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PAGE FOURTEEN - --------..-- V ~J~ .ZLKALDI~RU11UAY JUE IthTM8 Religion for Today What Is True Greatness? Ii A Weekly TaIk By Rev. R. R. Nicholson As we read history we find the titie "Great" has been given to certain rulers in df ferent lands, as, Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Alfred the Great of Britain, Peter the Great of Russia and Frederjck the Great of Prussia. Often- times this titie was given mere- ly because the king had been a rnighty warrior and had in- creased the extent, power and glory of his kingdom. Shortly after the First World War a popular magazine in The United States published an ar- ticle by H. G. Wells, on the Six Greatest Men of History. His SDRAPERIES BROADLOOM DRAPERIES By The YARD VENETIAN AND CLOTHBLINDS CUSTOM MADE DRAP'ES DEAPERY RODS AND TRACKS INTERIOR DECORATINO SERVICE Howard Vice Proprietor TELEPHONE OSHAWA RA 5-3144 926 Simcoe St. N. Oshawa list was as follows.: 1. Jesus, 2. Buddha, 3. Aristotle. 4. Azoka, 5. Roger Bacon, 6. Lincoln. This article aroused much animated discussion, and few persons agreed absolutely with .1%r Wells in bis choice. In fact, most people bad neyer heard cf [Azoka, until they read about him in H. G. Wells' famous book, "The Outline o! History". It is womth noting, hoeer that he placed Jesus first on bis list. While H. G. Wells was not an orthodox Christian and did not believe in tbe deity o! Je- sus, yet he did believe that Jesus was the greatest man that' ever lived, and therefore lie put His naine first on bis list. As we study bistory w; find that tbe conception of great- ness changes from age to age. We read cf Alexander the Great of Macedonia. He was, indeed,j a mighty conqueror, but we would not consider him a great man today, for he was immoral and profligate, and died after à drunken debauch in bis thir- ty-third year. In the Sacred Scriptures we read of the King who was known as Herod tbe Great. He was cafled "Great", because lie was victorious in war, and ex- tended bis kingdom until it equalled i area that cf King David. He lived i pomp and splendor. He was fond cf fine architecture and erected many, MONUMENTS AND FINE Q1JALITY MARKERS 0 ~STAFFORD BROS. Stafforil Bras. Monumental Works 318 DunlasSt.E., Witbr Phone Whitby MOhawk 8-3552 ders greatcst'service to bS is el lowmen. He said: "whoever would be great among you, must be youm servant and wbo- ever would be first an-ong you miust be your slave." (Matt.: 26, 27, R.S.V.) About f ifty years ago the people cf France were asked to express their judgment in a great popular vote, as to who was the greatest Frcnchman in history. Nîne million ballots were cast. When the votes were counted it was found that the largest number had been given te Louis Pasteur, a great scicntist and a great Christian, upon wbose titanic work mod- erm medicine rests. Man.y People were greatIy surprised that Napoleon Bona- parte did not receive tbe great- est number o! votes, but the French conception cf grcatness had changed. The mighty war-1 r ilson': bonis th rsti n a big W-ay W.33 rIt ntMhmcy0btteor ____ UW0 H i o h n v O h ue o r n LOOK!' We have added to our store a camplete une ai Fresh, Fruit s and Vege fables We also stock a complete in. of GR OCERIES and A Large Variely of Imported Foods 44P e HOME%# DELIVERY PHONE MA 3-3541 SPEC IALS K LE EN EX Reg. or Chubbie 6pkgs.$ .00 KRAFT Cheese Whiz- 55c 16 oz. ONLY 5 STOKELY'S Tomato Juice 48 ou. ONLY M ~ Spiritual, flot material, p, er bolds a practical answer the many social, political, international problems perp] ing humanity, the large gz ering was told. )0w- rto and Plex- ýath- A special message from The Christian Science Board o! Di- rectors to the' members said that today's growing intercst i spiritual values presents a "special c-hallenge-the chal- lenge to represent these great values still more fully to man- kind througb oui' demonstra- tion o! them."l Named President o! The Mo- ther Church for the coming year was Kathryn F. Cook of Bos- [ton, Mass. A public practitioner o! Christian Science hcaling for more than twcnty years, Mrs. Cook succeeds Leonard T. Car- ney, retiring President, who is also a member of the Board o! Trustees o! The Christian Sci- ence Publishing Society. The effectiveness of spiritual resources is being proved through scientific prayer in des- troying fear, healing sickness, and solving human problemns of every kind, Mrs. Cook said. Mr. Carney pointed to the truly