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the georgetown herald wednesday april 26th 1944 improved uniform international sunday i chool lesson by kajlou l untoqumt d d utiti moedtblbl ztwtltuu at cbleo ximmi bywtiun kwapar union lesson for may 14 paul in thbssalonica xt arts it lfc i thoualant j 1111 golden text rcjolc ilwaya pry without ebtnf in vt3rtum ftv ttaktiks 4 tbmmlmlum 1s1s strong active missionary minded churches do not just happen they are the result of the preaching of a true and powerful message by a faithful and sacrificial messenger other factors enter in but these are the fundamentals paul s ministry at thessalonlca which is described in acts 17 and explained in i thessalonians 2 re veals what should be preached and what kind of a preacher is needed erhaps some dead or unsuccessfu church may learn the secret toda and come to new life for christ 1 the message christ the sav lour acts 17 14 paul had already met the varying lot of both persecution and accept ance and had now come to thes salonlca a large and impdrtant city m macedonia where he had a lengthy ministry and established a strong church what was the message which so signally succeeded in this great strategic center well it was not as soma modern preachers in large cities would seem to think a series of social political or literary dis courses paul preached christ he reasoned with them and presented the saviour v 3 as one who was 1 dead for our sin these people were like us in that they needed a solution for their sin problem there were doubtless other questions which paul might have discussed but he wisely went to the root of their dif acuity and showed them that christ must needs have suffered without the death of christ there is no salvation for any man only through the shedding of blood can there be remission of sin heb 9 22 paul had no part in the folly of a bloodless gospel as though there were any such gospel 2 raised for our justification it was not enough that jesus died marvelous as that is in our sight for many a man has died for h s convictions but none has risen fro n the dtad christ could not he holdcn of the grave he arose the victon ous redeemer 3 declared to be the christ he is more than a man more than a great leader and an earnest teacher he is god b anointed one h mself divine and our lord thus paul presented to the jews their messiah the man of sorrows isa 53 whose resurrection dc clared hirrrto be the son of god with power rom 1 4 the r re deemer and lord blessed results followed such preaching v 4 n the messenger approved of god i thess 2 1 12 sometimes a man with a true message largely nullifies its value j the mann in which he p it or by his manner of life n the community 1 he was faithful w 16 one of the great temptations facing the one who is a preacher or teacher of god s word is to et his fear of men cause him to adjust his message to use a bit of flattery to please mm paul was bold in our god v 2 not trying to deceive or mis lead anyone v 3 seeking only god s approval v 4 not try ng to make money for himself or gu r standing with men by smooth words v 5 and not claiming a high po sition or author ty over men v 6 2 he was affectionate w 7 9 how often those who are faithful and bold in preaching the truth ruin the effect of their work by be ing harsh and unkind here is lesson many of us need to learn to be gentle v 7 a man mus be strong the cardinal quality ol a strong christian should be that he is a gentleman or she a gentle woman if not there is not real strength in the life paul gave not only a message he gave himself his very soul v 8 the people to whom he min s tered were dear to him the pastor who looks down at his con gregatlon with hardness and per haps hatred for some individual needs to read this passage and find paul s secret of success he labored with his hands to sup port himself v 9 lest anyone think he was a burden to them let no one think that this means that a preacher is not worthy of suj port ci r st h mself declares tl a the laborer is worthy of i s r luke 10 7 but il does si paul s fn pir t of de t n a sa r fi 3 he ds un i n v 10 12 hoh r his i fc i i r gori p wit ro ly to u t 1 fore m n and thus 1 unb able b fore u m on c lord tn s ndced s i f rl tl c s gll f god v 12 in olhir words the pr achti able to si to his listeners m life shows you what i mean b my preaching the true prcacl a of the gospel will never be sa i fied to be a signpost pointing a way in which he does not walk as we seek by j a strang we wouldnt be very good oana dlans if we weren t proud of our own canadian army it is the only volunteer army in the world to day and it might be a good policy to state that fact more often the men comprising our army overseas joined up voluntarily and as we all know ore the pick of the nayon they are highly tihought of over in england and we all know they will be giving a good account of themselves any day now many of them have already seen service in sicily and italy many of them have been killed in action and a great many others have been wounded many of the wounded have already been returned to canada yes we here at home have good reason to be proud of our canadian army you may not have a son or daughter in that army but your neighbor has they still need equipment in order to carry on to the best advantage and equip ment still costs money it takes a lot of money to provide equipment of so many kinds lor that canadian army this is where we step into the pic ture we are the ones that are asked to lend that money to our government in order that those lads over there will not lack for anything needed itie sixth victory loan is under way right now we may not all be able to purchase large amounts of bonds but we can all buy just as many as possible we mentioned that we were proud of our canadian army sup pose we see to it that that same ca nadlan army can be as proud of us when we again go over the top in this sixth victory loan we still have a great deal to be thankful for here at home our nights are not disturbed by air raids and we still get plenty to eat we could stul do without many luxuries that we still enjoy without suffering very much from so doing suppose we all decide to buy all the bonds that we possibly can and then when we have bought them suppose we decide to hang on to them for the duration they may come in handy when the war is over as we write these lines we are stul looking for that warm spring shower that never does come as early as we would 1 ike 1 1 to the best spring day to date was wednes day or last week and it was remark ahle the way the wheat seemed to change color in a few hours that day it was the first day that the furnace was let go out and we never missed it we noticed a few working on the land trat day and it seemed to be working nicely we did our first spring plant ing that day also and now we have green onions to look forward to and spinach also las spring we had troublt with our hot bed plants be cause there wasn t enough sunshine to get them lo grow properly however this year there is plenty of sunshine and they seem to grow nicely if you have never done any gardening youjiare very little idea of all the 1 un ii d satisfaction that you have missed when w hear of wounded men whom we know being returned from overseas it seems to bring the war right home to us docan t it the soldier that we have in mind was wounded in skdly it was a hip wound and after spending two man the in tho hospital gangrene set in and it was decided to amputate the lag be had suffered a great deal and he says that the moment the leg i amputated he felt like a new man he was sent to england and spent several months in the cana dian hospital there and then was re turned to canada coming over on the lady nelson which arrived at an eastern port on the 13th of this month coming home on me boat he developed malaria tough luck seem ed to follow him alright he was a plumber by trade and was a good one at that his home is in owen sound however we omdefstand that he will be in the london hospital for some e we knew this lad as a young ster and it does seem tough luok for him our own son visited him quite often in the hospital in england and his visits were appreciated alright he always thanked him for visiting him there isn t much to find fault with is there when a lad who had given a leg for his country still humb ly thanks a visitor for dropping in to see turn and still some of us here at home feel awfully sorry for our selves and wonder if this war is never ig to be over we don t know how lucky we are boh davidson wedh the presbyterian parsonage was the scene of a quiet wedding ceremony when elizabeth daughter of mrs and the late hazelton hale of georgetown became the bride of sgt w davidson of the rcajf malton son of the late mr and mrs j davidson attending the couple were mrs ro bert ronnie and chas hill of george town victory ion ds i tyers milk products georgetown monday night knitting club sewd shipment the monday night knitting club have completed another shipment of knitted children s garments for british war victims and have sent it to to ronto to be included in the tamblyn drug atore shipment the girls have sent 14 children s sweaters for children three to twelve years old 1 boy s knitted suit pair of socks also included is a quilt the kntttlrg ohio has filled two ditty bags and given them to the lo cal branch of the navy league tea sponsored in the interests of the victory loan by speights garage phone 279w georgetown