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the tribune stouffville ont thursday february 4- 1943 established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to twelve pages weekly circulation 1850 copies subscription kates per year in advance incanada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments no lack of news these days nobody can complain at a lack of war news nowadays it seems to be coming from all directions and most of it makes very comfortable reading with the russians per forming miracles in pushing back the nazi invader with general montgomery chivvying rorrimell and his afrika korps across the desert and with berlin at last getting a taste of what london took in 1940 there is every reason to feel encouraged about the shape of things to come the only fly in the ointment is the bogging down of the allied offensive in tunisia it is probably true that the weather played a part in holding up our offensive here but there may be good reason for some uneasiness as to what is go ing on behind the scenes from a politicad angle however apart from this the war news generally must be considered satisfactory poor time to pop the question york county council chose an inopportune time to press the government for some improvement in old age pen sions such as increase to total pensioners and lowering the minimum age that pensions may be paid while the great majority of people would favor granting pensions at a low er age it should be remembered that just now the govern ments are straining every effort to raise money for prose cuting the war our chief energy is devoted to the war and to intro duce such a measure as pensions just now means that the request of the county of york will be ignored as one member of the council declared it would cost five million dollais annually to increase pensions from 20 to 25 per month it will be seen that grave consideration must be given the whole scheme that five millions is required for war effort just now and thousands of pensioners are able to make a bit extra these days to aid themselves when they get around to it the government may well consider paying the pension to everybody when they reach the eligible age millions would be saved in operating the present act that could go to paying the pensions for those not receiving it now all that would be necessary would be to prove age and citizenship thousands of men and women now finding jobs as in vestigators office clerks and old age pension board would not be needed any longer arrangements should also be made enabling wage earners to pay toward their pension during their working days if that was done the idea of a dole would be lifted from the whole setup and the financial responsibility would be lightened however all these ideas will have to wait until the war is won it is most unlikely that any government could be interested at this time trade board vs dept of agriculture financial post control of agricultural subsidies would be taken away from the wartime prices and tradeboardand turned over to the dominion department of agricuture if a powerful lobby now underway in many parts of the country is successful this would mean that hon james gardiner and his ad visors not finance minister ilsley and donald gordon would decide if when and how bonuses on butter cheese bacon and other farm products would be paid the wptb would still set retail prices of farm pro ducts but the actual costs of these to the public treasury would rest with the dominion department of agriculture conceivably the subsidies might eventually amount to more than the price asked of the consumer and their payment would constitute a most serious threat of inflation on the other hand the department of agriaulture officials should know more about farm production and the necessity or otherwise boosting output through timely bon uses than the wptb so far the latter has not exhibited any great shrewdness in dealing with either beef or butter the two most critical farm products to date in both cases wptb officials went cut of their way to deny the very course they were forced to adopt a few weeks later that sort of thing does not engender confidence officials of the wptb apparently have failed to understand fundamental farm problems they do not seem to realize that most of the food now running short takes a long time to produce and that if we want more beef but ter and eggs preparations including financial encourage ment may have to start months sometimes years in ad vance they have not grasped the fact well known to every farmer that almost aii agricultural lines are competitive with abdicate price balance governing their ebb and flow because the country has a superabundance of wheat and large supplies of live stock feeds wptb seems to think that there is nothing to worry about in the general food situation but the public cannot live on bread alone and it takes time manpower and money to manufacture live stockfeeds on the farm into butter bacon and beef these problems department of agriculture officials should understand but there is grave doubt whether they understand as thoroughly the dangers arising from infla- sunday school lesson lesmjn for february 7 jesus affirms his deity golden text he that hath een uie liath sen the father john 14 the historical settlug it was probably in the month of october ad 29 following the incident concerning the woman taken in adultery that jesus had this latercatlon with some of the chief pharisees concerning the person of the messiah he insisted on the fact that he came from god to do the fathers will ana claimed all the attributes of deity- veio ly verse john s12 i am the light of the world consider the greatness of this claim who but a divine per son could rightfully make it if jesus were less than god it was monstrous presumption so to speak but in the full consciousness of his deity he could use such language rightfully to follow him meant de liverance from darkness and enjoy ment of the light of life verse 25 who art thou we need not wonder that such a ques tion was addressed to jesus after he had declared that he had come into the world as sent from the father who bore witness to him v 18 and that unless he was the object of their faith they should die in their sins vs 21 24 his answer is most significant and might be rendered altogether what i said unto you from the beginning verse 26 i have many things to say and to judge of you judgment is a divine pieiogative men are warned not to