} 5 PART 0 HS GRIER 18. THE WAY ENGLISHMEN LOOK UP- o* SPORT--DEVELOPS CHARACTER. United 'Staters Look Upon International Fachting Very Seriously--Englishmen Takes ter Quietly. Englishmen look upon sport as a part of atacter, as well as a physical developing facfot in civilization; the interest of the major- ity of Americans is confined to the excitement expected from a gontest. Many United Statérs look upon the international yachting and other Shag almost as though they were serious battles, and are elated or 'depressed according- 1y; While the English take these matters more chifmiy,' and, while cager to win, welcome the fiteSts. as being good for the sports and fies themselves. They bear in mind that the geduine sportsman: |, ; s highedrt upon the goal .-Not wipon the prize. $ es Lewis, the distinguished lady whe in 1892 made the famous discovery of the Sinaitic Palimpsest, the most ancient known manuscript of the Four Gospels in Syriac, gave «large audience in Cambridge, an account of anderings in the Holy Lang, and visit to e 'monasteries of St. Anthony, St. Paul, and St. Mhcarus, after five days' journeying across a waterless desert. At the monastery of St. Paul a setvice of two hours' duration was held in honor of the travellers, as representatives of the English people, to whom the monks sowed the greatest gratitude for delivering them from the Mahommedans. -, A correspondent at Messina tells a remark: able incident. An infidel publication, in its fiest issue, attacked the churches and religion getierally, asserted that "there is no God" and challéhiged the Deity to prove his existence by sending an earthquake! This incident was recalled by many with horror after the great quake, which occurred next day. It made a great. impression upon the Southern Italians. *That editor," adds the correspondent, "will have been the best missionary the church has had. for many a year." "Compensation for damages--From R. J. Campbell," is the inscription on a frying-pan just' presented by the pastor of City Temple, London, of New Theology fame, to a man in Harrogate. "He and his wife were so absorbed in reading a sermon by Mr. Campbell that they | forgot all about some food that was cooking on the fire, Not only was the food spoilt, but the pan: was burnt through. The man wrote to Mr. Campbell of the incident, and the latter thereupon sent him a new frying-pan inscribed as above. Stirling Cemetery, in Scotland, has a curious ancient tombstone, which bears these lines: "Our life is but a winter day; Some only breakfast and away, Others to dinner stay And all. full fed. The oldest man but sups And goes to bed; Large is his debt That lingers out the day; He that goes soonest Hag the least to pay." Curious incidents occur in Constantinople in the blending of the old and the new. Quite récently, a procession to the new Parliament, at Constantinople, there figured automobiles and camels. .In almost every carriage a. Mo~ hgmmedan was seated by the side of a Chris- tian, often giving the Christian the place of f hator. Turkish priests were scated amicably with Christian Jpriests of different clurches;, all happy together over the new oppertunity which freedom had brought to them. An extracfdinary demand has arisen in the eastern counties of England for second-hand Bibles--the older and dirtier the better. Copies which formerly realized four-pence are readily boughtsfor'half a crown. They are being used to' manufacture evidence of age for old-age pensions. A woman who 'produced a Bible to'prove her age as seventy-six from an entry on, the fly-leaf had, unhappily, omitted to tear out the title page, which showed that it was printed in 1895. . A peculiar custom is observed in an English regiment, the Twelfth Lancers--the playing of the Vesper hymn, the Spanish chant and the Russian national hymn every night, after "Last Post" has been sounded. Long ago onic of the officers' wives presented the regi- ment with a set of instruments on condition that the hymn be played every night. The playing of the Spanish chant is as a penance for the sacking of a convent during the Pen- insular War. England spent $75,000,000 on her army (ex- clusive of India,) in 1907; the cost of her naval armament in the same year was $167.500.000, yet both together considerably less than was spent for sport. The capital value of the sporting rents advertised by a single firm of lind agents in one scason, reckoning the let- ting yalue "at four per cent, amounted to $43,750,000. The licenses to kill game bring in a revenue to the state of over $925,000 per annum, Theére "afe over 'two hundred and fifty thousand words 'in the English ianguage, or considerably more than the German, French, Spanish and Italian languages combined. Ye! thete are people who declare that they really "cafinot' find words to express themselves." Suef a vast number of words, however, need not frighten anyone who wants to master the langtiage. One or two thousand words suffice for the needs of most people. The star of Bethlehem can now be seen by afiyone who will rise early in the morning. It. makes its