Iw SERVICES WERE FIRST HELD FIFTY- FOUR YEARS AGO. The Lute Archbishop Lewis Carried on the Work For Some Yeurs--Church Building Stood Unfinished For Several Years. bout fifty-two years re frst held wm late Aux tncambent of St. Peter's and he and his curate, Fane, undertook the since church Lyn They sbishop Le were was Brockville, gun whcn the wis church, the late Rev) Canon work there, and carried it on for some years. At length it was pro- posed to build a chureh in the village At that time the Coleman brothers, who were virtually the fathers and founders of Lyn, were prosperous men of business there. Of the three brothers Jamés was a Churchman, and he heartily favored the undertaking, and heiped the work of building by freely giving of his time and his money. A site was ob- tained and building wigs begun, and the pros- pect looked bright. But, unfortunately for the church, after the walls had risen a few Bt. John The Evangelist, New Dublin. feet from the foundation, the Colemans, through severe losses by fire and otherwise, failed in business. This put a stop to the work of building, for, it is said, the firm had become responsible for nearly the whole cosy of it, and the failure was a heavy luss to the village, also, from which, indeed, it has never recovered, . The church building stood in an unfinished ' condition for 'several years. And after Dr. Lewis became Bishop of Ontario in 1862, and Rev. F. R. Tine succeeded him at St. Peter's, the services at Lyn were given up. In 1864; the hardworking and faithful missionary, the Rev. John Stannage, was stationed at North Augusta, which was then a part of the mis- sion rectory of Elizabethtown. His fame as a church builder--he built nearly forty, in- cluding the Patton memorial in Kemptville-- had spread far and wide, and he was appealed to to undertake the task of finishing the Lyn church. He at once agreed to the proposal, and interested in the work his curate, Rev. A. W. Cooke, now Canon of St. George's ca- thedral, Kingston, In the course of some months, ic, in 1865, services were again held in a room in the village by the eurate, and wére continued by him until the large mission rectory was di- vided, and measures were undertaken also to finish the church. In 1866 Mr. Stannage was: appointed rector of Kemptville, and his qurate succeeded him as rector of Elizabethtown and North Augusta, with parts adjacent, andl he éarried on the work in this large field until he di- vided it, North Angusta becoming the head- Old St, nn, Nuew Dublin, quarters of the eastern part, and Lyn of the western. The former included the stations of North Augusta, Jellyby and Garretton; the latter; New Dublin, Lyn and Ballycanoe, the last named being added after the division. Rev. Mr. Cooke chose the eastern part, and Rev. Kearney Jones, who afterwards became professor of English at the Royal Military College, was appointed to Lyn, He at once took up the work of building where Mr. Stannage had-left off, and it was started again, and in a lsrge measure by means s plied by Mr. Stannage's English friends. The earnest work' of Rev. K. L. Jones was crown- ed with success, and the church was opened for service in 1869 or 1870 by the late Arch- bishop Lewis. It was indeed a day of re- joicing for the church people of Lyn - and its vicinity. Mr, Jones also bought a nice house for a parsonage near the church. 2 The good work was nobly carried off in all divisions of the parish by Rev, Henry Austin for seven years, and Canon Grout for twenty years. Lyn and New Dublin are now in charge of Rev. T. Austin Smith. Our cut shows the old %y eehurch, at New Dublin, built largely by the efforts of a Churchman called: Leeds, a namie well-known in those parts 'as it has become the namie of one of Ontariv's banner coun- ties, bo The Sorrows of the Strong. Often the mind that upholds others needs itself to be upheld; the wise adviser Kimself needs advice; the honest heart that seems so true and bold is fainting from some secret sorrow, dying from some wound which sym- ; y could staunch. So says Hain ye Better Self" And how true the 'words are none but the men and women who try to fight the battle of lite with a smiling face know. The weak | sup, port, the quernlous complaines/is comfurted, those with few troubles havie even these made * light, the idler and the pleasure--seeker have} pleasures' planned for het But for men 'and women bravely struggling with own sul more heedlesy a > by--"there is voice, nor any that answers, nor any that hb" and they turn again to the bur- WESLEYAN HYMNS. Rev. Charles