judge matt 71 but he who was ill the temple that day was the one who shall event ually be the judge of all he was f theie to speak and act in the name of the father those who refuse his woid he will in the last day l eject verse 27 they uudeistood not as he spoke so intimately and con fidently of the father they were unable to follow him his woids were beyond their comprehension for they did not realize that he himself was the incarnate son of the father veise 2s when ye have lifted up the son of man then shall ye know that i am he the lifting up refers to the cross as in chapter 314 and again in 1232 which is explained in verse 33 as depicting his death after his crucifixion his resurrection would demolish ate his deity rom 14 verse 29 i do always those things that please him none but jesus could so speak truthfully he was conscious of his own sinless- ness his delight was to do the fathers will veise 30 many believed on him that is they received his testimony and evidently confessed openly that they trusted him as the promised saviour verse 31 if ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples in deed continuance in the faith is the proof of reality by obedience to his word they would demonstrate the genuineness of their professed belief in him verse 32 the liuth shall make you free as his word was opened up to them and they were subject to it they would find deliverance from sins guilt and power and freedom from the law and its con demnation veise 33 we be abrahams seed and were never in bondage to any man it was a vain boast but indicated the resentment of their hearts when he spoke of freedom through the truth at that very time they were slaves to sin and in subjection to the hated roman authority verse 34 whosoever commlt- teth sin is the servant of sin he who practices sin shows by that very course that he is a poor help less thrall of the sin in which he lives from this christ came to give deliverance matt 121 verse 35 the son abideth ever his relationship to the father is eternal verse 36 it the son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed true liberty is only found through christ it is liberty not to serve the desires of the flesh but to glorify god verse 56 your rather abraham rejoiced to see my day they prid ed themselves upon being children of abraham but they had none of his characteristics in verses 37 to 55 they had attempted to defend their claim and jesus exposed their hypocrisy now he tells them that abraham in whom they gloried looked on in faith to his coming into the world and rejoiced therein verse 57 hast thou seen abraham they misunderstood him he did not say that he had seen abraham but that abraham had the old home town by stanley im senthnd johnnva dozbh sweaters- if he s in the teotucs he cam wear ohe ame ip hs fioes to kelanp he can wear all of cm at omce they ajest seen his day that is he saw the day of messiah the coming into the world of the promised seed through whom blessing was to reach out to all the world gen22ls never theless he had seen abraham and know him well verse 58 befoie abraham was i am john the baptist declared he was before me 130 yet he was younger by six months than his ardent forerunner so fay as his humanity is concerned now he claims to antedate abraham he is the enternally preexistent one who was before all things col 117 verse 59 then took they up stones to cast at him his woids proclaimed him as either god or a blasphemer they thought him to be the latter and so would have stoned him to death were it not that he hid himself and went out of the temple thus ended the colloquy for that time sullen and unconvinced his questioners re jected his testimony as to his true personality the heirt of the lesson the great question of whether jesus was only man at his best or god incarnate is not one to be an swered by human reasoning but by the definite testimony of the word of the loid as in this chapter where he himself makes declara tions so clear and definite as to his preexistence and his eternal son- ship that only gross unbelief can le- fuse to accept them at their face value and to bow in adding worship at his feet owing him as god over all blessed foieveimoie he who was god the son fiom eternity be came in grace the son of god as man having no human father in order that he might be our kins manredeemer the truth of his deity is fundamental to the chustian revelation british air chief air cliief mnrslml sir arthur harris head of the raf bomber command nho directs the aerial assaults on germany stouffville floral roses wedding bouquets funeral designs cut flowers milt smith prop telephone 7001 7002 lion that being the case the food solution may not lie in transferring subsidy control to the department of agri culture it might be much wiser to give agriculture a great er voice in policies of the wptb for months it has been an open secret that no love was lost between these twp organizations at ottawa undoubt edly this friction is responsible for a great deal of the trouble we find ourselves in today such friction has no part whatever in an allout war effort come on canada now the tide of battles flowing as we boldly take our stand to defend our dear existence in this fair and prosprous land while the hosts of hate come march ing with a strong unswerving tread as we prize our life and freedom let these words be never said that we failed to do our duty that we shirked our simple task be it money faith or service all is small enough to ask in the freshness of each morning as the anxious days begin let us each lesolve and mean it to do all we can to win let us each lesolve and mean it if we fail the couise is clear and we may as well admit it that the woist can happen heie if we fail to heed the warning if we choose the easy way shut our eyes to doom or horror living only for today then though death may never threaten from these blue canadian skies though our streets may never echo to the sirens eene cues fate shall find us in our folly in our weakness we shall learn that its only for the resolute the tides of fortune turn here we stand a race united every one a job to fill man the navy army air force man the factory and the mill you who keep the home flies burn ing youve a chance to do your bit even though you feel youre help less though you know your the unfit yon can help to build the weapons all the weaponsthey require dauntless sailors soldiers airmen let us rise up 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