appearance very brightly about daybreak. = This star, which 1909 years ago glided the wise men, is said to appear at intervals of S00 years so that all interested 'had better look for it as we will all probably be too old whem next it appears to see it clearly. It is in the east. New: Zealand is being taught a lesson that Canadians should long ago have learned. At North Canterbury the birds have been des- troyed wholesale by the farmers because of the damage! they did to the crops. This year the harvest happened to be a particularly Iidavy one and a plague of caterpillars has practically ruined the crops. The destruction of Canadian wild birds has cost our agriculturists and hor- ticulturists millions of dollars. There \is a. popular notion that the British gave up tuling the American colonies a cen- tury and 'a quarter ago. But the rumor is ill- founded." The Island Kingdom has furnished the United States with twenty-four of its twen- ty-six presidents. Fifteen have been of Eng- lish origin, three of Scotch desgent, five of Scotch-Irish' parentage, and on® of Welsh blood. The other two were of Dutch extrac- tion medan city of Isphan-Ruza, Persia. cfs, ten by four inches, eighth inch thick, while precious stones set in symbolic designs figure in the centre and at each of the corners. This book is written upon parchment, and this part of the work alone is valued at £10,000. ! Ls . TRIUMPH OF CHURCH'S WARDS. Metlakahtla Indians Sing Handel's Messiah in Finest of Style. Canadian Courier. The Mendelssohn Chait has a serious rival if'the far north-west. The simpsean Indians of 'British Columbia have been hearing Han- "Messiah. This notablé event took place at Port Simpson, which place may be said to have the most notable musical season in the kiiown world. Fiity full-blood Indians were in the chorus. The audience were mostly Aborigines. Port Simpson, with a thousand people, is a beautiful spot on the northern shore line of British Columbia. Most of the people are Tsimpseans, from whom, of course, the place gets its name. The singers were from Metlakahtla, and they came down by the LC. P.-R. steamer Princess May to give their 'cousins of Port Simpson a taste of choral art. The occasion of this upheaval of native art among the Tsimpseans was a laudable desire to celebrate the life and labors of old William ncan, the missionary. For several years the Metlakahtla Indians have had a choral society. In January the musicians, wit books, instruments, and all the. paraphernalia\gf art sailed. down--just as the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir goes to New York and Chicago--to Port Simpson. They were met by a large municipal delegation of Tsimpseans, for these folk have a municipal otfganization of their own, and the visitmg musicians are their des- cendants. They stayed two weeks in the town and gave three performances. A graph- ically entertaining description is given by an eye-witness of the Messiah concert: The old building is profusely decorated with evergreens and British flags and emblems. On the platform are the singers and orches- tra. The girls were dressed in plain white silk. The young men show plainly they come, from a plain and working people. We find none of the operatic ornathents around the singers. The five soloists, including the trum- peter, cannot be distinguished from the rest. The soloists did their parts very well, and considering 'their limited opportunities to ac- quire musical education, much less voice cul- ture, they compare well withthe professional singers anywhere.. The organist, as is the case with more than half the singers, has been to an elementary school only, ahd for a short time, early in life; yet he reads and speaks goad English, as well as being able to read any musical composition, classical or modern. The director has had better advantages and, although an Indian, possesses a collegiate and university education. The oratorio was per- formed from the beginning to the end, with the usual omissions, by the Metlakahtla Choral Society, with the grace and dignity of a pro- fessional organization. Not a false note was sounded; not a passage carelessly handled. The theme of the author was correctly inter- pretéd and put to correct execution. When the Hallelujah Chorus was sung, the audience rose to its feet and stood gazing upward as if they, were actually witnessing something in the skies! The cov- are of solid gold, one- . Mountain Land of Monks, Athos, the Holy Mountain, where no woman may set her foot, the shelter 'of hermits: and haters of the world, is likely soon to lose most of its remoteness and mediaeval 'charm. Served by regular steamship calls, visited by holiday tourists, and overrun by Russian emis- saries Athos may become a health resort or a hotbed for political intrigue. Even the build- ings:and 'works or art are not ev erlasting, and' frequent earthquakes and fires have left dis-' appointingly little of what must once have been there. Nevertheless the mount retains a beauty and interest unmatched elsewhere, and happy is the man able to visit it. There «are twenty