Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — WILL HONOR AGED MASON [ARTICLE]

WILL HONOR AGED MASON

Kalamazoo and Battle Creek to Join in Celebration. Kalamazoo and Battle Creek will Join in a big celebration Fei. 27 at Battle Creek in honor of Dr. A. T. Metcalf, a member of the Battle Creek lorge who on that date will celebrate his 80th birthday. Dr. Metcalf was a former Kalamazoo resident He was the last physician of the village of Kalamazoo and the first grand master of the Kalamazoo Masonic lodge. A Judas the Ungrateful Apostate The world is full of sadly disappointing characters. In many things we all fail. Selfishness, meanness, perversity, pride, etc., mark the human family most woefully. But withal can anyone find anything more reprehensible than the ingrate who would betray bis best friend? The world;is of one opinion respecting such characters as that of Judas. And although he is a noted example he is by no means an exception; there are many. Some of them live today. But whoever can see the meanness of such a disposition with a reasonably good focus will surely be saved from manifesting such a character, however mean might be his disposition. The mhn who could sell his Master for thirty pieces of silver is justly In contempt with all hupianity. Nor was it merely the thirty pieces that influenced the ingrate. Rather it was pride. He had thought to be associated with the Master in an earthly 4 throne. He had set his faith upon this expectation. Now that same Master Explained more fully that the throne was not yet in sight; that it belongs to an age to follow this, and was to be given only to those who should prove themselves loyal and

faithful unto death. In the mind of Judas the matter took not the wisest and best way Holding the Great Teacher in contempt, the deceived one probably intended that the delivery should be merely a temporary one—a lesson to the Master not to talk that way, not to carry matters too far—an incentive to him, compelling him to exert his power for the resistance of those who sought his life and thus, in exalting himself, make good to his disciples the share in the Kingdom which he had promised or, failing of this, to wreck the entire project. Alas, the love of money, the love of power puff up and make delirious some who become intoxicated with ambition. How necessary that all the Lord’s followers remember the message, “He that humbleth himself shall be exalted and he that exalteth himself shall be abased!” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time” (I Peter v, 6) “

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