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fcfl 4 the stourryltlf trisune thyttfav apr 16 1959 victoria square news april 9 church news by profession of faith mr k petty margaret smith anne buchanan alan snider alan nichols bruce mortson donald boynton holy communion was also observed on sunday april 12 the ser- jdon will be a window over the sink borne and school the home and school of ss ko 7 will meet in the sr koom on monday evening apr 13 at s pm this will be united nations night the guest speaker will be mrs s- matsunaga who will tell of the customs of japan parents and friends are invited neighborhood notes eleven ladles from here at tended the schneider luncheon held in melville united church recently and report an enjoy able evening friends are pleased to see mr w j mulrhead is able to be out wanted more cream shippers for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound batterfat for cream delivered to the creamery to have our truck call phone 186w stouffville creamery co cold storage lockers for rent again following a bout with pneumonia mrs a f binnington is visit ing with her daughter and son- inlaw and new grandson mr and mrs arthur hewitt and baby in chatham nj rev a f binnington attend ed the safedriving banquet held in the king edward hotel tor onto one day last week all the ministers of the toronto area were invited and encouraged to promote safe driving miss carolanne kennedy of oak kidges spent a few days last week with her grandparents mr and mrs clarence steckley misses barbara and margaret empringham spent last week with their grandmother and aunt mrs l knapp and irene wednesday evening last week the macdonald children enter tained twelve of their friends in honor of their cousin roberta leitch who was celebrating her fourth birthday miss dora helmkay of ottawa spent wednesday of last week with mr and mrs l l nichols mrs donald pickering enter tained a number of friends and neighbors to a quilting bee last week misses anita and patricia on- spent a few days last week with their uncle and aunt mr and mrs jesse bryson at laskay master donald orr of king spent last week with his cousin master ronald orr mr and mrs john emnrins- ham spent the weekend with mr and mrs ray wilson and boys at etobicoke sauls traqic failure temperance 1 samuel 11 15 31 lesson for april 19 golden text behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams 1 sam 1522 the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson in our last lesson we studied israels rejection of god and her choice of an earthly king in this lesson we see gods rejec tion of israels first king at the outset of his career king saul seemed to possess the very characteristics which would make him successful but as time went by his true nature came to light- god could tolerate his wickedness no longer he was finally overthrown by his enemies and slain a tragic fate indeed for one whose early 6m610wio frae mart prasei nw milk write todayl ditbt fanants or cnataoa 409 huron street toronto stouffville district high school day and night classes open mmt tuesday april list programme in auditorium at 745 pm i consisting of fashjon shows gymnastic display and musical numbers followed by exhibits of art sewing millinery shop work home economics science and other class work no admission charge everyone welcome rev a f binnington mr and mrs d booth of kettleby mr and mrs ray bennett and ricky of richmond hill had saturday evening dinner with mr and mrs percy bennett mrs c walker and miss carol mortson were in charge of the nursery class on sunday there were seven children in it there will be a nursery class every sunday for 25 year olds mr and mrs stan boynton and donald called on mr and mrs jim boynton and family in their new home in etobicoke on sunday evening years had seemed so promising recall the anointing of saul his public selection and installa tion as king described in the last lesson what noble virtues i he exhibited in those days humility modesty selfcontrol courage and magnanimity but now years later all is changed he is still a courageous warrior j his defeated enemies testify to that but a drastic change seems to have occurred in his conduct j could this be the same man j the questions arise what happened to saul what chang ed the splendid young hero into j a rejected king what danger- 1 ous attribute was lurking in the j shadows of his character ready i to reveal itself when opportun- j ity would permit one word answers these ques tions self sauls successes went to his head he put his trust in his own prowess his own judgment his own resour ces his own troops his own strength instead of in the liv ing god he desired his own will instead of the will of god he wanted to please men more than god he relied on his own word rather than on the word of the lord the choice young man of former years had become a self- centered rebellious king an ignominious death awaited him horse gets car wash 4hoof shine for 2 thirteenyearold doug elder complained that he had trouble washing his horse duke service station owner bill shannon jokingly told doug bring him down to the station we wash cars why not horses shannon gulped when doug showed up at the station with his horse yesterday but he led duke to the wash rack and spent an hour washing the horse shannon deciding to add a new service said well wash all the horses we can get he said he charged doug two doll ars 50 cents more than the price of a car wash a horse moves around while a car will sit still he explained the price included manicur ing four hooves with white side- wall cleaner spring tuneup let us put your car in al condition