monasteries on Athos, forming a kind of a republic, each sending a representative to sit on the council at Carves. This body does not interfere with the home affairs of the monasteries, which are controlled by the various abbots according to their own rule. No account is thus taken of the size of the monasteries, so that the Ru$sian mon- astery with two thousand monks has no ad- vantagé over Philotheou with forty divided into two classes. In one everything (beyond such trifles as books and pictures) is held in common, meals are taken in the re- feétory, no meat is eaten, and smoking is for- bidden. In the other each monk has his own of garden and his own servant, who cooks for him and generally succeeds him on his death. They are piece Immoderate Language. Toronto News. Instances multiply of the objectionable pro- vincialism prevalent on this. continent. The New York Post calls attention to a glaring exhibition of it. We are assured by the clergy- man-who has been conducting the successful Boston revival that it will "go down as the greatest religious movement in ecclesiastical history,' The Post comments: . "The mind at once seeks to find a possible parallel for Boston's present upstirring, and fails. The Crusades? No. The Council of Trent? No. We need not refer, of course, to such picayune ecclesiastical affairs as the Council of Nice and the destruction of Arianism, or the Hus site movement in Bohemia, or the' Inquisition in Spain, or the preaching of Wesley and Whitefield. When everyone of our Boston clergyman's 3,500 auditors responded to his exhortation towards a better life, the speaker declared that the most wonderful, the great- est thing known in religious_history, not ex- cepting, we suppose, Luth€r=s stand at the Council of Worms, the preaching of St. Fran- cis of Assisi, the conversion of Paul, or even the Crucifixion." . Canadians, as well as Americans, are prone to over-statement. The cure lies in the cultivation of a due sense of propartion and plain truth. Empress Dowager's Burnt Offering. When the new Empress-Dowager had finish- ed the libationary sacrifices to the memory of the late Empress-Dowager, one whole month from. her death, the chief wife of the fate Emperor at the head of the wives of the Im- perial Princes, then solemnly proceeded to place in the "burning pond" and to burn articles belonging to her late Majesty, to-wit: her pearl-pendant hat, her chaplet of pearl beads, her gaily ornamented clothes, her bedding in ordinary use, and her yellow and red silk cushions and 'mattresses Her carts, sedans, and other unwieldly objects The most valuable work in existence is a copy of the Koran, treasured in the Moham were separately burned on the banks of the Palace lake, and -embosded THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 24, 1908. hE -FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENT. A Memorial Has Been Reared To Him--Work Beautifully Executed. : Tin Sir William Howard Russell, the famous war correspondent, died in February, 1907, at the. age of eighty-six, and was buried 'in Brompton Cemetery. A Memorial Fund Com. mittee, with Mr. J. Walter of the "Times" at its head, has lead in procuring a methorial bust and an inscribed tablet, which was un- veiled by Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, on February 9th. The bust, of which a representation ap- pears above, rests in the crypt, close to the chapel of St. Faith. The work has been beautifully executed by Mr. Bertram McKen- nal. It represents the correspondent in his prime. The crypt of St. Paul's is being filled fast with memorials of famous men. They take the form of tablets and medallions and busts. Close by this particular spot are tributes to Bulwer Lytton, Sir Edwin Landseer, and Sir John Goss, and a brass to those who fell in the besieged Transvaal garrisons. The par- ticular spot itself is a veritable "Journalists' Corner." There is the _brass to the-corres- pondents who fell in the Soudan campaigns, 1883-1885; another to journalists who, lost their lives in the Boer War; on its right is the fine bronze to the memory gf Archibald For- bes, war correspondent and military historian. Welcome to Medical Missionaries. Dr. Menzies, Honan, As a pioneer agency, medical mission work has been of the greatest value, for it appealed at once 'to men and removed prejudice. But even there it has had its limitations. The old slander yet sometimes heard in Honan, was that foreign doctors dig out the eyes of children, and grind up the bodies of their parents to make medicine, and thus are able to perform wonders, Because of stories df this kind, we hive seldom dared' to remove useless but painful eyes, lest false reports should circulate. But now, with other avenues of information opening up besides the old wil- lage gossip, and with newspapers and books: re- placing the professional story-teller, and with the influence of the hospital reaching farther and farther among the people, this prejudice is rapid- ly disappearing. The people generally are will- ing to come to us for treatment, and submit to the most serious operations. Time