38 14, 1918 Pages 9-12 mn SECOND SECTION THS OLD WORLD'S NEW HARVEST. | The International Sunday-school Lesson For February 17th Is, "Jesus Teaching By Parables: Four Kinds Of Ground." Mark 4;1-8,14-20. By William T. Ellis. War's red ploughshare has been «driven deep into the soil of the spirit of mankind. Even the densest dul- lard knows that a new kind of hu- man harvest is ahead with us. Other 'wise the fields watered with blood and fertilized with the lives of our fairest would have been prepared in vain, For this reaping tomorrow there must be sowing to-day. To all con- cerned for ideals and for the world's welfare and to all who covet spirit- ual gains from this time of carnage, the message of the old parable of the sower is_just--sow! sow! sow! The same internal seed awaits plant- ing to insure the promised results. Not a mere mechanical scattering of the printed word is sufficient; but a widespread, deep and intelligent dissemination of the everliving. truth of God. The Peerless Parable, The most vivid bits of literature which the world possesses to-day are the little stories from evesyday life told two thousand years ago to groups of open-eyed peasants by the new Teacher from Galllee. Jesus invested the common and material incidents of life with an uncommon and spiritual significance. He made the world of ordinary things to glow with divine (cuth. One of the best known of these parables, as they are called, is that of the Sower. Phrases from it abound in our daily news- papers and common speech and the books we read. A parable is both a revealing and a concealing of a truth. A little girl once said that "a parable is an earth- ly story with a heavenly meaning." Natural facts are made symbols of spiritual' truths, The oriental' mind thinks it imagery and is better in- structed by {lustration than by logic. The adroit use of a parable con- ceals certain hidden meanings that the teacher would have unfolded only to those who are fit to receive them. Of profound significance is the word of the Master, in connec- tion with this parable,~to His twelve friends: "Unto you is given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but unto them that are without, all things are dome in parables," The way to understand the mind of Christ Is to live close to the heart of Christ. <A husband and wife may say more by a single glance of the eye hp strangers can tell in an hour's conversation, Friendship with Christ {8 the road to compre- hension of His teachings. "Spirit- ual things are spiritually discerned." The hostile critic who reads the Bi- ble does not find in it the same lumi- nous truth as the devout disciple who opens its pages to learn the will of his Master and Friend. "The Great Idea" Among the Christians of the tury church. In their mind this] symbolizes the restoration of Christ- | ianity's dominion on the Bosphorous. *"The great idea." represents a. large | loyality. Something of this eager- | ness for the Kingdom's coming, and | ins clearer comprehension, is abroad | in the earth to-day. The whole pas- | sior of many noble souls in times is for the consummation of! that ideal condition which is that | Kingdom of Heaven on earth, { This present parable was spoken | concerning the Kingdom. To allow | the lesson to pass without medita-| tion" upon the Kingdom and its com- ing would be to miss the first sig-| nificence of the lesson: it would be | failure to get the primary thought, which Jesus meant to convey to His hearers as they first heard this story | warm from His tender lips. This is an occasion to pass in review the servants of the Kingdom who are] toiling all about us--the preachers, | the Sunday school teachers, the de-| vout parents, the editors and writers, | social settlement workers, physi- clans, nurses, labor leaders, reform- ers--what a countless company are living and laboring with an eye gle to that Kingdom which is consummation of God's glory man's welfare, For the sake of this service, and women are "sewing beside many waters." The unmechanical, uncal- | culating lavish ways of the oriental agriculturists are adopteC as by any means and by all means men and women try to bring in the Kingdom for which, following in the train of Christ, they, would give their lives. To-day we find a greater variety of forces at work for the Kingdom than ever before in the history of the universe. The Kingdom gospel is being preached to all classes of peo- ple everywhere. The coming of the Kingdom has created a social fer- ment throughout the earth. Books are being written, churches are even advertising in the newspapers, meet- ings are being held in shops, organ- izations of boys and girls are being perfected, and in a multitude of other ways the business of the com- ing Kingdom is being done. Side by side with the world's mili- tary activities to-day goes a Christ- ian service for the men that is with- out parallel in all the history of the Church. Tossing aside conventional habiliments and usages, religion has attired herself in new fashion to the soldiers in ministry with a message. The war ploughed fields of France are good soil for the word of life. sin- | { the and men "The Four Kinds of Soil. Some knowledge of Palestine is needed to make clear this parable of the sower. 