Wesley Wrote 7,000, Many of Which Are in Use. W. J. Phillips. : ~H-48 not too much to say that the modern revival of congregational smging began with the Wesleys, whose hiymas have always been ong of the d features of Metnadism As most people know, Charles Wesley was the hymn writer, and his hymns would un- doubtedly have 'made him famous had not his personality bee eclipsed by that of his brother John. Charles Wesley wrote seven thowsand hymns Of these, 459 are found mn the English Methodist Hymnal, 530 in the Canadian Methodist, 22° in Hymns Ancient and Modern, and 23 in the Book of Common Praise. Although this is a small selection out of seven thousand, it is the greatest sum- ber by any single writer in the book. John Wesley o wrote a few hymns, and particularly busied himself in translating hymns used by the Moravians. Beyond this, he was the active spirit who published hymns for the people called Methodists, not only enjoining their use, but taking the utmost care that they should be used properly and not abused. The first Wesleyan hymn book was published in 1739, and was entitled Hymns and Sacred Poems; this ran through five reprints, the last being issued in 1756 But in, the meantime a second and larger edition appeared in 1745. From this time on the Wesleys printed - many small books of new hymms, some of them consisting of 2 dozen pages only. These, with new editions of hymns already in print, made a total of forty distinct publications by the year 1777. No. 30, dated 1765, is entitled "Select hymns: with Tunes annexed: designed chiefly for the use of the People called~Methodists," and in the preface John Wesley relates his troubles in finding a satisfactory musical editor, He Says: = "Masters of musié were above following any direction but their own... And 1 was de termined whoever compiled this should. fol- low my direction, not mending our tunes, but setting them down, neither better nor worse than they were, At length I have prevailed!" The existence of so many Wesleyan hymn books was of course inconvenient, and the need of a general and comprehensive collec tion in one book was apparent to John Wes. ley. In 1780 he issued "A Collection of Hymns: 3520 pages," and this continued in use *until about thirty years ago, although supplements were issued as the work was re: printed from time to time. John Wesley continued to issue new hymn books, some of them mere pamphlets, but the last two, Nos. 47 and 48, were pocket hymn books, abridged editions, intended to sup- plant a book printed by private enterprise, in which many: of the Wesleyan hymns were inscrted, together with others which Wesley described as "doggerel double-distilled." It is abundantly evident that he regarded hymns as a most serious and important form of worship, and from his prefaces to the various hymnals, and his occasional notes on the subject, we gather that he was particular not only that the hymns should be good, but that they should mean something to the singers. His directions in the Long Minutes read as follows: "How shall we guard against' formality in public worship; particularly in singing? "(1) By preachin: fvequently on the head. (2) By taking care to speak only what we feel. (3) By choasing such hymns as are proper for the congregation, (4) By not singing too much at once; seldom more than five or six verses. (5) By suiting the tune to the words. (6) By often stopping short and asking the people, 'Now do you know what you said last? Did you speak no more than you felt?" coun . 3 In the Methodist meetings the hymns were always given out two lines at a time; these were sung, and the next two given out. Asta musical performance it must have been ve:y disjointed, but no better system could be devised for memorizing the hymns; and so, without any effort, every steady chapel-going Methodist became a walking hymn book; the Wesleyan phraseology colored his speech, his habits of thought, his prayers, and indeed permeated his whole existence. When the Canadian Methodists came to compile their own hymn book, in 1879, they decided as a matter of course that it must be a Wesleyan collection--omitting some little-used hymns, and adding™ hymns from other sources for which there was an obvious demand. Their preface speaks of the Wesleyan hymns as "among the most potent furces in the history of Methodism," and also refers io them as "a liturgy and a confession of faith." Why We Say, God Bless Us. A reader of the London Daily News wants to know what is the meaning of the old cus- tom of saying "God Bless Us" after sneezing. "I