14 PAGES Am-- __ YEAR 86. NO. 73 AN'EPOGH PRODUCED A MAN. 8y William T. Ellis *The School is "God's Hand Life." --Joshua International Sunday March 30th a Nation's 14-28. Lesson for in 24 A -------------------------- Opportuneness and possibilities mark this lesson Like much of the present-day discusfion of the world's need, It is concerned with the theme of a man for the hour. The Breatest glory of these recent epochal days in the history of the western world is the emergency of men who under old conditions have been sub- merged Within two short years a galaxy of men have attained national proportions on the basis of sheer force and ability, while a whole host of machine-made "leaders" have dropped out of sight The hope of | thoughtful patriots in these latter days is thatf the new sfress that is being laid on the stamina of our boys in France will effect an - increased stability of personal character among the people of the land generally. For it is more man that we need We have been driven sharply back upon the old, old truth that only person- ality is the salvation for the times; that all of the world's needs are em bodied in its need for manhood The events of the war, with their homilefic character, and all their exhortation to return to the first principles of morality and reli gion, will yet have failed to produce their ultimate results if out of them have not come more men of increased might, ready to take up the burdens of the public weal, Undoubtedly there is apparent throughout the length and breadth of the continent a new sense of individual sovereignty. The soldiers have taught us all. Men are realizing their responsibility as citizens as never before. They are talking less about the privileges of patriotism and more about its duties. The plain man in the commonplace sphere is lifting up his head with a new consciousness that he has a right to challenge the acts and deeds of the mightiest public servant. Sure- ly these are good times for manhood' While the statisticians write the staggering figures of the new world's wealth, they are overlooking the greatest asset of all, namely, the sheer manhood which, in markedly increasing degree, is the sovereign characteristic of the hew era. all A Man Looming Large. What has this to do with the pres- ent Sunday school lesson which is indicated . as a. vewiew of the forty years' history of the life of Israel from the Exodus to the death of Mo- ses. ° Sinrply that those forty years spell one grand word of three letters --man. Whoever. peers into those dim, dull, gray years finds, looming mountain high above the blinding glare of the desert sand--above the din of the gangling voices of a many- minded people, the clear, strong fig- ure 'of which the world has said, "There was a man." The greatest contribution of those forty years was Just Moses. One man's greatness redeemed the epoch from littleness As he led those supine slaves out into a new national identity, and gave to the formless mob a place forever brilliant among the nations of the world ,s0 he has contributed to the imperishable annals of history4 por- trait of a great man, ong of the world's very greatest. Moses died without evel reaching the land of promise. He labored and others entered into his rpxt. But in all Canaan there was no person- ality, until a Greater than Moses came, equal to that of the man learn- rod in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and equipped with the greater wis- dom that comes from communion with Jehovah, who had shaped Is- rael's destiny and given her her law. Among the few great figures who adorn the rotunda of the magnificent Library of Congress at Washington, may be seen the figure of Moses, calm and majestic, seeming, even in the cold bronze, as one who walked apart from the common order of men No better review of this quarter's Sun- day school lessons can be made than a consideration of the qualities Which. marked the greatness of Mo- ses. A Man Who Dared. All the world's sages have declared that courage ranks among the first of human virtues Moses was from first to last a man of appalling auda- city He dared attempt the high- est possible destiny for himself. That takes courage Most people are content to drift along into any sort of life or character that happens to come to them with the years. Only the rare man, so rare as to be called great, resolutely achieves for himself the character which he, in his mo- ments of clearest perception, has deemed worth while Thé courage that wins character must combat the inbred littleness of human nature every day of life Its enemies are both without and within. Environ- ment tends to compress life, Moses rose above his environment. He was a great man when in the court of Pharaoh; he was a great man when, on the lonely mountain side, he play- ed the part of a shepherd; he was a great man when, in majestic solitarg- ness he led Israel through its forty vears of wandering One shrinks from saying--lest it seem to be merely a conventionally pious remark---that the secret of Mo- ses' courage was his religion But we have abundant record that natu- rally he was a timid man If left to himself he would have spent his day in obscurity His greatness cannot be credited to natural endow- tent. He became brave because he met face to face with God. His courage was not inborn courage, but imported courage. It took the "fear not" of Jehovah to stiffen his backbone. That is what religion does. The fear of God removes the fear of man. The sublime moral heroism of the world has mostly been on the part of spiritually-mind- ed men, whose cowardice has been consumed in the bright furnace of faith If Moses had not first met with God, he would not haye dared