—Lancaster Farming-, Saturday, March 31, 1962 4 From Where We Spring - A slender V, pointing north, silh autted, itself against the leaden sky die eerie honk ol the wild goose, on the long-awaited lourney to his ancestral nesting ground, echoed in the first faint giej of dawn, and Spring slipped North on slender wings Knee-deep frogs peeped their awakening chorus, cat tails and skunk cabbage thiust exploring'fingers through die surface mud of the swamp, so re cently thawed, and Spring sneaked North on quiet feet Mosquitos buzzed and hummed around the old apple tree stump in the backyard orchard, the honeybee ventur ed forth in search of the blossoms which wall nourish the bodies of his brothers ±ong after, he has gone back to the earth from which he came, and Spring wended her way North on gossamer wings Robins hopped hopefully along the rrozen lawn and flew back to the apple „ree to squawk at the impertinent black birds alieady carrying the winter-dried weeds to their nesting sites, and Spring awung North on a magnolia-scented zephyr All across America millions of snow shovels gave way to garden spades in the .show windows and the minds of subur banites and Spring swung North with a \'engence, on stout legs and nimble feet And all across America, on farms and ranches, thoughts turned from fro zen water pipes and drifted lanes to lowborn lambs and newsown seeds, houghts turned from the brightly color ed seed catalogs to the brown earth with he wake-up smell behind the plow, and Spring came on with a bound “Spring”, whispered the swelling bud on the cherry tree. “Spring”, answered the grass from beneath the snowdrift. “Spring”, insisted the catkin on the Pussy Willow. “Spring”, grumbled the mud in the lane “Spring”, cried the bluejay in the walnut tree. “Spring”, screamed the weasel as she traded her white coat for brown. “Spring”, shouted a million noisy mid silent voices in chorus and in dis cord all at once and all of a sudden “Spring”, said the farmer. “Thank God for another seed time and the pro mise of another harvest” In spring it is somehow hard to worry overmuch about the woes of man- Nan,] An.ihsis ol tubei r ulosis <as uairymen Weed , PS slU)ttt , c , the nunoi SOUI(P Health Char 1 -' of ,ntm,0 ‘ n 11 id l,ppll ieoenth IS To Move Cows ii.ii i isbi.i l, ~ t,i m,,n, <II<( I n e Vin 1 ] will i i>(i mi i 1.0 lit li papois to ao timpani mu ' < .iIIJo ooiiii, mined to ie« lieids ,m* Si.ito l)i pai t iion I ol A _ 11< ul l ui < annonm ed todai The i ognlal ion .mm cl at ie rmmg spieacl ol Ineslock cii ease i e(|uu es a ceitihcate Hi.H the animal hish ul with ni lln pi e\ ions t\ii he months both a mgalite hloo 1 lest toi hi n< ollosis and a negative test loi bonne tubei < nlosis Piesenll} the only desi 11pt ion ol the animal s healts sta ins is a <aid slating that tin eiiimal ivas in the herd at the timi ol ilie lasi milk-iing test > nd that il was in the held or is piogcnt ol a herd animal i* hen the last tnbeit nlosis test las c ond tit ted Disiased ani -3 la Is are reunited liom herds llejiarinient ofln mis said tin u-illations «ere being re-ap j'lied afl< r i tlme-teai tem joiait suspension because (he campaign iottaid complete iiidnation had slotted dm mu the tual jienod Stand.. - The kind and his self-inflicted suffering His ,var-mongenng and incessant wranghngs ovei the material possessions of the world seem somehow to pale into in significance alongside the orderly a wakenmgs of Mother Nature’s children We feel proud, but humble, to have witnessed this awakening, and we feel sorry for those who have never had the opportunity to witness it But we feel more sorry lor those who* have lived in the midst of it all their lives, and have never yet, had the time to see or feel it. At least, that’s how it looks from where we stand People who are well rarely think of being sick Men working in shops and in the forests give little thought to being hurt Drivers, even knothead speeders, regard a car accident as a misfortune that happens to someone else The farm er believes it is only his neighbor who can’t get his hand out of dangerous places soon enough But Old Man Statistics points a warning finger Crackups on the road are not a respecter