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' J BTR Baume LOVE LAUGHS Of course, love laughs at any accident soever which throws two Into the white and blue-of the Winter day they fared, they beat together! eg -- girl, all unsuspecting that another rode the shining runners handclasp, a smile--no more than that between them. The tumblé in the cold, cold snow only brought*them closer her as if he never, never again laughing--Ilaughing! would let her go! And she THE LITTLENESS OF A BIG MA. The international Sunday School Lesson for March 9th Is: "The Reign of Saul."--I. 8am., Chapters 8-15. ¥ By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. One of the penalties of pursuing: journalism is the loss of maay il- lusions. Close contact with '*'big" men reveals the smallness of most of them. The ablest of the Washing. ton correspondents wrote this morning that the real personalities in that city could be counted on the fingers of one hand, with some fin- gers left over. In this week's Sun-- day School Lesson, which many mil- | lions will study, the veil is strip- ped aside and the essential little ness of an eye-filling big man ri vealed. Saul was of king<propor- tions physically, being head and shoulders above his fellows, as he was of king-position in the state. This handsome and heroic first king of Israel proved, in the test, to be a weakling in character, Yet ho might have been all that he seemed to be. This, too, is one of the tragedies to be observed In public life. Most men who start premisingly upon a great career s~fler from arrested development. Any wide obseryer of life can cal an extended roll of men in politics, in the pulpit and in the arts, who | SR > 9) EMULSION | the word of God. Tragic illustra- once gave every sign of eventual greatness, but.who stopped too soon. The reason? Only God knows. Somstimes it was self-complacency; sometimes Jack of courage; some. times contentment with small at- tuloments; sometimes secret sin. Sauls story Is one of the com- monest in history. Would that this Lesson might burn into the con- sciousness of youth the conviction that the only path to the real heights is the narrow way of un- deviating probity and of loyalty to tions of this truth are now in the publi eye. Disobedience spells dis asier. Sin is a crack in the main- shaft of the engine of life, "Young man keep your record clean!" were the last words of John B. Gough. As Moses prayed, so ambitious youth should daily repeat, ence go not with me, carry me not up hence." Like a Movie Actor. ! pres-| In the beginning of the story, when we first meet Saul in searcn of his father's asses--and tinding a kingdom on the way--and he hid among the baggage when the na- tion was voting for a sovereign, as the lot fell on his father's house, he was - undoubtedly an attractive character. Modesty marked him. He was little In his own sight, and 80 great before God, a sensible, diligent, secret-keeping, humble young man, with most of the best traits of noble young manhood. But success, the most dangerous wine ever quaffed by mortal, went to Then the sudden swerve, the fall. , closer. so willing to be held! And Love his head, as 1' has done a million times since. He soon came to regard ©8 proper personal perquisites the honors that belonged only to his office. The "divine right of kings" is a doctrine that iS held in some degree by more officials than mon- archs: and not all of them are in politics, either. When A Nation Followed the Fashion. Back of this Saul story is the other tragic tale of Isrdel. It had grown tired of being a theberacy and a democracy. It wanted to be in the fashion. The surrounding na- tions had kings, so the Israelites! demanded of Samuel that he give them a king likewise. Samuel pro- tested, and pointed out the folly of being second-rate imitators, when G0d had designed the nation to be an originator and a pattern. "The whole episode resembles the expe- rience of parents with daughters who want to follow silly styles be- cause "all the girls are doing it." Youth somehow cannot learn the exceeding preciousness of Individ- uality. \ By Juanita Hamel hearts so close that the boy and a-flying down the hillside. A And his arms holding Dear Old Samuel got wroth with the people. But the patient God calmed him down with the assurance that Israel was not really rejecting its prophet, but its God. Nevertheless --and this is.gll the story of Jite-- when the nation would not accept Jehovah's best plan, he let it have" a second best. Such fis ti Divine for-bearance that is os human hope. As we watch these mutton-mind- ed old Jews muddling the beauti- ful plans of God, despite all warn- ings and = entreaties, we wonder whether to-day we also, as a nation, are in an era of the second-best choice. Has Christendom, within the past five years, definitely .spurnid its highest international possibilties; and deliberately turped again td the stupid old .fashiond 'that the war should have ended? Real Weart- searchings ome to us as we pursue the record of .Israel, and contem- plate present parallels. Is it still true that most men would rather be "regular" than/ rie*t; that they would prefer to "go along" to com- ing out? Are we bent on following fashion, even though we thereby be fashioned to folly? Are we walk- ing in the beaten path of the Israe- lites who wanted a king, even at the sacrifice of their highest destiny, simply , because Lings were the vogue? i "Long Live The King!" What a stirring scene was that at I7izpah when Israel got a king after its own heart, a towering