» " PAGE TEN Eg _-- . > Pr -, Pleasant Fields of Holy Writ. THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON A weekly column of abiding interest to both teachers and scholars. ' yy us Twwwe - ny ewe Motto for this week: "A noble Book! All men's Book! It is our first oldest ement of the never-ending problemi--inan's destiny aud Gold's "w wid it here on earth; and wll in steel free-flowing outhines ind ---- In dts sbaplicity and is epic' melody. "--Thomias e, 1705-1881. werhird Quarter. Lesson IX, Matthew 2%: 15.22 August 30, 1914 A DAY OF QUESTIONS (THE STORY) Sa Handsl, when composing his oraforto, "The Messiah," was found lly vat ed in tears. What touched him was the prophet's words, "He wa d The despleing of Jesus wys as svident in the temple as it ihe fe + "And physical pains are not so severe to a piritual senl as wounds = "inflicted upon that higher nature. Lowell says: "Our mbdern martyr- " doms are done in type." 80 Jesus was crucified again and again before 48Ver he came to the cross. We come now 1o the last ouset of His despis- dug critics. he Plot, but, for the iime, with consummate cumning, Kept themselves the background. They allowed some of the r understudies to consort With the Hated Herodians in the wily scheme to trap the great reform: J? I." The language of the address Was characteristically Herasdian It'was a gracious, empty platitude, which these traitorous scyophants had Marned in the court of the Ifdumean he honeyed phrase with which they baited their trap. was the grossest insult of all the many that were ever heaped npon Jesus. Could they Imugine He would be flat- tered by it ' 'The borns of the dilemma, on one or the other of whieh they expected Jesus to be impaled, were these: if, for example, He should say it was obligatory to pay tribute to the hated Romans, He would inflame the Jewish populace to the highest degree. "What! pay tribute to a heathen tyrant to enable him to live in luxury in his golden palace on the Tiber?" If He should say, on the other hand, that such a tax ought not to be pald, He would lay Himself open to the charge of sedition against the most alert and virfle government the world has ever seen, Before nightfall He would be in a Roman prison and His vareer, so * threatening to Pharigeeism, woilld be at an end forever It was a well- laid ticheme. Many a great reformer had Deen undone by one far less cumming. - But the very Propounding of such a conundrum shows that the questioners had no idea with whom they were dealing, i a Jesus knocked the cunning dialectical trap into smithereens. He smote those who hid set it with the iron rod of His mouth w hen He called them "Hypocrites!" . . He answered fools according to their folly when He said, "Render Caesar Caeso) s things!". Tle left the question still open whether taxes were Caesar's right. The individual! must decide. The very holding up of the penny and the making the questioners them- selves read the inscription increased the fog in which Jesus deliberately and under the rcumstances justifiedly wrapped the whole matter. Like a skilled helmsian he steered between Scylla and Charybdis. He gave no offetise to the populace. He had not affirmed that they must pay the odious tax. Ox thé other hand He bad given no occasion for His enemies to Jodge complaint of' treason with the Roman officials. He had net said that the Jews must not pay the tax. The Herodian question, asked so deftly, proved a boomerang, and came hurtling back to the camp of the a prators. They were dumbfounded They could not get away q ¥ enough. They were in abject fear lest Jesus should follow up His. advantage and put them in still worse form with the mercurial pop- ulace, THE TEACHERS' LANTERN The climacieric character of this controversy is apparent from the large space given to it in the Gospels. One-sixth of all Matthew is taken up by the account of this single day of questioning, while twenty-five chapters in to four Gospels are devoted to the last week of Jesus' life. > . . Jealows fear made strange bed-fellows The Pharisee, that Paragon of orthodoxy, and the Sadduc ee, who was heterodoxy's very self, like Pilate and Herod, were made friends in a day and both consorted with the confessedly unpatriotic Herodians. This triple alliance could hardly fail to accomplish its end. It was only a question of means to use and time to bring the end about A towering, unitet invincible eclesiasticism sets itself for the overthrow of a teacher whose 'spirit and doctrine is justly recognized as entirely inimical It had to do it, if it would perpetuate itself. It was the linstinetive dictate of self-preserva- tion. . . The "tribute" in dispute, literally called 'census.' was a Polk tax levied on the people exclusively for the. purse .of.the Roman em- peror. It was like "Peter's Pence," which is for the Pope personally. thi instance it was a sign of submission and its