to meet with Pharaoh. There is sig- nificance in the fact that the heroes of recent developments in American life have been for the most part Christian men. The Man Whe Can Walt, The twentieth century is in such a desperate hurry that its bridges are buckling, its big buildings col- lapsing and its men being sent to sanitorfa. A modern person almost gasps when he contemplates the forty years of retirement which Moses spent in the wilderness. Yet there is no truth more plainly taught in history than this, that preparation must precede performance; that great goals must be waited for, as well as worked for. Enduring deeds cannot be done over night Charac- ter is not a product of a camp meet- ing. One deep emotional experi- ence does not make over a life. Slow and quiet accretionficof the years are necessary to bring a spirit to ripe- ness. So he who would work for his fellow who would work 8 . his fits of im- pati link him closely to the com- mop run of us. Yet these only serfe to throw into high relief his atience When he found what was God's programme, he was willing to\wait on it. His natural impulsiveness is shown at the slaugh- ter of the Egyptian, became well reined in before he reached Mount Nebo and had his first and last look essential ------------ KINGSTON. ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 2 carried the "cease fire" They were led by Sergt. right end. over the Promised Land Write it deeply that patience must be at they foundation of greatness of character. 0 - - Where There is No Vision, "Where there is no vision the peo- ple perish," says the wise man. The salvation of any society is the men and women of imagination who dream dreams and see visions. This Moses ha da seeing eye He could see God in thebush, he could see God on the mountain top, he could see a nation in a brow-beaten, spiritless horde of captives Countless ob- stacles confronted him in the great task he undertook, but he had the gift of seeing through and over the obstacles to the victory which lay be yond This power of vision which rises above the petty circumstances and which does not magnify the near at hand into the all important. is vi- tal to poise and power in life If some people had a litte more vision, threy would be able to take a square look at the pettiness, puer- lity. sordidness and vanity of their own lives They would see the in- consequentialness of most of the pur- suits that engage their powers. They, would be spurred to live for ends worth living for. Canaans, flowing with milk and honey, are the inheri- tance not of the grumbling ones who are concerned primarily, with food, raiment and physical cofifort, but of those who pursue great ideals. This western world is a product of vision. Its greatness is assured until it loses its vision. That would be a worse calamity than the greatest financial panic that could overtake the coun- try. Of all'the advantages of war, none is greater than the opened eyes of our Soldiers and of our people. 'The Essence of ; tigations The patriotism of Moses was link- ed vitally 'with the vicariousness which is the essence of patriotism, Moses lived and lahored for the sake of others. His trials were not his own, but his people. He loved his fellow countrymen better "than he loved his life. For their sake he was willing to be accursed; for their sake he dared the wrath of Jehovah; for their sake he underwent all the rig- ors of the wilderness; from the first blow that felled the Egyptian to the last sublime strain of his dying song, his thought was of Israel and not of himself. The devil looks out for number one; so do-a great many people. But all those who bear in their spirits the marks of the truly great, which is to say the marks of the Lord Jesus, have a concern for their fellow men. They are burdened by society's woes; the ills that afflict mankind touch their hearts. Their lives are given, not to any bread and butter existence for the mere maintenance of their physi- cal selves, but to the great causes of human service There is one in- variable test of greatness--no man is more than commonplace and small who is looking out primarily for him- self. In this sense 'number one" indicates the lowest grade. It thus comes about that the world calls fo its places of leadership the men whose unselfishness it has test- ed. In the long run mankind knows the lovers of their fellow men. So- ciety ever demands the Moses virtue of vicariousness of the man whom it calls to its head. BLOOMFIELD BUDGET. Cheese Factory Rented---Sap Run Likely Small. 5. Bloomfield, March 24.---A good many farmers are not tapping their maple trées as there is no snow or frost. in the the grpund. The ice hag gone from the lakes and all signs point to a small run of sap. The six months' old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Slaven died on the 20th inst. A Sunday school con- vention was held in the Methodist church on Friday. Donald Hubbs. who has been overseas, on board ship @5 a medical attendant, i home. Delbert Steinburgh has received an appointment with the Dominion Cannérs to manage one of their factories west of Toronto. Before leaving he dnd his wife were pre- sented itn an address and a chair. Royal Hicks has purchased a house from Charles Norwood and moved to this village. The Bawes Co., Toronto, has clos- ed the deal with the Bloomfield Sum, with an Spiion ring the year for $5- George Sheriff is manager. The roads were never as bad as they have been during the past week. This is one of the results of winter, posohn Branscombe and wife are ome a Jpnding. tires months in California The school several days last Tastoweek, the] [WANTS TO NIEREST Cy] teachers being sick. The buzz saws are busy