Christian standard of thought =d action as -en un- failing guide i-n a changing world. This standard, he said, holds that spiritualb-power is supreme, over aIl. It is held aloft, he de- clared, "through the works of healinlg, and redemption which take place over the world day by day. It is raised whenever lofty prayer lifts thought to rior who lad without mercy ra- Ivaged many countries, and bad Idestroycd the lives o! a million men, and bad donc cvcrything for bis own agagrandisemcnt and glory, was no longer the idol o! thei French nation. Napoleon's grcatness was not truc great- ncss, but the super! icial and false greatness of thepagan. hand, manifcsted the truc grcatness tauglit by Jesus in *word and example. His biogra- pher says that the primary pur- pose o! bis life was "To help mankind." He had a paralytic sbrokc at forty-six and was handicappcd for life. He did not give up but persevercd in working for the health and wel- fare o! bis felloWmen. He died in 1895, aged scventy-thrce. Jesus tauglit that to be great is to be humble and useful. The1 road o! self-sacrifice and kindly service is open to ail, and it is therefore possible for everyoneI to achieve truc greatness. Speci Ils ini PERMANENT WAVES wived by: MARGARET SMITHI JOSIE DEMAINE miss VIOLET ZACHANOWICH formerly of Miller's .Beauty Salon Is now a member of our staff. FROM MONDAY TO THURSDAY Reg. $10.00 For $__7.95__ Reg. $12.5095 For -__9.95 Reg. $15.00 For 11_____l.95 SPECIAL COLD WAVE ai $5.95 Mfr. Huyck wfll be ber. on Tues., Wed. and Fr1. te do the steam and regular waves Phone MA 3-5703 FOR APPOINTME«" Huyck's Hairstyling Studio 67 King St. W.. flowman'vile -ed to St. Joseph's Opening magnificent templess, palaces and theatres, but he was one ofPu lc nvt the mot wicked men that everub c In i ]ved. He was jealous, cruel and merciless. He murdered his own w w favorite wife, bis sons, his un- cie and numerous other per-. sons and today we consider hlm great i-n infamy. When I was a youth Li Hung Chang, the great. Chinese Statesman, came on a good- wil visit to America with a retinue of servants. He had four men to carry bis palan- quin, four more to keep the silken top of the palanquin in position over bis head; a man to hand bim his long pipe, and another to light it. That was the mediaeval idea of greatness. In olden time that man was considered greatest who could ~ command the greatest number of servants. But that concep- tion of greatness has gone for- ever. In ancient days the man of pre-eminent authority sat in state." That was the pagan view. Frederick the Great of Prussia, gave fine expression to the modern and Christian view in his noble utterance, "It1 is the business of the King to 17 0 C rsta be the chief of the servants of 50 Ch ita the State." This is the new ~A standard and today, he is con-f Atten d A nn u a ceded to be the greatest, ho eprudstnigosp- la greatest in service to wthe feprudrtnigo pr cause of human progress and'itual resources is vitaîîy need- the advancement of the king- 1 ed to meet the sharp challenges dom of God. of oui' times. It is surprising that s0 many This was a major theme of men of the world today consi- 1. Annual Meeting of The dem that man to be great, who Mother Church, The First possesses in large measure, Church o! Christ, Scientist, in wealth, power, honor and fame,1 Boston, Massachusetts, attend- but Jesus Christ gave to men 1ed recently by about 7,500 a different standard o! great- Christian Scientists from many ness. According to His teacbîng 1 parts of the world. that man is greatest who ren-j Mrs. Kathryn F. Cook The members came from ai- mnost every part of the United States and' Canada and from Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and Indonesia to attend tic nceting. Thcy overflowcd the miassive Extension o! The Mo- ,her Cihurcli, as well as the ad- joining Original Edifice and a neighboming theater. j A OBITUARY CHARLES WILMOT THORNE On June l6th, 1959, the death occurred o! Charles Wilniot, Thorne, at tbe home of bis sis- ter, Miss Olive Thorne, South Mill Street, Newcastle, Ont., whom lie was visiting. Mr. Thorne was in bis 82nd year. The deceased was the son cf tbe late Charles E. Thorne and Helen Wilmot Tborne and was born in Toronto on November 9, 1877. The late Mr. Thorne attended schools in Toronto and New- castle. Aftcr graduating from Newcastle Higli School he wasý emploed by the Canadian gov- ernment, Dcpartment o! Fish- eries. During thîs period Mr. Thorne spent two, seasons