THE DAILY BRITISH a Ports. THE CRISIS AT THE CROSS ROADS| | ~--Established 1850 Over The International Sunday School Lesson for Nov. 6 is | "Paul's Experiences at Jerusalem".--Acts 21:18--23:24. By Willlam T. Kills. [te the man you realy know. For an " 70 Years--e CARUSO TETRAZZINI MELBA DE PACHMANN HEINTZMAN & CoO. GRAND PIANO for use when touring Canada NOW IT IS SCOTTI The famous Baritone of the Met- ropolitan Grand Opera Com- pany, who, with his.200 artists, is to appear in Massey Hall, Toron- to, for three nights, that has made the same choice. are four of the many great world-artists who have al- ways chosen a There is no use dodging the fact that, although the subject of this Bunday School Lesson, which mil- lons of folks are scheduled to con- sider, is "Paul at Jersusalem," the real theme of discussion in most classes will be "Christianity at the Washington Conference," or "The Crisis at the Cross-roads." , Never in all the years I have been studying professionally the trend and temper of public life and thought on this North American continent have I found such a wide- spread, deep and manifest interest in any current subject, barring the war itself, as I have discovered with respect to the approaching Confer- ence upon the Limitation of Arma- ment, In recent weeks I rave trav- elled throughout the eastern half of Canada, and from Boston to Minne- apolis, to Kaneas City and to Wash- ington, covering most of the great cities between these points, Every- where I have found thoughtful per- sons, and church folk in particular, looking forward to the momentous meeting of Armament Day. There exists a new popular alertness to great events that is a heritage from the war awakening. We may well expect surprising results from this critical meeting that are not schedul- ed on the agenda. This column could be filled with significant symptoms of the aroused purposes of people ev- erywhere, individual or for a group, it is bet. ter to meet for frank, free discus- sion, rather than to nurse grievances in seclusion and silence, The bare fact of the meeting of the nations at Washington is in itself a great achievement, - The Passions of the People. There is something fine in all of us which makes us prefer to con- template the good and the beautiful, Instead of the evil'and the ugly. We would all rather think about the happy homes and fine people and many other attractions of our com- manity than of the base and crimi- nal element which lurks out of sight, It is more natural to dwell upon the sublimities of Paul's character than to contemplate the hideous passions of the mob, Naturally we give more thought to the ideals of the Wash- ington Conference than to the sinfs. ter forces in the world which it is designed to eliminate or overcome. Neverheless if we are ever going to accomplish anything in the world, we must be brave enough to be realists, facing facts squarely. Our God is a God of things as they are,--and of things mob-minded as they ought to be, constituted the substratum of old Jerusalem fife, as of the life of most cities to-day. Dark and deadly passions of hate and fear and prejudice and un- reason held sway. Blind bigotry needed only occasion to bring {it rushing forth to riot and ruin and reprisal, We must be fearless enough to admit that back of the Washington Conference, and threatening its very existence--and darker moods of manhoods--selfish and ruthlesg nationalism; religious and racial bigotry; petty insularity and pro- vincialism; and godless greed, These forces want their own indi- vidual ends before ever they make concessions to world welfare and per- manent peace. Just as the Jerusa- lem mob cried throatily concerning { Paul, "Away with him!"--a signifi- cant repetition of the very same self a good Jew, to share a religions | words that assailed Paul's Master on Vow in the temple with four men, He | the identical spot, a few years earl- did so--and was geen in the temple | ter--eo there is the fearsome possi. courts by his enemies from Asia Min- bility that all the Christian idealism of the Washington Conference may have to give way before the hate-fill. {ed hue and cry of inflamed self-in. terest, Convalescence Requires Wincarnis In a state of convalescence, while the crisis is Suet: the danger of may not be over. and vitality should be restored as quickly as possible. alr, sleep and such nutritious les of food as can be are gies to Testore the lost vi and repair the Bie mise aomthe system is too the bodye mivesei semen compose the --it hore tha: WINCARNIS is 80 wonderful. For it contains Iron and for Suriching the Blood; Fhicephorus for Brain and Nerves; Calcium, Sodium Potassium--Phosphates essential for Bone and Tissue- & form that pro- motes their ready absorp into the system. lg, Of tone and delicacy have used any- "Surpassed in beauty of touch any Piano I where."