g lsn't it fine that youcan _ shop so easily on hot sum mer days. E THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG "THERE WAS A NAN The International Sunday School Lesson For August 18th Is "Stephen the Martyr" --Acts 6:8-15; 7:54-60. By Willlam T. Ellis. Men bestow offices and titles and of the big cities of Europe and Am- decorations upon those they deem |erica he might think that as a beau- great; and Life laughs at them as |tifier the spiritual lile has been she lifts into real greatness the un- | largely supplanted by the profes- titled, the' unlettered, the unofficial gional "beauty doctors" and deal:rs and the disregarded. God Himself |in cosmetics. Of courss, this would seems to smile at the choices of con- | be an inadequate judgment. ' A few claves and councils. 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Canadian Ratiways, Kingsion, Ont Phone 09 or 1433. , bn . | Auto Tops ' Recovered ° PRICES RIGHT H Make the old car look like new. H Si 1 °_ 9 ii Sinciair's Phone 1684 - 360 Barrie St. - me ---- a [ECZEMA ON BODY IN PIMPLES Church in Jerusalem solemnly set {of young menfand women, new mis- aside, as a subordinate official, a sort | sionaries gathered in a school for the of second rater," a mere business study of Arabic, up here in the Le- man, fit only to do work that was banon Mountains, overlookicg the | beneath the dignity and powers of | Mediterranean, and one and all they the apostles, a certain disciple named ; wore the Stephen lustre on their Stephen--who straightway proved |facls. Holiness is still doing its himself more of a man than three-|amcfent work with the features of tourths of the apostles tincmselves! | countless men and women. As preacher, controversialist, execu- Once, before he became a profes- tive, saint, hero and martyr, this | sional politician, a friend told me lowly deacon takes a front-rank |that "Every man is responsible for place in the long history of the |hds face at fifty." Now that he has Christian Church. become a high office-holder, he him- It is not usually the school prodi- | self, plas, scems to be losing the fine gies; the favorite young men of pro- | expression of fitness and nobiity migp; the privileged sons and the | which he used to wear; and is tak- accomplished youths, who uitimate-|ing on the puffiness and the hard Jy do the great deeds and make thé | lines that so commonly characterize great names. God appears to de-|the poMtician. It is the heart that Might in choosing the lowly, the ob-|engraves characier upon the fea- gcure and the humble for the accom- | tures; only @ good man, free from plishment of His greater works in |self-consciousucss and full of love, the world. Count the foremost men | can acquire the benignity that every of our day, the real leaders who .are | Christian owes the world. Stephen's exercising a shaping influence upon | face shone like an angel's, at the tho time, and behold how few of | very moment when a baser man's them come up by way of special pri- | would have been painted with ter- vilege. It is the quality of the in-|ror. Wi a crisis one's true character dividual; the fullness of his spirit; | unconsciousiy roveals itself; Ste: that really determines greatness. | phen, Hke Moses, "wisl not that lis This man Stephen, who for symme- | face shone." 1f he had known tire try of character and work chailenges | fact, he would have been a prig and admiration and emulation, may be |a pharisee; indeed, his looks wouid designated as a "full" man--hc was | have Jost their light. "full of faith and of the Holy Spir- nt it; "full of grace and power; full of courage; full of knowledge of the Bible; full of magnamity, fall of a sense of his mission; full of men- tal equipment and full of real godli- ness. With all his piety, he was what we nowadays call "a man's man'"" Standing Up for the Truth. So Stephen had to stand up on the identical spot, before the very same judges who had a short time before tried his Master. How the disciples heart must have thrilled at the priv- ilege! Is it any wonder that his de- fense was so masterful? This testimony of Stephen probes A Straight Man Amidst Crooks. us with the query as to how good a According to old-fashioned Sun- [defense of our faith we could make, day School books, such a rare and |on an instant's notice, if called upon good man as Stephen shou'd have [to do so. Ts it not true that in comm- been loved by everybody. Lite, | mon conversation and in public dis- however, is not shaped on thé pian |cussion the case of Christianity, and of this sort of literature. The gen-| of all the good causes, such as mis- uinely good person, if nc is at ail a |sions or temperance and probibition, vital force, is a standing arralgn-| which are its fruits, are often allow- ment of the evil; he is bound to be |ed to go by default simply because disiiked simply beacause he is good---- | Christians lack skill and courage In although it is not wholesom® for the | witness-bearing? Fractical polemics good person to get to thinkivg that |is an art that ndeds reviving. Let us way; he would better meditate up-'train the boys and girls in the Ste- on his own imperfections. Stephen phen gift of standing up intelligently was not self-centred; he was busy | and fearlessly for the truth. Our with good words and good works; he | age badly needs more men and wo: a minister of mercy to men. In| men of conviction. the rapid. growth of the new Christ- "Truth is the highest thing a man jan church, he was a powerful 1ac-| can keep," rums the ol saying. To | tor. He inealed, he helped, hs taught, | testify to the truth, and especially to he succored. the truth of the moral nature of God Nevertheless, he was hated. What | and of religion, in our own slack a blow to the jejune philosophy