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tne trtwce stouffrtne ont trrjrwjaj- july 8 1954 garnet v gray ro optometrist will be absent from his stouffville office july 13 20 27 phone 46j2 prefabhomes the sunday school lesson cottages garages representative 1tf art stecklky phvne stouffville 010 lightning rod service free estimates al work guaranteed and ap prised by ripe marsha dept 3 ihcnw ktourrvllle 274j brturtn 6 and 9 in the evening masseyharris first with full scale test track for farm equipment widespread and fast has been the swing to modern mechanization urgent demands have been made upon implement engineers to develop new models to keep up with the needs of agriculture to get information on materials designs and features in hours and days instead of the usual months and years masseyhairis designed and built the first full scale test track for tractors and modern power farm equipment on this test track the machines lug heavy loads bump and shake bounce and sway jolt and jar climb steep grades and spin round and round as they go through the test electronic instruments write the inside story of stress and strains and complete records are kept of the day to day wear and tear these controlled supervised tests help masseyharris engineers design equipment that will offer more advantages in ease of opera tion long life with low upkeep cost and greater ability in saving time and labour for quality satisfaction and service with modern mechanization equip with masseyharris masseyharrisferquson limited makers of high quality farm implements since 1847 theatre markham phone 357 nil last three days saturday july 8 10 iursday friday for the you at he are we crowing as christians lesson for july 11 1 corinth 313 ephes 41116 2 peter 158 318 golden text grow in jrrace and in the knowledge of our lord and saviour jesus christ t peter 318 the lesson as a whole by j c macaulay dd approach to the lemn in the physical sphere growth proceeds to a certain point is maintained there for a season and then retrogression takes over at varying rates we rec kon that by his later teens a youth has come to his full sta ture after that he may con tinue to develop his strength his agility his powers of en durance for some time by dint of regular training he may hold himself at the peak of physical condition for quite a few years but after a while you will find him saying i cant take it the same since i turned forty fifty sixty seventy eighty all tell the tale of less endurance less resiliency not many at tain to moses record of one hundred and twenty with eye still clear and natural force not abated with regard to intellectual growth the general law is the same though its operation is not so marked develoment in this sphere is a much longer process and at sixty a man should be as keen mentally as he was at twenty the difficulty then is that the body is often unable to keep up with the mind billy graham in his hour of decision broadcast april 11 said concerning prime minister winston churchill that his mental processes at the age of eighty are unimpair ed despite the marks of age otherwise ordinarily however tlis mind also begins to relax its strong grip and its reten- ttveness diminishes but the laws of progression and decadence do not hold in the spiritual realm in the last year of his long life pastor d j findlay of glasgow scot land said in a public announce ment in nature life becomes more weak as it goes on into old age but in grace it need not and should not be so we may and should bring forth fruit even in increasing meas ure and quality in old age our lesson then is not just for young christians but also for the oldest maturest saint in any congregation the pos sibilities of spiritual growth are limitless at no point is there room for retrogression for at no point do we reach the peak of attainment to the end we must say with paul not as though i had already attained either were already perfect but i follow after phil 312 verse by verse 1 cor 31 not as unto spiritual but as unto car nal babes in christ no tice the words spiritual and carnal pertaining to the spi rit and pertaining to the flesh carnality is attributed to lack of growth remaining in the taby stage verse 2 i have fed you with milk and not with meat not able to bear it teach ing must be in keeping with the ability of the believer to receive it just as a firstgrader is not taught calculus so a babe in christ should not be fed teaching that will leave him floundering but the sim plicities verse 3 among you en vying and strife and divisions are ye not carnal and walk as men here is the mark of carnality taking sides and cre ating divisions just like the natural man who has not been touched with the life of god there is no testimony here to the reality of the supernatural eh 411 apostles pro phets evangelists pastors and teachers here are the minis tries of the church all gifts of the ascended lord in the tech nical sense the first two passed with the first generation of the church but there are still men who have veritable apos tolic and prophetic ministries consider william carey the apostle of modern missions and john wesley who certain ly had a prophetic voice in england verse iz the perfecting of the saints the ministry of the body of christ these are not three separate purposes to be fulfilled by the ministers of verse 11 their task is the perfecting o the saints so that they in turn will engage in a work of ministry to the end that the whole body the church should be built up verse 13 the unity of the faith unto a perfect man the fulness of christ we so emphasize our differen ces and show so little unity of faith that the church looks more like a dismembered mon ster than a perfect man no wonder the fulness of christ is so conspicuously absent verse 14 no more chil dren carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men children is the same as babes in 1 corinthians 31 carrying the thought of help lessness another mark of such spiritual babyhood is ready ac ceptance of every new