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the tribune stouffvilie ont thursday november 27 117 sunday school lesson lesson for november 30 golden tet he that hath the son hath life and he that hath not the son of god hath not life john 312 the iesmn as a whole it was never the will of god that we should be left to live on without definite assurance of our salvation if we have trusted the iord jesus christ when that has taken place we are regenerated by the word and spirit of god and so there will be a new life which will manifest itself by new lehavior in our natural state we lived for ourselves and sought our satisfaction in the vain empty things of this poor world eph 213 but when born again we are made partakers of the divine nature 2 pet 14 and with this new nature come new ideals we no longer love the tilings that once meant so much to us on the contrary we soon learn to love things which we once hated and to hate the things we once loved the holy spirit who indwells all believers becomes the power of the new life and enables vis to walk be fore god in love and holiness where no such change is known or manifested we may lie sure that any profession of faith in christ is but a delusion heal faith produces fruit to the glory of god this is not true of a mere intellectual acceptance of the great facts of christianity as set forth in the holy scriptures one may credit all the truths of revelation and yet never yield the heart to christ to do this is to believe in him in the true sense in other words to believe is to trust in or to commit oneself to the lord jesu resting upon his word knowing that he cannot lie anything short of this is to fail to enter into that new creation of which all are a part who have been born from above it is important that we be sure we are resting in christ alone for our salvation not check car fkoxt license bkacket motorists are advised by the ontario motor vehicle licenses branch to check their equipment to make sure they have the front license bracket to carry the new 191s plates which are to be issued for front and rear of the vehicle dur ing war years and including this year only the rear plates have been carried on vehicles in anything that we can do or that j p bickell registrar of motor savors of human merit vehicle licenses explained that verse by verse many vehicles even new vehicles 1 john 4 15vhosoever shall the froiu confess that jesus is the son of bracket owners of older cars in god there is a difference between j f have been found to professing and confessing we may hve disca the fron brackets make a false profession but a con- fession is necessarilv true where j hlxtek skinning deer there is genuine faith christ is con- suddenly expired fessed as son of god verse 16 god is love this the second time this declaration is i keswick last week he had been made in the one chapter see verse north with the deer hunters and s love is the divine nature it is returned in apparent good health what god is in his sence this however while preparing the divine love is reproduced in us j animal he brought home for winter when we are born again to dwell use with him he was overcome or abide in love is to abide in god and his lifeless form was found by that is to enjoy fellowship with his wife beside the carcass of the i arthur cryderman died with is terrible suddenness at his home at last week he deer his widow is the former ida thompson of baldwin interment was made at queensville him verse 17 herein is our love- made perfect the margin is better herein is love with us made per fect that is gods love is perfected j toward us it has teen manifested the final day of judgment because in the gift of his son who has our case has been settled already taken our place and borne our out of court when we judgment so that now we h received ve christ by faith now we are seen by church attendance by lewis muligan if the census figures are taken at their face value it may be claimed that about 9s per cent of the people of canada are professedly christ ian but at this time when the protestant churches are making special efforts to enlist the youth of canada in church activities and membership it is well thai we should remind ourselves of the fact that there are millions of professed christians in canada who never attend a church service from one years end to the other this is shown by the following compara tive figures for the four leading protestant churches census membership anglican 17511ss united 2204s75 presbyterian s29147 baptist 483592 s00000 739079 1734s2 137471 totals 52kss02 ls50q3o nothing to fear as we look on to is imaaj is ecvsia m wmc and good to know here is your bank manager serving you is his job and he is as proud of serving you well as you are proud of your own work if you need credit for business or per sonal reasons talk things over with him he will respect your confidence his knowledge and experience with the whole organization of the bank behind him can provide for you a wealth of information on conditions in canada and elsewhere too if you need it your bank manager is easy to meet and a good man to know trohsotto tr rout mni god in him so it can be said that as he is so are we in this world verse 18 perfect love casteth out fear it is not our own love which is never perfect while we are in the body that delivers us from fear but the knowledge of gods perfect love toward us which tells us that all our sins deserved has been borne by christ and so we arc freed from condemnation if we fear still