12 PAGES - © The Baily British YEAR 84, NO. 132 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1917 Whig PAGES 9-12 SECOND SECTION "AN Hoe SIGNO VINCES.™ By William T. Ellis. The key to Christianity is a Without the event Calvary religion of Jesus ig Take that chapter out of its histo on and all the others lose their signifi- | cance and vitality, The Christ is the story of That simple message is which breaks down all the opposition. . Men may merely the philosophy of Jesus, but gospel o the hammer admire is His broken heart that breaks their stony hearts The most characteristic the life of Jesus is this sense of the crucifixion, which the Schools study next Sunday It is typical of His whole career, for He was being crucified all through His mi and into the few terrible days when the gentle, sensitive of Mary hung upon the rough beams set up on "the place of a skull" was crowded, for the world to the significance of all His thirty-three years on; Son see, The Road to Power. All roads to helpfulness lead over a rocky crest called in the Hebrew, "Golgotha." Sacrifice must precede service The Scripture truly that Jesus "must needs have ed," only so could He have bec Saviour. Sorrow is the one sally comprehended experience, common lot of mankind. The trag edy and suffering of the present war is doing more to unite humanity than all the books upon political ecomony that have even been written No man enters into the depths of human' nature, except through his own broken heart. Only he who is lifted up on some cross draws men into! him As a quatrain suggestively called "Credentials" puts it "I preaca the Word. Why then that says suffer hiss? i And why God's message laughed to scorn?" "Your cheek kiss, And your thorns." It was only shame that the rahble saw in the dreadful upon the central one of these three .cross- €3] had their eyes been open they would have beueld sovereignty there Pilate might well say--though ali comprehendingly--""What 1 have written," concerning the inseription, "This is Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." For this supreme-act of sacrifice and service, this ultimate pouring out of His soul unto death, Is tue true sceptre of Christ's kingli- And this mark of the Lord Jesus must be upon. His church, If she! is to prevail over the world Not a cross on her temple, but the cross in! her spirit, 4s the sign of a church's serviceableness. Times without num-| ber have I seen the British flag flying! on many seas and in many lands; but only of late has it seemed that its al-dominating centre is a blood- stained cross. Nothing but the sacri-| fice of which this is the symbol can] bring the sovereignty of the great human ideals for which the war is being waged. hath known no Judas brow ne crown. of spectacle ness. | A Tragedy's Saddest Side. "What was the keenest suffering of the Man who hung suspended there in agony until His heart broke: Not His own pain; physical pain cannot crush a great soul. Not the shame of it; He was above the power of Men's opinion. Not the ending of his life, though life was sweet to this voung man, as to every other. Not defeat,' tor He knew that He was oa the way to a victory great enoug'. to satisfy His all-embracing love. The pang which fairly rent His heart was that His people whom He lad lavishly served, and passionately loved, could do such a deed, Net for Himself, but for the state of heart] that could make possible so foul an! act, and in the name of religion, did | He grieve. Thefein, then, we see the | significance of the cry, "Father for- give them; they know not what they, do." He ia truly Christ-like who | griokes less over a wrong done to for June, July and ross. | the | a crucifixion. | © phase of! Sunday | A ee at Ml att PEN The International Sunday-School Lesson for Juné 10 is "Jesus Crucified." --John 19:16-30. inexplicable. | himself, than over the sin of the was the magnani- spirit of the Crucified Man's 5s the Redeemer's sorrow, oer Such walls ofl at Man Among Little Men. n crude souls catch the pathos plight of Napoleon on d of St. Helena, when to the petty indignities s and slights of a small- ficial The was great littleness of pun'sbe with a -conquering spirit. the ian, the petty-fogzing Phari- pitless priests, the purblind these were the setting of tragedy of Calvary. Of such as great and sensitive Je-us made sport By the rongh ribald soldiers His delicate les: To the accompaniment ir jeers and coarse laughter F aunts He was driven forth neath the hedvy load of the crossed timbers that finally crushed Him to earth. Truly, it was the refinement of cruelty, the very ingenuity of tne pit. Wherever a fine spirit is the vie- tim of grosser ones there is understanding of this experience of the Saviour. When the the wor soldier Piate, populace the these the the beaten some cross, with its heavy burden nailed upon it ,was finally dropped into socket, with a wrench that must have racked every nerve fibre in rp sensitive body, a squad of soldi kept watch before it Utterly blind to the significance of the world's supremest tragedy which was being enacted before their eyes, they gambled over the spoils ef the victim. They were wit- nesses of a scene that shook heaven and earth, and that stopped all the world's clocks, destroyed its old cal- endars, and gave a néw birth to time. Yet these men gambled away, with rude jest and laughter and quarrel- someness. So does the ruling pas sion of a life thrust itself into the most sacred scenes Who does not know how, even when on his knees in prayer, there intrudes into his mind thoughts that engrossed him at other hours, and that are altogether alien to the spirit of devotion? Yet even these Roman soldiers, like Pilate, and