve. II. THE FINAL TEST, VS. 10-17. The sermon closes with solemn warnings and promises. Jes.is uses tl . e suggestive figures to drive home a K- dinosaurs, mammoths and mastodons I Which Solomon gave to the Queen of, would stand has been suggested by a Sheba? CnnsUlcrln'.; the : : member of the National Museum <;taff. of year? of warfare vhl'-h have rav.r.v The creation of such an outdoor mus- eum would servo as a monument to cd tho world. It takes but Httlo In allon to realize that every time, ihe the strange beasts which roamed j battling hord'-s swept back am! forth, i parts of Canada millions of years much trea--iiro wa* hurriedly ! i:r'ed | to p' ' -ervn it until official thinks, and would, be t;ie waa I.H.I. 1 assctl. In many cases those who, buried it were ulaln, and so the treas-i 'iro stl llnwaiti the H0"ker. From my I own experience. I can n'-sine you thai j ely the same sort of thing, Imtj much smaller scale, of course,! ..ii a has happened In the British Solomon J-lands. It is a fact that there an? thou.iands of .sovereign;; buried i away in various place* in the interior ' -on, all of them taken from the b .ts and scenes of common life. In v.i. 13, 14 he spe-iks of tho "two Life is likened to different roads. One road is wide and attrac- t've. It seems to offer many pleasures and other inducements, but it leads to, ruin. It is the way of injustice, sheer I ure and intemperance. The other r'i:i ! is thc path of virtue, of temper- ance and of goodness, but it is narrow and difficult at first. However, it leads to a noble goal, for it brings one to the fulness of life. V. 15. "The Two Trees." It was very natural that Jesus should wish t<> warn his disciples again it other teachers, who set forth doctrines that tended to undermine character and j the bushes or liven In sight of tho j Hut there is burled treas.iro nuiHi, truth. There were many who went railroad car windows near Jasper. ; nearer limnn than that. From time a'i it r -eking to induce their hearers Today with the snow blowing through; Immemorial tradition !;art it that a to fallow that v-hich was not good, his rib bones It would attract, tourists, 'I'-umre was iririeil ii"ar the ju as today there are manv who| nml t |, orony lower Canadian taxi *? . uil,blo in Lancashire. A saying h.i'l A dinosaur near Hand In viw of tho Ixvii handed down that anyo'ie stand- C.I*. 11. would cause tho Kuropoan \i\% on tho hill at Walton-le-Hale and papers to wrlto about It. Tho public anil the guests of fun sides, be unique as uu attract lou to tourists travelling the railway.-". The American Museum of Natural History, New York, has mad In plaster of Paris of some of the skeletons of their prehistoric nioii"- tors. The official can show workmen how to make such casts In concrete, and these will last out In tho weatlier as long aa tho concrete abutments of bridges. It would be a great advert l.-cment. plantation wages which have been for the railroads and Canada If a ! hidden In the ground, and the location Canadian mastodon were standing not ' of which Is now lost because of the In the village or on the street, but i sudden and violent death In trllkl on the mountain side, possibly among . warfare of the OWIUM i. convent at Uourdon lias been preserv cd and Include ! lists of gold j and silver, of nili' raids and' pearls. That^ cen:<-:. .y lias been dug up and ransacked from und to end a'i 'hruiigli the long centuries, until j nboiit a hundred years ago a group of i antiquarians ami geologists and engl-j . solemnly me-t and aereed that. It was no uso di.r-'iiij: any more. Andj then, a month or two later, a little | peasant girl, driving home co\va from j diic of iho Abbey pastures, was ca'ifdit in a shower of rain, ami look shelter) in .-. l-.-iVn-.v : f-raped out of a randbank, by roailmr-rnVrs. Some of the earth j 1 in on IHT .and down rolled a I salver, a r.iti-.munlon plate and a fla- gon, all of i>i;ro gold, richly chased, anil -tudiitd with emerXds and rubies. The ' :i:i! now In a Pi.rls Museum, i undoubtedly a part of famous lest treasure of Uourdon. But, however valuable this land- IrcMstirc may be. It cannot hold a ca'i- dlo to ph';i ?