know an elderly person who always did it" he says, "and I used to wonder why. Years after I read in Clodd's 'Childhood of the World' that the reason was that = bad spirits were about us when sneezing, and that 'God bless us' was said to drive them away." . Some persons attribute to St. Gregory the use of the benediction "God bless you," after sneezing, and say that he enjoined its use during a pestilence in which sneezing was a mortal symptom, and was therefore called the death-smeeze. Aristotle mentions a similar custom amongghe Greeks; and Thu- cydides tells us that sneezing was a crisis symptom of the great Athenian plague. The Romans followed the same custom, and their usual exclamation was "Absit omen!" We also find it prevalent in the New World among the native Indian tribes. But it is clear that the superstition is older than either St. Gregory or the Athenian plague % stinCtive als : For Social "Playing farmer" is the latest scientific hon to be offered the St. Louis schoolboy. 'he Public Recreation Commission has ar- ranged to divide a portion of Forest Park into tiny farms--7x13 feef--and every boy that can be interested is to Have a tract to till. He will grow vegetables and the com- mission will provide tools and seed and place an expert farmer in charge. - The $6 wage for girls was termed a crime by Mrs. Kelley, speaking Before the National Conference of Charities, St. Lowis. "No girl residing away from her family can live and be respectable on $6 a week" said Mrs. "The imerease in melancholia, sui- cide, insanity and tuberculosis is due largely to this industrial condition among girls." Rev. W. R. Robinson, St. John, NB, is agitation for - the for} i ol as DAILY BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, THE GIANT AND THE BEES. How the Bees Gave Lives to Save Their Queen. Once upon a time there was a giant who slept twelve hours out of the twenty-four, and lived upon nothing but homey. It was brought to him in a beantiful crystal bowl every morning when he awoke by a' troop frown and sighed with relief whem he pgo- nounced it delicious. They could vever have found it for him in .sach quantities if they had not been friends with the bees, who kept them supplied with it, lest they should get ints trouble with their grim master. The giant lived in a great castle on the top of a hill, and his windows looked down right over the world His eyes were as grey as polished steel, and he could see so far with them that when the flower fairies ddnced far down in the valleys below, he could tell at a glance which was' the fairest, and whether the little "Clover Queen" were dressed in pink or purple. One day he awakened "as cross as two sticks." Instead of calling the beautiful gol- den honey "delicious," he flung the crystal bowl at the wood elves' heads and declared they had brought him "last year's stuff," and that the taste was "horrid" When they heard this the bees were very indignant, and all that the wood elves urged could not per- suade them to give him a fresh supply. | "It was our very best," they said, "and gathered from sweet pink clover. He $hall have no more." And they buzzed so angrily that the wood elves ran back to the castle to get out of their way. By this time the giant was alarmingly hungry, and when he heard that there was no more honey, his anger was terrible. Putting on his seven-league boots he strode to the valley in fess than two minutes, and made his way to a fragrant" field where the little "Clover Queen" held her summer court. She was dressed all in white to-day, and her filmy wings had the sheen of silver. The gredt piant picked her up very roughly be- tween his huge finger and thumb. "You are my prisoner," he said, with a wicked chuckle, and he laughed with glee as he popped her, into his castle dungeon, for he knew that the bees loved her best of ail the fairies, and would never 'rest until she were set free. "They will give me as much honey now as ever 1 want," he said to himself with satis- faction. "lI will 'have every drop that they bring from the flowers." But though the bees would have done anything else to rescue the "Clover Queen," they could not consent to: this, since it would mean that their own queens must die. "There is another. way," cried an, old bee solemnly. "We can save the 'Clover Queen; but we must give our lives to do it." A little later many swarms of bees arrived at the giant's castle; he thought at first that they were bringing him the honey demanded, but soon found he was mistaken. "Set free the "Clover Queen," buzzed the first