mh THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG The International S8unday School Lesson for October 15 is "The Ministry of John The Baptist."--Luke 3. By Wiillam T. Kills. ED sheets and Once there was a preacher who had his head cut off: to-day there are some preachers who have had their {message killed, Which is worse? | Would you rather dose your head, or | your message? That question is answered in the the wilderness speaks the word of words to our troubled time. We are in a perilous period of history. All the forces upon which mankind has pinned its hope have failed us. Military might has proved inadequate. Councils of statesmen have been worse than -use- asking. The decapitated prophet is |less. The League of Nations has been i FRAN ; Dae o al Speaking = the ages. slo-gay the | im otent fh 3 1e graves: leaves, En # 3 - unday School millions of the world |llightened self-interest" has proved a Bh 3 HS x 3 y sit at his feet--but the teachers who broken reed. » y y A A BUSINESS MAN'S LUNCH have no clear word of truth and au-{ What, then, is our refuge? Where ) h thority are without followers even in } ring we look for escape? John has the J their own time. rf | word: "Behold, the Lamb of God that There may be more tragic spectacles | taketh away the sins of the world!" It than that ol he man called to preach is not a system, but a Saviour, that who has nothing to say to his own can delived us. Instead of councils and times, but I cannot think of any at the | conferences, we need Christ. Nothing moment. To occupy the office of a|less than a Redeemer and Lord, to shepherd of souls and to be unable to | master human life, can save us from | function therein is worse than the fate the miry pit in which civilization to- {of the starving Russifh or the deport- | day finds itseli. Every man and wo- led Christian in Asia Minor. Most of { man who is truly following Christ and | us are familiar with instances of men |really preaching Christ is contributing counterpanes-- : towels and bath - mats that you dread to clean on wash day. Just let them soak them- selves perfectly clean with " new scientific - form of Soap in granules. Do not put the Rinso direct from the package into the tub. Make the courtevus service and a menu for those of the most discrimi. nating taste will assure you of , a pleasint noon-day lunch. We have made a specialty of the business men's lunch. At the noon hour, drop in at The Victoria .Cafe. Our quick, THE VICTORIA CAFE JEWLY LEE, Manager. 354 KING STREET TELEPHONE 762. Rinso liquid first. Mix half a Salas. of R in a little cool water itis like cream. Then add two quarts of boiling Water and when the froth subsides put it in a tub of cool or lukewarm water and you will have enough for a batch of clothes. If the clothes are extra soiled, use more Rinso. At All Grocers { who, from lack of courage or lack:of { devotion or lack of obedience or lack |of sensitiveness to truth and to their | times, fonpletely fail to function as | prophets ot the Most High. They strive earnestly for the arts of men- ! leasing; but nobody ever wins or olds the favor of man who has not {been loyal to God and his own soul. First of all to men and women who should be leaders and interpreters. of their generation, reptresentatives of the mind of the Most High, comes this ever-stirring story of John the Herald, who died for being true, and still lives whereever men honor manhood and loyalty and freedom and spiritual pow er. : -- Critics and Creators. *' Persons who watch literary tenden- cies are pointing out that this is the day of the critic and not of the crea- tor. A large proportion of the books that pour from the presses of our time are criticisms of creative work; and even criticisms of criticisms. Writers are turning their talents to analysis Laxatives Replaced By the Use of Nujol ujol UBIRICANTNOT A LAXATIVE | m-- : Dental Surgeon Wishes to announce | that he Has resumed his practice, cor. Wel- lington and Princess | Streets. Phone 2092. g f i i j i m I h i i if f i 2 and comment upon the great works, old and new, rather than to delivering an original message. In a word, there {are more echoes than voices. On edi- torial pages of newspapers, in maga- zines, in Pr on the lecture platform and in the pulpit, we are having little except echoes of echoes. What maga- zine has published a really great and original article within the past year? Who has hearda clear, strong, origin- al sermon? ) : This fobs the 'Baptist was a voice. He spoke the real, the new and the true. In the desert alone with God-- and the desert is as essential a part of a prophet's equipment as a library or a vocabuldry--this son of promise ed open-souled to the great truths. in solitude he acquired that which made him fit to speak to the multitude. All of us, 8k we have an avow- edly public mission or not, need to get away ffom crowds, to get away from people, and dwell apart in soul-silence, to learn what God has to say unto us. The oriental mystic who shuts himself up for a life of silent meditations may not have grasped the whole truth, but he has hold of one end of it. John the Baptist, trained in the desert, is an ad- monition to parents and teachers. Few of us spend enough time apart from people. The modern idea of a "good time" is associated with company and B91 | crowds and light and noise and chat- | ter. How can we ever learn to think || for ourselves, until we first learn Ao dwell alone, where our soul may be | still? "The world is too much with us, Lonely folks become "peculiar," we IH} say, "peculiar" being our synonym for individuality. Most of us moderns would rather be sinful than singular. We eat standardized