Daily British Whig (1850), 23 Nov 1922, p. 13

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THURSDAY, Nov. 23, 1092, 3 . THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. TI ---- ~~ DYNAMITE FOR THE JAN Aa 'The International Sunday School lesson for November 26 is "Jesus the Great Migsionary"--Luke 8. * By William T. Elis. Lumbermen use dynamite tg break up a desperate jam of logs in the spring drive. Is not that figure Appropriate for the congestion of forces and events that today haits the smooth progress of civilization? ichever way we look, things ave "Jammed." Where 1s the power to break open a way? At once we remember the origin of that word "dynamite." It is Greek and is the very word used b Jesus in his fareweil promise to his friends. 'Ye shall receive power," Or "Dunamin." Christians should be dynamite! What {is more, it was in connection with the great missionacy commission that Jesus promised the sift of "power" or "dynamite" to his disciples. When this old world Bot Into » Jam in 1914 the workmen to.whor the task belonged, called statesmen, tried to pull it loose with documeni- ATY red tape; and later attempted to pry it apart with guns. In vain. Super-philosophy, or "Kultur" also talled. Treaties were driven as wedges between the most obstinate logs, but without effect. After the armistice, the oconferenae crowbar WAS attempted, but it also was fu- tlle. Al the devices and instru- ments known to man were tried, ooe after another, but today the entire structure of civilisation is menaced by the flood which has been formed by the backed-up waters behind the Jam. 'Nothing is now left as a method of" deliverance except dynamite, the ~ "dunamin" of the New Testament, It Christianity cannot ' break this perilous jam, there is no other res- ©ue iu sight, That is why it is the most desperate present business of the Christian Church to apply the tan -- | "power" promised by Christ, conditions of our time. Using the Amplifier. Frankly, the Christian Church Is still slumbering, so far as actual par- ticipation in the world emergency Is concerned. Most ministers and their members are not even aware of the tragic failure of Christianity at the outbreak of the war, during the jwar and since. If the reader has any doubt about this, let him attend any meeting of clergymen, or any gen- eral ecclesiastical assembly. He w!ll find the discussion, conducted in the stereotyped phraseology of a hund- red years ago, confined to mere mat- ters of millinery and methods, the shop talk of complacent craftsmen who do not know that the world is afire all. about them. The nearest that most religious organizations (came to sensing the significance of the world war was to use it as an opportunity for getting more money out of a sensitized public. No open-minded person can con- template the condition of crisis in the world, especially with respect to Christianity's possible part therein, without perceiving the humiliating fact that the Church is today divided and squabbling, to an unwonted de- grée; and instead of moving towarg her task, is taking réfuge in institu- tionalism and in faction and in shibboleths. All the while the call is for the use of an amplifier, such as was em- ployed at the dedication of the Lin- coln Memorial in Washington, whereby a hundred thousand per- sons could hear as one man. The Church has the word. Hers is the power. In the message of whic she is custodian there is life for the ~g ° "I Was Terribly Weak After Baby-Was Born" DR. CHASE'S NERVE FOOD 50 Cents a box, all Csalers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co., I4d., Toronto 8 I also used "After my baby was born, | was terribly weak and run down, with pains across my § back. I had heard so much of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food that I decided to try it. Three f) boxes proved enough to make me quite strong and well again, Dr. Chases Oint- ment for a rash which broke out on the baby, and the rash disappeared completely in a | | A worried over and felt ut- food, and matter how young will be surprised at the result. It also replaces the lost tissue of period of the human life. prove more convincing than anything YOUR IT. " bullder for any ABK sennty HOOD TO ADVANCED AGE, 'What mother has not terly helpless in de. ling with a baby that cannot assi {late its simply will not thrive, In AJEN works wonders, No and puny the infant you CHILDREN LOVE old age. A A trial will that can' be said. DRUGGIST 3 Cc Castoria is a harmless substitute ; and Soothing Syrups. It is im, Morphiné nor other narcotic For more than neither Opium, _ age'ls its guarantee. 3) the assimilation of Food; - The Children's been in 'Wind Use THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORR CITY therefrom, and by regulating ASTORIA? AG SCSATE use for the relief of : the Stomach and For Over 30 Yea for Castor Oil, : Feverishness 7% rs to the | continuously, BOILS Made Him Sick and Miserable Mr." Richard Zalenzoski, McLean, spirits; who politely allude to the devil only as "His Satanic Majesty." Such sweet and tolerant and spine- less folk might be good citizens of heaven; but they are poor mission | aries of the righteous Christ on earth. When Jesus walks our world | today it is with words of love and | enticement for the wedty ind the Sask., writes: --*I had been suffering | Penitent; and with biting, lashing | with boils, for three | WOTds of scorn and SoRdsul aries | | years, and during that time I tried | for all who do disservice to mankind | many different remedies without any | success whatever. In spite of all my efforts I was compelled to go to the hospital. This was in the fall of the | year, and right in the busiest time | of the season. Upon my return home it just took about two weeks until my neck and arms were again oceu- pied by the boils which made me feel very sick and miserable, > One day one of my friends advised me to try Burdock Blood Bitters, and after I had used less than two bottles I was very much surprised at the re- sult. It is now over two years since I got in touch with B. B. B., and Ihave had no bother with boils since. I will récommend it to all persons sut- fering from any defect in the blood." B. B. B.