ow comity tm Er THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG 3 -- pI o Thursday, May 13, 1926 Te . -- She Could Never Do The Things Other Girls Did ery Rows, Beollard, Alta, i==""4 am only twent ears but have suffered oy Io and nerve. trouble for ! - years. § id never do the things other Pls did, that is, in the line of 1 , ete, and could never on myself at work. #ix months ago I began {EIR SIFY BY WM. E. GILROY, D.D. Editor of The Congregationalist. A lesson such as this raises many questions which cannot be answered. But with reasonable clearness any man, who wishes to understand the practical teachings of the lesson and its context, can very quickly discover why Abraham was '"'the chosen of | God." We are apt to think of God's choice of an individual or of his choice of a people as an arbitrary WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON The International Uniform Sunday School Lesson for May 16: Why God Chose Abraham.--GQ@enesls 18:1-8, 16-19. tnd a holy people and the medium for | the expression of his purposes. ! A covenant-keeping God needs covenant-keeping men to make his will effective; and it is as a covenant- %eeping man as well as a man of courage and directness of action that Abraham appears in these records of Genesis. Here, too, he appears in our lesson as a man of social instincts, prac- ticing, .if not originating, that fine | hospitality which has been so essen- | wanted no more of her on his Jase | back, he curved and danced like an | overbalanced see-saw, kicking his! hoofs in the air behind him. Judith | laughed and cried. The horse pro- ceeded into a terrific gallop, turn- ing finally off the road into a clear. | ing beyond which he saw a fence, | The clearing was full of low stumps, | and the animal's legs buckled under him, throwing Jude "ever his head. She fell on her side, a sharp splinter | of a stump tearing open the flesh of her arm. She lay there motionless | for a few minutes in a sort of ecstasy, her eyes closed. Then she | looked at her erm, and glanced about for the horse. He had risen, unhurt, and was standing on the road. She turned her sleeve around so that the torn part would not show, first stopping the bleeding of the wound with some dry moss. Then A Startling and Attractive NewFountainPen Waterman's newest fountain pen is called Ripple- Rubber. The material is hard rubber--the most 'lasting and satisfying of all pen materials. The color design is a series of cardinal and black ripples resembling in design the marks left by wavelets on the sea-shore. Although startling when it catches the eye, it | never becomes tiresome or monot- onous. The effect is original 8 tial a part and so deep an obligation | she mounted Prince and rode home. of eastern life. She said nothing about ner adven. Our lesson says that Jehovah ap- | ture, binding up her arm so that no peared to Abraham. Elsewhere in| one saw there was anything the mat- the Bible we are told that mo man | ter with it. am Just twice the girl I was, and joy everything in general life more. I am very grateful your Pills have dome for choice, conferring special privilege on some favored son or favored race. It is, hard for us to get away from this notion of such arbitrary choice The Jews considered and beautiful, exciting 'ad- ES miration whenever seen. > § ~ ebine. only by The T. Milbura' 'oronto, Ont. |THE NATIONAL CLEAN ERS AND DYERS i 'Sanitary Steam Pressing and 4 Also Fremeh Dry . Repairs and alterations. Bagot and William Streets 2188. J. ¥F. WALKER, Prop. Te | THOMAS COPLEY Sarpenter i: 'Phone 987 Ses us for all kinds of Carpentry work. Estimates giveu on mew floors laid. Have your hardwood floors clean. od with our mew floor cleaning ma. Here's Proof That ZUTOO Reade Ends Headache Mr. E. F. 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In view of these assumptions it is very necessary that we should study clearly 'what seems to have been the basis and ground of God's choice of individuals and nations. Far from being a mattesZmerely of privilege and preferment; God's choice has al- ways involved responsibility and duty. Even the choice of Jesus of Naza- reth was a choice that led to the cross, and in lesser degree God's cholce has always involved a sacri- ficial way toward the fulfilling of his purposes. -- Would Abraham' have been chosen if he had failed to follow that im- pulse that led him out to a new land and to a new worship? There is evi- dently very strong warrant for the conception that Abraham's call to leave Ur of the Chaldees was a call toward a breaking with that environ- ment and the establishment of life upon a new conception of worship. Apparently it was a turning from idolatrous worship to a worship do- minated with a sense of personality and moral ideals. Abraham, in his dealings with Lot and in otNér respects, show&d moral