food, from pack- ages and tins; we wear standardized, machine-made clothes, so that a con- tinent dresses alike; we read the same "popular" Magazines and books; we follow slavishly the prevailing fash- {| ions; until all the savor and tang o personality is gone from our_ minds and from our. outward app&rance. Our music and thinking is set to the strains of '"Everbody's doing it!" Now adays such an individualist soln the Baptist would not get a chance to speak in even the least discriminating pon churches; he would be not only unfashionable and unconventional, but he would be voted downright "queer" and "radical." id ® ---- Sticks and Fi > ev stick is a fingerboard-- . Christians who are be- are not "talented" d on fred that any stick, 30 long as it 8! may int. An e chief mission py, the Christian, as of Join the Baptist, is to point go "the mb of God that taketh away the sins of the world." ' This sensational Jrophet from the desert did not set himself up to be any. great preacher. Of course he had crowds, as has every fresh, zeilous voice; but his crowds did not fill him with pride or self-exaltation. He knew that he was only a herald, a forerun- ner, an advance agent. His sole busi- ness was to cry "Behold?" If he mere- ly set people to talking about his own fisatness he would know himself a ailure. His congregation did not go away crying '"What a wonderful prea- cher!" y bo "What a wonderful mes- sagel" - This was the greatest greatness of * Not John: he kept himself steadily to the work of proclaiming a ter! He was big enough to belittle himself. He was a first-class man who proudly ac- A a second Blage. Bo clear was an 's perception of the all-importance of Christ that he cried, in season and out, "He must increase; I must de- crease." His success lay not in exalt- ing himself, but in holding very high and steady the name and character of the Coming One. He knew that while he had no philosophy, equal to the needs of his day, he proclaimed a n who was entirely adequate. ~ Right here is where the Herald from 'The Burke Electric Co. A visit to our store. It will be 4 f | that his head was served u most eifectively to the way out of the [ world's welter of woes. Now, as .in that hour of international destiny in { which John the Baptist lived, only. Jesus Christ can lead mankind to saf- ety and peace. : { "e | The Preacher and the Profiteer. | This man John was greater than his times." He saw things in the large, even to their causes. His was the long look and the wide look, that took in the onmarch of life, and understood its component parts. There was an et- ernal note in his message: what he said would not have been the truth for the time. if it had not also been the truth for all times. His conclus- ions were general, but his applications were also particular. Naturally, general conclusions with- out particular applications are "safe"; and therefore we have plenty of them. This is a partial explanation of why $0 many writers and speakers run to platitudes. John, however, drove the meaning of his message straight home to "Thou art the m2." Hear him: "He said therefor to the multitu- des that went out to be baptized of him. Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? "Bring forth therefore fruits wor- thy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves. We have Abra- ham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. "And even now the axe also lieth at the root of the ' trees, every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. "And the multitudes asked him, say- ing, What then must we do? "And he answered and said unto them. He that hath two codts, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath food, let him do likewise. "And there came also publicans to be baptized, and they said unto him, Teacher, what must we do? "And he said unto them, Extort no more than that which is appointed you. "And soldiers also, asked him, say- ing. And we, what must we do? And he said unto them. Extort from no man by violence, neither accuse an one wrongfully; and be content with your wages." No truckling and no demagogrery there. The Herald pierced to the mar- row of the complacent aristocracy and of the grafting tax-collectors and of the unruly proletariat. There is no comfort for the class conscious in what this desert' preacher said. Had John been: alive today we know he would have excoriated the profiteers and the pussy-footing politicians and the shameless law-breakers. No truth is vitally true that does not applly to present life 'and present persons. After All, The Executioner. A vengeful, and designing woma and a sensual and spineless king, ended John's life by the sword, so on a plat- ter by a shameless dancer for the jeers of drunken courtiers. But that was on- ly an incident in 'a career of consum- mate success. It does not matter to a real man whether he dies or lives, so long as he is true to his duty. The Baptist lives in a myriad lives to-day; and Herod and his paramour have for centuries been deep in the pit of the world's contempt and execration. Courage is the first and last quality. When courage all is gone. Be- cause John was brave, his wisdom be- L| came effective. He dared make enem- ies of the mighty and of the mob; but at the same time, he made friends with God and truth, and posterity. High among, the mightiest of all the men that ever lived stands this rough mes- senger from the desert, who was so humble that he deemed himself un- worthy to untie the sandals of the Coming One; and so fearless that he dared rebuke the king on his throne and the crowd in its sins. He was a preacher with a social message if ever there was one. In their slack age, when the