About the turn of the century Pastor Wagner a Ficnchman, wrote “The Simple Life “ In deal- and simple language some of the attubutes ol a simple well-oi dcrccl life w cie set forth It came into the hands of one v ho occupied a pedestal of power and influence in oui national life, Theodore Roosevelt the centennial ot whose bnth we obseno this yeai President Roosevelt wannlv (ommended the Fienchman’s mes sage to his own people No age needed that message more than mi s No age evei had such an abun dance of gadgets gadgets to entertain us to leheve us fiom the pain of labor, to add oui leisiue and piovidc for our every comfoi t But has this been achieved 1 Men woik hauler and longer hours so that at some futuie time they may enjoy life If and when this dav arrives, we find that it has come by another route The teim “bieadwmner” is out of date It came into use some vears ago wb°n thelabor of the husband alone sufficed to meet fanulv needs This “gadget age" has so skyrocketed oui wants that to satisfy them, the home makei now is also a factoiv worker, a salesladv or an office girl We are no longer content to meet material needs We must at all costs satisfy artificial!} induced wants It means moie and moie things Feu things in life aie more pathetic • than seeing human beings cieated in the inoial image of their Creator, with great capacitv foi enjoyment of life at the full, 'ast this aside and enslave themselves on the hopeless treadmill of trying to satisfy then ai tificiallv stimulated wants The quest for mateual things, when permitted first place in life fills it with anxmtv and disquietude Should we wondei at this 9 Centuries ago one who knew life as no man know it said that a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of things he possesses The eternal truth couched in these words must have been in the mind of Phil lips Brooks when he wrote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I * ’liuV, E*avi d s o n Washington thu week is watch ~ic with moie than usual interest i'k tongiessional election tam- j) i'mu th it aie iu-l now' begin- n iie t" eel into lull swine auoss Ihe coimtn 1-, this as some 1 1 the expel 1 s pi edict to be a Demociatic \tat ’ Oi can the Republicans t ,. otheis think leeam a inaiont' in the 36th ( ongi ess which con \ s next 'aiuiai t ’ 'I lieu ale 14 senatonal he i i,p- lii’ii luoin Alaska lot tin f is; nim .uiri 436 c one l e'ssional r -tints itulud'ne oni m Mask i in wh.ih < it <_iion (urpaigiu ait ij ’I,, '■ l-'l (1 \\ hen lln f,~,' l> {(in',ic“" ac 1 : hi in cl i i'l 'non h thuc \u u 40 I/, moticiN ami 47 Romiblic ir- in ii s. p,i Ihe Hmmc w a-. <ii\ id c I 21’ T)c .i.fif K 2ju iwpuhli c i,' ,ii / I' i \ a I' 1 ' i< - 1 1 > » "( cithoi ha\c -if) i ( ]•>! t I ! I ' S I 'lll M ( ii l t !‘ ■> I s i ~ i mi \\ n i' o' i I .li< 1 , i’l lIIOM I II I >1 <' ’ 1 ' nllli >1 I 1 I h i " of r i'i ip m I 1 1 c \\ >1 In , "l I 'h in il (I < ' ('in n I nI 11 mi l < ,IIKi llVfllO 1 « ( If)'.’!' Il if I O’ f j' j«jt on The Simple Life THIS WEEK —ln Washington With Clinton Davidson CHOOSING A CONGRESS l on Tne necelul use of atomic cn tig.\ on the olhei hand, offeis mini camcd-ol oppoumities foi all (4 mankind National issues which aie cm phasired include Federal spend mg and the national debt Con puss appiopiidled a peace-time retold of almost SBO billion and <s a icsiilt w'e will go anothei S 8 billion deepei into debt this fiscal Integration One ol the thorniest issues i, I bat ol schoo l ink eiation 111. Sunic'ine Com I itsclt is an usue lias p exceeded its constitution..! authonts as the Jud cial Jjiamh ol government and enci i idled on II i Lcgislalnc authonk ’ (on ■it s h\ a \oti> of 4U !o 4i haul ' i died h'll to t m (ail flu m u *. (lion of the Coni' I l*isl<l', 111 to \\ C'C k I IC k< KI ' S ■ M id labm miiini'. 1 ailed i>\ i i.S <i 1 * \v \OiC's Candidates w 11 «j'i ' > 1 non ho>' CoU i )i(' ab <u! ili< ioiu hin fib!' i 1 il cm la ’”) umi i icl'MiU", and i’s,a‘c ai -1 mos- m I■, ams'i ' i- J uM< s Hin n lb> iin ii aii as i,n ir ! i si| ,i < mill mi i ~t l 111 • i 1> I' I 1 s In line ad |(,m nine: bill it Ii i' a l ' ml as in im (Ulus as rk i i | i m 'lit! 