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The teim “bieadwmner” is out of
date It came into use some vears ago wb°n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
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E*avi d s o n
Washington thu week is watch
~ic with moie than usual interest
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n iie t" eel into lull swine auoss
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pi edict to be a Demociatic
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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!
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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
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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
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chooser T!u>\ a ,- <‘do'i^m-d
to fields at hii(h-
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S’'eed Keep your hands
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Express 1-3047
SAVE A HAND
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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
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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
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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.)
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