vision, a vision of magnanimity and goodness far higher than that that many have to-day. Abraham's Qualities. It was because of this capacity for consecration to moral and spiritual ideals that God called Abraham. He chose one fitted to be the founder of hath seen God at any time. Just what was the vision that came to Abraham, or just in what form there came this one whom he regarded as a heavenly messenger must be de- termined in the light of this later statement of the New Testament. The matter is not one of great im- portance except to those who quibble over the letter of scriptures and neg- lect its spirit. Those who are con- cerned about the practical teaching of scripture and finding in these an- cient fiarratizks and early beginnings the teachings and lessons that may help us to make our lives godly and useful in our own time, will concen- trate their Interest upon the nature of Abraham's relationship to God rather than upon the external de- tails. re Bag Fulfilling Conception. Few men would claim that Abra- ham's conception of God was as lofty has the conception that Jesus brought to his disciples at a later day, but Jesus regarded himself as fulfilling the conception that Abraham had bad, and he recognized this primi- tive faith of Abraham, his devotion to duty, and his surrendering him- self to the divine. will as making him the father of the faithful. Thoin is that we should live in allegiance to God as Abraham lived. and that if the conception of a spirit- ual being everywhere present, the conception that Jesus expounded to the woman of Samaria, is a richer and nobler conception, our lives will be enriched in this larger experience of communion with God only as we show the consecration that Abraham so profoundly displayed. We should remember that God does not deal with men on the basis of arbitrary choice. The divine privileges are extended to men iipon a very different basis--' 'Whosoever will, let him come and partake of the water of life freely." God chooses those who are willing to accept his choice and who are ready, as was Abraham, to hear his call and surrender their Ilves to his love and power. 4 WILD GEESE By Martha Ostenso. 1 eels eed. 4 Bo Wiper Judith expected to find Amelia in tears. Instead she wes coldly compos- ed. "He's found out about the wool," she said, her fingers work- ing quickly over the yellow beans she was stringing. "What about it? Is he kicking?" Judith dropped the wood noisily into the box beside the stove. "You should have told him you had it." . "Told him--hell! I'm not going to tell him anything from now on. And when the haying is over I'm leaving." 'No, Judith, you are not." Judith turned on her. "Why mot? Who's going to stop me? Him?" She flung a long brown arm toward the door, "No. If you go it's against my will, and you won't be let back." Amelia had straightened her should- ers against the chair, and her voice came hard and even. "You?! What--when--" was for a moment speechless. Judith "I don't want you to go away, Judie, until you are old enough to take care of yourself," Amelia said in a softer voice. 'You have never been off this farm, really, and you would only be miserable." Judith narrowed her eyes at her. Then her face flamed. "You're lying! That's not the rea- son at all. You're afraid--afraid to let me go because of what he'll do to you! You'd keep us all here to proteot yourself,, because you're scared green of him! You're a coward!" Her volce rose to a bitter pitch, the tears trembled in her eyes. Amelia recoiled as though she fear- ed she would strike her. Then Judith suddenly plunged out of the door, caught Prince who was in the corral, and in another moment was racing the wind down the wood road, Judith beat the horse furiously, goaded him with her heels. She raged at him, because he was not in a mood with her. Then, as if he Chapter XI. At Oeland no game laws taken into account except which the settlers agreed among themselves were good. Fishing in the lakes of those who were fortun- ate enough to have them on their land was open to those who did not have them, most of the year round. It has become such an old custom that the owner's right in the matter had been 'lost sight of. So that Caleb saw no reason why he should humor the sentimental Bjarnasson to the extent of doing without fish, when this food" saved him dollars' worth of meat. He resolved that during the coming autumn there should be no lack of fish at his table, whether the bodies of the two that had been drowned were recovered of not. It was well to fix this idea in the mind of Bjarnasson at once, although there would be little time for fishing during the summer, and no way of keeping the fish more than a day. On 2 morning before haying be- gan, he sent Martin to the lake. Martin was dubious, and as reluct- ant as he had ever been to carry