popu. lar teaching is that which echoes the words of the serpent in the garden "Ye shall be as gods"; and when men and women are fond of magnifying the glory and freedom of their own personalities, we welcome the shock of John's needed message, "Repent"! Mankind must face this clear call ere it can see daylight in a dark time. Na. tions and people have got to repent of their sins and turn to the Lamb of ternal symbol of facrifice and suffering--before they can find the ce for which the whole creation un, nd hiss by Th t, 1922, e Ellis Service. fin ESCAPED FROM HAILEYBURY INFERNO. James Daw, principal of Haileybury Business College, and his family were among the refugees from the town who spent the first night after the fire on the beach and in the icy lake waters. Mr. Daw was so badly burned that a copper in his ocket was defaced on one side by the intense heat of the fire. aby Audrey (left) was the first prize baby at Haileybury Hor- ticultural Show this summer. : : ES OL SURVIVORS RESCUE GEESE FROM RUINS. Above are shown members of the Vurney family at Hail- eybury recovering African geese amid the ruins of their homestead. The fowl remained around: the barnyard throughout the conflagration. The gander weighs 25 pounds HEARD SEVEN SHOTS jon added, and Bi vir the Sev reign element Tonto, Jews o IN EARLY MORNING Tore many countries, Russians, Ruthenians and countless others, seeking to develop the best that is in them. Of the western mission work, Miss Messer spoke enthusiastically. The people among whom she worked in ing of shots on University avenue, la poste Divuia usa Puskiew. were in the vicinity of . Earl and Clergy | to help in v Th treets, remains unsolved. In the jeaser to P Svely Way. 9 8 ' . children -were especially interested Mystery of the "Shooting on University Avenue Is Still Unsolved. The mystery surrounding the fir- Whig, on Tuesday, it was stated that | a resident of that district had re- ported hearing three shots about 1.- 30 o'clock. On Wednesday, another | resident of that district stated that! he was awake at that time, there] being sickness in his family, and that he distinctly heard seven shots | fired. He could give no reason for! in the Sunday schools and came whenever possible, the 'papers, book- lets amd so forth, being an induce- ment ¢o them also." The Ladfes' Aids of the different places kept things alive and competition was often very keen, People of genius and culture were frequently discovered among the settlers and these willingly used the shooting, but thought that some their talents, especially when musi- person was trying to frighten off cay, to give a touch of beauty to the some cats or dogs Or some Person opten hand, lonely lives of the piou- might be practising shooting for the gers. Queen's initiation ceremonies. How-| Mr, Stephen, voicing the apprecia- ever, at the time of the firing of the tion of the Auxiliary, to Miss Messer, shots, he thought that perhaps the said that he believed ithe two things police were having a gun fight with that had helped most to make a suc- some burglars. ¢ess of her work out west were her 5 consecration to the work and her AN INTERESTING ADDRESS keen sense of honor which must have helped over many of the rough To Young Woman's Missionary Aux- | places. iliary of St. Andrew's Church. A fitting conclusion to the meet- Miss Cora Messer, of Scott House, ing was the singing of a sacred song Toronto, gave an interesting address by "Mies Smith, with Miss Ardelle El- to the Young Woman's Missionary Jor 5 accompanist. Auxiliary of 'St. Andrew's church on « Monday evening. ~ Her talk dealt BRINGS PROMINENT . mainly with the mission fleld in Saskatchewan, but in opening, Miss MEN FROM FAR EAST Messer spoke briefly of her work at Scott House, the "All People's Mis- sion." There ¢he work is carried on somewhat after the manner of the settlements, with religious instruc- For Piles It Is Pyramid Pile Susponiteties Have Severely Vancouver From Hong Kong and Yokohama. Vancouver, B.C., Oct. 11.--Bring- ing men prominent in diplomatic, banking, shipping, commercial «nd mission circles in the far east, the {Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Canada docked here this afternoon from Hong Kong end Yokohama. C. D. Harriman, vice-president of the China-American Steamship Com- .[pany, of New York, who has spent several weeks in Japan, was aboard. Dr. Frank Gamewill, general secre- tary of the China Christian Educa- tion Association, who has been & mis- sfonary in China for the past forty Years, is bound for New York om an educational mission. Dr. Gamewill is editor of the Educational Review, The China Christian Association is largely supported by American and English subscriptions, and # is in Close touch with all Christian educa- tional work in Ch'ma. H. E. Vaes, member of the British diplomatic : les ¥is 4A China, is bound for Lon- Pyramid Brought Relief to Who Had Suffered ad For - You will quickly amid Pile EE uite pine, hat ease pal One Bright premonition that 1 serious was going to happen to him, Aan Arless, on Saturday noon, but a few hours before he was fatally injured on the M.AAA. football field, In- sured his iife against accidenty for the 2 um of $7,500. . It 1s-learn- Empress of Canada Arrives at : "Bpot. Montreal, Oct. 11.--As if he had|" WHIPPING CREAM Fresh every morning from Wil- lowdale Farm--the best we can buy--at - GLOV; ERS. . nd a wi pot Fletcher's Castoria is strictly « remedy for Infants and Children. Foods are specially prepared for babies. A baby's medicine is even more essential for Baby. Remedies primarily prepared for grown-ups are not interchangeable. 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