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ORONO WEEKLY TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 9th, 1968 Seripture Lesson St. John 10: 1-18 Tagken fromn a sermon preachcd ,)y Rev. B. E. Long. Jesus said, "I have corne that heýy might have life and have it moi(re abundantly" 1 One of the sad facts 'of life is that ail too often lîfe gets away from us. We may live long years but the quality7 of being, which Jesus called eternal life, may el- ude, us. In the life and teachitig of Jesus, we see revealed, the fact that rnan was born to live, that life can be losV in the living; that the abundant life is lost wihen lîfe is taken for granted; that it is missed by bot carin.g and that it- is gain ed as we have the capacity to drearn dreams and see visions. The central concern of man of the deepest thînkers of our day is the rneaninglessness of if e v'hich hautiVe mankind. In his drama, "A cbild Born," Stephen Vincent Benet helps us get at the' answver. The Inilkeeper's wy'ife is speaking in Bethlehem, lament- ing the fact that none in the inn bas gone ontto worship the ýiew- boýrn cbild. 11e causes bier to eay;ý Gýod pity us indecd.' For we are huýman and do noV always sec The 'vision wben it cornes, the shining change, Oir, if we see it, do not follow it Because it is too hard, oo stranige, too new Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too - mucli with com- Mer easy Ways... Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost Minute by minute, day by drag- ging day In aIl the thous'and small un- caring ways... Always ah ,d always. Life can be Lost wtbout vision>but not lost by death, Lost by not daring, willing, go- ing on, Beyond the ragged edge of f(rtitude To sornetbing more - some- thing no0 man bas seehi. We often miss if e in ail its fulness by noV caring. Charles F. Jacobs has. expressed it welI iir a4aying, "There is an OTHERNESS about man which sets hlm apart from ail other members of the ah- inmai kingdorn. Man alone bias the eapacity to eare, to insinuate him- self into the pain and suffering and needs of his fclowmnen. This capacity Vo take into oneseif the suffering of another is a gift ai- maost uniluely humain. It is man's GTHERNE SS." Yet not ail achieve this quality, oDr cultivate it. Man at bis worst cai be selfisb and ingrown, wîth noG care for bis own kind. Jesus illustrated this in bis account of. the Ricb Farmner, ýwho, having be-en blessed with an abundant harvest, thought of its use only iri termis of his own self gratifi- cation. One of the real tragedies of the in-dividual who lives for birnselfi alone, or only for bis nearest kmn, with no concern for what happens to anyone beyond bis own domi- cile, is that he comes Vo tbink of other people as "objects." In bis drama, "The Cocktail, Party"! T. S. ElF4jOt dram'atizes what can bappen to'a person wben he hinks of other human beings only as objects. Edward Chamber- layne is distressed because bis wife, Lavinia, lias left him, and lefV hirn without giving him any reason for ber going. Edward finds birnself alone with an Uni- dentified Guest who happens to be a psychiatrist. Edward i-eveals that be had neyer beeni in love with Lavinia. He had treated ber only as an object, and 110W that she treats. him in the samne man- ner, an ýobject, not a, person, he is in the darkest night of 'the soul., The Unidentified Guest tels bim, "You no longer feel quite human. You're suddenly reduced Vo the status of an object - A liv- ing object, but no longer a per- son." How easily life is lost in living! Our society is con inually vict- imized by the uncaring produc- ers of hb'armful products ahd ad- vertising. 'Gý B. Mather in the latest publication lof the Board of Evangelism and Social Service, "The Cutting Edge," points ont "Scientific research, in which ev- eryone presumably relies, bad no0 soonter proved a link betweer cigarette smiokihgand lung can- cer than tobacco companies step- ped up their advertising 111 com- mercialse ssociating cigarettes witb youtb, vigour, bealtb and glarnour, and were easily able tco counter tiie effects of the findings of science". To the Vo- bacco companies, human beings are objects to be exploited even if it means cutting down their b-ealth and length of life. Eacb day brings its report of the needless slaughter of human Ife on our bighways , wrhere people drive in such a way and in sncb condition th(at tbey plainly.