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S00 WE NEVER CLOSE Live or Dead Storage Chicago University debated "Is a silly girl more popular?" No, but a popular girl is more silly, From Your Own Plans and sketches we can make any kind of machine part, working model, tool, or other article in steel, iron, brass, etc. We are equipped to handle any kind of machine shop work, from the smallest to the great- Bishop Machine Sho KING AND QUEEN STREET» BG GATHERING ATTENDS CHURCH UNION MEETING Smythe Seige Bptmaleal papal ed and Rev. Dr. Roberts of Montreal. Fddrozzenly One of the outstanding events in the history of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches of the city took place on Wednesday evening when a joint meeting was held in Sydenham | street Methodist church, when the \ matter of church union was ably presented by Principal Smythe of the. Wesleyan. Theological College, Montreal, and Rev. Dr. Richard Ro- berts, of the American Presbyterian church of the same city. The church was well filled, and every- body was satisfied that it was one of the most profitable evenings spent in a long time. Some of the outstanding state- ments} of Dr. Roberts, who was the "first speaker, were that it is a ques- tion of joining our forces and mak- ing a single journey, and that there is also an opportunity of sending a message to the Anglicans and ask- ing them to come in. Union, to his mind, is only commencing. Dr. Roberts' Address. Dr. Richard Roberts spoke in part as follows: 2 . "I do not know whether I have a real right to be here. My own con- gregation has not been directly .in- volved in the union proceedings, though my session has more than | once unanimously declared its jude- ! ment that the congregation should | become a part of the united church, { and I have no doubt when the union | comes, we~shall be there. But so { far officially I have been looking on { and there is some advantage in | standing in that position. What I i have to say to-night is largely gov- erned by that point of view I have. | only been in Canada for two years, "Church union means that we shall come together pooling our var- fous experiences and our special di- vergencies and with these make a new beginning. None of us living to-day will see this accomplished but our children and our children's children will®in a land still young in a new born faith, a christian ex- perience, a christian hope, younger, , more exuberant, more vital and more courageous than the faith of their fathers." "And for this synthesis the time {s now ripe. Ever since the break up of the middle ages, the church and the world have been falling apart, as a result of the false prin- ciples 'on which during three cen- turies the unity of the Middle Ages was achieved. almost invincible 'sectarian differ- ences..~ Some aspect of christian truth, some phase of the christian experience has been neglected in the current synthesis, and new bodies came into existence to affirm and confirm these neglected elements of faith. But it is plain that by now we have gone through the whole gamul_of these various emphases and it is time to bring them together and gather them into a single whole. And nothing short of church. union will do that. It cannot be dome by joint committees; it cannot be done by limited co-operation in the North- west. We must live together, we must think together, above all we must worship together and make not "Phe church has been suffering by | a common but single cause in the enterprise of the Kingdom of God." | The Opponents of Union. "And yet some of the opponents of union are living in the hope that they can defeat union They sav that they are going to fight it in pariia- i "ment, in the courts, in the privy council. Neither parliament, nor court nor privy council can destroy what they do not create. We are not asking parliament to unite us; we are asking parliament to give us permission to hold property, that is all; and that is all parliament can do for us. Nobody is compelled to come in who does not want to; but the opponents of union in order to prevent 'those who want to go in from going in are going to call in the civil magistrate to help them. That is what may be properly called co- ercion, I think. And I confess great astonishment in this time of day that Presbyterians should in- volve the jurisdiction of Caesar. "But supposing the opponents of union do carry their case to parlia- ment and win, what then? Have they thought out what is to come after? Do they think they will pre- vent union? I am a Scotchman and I am in the habit of believing that I belong to a superior breed. And pow the opponents of union are threatening a free church decision. Do they think that Presbyterians have become afraid of going into the wilderness in a good cause? Do they think that the loss of church property and the like will deter them from following the call of Christ? It has never yet done so and it will hot