Tárogató, 1938-1939 (1. évfolyam, 1-10. szám)
1939-03-01 / 9. szám
TÁROGATÓ 13 gadjmk el gonosz békét, olyant, amely bennünket beszennyes, amely Istent és az Ő igazságosságát tagadja, mert az ilyen békéről mondta Jézus: Nem békét hoztam, hanem jegyvert.” (Lamennais.) STEPS DOWNWARD. By R. W. Wright. It is not a pleasant thing for Christians whose general outlook is one of hope and good cheer to remind themselves that some things are growing worse. The use of intoxicating drink in Canada has increased enormously during the last few years. In Ontario alone for the year ending 1937, $72,000,000 was spent, an increase of 128 per cent, in four years. This equals the retail sale in the province of candy and confectionery stores, fruit and vegetable stores, meat markets and florists, dry goods and shoe stores. The figures seem almost incredible, yet are given on good authority. The President of the Ontario Federation recently cited sixteen steps taken by government authorities relative to the liquor traffic during the past few years, all of which were downward and subversive of temperance progress. This does not mean that things are in a hopeless condition, it does point to the need of more temperance education, and to the necessity of the most strenuous opposition of church and Sunday school workers to this deadly evil. Never have temperance workers been furnished with such weapons for carrying on the war against liquor, and automobile accidents, ghastly as they are, afford a powerful indictment against alcohol. It does seem rather inconsistent for governments as they stand with open bottles to say, “Come, boys, and have a drink,” and then when they injure some one to brand them as criminals. UNDERSTANDING MYSELF A New Kind oj Hygiene. “Six feet, one and one-quarter inches tall.” The examiner turned to his records. “That’s a quarter of an inch since the last time you were in. One hundred and eighty-one pounds, stripped. Pretty good, I’d say, for a boy just barely fourteen. The way you’re filling out through your chest makes me think you’re about through growing. Anyhow you already have got your dad beaten.” The doctor was right. The boy is my son. And he has me beaten by three inches. What is more, he is only one of many sons today who have grown taller that their fathers. Experts are agreed that this might be expected. The youth of this day are growing up in a world that knows much more about the care of the body in terms of diet, fresh air, sunshine, exercise, and rest than was known formerly. A remarkable illustration of the application of modern learning comes from Japan. There, scientists discovered that there was a shortage of a certain vitamin in the diet in one section of the country. They dried and ground up a fish rich in that vitamin, and experimentally used it like salt in the noon meal of a small group of schoolchildren. In two years, these fortunate youngsters had clearly outstripped their comrades in growth. Because healthy-mindedness is so important, we shall be considering for some time some simple rules of mental hygiene.—R.E.D. THE TRAIN IN THE CHURCH WINDOW It is not often that a stained-glass window in a church has a complete railroad train represented—but the Central Church of St. Thomas, Ontario, has such a stained-glass window, which in all probability is the only one of its kind in the world. The congregation held its first services in a railway waitingroom, and the railway people have formed a large proportion of the membership ever since. When the present church was built in 1897, the railway employees of the city offered to install the main window, providing it was constructed to their suggested design, and the offer was gladly accepted. The window is certainly very realistic, for it depicts a railway yard, with a village in the distance. On one track stands an engine, and on another track, a tourist coach, both of the type belonging to the early nineties. The upper part of the window, which does not show7 in the picture, shows a locomitive headlight, with radiating beams, the means of light being an oldfashioned oil-lamp. The inscription reads: “Presented by the railwaymen.” Central Church was built largely through the instrumentality of the famous evangelists, Crossley and Hunter, it being their church home for many years. The building bears their names, and there are two memorial windows in their honour. The present minister is the Rev. A. W. Hone. OUR ENGLISH SECTION.
