4 WHEN A MAN GOES STRAIGHT The International Sunday Solio Lesson for July 17th ls: | "The Conversion of, Saul."--Acts 9:1-19. By William T. Ellis. "Turn loose a man! Better than] sll your schemes and organizations ----. §8 One. sell-starting, eight-cylindered "aman in the midst of things. We are , trying to legislate and organize * humanity into the Better | Day; fwhereas what we really need lead , lus there is personalities, with open ' eyes and flaming hearts, passionately devoted to God's will," Such was onc man's respon an appeal to join certain of tffe in- fpumerable "movements" that seem : ko be suffocating the good impulses tf our time, It is more man that e world needs, rather than more en. One converted Saul was worth whole sanheédrin of ordinagy ec- lesiastics, Right now, in our own troubled orld, the call is loud for a great dership. Noble as has been 'the eedhi:x of hungry Europe and Ar- enla and Chida, I venture to sug- est that a far greater service of the ce at the present time would be uch a complete conversion to .the pirit dnd programme of Jesus of a w.of the world's foremost states- en as transformed the famous ewish zedlot on the Damascus ighway at noon 5 an historic day. tp Statesmen Should "Get Religion !" It would be indiscreet to mewtion mames; but each of us can check off 'on the fingers of one hand the world 'figures who, if they were suddenly to experience the same sort of con- version as overwhelmed thea Tarsus scholar, aristocrat and ecclesiastical 'leader, would quickly turn the tide of human affairs. Suppose these men whose names are almost daily in the newspapers were to forego all partl- san and selfish and sordid and nation alistic ambitions, and.became glow- 'ing apostles of the ideals of Jesus; what an effect the act would have fupon human history ! « Converted men in high places 'woudd transform the world. Ten personalities -- five personalities -- tesolved to do, at all costs, only what would please Christ, would make such questions as disarmament, world co-operation and universal peace merely incidental, "because ine- vitable. Some of us who give our days and FCZEMA ¢ ment for Eezema and Bae' tions. It relieves at ence and 4 are Ketal Co.. at. D Adeiaida St. W., Terente Smoke F1B All the rich aronia of the best Virginia AA YA TT AGENCY FOR ALL |: _OCEAN STEAMSHIPS CP. &1T. A, G.T, Ry., Kingston, Ont. For. particulars apply to--- : J. P. HANLEY, WorRatifauxicels July 231A Oct. 1 ..,...8aturnia © Aug. 6} - t. 15 ... ow. Cassandra N. XY, GLASGOW, (via Moville) July 18 18lAag. 13|Sept. N a au 30 iO: 27|8ept. Cam | 1 Adger ta For ioe was . «Assyria Ew YORK--LIYERPOOL ®. 20[Bept. 27[NoV. 1- ......Albania A uy folate 13|Sept. 10 .»..Carmania 7|Sept, 24|Oct. 22 .. .Caronia Sok 8|Oct. 11|Nov. 15 . Scythia N.Y, Chuthourn: Shmpton Juiz 18lAug. plEeR Mauretania uly 36/Aug. 23(Sept. we .... Aquitania © Aus. 18/Bept. 22{Oct. 20 ... Herengaria Boston te XAveryool, AU: 13: 50a OL I AM Assyria N.Y. PLY, CHER. HAMBURG + July 23|Sept., 6]Oct. 18 Saxonia Vi omratear, Bun en r ra. ------ Avg. ¢ Jirassariaiibats avian: ORINDA ge a Lturally a | rulers and conquerors in his abiding | for-naughts out of real boys nights to a consideration of world affairs are old-fashioned enough to believe that the one way hf the | existing mess and muddle and mis- | ery of mankind is by gome startling and Saviourhood of Jesus Christ. "Impractical?" Not a bit of it. The | most practical thing that happened in| the whole Roman Empire for many a long day was the sensational] change of mind and héart to thi@vbigoted, narrow, intolerant, Christian-persécuting Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus, when he was struck blind oan the road to Damascus, that he might see the Light. "nere was more of history bound up in that one event than in the decrees and deaths of a dozen caesars; or in the movements and fightings of all the armies of Rome. Education by Gonversion. No mathematical formula can measure the consequences of a great soul's becoming acquainted with Christ, * Any large look at history reveals that the really great things have come to pass by the Saul-way, Car- lyle's "Heroes and Hero-Worship* {s merely a commentary upon the truth that God changes events by changing men. If we knew enough to-do so," we should build our great monuments upon. the spots where new ideas and new purposes camé to individual souls, When a guide first took me over Damascus he na- showed me the traditional spot in" the road where Saul was converted; no man knows the true site; but its memorial is contermin- ous with Christianity. Tens of thousands of graduates of highet schools of learning have "gone out into the world" during the past month confident that their education has equipped them for success, Most of them never heard or heeded the sound : psychological principle which we may call "edu- cation "by conversion." They need to know- that a great life purpose, a master passion, such. as Christ grants and Saul got on the way to Damascus, is worth' all the studies of the years. Given such an impulse and con- viction, one finds all the tools of learning useful; lacking it, none of the teachings of the books car avail to make one a master workman in one's world. Power comes not from complex equipment, but from a su- preme and simple determinatigh-- a "single eye," as the old phr Has it. To be Christ's man, kee} on carrying out His will is better than te bean alumnus of the greatest university. As if thé Lord laughs at logic, we find Him frequently upsetting the expected