The Church Speaks Sponsored by the WHITBY MINISTERIAL. ASSOCIATION By The REV. RON FISHER Pastor Hebron Christian Reformed Church This week we remnembered, for last Monday was Remembrance Day. And so we ask some questions. What do slaves have to sing about? Or captives? Or exiles? It is truly a wonder that a rich musical heritage was born out of the days of black slavery in North Anierica. But no great songs came out o! the conentration camps of World War Il or the prisoner-of-war camps of the Far-East. The captive Israelites ini Babylon could compose only songs of mourning like Psalm 137: "By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept ... How shallwe sing the Lord's song in a forelgn land?" What else is there for displaced people to sing about, living wthln the shadow of that threatening city, listening to the boasts of its King Nebuchad- nezzar, 'Behold the great Babylon I have bult"? Babylon was the very opposite of Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the city o! God, Babylon was the city of man with aillhs anti-gods. StUU, Israel's captivity was also the work o! the Lord. God used even Babylon to demonstrate His plan of salvation. He made the light to shine even In the darkness. For there in Babylon, God's people were cured of their idolatries. There, homesick for the city of God, the longing lyrics of Psalm 137 were born: ..If I forget you, O Jerusalemn, let my right hand witherl1 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If 1 do not remember you, If I do not see Jerusalem above my ighest joyl1" Few of us know from experience the agonies of a concentration or relocation camp. We thank God for sparing us such ordeals. We are freel Yet our songs of praise are terrible absent in our lives. Yes, more than we care to admit, our lives. are enslaved to the dlsheartening spirits of oûr times. Lot our. prayer be, as we remember, "Lord, liberate us!1 Set us f ree by Your mlighty Word and Holy Spirit, so that our whole lives may praise Your name, through Jesus Christ our Lord, AMEN!" 1 CANADA MUSIC WEEK The local branch of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association (ORMTA) has scheduled Use foilowing events for Canada Music Week. Sunday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m. Al Saints Anglican Church in Whitby will host a scared concert featuring the Oshawa Festival Singers, the Men's Rotary choir and Use Ail Saints Church choir accompanied by a brass quartet. There will be congregational singing and a special guest - Hugh Dean McKellar - from the Hymn Society of America. Admission is free. Tuesday, Nov. 19, 8 p.m. at Harmony Road Baptist Church in Oshawa a concert by guest soloist Dari Salmers and a 55- minute film entitled Musicanada. Free ad- mission. Wednesday, Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. St. Paul's United Church in Ajax will present a Canadian Composers' recital featuring students o! the ORMTA. No admission charge. Saturday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m. at Parkwood Estate, 1270 Simcoe St. N, in Oshawa Use Canadian Piano Trio will put on a recital. Tickets may be obtained by cailing Parkwood at 579-1311. 98 ambulance cails last week The Whitby ambulan- ce service responded to 98 calîs in Use week en- ding last Thursday. 0f this number, 31 were routine responses, anoUser 31 emergencies, 22 standby cails for oUer services, nine un- specified other calîs and five motor vehicle mishaps. VEMBER 13, 1985. PAGE 19 GOLDEN GATE 107 Brook St. S. WhItby 668-2222 This popular, 30year oid ChInene restaurant bas recentiy Infroduced Szechuan Cuisine for those who ilke hof, npicy disfes. n edditiontf0lifs Chinesa fere the Golden Gsfte aiso of- fers a wide seleof ion of Canadien disires. The Bo-0o piaffer and their ofnichen fingers aea fwo specialif les worf fi frying. Perfecf for lun- ch or dInner. Open f rom il f0 2 a.m. daily. FrIday and Safurday unt il 3 a.m. Fuiip iicansed. Dine-mn and fasf home deliiery. They're ban king on a banquet Staff at the Dundas Prices were St. E. branch of the reasonable, though,- Continental Bank of with hamburgers Canada took a break going for $1.50 and hot from banking last dogs at $1.25, grilled Thursday and Friday on mesquite wood by to barbecue ham- super chef John burgers and hot dogs Cloutier. to help raise funds for Bank employees, the United Way. customers and even an Customers were off-duty policeman treated to the sight o! were urged to help out normally staid by eating and the two bankers in conser- day event brought in vative suits manning about $100. the barbecue and A!! the fixin's were burhigr, ot thes, available and there douts and offee to was a bowl of chiclets anone whnd offwas for those who wanted win o put up the onions but still had to mollnev. pu p h get close later. 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