Ontario Community Newspapers

The Era (Newmarket, Ontario), October 22, 1969, p. 6

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it Wed October IBM Word MM For The Week Donate 6000 machine to YCH REV CRAIG A CRIBAR Si Andrews Presbyterian Church WHO IS RESPONSIBLE I am that almost is reading this column has heard of the Parable of the Talents It is the story of three men who were entrusted with various amounts of money and how they reacted to that trust Two men made profitable investments while the third for safety sake dug a hole in the ground and buried the money until it was to be returned This story fairly shouts the importance of having a sense of responsibility in the use of opportunities With every gift there is correspond ing obligation And each is accountable for the way he handles it God plays no favorites even though a few appear to be more favored than the rest We are not created equal except as we are equally loved by God and have an equal chance to prove ourselves before Him Nor are we equal in advantages nor equal in opportunity What Jesus underlines is that we are all equally responsible for making the best use of what we have received Once in the temple Jesus saw a widow cast a penny into the treasury He said that she gave more than they all together Plainly she had done nothing of the kind but the Master had a different standard of measurement than the plain observer He estimated the amount by its lovevalue Similarly our had His revolution- He docs not ask talents have you how much capac ity What He does ask is How much faith- show in using what you have Now if we really believed in this then inter national arrangements business personal rela tionships the whole work of the Church of Christ in the world would be changed and a good deal of somnolent selfsatisfaction would disappear overnight For we do tend to assume that we live up to our high ethical and religious standards simply because we endorse them Somewhere I read of a ship which was wrecked because a young workman hammered nails into fittings near the ships compass He took the attitude that if he put in a nail other than the brass nails provided it wouldnt matter Rut it do The compass needle swung toward the substitute iron nail and on its maiden voyage the ship crashed on a submerged reef s with His emphasis on the worth of obscure acts of service A cup of cold water a mite placed on the collection plate an unknown Simon helping to carry a cross such little acts by responsive and responsible peri glorify the race and set forward the Kingdom of God How this truth needs acceptr low moods overtake us and we are templed to join that large and inglorious company of shirkers number Equipped for activity how we like to hide from active service You know how we rationalize our weakness our love of an easy life our disinclination lo duty We have no time for this group We have no talent for that group We have no money for that when we take that kind of attitude any different or any better than the dug a hole in the ground and buried his NEWMARKET Ladies of the Aurora and District Hospital Auxiliary made the final pay- men Oct on the they donat ed this year to York County Hospital scope is a fairly recent de velopment and is based on the principles of sonar the World War II underwater submarine detection device In medicine it is used to detect changes with in the body that may indi cate the presence of tum ors haemorrhages or dis rupting injuries The mach ine works by sending beams of highfrequency sound through the body So und echoes from these are detected as they reflect from the soft structures This results In a scries shapes on an oscilloscope The peaks which arc varying softtissue Emmons President of Aurora and District Auxiliary to York County Hospital hands a cheque to Mr Don Glass chair man of the property committee of the hospitals board of directors The cheque is the final installment of the purchase price of the ultra shown which the ladies donated to YCH Hutchinson keynotes Crusade Peach Crop The average an nual production of peaches In Ontario during the past eight years has been tons 34500 tons of which were grown in the Niagara Peninsula Ontario supplies Singers hope for US trip NBWM A group of York County songsters are trying to sing their way alt the way Atlantic City Members of l York North chapter Soci ety for the Preservation and Encouragement of Dar ker Shop Quartet Singing In he Ontario district fall vcntlon and competition the SPEBSQSA lliey can top the other district chapt ers competing they win the right to represent Ontario also in lull swing for the Chapters annual harmony showcase Following three years at Second ary School the MEN OF MUSIC have moved this years show St Andrews College Theatre InterChurch Youth Crusade with Christ Evangelist from Calgary Rev John Hutchinson Newmarket Free Methodist Church Hear a Youth Leader with a MESSAGE FOR YOUTH A Cordial Intitalioti to Ml NEWMARKET Canadian Youth for Christ national staff evangelist John Hutchinson is keynot- a weeklong Newmarket Methodist Church Grace Youth Crusade being soon- Associated Gospel Victory and continues until this years and his duties have sored by four town Baptist and Church of the Jane Walker MeUl0dlst entertained SHARON Miss Jane Walker daughter of Mr and Mrs Sheldon Wal ker was the guest of honor at many Mrs Eleanor Dav Ids Toronto Mrs Lee Mc Gregor Holland Landing countries mostly in Asia He will be direct ing the counselor program during the Newmarket Hutchinson will be speaking Church Rev John Tiebe president of Canadian Youth for Christ speaker at the crusade He spoke last Sun day morning at Church of

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