' 3 A WIT PEACE CONREOE MEDS By William T. Ellis. *The Vitethe tional Sunday -Sdhool, Lesson 10r April 20 is an. Baster Lef#on, "Our Risen Lord feaMate. «#8: 1-10, I ---------------------------------- After weeks with the Peace Con- ference in Paris, and intense days in old Rome, | am waiting by the Medi- terranean, down by * the - heel of Italy's boot, for a ship to Greece and writing about the Resurrection, This lesson has heen more in my mind, for weeks past, than any I have treated for years. For jt Holds the master word for .the Peace Conference and for the League of Nations. All Sgalia mon have a horror of "'plous talk," the more stereotyped phraseology of religion. It 18 in no conventional or perfunctory sense that I set down the solemn convie- tion that what the programme that is being formulated In Paris needs to make it vitally and permanently suc- cessful is nothing less than the res- urrection message of 4a new lifd. It is well-nigh'submerged by plans and projects, and by the contending claims of rival powers... whereas its one su- preme lack fs for an overwhelming common purpese of good will, unself- ishness and spirituality. One is shocked 'to find that the Continént of Europe, which bears the worst 'scars of the world war, and has suffered as never before in its war-torn history, is still animated by the old = national ambitions and schemes of aggrandizement: It has not learned the first lesson of this . Catastrophe, that pride and power and 'material might lead only to bit- ter woe; and that unselfish fraternity alone can bring to pass a better man- ner of life. The mud is not dry in the bloody trénches, and the debris of battle has not been gathered up I have seen) before the nations are preparing for and talking of future WATS. After all, militarism does not kill militarism, For the moment, it fs true, America and Great Bfitain are imposing upon. the Conference the principles enunéfated by President Wilson; but ail who knpw aught of the 'inner !ife of the Peace Confer- ence understand Tull well that the Léague of Nations idea, and all that it connotes, is winning only by virtue of the fact that the English-speaking delegates, supported by some of tho little nations, wield the most power. Archaeology's Oldest Man. All of which means something re- ligious that is tremendous. It strikes at the root of life." "We have beén for four and a halt years testing so- ciety to its foundations. Every- thing has been in th@erugible. - No we take the results of _investiga- \ v tions and philosophy to Paris, and we | find that there is no new solution of our old riddles . The sword has not pointed a way.ont of 'the wilderness. We have broken the power of Ger- many for the present, but we have . Yr rr 4mains 1 1 | not conquered the state of mind | which made Germany What she was. | In passing, let us not overlook the! psignificance of the bearing of this! upon the favorite highbrow™ theory | that humanity will gradually learn | the big lessons, and so grow up into an advanced state of development, both personal and social. In Paris | we found leaders freshly graduated | from the red school of war who are | pinning their faith = for: to-morrow | upon military prowess! It is vhin | to expect mankind to lift itself by its | Fown bootstraps . | One of my Paris friends is an ar-| chaeologist who has the distinction of | having discovered the old archaeo-! logical man-----that is, the human re- representing the remotest known period within which the race had progressed to the stage of hav- ing personal possessifiits. "I was mich disappointed to find," said he, "that we have nt advanced a particle ups this oldest civilized man. In drain power and in pNysical strue- ture he was quite the equal of man to-day. I had to abandon all beliefs in 'human evoltion as a means of go- eial progress. We have not got anywhere essential by physiolégical processes of development in all thesé thousands of years." Of all the futile words with which hookishness deludes the race, the most fatuous is the teaching that hu- man society will evolve by natural growth into a better and finally into the perfect state. We have to look elsewhere than to the scientist for the message that will save the world As the President Said in Rome, More than five = thousand books were taken. to Paris by the America commissioners. Only one, though, is needed to speak the word of words, which is that power for the new life, for man indgvidually and in the mass, comes from without and is divinely imparted. It is the truth of the, resurrection: the old power of death defeated by the risen Christ, whd gives to all who will share it his own resurrection power to conquer evil nature and to win to a resurreation life of strength and love and miinis- try, When President Wilson was in Rome he asked the Protestant pas- tors to meet with him .in conference; and an informal