the priests, and the Pharisees, and the people, were ful- filling divine prophecy. God's will will be done by us, or else. in spite of us Jesus was the willing agent of the Father's wil; the other participants in the great traged were ignorant of that will of God was done, as it must always be done, de- spite all the machinations of men and devils, the Comrades of the Cross, Nothing outside of limself can really shame or injure a man. It was no humiliation to Jesus to die with the malefactors on either side of Him. He was above such a petty thought; and even so dying He was given an opportunity to minister, which was the ruling passion of His life.' He willingly makes himself a comrade of every man on a cross, or of every man bearing a cross. For the sake of being best Brother to men, He is willing to pay any cost; suffering is not too high a price for sympathy, Jesus is history's great Sharer. And He still covets comradeship. The women at the foot of the cross were a comfort unspeakable to the dying Saviour. Then, as is always the case, it was woman who was man's support in his extremity, Paradoxically, God has made the weaker sex to be the stronger's final strength and support: Womanhood's queenliest crown came: to her that dark day, amid noontide blackness and rending skies, when the little band of women stood loyally by their crucified Friend. ; Jesus still waats comrade of the i August ICED POSTUM Directions: let cool, serve wit Postum in the usual way, cracked ice, sugar and lemon --or, if you prefer, sugar and cream. cross--disciples who know the fel lowship of suffering No sorrow, no sacrifice, no shame can be too great to bring one to a comprehend communion with the crucified ¥hr The exceeding great reward of a who suffer in any degree as He suf- fered is that they come to know Him and to be known of Him. All 10 are close to the risen, present Chris and who irradiate His power, beer with Him on Calvary. The End of it All Few events are final; most are bu! means to an end. The cross was not Christ's extinction but His corona- tion. In: itself its eadurance would not have been justifiable, the 'peni- tentes" of Mexico, who suffer suffering's sake, have not entered deeply into the true meaning of the cross. The symbolism of the cros sacrifice as a means to service, t Lord's ministry to Hig mother in His last hour was typical; the crucifixion comprehends an all and great ice Mary saw in that hour what } declared: "Thou shalt call His name Jesus; because he shall save his peo- ple from their sins." It was only that He might atone for the world's sinning that the Just died for the unjust This terrible tragedy would be as "idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean" unless it were a victorious atonement for men. "Under an Eastern sky, Amid a rabble ery, A man went forth to die For me! the sins of "Thorn-crowned His Bloecd-stained His weary Cross-laden He was led For me! blessed Head, tread, ierced were His hands and feet, Three hours o'er Him beat Fierce rays of noon-tide heat For me" CANADIAN. GUNFIRE DAZES GAS ALSO GREAT ALARM IN HUNNISH BREASTS. Fight For Troops Have Exciting Experience South of Souchez River. Beach Thomas, Dugouts--Dominion London, June 7 describing in the Daily Mail the en- counter between the Canadians and the 56th Bavarian division says that seldom have advance and repulse trod so quickly on each other's heels but left seo little turmoil in their wake. I'he Canadians charged through La Coulotte, still populous with machine guns. They penetra- ted the ruins of the brewery, made firm in what was once the electric power station, almost on the banks of the Souchez River. Much of it was hard fighting, but it was quick fighting, for the enemy had been terribly punished by shell fire and gas. Some of the 100 pris- oners taken were quite dazed, and they told alarmist stores of the ef- fects of our gas before the attack opened. The Canadians worked fous energy to make the firm. One of their businesses was to erect stops in the trenches, 'for in some places we were occupying an extension of lines occupied in--{orce by the enemy. One of these stops, or earthen or sandbag barriers, was built just bevond the second mouth of a German dugout. Unfortunately it had not occurred to the holders that dugout may have three mouths, and through the third mouth of this some Germans wormed their way past. A furious hand-to-hand fight followed with the men holding their vital point. Sunday morning the Canadian right wing was forced back almost to the original line and the left holding the electricity works spent the day in vigorous work for the defence of its now vulnerable right flank. All Sunday the enemy, w has much multiplied his artil- lery, and has perfect cover for it in the thousand groups of works and buildings round the mines of Lens, pourped shells on the thinned gar- rison of the electricity works. After some ten hours of shelling hegttack- ed the place in force from the tren- ches on the right and from the groups across the Souchez River in front. The place had become un- tenable and the gallant garrison, af- ter taking toll of the attacking force, withdrew 7 o'clock on Sunday even- ing. with fur- position Premier Ribot says Frange, Brit- ain and United States are in accord on peace terms. : Henry Ford has "subscribed five million dollars to the U. 5. Liberty Loan. fr. -------------- -- for | | serv- | | the | angel announcer had meant when he | 1 erty HAD TO THREATEN HON. MR. SEVIGNY rn av he Shipped the Speaker's Apartment Fic- | mishings to Fis Qucbes Home. THER RETURN DEMANDED SECURED BY COLONEL HENRY R. SMITH. AND © | Lively Letters Were Written hy Ser-! geant-at-Arms, Whe Placed Matter in the Deputy Minister of Justice's Hands. Ottawa, Henry the June 7.