--' goM when it comes to a question of sheer excitement and alline. It must not be imagined, however, that all pirates buried theld ill-gotten booty. The records of' buccaneering show a very different! condition of afflairs. For example, t .! w;n Juan Lnfltte. This gentle- inan of the Sku'.l and Cro=.sbones , operated in the Gulf of Mexico, and i founded a large colony of sea-rovers, j Had the policy of Sir George Simp- pen, the 'empire-building governor of the Hudson's I Say Company in 1821, been followed and Fort Vancouver garrisoned at the request and cxp /nso of that, company as had boeii dun" at Kort Garry, Canada to-day would have Included not only Alaska but all of the country north of the Columbia Kiver, nss n rlpil George W. Allan, K.C., spenkiiiK in the Royal York ilotel In Toronto recently. This was but one of the facts dis- closed as the speaker told the thrill- Inn story of one of the niost amazing business institutions of modern times. Tim Btory was replete with romance, adventure and mystery, and pointed with many references to history marking events and the achievements of pioneer adventurers under the di- rection of. "The Company of Mer- chant-Adventurers Trading into Hud- son's Hay." - Prince Rupert First The first 100 years of the comp-myV history, 1U70 to 177(1, he passed ovel' lightly, observing that it was in this period that' the company confined its operations largely to the Hudson Bay, at the same time sending out a num- ber of expeditious. A photostat copy of the first page of the first ledger opened by the company showed the initial subscription of Prince Rupert, 270 pounds, which the speaker con- fided was eventually paid iu Instal- ments. The following 50 years, 1770-1S20, were marked by bitter strife with the j groat Northwest company, culminat- ing in the battle of Seven Oaks. This period saw a considerable westward expansion of the company's opera- tions. Then in 1--1 came the absorption of'the Northwest company and an era of progress and prosperity unequal- led in the history of business. The operations of the company extended l<> llritUh Columbia, Included much of Wisconsin and Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, and even a trading post at Honolulu. This great development came un- der the governorship of Sir George Siini>si"i. It was ho, the speaker re- called, who inaugurated the policy of ci instruct ing forts, notably Fort Car- ry, garrisoned by British troops \\hne expenses were entirly borne by the Hudson's Bay Company, for the pole purpose of warding off the American and Indian aggression. Krom 1S70 Jo the present time, the company had gone steadily ahead. With confederation, many of Its ab- solute rights as to sovereignty over territory had ceased, but it had adapt- ed itself to changing conditions, un- til to-day It had one oC the most amazing organizations in the world, including 300 fur trading posts, 88 vessels, 600 dog teams, 1.2UO canoes, and retail and wholesale stores all over western Canada. The peculiar rental terms under tha company's charter, the payment of two elk and two beavers to a repre- sentative of the royal house when he enters the company's domain, is still in force, and Mr. Alan stated that on the occasion of the recent visit of the Prince of Wales he had made this payment to His Royal Highness. Hut only last year, as the climax to 238 years of endeavor, the real pur- pose for which the original charter was granted, the navigation of the north \rest passage between the Atlan tic and the Pacific, had finally been accomplished, the company for the first time successfully sending a steamer clear through the famous passage. "To-day the company is a stronger, bigger and better organization than ever In its history," the speaker averred. of l'ie cannibal Island of Mulaita - -! Krom time to time at thoir lu-adquar ten ho used to hold public auctions of his loot, and barbain-hunters from; teaching. All kinds of , forth ; .in we find advocates of strange kinds of 1 f*, and practice. Wo may notice, since this is a tempciancc losson, how many different opinions there are as to the value of prohibition, and as to looking up the valle/ would cazi 1 ! over tho greatest tiv;:suro tli.it Kni; ada would have a chance ( to see such . land had ever known. Search was a cast In larger numbers than In a' carried on at Interval; during several 1 -- - '--' - ""' Museum. Casts of such things In i:se of alcohol if any