payment equivalent to an expression of loyalty to the sovereign. No part of it was ever used for local purposes or improvements That is what made it superlatively odious. It was a red flag to passion. It was a bone of constant and fierce contention. . NO nicer question of ea listry could by any means have been propounded. But to steal the li ¥ of a truth-seeker, 4 to pass the moral ruin of another, was the foulest crime in the long Feed] catalogue of ithe misdeeds of that pharisaical ecclesiasticism which PEE UR ERE Se SE RTO SEAT Me seenis to have run parallel with the human race It is a measure / 1 of the moral Power of Jesus,in the day in which He lived, that fierce and hostile factions must needs drop their differences the time, and use a 4 thelr united strength to compass His ruin Pha 18 traitest" sect of - ~All, conservators of orthodoxy; Sadducees the free thinkers of - the day; and Herodians; panderers to royal vice and truc klers to imperial power, § TRalk had; per force, to pool issues For ten centuries the Chris tians of the Bast have stood. in their relation to the sh empire, in exactly the position occupied by the Jews in thelr rei nt tome. They have paid a poll tax as aliens. Under the liberal "Naw onstitution disabilities and indignities have been removed and their r gnition as fellow-citizens 8 now on the WAY to being complete : ANALYSIS AND KEY A Dialectical Trap Baited with Flattery The Crux: "Tribute." "Paid or Not." Horns of Dilemma "Pay!" Passion of Populace "Refuse!" Accusation of Sed Fools according to Folly "Render Caesar Caesar's Things Tax Not Afirmed Nor Denied Trap to Smithereens Question a Boomerang = The Young People's I votional Service August 30, 1914. Si Isaiah 65: 17 -- WHY AND pow TO ABOLISH WAR For behold, T tfeate a new heavens and a new earth; and the for- mer shall not be remembered nor come into mind soldier Was 'the unit of power. As such Tassion, the a Je uses the soldier as the emblem of efficiency. Iie urges hi converts be gbod soldiers. In ou day the soldier is not the unit of Power. He is, on the ¢untrary, a passing incident fn the eurrent civi- .Jization. There are already sure tokens of the approach of the prophef's When the art of war Will not so much as be learned any more, when aan ere Will be no more garments rolled in blood. and when the implements 5% of Heath will 16 converied into tho )f peace and life aver EMPIRE UNWIED BY PERT -------- but without Justifying the pro- wiv Great Ennobling Compensation ¥or La the Horrors of War. iw hole-heartedly on our side as are London, Aug, 25.--The press her, | the British Americans." Comanents upow what it deseribts | rR alee "Su tubed capital a huge war levy oi £8. | Conditions In The West. win i the dts, s of the cap: Calgary News-Talegram 5 Gdeman blackiail in Brussels by im-| With the resumption of the muni- 000,000, Cipal works, there should be a per- sce In An article headed "Canada and | SePtable improvement in condiiions = War," the Daily Mail sys : conditions which were precipita« "M war has jta horrors, it also has | 120: 10 No sniall extent, by a panicky da great enn y 6 mations. | ©1ViC policy when there was no ex. . 0" indas" the Mast of 'Shese is ii. | use for a pani. It might be poin- fie 'a8 o unifying agent between | [C0 OU%. 100, that the crop has be. ty ra SH ey ce | BUB 0 move eastward and money _ ~ the of Britain, Russia, France will flow westward as a result: that am. S . tbe live stock industty, which has o of parties, the iealonsies increased to an unprecedented ex. Lhe antagonisms 0 creeds | tant; will: bring 'mors money into the wantonnoss | too West this year than both crop Jmgoism. The war has | ina stock combined in 1911, that! i one month an mter | fhe jaca! bank clearings show « mal and imperial cousolidatian thy increase; that ov hl ~~ 'wight have taken years 10 ing restored evem in war-stricken , ¢ 3 : Britain; that never in the history impulse to sink JuRor msucs | of the United States has there been the United Kingdom. It|a more Promising esituation: and a8 the empire itself. Of] that, with the Cessation of industri- 'there are many proofs, fal and agricultural production ' in mors powerful than that | Britain and on the continent, there by the Canadian parlia- | will be a bigger demand and better i prices for everything that can 'be recapitulating the gener | produced ip Canada than at any that have come | Drevious period since the American ' dominions, the Mail adds: |¢lvil war. : . From these abundant signs of the RRR Tt g of the British cause, fol-| The outbuildings of Albert Arm stands, - One' of | storm i . trove, near BE, i ty al The Pharisees, Jesus' implacable foes, were deep in! But be ve glad and | * Yefoice forever in that which | ereate tn St. Paul's day the | 1 the happiest Consequences of the oo | | operation between Britain and France | is that the French-Canadians are as | LIVE STOCK MARKETS Tbe Prices Paid Ap (he Various Centres, Toronto, Union Stock Yards, Aug 24.