little gathering was held in the vestry of the Seotch Pres- byterian Church. It lasted longer than the Prepident's interview with the pope. A fellow believer, the President told these ministers' that he eould not have done the work that has been given him to do without di- vine aid, and without the prayers of Christian people. Slowly the Christian world has wakened up to a realization of the truth that the Wilson ideals, which now hold mankind everywhere in dis- cipleship, are nothing more nor less than the application to present con- ditions of the Gospel of the Risen Christ. What he is now saying, In a langtiage new to statecraft; is real 'headaches. Sick Headache == And Constipation CURED BY : Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills i When your liver becomes sluggish and inactive, the bowels become con- stipated, the tongue becomes coated, the breath bad, and the stomach all out of erder. Then 'come those terrible sick They take, out every bit of life and ambition, bring on depres- sion, and often end in complete men- tal and physical prostration. To keep the liver active, and your bowels moving regularly is the only way to get rid of the constipation and the distressing Miiburn's Laxa-Liver Plils will do this for you by stimulating the slug- gish liver into manufacturing suffi- cient bile to act properly on the bowels, 'thus making them active and regular. ? 1 Mrs, Winslow McKay, Jorflan Branch," N.S., writes: --*'1 have been sick for a number of years with sick headache and constipation I tried dl} kinds of doctors' medicines but none did me . any good. I tried Milburn's Laxa-Liver Pills, and after using four vials I am completely cured. I would heartily recomménd them to all sufferers,' Milburn's . Laxa-Liver / Pills are small and easy fo take; and do not gripe , weaken or sicken as so many pills do. Price 25¢ a vial at all deal- ers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn, Co., Limi- ted, Toroity, Ont. A A A a ly the message that has heen echoing from ten thousand pulpits. _ The world is being led back to the hills of Galileo and Judea, to sit again at the /set of Jesus, hy this son. of the manse, 'vho is a religious teacher be- fore he ir anything else. What the Church Misses, In the presence of the greap hour that overshadows the world, with problems modérn and ancient con- centrated in one momentous meeting in Paris, thé human heart instine- tively longs for an gulightenment and an assistance more than human, Baffled by our thronging perplexities, we turn to religion, #nd, lo, we find the ecclesiastical 'leaders of the or- ganized church pattering and putter- ing about money-raising projects, and the other conventionalities of the old routine, as if humanity had not been afresh in a Garden of Sorrows, and as if the penniless Christ and his equally. poor apostles had never founded a Church upon something more worth while than silver "and gold. "Church work' has become almost a synonym for raiging funds. It would be a brave thing if the Christian Church would dare to try to get along for at least a year with- out any money---all the army of sal- aried workers turning aside to some sort of tent-making. Perhaps such an ascetic experience would enable ecclesfasticism to discern how, real is the danger that we may enshrine a golden calf Wpon our holiest' altars. A few days ago the greatest of our chaplains, as he is«ol English speak- ing religious leaders, declared to me that brgahizations like the Y.M.C.A. must divorce themselves from depen- 4 using + Are Looki Dr. Chase's Nerve Food?" at what has made such a' " W14 that what d thin, T wae rather A shouldn't 1 look well after valuable : "Congratulations, My Daughter, You -8¢ much good." JN N.S., writes: e 80 0, wen "I have used anxious about was ng Fine" | e 'medicine, since it has done you ° splendid results. For a number of years M. Burrell, Clementsport, Dr Chase's Nerve Fool with nervousness, and sick, headaches. |. line. . flere are the well-known books qt ¢ has THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, * THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1919. Yr 4 dence upon 'money, and. men of wealth - * Heart-breakingly, the Church so often misses her opportunity, as do also we who are her members She has a" spiritual gift The resurreg tion message is here, and the resus. rection power In a time that is dy ing for lack of life--panting for spir- tual satisfaction we are as dumb as the deaf concerning the sublime re- ality Why do WP not press pre- eminently the truth 'of a living, risen sufficient Christ? It Ys not a new religion that we need, but more of the Son of God whe Heed our life and died our death that'heé might en- able us to share his resurrection, now and forever. ' A Reminder From Rome. Rome is-a city of ruins that re- main to remind us of imperial Cae- Sars. What toppled over that