'in i .innai ,n. a ■ imn'iia the ih i isjoii id Hi \ni iin an pi opli on liu nn, oi Ian 1 i in s \v Inc h a)I( 1 1 the in Hriai .ii I I I Encompass us about. “A thousand complexities A great man’s path is shewn with things He’s leame dto do without” When people integrate their lives about the highest values, the simple life follows natuiallv and unconsciously Their highest pleasure is dei ived from duties near at hand and freely done, fiom efforts to lighten the load ol others and add to their measure of life They find themselves en compassed about with a multitude of stim ulating interests that constantlv challenge their wonder, admiration, and frequently their solicitude for they see much injustice and wrong about them Such are never lonely for thev aie never alone They have no dread of being in the minority There are alwavs those ol kindred spirit whose stimulating companionship sustains and en courages Thev arc never envious Thev have learned long since that it is not the model of the cai. nor the si 7 e 01 location of the house but the furnishings of the mind that add meaning and wortlvwhilencss to life Rarelv has a gieat book, a great poem, a gieat painting, a great musical composition or hvmn or a gieat idea come from the mind ot people who have found life easy or whose oveimastenng ambition was to accumulate things matenal goods We mav soon foiget the man who made the better gadget, whatever its nature or value, but we cannot forget those who have added to oui understanding, appre ciation and possession of life These aie thev who exemplify the simple life, though thev know' it not Thev merely give place to the highest values, respond to common duties close at hand and pleasures of endiumg quality follow' For them pleasuie is neer won at the piice of another's displeasure, then gain never means anothers loss Like pleasuie the simple life eludes us when it is sought as an end in itself It comes spontaneously and naturallv to those who live unselfishly and cieativelv, merely giving first place to life’s enduring values The Farmers Exchange ★ ★ ★ * ★ Lancaster Farming Lancaster County's Own Farm Weekly Allied C Alspach, Publisher, Dan McGrew Lcbtoi, Robert G Campbell, Acherli.ing Direcloi, Robert J Wiggins, Circulation Director Established November 4, 1955 Publish! d every Fr.daj bv OCTORARO NCVVSP\PERS, Quanyville, Pa Phone SX’erlmi; or Lancaster, Entered as Second-Class matter at the Post Office Quarryville, Pa, n-dcr Act of March 3, 1579 Subscription Rates S 2 per rear, thict years S 5, Single cop} Price 5 cents -Is' ’ (’."•11 chooser T!u>\ a ,- <‘do'i^m-d to fields at hii(h- I s Oil' S’'eed Keep your hands 01T’ Express 1-3047 SAVE A HAND i,d.c s are.i’l 4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, October 10, 1958 Bible Material - Ltike 2 1-<IO Devotional Beading: Hebiens 1 1-9. The World’s Hope Lesson for October 12, 1958 IS THERE hope foi the world 7 la there hope for me 7 All human beings ask that question one wav or another For all citizens of this planet, with veiy few exceptions, can see that this world is not as it ought to be The moie unselfish, the more pubhe-minded, the more sensitive to the * needs of human beings a peison W* is, the moie deep- r IJR ly he will feel the yfejfc. JISSc woes of the woi Id | M All pel sons not sO smothered in the v|Si*"”’ w selfish enjoyment Sm of their own pu vate paiadise (it Ji wM they can affoicl Dr. Forei.ion one) will agiee that this uoild soiely needs hope. Prisoners of Hope But is thei e hope 9 Hei e np,mons differ Some of those who ai e most keenly ceitam that the woild is in a bad way, aie sadly convinced that it will not glow bettei—it can’t The ancient GieeKs, and many other races besides, thought of histoiy as going around in cir cles The world would go downhill and up by turns, aiound and aiound the wheel of fate No disaster, and no Impi ovement, would evei be pei manent But the Jews weie a peculiar people They weie peculiai among other things for their hope Alone among the ancient peoples of the woild, the Hebrews thought of his toiy not as a cncle but as a straight line, an anew with a point, aimed and going somewhere If arcient men thought of a Golden Age, they placed it in the far past The Jews dreamed of a Golden Age, too but then* was never in the past This hope, as centimes went on became centered in one Deliverer to come They called