1 recall one evening on Mt. Carmel when I saw in one of the fertile valleys of that famous spot, all four of the conditions indicated in the parable. The farmers in the Holy Land lve in villages and not amid their fields. There are no fen- Levant runs a phrase, idea," by which they m oration of the cross to the St. Sophia, which was a sj "the great the rest- osque of th cen- ces, but beaten paths, or "waysides," as they are called in the story, be- tween the fields, Underneath the soil of Palestine -- , | vey a meaning of a field with occa- our { A scene from the big musical show Thursday evening, Feb. 14th, sub-stratum out-crops, parable does ies the great which so often guage of the of rock The lan- not con- sional stones in it, but of one that is but a thin overlay of soil above the rock. Encroaching upon the field .wayside are the 'thorns, thick rank. Notwithstawrding these handicaps, there is good soil a plenty--and that is the point of the lesson. The sower goes forth to sow, not primarily on the wayside or on the stony soil or amid the thorns, but-in the produec- tive soil that brings forth fruit many fold. Assuming equality of weather con- ditions, the product is all a matter of soll. There is no fault in the seed. The story assumes that the seed will bring forth after its kind. Give the word of God a chance and it will pro- dace the results which have followed it throughout history. and and The Meaning Explained. Asked for a meaning of this story of the Sower, Jesus said that "the seed is the word." The sower is anybody who spreads abroad the word--you, I, the man in Africa, the preacher in his pulpit, the chaplain in the troops. The soil is the hum- an heart, and the four kinds of hear- ing that the word gets are illus- trated. by the four kinds of soil in Palestine. The wayside hearts are the most pitiable. Beaten by the trivial traf- fic of every day affairs, they have no spiritual receptiveness. , They stand for a class of people, smaller, Péridps, than we commonly believe, who really have no interest in things spiritual, Truth takes no root in thle natures. Our own evanescert, changeable times "are mirrored in the second class of hearers, those without depth. Like the Athenians of old, they &ré quick to take hold of any new thing, and just as quick to let it 80. They are the faddists, who run fashions in religion as in hats. They hold nothing fast which it may cost 'She is attracting my husband" Yes, sophisticated Madge Loring 'is deliberately fascinating little Helen Howard's husband. -est test of a woman's refinement. ~ And when, at las * | innate nobili last THE PARS LEAVE CLUB [it on every day of the week--1 méar- | vel at the fine spirit which actuates these ahd and a big bevy of would almost |G {from the Australian Bush, the farm- here She Goes," to hold. Ease of life and prosperity are more to them than the sacred claims of truth, Even a better picture of the world to-day is that of a third kind of soil, which was crowded with thorns "And the care of'the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word and it becometh unfruitful." There you have the life of a multi tude of our contemporaries, who, be- cause they are busy running to and fro about many petty engagements, and who have no time to go apart for meditation and no leisure for prayer, think that they are busy and profitable servants. We have gained little by the changing idea of the gos- pel ministry which Inafses the mod- ern, successful ministér a man of affairs, with a telephone at his elbow and a filing cabinet at his hand and a calender of many engagements ever before his eye. Your modern city minister can attend half a dozen com- mittee meetings a day, dine out in the evenings, and take luncheon with a group of civic workers, and make parish calls into the bargain, and master the latest piece of literat- ure as well, and pride himself upon being thoroughly 'up to date and efficient. But how is a man's soul to grow amid such haste and tumult and crowding e¢ares? Give us . the preachers of an leder. day who had time to think and. be alone, open- souled, with God, where they learn- ed how to comfort the people, An Optimistic Conclusion, We perhaps dwell too much on the first three divisions of this parable. After all, most of the seed fell on good ground and brought forth rich- ly. The story is one for the person who thinks the world is going the devil's way,' and that the Kingdom has come upon hard times. The truth is that God's word is DE as never before, In some hearts it is bearing fruit thintyfold, in others sixtyftold, and in not a few--may we be among the number--it yields a hundredfold. ~The point of the parable is an in- timation that the sower and the seed are honored most by the hundred- fold harvest. he lesson is not well conned unless the student is fired with ambition to be among those who bear fruit a "hundredfold." CONTRIBUTOR TO THE WHIG [SHOWS WHAT IS BEING DONE. A Splendid Institution For All Sol- didrs--it is Doing Valuable Work in Paris, France, Contributed. f you want an idea of the perfect club for soldiers on leave in Paris you must ge to the Hotel Moderne, in the Place de la Republique. There you will tid a triumph of organization-- the last word in comfort. And par- ticularly that kind of comfort which the lads from the trenches appreci- ate: first, a hearty welcome; then good food at a cost which may well make civilians wonder in these days of soaring prices; and entertainments |: 'Which for variety and the pleasure they afford cannot be equalled. As 1 not the activities of the club ~and I have been privileged to visit those who run it. The British colony in Paris were presented with an idea. They di not spend weeks in discussing it, but they set to work to put it into execution, Mr. Hearn (the British Consul- General in Paris), the Rev. 8 V. Blunt, of the Embassy church, Eve- lyn Toulmin, of = Lloyds Bank, and Miss Decima Moore, to whase organ izing 'abilities .and untiring efforts the success of the club fs largely die ahd , mén and women, girls whose names ost fil a column are de- themselves unsparingly to the A { task of making British soldiers happy when they are on leave in Paris. L What a boon the Lea Club is to] our men from the Overseas Domin- fons! For them it takes the place of their faraway Blighty. 