cutting people's wood. i CARRIED THE MESSAGE TO MONS, The 6th Canadian Engineers Company Cyele Squad, which message info Mons on Armistice Day. Gordon well-known cycle-racing champion. MeMillan, of Toronto, the McMillan is rider on IN CALLING IN EXP EXPERT TECHNI- CAL CHEMICAL ADVICE When Road Paving and Oil Ma. terials Are Beingi Considered-- Representative of ! HerSfey Com- pany of Montreal Here. A representative of the Whig on Wednesday interviewéd Charles A Mullen, director of the paving de- partment of the firm nf Milton Her- sey Company, Limited, engineers chemists and inspeetors, Montreal, who was in the ¢ity in connection with the paving and oiling of the Kingston streets. His firm acts consulting engineers for the Im- perial Oil Company, and as in- spectors and technical advisers for many Canadian and United States cities. Mr. Mullen said that he was not in any way representing the Asphalt Oil Company, but was here merely to see if he could interes: the city in the work done by tie Milton Hersey Company. This com- pany has an extensive clientele amongst the large cities of the con- tinent, and their work takes the form of inspecting the materials used in various forms of construc- tion done by cities, and. in advising cities as to plans and Specifications. Mr. Mullen. stated that while the city engineer of Kingston was a man with a _splen reputation amongst enginears, hardly fair' to expect: that he would be a specialist in any one line, and there- fore the city should have expert ad- vice when preparing plans fer pub- lic works. This policy Is one which is adopted in many cities, and is one which, Mr, Mullen thinks, ~ would have avoided the blunder made by the Hoard of Works in connection with the letting of the asphalt con- tract. When asked as to his opinion as to the qualities of the various types of asphalt submitted by the Im- perial Oil Company and the United States Asphalt Paving Company, he stated that it was well known amongst paving men that there was absolutely nothing to floss? be- tween the two materials. either company could claim tha* its pro- duct was any better tnan That of its rival. The omission of the word bitumen from the analysis, he said, did not mean anything, and any chemist could have told the Board of Works that fact. Mr. Mullen is an expert on public works, having for Two years been engaged as commissioner of public works in the city of Schenectady, New York, and having also taken part in public works in Milwaukee. He has been engaged in the paving business most of his lite, and is, therefore, well qualified to pass an opinion on materials. He visited the city: engineer's office on Wed- nesday morning, and he intends to try to interest the city in the policy of calling in expert technical advice and inspectors when oecasion arises. He gave the Whig representative a3 Candy Cascarets to a Bilious, Constipated Child Eachten cent box of Cascarets, candy cath, contains full directions for dose for children aged one year old and up- "works" the nasty bile, sour fermentations ani from the tender little bowels so gently, yet so \Cascafets taste just like candy. Cascarets never » Dever sicken, never injure, but above all, they co Ste Che Daily British W » 7, 1919 some splendid pointers ideal form of.city government stated that the Kingston city coun- cjl is too large, and that the best form of municipal government is by a commission Many cities in United States are now adopting that plan and are finding it a success. A He commission is elected by the people |{R by proportional representation, and a business manager is engaged to do the city's business This manager is responsible to the commission, and if he prove inefficient he can be dis missed. He is responsible for the drawing of the city's budget, and for the administration, while the commission is responsible for necessary legislation to carry om business. This system, Mr. Mullen, says, is the most up-to-date and effi- cient system of and is a great advance plan One advantage of the minority have in the commission, which is fore a body elected by and the support of the entire eity. s the plan which Mr. Mullin, his many years of experience, re- commends as the ideal form of municipal government, and it is a system which is worth looking into Briefs From Bellis Bethel March 21.--V. J. Manion hag returned from overseas, well. Miss Leacock visited Olive Salsbury last week-end. Ed- gar Salsbury has been spending a few days at Cornwall. Mrs. E. Sals- bury is visiting her folks at Wesley. Acton Robinson has moved on farm lately owned by his brother, Harry. W. the old is that on it there having This from making his last trip for the season. Denwood Dennison visited his fath- er for a few days at South Napanecesd Maxwell McDonald were on Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Emberley John W. visited friends over Sunday at Hay Bay. Mr. and Mrs. S. Ball, with Mr. and Mrs. John Curl on Sunday Sugar Making On. March 25 Sugar making will goon be in full swing. Mr. and Mrs D. McKerracher left" or Kingston to-day to meet their son, Gunner Lloyd McKerracher, and to be at the reception which will be tender- ed to Queen's University battery in Kingston on their arrival from Hali- fax. The infant son of Mr. and Mra. Joseph McGonigal passed away on Monday. Mrs. McGinnis is slightly improved. Mr. Buell, of Brock- ville, is visiting at A. Scott's. Mr. R. Anderson spent Sunday at his home here. The Hydro-Electric wiremen have gone to McDonald's Corners, Mr. and Mrs. LLOYD GEORGE APPEALED FOR "AMERICAN REINFORCE- ENTS In the shortest possible space of i Minis year ago today, March 27, 19 Find an ~Amerioan. 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