--De Pachmann. Rn |] fs Some Lesson Links, So this is the background of our common thinking, as we take up the Lesson theme. Summarized, the story is that Paul, in spite of dire warnings, persisted in going to Jeru- salem. There he stirred the Christ- fan leaders with the narrative of what God had done in the Gentile world through him. At this center of conservative, under the shadow of conservatism, under the ghadow of the very heart of Judaism, the Church leaders were still rather tim- orous about the relations of the Jews and the Christians. So they per- suaded Paul, in order to prove him- Proprictors: COLEMAN & CO, Lnarrep Norwich, ENG. Canadian. Office: 67 Portland St, Toronto. 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Later, forty Jews bound themselves by an oath to kill Paul; but his nephew learned of the plot and warned Ro- men officials, so that the prisoner was spirited away by night to Caes- area. Such is the dramatic tale, It is & meaty topic for discussion; and not altogether lacking in analogies to the situation developing in an- other world capital, within the ap- proaching week. . The Conference at a Capital. If even great old Paul-did not feel free to play a lone hand in his day, how much less may any man or na- tion in this time? For the unity and efficiency of the cause is right- eousness and religion, it was neces- sary to meet in' conférence at head- quarters. Church councils have been a necessity of religion; and in- ternational conferences are a neces- sity of civilization, Nobody outside of Thibet can nowadays contend for the policy of national isolation. For weal or for woe, all peoples are to-day bound up in the ome bundle of life. This trip to Jersalem was good for Paul's party, and it was also good for the Jerusalem leaders. Each needed the tonic or restraint of the other. The one sure way to prevent divisions is for people to meet fam- illarly and. frequently. You cannot CATARRH OF THE STOMACH It is rather comforting to find The Re UT YEARS fs the that the Bible characters have trail- fermentation of food in the stomach [ties quite like our own. We rail at . " rei which generates a gas that is very |the Weaknesses of the Paris con- E TR ra : Th aaa SIRI in a a a re frequently belched up. There is also |ferees, who spoiled a glorious pro- a All ICI ER I a rumbling of the bowels and a dis- gramme for a better world by their charge of gas therefrom, there is concessions and compromises. They constant retching, and the meals ares stooped to the tricks of the market frequently vomited. There is a burn- place, when they should have stood ing pain in the stomach, the appetite upright and steadfast for lofty prin- kin, tiie tongue oh rie ciples. Well, here is the Apostle Paul » becomes | doing same thing! Present and the sufferer s An old woman once said she ressed ox- te er oua, dep ul loved the Bible for the light it shed The blame lies with a sluggish{on the commentaries. It is a bit liver, as it holds back the bile which amusing to turn from the ingeni- ous twistings of the commentators, is so to promote the move- ment of the bowels, and when the | ,q they try to explain away the . clear significance of Paul's attempt bile gets into the blood a badly dis- ordered condition of the stomach, to play polities in the Sanhedrin, by dividing the Sadducees against the liver and bowels will surely follow. Pharisees. It was a maneuver an- worthy of Paul--even as his son tb expediency in fulfilling a vow in the temple was unworthy of interepreter of Christian Enter the Supreme Law, It may discomfit the pacifist, who is tracing the analogy between this New Testament story and the ap. proaching Conference on Armament, to recall that Paul, the embodiment of a great ideal, was saved from death by the armed force of Rome. Roman peace followed Roman law, Which 1n turn, was maintained by the Roman legions. To our own day, it is still true that all supreme courts are dependent upon police power for the enforcement of their decrees. World peace is a chimera without a world court possessed of | authority and power, or '"sanc- tions," to use the late fashionable word. There must be a supreme law, with force to compel obedience to its decisions. That supreme law can come only by the agreement of nations. It is only'*"Beneath the rule of men entirely great" that .| "The pen is mightier than the sword." S80 long as there are law- less people and lawless nations on earth the world policeman must car- ry a club. It needs power fo restrain passions, White-hot in manly indigation, Paul the prisoner poured the burn- ing invective of a law-abiding spirit upon the high priest who illegally smote him. No supine saint, but a spunky soldier was the great apos« tle. He was not of those who pray for the grace of resignation in the presence of arrigant lawlessness, He offers no example to the weak sen- timentalists who think to end wrong by submitting to it. One of the whole- some aspects of the Washington Con- ference is the multiplying evidence thai 'righteousness and good will have learned how to speak out aloud, in tones that burn as well as enlight. en. A new spine stiffens peace-loving men. Hidden plots will fare ill at Washington as they fared against Paul. Jes TE CT For Over Thirty Years GASTORIA THE OENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK cry. 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