was when the doctor had to seek his patients, but now far more apply than he is able properly to treat. The hospital wards are over-crowded. . oa About three years ago a servant of the late: Empress Dowager was sick. When the native doctors failed to cure him, Dr. Cochrane, of the London mission, was called in. And when his patient was restored * to show her gratitude, the Empress gave a donation of 10,000 taels ($7,000), towards the building of the Union Medical School in Peking, of which Dr. Cochrane is dean. And in Boxer times, when the people of Canton were ready to destroy everything foreign, influential citizens came forward, and said, "whatever you do to other places, you must not lay a finger on that grand institution, the mission asylum for the insane." Yuan Shih Kai and other governors have given regularly large donations to show appreciation of the mission hospitals. The government, the officials and the people, all appreciate the medical missionary and welcome his coming. The Danger of Drifting. At the International Congress on the Lord's Day, held in Edinburgh, Oct: 6-8, the startling fact was published that in Great Britain, on the, Lord's Day, about 2,500,000 people work at their ordinary employment. Scotland which has been regarded as the model "Sabbath. keeping" country of the world, furnished: her full quota of seven-daydin-the-week toilers. There the church occupied a large place in the life of the people, who were carefully trained in the principles of Sunday observance. But in recent years some of their religious teachers advocated looser views and in a single genera- tion there has been a drift of alarming char- acter. If such a drift has taken place An a country of limited era, with a homogeneous population of a single race, with large-estab- lished rural institutions and centuries of train- ing in respect for Sunday, how great must be the peril to which we are exposed in Canada! Our country has vast extent and -wonderful natural resources, inviting a large population, Our people are of different races, with marked differences in moral and religious training, and these differences are being accentuated by the addition of many races. Many come from countries whete different moral ideas from ours prevail, from lands where only a Continental Sunday prevails; others do not know any Sun- day at home. The danger of drifting into habits that make for breaking down the Lord's Day in Canada is too painfully obvious. Great Men Live Simple Lives. It would appear as if one condition of great- ness is a simplicity of life. In fact, ascetical principles of life can be shown to have pro- duced the great rulers of mankind, the great- est teachers, the greatest warriors, the great. est poets, the greatest thinkers, and, in fine, the geniuses of history, in over fiinety per cent. of cases Cacsar, whom historians agree in calling the greatest human phenomenon the world has known, was most abstemious m respect of diet as well as heroic in the matter of training his body--in other words, in subjecting it to hard- ship. Alexander was an ascetic 'during the wonderful campaigns in Asia Minor and India by which he entered. into history. Hannibal, the greatest military strategist of all time, was an ascetic and a hermit. St. Augustine did not "find himself" till he adopted the ascetic life. Napoleon, like Caesar and Charlemagne, was excessively temperate in respect to his bodily cravings, and. as Lord Rosebery points out in his: masterly "Last Phase," despite all that has been said to the contrary, was, for the age 'by our words. INDIAN SCHOOLS AND THEIR ATM - These Schools Were Originally "Established For a Double Purpose. Principal Heron in Progress. The Indian Schools in the provinces Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta were es- tablished for a double purpose. Fi st, the Dominion Government has undertaken a shate in this work to fulfiF a prorhise made to fhe Indians when making treaty with them. See- ond, the churches have taken a part in the educational work among the Indian believing that it would, afford them an opening' for Christian work among these, people. The of | Government recognizing the necessity of giy- ing the Indians an education under Christian influences, gave over the work to the different churches. The first, and most important, mo- tive on the part of the churches was the Christian motive; that is the missionary. To educate any race either white, black or red Without Christianity is to do them more harm than good:, It follows that if children are to 4 be given a Christian training, it must be given y Christian men and women. Not merely nominal Christians, but those who believe in a personal Saviour and who make their duty and allegiance to Him the first consideration in life. Christian influences are not exerted y word or mouth only; a greater influence is exerted by our conduct and every day life than While it is a splendid thing to be able to speak well, it is a better thing to be able to live right. The person who can meet trying experiences, the wear and tear of every day