12 Pages * YEAR 85. NO, 2 rn KINGSTON, ONTARIO, THU R ~ | ana aimoést threw himself 'isto the | Thames. Then Mr. Davis overcame all that feeling so that hiselife be conceived of himself us a fingerboard. For that office he did not need polish or sogial graces or the approving seal PATRIOTIC CRILDREN. THEM WhO Ws 1 GED The International Sunday Sch ool Lesson For January 6th .Is "John Prepares the Way For Jesus."--Mark 1:1-11. ly William T. Ellis. A six months' Journey through the Gospel of Mark now opens with the new year to every student of the International Sunday School Lessons. And Mark's message to the man or woman of to-day is glow with an {Humination that gheds a flood of light. upon the intricate ways over-which we are passing. : This gospel was put into the soul of John Mark to give to the world. He was a son of Mary of Jerusalem, a Jewish woman, and he was a cou- sin of Barnabas. Peter was his fa- ther in the faith (1 Peter 5:13) and it is evident from the character of the gospel that # bears many signs of Peter's quickening influence up- on his convert. It is probabie that Mark's gospel Was written about 55 A.D. and 'c Gentiles pacticularly, rather Tor the Jews. It is distinctively, Dr. Griffith Thomas points out, the gospel that "Emphasizes the activ- ity, authority, and energy of Chr His deeds rather than His Here we get the very frequent re petition of *'straightway," indicativa of the constant movement and a tivity of Christ, as He is doing deeds of kindness, teaching th» truth, and fighting evil," ms : : | manicurists, tailors and jewelers. but t st rdaspire ag i Into the study oT mw aspired mes it assuredly would give greater heed| sage with such marvelous fithess for| our own age and consclous need, we may well entor with high expectation! of discovering therein divine ideais| of service for swift application to the | complex and challenging days in| which we lve, | ; Semana The Forerunner, Onge upon a time there lived that Tare wonder, a man who did not pre- tend to be what he was not. There! was almost as much posing and pre- tending and "Buffing" in his day as in"ours; but nevertheless this re- markaple man would not "put up a Yront" that was not genuine, With 'all the opportunity in the world to Pass as pome grent one, and to re- ceive honor and reward, he doggedly slutk to the statement that he was only a gfals"--such as you see all over the Orient, running ahead of>a Some-body's vehicle to prepare tie way for him. Pressed to declare himself a dis- tinguished personage, he persisted in protesting that he was not a man on horseback, not the maa in the royal SDD BD dios ii VPI TOIOPPIOOeS OPEN NOSTRILS! END. A GOLD OR CATARRH How To Get Relief When Head and Nose are Staffed Up. w BBO Od Bt a POPOVIC County fifty! Your cold in head or catarrh disappears. Your clogged nos- trils will open, the air passages of your head will clear and you can breathe freely. . 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He was not the kind of press agent who puts flattering no- tices of himself in print, when he should be advertising the cause he represents. : Our Own Time's Make-up. All this' is enough to make this hairy man of the wilderness, John the Baptist, a unique character in his- ftory. Of course, we see now--in his case, not hn outs--that it is real wis- dom, and at léast the glimmering of greatness, not to pretedd anything. The person who sets himself up to be somebody that he:is not is invariably | "taken down." It is better to seem {less than you are, Mather than more | than you are; the discovery of your | real merits startles people into pay- ing you high honor i If the twentieth century could go {to school to this uncouth prophet, the Baptist, it less time and sdbstance doctors, massage, artists, might give to beau® barbers, to the real qualities which make for, essential manhood and womanhood, | It would care a deal less about its position in "society," and 4 deal more, Utter honesty, which enabled him to re-| spect himself in the solitudes of the. wilderness as well as amid the crowds by the, Jordan's bank, was John's first characteristic, "Who Art Thou? Some men make . their living by hunting up, or making up, distin- guished * genealogies for persons-- antipodes of the Baptist--who, hav- ing acquired mAney or power, want also social distinction. They degire to be prepared to answer the world's inevitable question, "Who are thou?" | That was the query flung at John as| S00n as he began to make a stir, The doctors of the law and the ecclesias- tical aristocrats would have liked him to produce surh credentials that they could "recognize" him. John was drawing crowds; straightway the same peril loomed before him which confronts every personality, that the 'Good Society of his time would open its arms to him 8nd take him into 1ts suffocating em- Ce, and