swarm, as they settled all over his face and hands and fat red neck, and each leit his sting in the giant's flesh, though this means death to a bee. The giant roared and yelled with pain, and dashing down to his deepest dungeon, threw open wide the door. Then the "Clover Queen" sailed gaily away on the summer breeze, with the bees that were left surrounding her as a guard of honor. And never more did that giant sup honey from crystal bowls. & ---------------- The King's Childlikeness. Canon Scott Holland, preaching in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, said; that in all political and social matters the King's touch on. actual life was almost faultless. Amid a thousand perils. he seemed unable to go wrong. And why was this? Perhaps some day we shall know a little more about it. Now we can only attribute it to an insight that amounted to genius and to an instinct almost miraculous. But such instinct, such insight, though they belong to the felicity of genius, can never come into play unless backed by most re- markable simplicity of heart. They demand a clear eye, devoid of guile, clean of all 'self- seeking, undefiled by secondary desires, purged of egotistic ambition, undisturbed by selfish fears. A flawless, practical judgment iS a sure witness to an inner purity of motive. Only the single cye can see so truly, only the sound heart can yield so fair a verdict. It is the spirit of the child which alone can make our footsteps sure. And his footsteps were so sure. - The spirit of the child! Perhaps that will explain why} he was so dear to his own homé, and why home meant so much to him; why he was the beloved elder brother; why he was 'the lover of children, a lover of birthdays, a lover of toys and gifts, and sur- prises, and feasts; a lover of his grand-chil- dren, of romps and games, and pets, and dogs, and of all home fun. Something of the child heart there. Perhaps it was this sim- plic'ty of heart which gave him a curious felicity of touch, even in relation to those high acts of thanksgiving and praise which he attended in this cathedral. In discussing arrangements with the minute care which was his wont, he was always right in his ap- preciation of the central notive governing the service, and his seggestions were always true to the inwardness of the occasion: What One Good Man Did. Canon Tucker, in a'late address, detailed the great good accomplished by missions. He took a far North district as his first example. Fifty years ago the tribes of Indians around Hudson Bay were heathen. Rev. John Hor- den, who afterwards became bishop, found them in this deplorable condition when he went in among them. As a carpenter he taught the Indians the use of wood; as a blacksmith he taught them how irom could be worked up into numerous articles. During this time he had been a student of their lan- guage and soon he established a school where he taught them how to read and write. Then as a printer he set up a cride press, but was sufficient to teach them the rudiments the art. The result is"that there is not to found one savage or one heathen in the di tricts surrounding Hudson Bay. Indians go to Christian churches they built with their owt hands and bring with them Bibles ed by themselves, translated i their own language. of Wood Elves, who trembled at his slightest |' a JUNE 17, 1910. FOR GOOD CITIZENSHIP. Put His Shoulder to the Whee! and Keep It There For All Time Ambassador Bryce uttered a happy senti- ment at the University oi Kansas a few days agn when he declared that the good citizen must put his shoulder to the wheel and keep it there. i The city of Vancouver, BC, is to try the policy of making saloons less attractive and has decided to take away many of the attrac- tions. All furniture, pictures, music boxes, and the like, are to be excluded, and the bar room will thus be made a place 0 which to asssage one's thirst, but not to lounge in. Then, most important, is the absolute pro- hibition of treating; every man that has a drink must pay for it himself. This is along the lines of the "Anti-treating Society," in London, of which Lord Roberts was an active member. The hours of business are curtailed and the license fee is $1,000. Old. Curist church, Philadelphia, is build- ing a parish house as a centre for a neighbor hood abandoned by almost every Christian organization. In a poor district, teeming with children, Trinity church, Louisville, Ky., is solving a great problem. It has turned the land sur- rounding it into a park, with swings, see- saws, sand piles, ete, for the children, and