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the stouffville tribune established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized a second class mall post office department ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ontario in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers ge i i i i i i i r- notes and comments most stouffville people take pride in their surroundings the slow but nevertheless fairly certain arrival of spring in stouffville has revealed that the vast majority of townsfolk are extremely conscientious about spring cleaning the outside of their premises a walk down any street on a fine evening will reveal an industrious lot of citizens putting the front or back fifty in shape for the coming season this is a good thing in many respects it is first class exercise for the ablebodied its beauty treat ment which every residential lot needs and it is a fine moral builder in addition to the aforegoing a tidy lot is also good in surance against fire and accidents it is much safer from both of these standpoints to have orderly surroundings rubbish piles should not be encouraged nor should the habit of leaving things lying about all over the yard while were busy making these spring cleanups it is also not a bad idea to check on possible dangerous limbs of trees surrounding the home and make sure that clothes lines are secure and sufficiently high above the ground to permit free passage underneath for every member of the family 70000 tons of carrots somebody with a statistical turn of mind says that the average canadian eats 11 pounds of fresh carrots each year that would make 44 fourounce servings of carrots or less than one serving each week and it does occur to us that most people eat carrots more often than that and how can anybody compute the carrot consumption of the millions of canadians who grow their own in their farms or their city gardens the carrot is one of the most common of vegetables and it must be surprised to find itself the subject of a press release about its many virtues this tells us what many a farm boy long since discovered for himself that the carrot can be eaten raw and with some moderate degree of pleas ure but carrots have come into a versatile career they are cooked and served as a vegetable they appear in salads they are put in soups and stews they are sliced and sim mered with beans or fried with chicken or pork and they can be served whole or cut into discs or long thin strips or cut into balls or shredded for those who happen to like their carrots shredded the humble carrot has indeed come a long way if the 11pound average is accurate that means the annual con sumption of 70000 tons of carrots in canada and anybody who wants to may contemplate the sight of 140000000 pounds of carrots shredded sliced diced stewed and roast ed ottawa journal dont know counties or townships those attending secondary schools a few decades ago and even those in public school were drilled thoroughly on naming and locating the counties of ontario and many could tell you the name of county towns very little drilling is given now however on the setup of local municipal govern ments county township town or village what might be termed the practical side of government many devices were used years ago to acquaint the pupil with the lists of counties and townships numbers of our uxbridge and pickering township readers will recall the rhyme which always brought to mind the lineup of town ships in ontario county rama mara thorah brock uxbridge pickering whitby scott evidently stress on this phase of geography has les sened with the result that pupils leave elementary schools with rather vague ideas about counties proof of this lack of knowledge of ontario geography was given the other day by harry hutton once a teacher himself and now director of extension courses at queens university with the cooperation of elementary schools in all parts of the province mr hutton invited 1000 pupils of grades 7 and 8 to name and locate five counties in ontario the result of the poll was astonishing only 27 of the 1000 pupils answered correctly thirty others gave correct names but vague locations the remainder 943 of them scored from zero to 30 per cent 25 answer papers were blank among places named as ontario counties were thornhill montreal rome north bay winnipeg noranda stratford toronto and the holland marshes the test confirmed mr hutton in his belief that drop ping formal instruction in county geography was a mistake that it is wrong to suppose such facts will be picked up incidentally it would appear that in streamlining educational meth ods we have discarded some old teaching practices that might well be revived new used transplanters and spreaders also side rakes and hay loaders new used tractors for all your needs call john b white cockshutl dealer brougham ontario cadieux studio portraits and weddings a specialty phone 21j2 stouffville sunday school lesson for june 4 1950 hu5akkuk teaches trust ix god ilabakkuk 114 12 13 214 31719 golden text 1 will rejoin- in the lord i will joy jn the god of ray salvation hah 3 18 the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson one of the shortest books of scrip ture the prophecy of habakkuk contains important truth which no reverent student of the word of god can afford to overlook brief as it is it is directly referred to or quotations made from it a number of times in the new testament the great apostle to the gentiles is particularly partial to it finding in it the inspired authority for the fun damental doctrine of justification by faith and the certainty of judgment to come upon all who reject the tes timony of the holy ghost as to the lord jesus christ compare acts 13 10 41 with ilabakkuk 15 and ho- mans 117 gal 311 and hebrews 1038 with ilabakkuk 24 there is evidently likewise very close connec tion between habakkuk 3t7 is and the fourth chapter of the epistle to the philippians the form of the book is that of a dialogue