form. V. Irt. In this j.as?agp Jesus furnish- es us with a Handy test which wo may . tx these difTei nt teachers. II. ' take* into the orchard where there j <>ven from Europe to Museums re dilTertnt qualities of fruit. If you North America, pick a lovely applo you know that it must have come from a gxxl quality of t rco. You cannot get a (rood apple f ' :> r-oor tro*. So also is it in prac- centuries and at last, in 1841 only ti'"il affairs. Let us examine tre chnr- which is found in those who pro- f- a certain teaching. If they are b.vl men, do no* exercise self-control, and are .clfi-'h nnd unprincipled, then Hint will make us suspicious of their ing. '1-27. "Thc Two HOII.--CS." In a passage.! the thought that lies In the bnckgnumd is the fact of judir- t >. There is a day roming when i-.-i rythinrr we do is 10 bo tested by iipremo power of God. It is quite r tl.nt Jesas believed in the com- r this dnv of judgment.. liguro ho n < H v.'i-y striking. I ' rig, one of the most important is (V> fmin intion. A Inrgc of thc thought and timn of ! i r^ Dipsl '. t" this under- j" t"l v.-rk; r.nd we rend every now i n " .ir. famnis o!d buildinjr plaster of Paris have been made ninety years ago some workmen at-- ever since the official can remember (-(dentally discovered a mass of all- riilid, be said, and were sent rer ornament*, of armleti, neckchaJni, I"! amulets and rings, together with more than 7,l>00 silver coins, mostly of Kins Alfred's time, all enclosed in a Prprioui leaden case only three feet below tho u' of the ground. If you care Tho two lovers were walking along (Q tafce (he , rouble yoll can go nn( | tho river-bank In the moonlip:! t. and tho hour was getting rather late. "George," she said, "are you euro your watch Is right?" "Yes," answered the boy, with n happy nmile. "It Is keeping better time since I P"t y<>r photograph in- side the case.' "Oh, George, you flatterer!" she. said coyly. "How coulil t!:at make any difference?" "Well, darling," he replied, "when I placed your photograph Inside the case 1 added another Jewel." "It Is the acts of service, of sacrifice and of heroism In nil nations that re .ii'in as tlio heritage of the \\;i. ' Herbert Hoover. In pi'ct many of thoso very ornaments and coins In the British Museum. \Vhon I.aily Bankes, hotly beslged in Corfo Castle, Dorsetshire, by Crom- well's troops, found hcr-iolf unable to hold out any longer, she threw all j her plates and Jewels Into n very j deep well In tho Castlo yard, and laldj a curse upon anyone who should dis- turb It. For all I konw to tlio con- trary, that treasure may .still bo there. In Franca treasure-seeking has at times become almost a popular mad- ness. Perhaps tho ino.it romantic of 1'YtMich trndditions Is that of l!: "Great Treasure of Coiirdon", which. is said to havo cxU^;! since tho Bi cmittiry Tho chronicle of all tli wealth buried In tho cemetery of IliN. _ I all parts of Louisiana Hocked to at-: tend Ihi'in. Captain Edward Teach, or BlacK-, beard as he was known, lived In great j : tyle and spent his money as fast as he acquired it. Now he was a proper pirate .and he gloried in deliberate j wickedness. One night, drinking in the rabin with 'ib mate and the pilot.' Ulackbeard suddenly whipped out two! I'istols, blew out the candle, and fired j under the table at his companions, j One shot missed, but the other wound-; od tho mato In the knee. Who-i they asked him why he had done such; a tiling, ho replied with an oath that if he did not now and then kill one of thorn, they would forget who he was! With his enormous black i beard bristling with challenge, he swagsi'w! and roystered through the! ts of Charleston and terrorized tho seas. AVIt.h grim playfulness he would part his great board Into tresses, tlo them with dainty rlbons, and then drape, these grisly lovelocks j oven his oar*. When going Into ac- tion he carried six pistols and throe cutlasses, and fastened lighted matches undo/ his hat. A proper pirate was niaclihcard. He was slain L'OO years ago by Ucut. Jl.iynnvd after a long nnd desperate sea-light, and : the gallant lieutenant cut off l.is bead,; black heard and all, and returned! homo In triumph with It hanging from | his bowsprit for nil to see.. The famous CapMn Morgan buried . Monn of his treasure, nor did he wa ' in in riotous