it shows that we have not learned this blessed lesson hence are not made perfect in love in the sense sf having learnd to apprehend the truth involved in perfect love verse 19 we love him be cause he first loved us the revis ed version omits him as it is not found in the best manuscripts it is more general we love not only him but his because we have entered into the enjoyment of his perfect love to us verse 20 if a man say john now proceeds to test the deality of our profession to say we love god while hating a brother is to be guilty of a lie we cannot love god unless we love those who belong to him verse 21 this commandment have we from him that is from the ixrd when he was here on earth bidding us love one another as he has loved us john 1334 chap 5 10 he that believeth hath the witness in himself the witness is the record or testi mony god has given concerning christ in his word the believer has received this record into his heart therefore has the witness of the word of god within verse 11 this is the record or the witness namely that god says he gives eternal life to all who believe on his son verse 12 he that hath the son hath life apart from christ all men are dead spiritually life is the portion only of those who have received him into their hearts by faith unbelievers are thoroughly alive to the things of this world but are dead toward god and so unconscious of spiritual realities verse 13 that ye may know that ye have eternal life notice carefully who are entitled to this knowledge all who believe on the name of the son of god there is no room for doubt or uncertainty here do you believe on the name of the son of gbd then god says you have eternal life why doubt or fear his word is plain believe it and you may know you possess this divinely given life 2 john 4 walking in truth this is the responsibility of all who possess eternal life we are not left to find our own way through this world but are now to be guided by the revelation of his will which god has given in his word verse 5 love one another again the spirit of god stresses the importance of love as the manifes tation of the new life verse g this is love that we walk after his commandments when love rules the heart the feet will lake the path of obedience to the commandments of god this is not legality but the glad sitontaneous result of a heart that loves the ixrd and so delights to honor him in the life the heart of the lesson we begin the new life by simple faith in the lord jesus christ con fessing him as the son of god when we receive the testimony which the father has given con cerning him the holy spirit comes to abide in us to seal us for god and to be the power of the new ife thus the love of god is shed abroad in our hearts and we mani fest the new life by love toward our brethren this corroborative evidence that we have been born from above mere lip profession counts for nothing there must be reality as we apprehend gods per fect love towaid us our hearts go out in love for others 1911 buddhist 10012 confucian 14562 jewish 74561 pagan 11840 rhus out of a total of 52css02 persons who were listed with the census takers in 1941 as belonging to those denominations only 1s50- 035 were enrolled as church mem bers ecording to the census for 1911 there are 30 religious denomina tions in canada all but four of which are christian the non- christians listed are buddhist con fucian jewish and pagan out of a total population of 11506655 only 19126 claimed to have no religion this was a decline of about 6000 compared with the census of 1911 although the popula tion increased about 4 millions in the meantime so that it would appear that people are less and less inclined to admit they have no religion an even greater decline is shown in the number of people who would not tell the censustaker what their religion was in 1911 there were 32490 people whose religion was not stated whereas in 1941 there were only 17159 listed in this category of the nonchristians the follow ing comparative figures may be of interest 1911 15635 22233 16s367 290s the iblg increase in the jewish figure was probably due to immi gration and that may account in a lesser degree for the increase in buddhists and confucians who are largely chinese the heavy decrease in the pagan figur may be due to missionary work among the native indians and eskimos the census gives the number of roman catholics in canada as 1986552 including greek cath olics of which 2201s75 are listed for quebec as all roman oathol- lics are regarded as members of the church there is no way of deter mining the proportion of actual attenders but it is generally admitt ed that roman catholics are more faithful to their church than are the protestants at the same time it should be stated that the member ship figures for protestant churches quoted above do not fairly repre sent the number of people with local congregations many non- members attend church regularly and others occasionally there are a large number of children who attend sunday schools childrens services and young peoples societies and groups who are not registered members nevertheless there are hundreds of thousands of canadians who declared to the censustakers that they ljelonged to the anglican united presbyterian baptist and other denominations who take no interest whatsoever in those churches the christian churches stand for all that is spiritually and morally uplifting in our national life and it is surely the plain 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