of persons. A man perfectly well today may be desperately ill of a suddn seisure tonight All too often a man in perfect health suddenly leaves his family and never returns Although this though is neither pleasant nor hopeful it is a place we must all come to some time But when a man is well it is diffi cult to think that times may sometimes change When a man is well is is difficult for him to give much thought to the disposition of his wordly possessions af ter he is gone. It is not easy to con template the financial condition his family would be left in if he were sud denly taken from them. But when a man is well that is the time to consider That is the time to plan. Every farmer should have a will. It is a simple thing to prepare and could be the difference between ease and hard ship for the family. Have you made your will? It could easily make you more money than any thing else you do today At least that’s how it looks from where we stand pun based .idditions to a held the Jlopai tinent Mid 7he lean la.ion .no to piotoit tljo ■inhast i non) nitiodiums; m- I'alion into a punioush heal- Hi iieid Weed Control In Lawns Takes Management Ciahgiass imades most lawns because mutual mat fi lename piactices hate been neglected sajs Prol Claude 10 Phillips, (hairman of the .Kionomy depaitmeni at the TTnteisity of Delaware Ade quate sod leiuhtt and pi op per luight ol cutting are the most import,ml maintenance practices lor an attiactive law n 11 crabgiass has a lootholl in tour lawn, pre-emergence chemicals >pp]ied now can be ell i cut e A number ol ( hemicals hat e been used loi conti ol of crab giass, but only two bate boon tert consistent in giting ef leelitc conliol 'these are Z>- Hope Eternal ★ ★ Made Your Will? lion and Dcicthcil Chloi lane his unen nood lesults in a , , lew cases but has been in- | , ioiisist.ini in it> etleimeness JPj Zuion ,md Danthal state ' SI to 100 pei (nit (outiol ol (lahmass in li nils at the Im- J f " (C'onuniieii on pane I) {• ❖ O- •£• ■> ❖❖•> o -o- ❖ ❖ ■<> <f -v Lancaster Farming «mbS■ Own I'.um 9 r o p,o\ i 524 p o OUIM'S 22 K Mam Si Lint/ Pa Phone - Lancaster EXpiess 1-'!(I-I7 or Lint/ M \ (.-31'H Jack Owen Edlloi Kol). 11 G (’aniphell Adverlising Director Established November 4 1055 Published cveiv Silur dav bj Lancaster-Farming, La‘- it/. Pa Entered as 2nd class matter at Lilitz, Pa tinder At t of Mar s, IS7O Subscription Rates -}> 2 pel 'en time jeais 'fa Single copv Price a tents Memhei Pa X'ewspapeis Pub lisbeis Association National Editoiial Association rw <>-0- Lam aster Peinia TO TOP-DRESS GU\SS-LEGI ME STV\I)S . . . Grassland tanners aie reminded that earlv spring is one ot the good tunes to lop-diess allalfa, red clovei, or jiaslure fields with lertili/er With the grass legume nuxtnies tertihzers such as 0-15-30 or 0-20-20 at the late ot 300 to 100 pounds per acre should give good results, some producers will wait until im mediately after the lirsl cutting to make this fertilizer, apple cation With pasture lields th.it are niostlj grass straight ap plications ot nitrogen at the late ot 50 to 75 pouuds per acr® will gne excellent growth l<) IMU NIC SH IDE TREES . . . All home owners and giomuls Keepeis are advised that early spring is the best tune to prune both young and established shade trees (not evergieens) The cutting out of diseased or dead wood and tin cutting or shortening ol branches to improve the shape of tlie tree will add to the pioperty value Sharp pruning shear* and saw are essential and make all cuts clean and close to the liinh or trunk of the rice Bibit Material I Timotirv Devotional Reading Phihppians I 12 21 Christ the Center Lesson for April 1, 19G2 TESUS CHRIST is often called the center of the Christian faith, and with good leason Tine Christian faith is quite definite, however mysteiious some of its aspects may be Just ‘‘l believe” doesn’t make a Christian out of you Mohammed ans believe, so do Pharasees and Jews and Spm tualists and Mor mons and Budd- hists So, for that Di. Foie,man matter, do Voo doo witch-doctois and devil-wor shippei s Everybody believes something- just believmg in gen eral isn’t Chustian It is not even common sense What can possible be meant by “believing” or “faith” without faith in something or somebody' A “believer” who isn’t in the least sure of what or whom he believes is as pathetic a figure as a “Goei” who has no idea wheie he is going Just “go ing” will get you nowheie, so just “behevine” gets you nowheie either Center of grace Christ is the center of Chiistian faith, the pole to which faith’s compass swings This is true first of all because Christ is the center of God’s grace As the New Testa ment vv liters use that word “grace,” they most often mean by it the undeserved but freely given favor of God to men. Paul puts it in a nutshell in I Tim. 1:14: “The grace of our Lord over flowed for me with the faith and love which are m Christ Jesus.” Grace—faith—love—Christ Jesus: they all go together, Paul cannot think of one apart from the rest. The kind of world we have to live in sometimes discourages u* about a God of love. If we believe that God is a God of love, there must be a strong reason for our faith, something because of which we believe, to offset all that in spite of which we believe. And this “something” is Jesus Christ. Now Is The Time . . . TO TKKIT TOI{ \<X'o SKKOS Growers aie mged to treat then home-grown tobacco seed in a 1 1000th solution of silcer nitiate loi 1"> minutes in oidei to kill seed-home diseases altei this soak penod it is \ery nnpoi taut to i mse tlie seeds thoioughlv ui eithei distilled watei oi tain water and the second iinsing in mgiilar watei Spiead the seeds out to di \ oi seed with a watering can, Tlie sihei nitiate treatment should be made in an earlhen-waie or jclass container nevei use metal utensils around t>il\er m- MW SMITH ti .t t e (Contiuued on page 5) ft Is became' lelteve Mrti* De God’s gift to us, to each on* »f us who will take him,—it is baa cause we understand as St. Paw lid that Christ’s life and erenl Heath were for our sakes, that h« literally poured himself out ha lacnfice for us, —that we find ia aim the center of God’s grace Jenter of redemption There are many ways used la die New Testament,\ by Paul and ithers, to describe in metaphors, what we call Salvation—for Sat iation, we must always remem oer, is the mam aim of all reli gions Salvation is what God does o nd us of what despoils and rums us, namely sm, Salvation us ihe name of all that brings man nit of the ‘ far country” and mtoj ns Father’s home One of tbei ivoids, used sometimes m place if “Salvation,” is “Redemption, ’* ir litei ally “Buying Back.” The picture is of wretched people who are being held for ransom, sud ienly set free through the pay ment of the price demanded. Christ is the ransom, it is he who paid the price, who was the price, if our freedom from sin, our being “alive to God” as Paul put it ance So Christ is the center of .ademption Without him we would be unredeemed Almost m the >arae sentence Paul calls Christ he Mediator between God and man He is the Bridge, the Way. It is he who opens the door to God, it is he who breaks down aur opposition, makes us as one with God Centei l How could. Christ have any other place? 'enter of hope Because some Chiistians have lot seen cleailv the meaning of Chnst and Christianity for this oresent life and world, and have as good as said that we don’t be gin to “cash in'’ in our faith till after we die, othei Christian# have fled to the opposite extreme, and found the entue meaning of Christianity in this world and ame Today theie is a swing of ihe pendulum back toward where it used to be, though not all the way. We can see that both idea# are true our religion is for to<Ji»y« omorrowand always Christianity is a religion of hope', ’ and that needs to be remembered in dark lays like the present. This earth will pass away, and God knew it when he made it. But that doe# not spell the end for God’s people. Christ will come again. The “ap pearing of our Lord Jesus Christ" —though m ways we may be sur prised to see—is a constant hop# of the New Testament. So Chnst is again the center of faith, for he is the center of our hope. (Bue< *n oitlluM copyrighted bf the Division of Chrintlss Education. KnUtitftl Council of the Cbunhts •* Community Press Service.) 151 MW SMITH
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