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Tekawennake News - February 12, 1969., p. 9

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.---c====~------'------,-~- ... -:::.---.cc--..c..---------'--·...;..~~--~=~~'--"~~~----=-=----=---'-----=;;::;:.....:..:=:.,;;.,=============- . ' ' Devotional 9 TIAGAZINE SECTION "But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecuteyou. 11 Matthew 5:44 One evening a group of us had just returned from a baseball game. Somehow the sub-- ject of loving one's enemies came up. After a brief discussion on the subject, a big muscular fellow stood up and saic1 7 rr 1ove your enemies? - nonsense! That ' s not human." No truer words were ever spoken:, for in most lives it is not human nature to love one's enemies. To love in thi s way i s divine nature, and it is a height to which God calls USo Expressing a little less human -na ture and a little more divine nature makes us worthy to be called. Christians~ He ought never to forget that when we love God we also love our brotherso No exceptions are made to this truth, whether our brother be a de- voted friend or an apparent foe. Who knows? With a little love and a little prayer, an enemy may soon become a trusted friend. Prayer: Our Father 7 make·us ever p~epared to love those whom You have made our brothers. Where we have differences, make us tolerant; when we have misunderstanding, may we seek to resolve it in love. I n ·the spirit of Christ we pray. Amen. GREAT LIVES LivGs of great men all remind us :fo can . make our lives sublime, A..1d, cleparting 7 leave behind us Footprints on t he sands of time. Footprint s , that perhaps another, Sailing o 1 er life's solemn main, A foTlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing! shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With 2, heart for any fate 7 Still achioving 7 still pursuing, Learn to · labour and to wait. Hehry W. Longfellow. Fame The heights by great men reached and kept Were not · obtained by sud.den flight, But_ they 7 while their companions slept Wer~ · tch/ling .upward in the night , Tho Lighter Side H.E.L. ' The manager of a Brantford bowling alloy was puzzled by a young -woman bowling first with her l ef t hand 8-ncl then wi th hor right hand.. "You'll i mprove your game if you just concontrato on ono hJ..nd, 11 he advised. 11 0h I don't caro much ,1bout my score, 11 she replied, "I'm concornod about my weight, I want to take: somo off oach s ide.n Sign on a small boy's room : 11 t-/rockr0atiori. 11.roa. 11 Staff o::' Tokawonnako - Publ ished weekly New Credit Six Nations Martin's Corner ?our Corners Sour Springs Smoothtm·m Children's Page Press Op0rator & Tecbnician IJ.1ypists Ward LaFormo 1 Geoc Beaver A. and W. J ,:i,mieson An i t2, Hill Nuriol Portor ~ Sharon VanE~ery Mrs. Olivo Mos0s Nora E. J arn!i.oson Daniel Jamioson Joan LaFormc, New Credit Rona Bonder, Six Nat ions Annua l subscription Semi-annual Individual copies _;\ddross all correspondence to : Th's , ~-Jilma Jamieson, Secty. Treas. Ohswoken 1 Ontario $5.00 $2.50 10 cents

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