'In the club I have conversed with soldiers They have ( me of the war, but of what the Leave Club has done for them. : ea) i 1 have also seen let from the writing ing in homely at the Grand Opera House on joyment jn Paris, and of the kind- ness showered upon them by the club workers. And.as I have read these letters I have tried to picture the faces of the wives, mothers and sweethearts who receive them---of the pleasure they experience when they know that pople of their own race, domiciled in Paris, are so good to their men folk, who have left their firesides to take part in the battle of right against might. The joy of those anxicus women over the seas is in itself sufficient compensation for the workers in the Leave Club. Moreover, such tributes as these are the best possible reward for the many generous-hearted meén and women who have given money to carry on the beneficient work of entertaining thre leave men The club is like a snowball in the matter of growth. Every week wit- nesses some new development. Brains are always busy devising fresh forms of entertainment. - Wibether it is a concert with a programme judiciously blended with high-class and popu- lar music, a performance consisting of variety turns from "the English music hall" round the cormer, a whist drive or a dance, the big entertain- men room is always crowded. It is pleasing to the eye and cheering to the heart of the casual civilian to see and hear the soldier applaud the ef- forts of the artistes, who count it a pleasure to-give théir services. I often think that: sis Big" vyoom has made the suécess of thé Leave Club. It has kept the men together. Without it such large gatherings of leave men as were to be found on Christmas Day amd New Year's day would not have been possible, They tell me that the Leave Club is the talk of the trenches. How could it be otherwise? Men who have ex- perienced what the club has te give them tell their companions-in-arms. And so it comes about that the sol- diers from. the Dominions, whe have no friends in England, hie to Paris where they are met by members of the British Coloney and piloted to the Leave Club, there to find what they need most--rest, recreation and the comforts of home. DOUKHOBOURS MAY LEAVE, Emigration From Canada to Russia Being Considered. . Grand Forks, B.C., Feb. 14.--~That the Doukhobours of Canada are con- sidering the removal of all members of their several communities in Can- ada back to their native country, in Russia, is the statement of Peter Veregin, leader of the Doukhobours in Canada, in Grand Forks recently. Mr. Véregin pointed out that there was still a large number of Doukibo- bours in Canada together, either in this country or over there. He said the Government now in power in Russia was ip sympathy with the ideals of the Dowkhobours, No decis- ion has yet been arrived at; and in any évent™-weuld not be put into ef- fect until after the war. FEW EMBASSY CHANGES, Lord Reading's Staff Added to Pres. ent Personnel, Washington, Feb. 14.--Harl Read- ing the new British Ambassador and High Commissioner, was presented to President Wilson yesterday. It was stated to-day that there wil be few changes in the Embassy personnel and that the pumerous staffs which accompanied Karl Reading will be added to the present personnel. Advanced 10 Cents Barrel, Sarnia, Feb. 14.--The of erude Do roleus, has A cents a rel, 'making the price 50, ¥ith bounty at $3.10% the highest price Canadian erude has reached in over forty years... E "sale, price | alfvanced 1 PROPAGANDA 1S STOPPED PUBLICATION WHOSE ARTICLES | HAVE CAUSED SUSPICION FORBIDDEN. e---- Books Opposed War--Authorities Take Action Against Volumes Issued in United States, ; Ottawa, Feb. 14 Severdl p i- cations have been forbidden ciren- lation in Canada because the tone of their utterances gave rise to a strong suspicion that an attempt was being made to carry on in the Dominion under the guise of religi ous teachings a propaganda similar to that carried on by Germany in other allied countries. Some time ago articles in the Bible Students' Monthly, published by the Interna- tional Bible Students' Association in Brooklyn, attracted the attention of Col. Ernest W. Chambers, chief press censor of Canada, by their decidedly anti-war flavor. The periodical was watched and shortly was found to be printing articles condemning the war, attacking the churches as be- ing in the pay of the capitalistic) class and supporting the war, vio-] lently assailing existing systems of government, and showing a notiee- able lack of discrimination in plac- ing blame for the outbreak of the world confliet where it belonged. The monthly was distributed free of charge in cities and towns in va- rious parts of the Dominion Soon afterwards an expensive hook en- titled "Studies in the Scripture The Finished Mystery," published also by the International Bible Stud- ents' Association in Brooklyn, N.Y, | made its appearance. It, too, was distributed free, and while giving a mystical interpretation of the Serip- | tares, carried on the anti-war, anti-| Government, anti-ehurch propa- | ganda. A third work, also circulat- | ed freely, entitled . 'Nature Suff- rage," put forth by the Ameri sociation for the Taxation of | Property in Buffalo, then attracted | attention hy its tone. | Col. Chambers drew of Hon. Martin Burrell, 8 State, to the character lications, warrants prohibiting the sale, ulation and possession of the periodi cals and books. } ention | ary of | these pub the of then issued copies of | J. W. Johnson, M.P. was able to. leave 1is room seven weeks confinement making excellent recovery. i '., Belley alte: and is towards ille, progress BAD COLD? TAKE "CASCARETS" FOR BOWELS TONIGHT They're Fine! Liven Your Liver and Bowels and Clear Your Head. No Headdche, Sour Stomach, Bad Cold or Constipation by Morning. Get a 10-cent box. Colds-- whether in the head or; any part of the body-----are quickly overcome by urging the liver to ac- tion and keeping the bowels free of poison. Take Cascarets tonight and you will wake up with a clear head and your cold will be gone. 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