on Lake Superior with the fisher- les agency. Collection and pre- servation o! spawn o! valuable whitefish and other commercial lake fish was part of the, pro- gram carried out by this divi- sion o! tbe fisheries. As mayv be wcll known to Newcastle and district readers, Mi'. Thorne's grandfatber, Sam- uel Street Wilmot, who resided for many years at Belmont near the western border o! Newcas- tle, is rcputcd to bave discov- ered the method o! propagating salmon and other valuable game and food fish. His fish hatcbery on Wihnot Creek was the first successful experiment in fish propagation by controlled arti- fîcial rnethods which are used througbout the world today. So Charles Wilmot Thorne came by bis intemest in the fisheries naturally. In 1900, late in the year after the end o! the upper lakes flsh- ing season, Mm. Thorne, then aged 23, went to New York City te visit frlends and relatives. Cordial He was offered, and accepted, a good position with the Adams Express Company and so me- maied hn New York. At this period many former Canadi-an Young men and others who were interested i sports, particularly tennis, organized a sports and residence club with buildings and grounds near Fort Wadsworth on Staten Is- land, New York. Mr. Thorne was an officer or secretary of the Wadsworth Hall Club from its inception. This marked the beginning of the deceased's longc association with the sport of tennis, which he played, or ac- tively supported, during his en- tire 111e. He was secretary of the Wadsworth Hall Club from 1901 to 1907 and o!f<lie Belair Road Tennis Club from 1908 to 1920, and was an officer, president or secretary, from 1923 to 1953 of the Clifton Tennis Club, reputed to be the first tennis club in the United States and was bo- cated on Staten Island, N.Y. He was also a delegate and officer of the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association and a member of the Tennis Umpires Association. Mr'. Thorne's religious aff il- iation was with St. John's Epis- copal Churcli, Staten Island, New York. On June 26, 1907, Mr'. Thorne married Miss Margaret A. Wil- mot, a childhood sweetheart, at The Little Church Around the Corner, New York City. Miss Wilmot who camne te Newcastle as a little girl, grew up there and Mr'. Thorne carried bier books home from school. She became a nurse, training at Pe- terborough, and was working as a nurse in New York City at t.he timne of ber marriage t .o Mr. Thomne. Mrs. Thorne prede- ceased ber husband in 1931 and is buried in the family plot, St. George's Cemetery, Newcastle. The deceased retired in March 1956, after 30 years with Lutz and Sheinkman Corp., lithogra- phers, New York City, where he was director of purchasing. For the past 12 years he macle bis home with bis daughter Margaret, Mrs. W. L. Danielson, Lakewood, New Jersey. Mfter his etirement bie spent the win- ter months with bis daugbtem Frances in Florida and the sum- mer months witb bis sister,' Miss Olive Thorne, Newcastle. The deceased is survived by a son, Charles W. Therne Jr., New Shrewsbury, N.J., two daughters, Mrs. Wendell L. Dan. ielson (Margaret), Lakewood, New Jersey, and M.rs. George 1 Hana Jr. (Frances), Delancý Florida, six grandchildren, onle great grand-daughter, and a sis- ter, Miss Olive Thorne, New- castie. Services were beld at St. George's Church, Newcastle, at 2 o'clock, on June 19, 1959. Rev. D. R. Dewdnev conducted the services and interment was ini St. George's Cemetery, Newcas. tle. Every person Is leSponsible for ail the good -witbin the scope o! bis abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose spbere is the largest.-Gail Hamilton. %_ t Si. Joseph's Church and Faiher Malane on the Opening of their New Church LANDRI & ASSOCIATI Electrical Contracton Kingston Rd. Toronto FRANK H. BURCHE[ B. ARCH. M.R.A.IC. 67 QUEEN STREET SOUTH HAMILTON ONTARIO Invitation 15 extended to ail residents of Bowman ville and District to attend the Solemn Blessing and -I -i Officiai Opening of the new ST.e JOSEPH'S CHURCH LIBERTY ST. S.., BOWMANVILLE on Su nday, June I8th, 1959 4:00 pom. By His Excellency The Most Rev. B. I. Webstfer, D.D. Bishop of Peterborough Scientists Meeting God as the only directlng and saving power.9) New opportunities for prov- ing the practical value o! spir- itual resources were brought out by key officiais in their re- ports on the progress of the worldwide activities o! the Christian. Science Churcli. ___j - -i ES THE CAN&)fAN STATMMArr. mr"vqm"v% à ý --- --.. - -