soon reduca Mm to its own level of mediocrity. "Social re- cognition" has been the end of many a promising career. The Phurisees who went out to examine John want. ed to make him of their own crowd. They would honor him with office and standing and thelr own gracious favor, al Holding a Job or Doing It. These Pharisees were Known for the jobs they held and the positions jtruth {without | fastly for your highest illumination. desert ! { i of the Sanhedrin Nobody was ex- oes to pay attention to him, but| perience in Englan< onty te look and to go where he When the first Canadian contin- pointed. ~ So the world conceived of| gent sent to France landed in Eng- this man, girt with' camel's hair and! land, as related in "The First Can- subsisting on anchorite's fare, as| adians in France," the passion" of the | pote ing, pointing, pointing to the| children of Devonport, where they Conting One, and crying "Behold! --| Iafided, for seotivenirs in tbe shape of The Lamb of God!" pennies and buttons became violent. | Everybody points somewhere. The| In a few hours, writes F. McKelvey 'least of us vannot escape standing for{ Bell;"our small coin was likely to be- something. The very first office of | come extinct and our buttons merely life 1s. bearing witness. One's "do- things that used to bé. Every time a as-I-please,'"" devil-may-care attitude| soldier appeared on the strect he was is rather checked by the thought that instantly surrounded by a bevy of ove iy pointing somebody somewhere. | insistent and persistent mendicants. 'AL a railway station I once as a boy "Pénny, sir! penny! penny!" they thoughtlessly and Igporantly misdi-| shouted in staccato chorus. -Our sup- rectéd a woman with a bundle ply of pennies had long since been through ihe wrong tunnel. Later, | depleted. An idea struek me. saw hor tolling back with her load. "See mre," I said in serious tone. ! Her useless and over-burdened tramp! "We're only a lot o#-poor soldiers due tp my disdirection; and through going to the war. We can't always all these years I have remorsefully| be giving away pennies. We need carried thal memory in my mind. pennies worse than you do." : But what of the more serious mis- A sudden hush fell upon the little takes we unwittingly cause people, | cirele. Some looked: abashed, others becz dse our trend of life has pointed curiously uncertain, & few sympathe- them the wrong way? tic, The silence ladted a full min- As 1 eonceive it, the burden of this ute. We all stood still looking at Sunday school lesson is, 'Point one another. straight! Point straight!" Bear "Can any little boy or girl in this witness the truth, the highest crowd give a poer soldier a penny to know Without fear, as help him along to the war?" I asked sell-seeking, stand stead- quietly. Agdin sifence. Wipally a little rag- ged tot of about eight years of age, carrying a baby in Ber arms, turned to her companions and said: 'Here, hold the baby for me 'and I'l give the poor fellow a penny." She dived deep in the pocket of her frock, brought out a penny and ha'penny (her total wealth) and held it out to me. Lieutenant Moe stepped forward. "Look here," he said sternly, "do you mesh to say you'll take that money from a youngster?" Le "I do," I replied, without a smile. "I wont' permit it," he cried. , Here was an embarrassing situa- tion. I couldn't explain to him with- out confessing to the child as well. I wished to gauge how much patriot- Ism beat in those little hearts, what I" sacrifice they were prepared to make for their country; and here was one measuring up to the highest ideals. I daren't either withdraw or explain; "I must have the pennies, Moe, and I'am going to take them." I replied firmly. "Stand aside, please!" Military discipline came fo the rescue. Moe saluted stiffly and step- ped back. The little girl gravely handed over the penmies and took back her baby. "Afly others?" I asked, Some of the children declared they had none; a few looked sheepish and hung their heads. I slipped a six- Bele Into the hand of' the little ady. "Well, I'l be damned!" exclaim- ed Moe. "Here's another penay for you," and he handed the bewildered child haif a crown, A shout of surprise and dismay went up from the other children' who realized too late that they had failed inthe test. "The drinks are certainly on me!" Moe cried. About turn!" Sometimes when I feel that world is sordid and mean I go to my trunk and look.at those two coins, and: I know that somewhere, in a to you That is the way society fis decay. That is the way dom of heaven comes. kept from the 'king- The Man With Something to Say. In the wilderness, John came 'to sellwrealization and acquired his mes- sage. Some preachers are affecting the camel's hair cloth and the leatiaer girdle and brusque speech without the message. But the message alone if the thing. To hear