out any order of Caleb's. Nevertheless, he went, fish pole and tackle in the cart behind him, as well as a small net which Caleb had borrowed from one of the halfbreeds at Yellow Post. Martin realized the sigmifi- cance of that net. It was that which he 'balked against particularly, though he said nothing. It meant that Caleb intended selling what fish he could not use, probably to Johanneson at Yellow Post. Mantin's long face lengthened as he drove down the road westward. There were ruthless things a man might do honorably, such as violat- ing another's property to . secure needed food for those dependent upon him. But what he had been sent out to do was neither honor- able nor necessary. As he struck the open road, his eyes turned toward the prairie ly- ing on the south. This was Caleb's cattle land, broad and flat, with two good bluffs for shade. The great herd was scattered over it with an intermingling of horses. The milch cows were kept separate, in the richer grass near the marshes to the north. Dull anger surged through Martin as he regarded this manifestation of his father's cupl- dity. The great herd meant the sacrifice of one dream after an- other. There would be no mew house In the spring, but the year following the herd would have doub- led in size--and perhaps the flax lying to the east would have stretch- ed still farther, like a greedy hand gathering the earth. Martin loved the land, but there was something else in him that craved expression. It had been re- presented by the dream of the new house, the dream of the thing that was to be made by his own hands, guided by his own will. Now that, too, was gome. Nothing to do now but toil on without a dream. It might have been kinder of Caleb to have deceived him until the end of the harvest---there would then have been a vision to ease thé burden. A false vision was better than none. There was no rebellion in Martin's soul---only a sort of passive resent- ment that did not often rise above the hard, surrounding shell of en- durance in which he had grown. 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Fred Crawford Passed Away on Sat. +. urday, May Sth. four brothers. Funeral will be held Tuesday from his late home to Oso cemetery, much sympathy is extend- ed weather stays cool seeding has been done. and pupils spent a busy day clean- ing the yard and planting flowers on Arbor Day. Little Jean Boles is quite 'well again. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Craw- ford, Tichborne, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam Crawford, Smiths Falls, and Mrs. D. McDougall and daughter, Doris, Elphin, at Mrs. George Craw- May 10.---The and very little The teacher Boles Corners, Miss Dowdell is spend- do your business locally, Boyd 398 Brdok st. > And yet he understood Judith better St iis ew Reach Forty Sfbough 1 sever found. expres 7 Sound and Well although it never found expression YOU fay never this toward her. 2 Judith had not known he was go- bave realized fact. But it is well ford's. - Kathleen Hickey is better. John . . Bourk was in the vicinity on business one day last week. Wil- liam Lister spent Bunday at his home. . Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bedard have moved to Snow Road. Samuel Cook has been working for John Boles. Mrs. John Crawford, Oso, and Mrs. Samuel Cook called on Mrs, George Crawford, Saturday. Roddie Boles, Clarendon, spent the week- end with his uncle, Frank Lister, Elphin. Emmeline Henderson and ing the week-end at her home. On Saturday, May 8th, Fred Craw- ford, a much respected resident of our neighborhood, passed away. He and his mother have resi®ed here for a number of years, the other mem- bers of the family all being married 'and away. He was only twenty- eight years of age, and was {Il only a short time. Left to mourn are his mother and father, five sisters and AR ot. "My sob breaking out ing to the lake. He half hoped that a she would not find it out, if he came back without fish. Her eyes of late held a contempt that one had to turn away from. At the Bjarnassons', Martin de- cided to go against Caleb's instruc- §.7 £1id FH known to the medical profession--more 4 to those who are associated with life} insurance examination. tions. Instead of taking the road that led around to the opposite side of the lake, he drove into the farm ng yet? he ask- come up to shake Wiltred Burke, Oso, spent Sunday evening at J. Boles. Edward Bédard at John Welsh; Pearl and Vera Boles also Mri. Robert Boles and Lena spent Saturday afternoon at Ciaren- don; Willlam Lister called at J. Boles'; Charles Cook Is fiot well; all hope he will soon be better. " i 'W. B. Cronk, Brantford, and F. A. Miles. Norwich, who are in jail at Woodstock with murder in causing the death of an Otterville girl, struck by their car, are to be released on $10,000 bail each.