PARIS KNEW WHAT EDEN CREW By Willlam T. Ellis, *The International Sunday School Lesson For May 11th Is "Sin And Its Consequences." Gen, 3:11, smear as--' | Adam, in the other world, may have grinned at Paris peace pro- ceedings which amazed the world. He knew the reason. Civilization #tood aghast at the failure of war- taught nations to learn and practice the lessong of simple sincerity and true brotherhood. The clash of In- ternational rivalries, the outerop- sire 'for what we should not have, | doubt. that God really means what | | re says, and determined to have! [OUT own way, regardless of conse- | quences. a The Laws of the Jungle. | Casting aside all the phrases that | the preachers use, we ask ourselves, | what is the nature of sin? W bere- | in exactly lies its distinctive qual-| ity? At root, and running out through every twig and branch of its life, sip is refusing to believe that what God says is redlly true. | This takes for granted that we may krow what God wants of us; which is another subject mot to be taken THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TH A ey URSDAY, MAY 8, 1919. . ETRE EL en PAGE ELEVEN =n pings of deep and designing selfish- ness, the ruthless scheming to at- tain individual ambitions, seemed a scandal to the year in which we live. Straightforward lovers of hu- amanity were incredulous of the re- ports of jealousy and intrigue and strife at Paris; they would have col- lapséd into black despair had they known the full, unpublished facts. restrictions, and' free to follow her Even so elaborate and modern a | josires. It was a religion of the ex- creation as the Paris Conference re- | altedness of human nature that the solves itself into the old elements | deyil preached in the Garden. His of human nature, which first made | arguments made God I'itle and man trouble in the Garden of Eden. |hig, 'god is only fooling you: - he Statesmen may look wise and talk | does not mean what he says: the behind closed doors, but after all | faot 1s, 'he is a bit jealous lest you their problems and plans rest UDOR | should eat of this tree and become what is fundamentdl in people. | as wise as he 1s. For all experience They cannot get far away from hu- is sacred and permitted; the fact man nature. $in in the individual, | that you desire this fruit is suffi- aggregate, becomes sin the state, | sient reason why you should have Altruism in the citizens i» what pro- | it. See how beautiful it is to look duces unselfishness in the nation. upon, and how pledsant to taste. What alled the Paris Conferénes | Come, cast aside your fogy, marrow was simply what ailed the Garden | notions and be free and divine--Ilike of Eden--SIN. There has not been unto God himseeif." So ran the fa-! that change of heart which makes | mila seduction, whole people desire first the wel- Cutting directly fare of all men. The law of God fs! sophistry is the stern truth that still displaced by the attempt to! nothing in tho univeise, net even supersede it and gratify selfish de- the becoming MHke God himself, is sires, The devile continues to do! so important as obeying tlhe clear business with 'the vanity an pride | will of God. 'Behold, to obey js and desires of men and omen. | better than sacrifice," cried God's Critics of the League of Nations are Propaet to Saul. The greatest voice | right in saying that there will have! in modern literature writes, in those | to be a changed heart in humanity | peerless paiubles called "Jungle | before there can be the ideal world, | Tales." ; { though in the meantime we should | 'These are the laws of the jungle; | set up as much of the machinery of many and mighty are they; } a truly Christian elvilization as fs| But the head and the hoof, possible and workable. Let us have Launch and the hump the League of Nations, and then Obey.' i consider whether it Is not the mis {TO find out what God wants to do, sion of this favored western conti {and iodo that thing despite hell nent to fill It and thrill it with the |80d all its devils, is the one su- fires of benevolence and altruism. |Préme duty and happiness of man. A revival of obedience to God would . 0 more for the world than all the 1' TS World's Blackest bd Peace conferences that can be con- Vizier of Tarkey who himself tola]Yoked. me, a few days ago, that the black- est deed In all history was the Ar- menian atrocities, He was wrong, for one bit of fruit from a flourish- ing tree is: less Impartant than the tree itself, Central to all the woes of the world, and the producer of them every one, is the black and ugly fact of sin. Any philosophy which does mot recognize the real- ity of sin, does not adeqdately ap- prehend the conditions of the world in which 'we live. It is the presence of sin that mars all our Edens: New-fashioned preachers do nor talk much about s'n; wherein they differ from every one of the proph- ets, preachers and teachers in the Bible, There is a power within us and about #is which makes us choose the "worse rather than the better, the hurtful rather than the helpful. That power is sin; and they best know it who have