general repairs all work guaranteed elsbn bros garage stouffville phone 540w nu supply in stouffville phone 217 large bale of peat moss with every order during our second spring sale plus at half price hardy privet hedging these plants are 6yearold stock heavily branched canadian grown and are 23 tall making a very excellent hedge the first year other specials on request specials on orders placed before april 30 only have your complete landscape planned now free of charge and take advantage of our spring offers then do this spring what you can afford leave the balance for another season your landscape dollar is an invested dollar sod 16 rolled nursery sod at the field delivered or installed our stock is carefully chosen from various sources so that you receive only the highest quality material j wt invite your inspection at our location lvs miles north of altona 100 unconditional guarantee with all stock and workmanship a complete landscape service for home and industry new grounds designed alterations to old grounds lawn top dressing our specialty ron b ross bsa rrj stouffville ovt verse by verse 1 sam 1517 samuel said when thou wast little in thine own sight wast thoy not made the head of the tribes the lord anointed thee king over israel see 1 samuel 921 god had honored sauls original hu mility and elevated him to the kingship why then had the ruler reversed his set of values exalted his own desires in an act of disobedience and thus re jected the very god who chose him verse 18 the lord said go and utterly destroy the sin ners the amalekites and fight against them until they be con sumed the divine command which saul disobeyed is here stated the amalekites descend ants of esau were israels dead ly and dangerous foe they had sought to block their entrance into the holy land exodus 17 813 at that time god had promised their destruction saul was to be the chosen instrument in the fulfillment of the prom ise his destructive work was to be thorough and complete they were sinners and deserved death verse 19 wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the lord didst fly upon the spoil didst evil in the sight of the lord gods decree was clear and specific saul had not only disobeyed it but defied it to fly upon suggests wanton greediness the kings act was not mere thoughtlessness or carelessness but open rebellion verse 20 saul said yea i have obeyed the voice of the lord have gone the way have brought agag the king of amalek and have utterly de stroyed the amalekites saul singles out the areas in which he has been obedient and di rects samuels attention to them he had indeed obeyed the com mand go and had wiped out most of the enemy under pres sure he will admit but explain the minor exceptions of which he seems guilty after all over against his major acts of obed ience will they not appear triv ial verse 21 but the people took of the spoil the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed to sacri fice unto the yord thy god in gilgal the issue is clearly drawn saul remembers that the destruction was to have been utter and final but he tries to exonerate himself as follows 1 the people were reahy to blame not he 2 only the chief of the animals were pre served 3 their preservation had a worthy motive sacrifice to god 4 gilgal one of is raels hoiy places was a far better battlefield note the words thy god saul had gone so far astray that he dar ed not speak of my god verse 22 samuel said hath the lord as great delight in burntofferings as in obey ing behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams the statement of this farreaching principle revealed the absurd ity and lameness of sauls ex cuses external religious rites are a sham and a mockery if the heart s a rebel against god as though the almighty needed the sacrifices of a disobedient king the very idea is prepos terous and insulting verse 23 rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft stubborn ness is as iniquity and idolatry because thou hast rejected the word of the lord he hath also rejected thee from being king witchcraft is divination literal ly iniquity is nothingness in isa 663 the- word is used for idol idolatry is teraphim household images sauls bas ic guilt was twofold 1 he spurned gods word 2 he substituted his own will and desires for gods which was tantamount to idolatry his fate was irrevocable the god he had rejected now rejected him verse 24 saul said i have sinned for i have trans gressed the commandment of i the lord because i feared the people and obeyed their voice sauls confession is later seen to be more a matter of ex pediency than contrition v 30 here he gives the secondary reason lor his flagrant disobed ience he was governed by the peoples capricious whims and outspoken desires rather than by the will and word of god verse 25 i pray thee par don my sin and turn again with me that i may worship the lord a curious but revealing request saul sought samuels not gods forgiveness he did not want the aged seer to desert cedar grove april 9 this week the little rouged swelled and rose raced noisily through the night and then sub sided the break that we look forward to each spring was dif ferent this year since the water was frozen in most places right to the bottom the thawing pro cess was gradual and long at first it moved slowly on top of the ice and it was weeks before there was enough water to float the frozen undercoatlng when the river finally broke it did not have the usual frightening roar we have come to expect but a gentler rising and a more systematic piling up now its moving again and although there are not the dramatic piles of white along the