-----Reteipts were only moderate all round i103 cars, 1,937 cattle, 1,269 hogs, 6035 cshedp and lambs, 235 calves. { Cattle Few choice catile wére of- fered and these sold at firm prices, one. extra choice load . selling at $9.10 and quite a few loads at $8.60 but commot and medium cattle were unchanged. ' Choice buteher's steers, $8.60 to $9.00 and one load 'at §0.10; good butcher's steers. $8.00 to $8.30; medium butcher's steers, $7.00 to $7.75; common - butcher's (steers, $7.25 to $7.59. choice but- {cher's heifers, $8.25 to $8.40: com- mon butcher's heifers, $7.75 to 188.00; choice cows, 6.75 to $7.00: zood cows, $6.25 to $6.50; canners, $3.00 to $4.25, Feeders and stockers--There was a fair deman@'ror stadkers and feed- ers at steady to firm prices. Choice steers, $T 00 to $7.40: ipedium steers; $6.75°t0 $7.00; stockets. $5.50 to $6.50 Mitkers and springers- Cholce {cows were in demand at $75 to 2100 each, bulk sold at 865 to $85 each. Calves-- Market firm om light re- ceij te. Choice veals, $10 to $10.50. tomes to good, $5.00 to $9.00. | Stecp and lambs Market easy for | lambs vut sheep sold at steady vajue jet. Sheep, $5.75 to $6.25: culls and rams, $2.50 to $5.00. $7.50 to $8.00. Hogs Market was about steady. was a consighment of 600 to the Sift Canadin company from the northwest. Selected fed and water- «d, $10 and 39.50 f. 0. b. cars, and $10.25 weighed off cars. Lambs, Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, AME. 24.--Cattle -- Re- ceipts 19,000; market wenk: beeves, $6.60 to $10.50; steers, $6.25 to $9.- 30; stockers and 'feeders, $5.35 to $8; cows #nd heifers, $3.70 to $9.- 10; calves, $7.50 to $10.75. Hogs--Reeeipts 32,000; market slow; Tight, $8.90 to' $9.35: mixed, $8.65 to $9.35; heavy, $9.00 to $9.- 30; rough, $8.50 to $8.70; hogs, $7 to $8.60; bulk of sales, $8.90 to $9.20. Sheep -- Receipts 36,000; market slow; sheep, $5 to $6; yearlings, $5.- 90 to $6.90; lambs, native, $6.40 to $8.20 Buffalo. Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 24 Cattle receipts 5,000; slow, good, steady; others steady. Prime steers, $9.25 to $9.75 shipping, $8.50 to $9; bulchers', $7.50 to $8 50; heir ers, $6.50 to $8.25; cows, $4 to $7.- 25; bulls, $5 to $7.50: stockers and 's, $6.25 to $7.50; stoek heif- ers, 25 to $6. Veals-- Receipts 1,425: active, $5 to §12 Hogs Receipts 14,000, slow, heavy, $9.40 to $9.50; mixed, $9.- 55; Yorkers, $9.25 to $9.- 75 to $9; roughs, $8.- 15 to $8.25; stags, $6.50 to $7.50. Sheep and lambs-- Receipts 6,000; active, steady; lambs, $5 to $9: i $4.50 to $7; wethers, $6 0, ewes, $2.50 to $5.75: sheep, mixed, $5.75 to $6. ALLIES POSITION STRONG Germans Sweep On It Like a Tidal | Wave. \By Capt. Fortesen Paris, Aug. 24 Before being (made a prisoner of war for three days at Ghent for not having French military papers, I had pressed down the French advance lines where the dllied armies and Germans will | meet in the greatest battle since the world began Like a great tidal wave the Ger mans are sweeping up from the east, but the French and their allies are in a strong position, in a country ad- {mirably suited for defence, and {stand ready to stem the Germas | tide The battleground selected {by the allies for the gigantic test of armed superiority covers a broad, rolling country The crops have been harvested, there is little forest land, 'and the country forms a splen- | did battleground. The allied arm- {ies have selected this ground on | Which to receive the enemy and { advantage of position rests with { them What bas impressed me more {than anything else is the efficiency {of the French artillery It is the | linest artillery in the world I saw | lwo batteries in action at the battle {of Dinant, and the way these guns were handled was a joy to see. Ev- ery manoeuvre was carried out with cloek-like precision, and when these batteries begau shelling the German position, prejectile after projectile hurst fair in the face of the enemy's firing lines. With such artillery practice the boasted German sweep across Bel- j Elam will be quickly halted. es ON THE RAMPAGE. An Angry Man Used Gun With Dead- ly Effect. Syracuse, N.Y., Aug. 25. Orin Clark, Fayetteville, maddened becausq his wile had sworn to a Warrant for his arrest, shot to Heath one of his neighbors, shot to th one of cond aid shot a third and = then 'orided. his own life last night at his hotiie near the centre of st village. Clark 'barricaded himself in his home and from an upper window fired four shots from a ddublebn : in 10! ta chins ; front of : ho rs . aged » was struck' by the. first shot and fell dead $n the street. Christ Poulos, a Greek, in the head. He was' the Crouse-Irving arrived in the village to bring him to Syracuse, ro Peiver ee a oh of the in the leg. pA condition 'is fot serious. When his ammunition Hid 'bein hausted