grassy shady corners, where tired mothers can watch their little ones play. There is a suggestion that ground sur- rounding old Trinity, New York, and St. Paul's chapel be turned into a play ground Buried fi Quebec. It is not generally known to Canadians that Must good home made bread--made of "BEAVER" FLOUR. It means vigor, bone and muscle to your growing children, B--ause it is a perfectly balanced food. And itis the least "BEAVER" FLOUR is a scientific blend of the best Western Spring Wheat and Ontario Fall Wheat. It is as good for pastry as for Bread, and best for both. Your grocer has it. DEALERS Write us for prices on Feed, Coarse Grains and C:=-Ta. THE T. H. TAYLOR CO. LIMITED, 110 CHATHAM, Ont among the almost innumerable things of his-|' toric interest in Quebec is the grave of Sir Walter Scott's brother, Major Thomas Scott; paymaster in H. M. 70th regiment stationed in Canada, and wh) passed away in 1823, His body was buried in St. Matthew's church- yard 'in the heart of old Quebec, which was then the common burying ground of all the Protestant communions there. By 1860 it had beeome so crowded that burials except in family mausoleums were prohibited, and later burials of any kind ceased. The cemetery fell into neglect, but about a quarter of a century later action was taken to put it. in decent order. The grave of Major Thomas Scott is marked by a simple stone. In connection with his otherwise undistinguished career, it is interesting to note that at the the time of the anonymous publication of "Waverly" the literary circles of Edinburgh generally attri- buted its awmthorship, and that of succeeding novels, to him and not to Sir Walter. This delusion the latter, who long strove to pre- serve his anonymity, was not unwilling to foster. One distinguished personage, Lord William Lennox, on the other hand stated that it was confidently believed in Epgland that the novels were written by the wife of Major Thomas Scott, who, prior to het mar- riage, was a Miss McCulloch, and a skillful writer. Lord Lennox had met her at King- ston, in Upper Canada, in 1819, when he was in this country with his father, the Dike of Richmond, one of the early governors. He says that many of the officers of the 70th regiment attributed the novels to her. Ac- cording to The Quebec Telegraph, whith re- cently went into the matter, Sir. Walter sug- gested to his brother that he write a book on Canada, dealing with the hardships of the early settlement days here and with the ia- cidents of Quebec society, but nothing came of it. Challenging Respectable Meanness. Watchman. y A Pot of respectable people do not realize their unspeakable meariness. 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But don't you know, respectable and in- dependent and case-and-pleasure-loving friend, that if it were not for Christianity, which you despise or ignore, you would be obliged to work seven days in the week, and wouldn't have any chance to go driving and fishing, and so forth. Look into the conditions of all who work for a ving in China, and see how you would like that steady, continuous grind. You take all the advantage you can out of the day of rest which Christianity has given and will not do anything whatever to keep it up. You leave the burden of sustaining that day, which you enjoy so much, to women and children and some self-sacrificing men. And some of you are meaner still, for you do what you can to make the job of the women and children harder by using the daysin a way that tends to abolish it. P---------- The Return of Intellectual Sanity, Says Bishop Anderson, of Chicago; Is it not strangely significant and providential that just at a time when multitudes were wondering and doubting whether the great Christian verities were true, other multitudes' of masculine thinkers have made up their minds that they are true, so true that we be- lie ourselves if we don't proclaim them, so trae and so potential for righteousness that the world cannot do without them, so true that we stultify ourselves and go back on twenty centuries of progressive civilization if we stop where we are. That is the underly- ing significance of the Laymen's mov as I understand it. It is a return to religious sanity and consistency. our ecclesiastical differences. It rises above the Church is, Christ and His Church are, the mast powerful and most magnificent forces for truth and righteousness that the world has even seen.' The world must have them and they must have the world : Crowns by Wholesale. 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