do so to-day." Principal Smythe. Dr. Smythe, who Is no stranger to Kingston audiences, dealt with the question of union in a masterly man- ner. He said when speaking of his personal experiences, that the first he heard of union was twelve years ago when he landed in Canada, and when asked by a newspaper maff who met him at the boat as to his views on union, he remarked that he dia not know muck about the question in Canada, but he was very much in favor of the principle. He had ap- peared before the general Methodist conference and urged upon that body that church union should go ahead, and unless it did it woula lose its enthusiasm by holding it over. It should be welded into the white heat of spiritual fervor. Dr. Smythe stated that he did not think that any great principle is being sur- rendered by any of the negotiating churches in entering this union. There are traditions which are held by many, but the multitude have sunk these principles, so that the matter of union can be a success. There is no great movement that will receive unanimous support, and if we wait until all are agreeable, we will never have union. There will al- ways be dissenters to every move- ment and so long as we Jive, this union will nexer be unanimous. We should have a common purpose to deal with social evils, to evangelize and send the gospel to the heathen. Too Many Bodies. Dr. Smythe referred to the waste of men and means, especially in the rural churches, due to the fact that three or four churches are doing the work that could be accomplished by one, if union' were consummated, while at the sme time boys of seven and eight years of age in western Canada have never heard a Christian sermon. He referred to many cases where the ministers' hearts are sore, due to this overlapping, and in some pl four preachers are competing Il 1] HORROR ORO HOR BOON OMICS Re WE ARE SORRY if you have not already tak of the SPECIALS we have offered each day oY Slan dvaniage riday, December 7th you have an opportunity to SAVE QUALITY OF CHINA. ONE DAY ONLY and still get the HIGHEST o - % Discount rhe ON SOME LINES OF : : Royal Worcester, Paragon and Crescent China Come on Friday. 'On Saturday they will be back at the regular | man, C. 8. Asglia, Dr. C. C. Nash in the preaching of the gospel. He made special reference to a conven- tion held recently, where great numbers of Chinese were present, and where some of the Chinese al- most begged the conference not to send them missionaries of many de- nominations; that they wanted to hear the simple gospel. Dr. Smythe asked the question: "1s tHere anything that should keep us apart in the matter of church un- fon?" And in answer to his own question, he said if there was, the onus is on those who would preve: church union taking place. He said that the new testament was the best manifesto of church union. To quibble over the name is foolish- ness--we are not going to disobey the teachings of either Knox or Wesley, and we will all remain loyal to our principles, and the world will be our parish, as it was in Wesley's time. The spirit of union was prevalent in the choir, which was made up of musicians. from the different city choirs, under the leadership of Miss Minnie Shaw, organiét of Sydenham street church. The male quartette composed of Dr. Harold Angrove, G. 8. Lyons, John Alexander and T. W. O. Fowler, sang "Still, Still With Thee." Those who took part in the pro- gramme were: Prof. John Matheson, who acted as chairman, Prof. W.| Morgan, of Queen's Theological Col- rance, W. Hobart Dyde, H. W. New- NOW. Little Tots--Fancy, Slippers for Sister, Kid or Suedes, Mother. WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES WILL you be prepared for it--with the right kind of remembrance for all your loved ones? December makes its entrance to-day, and before you know it, Christmas will be here. 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Matheson, the chairman, re- ferred to the most excellent manner in which he had handled the meet- ing. He said it was due to Prof, Matheson's energy and enthusiasm that this educative and gathering had become a reality. Judge Lavell referred to the two speakers as the two star "half backs," but the team would not have been successful in making the score say, "54 to 0," without a star "quar. ter-back," in the person of Prof. Matheson, D. A. Shaw, when sec- onding the motion, said that he could well remember a meeting which was held in 1895 at Dese- ronto, when the chairman of the evening attended, and the matter of church union was discussed. } ------------ Train conductors report the rising generation healthy. Many kids of four look to be ten. Only safe place for as speeder _ {the Sahara Dessert, where roads are as wide as they are long. . nn inspiring | Suitable Gifts For Christmas Nothing is more appreciated than Foot- wear." We have a gift for every member of the family. 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