living. From the loo ins of Panama alone he took bo<> v 10 tho valuo of two million :lollars. ( ilo had no need to hide It for K ; n Charles the Second knighted him, and he spent his remaining years lu Jamaica as a rich and Influential per- sonage In high favor with the ruling powers, and a terror to the luckless, beggared comrades who had helped him to win his fortune. And so the list might be Indefinitely continued. Put in spite of all the clear evidence to the contrary fertil* imagination and incurable optimism hav ebuilt up false legends, and even to the present day treasure-seekers are digging for tlio supposed hidden wealth of Lafitte and Morgan and others of the Skull and Crossboneg fraternity. It seems a pity to waste time on [ false trails like these when there is so much that we know for certain Is only waiting to be found the Spanish Armada galleon in Tobermory Bay, with thirty millions lying in her holds, the Cocos Island Treasure, the 500.- OHO luro of the "Lutine", that Ill-fated j treasure-frigate which sank 133 years! ago off the coast of Holland, the! twenty-eight million pounds sterling! worth of gold ingots and silver bars wl.icli, amidst smoke and flame and! Ihe thunder of guns, were sent to trie bottom of Vigo Bay, 200 years ago, when Admiral Sir George Kooke*sail-| ed into the harbor and sunk the fleet of Spanish plateships. There Indeed! Is a Prize for the treasure-seeker of j to-day who has courage and capital i and the Ingenuity to devise the right kind of salvage equipment. Tteso treasures and many more like them are well authenticated, but for nheor seduction commend mo to the rndo cross on a tattered chart and tho knowing hints of an old salt in a' sanded bar-rnrlor. , Most legends of pirates' treasure ; have tho samp basis the lone sur- vivor of a villainous crew, the well- thumbed chart stained with blood and rum. the dcnth-bed scene tran-fVr of ti:o chart to a shipmate, and the subsequent penniless condition of the '.aid mate. You may find tarry and sunburned gentlemen anywhere from Singapore to Seattle who will whisper eagerly and huskily to you of chart; and moon-shadows cnst by an old dead tree, and rotting tre:isuro-chests of gold. Mark you, there are. no con- scious liara amongst the tollers of these tales The spell U on them. They lirmly believe their own yarna and are willing aji.d eager to prove their faith by back-breaking work with pick and crowbar. Many oj these tales are perfectly true, or men of sann and sober repute would not go forth a-treasure-hunting by land or sea as they do. Answers. Canada Has Enough of Own Toronto Star (Ind.): (The Tariff Board is being asked to put a check on the imporfation of American used cars into Canada.) We have, in Can- ada, enough second-hand motor cars of our own. These second-hand motor cars are, as everyone knows, the prob- lem of a motor dealer's existence. . . . To aggravate this condition by glut- ting the used car market with old cars imported from the United Slates is to increase the difficulties of the Can- adian deater and to depress the trade- in value of the cars which Canadians own. Everybody's car is reduced in value by these importations. The con- sumer, instead of being helped, is in- jured. There is another aspect to tha case. There are quite enough old cars already on Ihe roads without adding to this number the cast-offs of, the Un- ited States market. Anyone can buy an old car at a reasonable price. No hardship will be involved in discourair- ing the importation of American used cars altogether. Late Again The city business man was spend- ing a few days holiday In the country, but by four o'clock In the morning of the first day ha found that he could not sleep, se he decided to dress and go for a long walk. "Thoy may talk about the conntrj folk being early risers," h told him- self, "but I reckon I've scored off them this time." Presently he came upon a farm laborer trimming the hedges, '"Mornlns," said the city man air ily. "Nice morning." "You be right, sor." replied the oth- er, "but It were real cold first thing." The longest face is not the most lalotlr. MUTT AND JEFF By BUD FISHF.R Jeff Wins the Air Championship S WIMNIW6 DOWN. He is CHASING VAOLINO AONl> THd HG KNOCKS TH HAS RALLY. 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