been most affect. ed by ft. Theological séminaries may have doubts about sin, but penitentiaries and hospitals and asy- lums do not, The consequences of ein clank lke ball and chain at the feet of the onmarching world. We are less concerned with the origin and nature of sin than with the fact of its existence, and with the havac it is working in the life of our own day. We read with in- terest the story of the first tempta- tion and fall; aud if we are intro- spective we may a similar course fin our own existence---de- up here. Underlying all sin is un- belief, That is how Grandmother Eve fell; that is how the latest of her descendants stumbled. An alluring trap of the tempter's | ~and it j& having an amazing vogue today--was that Eve would become. wise as God himself; that she would be emancipated for all acres. this N the mud of France and Flanders, and the dreary desolation of war stood a series of little huts where soldiers from the front line trenches used to 'come. Sometimes it was a dug-out, sometimes it was a shed, sometimes it was the cellar of a ruined house, sometimes it was a section of a chateau or a barn, sometimes perhaps it was a a regular "hut". But always the Red Triangle over the door was the sign of 'welcome--the sign of hospitality and good cheer, the sign of the soldiers' club. And they called it "the Good Old xX. We Help Y.M.C.A. Maintain R¥¢d Canada Needs "Y" Service Triangle Clubs During Demobilization - " tion last year. This year eleven such cliibs are in existence, and in addition similar service is being rendered soldiers in the regular V.M.C.A. buildings of other cities, To carry out this greatly needed work during the present year, a considerable por- . tion of the Red Triangle Fund is being devotcd, and your support is asked in earnest conviction that this service to our soldiers'is as deserved as it is appreciated. meeting place while stayingover on bus- iness connected with the adjustment of their military accounts or their civil re. establishment after their discharge from the army. Red Triangle Clubs are self-sustaining in part, but in the main they are financed from the Red. Triangle Fund. The work is increasing as demobilization proceeds. Thrée Red Triangle Clubs were kb opers- gl Nation-Wide Appeal | | Triangle Campaign $1100.000 May Sto 9% ada from coast to coast the Young Men's Christian Association is now operating in separate and distinct buildings Red Triangle Clubs for returned soldiers. In other cities similar accommodation is provided in the regular Y.M.C.A. buildings. These clubs are simply large, well managed hotels where transient soldiers are Turished bed and board at nominal rates, and the con- navel thay is Sal lost that veniences of a headquarters and social again; and that she had gained } nothing worth the price. She had fl CANADIAN I; eleven of the principal cities of Can- The Price We Pay. Bitter as never morning' after has been in all the ages since was the awakening of Eve. She learn- pald dearly for that which was not worth buying at all. Out of her Eden--what a parable of many a person's experience to-day!--Out of innocence, out of favor with her husband, and out of joyful relation- |" ship with God, Eve learned, what few of us are willing to believe at second hand, that the devil is a liar and the father of les. When a child does not welcome its returning father home, because of its own misdeads, it is répeating the experience of the race. Loss of innocence is the well-spring of un- happiness. Like the jaded appetite which requires ever stronger and stronger s!imulant, so the spirit from which innocence has fled goes from worse to worse. Has any novelist ever portrayed the real hor- ror of the lack of spiritual suscepti- bility? . "Te the impure, all things are impure" {is a horrible charac- terization of a not uncommon men- tal state. The plight of the pit is that of the man who, has no inno- cent thoughts, no simple angl pure pleasures, no delight. in whatsoever is lively and of good report. What. a price to pay for disobedience! CANADIAN Billiard rooms and other games such as checkers and chess, Information about trains; telegraph facili- ties, and free motor bus to and from railway stations for soldiers and their ba; , An Adjustment Bureau, where soldiers' claims for back pay, war service gratuities, etc., are taken up with the proper author- ities and arranged for the returned men, A Social Service'Bureau where men are: assisted to find employment. E First Aid facilities for men whose injuries may require i attention. Safety deposit conven: iences for money and valuables. Regular musical and entertainment programmes contributed by V.M.C.A. workers and voluntary talent; religious: services on Sunday afternoons. For Red Triangle Clubs and service to soldiers in local Y.M.C.A's, Military Hos sitdls, Camps, etc. the . National Council is an Y tioning the sum of $472,069 in the budget for 1919, and So smeat this appro i portion of the ¢ T ig , Free check rooms for soldiers' dunnage ED Triangle Clubs for soldiers were in- thin bags and parcels. augurated in Canada in