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for canada uk service r i- ev v f i t- this weeks sunday school lesson fg w a bw rittt r- the 19c65tan luxury liner ot grasse has been purchased by canadian pacific steam ships for the transatlantic trade the vessel formerly operated by the french line on the havrenew york ser vice and on west indies cruises where she built up an enviable reputation for her comfortable and spacious accommodation will replace the empress of canada which was destroyed by fire recently at her liverpool dock the oe grasse has accommodation for 30b first class and 355 tourisipus- senjjers it is expected that she will enter service under her new ownerhip sailing from liverpool april 2 for montreal the ship was scuttl ed bv her french crew during world war 11 to prevent her falling into the hands of the nazis and after the war was refloated and completely re conditioned reentering peace time service in 1917 ask province fob more uoai help the ontario association of rural municipalities voted last week to ask the provincial govern ment for more money to maintain township roads by a vote of 102 to h the meet ing passed a resolution from arthur township asking that the provincial subsidy on general road work to raised from 50 to 75 per cent elton armstrong of king town ship asked for an so per com sub sidy and an assurance that a cer tain percentage of township roads will be hard surfaced every year salada tea iw v-f- paababa excavating grading all kinds of bulldozing done cellars creeks fence rows dams a r sanders rri gormley ph stouffville 67307 central feed store phone 277 stouffville marmiil dairy poultry and hog feeds blue coal kleenflo fuel oil order your agrico and aa quality fertilizer mmvatfv cream for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamerv cold storage lockers and fast freezing facilities stouffville creamery co to have our truck call phone 186w jkscs urges alertness temperance golden text watch ye maud fat ill the faittfl quit you like men be strong 1 cor 1 is aprroaeh to the lcon we have tome to the fifth and last of the great bodies of teaching which are one of the marked features of st matthews gospel it may be good to remind our selves of these each terminating with the phrase when jesus had finished the principles of the kingdom matt 5 1 to 7 29 1 the promotion of the kingdom chaps 93 to 111 the progress of the kingdom chap 13153 j the problems of the kingdom chpk is 1 to 19 1 1 the prospects of the kingdom chap 24 1 to 2i li this last we generally term the olivet discourse notice the occasion of this pre dictive discourse jesus had just said in his lamentation over jerusalem your house is left unto you desolate chap 23 3s the response of the disciples was to call his attention to the wonder ful buildings of the temple that very house whose doom he had j pronounced had they misappre hended his statement or were they expressing incredulity that any evil could befall so sacred and magnificent a house at any rate their admiration of the great stones mark 131 gave the lord opportunity to clarify to them the rather veiled statement that had puzzled them then his explicit statement matt 212 drew from the disciples as they later sat on the mount of olives overlooking the abandoned city their triple- pronged question about these things thy coming and the end of the age the entire dis course flowed from that question and presented the prospects of the kingdom the utmost charity is required in dealing with the olivet dis course which has been made far too much a battleground of rival interpreters the very fact that there are so many proposed explanations from men of equal scholarship and piety ought itself to keep us from too much dogma tism the present writer lias never offered himself as a prophe tic teacher at least not since he was twentyone the most he can claim is to be a student who has more questions than answers there is still much light to break forth from the sacred page and a humble prayerful spirit will have its reward verse by verse matt 25 l then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins the then follows from the subject at the end of chapter 21 here is the spir itual situation as it will be at the second coming of christ the scene depicted was a familiar one to the disciples ten was a usual number of attendants for the bride on iter journey to the bride grooms house for the wedding feast verse 2 five wise and five foolish compare the parables of the tares and the dragnet in chapter 13 where also we see a mix ture of good and bad right to the end verse 3 they that were fool ish took no oil with them they expected the little bit of oil in their lamps to last long enough to get them to the bridegrooms house not reckoning oh delays verse but the wise took oil in their vessels perhaps they had had previous experience of a bride grooms tardiness in making his appearance in the fast in those days as in some parts of the fast today things were not done in the split second verse 5 while the bridegroom tarried they all slumbered and slop as this was usually a night time procession sleep would be easily indulged during a delay es pecially if the night were sultry verse behold the bride groom cometh someone at the brides home would be on the watch and as the lamps of the bride grooms party appeared in the dis tance would give warning to all who were asleep verse 7 trimmed their lamps the lamps n the meantime had been allowed to burn low more oil and cutting the charred end of the wick would brighten the flame xerse s- give us of your oil for our lamps are aone out read going out without a fresh sup ply of oil the wick would not re spond to trimming verse 9 go ye rather to them that sell and buy for yourselves this may seem harsh on the part of the wise virgins but they eould not risk the whole companys be ing left without light verse 10 and while they went to buy the door was shut the wedding raut wait for a tarrying bridegroom but not for tardy at tendants who probably had to wake the oil merchant from sleep to serve them verse 11 lord lord open to us so far as the story goes the word lord is simply a respectful sir when we cottie to apply the word to the lord jesus it has its full content and should be cap italized verse 12 1 know you hoi that is he refused to recognize them as members of the wedding party their carelessness and con sequent lateness were an insult to the bridegroom verse 13 watch therefore for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the son of man cometh far more is at stake than being shut out of a wedding feast no tardy testy bridegroom is the one we wait for but the lord of glory whose demands of readiness and watchfulness are just and right the heart of the lesson this parable has been positively tortured in attempts to spiritual ize every detail it will be much safer to let the parable enforce its own lesson without forcing it to serve our particular slant of pro phetic teaching the picture that jesus drew was a common one he always used common things to illustrate great truths he had one main lesson to press home by means of this il lustration which was his way with parables we may indeed appeal to features in this story to illustrate other truths but if we are ex pounding it as a parable of our lords we should be content to let it teach what he was driving home that day preparedness and watch fulness let us see the features of the story which specially point to this 1 all the virgins thought they were prepared for the bridegrooms coming but five had only an ap pearance of readiness while not having the one thing needful peter exhorts us to make your calling and election sure many have the outward form of christianity and mingle with the saints but have mistaken christian professon for sal va toil 2 the foolish virgins did not wake up to a realization of their fatal lack till it was too late the coming of the bridegroom discover ed their lack and they were barred from the feast the coming of the lord will be a time of discovery those who have depended on ap pearance will be found unprepared but those made ready by a true work of the spirit will be gathered home 3 had the wise virgins not slept they might have warned the fool ish virgins in time perhaps many sleep on in their delusion till it is too late because too many wise virgins sleep on in their security more watchfulness on the part of the saints might save the self- deceived from final loss one thing we know christ is coming one thing we know not when christ is coming the cer tainty should be enough to make us watch tunneys upholstering recovering restyling chesterfields chairs antique furniture free estimates no obligation chesterfields rewebbed in your own home phone markham 335w business directory marie jack hairdressing lloyd avenue stouffrllle permanent waving machine machlnelas cold wt halrstyllng and shaping phone 170k- i rennies transport phone 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