order of things. Thus, Saul, the master-mind of the world; Saul, the university-trained scholar; Saul, the philpsopher, the logician, the metaphysician, was converted to the new Way, not by a philosophical presentation of the claims"of Chris- tianity, but by a version of Christ; by an emotional experience. "Old time religion," with its - emphasis upon sound conversion, is not so much in vogue nowadays; yet it was by conversion--a sort of earth quaking, camp-meeting conversion at that; a personal experience devoid of all argumentation--that the Chris- tian Church got its greatest apostle. -s - One of the Great Journeys. It is less than a day's ride by rail, nowadays, from Jerusalem to Da- mascus -- and the temptation 1s strong to digress into a description of the journey as I made it recently --but for Saul it was a .matter of approximately a/week. He rode well equipped and attended, as befit- ted a wealthy aristocratic and. dis- tinguished emissary of the Jewish High Court, of which he himself may have been a member. Still, de- spite the haste of his hot spirit, traveling was, as it yet is a leisurely affair in the Orient. Upon his slow ride; with its noon-tide halts at way- side rest houses sand its nights in village khans, Saul had plénty of time for mature reflection. Any journey is great whereupon a great experience is encountered; but viewed comparatively, in the light of its consaquences, this ride of Saul's from the holy city - of Jeru- salem to the oldest city in the world --and sometimes called the most beautiful on earth for situation-- is one of thé most important journeys ever made by mortal. The light that dazzled 'him as he neared his goal ts still blazing as % beacon before mankind. That ride made the brilliant Saul one of the real leaders of the whole human race, with a power that in- creases as the centuries pass. He surpasses the Caesars and all other powers. A mountain of books and ser- mons have béen written upon Saul; and the number still grows; for this man and his mind and message con- tinue to engross the thought of schol- arship. Most questions of New Testa- ment criticism, as well as of the pres- ent social message of, Christianity, still rage about this Master mind of the Christian church. Vi in the lirge; Baul's dramatic conversion is one of -the outstanding events of the annals of the race, Right About Face ! Sugar-and-mush type of religious teachers, who are striving to-make drab and dingy and harmless §ood- and girls, should take special motice of athe fact tahat Saul was a somebody going somewhqre when he met Je- sus; He was a first-class bigot and that came | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. but the Lord dearly loves a person of force. It is hard for Him--I write] reverently--to do his great | with disciples who are mere | tives, "1ittle folk of little soul." © He delights in the out-and-out man or woman, boy or girl, the one who {is strongly for something. The mere | | money-grubber, the society butterfly, | {the petty pleasure-seeker, are | work | nega- | poor | material out of which to make saints | and heroes) although the God is equal even to that "Bit when Christ meets a. first-class t | spirit, like Saul, hot on some engros-| | about- face, o and make him' eveh greater in a diviner mission. That] is why we ebvet the mighty for God, |and want to see the strong conv erted. | Saint Chrysostom says of the arrest- {ing of Saul at the apex of his anti- | Christian activities: "Christ, like a i skillful physician, healed him wish His fever was at the worst.' world, world!--mad with Li ism ,drunk with dissipation, sick with selfishness--if only now you could meet face to face with the consum- mate and conquering Christ. It was noon on the Damascus Road when Sayl saw the greater Light, | that dazzled him to a blindness that led to the sight. This was no mere] subjectiva experience within the mind of the overwrought zealot; materially-minded companions also saw the glory and heard the voice. To them the sound was meaningless; to their leader it rang clear, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" "Who art Thou, Lord?" "] am Jesus, Whom thou persecut- | est." That Version and that Voice made Saul a Christian; and gave Church the author of its first Scrip- tures; its organizing mind; and fits first missionary. When Saul met Jesus that day all his life became Christo-centric, so that his own auto- biography thereafter became "For to me to live is Christ." 2 That is what a meeting with the Saviour did for the raging Jew of Tarsus; that is what it will do for our own mad world. TOBACCO SEEDy BEDS. Steam Provides, Best Control of Root-rot and Damping Off. of the tobacco diseases originate in the seed-bed. It is therefore in the seed-bed that the first preventive and control measure should be tak- en in order to aveld loss later, dur- ing the growing season. Damping off and root-rot are the two most serious seed-bed diseases experienced in this country. The safest way to destroy the germs of these diseases, says . Charlan, "chief officer, Tobacco Divi- sion, is to sterilize the 'sesd-beds by steam. This can be done either dur- ing the previous fall or during the spring, providing a sufficient lapse of time is left between the end of the treatment and the date of sowing. The most effective way is to use steam at 4 pressure of 100 to 160 pounds, at a temperature of about 230 to 240 degrees Fahrenheit, applying it for at least half an Rour on the beds to be sterilized. This is done by placing on the