him by vai lous names - Messiah, Son of David, God’s Chosen 1 One, the Rescuer or Savior It is clear fi om the stoi ics Luke tells that even veiy old people like Anna and Simeon lived in hope that they might see the com hn New Age Somehow ★★★ ★ ★ Now Is The Time . . . By MAX SMITH County Agricultuial Agent TO MAKE STATE FARM SHOW ENTRIES -- The 1959 Pennsylvania Slate Farm Show will be held the week of January 12ih Livestock entry deadline is Novembei 17th Various entry blanks and Premium Lists available fiom the Farm Show Building at Hainsbui" 01 from this Extension Office *** TO SOW WINTER WHEAT From the 10th to the 20th of Oitohci is the recommended time to seed winter wheat heic in southeastoi n Pennsyl vania Tins is amnle tune for noimal giowth and should be late enough to avoid Hess.an Fl\ infec tion Max Smith TO M\KE SILU.E FKOM FROSTED CROPS Some ciods of late coin soighunis and soybean-., . nd pci bans othe'i Image ciops weie lioAm dining the past week, Hi's naves that the ciop wdl soon d, • ami ch\ up Go id silage max c l l l o, made 1 icon (hose uopsif ensiled soon and peihaps some water added ,1 (lie hi hum in oidoi ( t obtain good packing T 0 r.KWVTcE Ol< COLD VV VI Eli ban much aie cautioned about tl l d.me i ot pci in Umg piOclucing cows to sleep mil when the wealh ci a is cold and the mound at lowei tonipei atmcs The chilling ol inlclc i s ma\ he Ihe cause oi mastdis and olh, i ucldei mammei v sy stem. n dilonis I'D SPI! U \V I \TEI!( LESS ha\ ciops in icccnl \c'ai is winlcicicw this \ued is olten mist ik mi ten wild inn si aid botaiis ■it belongs to (lie muslaicl L.imh The infec la n s ms to be mcieasmg lln oiudiout the c.umu Contiol mav be attained h\ spiaving dining mid oi late Octoboi with one pint of tl'l’ in 7 gallons ol watei pei acic Spun soon and not next winter 'when they saw the baby Jesus they felt sure that the great Hope wag now becoming real, at last. Im-( prisoned In circumstances they might have been; taut always ag “pnsoneis of hope." Hope Deferred The sad thing- was that the gieati majouty of the Hebiew people, when the long-awaited Messiah really came, could not recognize him. Jesus the caipenter, Jesui the ladical teachei, Jesus the friend of smneis, did not fit the patterns and the fonnulas by which they had described the Coming One As they would have said, “He does not fulfill the Piophecies” Neveilhe less, some did see that he fulfilled the deeper meaning of the ancient piophets’ lufpcs And so by degiees the number of beheveis in the Messiah (or Chnst, which means just the same thing) grew and giew. Most of the Jewish people weie left with a sense of hope de feued And indeed many Christiana wei e likewise disappointed For It appeals to have been the expecta tion of the eaily Chnstians that Chust’s absence in heaven was only tempoiaiy, that is to say for a veiy shoi t time, a few days, weeks, months, years peihaps Eveiy one hoped and most of them expected to live to see Jesus buisting thtohgh the blue sky, ndmg on a cloud, coming to be King of the Woild But Jesus did not come that way Even m our time some Chris tians expect to outlive the woild’S tune Hope Abides Neveitheless, and despite all the disappointments and nnsunder ‘ standings, the hope lives on Most Christians no longer expect to sea Jesus coming on a space-ship But all Chnstians do live by hope That Christ mil reign is a hope and a, faith that will not down. That in the long inn his cause will con quel, that “the kingdoms of this woild shall become the kingdoms of oui Loid and of his Chust,” this the chuich believes We have to be modest and humble, or we should be so, about the “how” of hope’s fulfillment. For we lemember how mistaken the Jews of Jesus’ time were, in their intei pi station of prophesy, and we know how many Chi istian mteipietations have been smashed by history’s matter-of factness But we shall not bo dashed We believe that God is not going to be defeated, we behevo that against Chnst and his church even the gates of hell shall not pi evail (Kurort on outlines copyrighted by the Division of Christian education, National Council of the Chinches of Christ m the I SA Released by Community Tress Service.) One cl lev mme common weeds in
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