life, with cheerfulness and patience, is doing more to recommend Christ than if they were to speak the most eloquent words. Actions not only speak louder than words; they have a more lasting effect. Science is one of the most important studies on any. college curriculum. There is a science that every Christian needs to learn, that is the science of living with others. The Christian religion was intended for the wear and tear of 'every day contact with problems and peo- ple. Machinists long ago discovered that bear- ngs to wear well must be made of fine ma- terial. The finer steel inta shaft the less fric- tion and more endurance. No one needs the quality of endurance more than a Christian worker. The work of an Indian school has special elements likely to cause friction, special difficulties and. special problems that make it a test perhaps more trying than almost any other line of Christian work. But on the other hand its difficulties should recommend it. It is in practice the athlete trains his lungs and muscles; in work the mechanic develops his skill; in hard marches the soldier develops endurance, and in constant action we develop Christian character. The more varied and se- vere the tests we endure, the finer and more noble the quality of the character developed. TRAINING OF THE BOY. He Should Be Held To The Same State Of Virtue As The Girl The boy should be held to the same state of virtue as the girl. To admit that he must have a season of sowing wild oats is to unfit any parent to bring up boys. Rude language or vulgar behavior is just as inexcusable in the boy 4s in the girl. He should not be allowed for one moment to think that things are de- cent for the boy to do that are indiscreet for the girl. It is very easy to fall into the habit of establishing a double standard of morals. We have become so accustomed to see boys 'd6 things and hear boys-say things' which no self-respecting. girl would: do or say, that we have unconsciously become reconciled to the idea that purity in a girl should be higher than in boys. : There is every reason why the boy should be as neat, as polite, as modest as the girl. He should never be allowed to feel excusable in doing or saying things that be unfit for his sisters to participate in. Boys reared with this idea are much more apt to make good men, successful business men, healthy men, than boys allowed to indulge in coarse conversation or questionable recreations. The bay should be in the confidence of his mother. Her sensitiveness and feelings should be img parted to him as much as possible. Then when the boy comes in contact with rude boys, not so reared, he will' see for himself the folly and degradation of immorality. But it is upon the father mainly that the rearing of the boy depends. If the father is a good man, a gentleman, a man who likes life and makes the best use of it, a man who has not forgotten how to be a boy, and how to play with boys, a man that likes fun but takes a serious view of life in general, the boy will scarcely need any other instruction than as sociation with his father. The boy naturally emulates the father. There are some things a boy can tell his mother easier than he can fell his father. There are other things that a boy can tell his father better than he can tell his mother. Blessed is the boy who has both father and mother who are approachable, who are sym- pathetic with his phases of growth, who are ready to forgive, and patient to begin over again. If the boy has not found these things it will be doubtful if the Sunday school or church, the day school or teacher, will be able to supply his loss. Some Clerical Anecdotes. A well-known English clergyman steadily refused to play cards. When remonstrated with for want of sociability he replied, "I do not play cards, for one reason only: it takes four knaves to play a game, and I refuse to be one of them." Archbishop Tillotson had a similar 'horror. One day he met Sir John Trevor, who for misdemeanor had been ex- pelled from parliament. "I hate to see an atheist in the shape of a churchman," Sir John exclaimed." "And 1," the good bishop rejoined, "hate to see a knave in any shape." One instance when a witty ecclesiastic met his match is recorded of David Garrick. Rev. Laurence Sterne, who was not a brilliant ex- ample of a loving husband, met him and said in a sentimental! way, "The husband who be- haves unkindly to his wife deserves to have his house burnt over his head." "If you think so," said Garrick, doubtless glad to get even with Sterne for once, "I hope your heuse is insured." : o Are a Public W. J. Bryan. - "Merely as a business. investment, it would pay men not Christians to subscribe for the Young Men's Christian association and men's religions clubs for in proportion as you can improve the moral standard of your people you make your property and lives more safe, and you reduce the expense of courts in en- forcing the law. Christian societies could be justified on the low basis of dollars and cents without regard to the spiritual significance. 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