surface of the bed an inverted pan. the width of which is the same. as that of the seed-bed and from eight to ten fet long, under which the steam is admitted through a hose connecting it 'with the boller. The length of the treatment de- pends upon the nature of the soil to be disinfected and the pressure ob~ tained. If the soil is particularly compact, the treatment should last an hour if the pressure ghould drop rapidly to 650 pounds. In order to obtain good results, the sell should be treated when in good dondition to be sown, that is to say sufficiently moist but not too damp, and*sull- ciently friable. The steam pan should 'be set as | close as possible to the frame of the' bed so as to aveld leaving an un- treated strip. The handles for carrying the pan should stick out as little as possible so as 16 permit of close contact with the frase. It is possible to steam the beds with satisfactory results, aé far as the eradiction of thé disease por for is concatned, at 4 lower presbure. In that case, however, the steam is not as dry, and as it is néeéssary to maintain it longer" thres-quarters of an hour at least, the expefiditure is the same, if not higher, and the soll 'of the bed is left too wet. As a rile the BS stediiigy on soil dis- infected by steam are a lite slow at the start, but they rapidl during the latier plage of their stand bon the seed-bed." ; Steam sterilisation a4_thin seed- ng are safe ways to pr ear aid healthy seedlings. ga » ISLE OF MAN DRY. hms New Licensing Law Oontrols Sunday Liquor Sale, ' London, July 14.--The Isle of Man on Sunday had its first experi- ence of the new licensing law which restricts the Sunday sale of liquor. The {sland is a favorite resort of tourists -and prohibition was resent- ed by them in various ways. Thous- ands gatheréd on the sea front and sang Elgar's "sand of Hope and Glory," with equal vigor and irony. partisan and persecutor, it is true; his |" to the. It is generally admitted that nyost | make up- grace of | | conversions to the Gospel and Spirit {sing errand, he can tu*h him 'right-! : The Rider. "In speaking of this bill before ¢on- gress you mention a 'rider; What 8 a rider?" [tA rider," replied Senator Sorghum, "is usually like the postscript to a woman's letter--appareatly an after | thought, but in reality the most Im- | portant part of the communication." | The Unheeded Kicker. "Why don't you assert yourselves as citizens and demand better roads?' "Friend," replied the suburban citi sen, "we're #0 humbled and subdued | that we're thankful if we get a chance {to Ailvver through on roads that aren't paved mostly with broken glass." Her Loving Notes. "Your wife must be awfully in love with you! She has written to you every day since she has beén away." "They are only little 'notes to tell me to send her something she forgot to put in her trunks." No Strategic Retreating. | "Did you ever think of declining to | run for another term?" "Never," replied Senator Serghum. "It has always looked as if I had a good enough show to be elected to warrant mé in sticking to the finish." Getting in the Last Word. The Bride's Mother-- What's Henry been doing to you now? The Bride--The worst yet. Every time he calls me up on the telephone he says what he wants to and them bangs up the receiver so I can't talk back to him, ONE BURST AT A TIME She--How about that present of a sunburst yeu were going to give me? He--How can I give you a sunburst when the bank's burst? Of Courtel That politician Should be fought Who dares to bakat he "Can't be bought. Disappointed. "So you went into the country to get 'atmosphere? How did you like 1t1" "Disappointed. Couldn't find a farm- er who had a horse named Debbid, and never heard one of them say 'By Beck I'" . © ! Very Rich. 2 The Governess--I'm afraid your it tle daughter will never learn te spell. Mrs. Newriche--It won't make aay difference. When she grows up she'll have money $nough to employ a secre tary. rp ------ Misunderstanding. Mrs. Wiggs--Aln't it goin' to be awe ful when the soldiers get back? Mrs. Fige--Whatevér do you mean? Mrs. Wigh--Why, they say the boys will all come homé déthoralized. - , " Den't Blame Mer. Mabel--Gert Is dreadfslly superstl tious, isn't she? Myrt--Oh, iidéed, she is. She won'( even let a man propose to her in a hamtaock for fear they will fall out. + A'Back Number, Myrt--Did you see the outfit Mabel take a lot of nerve to appear like that. Gért--Well, shé did display a good deal of backbone. How Mean! Mr. 'Cholly Shallowpate--They may that a little learning Is a oy "ie Kutting Hints -- Fear not. You're a Yong maps fram the danger © Oh Tuesday at Belleville Miss Maud Etna Foxton, of that city, was united in marriage to Bertié Wood- ington, Stratford. The marriage of Miss Violet' Bi liott, Brockville, and - Leonard 8. Thompson, Sault Ste. Marie, place in Calgary, Alta, on June $0h. The best efforts of the chairmaker 'are constantly being sat' upop. THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1921. bonis ---- Free sciorarsiires Free The Greenc Music Company have a very simple plan of providing a"musical educatiog § to as many Juaple, old or young, as desire to use ft. n There is NO MONEY TO PAY--just.a little co-operation in the working out of their plan, and the musical"educstion is yours without a cent of outlay." Ask about it at amy of our . stores. The J. M. Greene Music Co., Limited HOME OF GOOD MUSIC. - 166 PRINCESS ST, Stores at Peterboro, Lindsay, Belleville, Kingston, Barrie. 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