of! day, is a mission that is in true sue- sweetness and light! From all quar- | cession to- that of Stephen. Observe ters, opposition' ringed this sainily | the lack of vagueness in his address. man about; from the Jews of Egypt. | He recounted . Scripture, correctly, of Cyrene, of Cilicia, of Roman Asia. | logically, forcefully; apd showed antagonism arose. Stephen's words | that all the deaMngs of mankind and deeds were publicly challenged. | with God have been directed toward But He bad grit as well as grace; | the fullness of revelation in His Son, brains as well as benevolence, and | Christ Jesus. Only a man saturat- in the public debates he confounded ['ed with the Bible could deliver such all his adversaiies. So they follow-| an address. ed the old, old fashion, which the newest bully of the playground prac tices as he cries "Well, I can Hck » Fury and Gaashing Tecth. you, anyway!" When thcse enemics | congequences followed the straight of goodness and cruth could not Pre- | og Bible-burdened talk of Stephen. vail debates, they resorted lo false-| 0. gig not leave his méssage up in hood and force. That 4s the Way | ye air. Directly into the teoth of "practical politiclans™ still do; they | yo blind and digoted persecutors defame the character of even BE [ypoge prisofier he was he hurled the most honorable opponent; so thatf,..& uhat they were disloyal Juws, many Bee) men fear. to enter polities | (0 heirs of faithlesy fathers, and vigorously. themselves, beirayers and murder- One big idea that should be 80L¥ers Listen to the sizzling score, the across to young people from the| asp gpd the bite of theso words, Stephen story is that to be good-- | wien wimen Stephen' ended his (robustly, heartily, fearlessly, help- : fully go0d--is to mcur enmity. . BY | 0 gtiffinecked men, uncircumeis- doing. right (which is a better Way eq jn Geart and ears, you also are of expressing it than to speak of ve- continually at strife with the Holy ing good) one is likely to be visited Spirit--:ust as your forefathars were. by unpopularity and dowaright op- Which of the Prophets did not 'ybur position and misrepresentation. It is{ so er persecute? Yes, thoy even remotely pessible that one may : suffer a sort af martyrdom. All of The Value of Cl . this is pare of the price of serving {God and truth and one's own SOUL; | LL Ly Know How Useful it i but the service is worth what it in Preserving Health and Beauty. it would be a poor, shack, h Ni verybody knows that char- Sosa safest and most efficient : eless creature who would turn Saal a s ante iron efficient his back on righteousness for fear | but tow realize fty'velus when properly pose. i better; more absorbs the ri Fria fl ear of the system. : ta hingbit, The | Fetam for "the same cieansiag pur. killed those who announced before- hand the advent of the righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become--you who ve- ceived the Law given through angols, | and yet have not obeyed it." { Then dollowed the riot. The Eng- lish version scitcely gives the force | of the description thai follows. Yel- | ing, frothing, spluttering, gnashing | their teeth, crying out imprecations, hoMing their ears, the crowd piied | upon Stephen and dragged him over | the pavements with kicks and blows, | out of the temple enclosuré and be-! yond the city wall, where they could give full expression to their fury. They were too pious to violate the sanctities of the temple, but not to piouh to do foul and bloody mur- der! As soon. as they got their victim 'outside of the gate they be- gan stoning him. Grave rabbis, dignified business men, lawyers ang officials, joined with the rabble in| hurling stones at this first martyr of the Christian faith. | Death by stoning Is a horrible | thing to contemplate. Three words | the doomed man, spoke. First, | before he left the temple area, he | looked with rapt face into heaven | itself; and cried, ecstatically, "I can | see Heaven wide open, and the Son | of Man standing at God's right | hand!" Even in heaven Jeusu could | not sit on his kingly throne while his servant was in such trial; but he needs must stand and look, with | strength-giving compassion and sympathy. He understood; for rue | Master himself had undergone what | his servant was now enduring. Fallen on his face, bleeding from | a score of cruel wounds with his clothing torn and dirty and almost at the last gasp Stephen cried. "Lord Jeusu, receive my spirit," Then, with a final struggle, amidst the death-storm of hate-hurled miss- | les his Lord upon the cross, he! cried. "Lord. do not reckon this | sin against them!" Ah, that wae love, and the vindication of Christ's power! Well, could the narrative | close, *With these words he fell | asleep." w---- Siring Spiritual Sons. That was not the end. Force may kill a man, but never a cause. Despite the clear teaching of the centuries, stupid statements ar still trying to repress the manifesta- tions of néw life in the worig =y mere killing They acclaim the airplane, armored car, the mach- ine gun and even poison gas as new and efficacious methods of "dealing with native 'risings'; whereas the use of these very agencies since the war has done more te embitter the East against the West than any other cause. Martyrs al- ways have a whole brood of children and heirs. No quotation is com- moner, or truer than that "the blood of the martyr is the seed of the Church." Out of Stéphen's martyr- dom arose the great persecutron that scattered the Gospel every- where over the ancient world. One spiritual son Stephen sired ' kind of soap A ney kind of soap. Made of pure materials combined in such a way that it has more cleansing power than so#p has ever had before. 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