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the tribune stouffvule ont thursday december 29 1949 business directory lehmans shoe store and mitts footwear for all the family stouffvule phone 43w2 opposite the town clock shoe repairing womens hosiery gloves shoes socks boots brierbush hospital day and night service maternity medical and surgical member of the allied private hospital association government ucensed main street east stouffvule dental monteith monteith chartered accountants 37 king st east oshawa phone 4911r 3126 mr gordon w riehd ca resident partner auctioneers sellers atkinson ph agin 2slw2 ph stouff 290 licensed auctioneers 25 sears experience bales conducted anywhere special- ulng in farm stock furniture and property sales all sales personally listed and advertised bill prepared and posted ken clarke prentice auctioneers licensed and authorized for the counties ot york and ontario farm stock implements household furniture real estate sales our specialty at fair and reasonable rates dual services for the price of one milllken po ph agincourt 52w3 markham po ph markham 206 no sale too big or too small prentices have been established auctioneers since 1890 a s farmer licensed auctioneer tork county uxbridge pickering townships farm stock and furni ture sales a specialty address gormley po telephone stouffvule 67312 real estate consult j a willoughby sons for complete real estate service head office toronto 156 tonge st ad 0605 city and country homes farms and small acreages industrial business properties harvey moyer is your local representative phone 8 3 2 stouffvule when buying or selling real estate farms residences business properties see george w allison rcgd real estate broker phone 87jl for real estate see wm grove mnrkluim rr2 stouff 05505 representing victor a hall ss son agency realtor king out phone 32 funeral directors l e oneill stouffville funeral director and embalmer continuous telephone service day or night phone stouffvule 98wl ambulance service r g clendening markham ontario phone 9000 j v dixon director the same prompt courteous service as always neil c smith lds dd8 graduate of university of toronto office over canadian bank of commerce telephone 167 stouffvule e s barker lds dds honor graduate of royal collet of dental surgeons and ot th university ot toronto office over marie jacks beauty parlor phone 27402 markham every tuesday medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon xray office corner obrien main phone 196 coroner for york county dr f j button stoutfville ontario telephone 371 xray hours daily 9 to 12 am tuesday thursday saturday evenings 79 pm and by appointment office over button blk dr herbert b freel physician telephone 16 xray hours daily except sunday 9 to 12 am tuesday thursday saturday 700 to 900 a c kennedy chiropractor church street stouflrtus monday and friday 9 to 12 am optometrical e a grubin ro optometrist picton ontario phone enquiries to stouftville 25j1 dates of visits to stouffvule office announced in local columns w c mcdonald ro optometrist toronto ontario 1722a avenue rd n redfern 5000 at stouffviue every saturday 200 pm to 900 pm in rear of marie jack beauty parlour phone 17 6w at markham every thursday 200 pm to 800 pm dr houghtons office ph 4w insurance birkett son general insurance agency stouffviue ontario insurance in reliable companies at reasonable rates prompt service phones 259wl and 259w2 h 0 klinck phone 39wl stouffviue fire auto burglary sickness and accident fidelity bonds the standard lite assurance co the pioneer of canadian life insurance a mutual company with 117 year experience strength and service unexcelled d a beer insurance ot all kinds 20th anniversary ph pickering 241w2 address brougham ont f m pugh phone 38w2 stouffvule life fire auto before you die see f pugh your mutual life representative a company with u outstanding record for low cost life in surance since 1868 prompt and court eous service f g alsop life auto fire sickness and accident insurance phone 50w2 taxi service george coltham ontario land surveyor municipal and farm surveys and general engineering box 443 aurora phone 864 stouffviue monument works orders promptly executed p tarr proprietor telephone 81wl sunday school lesson lesson for january 1 golden text ye shau receive power after that the holy ghost is come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto we both in jerusalem and in all judaea and in samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth acts 18 approach to the lesson the book which we are now to study might more properly be called the acts of the holy spirit than the acts of the apostles actually it tells us very little about the work of the twelve with the exception of peter and john the former occupying the chief place in the first half of the book in the latter half the twelve practically disappear from the historical record with the exception of the account of the council at jerusalem and pauls interview with james on his last visit to that city it is paul himself who occupies the chief place in these later chapters throughout the entire book how ever we see the mighty working of the holy spirit of god energiz ing the servants of the lord and enabling them to cawy out the commission given them by the risen christ it was not until after pentecost that he the promised comforter came to continue the work which jesus had begun dur ing the forty days between our saviours resurrection and his ascension he appeared to his disciples on many different occasions instructing them regard ing his own program of world evangelization and the part they were to have in proclaiming the kingdom of god soon to be set up in power and in glory this of course will be at our lords second advent until that time the world as such will continue to refuse to acknowledge the divine authority but those who realize their lost condition and their need of a saviour become children of the kingdom by new birth when they believe the gospel john 33 5 1 peter 1 23 25 the little group which conies before us in this first chapter was composed entirely of those who had thus been begotten of god but they were riot prepared to go forth as proclaimers of the gospel message until empowered by the holy spirit for whose advent they were bidden to tarry in jerusalem until the day of penetcost which god had ordained of old as the time when the new dispensation would begin the historical setting luke who wrote the third gospel was the instrument chosen of god to give us this great historical book of the new testa ment he summarizes the events of the fifty days that elapsed be tween christs resurrection and the coming of the holy spirit in this first chapter these were days of instruction and preparation as the disciples waited for the promised comforter verso by verso acts 1 1 the former treatise this refers to the gospel of luke which was inscribed to theophilus to whom the later book was addressed theophilus himself evidently a close friend of the beloved physician col 414 was a roman governor as we gather from the tftle given him in luke 1 3 most excellent having written to him concerning the life death and resurrection of the