April, 1917. A committee of prominent business men in each locality undertakes business supervision, trained managers and book- keepers are placed in charge by the yy- C.A,, usually men with a long experieme in railway Y.M.C.A's. or similar work. The Clubs are staffed 'and managed like good moderate priced hotels with the ex- ception that in the restaurants (or dining rooms) ladies' committees furnish volun- tary workers as waitresses. > All other help is paid. The rates charged to soldiers making use of the Red Triangle Clubs vary according to locality, but the service in every case is given at prices much be- low cost. The result is heavy monthly deficits at each Red Triangle Club-- deficits that can be met only by funds subscribed by the public in the Red Triangle Campaign. Red Triangle Clubs pro- vide: ok op Reading and writing rooms and free stationery. = A 'Mother's Corner," where buttons are sewn on, socks darned, and little jobs of sewing and mending are done for soldiers free of charge. Commodious shower baths with hot and cold water, ' The Voice That Strikes Terror. Some cynic has invented the story that every man has a hidden secret that haunts him; and that a {telegram "All is known; look out," iwould send the best of men into GIRLS! MAKE A BEAUTY LOTION § pic, 0% comme™ic"ls het cic WITH LEMONS op Tk mupalae lre are an Ai aia aaa aa SE SELLA t st dss Shab itil ds TTTTTTVRTTyessrresestsd eee For Soldiers' Wives and Little Ones Committeg there, soldiers' dependents For the wives and childten overseas, dependent upon Canadian soldiers, a sum of $175,000 from the Red Triangle Bund will be set aside tv cover the work of the Dominion Council of the Young Women's Chris- tian Association. : Young Women's Christian Associa- tion Secretaries accompany the sol- diers' families oft all the steamers comitig to Canada. At St. John and Quebec and similarly at Halifax : in co-operailon with Citizens' tributioif, . img b + For Canadian Wonianhood #, y CITE Dominion Council of the Young Women's Christian Association has also ibility of 'sidig#utending dud Rromoting ViW.C.A. work for Canadian 6, Arhich is growing more widely nedessary cach year. "Every- Y.W.C.AL is called upon for help; and 'your contribution to the Red Triangle Fund wifl make response the more nearly complete. are welcomed and cared for. Money is provided in cases of need to those lacking sufficient funds to complete their journey. At the railway sta. tions 'throughout Canada similar service is.rendered by local Y. W.C.A. workers. For the sake of the soldiers' wives and dependents coming to Canada, be generous when you make your con. cannot believe this, which is one of the punishments of cence, As Adam and Eve shrank from the voice of God in the garden, con- victed by the knowledge of their) TEI PPeereIte loss of imno-| Sd vee Etre At the cost of a small jar of or- Siary cold cream one can prepare a ful. lemon akin sofianer. ang. naps | O¥. BULL, 30 Bult of soa) hud mo plexion beautifier, by squeesing the | Cusation in every, glance, betrayal juice of two fresh lemons into a bot- In harmless incidents, and remorse tle containing three ounces of or-/ DY Weht and by day. Already, chard white. Care should, be taken | VDeR our first parents Knew them. to strain the juics a fine "81ves out of fellowship with God, h d A cloth 80 no lemon pulp gets in then OY bad begun to. taste death. No soldiers held over by per- lotion will' keep fre for | 8Xcuses could palliate or atone for soral business and at their months. Every woman knows that Lanse: Theirs, and ours, is own expense in the big lemon juice is used to bleach and re- What ea il says the Golden Text of the cities. iy move such blemishes as freckles Lesson, summing it all up? "For . ' sallowness and tan and is the ideal | Los a, v . ges of sin is death; but the iin Totter, Smoothensk and beau: | ,e C0808 of sin Is de Ite through pri tip at Jesus Christ our Lord." hr | pine fe cy || JAE ------------ mike ub 4 quarter pint of thin swet- Help the "Y " complete its work for soldiers. Help extend "Y" service to Canadian ~~ boys. Help bring the Red Triangle to the Amy of Industry and *. to Rural Canadian Life. : al Council, Young Men's Christian Associations of Canada A social rendezvous for - to whiten, setten, fraghen aud bette out. Ios nd Ee "Tt is truly ma 'ough, red hands: s in of v arms | and hands. If should rally help | skin. The Red Triongle Campaign is under the distinguished patronage of His Exclleny, the Duke of Devonshire, K.G., G.C.M.G., GC. .0, P.C. oun Ross, Stossren ; G. Hasna? Woo, Toronto Tuouss Brapsaw; Toronto 4 Craw Dis aN x § ¥ : § * It is undersivod the Duke of De- {London Mall. Tha papers say fhat | Without the needle the mariner _Yonshire will sliortly retite as Gov- [the office will be offered 10 the Earlicould never thread his way through griorfeneral of Canada; says the 'of Athlone, brother of Queen Mary. the sea. i ~ py motored to Tweed asd tien they will reside near Napanee. 'the traiv to Ottawa, to spend fest brides iravpliing suit was pa time with relatives. On their blue with white hat. 7