that, the world would segk out a man in the remot- ed wilderness, or will not shrink from the most fashionable 6f church- es, Why is it that Philadelphia crowds flock every Sunday to hear Dr. Floyd W. Tomkins, while our down-town churches: are .almost em- pty?» Simply because he has a mes- sage about God. He does not re- hash the da#'s news from the pul- pit, nor choose topics that command space in the newspapers, nor have prologies or stereopticon shows. He just preached God te the hearts of the people, and the multitude which gathered in hunger goes away fed. It was a plain({sermon that Mark reports John as \preaching. First there was the old appeal, "Repent ye." Then there was the warning that the axe was already lying at the tree of hereditary religion, ready to cut down should they prove un- worthy of thir fathers. And then there was the promise of the greater One who was to come. John offered his time Christ. . That was its need then; it is the supreme now. As Richard Watson Gilder so. beautifully wrote: or £0 CL TERETE "It Jesug Christ is a man, 2 And outs wu bila, I say, That of all mankind Him, : Aud to Him will I cleave alway. BN I cleave to "But if Jesus Christ is God, And the only God, I swear, they occupied; and contemporaneous religious life has plenfy of avalogous figures. be reckoned with himself. He did not need an ecclesi- astical job or a tich or fashionable pulpit; he had a message. And a man with his own message may go to the sand of Salisra and lift up lis voice (not a voice trained in a school of eloeution, either), and the world will resort to him. The man with a vital - message--whith | possession makes a true preacher--is as rare as the sartorially immadutate, carefully drilled. pulpit ornament is common. This tan claimed to be merely 'a "volee'--crying in the wilderness. He was only himself, and. claimed nothing but his true work. . He was no chameleon. He flew his own flag and stood by it. A servant fore .run- her, a mere messenger of the great and nothing more. - A Stick May Point. Any kind of a stick; so 1dng as it But John was a person to x because he was I will follow Him through heaven and hell, ) frail. little body, "beats a" generous The earth, the sea, the air." heart, and I feel that after all, part of the world is worth while. S-------------------- A Devoted Missionary. Canadian should know more about the thrilling story of the life of the. Rev. John Davis, the strong, athletic, very attractive, Canadian missionary, who in India became a leper. A friend of his describes the shock - when the doctor. in London told Mr. Dayis 'what it was, and how be said: "I may be mistaken. It may not be so bad as I think." And how Mr. Davis said:: "I took out my purse and paid him his fee, and he put his arm round my shoulder and walked with me all the way to the door." For hours after he reached home the doomed man read papers and books without knowing at all what be was reading. thinking always of what could be done for his wife and children, and when his'wife came Publisher is Acquitted, Brockville, Dec. 81.--Before Judge Reynolds George Mason, proprietor of the Prescott Journal, was arraign- ed on a charge of wiltully and kiow- 'ingly 'publiShing false news. Upon evidence furnished by the defence the accused wis found not gully cud discharged. : ret coment: 'Guelph electors approved a by-law proposing a change in the mode of electing (he Mayor and Council and increasing the size of the Council. New. passport forms are in use at Windsor, 'requiring serial numbers and requiring statement of the hold- ers' destination and dependents. The Halifax newspapers, crippled as they were by the catastrophe, have issued - commendable special New Year editions. . Hugli Cant an ex-Mayor of G.lt, be not crooked, may point. John sr home he told her. At first he was tempted to doubt God andl the Bible and President of the Gore Mutual Fire Insurance Company, is dead. ON BEFORE CAMBRA | ; : i | Canadian Officvr Has Touching Ex- | the came a triumphant shout from be- i ginning to end under the most dread- ful conditions a man could know," The French-C Roman Ca- tholic doctor who had charge of hin: came at his own expense {ii te way from New Brunswick to funeral in Ontario, and said: "You don't have. saints, you Baptists; you have one now, you've got to have o pe An Heroic Doctor, Reference has been made in the British press to the heroic conduct of Dr. lan Thompson, surgeon of the British destroyer Strongbow, during the recent naval engagement in the North Sea, when, she was sent to the bottom by a German cruiser. He was instrumental in saving no fewer than 16 lives from a watery grave, and after one of his limbs had been badly shattersd, continued to care for the wounded and suffering wlifle in dan- ger of instant death. 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