wi- paralleled dominion? The simple news of a erueified, risen Saviour. One of thé' eharacteristic sights of Rome, which 1s somewhat grotesque from an'artistio standpoint, is yet full of 'symholism: the pre-Christian gbelisks' and pillars that have been surmounted by bronze 'crosses. Paul in the Maniertine prison, a dark and terrible dnngeon which the visitors to-day 'may see, had more power than Nero in hs golden palace; and he is to-day held in great honor. For he spoke a living message, whereas Nero merely wielded material force. What all the world needs to-day' above everything else {s to know the truth of the Gospel that transforms life into newness and love and power and beauty; which is the resurrec- tio essage Our tintes do. not oa new religioh, but only for a 'new expression of the old reality that Christ, who rose from the dead, can take thsee poor, gravé-bound lives of ours and give them the very glory of immortality. The resur- rection message -- "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek these things which are above '--dan do more for the. world than the Paris Conference or the League of Nations. ' MAKES PLAYS ¥ROM BOOKS. Edward E. Rose Another Successful Canadian, The production of "Cappy Ricks" in New York recently added one more a delicious cupful of [EERE Special your family or friends, going to por from the Old Country. ; apply to J. P. Hanley, O.P. & T.A,, G.T. Ry., to the long list of novels, stories or groups of stories which hage been | dramatized by Edward E. Rose. Rose, | although he has, written also rose, told number of original plays, most« ly of a minor nature, is probably the readiest and most prolific damatizer' (if the word may be coined among contemporaneous playwrights, For years he was officially attached to Charles Frohman's staff in this ca- Dacity, antl after a quiescent, period of several seasons he is. now again CUNARD LI coming to the front in his old spe- cialty, "Penrod," made from, Booth +Tarkington's stories was his; there is "Cappy Ricks," baséd upon Peter i \B. Kyne's stories; "Tish," built' around Mary Roberts Rinehart's Le- titia Carberry stories, has been writ- ten by Rose and May Robson, and his dramatization of Mrs. Rinehart's "The Amazing Adventure™ may yet see the footlights, despiie the fact that it is a war play. As for the total number of his dramatic writings, it is literally beyond omputation. It is not generally known that Kd ward BE. Rose is a Canadian by birth, although hé has become a naturalized American citizen. He was born in Stanstead," Quebec, and spent his youth in that town and upon the farms of our most primitive pro- vince. Then when he took it into his h that he 'would like to become cognected. with the theatre, he went to/the United States and arrived im Byston in the early eighties, fresh fvom a Canadian farm. For four years he acted for a few dollars a week (never more thamy twelve) in the Boston Museum Stock Company. Here he wrote a pair of plays which found production in traveling reper- tory companies, and also had the honor 'of supporting Richard Mans- field, who came to the theatre as visiting star, in the first production on any stage of 'Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," Still an actor, he made his way. in 1889 to New York, and while playing eight times a week in a melo- drama>called "My Jack," at the Peo- ple's Theatre on the Bowery, New York, he acted four afternoons In the original production of "Little lard Fauntleroy," which was being play- ed 'at the Madison Square Theatre. In the scant idle hours between these appearances he managed to write a series of boys' stories for a juvenile publication, and a play called "The Westerner" ug well. It was this play which reached the stage under the title "Jim; the Westerner," that fin- aly introduced Rose to the stage as a dramatist. For a number of years he made a comfortable income writ- ing melodramas in the popular vein, in which John' Miltern was wont to appear in the so-calied palmy days. He broke into more dignified com- pany when he dramatized a novel by Dumas and called it 'Captain Paul." Since that time Rose has worked as a dramatizer of novels, and he must hold something of a record in this into stage form: "David has put | For rates of passage and . PAGE THIRTEEN A " =-- . wa 64 With OXO CUBES hot OXO can be ready in a few minutes. Just stir a cube in a cupful of hot water. Tins 10c. & 25%¢ D6 Te so popular this spring a wear, and the general to give. i AGENCY FOR ALL STEAMSHIP LINES attention will be given only, .. . iis, Other brown calf $7.00 and $8.00. < For Information and rates Kingston, Ont. a : We have named the new brown leather ? DOUGHBOY CALF Because of its good appearance, tough . satisfaction it is sure Doughboy calf shoes in our best grades . .$9 and $10 $4.85, $6.00, shoes, J H. 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