lord jesus luke now continues his stouffviue floral roses wedding bouquets funeral designs cut flowers milt smith prop 9qooooosoooohoo stouffviue machine tool works telephone 253 rear of nr station electric and acetylene welding farm machinery machinery repairs moooooocooooooo narrative showing how the holy spirit carried on the work which the saviour had begun verse 2 he was taken up four times in this chapter these words are found see also verses 9 11 22 it was the fathers expres sion of delight in the work of his son which resulted in his being taken up bodily into heaven where he now sits as the lorified man at the right hand of the majesty on high before his ascension he revealed to his disciples the divine plan for carry ing the gospel into all the world verse 3 many infallible proofs it has been well said that the resurrection of jesus christ is the best attested fact of ancient history god gave to the disciples such positive proof of our saviours triumph over death that every possibility of doubt was removed as jesus met and con versed with them during the forty days preceding his ascension verses 4 5 wait for the prom ise of the father our lord referred to the declaration given through john the baptist that the lord jesus should baptize his followers with the holy spirit until this promise was fulfilled they were not to begin their public testimony they had however the definite assurance that before many days should elapse that which had thus been prophesied should be fulfilled verse 6 wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to israel the question was a natural one they realized that be cause of their failure to receive christ as king the people of israel had forfeited all title to the king dom matt 2143 but they also knew that the prophets of old pre dicted the restoration of the king dom in the latter days hos 34 5 therefore the question of the disciples was a reasonable one inasmuch as the revelation of the mystery of the church had not yet been made known verse 7 it is not for you to know the times or the seasons these words should forever put a stop to all date setting in regard to unfulfilled prophecy it has not pleased god to reveal the time of the second advent or of the setting up of the kingdom these- things form part of the fathers secret counsels to be fulfilled in accord ance with his own will verse 8 ye shall receive power ye shall be witnesses in this verse our lord outlines the entire program for world evangeli zation during this age of grace which covers all the centuries be tween his return to heaven and his coming to claim his church at the end of its testimony here witnessing to be effective must be in the power of the holy spirit who is the true vicar of christ and who came on penetecost to con vince the world of sin righteous ness and judgment verse 9 while they behold he was taken up the forty days of instruction having expired the lord ascended visibly into the heavens until the divine chariot of cloud hid him from the view of his astonished disciples verse 10 two men stood by them in white apparel while spoken of as men these two were undoubtedly angelic messengers who came from heaven to reas sure the hearts of the perplexed apostles and remind them again of christs promised return verse 11 this same jesus shall so come in like manner as yc have seen him go how precious the word this same jesus near ly twenty centuries have elapsed since the words were spoken but he remains still the same unchang ing jesus who once walked this earth manifesting god to those wiiose eyes were opened to see in him the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth verse 12 then returned they unto jerusalem they returned to jerusalem there to await the promise he had made concerning the coming of the holy spirit to empower them for service verse 13 they went up into an upper room we are not told whose house was thus placed at their disposal but tradition says it was the home of mary the moth of john mark where the early jerusalem church later met for prayer acts 1212 the eleven apostles were thus gathered to gether to wait upon god in prayer until the promise was fulfilled verse 14 and mary the mother of jesus other friends of jesus besides the eleven were there among them several of the godly women who during our lords life upon earth had minist ered to him of their substance his own mother mary in specially nmaod and it is enteresting and instructive to observe that this is the last time her name is men tioned in scripture and we do not find the disciples praying to iter as roman tradition might have it on the contrary she joins with the rest in their intercessions the heart of the lesson the lord never asks any line of service from his disciples without adequately preparing them for it augustine wrote gods command- ings are gods enablings before the aspostles launched forth upon their great task of giving the gospel to a lost world they were instructed by the- lord himself and were commanded to tarry at jerusalem until they received the holy spirit as the power for testi mony while they walicd for his igjkkglilr concrete blocks hfctji wfmlf concrete bricks tejiillll cinder blocks backup tile quality economy beauty maple block tile ltd mafuk ontario flaza 537s fhonk maple kenwood 6s7s coming they were cheered by the promise of christs second advent and fortified by prayer and the joy of fellowship one with another their experiences illustrate for us the manner in which our risen lord prepares all of his servants to do the work which he asks of them almira we wish all our readers a happy and prosperous new year mr and mrs mansell timbers spent sunday with mr and mrs bert paisley of stouftville miss mabel shank of markham visited sunday with mr and mrs allan wideman mr and mrs chas conner had supper sunday with mr and mrs john timbers the heavy rain just before christmas was a blessing to those farmers who are short of water and have not enough to carry over weeks of hard winter nickel chocolate bar will be smaller chocolate bars will go back to a nickel at the beginning of the year according to daily newspaper reports but that doesnt mean you will buy more chocolate for your money the bar will be made smaller in order to dispose of it at the popular nickel price many people think too much is spent on expensive wrappings and this means too little chocolate for the money attractive wrappers may sell the first bar and the chocolate inside will sell the next if there is not enough in there to make a taste then the customer will avoid the bar next time isssssi sssssiss roofing eavetrgughing tinsmivhing done on short notice insulbrick siding phone stouffviue 63703 37 associated industrial designers engineers consultants manufacturers repairs to all types of electrical or mechanical equipment industrial commercial and domestic toronto 17 queen st e el9776 stouffville albert second sts ph 346 iw this is the time of the year when people all over the world rejoice with their family and friends may this holiday season prove to be a joyous one and the new year bring an abundance of good health and prosperity to all our friends and cus tomers stouffville radio electric