and the structure is exceed ingly simple ilabakkuk oppressed by a sense of the prevalence of in iquity unburdens his heart to jeho vah who in grace answers the cry of his servant the true divisions are easily found chapter 114 gives the prophets complaint verses 5 to 11 are the lords answer from verse 12 to verse 17 we have habakkuks remonstrance verse 1 of chapter 2 stands by itself there is no imme diate reply to the cry with which the previous chapter was concluded in verses 2 and 4 the lord goes far beyond the prophets thoughts and predicts the final bringing in of bles sing through messiah meantime the just shall live by his faith the actual response to the remons trance of chapter 1 is given in verses 5 to s the balance of the chapter would seem to be prophetic ministry the historical setting very little is known ot ilabakkuk according to jewish tradition he was of the tribe of simeon and he is com monly supposed to have been con temporary with jeremiah luring the latter part of the weeping prophets ministry his book would seem to evidence this as it was written in view of the chaldean invasion of his birth or death we have no record he is commonly supposed to have re mained in the land when the mass of the people were carried away by the triumphant armies of nebuchadnez zar of this however we have no pos itive proof verse by verso chap 11 the burden which habakkuk did see a pro phetic message was designated fre quently as a burden because of the pressure on the spirit of the speaker who as the lords messenger enter ed deeply and sympathetically into the condition and circumstances of his people verse 2 o lord how long shall i cry and thou wilt not hear over whelmed with the sense of his peoples distress the prophet cried to the lord but there seemed to be no answer from god he realized the danger that lay before them and j knew that only by repentance could i the evil be averted but his prayer to this end seemed to avail nothing verse 3 why dost thou shew me iniquity he felt as many an other has done that it were better not to see the iniquity than to see it only to be burdened thereby finding no remedy for the state that so dis tressed his sensitive soul verse 4 the wicked doth com pass about the righteous one of j adahs greatest dangers wag the spirit of strife and contention among them giving rise to spoiling and vio lence in verses 5 to 11 jehovah an swers the prophets complaint tel ling him that he himself is about to judge his people by giving them over to the power of the chaldeans verse 1 2 thou hast ordained them for judgment recognizing the holiness of god the prophet was perplexed that he should use so cor- nipt and wicked a people as the babylonians to chasten judah but lie feels assured that gods way must be right verse 13 thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil it seemed in comprehensible that the holy one of israel should use an idolatrous na tion which after all was far more wicked than the people of judah to punish the latter for their iniquities therefore he dared to wrestle with god as it were on their behalf chap 21 i will watch to see what he will say unto me there is nothing harder for a man to do than to wait for god to make plain his counsels and justify his dealings for the moment there seemed to be no answer from god to the prophets complaint but in quiet confidence he waited as upon watehtower for the divine ways to be made plain verse 2 write the vision at last the voice of god was heard com manding his servant to write that which was about to be revealed to him and to make it plain and clear upon tablets in order that others reading it might run to proclaim it verse p the vision is yet for an appointed time that which was to be revealed was not for the thenj present time alone but was to be for the instruction of those who should live in the distant future the last part of this verse is quoted in heb rews 1037 where the personal pro noun he is exchanged for the neu ter pronoun it showing that it was gods messiah who was in view the one who will at last deliver israel from all their troubles verse 4 the just shall live by his faith this is the oracle which habakkuk had been bidden to write so plainly this is the word that the reader should run to declare three times this oracle is referred to in pauls epistles it forms the very foundation of the gospel message in the kpistle to the romans chapter 116 17 and also in galatians 311 in the epistle to the hebrews chap ter 103s it ts used to emphasize the importance of faith in the christians daily life chap 31719 although the fig tree shall not blossom yet 1 will rejoice in the lord crops might fail flocks might be destroyed fields might be barren and cattle be cut off hut god would abide and in him was abundant supply to meet every need he is the god of our salvation he is the strength of our hearts what more can we crave the clos ing line is the dedication and to the anointed eye is unspeakable pre cious for to us the chief musician is our precious iord himself as in dicated in psalm 22 and hebrews 2 12 the heart of the lesson how great the difference in the opening and the closing of the bur den of habakkuk he begins as a man bewildered and confused who is filled with questions and perplexities he closes as one who has found the answer to all his questions and the satisfying portion of his soul is god himself this is most blessed as we thus are permitted to enter into the varied experiences that this man of like passions with ourselves passed through till the lord alone filled the vision of his soul and satisfied his every longing likewise resolving ail his doubts and difficulties we get some little sense of what may be the sustaining portion of our own hearts if he be but permitted to have his own way with us in all things clothes avashki bv sound waves threatening to steal the show when canadas third international trade fair opens in toronto hay 29 is a 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