the half crazed 'the open widow ddwn "$lairs through a rear doof: info 'the baek vard. A 'moment later those "who hd run Janice alls port i At HAMILTON TIGERS WILL HOLD A PRACTICE ON SATURDAY. Philadelphia Fans Thisk Ty cobl Has Lost Some of His Speed--O0 tava Pacer Establishing a Record St. Thomas © Drop Out of Canadian Léague. Ine Hamilton Tiger football cham- pions will hold theie opening practice next Satuaeday, The © first turnout will also be in the mature of a picnic, and 4 full turtout is being counted on. Anna Uradtord, ithe black filly by Tadd Mae, feritured the closing day of the grand cirerit' meeting at Pitts- burgh by lowering the world's Tecord for three-year-olds on a mile track from 2.05 to 2.08}. Ross Bipkiey has enlisted at Toron- to, and leaves with the seoomd Q.0.R. | contingent for Valcartier. Ross was manager of the Argonaut Rugby Club last vear aud was slated of the posi: tion gain this fall. Harry Smith, who was a member of the Ottawds last winter, has enlisted with the 23rd field battery and will go to' the front. Swith is the only mem- ber of 'the' Ottawas who will g0. Philadelphia fans think that I y Cobly has 'lost some of ' his speed. -liiey don't ibsinuate * that the Dixie daredevil bas gone back, but charge his slight sump to his long layoff. Pitcher "Dazzy" Vance, aged twen- ty, who was offered for sale by the Superior club of the Nebraska State League, together with * the franchise and entire club, early this season for $260, with no takers, has been sold by Jobn® Holland, of the St. Joseph Western League club, to the Pitts burgh Nationals for $5,000. Disgust- ed at the offer made hy Superior, Vance bought his release for $350, join- ed the Hastings team and was almost immediately sold to the St. Joseph club for $1,000, Spencer Wishart, who was killed in the Elgin road race, Ottawa, was twenty-four vears old, and had heen racing for six years. He started by piloting cars owned by himself and was a prominent figure in the auto- mobile racing world: For the first few years of his racing career he firove as an amateur. His work was tharacterized by a fine combination of daring and coolness, and it was not long until he rose to the coup taincy of the racing team of a well-known manufacturer. > Little Alfred, T. WH. Brownise's O4- tawa pacer, is establishing a cam- puign record down in the United States. 'Last Saturday, at Parkers burg, West' Virginia, Little Alfred won a $1,000 stake, meking his eigh- teenth victory out of twemty starts. He stepped the two heats in 2.08} and 2.00%, over a half wile treck. His winnings to date are close to 20.000 and he is still staked up to October. \s far as the Ottawa Hockey Club 1s concerned, there will be no trouble over the Patricks® draft. Skene. Ryan is very likely the plaver who will zo west, and from' recetit 'remarks is quite willing to go. Ronan has - a chance 'to 'get 'into business in Van couver with a relative in that city, and is quite willing to figure in the draft, while the Ottawas would soon- er Jot some of the other players go, they cannot find dnv of them willing to take the trip. Tt is unlikely that there will be 'any ent in-salaries this vear Wu @itawa. Phe club did wel Inst season, even though carrving a big squad. The sale or transfer of the St. Tho- mas Canadian league fonchise is wore than probable. Secretary (han tler announces that the club will lose upwards of $2000 on the season. Little interest has Beem taken in the fortunes of the St. Thomas club this season, and unless there is a decided improvement in the attendance dur ing the remainder of the season the city will not 'be represented in the Canadian league next season The club is in fourth place ONTARIO FALL FAIRS hp Dates of Fairs a in Eastern On- Almonte Sept. Arden Belleville', . .... . _ Bowinanville... ....... Brockville... . a ak 30. Sept2 Centreville, (Addin ton naty vo Lom shvean Eom yndhurst. Maberly August 29th to Sept. 14th. to the roof with high-class exhibits. Everything in line for another record year. United States and Canada. Greatest Listof Attractions Ever B-A-B-Y-L-O-N. den : small chairs, arm to mat ih America--1000 | 4" "a A010 {0 mate, performers in picturesque costumes against a background of Qriental gorgeousness. : Edyth's Ballet, Baby Show, Indian War Canoe Races, Motor Boat Races, Water Sports, Dog Show, 60 Numbers -- THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1914." FE. -- nC PONTOON BRIDGE CONSTRUCTED BY ROYAL BRITISH Canadian National Exhibtion Another Record Year Record number of entries, every building crammed Magnificent Art Exhibit Paintings by the great artists of England, Scotland, Greatest spectacle ever 'staged International Tattoo Twelve Bands -- 400 musicians--in unique celebra- tion of the hundred years of peace between Britain and | leading Undertaker. the United States. 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