---Colonel IR. Smith, Sergeant-at-Arms of |House of Commons, assisted by the | Department of Justice, Hon. Albert Sevigny, now Minister of In- the property of | very clear to | ex Speaker, Reven that land Ithe House « ymmons belongs to it jand must be kept in its custody. The ex-Speaker has apparently been Iab- | oring under the impression that prop- a perquisite at was more or less HON. ALPERT SEVIGNY : of the Speaker, and 'was intended for his private use and enjoyment. A return tabled in'the Commons discloses a somewhat sensational gny's ideas of the proprieties in ship- ping to his own residence at Quebec several hundred dollars' worth of the furnishings of the Speaker's apart- When the Parliamentary fire February, 1915, the was, of course, ment, occurred in residence destroved There was some salvage of pictures, furniture, ornaments, etc., Mr. Sevigny apparently took charge of these. June 8th, 1916, while he was still Speaker, he had shipped from the House of Commons to Que- hec one typewriter, valued at $125, a filing cabinet and a typewriter desk. In May of the same year he had a Victrola and nearly a hundred records sent down. In November last, on his orders, nine paintings and engravings, all the property of the House of Com- Speaker's 'luded a' Gainsborough engraving, an angraving entitled "Toast of Brides," another entitled "Delia," and an oval painting called "Sweet Cords of Love." On the 1st of February last the Sergeant-at-Arms wrote to Mr. Sevighy calling his attention to the list of articles which had been sent SUDDEN DEATH Caused by Disease of the Kidneys. I | ! : i FE HL 4] te 5 h i ; ! H i has made it state of affairs in regard to Mr. Sevi-| mons, were sent to Quebec. They in- | by his orders to Quebec, fully requesting him to return them | o the custody of the Sergeant-at-| Arms. On the 12th of February Mr i Sevigny wrote. back saying that he would go to Quebec in a few days and| vould give orders for the return of the articles, After much further cor- lrespondence the articles arrived in) Jttawa. ! and respect-{ ' a------ Mr. Sevigny's Explanation. The Hon. Albert Sevigny made a statement in the H se yesterday in reply to some reports appeaning in the nawspaperng in connection with certain. effects" taken from. the Speaker's apartments and sent i Quebec He declared that he | borrowed these artieles during recess with the full knowledge { the officials and had returned them. ! Hon. Albert Sevigny, after mak ing his explanation in the House had | the the newspaper report that he would resign over the affair PLEASED OVER HIS The Peterboro Career of Sir Joseph Flavelle. t Peterboro, June 7 It is gratify- ing to Peterboro that another of her sons has risen to the top in the per- of J. W. Flavelle, who was cre- ated a baronet in the birthday hon ors. Sir Joseph was born in a cottage Union street, which still stands 1888 he married Clara Elsworth, x Peterboro girl, daughter of Rev Mr. Elsworth, pastor of the Method- |ist church at that time, and who re- sided where Mr. Conroy's residence now stands. Hunter street, East | City. Whilst in Peterboro he ¢on {ducted a pork and commission busi | ness. He was always a faithful mem- {ber of the George street Methodist tehurch and for many years a Sunday i school pupil of Mr. Robinson, of this city His rapid ascent in | business world started from--when | be became nianager for Davis & Co., is attributed to his splendid business | principles. son on | | ONTARIO CROP REPORTS. Seeding of Spring Grains Practical. ly Completed. Taronte, June T.--=The crop reports 'made to the Department of Agriculture trict representatives show tions to be as follows The seeding of spring grains is practically completed, and the young fields are looking promising, although a week or more later in growth than usual. Fall wheat is improving, but it { has been thinned out nearly one { half in places by adverse weather, | which has also greatly delayed | planting. weekly Ontario by dis- condi TO MEET COST OF LIVING. | Western Union Employees to Get Special Payments. New York, June 7.--Two special payments for 1917 will be made by | the Western Union Telegraph Com | pany to all employees, it was an nounced here to-day. These com- | pensations, designed to help the beneficiaries meet the high cost of |living, are similar to one special payment made to th last Decem- tbar. They will range from 8 per cent. to those earning the lower wages, to 5 per cent. to those whose | salaries are high. Will Defend Jerusalem. Stockholm, June 7.--The Turks { have changed their mind concerning | | the defence of Jerusalem, according to information reaching the Asso- ciated Press from a most trust- {worthy source, » | Less than a fortnight ago .the | Turks had decided to evacuate Jerusa- { lem without battle, provided the city { was seriously menaced. The decis- ion was changed at the insistence of ! the Germans and the city will be de- | fended. | | Archbold Left $30,000,000. i New York, June 27.--The estimate | of $30,000,000 as the probable value | of the state of John D. Archbold was! | confirmed when the executors, un- | der the Archbold will, sent to the] | State Controller a cheque for $1,.-! 130,000 as a preliminary payment on! the transfer tax. Mr. Archbold died on Dec. 5th last. Belgium Commissivn to US. ° Washington, June 7.--Belgfum is about to send a commission under | Baroa Moncheur, to this country, to | extend Belgium's thanks for Ameri- | can assistance. Loans to Belgium to | date total $75,000,000, and it is likely Belgium will ask for further assistance to the amount of $45,- | 000,000. 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