shore we know by the speed and the fast flow that the fields are draining and spring is here to stay hockey is not quite a thing of the past although our peewees were defeated in their last game the tv sets are aglow with a few games left in the stanley cup series the leafs lucky streak is being followed on in to the night in cedar grove the weekly bowlers are ty ing up their season and plan ning for their annual banquet next month hi fi fans are look ing at seed catalogues instead of record catalogues easter ex ams are over but it only means the finals are closer for the school goers the regular square dancers of the coleman group arestill going strong but the big dance at agincourt on the 17th of this month is heralding a new spring season for those who like their dances big and varied skating is over and commit tees are looking over cedarena with july in their eyes already and the euchres go on and on the farmers are anxious to get back on the land and the talk is mostly calendars and the comparative dates of the first plowing wives and mothers all over the muddy village are hopeless ly requesting feet be wiped and cautioning curious small types not to get too wet waddling through all the puddles clothes lines are overloaded and win dows bare of curtains as house- cleaning gets underway ruby reesor is following her profession to the canadian rest aurant exhibition at the queen elizabeth building this week wondering how much of the culinary masterpieces she can put to use in markham high school blodwen davies came out of hibernation and spent a him in his hour of crisis he still feared the people would not his influence disappear if they learned that his wise coun sellor had abandoned him on principle verse 26 samuel said i will not thou hast rejected the word of the lord the- lord hath rejected thee from being king over israel the cancer of disobedience had spread too far the personal rift between saul the man of self and samuel the man of god was too deep for repair the verdict of rejection already pronounced in verse 23 is now repeated on the basis of the ad ditional evidence of verse 24 sauls doom is sealed outline of the lesson 11 jonathans triumph over the philistines 1 sam 14146 2 sauls disobedience and rejec tion 15135 3 the defeat and death of saul 31113 the heart of the lesson selfwill is the exact opposite of trustful loving devotion to god in sauls case we behold its manifestation its meaning and the misery it caused 1 its manifestation jona than performed a daring mili tary exploit god came to the aid of the valiant young warrior giving him a necessary sign 1 samuel 1412 and sealing his victory with an earthquake which caused consternation to the foe 1 sam 1415 16 23 what was his father sauls re action did he declare a public holiday in jonathans honor no he passed an edict no man could eat food until evening that i may be avenged on mine enemies i sam 1424 the spotlight should be focused on him not on his triumphant son god decreed the slaughter of the amalekites the word of the lord was clear and intelligible but saul disobeyed he spared king agag and the best of the locks and herds why because he valued his own desires above gods he supposed that a king whether agag or himself was exempt from the punishment of the lord he preferred animals to the approbation of god 2 its meaning when con fronted with his crimes saul admitted his wrong 1 sam 15 24 but the heinousness of his deeds did not seem to impress him until the aged samuel bluntly told him that to reject the word of god was on a par with witchcraft and idolatry 1 sam 1523 idolators substitute images for god in their worship they are controlled and directed by the imaginary whims of false deities so saul had substituted himself for the lord he had made his choice totally apart from the will of the lord this was sheer idolatry 3 the misery it caused a tragic fate overtook saul and his sons his selfwill issued in death destruction and dismay the philistines wrought havoc among his troops beheaded his lifeless body and suspended his corpse from a city wall but for the heroism of valiant men 1 sam 3112 his ignominy and shame would have been publi cized for days israels first king never learn ed the meaning of the words uttered more than a thousand years later by her messiah- king nevertheless not as i will but as thou wilt matthew 2639 few days in toronto last week three important auction sales in this area drew large and ex pectant crowds over the past few weeks so there may be a little furniture refinishlng com ing up as socn as the sun is warm enough catherine ritchie margaret tyler susan petrie and cathy mcclennan put on an easter concert privately over the week end weeks of rehearsal had been lengthened by countless measles popping up throughout the cast but the show finally went on marion mccowans winter work with the thornhill little theatre group finally concluded last week with a performance of priestleys when they are married so it goes in this quiet village winter activities pereo late along until they come to i one big final spree after which cedar grove settles down to its busy season now that most of the germ have left out village there should be a good crowd out to the mothers club bowling night this saturday alleys have been reserved from 9 pm at agin court april 11th better make a date with your husband and come and join the game april 17th is the date for the spring dance at agincourt square and round dancing with the lively music of the sod- busters come early stay late get in a full evening of dancing refreshments provid ed and fun 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