doctrine proposed such fall easy prey to the crafty propaganda of heretical cults verse 15 but speaking the truth in love may grow up into him the head christ there is more than speaking the truth in the greek word it is truthliving as well but always the truth in love without love truth can be very sharp no lopsided growth here every part of our character must b e true to the head christ verse 16 from whom the whole body maketh increase unto the edifying of itself in love as we grow into him out of him flow all the virtues required for the perfecting of the body each member minis ters to each other member in the process despite the comp licated language here the big thought is clear enough 2 peter 15 giving all diligence add to your faltih virtue and to virtue knowl edge for this cause is bet ter than beside this our con tribution to spiritual develop ment is diligence responding to the all things of verse 3 the adding is not mechanical but organic in our faith must toe ample provision for virtue and in our virtue for knowl edge verse 6 and to knowledge temperance patience godli ness so in knowledge we must develop selfcontrol with pa tience and true piety verse 7 and to godliness brotherly kindness charity the organic process goes on in the abundant provision of love of the brethren and love notice again how fullrounded our growth must be strength in one direction does not make up for weakness in another verse 8 for if these things abound neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our lord jesus christ knowl edge divorced from character is both idle and unfruitful but by diligence can be productive of likeness to christ chap 31s but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our lord and saviour jesus christ only make the link of our diligence 15 with gods provision and such growth will be spontaneous and the giory shall be all his never divorce grace and knowledge the heart of the lesson the tragedy of retarded growth is fully recognized and deeply bemoaned when it oc curs in the sphere of the body or the mind but it is scarcely regarded in the spiritual sphere parents who would wring their hands over a little stunted body and weep scalding tears over a child whose mind failed to de velop give little thought to the growth of their childs sou the reason is of course that they themselves are spiritual dwarfs to whom the things of god are not of supreme impor tance it was not so with paul his converts were his spiritual children and their growth to the workof i christian maturity was his chief the edifying concern when he saw the lack of development in the corinth ian believers evidenced by their bickering and their break ing up into sects his grief was deep and bitter he longed to feed them with the further reaches of christian truth and he bemoaned the fact that he had to keep them on the baby food of elementary things the true pastor has a passion for the growth of his people gods provision for the de velopment of the saints is giv en in our second passage ephesians 41116 the risen lord bestows the gift of minis tersapostles prophets evan gelists pastors and teachers now these are not nursemaids or baby sitters intended to do everything they are trainers whose function- is to fit the saints for a work of ministrji so that by helping each other all will grow together the coaches do not play the game they train the players to do it not as so many independent units but as members of a team so the players grow by ministering to the growth of the team likewise the special ministries are to train the saints to function as members of a body and each member grows by making its contribu tion to the whole body the better a minister does his work the more will the unity of the body appear among his people and the less liable will they be to fall for the specious arguments of the sects that swarm like bees in our day peter gives us a wonderful picture of a wellgrown chris tian he does not have one arm long and the other short but he is welldeveloped in every respect the ideal is not to have one saint strong in faith and another strong in patience and another strong in love but to have all the graces abound in every believer it is said of the godly charles simeon of cambridge that until later life he had a quick temper which sometimes intruded into the most sacred occasions causing confusion and heartburning but he did not excuse it as some do but made it a matter of prayer and discipline till in his later years none was more mildtempered the want of any one of the graces mentlen- ed here faith virtue knowl edge selfcontrol patience godliness brotherly kindness love makes for a maimed bo dy a defective flower a brok en circle an impaired testimo ny how we need to bring all diligence to bear on this matter of a fullrounded christian character 1415 how io sayf anukro or heights then you wouldnt want to be one of the men who recently did repairs up among the gargoyles of the peace tower atop the parlia ment buildings in ottawa the scaffolding rising 280 feet was the highest ever erected in cana da we were pleased but not surprised that it was made of light strong easily assembled aluminum tubing 37000 feet of it saved a lot of time putting up and taking down and incidentally saved canadian tax payers a tidy sum ef money aluminum company of canada ltd alean business directory brierbush hospital day and night service maternity medical and surgical member of the allied private hospital association cotframrat licensed main street east stoafftille dental neil c smith ld8 dds graduate of university of toronto office over canadian btnk of commerce telephone 10w gtouffville e s barker lds dds honor graduate of tjnlterslty of toronto office over harolds grill phone 374w stouftville medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon xray office corner of obrien ft main phone 196 coroner for york county dr f j button dr g f buckley telephone 871 a 70w xray hours dally 9 to 12 am and 130 to 300 ym 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