Che Daily British Whig PAGS 33 SEmE---- YEAR 85. NO, 291 ETEEEE---- KINGSTON. ONTARIO. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918 FIFTH SECTION a -- I -------------- -- ---------- a ---- Che Sacred Syinbol Propbesied in the Momentous Birth-is: Repeated in the Symbols of Devotion and Courage "THE CRADLE" A New Picture by the Famous Danish Painter, Julius Kronberg. | \ / S HE CROSS! The shadow of it fell upon a cerfpin manger in ' \ Bethlehem--the same Bethlehem freed in the turmoil of the war and now recalling to the world "On earth peace; good will toward men." For the same symbol, durine years of awful conflict, men have been strug- gling and dying. Eyes have been turned from the sacred sign in the bands of a consoler to the repeated sign, reverently placed by the hands of military anthor- ity as a tribute'of the people for courage that did not falter. And the invalided hero, returning to the old home, carries on his breast the token that announces recognition of his part in the great effort toward a right »stablishment of peace on earth, Brave women, who have made untold wacrifices at the bedsides of the wound- »d, have carried the same symbol, silent- v, patiently, devotedly, without special rewards, or special fame, content to do their plucky part in the splendid work. Such women know, all thé world knows, that the symbol has been at- tached to but a few of all the heroes, yet the sign has its nobility just the same. At the hour of one of the most impressive Christmas | seasons in the whole history of the world the Cross has, indeed, a deeper 'significance' than ever it held, The world is told that the ordeal through which it has Pe has exert-