giant; and Saul got a throne. At least, he was given the title of king; in reality, he went, back home, and was only c>lled from his plowing, Ilke Cin. cinnatus, when his cou had dire need of him. The Ammonites had encamped against Jabegh- Gilead, and threatened to put out the right eye of every man of them. A cry for succor ran throughout Israel; and Saul proved his kingliness by leaa. ing the united nation victorious against the Ammonites. So with great laim, a formal coronation was held at Gilgal. _ Even there Samuel overtoppeéd this glant-king, as he formally ab- dicated his lead-rship. This fare- well address of Samue. mm chapter twelve of the. First Book of Sam- uel) is a majestic document; and the more pertinent because of recent revelations at Washington. An ad- ministrator with a spotless record is a true success, though he die In the poorhouse. Samuel closed his farewell on the high note, "As for we, tar be it from me that I should sin against Jehovah by ceasing to pray for you." ii Then began Saul's self-inflation. to himself the office of the priest, in offering sacrifice, This kind of ar. Fogance ameng the rich and power- ful is as old as the pyramids and as modern as to-day's newspaper. Saul not only thought himself above the clear requirements of the Divine command, but he also felt free to patronize the Lord Almighy. After his great offence, when he had falled to annibilate the Analekites as ccgumanded, and had kept the in- terdicted loot for himself, he conde- scendingly greeted: God's prophet Sunday school Galley three with, "Blessed be thou of Jehovah!" The impious fashion of permitting merely rich or eminent men to speak condescendingly of God is still in vogue. Any donkey who has amass- ed a million dollars feels free to pat the Almighty on the head. Churches even print and quote this patroniz-| ing approval from men of unchrist- | fan life as though God should feel! as fJattered as apparently His min-| isters do. I know an erratic layman! who makes a cult of this sort of | thing. His chief argument in favor! ot Christianity 1s that a lot of "big! business men," whom he names, give | it their endorsement--even though they do not practice it. Out upon such stupid sycophancy! { This Lesson has the clear word for it: "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice." The first and absolutely necessary requirement Jor the serv- | ice of the Lord is sheer and simple | obedience. A man may build cathe-| drals or endow philanthropies or be- | glowingly to God, but if he is not | himself obedient to the Divine com- | mand, he only affronts Jehovah, as | did Saul of old. No contribution 'to religion, is acceptable until it has] been preceded by the offering up of | life itself in clear obedience. "Your | sword first!" said Napoleon to the | defeated general who approached of-| fering his hand. 'Unconditional sur-| render" are the only terms God ac. cepts. An Ancient King. Grafter. This pious prating of Saul recalls a friend's description of a politician who could "open a poker-game with prayer." Saul cloaked his disobedt. | ence and his graft with sanctimoni- ons phrases. In other words he wx - a hypocrite. Like every other hypocrit, he was @ Har. He pretended he had saved the Amalekite spoil for pur poses of sacrifice; then, when he found himself "caught with the Joo0ds," he began to blame "the people."" Thy essence of moral de- terforation is unwillingness to ac- cept respénsibility for one's own acts. While the king was palavering pharisaically, Samuel cut in with *he dramatic query, 'What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?" The evidence of the Blended from choice leaves the pick of the: world's tea gardens in Ceylon IPTON TEA Red Label Best for the table 38¢. 1b. 75¢. Ib. Thomas J. Lipton = Tea Planter « Ceylon king's guilt could not be hidden or evaded. What a sermon & preacher could deliver or an editor write, in the light of present conditions, upon the subject of "The Bleating Sheep." I wish I had left myself room here to name some of them. Bleating Sheep ulways follow the offender. Their cries drown the Adam-old ex- cuses of the disobedient, Eterna! Justice sees Lo it that the bleating sheep are heard; and that eventual- ly, the gullty get their punishment. Poor Saul:--once so big and soon so little! We leave him, doomed though crowded, while Samuel mourns him Jiving as though he stow alms or write books or speak | Were already dead. What if there should thus be open sorrow for all the dead souls in living bodies! A supplemental talk on the Les- son is given by Dr. Ellis over the radfo every Saturday, night at nine o'clock. He épeaks from Station WF1 Philadelphia, 395 meters. OPERATED ON IN KINGSTON. {Irvine Chapman, Bath, a Sufferer From Appendicitis. Bath, March 5.--M. H. Mellow has -r relistpod from a business trip to To ronto. Robert Stevenson, who has been seriously ill with pneumonia, is improving. The dance held in the Masonic hall on Thursday evening last, In ald of the public library, was 3 decided euccess. Irvine Chapman, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the Hotel Dieu, Kingston, last week, is improving picely. ley, who has been ill ig the Hotel Dieu, Kingston, for some time, is not much improved. Many people bers learned with regret of the sudden death, at Peterboro, of the Rev. H. Spence, who occupied the pulpit of the Methodist church here severs) years ago. : Harry Lisson, of the Royal staff, left last week for Prescott, having been transferred there. 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