\is manufactured only by Tie 7. Midbure Co., Limited, Toron- 0, Ont. ec world, And God, who has put al} things under His feet, has prepared the world, by the new marvels of science, to receive the Good News with celerity and certainty, ~-- As The Man of Science Sees It. In all the round of discouraging facts concerning Christianity's somnolence in the hour of destiay, none is more alarming than the evidence that so many are apparent- ly through with the Church. Thoy neither attend her services nor show any interest fn her programme, They have passed her by. The proof Of this 1s found in the empty pews of most houses of worship, and in the public prints, and in the casual talk of thoughtful persons. A recent magasine, the October Century, contained a depressing ur- Helg > President G. Btanley Hall, th gian and psychologist, upoa "The Salvaging ot Civilization,' wherein he points out the character- istics of present conditions, as re- vealed by current literature; ana Some possible remedies. With sad- ness he dismisses the Church as in- adequate. He seems to think that dynamite, "power," has gone from her, This is startiing, ing. Doubtless it is all needed. Christianity a; be vitalised into full and normal functioning by the shafts that are being hurled her way. shocking, am 43- ---- i As It Was, And Is, All of us have read, and I myself have seen, the story of lives chang- ed by the power of the Christian Gospel. Nothing can separate me rom the conviction, born of person- al experience and observation, in var American cities, and in the principal foreign mission flelds of the world, that the one agency equal to making over soclety as a whole is the Truth that I have 8een trans form individual men and women. As it was in the days of Jesus, so it is in our own time, the Gospel is dyna- mite, "power to break up the jam of sin and let loose the beneficent cur- rents of life. This is as great a reality as any other attested fact of history. It supersedes heredity ang environ- and dishonor to God. HAS TWO HOBBIES. Principal Prendersast of London | Normal School Is Practical. Golf and reforestation, which have nothing to do with each other, are | the hobbies of William Prendergast, | who has just assumed charge of Lon- | don Normal School, as principal. Mr. Prendergast is, an enthusiastic golf- er, plays a good game, and Writes interestingly of it. In the matter of reforestation he is also both theoret- ical and practical, for, besides know- ing how to speak and write of the area, he has actually replanted a 8ood-sized acreage of his own pro- perty with white pine. | Principal Prendergast is a Roman | Catholic; but in any educational con- troversy his voice is not likely to be heard raised in agitation of the separate school question. | Mr. Prendergast goes to London from Toronto Normal to take the | Place of John Dearness, retired. In service he was senior to anyone avail- able in London for Mr. Dearness' post, and his fourteen years of work | at Toronto mark him out as a cap- able head for the London 'institution, which under the retiring principal attained an enviable reputation throughout the provinee for efficiency, Although he has lived in the Queen City for a long time, Mr. Prendergast claims Western Ontario as his home, having been born in Hibbert Town- ship, Perth County. He studied at Seaforth High School and at Toronto University. On graduating he took up teaching in high schools and serv- ed in some of the best in the province. Of his two hobbies, reforestation takes up most of his spare time. He believes in the importance of reciaim- Ing the vast waste areas of the north- ern part of the province, pointing out that while Muskoka is not much good | for farming it grows excellent pine. | At his summer home in Muskoka he has planted-a-big-plot of white phe, which 'In "itself offers a striking ex- ample of what can be done even by individuals. p- As for golf, he is a recognized authority on that subject. His ocon- tributions to Toronto and other pub- lications have been read by thou- sanads of devotees of the game. Three sons of Mr. Prendergast | served in the war, the two elder boys ! being on the firing Hne right up till | November, 1918. ------------------------ Our French Trade. What Canada will obtain in the new commercial contention which is | sousht with France, and what she | must give in order to obtain it, were outlined at Ottawa recently. Broadly speaking, Canada will ask France to grant her most favored nation treat- ment, that is, the treatment at pres- ent granted to the Unitéd States, and in addition a schedule under which certain Canadian'products will enjoy | special customs rates., What the Dominion will probably be required to offer in exchange will be the bene- fits of the intermediate tariff, with & supplementary schedule under which certain French products will enjoy a special rate. The products for which France will ask this special rate will probably be olive oils, soaps, toilet articles, perfumes, surgical instruments, silk dresses' and other articles of silk, toys, fancy goods and feathers. There will also bs concessions to offset the closing of thé Canadian market, with the exception of Quebec, to French wines. ment and education. The Gospel of Christ possesses power to make lite hew. It has had the power to blow up old oivilizations and systems and methods of life, It has literally transformed the nature of entire na- tions that have come under its auth- ority. From the over-civilised Ro- man to the unclvilizeq man of the Jungle, Christianity has made naw\ croaturps, saints of God, walking in holiness and beneficence. My frieni Dan Crawford from "the centre of the centre of Africa," writes me of tribes of savages made into joytul . mense advantage over their Canadian on agricultural implements, spare parts, autos, trucks, boots, furniture and other manufactured goods. Al- though Canadian agricultural imple-) ments enter France on the same terms as those from the United States, spare parts from Canada ard taxed in some cases four hundred per cent. or more, and this gives the United States manufacturers an im- benefits of reclaiming Ontario's waste | Canada will ask for a special rate |, 'competitors. % : Canadian canned goods, 4ncluding canned salmon, will also benefit un- der the new tariff. The importation of Canadian salmon into France has Christians, true to the New Testa- ment type. My own memory recalls a long line of such in Japan, Korea, China, India, Turkey, Egypt, and Syria. The Gospel works whenever truly tried. A Kingdom-Teller, Recently a friend came to me in great concern over certain signs of heterodox preaching. I could only affirm to him that "the truth does One would be less than fair to the application of this missio ers e been buying "chums" {n- stead of the better grades, in order to balance the rise in dollar exchange, and this has injured the trade to Some extent. The new trade treaty, if consume mated, will place Canada on an equal footing with the United States in the matter of trade with France. It is said to be likely that the pro- ¥ision in the former convention, that 8r immensely in the past two pT lately the French import- Fanadian products to receive its efits must be shipped direct from Canada to France, will be abolished. It is claimed that it is now hinder- trade, VICTORY LOAN BONDS MATURING 1st DECEMBER, 1922.' 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