* indicate. that others on the road' are-just objects. A littie girl was aken V9 the eye specialist because it was be- coigapparent tbat she- did not have proper vision. Wben the glasses bad been fitted and she stepped ont into the out-of-doors, she eý.claimed Vo ber mother, "I didn't know trees looked li1ke that." A new fascinating world hkid opencd up for ber. Wbcn an individual, a cburcb, a nation, loses its power Vo drearn dreams aýid Vo -envision some- tbing better yet Vo come, it dies. To be sure., physical existence may continue, but the soul, hat whicb makes man a man, lias passed away. Wben the churcb is at ease, no longer zealous to extend the proud of its accumulations, but kEigdom of God Vo the 'ends of the earth, that cburcb is on the way Vo its own funeral. IV bas been pointed out how that thé first church, the churcb "eBoirn To Live" in Jerusalem, was really "sitting pretty," James the brother of Je- sus, was the leader. But the vision was gone, and by the end ýof the first century A.D. the church in Jerusalem, was closing out. The future'belonged. to men of vision, men if e Saint Paul and Peter who took the story of Christ out 1into the Greek and the Roman World. Always and always, life i'n ail its fulness eludes us when the vision perishes. The person whýo lacks vision often setties for something less than the best. H1e lives for ends that are far too small for man created i the image of God. "I klidn't know trees look like that", said the littie girl seeing throughÏ corrected vision for the first tirne. How rnuch this is* hike the experience of surrendering thýe soul toi Christ, and then to see life through the new fulness He brihgs intýo every experience. People are no longer things Vo be treated as such. lfe is no longer "mere existence", it is a life throbbing with new and vital meaning. MacDonald Speaks At ND..Meet « Douglas Moffatt, president of the Durham - Northumnberland New Democratie Party Associa- tion announced Thursday, On-tar- io NDP leader, Donald C. Mac- Donald would be guest speaker at- the party nomination May 8 in Port Hope. 1Mr. Moffatt said the party nom- ination has býeen changed fromn Port Hope high school to the Dr. Power's school ini Port Hople. Mr. Moffatt said that besides« the an- nounicement of Wilmer lli to seek the nomination three other people were interestel in it. H1e d-eclined to name who the other possible candidates might be. The meeting will start at 8 p.m. Forestry Service For Private Laindow..ners A free forestry service is a- vailable to private landowners in Ontario. Professional foresters from the Department of Lands and Forests will provide advice for a variety of forestry problems. Such things as what kind of trees should be planted in certain ar-i eas. how trees should be plaInted, 1 how to control insects ànd dis- eases of trees, when and bow to carry out improvernent tech- niques such as pruning or thin- ning,' what trees should be cut frorn the woodlot, etc. are ail cov- ered under this service, This service is available Vo any landowner in.the Province ofi Ontario. 'The landowner has sim- Ply Vo cail the nearest Lands & Forests office and make arrange- mentý, Vo meet with the forester and examine the property. In addition Vo this advisory ser- vice, landowners miay arrange Vo have trees planted for them or have improvement work carried out for themn by the Department of Lands & Forests. To be eligible for this service, the owner must be wîhling to treat at least 5 ac- res of land. To obtain this service the land- owner must enter into an agree- ment with the Department assur- ing that the land will be manag- ed accordig Vo the prescribed plan. This service bas been in ef- fect since 1967 in Peterborough County, since 1968 in Durham and Nortbumberland Coulnies and cornes into effect in 1969 in Vic- SPRNGPLANTINGIl! Shade and Fruit Trees -Flowering Shruls & Trees Ornamental Evergreens Peat Moss- Fertilizers CALL AT RICHARD So'N FA R MaS PHONE 983-5180O On Higkway 35 just North of Pontypool, Ontario N ORTH U BERLAND- DURHAM PROGRESSIVE, CONSERVATIVE NOMINATION MEETING TUSDYMAY lt 9 p.m. PORT HOPE HIGH SCHOOL Guest Speaker Eldoua WoolIans, .P $1200.00 WORTH AGRCUTUALPARK VICTORIA DAY, 1 968 MONDAY, 1MAY 20t1 Starting at 9:30 p.m. ,Adiits 50e Children 25e Sp hoe y the Rotary Club of Port Hope