P _THE DAfLY BRITISH WHIG .* LAST WORDS OF THE GREATEST TEACHER The International Sunday 8chool Lesson for December 20 Is: "Paul's Summary of His Life."--8econd Timothy 3.10, 11; 4:6-18. ! . this Letter to Timothy. By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Hard by the excavated ruins of names are mentioned fh this short|preparation time. the great Roman Forum is a little church that once was a prison. Through a hole in the rock floor many notable victims of Rome's power were llet down Into a subter- ranean chamber, mostly cut in the hollow rock---without light of" ven- tilation, a dungeon of dungeons, borrible example of how paganism at its best treated criminals. Buch is the Mamartine prison. Such ancient tradition declares to have been the cell of the Apostle Paul during his second imprisonment in Rome. As I stood, the other day, in that low chamber, cold, damp, dark-- the mind refuses to picture its hor- rible state when it was inhabited by men doomed to a living death-- 1 tried to imagine Paul, the aged, writing In that epot such soaring and sublimé words as we have in None but the very greatest of souls, engrossed completely in concern outside of himself, could thus have risen above circumstances, and exulted that, though he himself was in chatns, the word of God was not bound. Despite loneliness caused dy the desertion of some friends, Paul's heart overflowed with loving re- membrances to others whom he loved. No less than twenty-three letter. Paul's outwelling affection and solicitude for young Timothy, and his eagerness for his company, reads like the ardent letter of. a de- voted father to a son. It Is a very human, as well as a very sublime, man whom we read portrayed in these last words of the greatest hu- man teacher the world has ever known. ? An Adventurous Career. When Nero's executioner severed Paul's head from his body, as seems to have happened shortly after the writing of this farewell letter to Timothy, a career was ended that for variety, adventure, heroism and achievement has had few equals among men. Dr. Luke's record in Acts of the Apostles is only a frag- ment of the whole story. Long be- fore his death Paul was goaded in- to defense of himself to the Cor- inthian Christians; and near the end of his second letter he recounts specific outrages and dangers that he had undergone, eleven of which are not mentioned in the Acts. Vivid though Luke's story is, his colors are faint and thin as com- pared with reality. Qreat gaps in Paul's biography al- fure our imagination. Of his boy- hood and early manhood we have a SEAMAN-KENT FLOOR FINISH Waterproof Paper, Filler, Shellac, Var- nish and Wax. SEAMAN-KENT HARDWOOD FLOORING: All with the'same quality. ALLAN LUMBER CO. Victoria Street, near Union. arantee of highest "Phone 1042 .jonce his reward and his 'jergetic as. Peter, and con only the vague knowledge afforded by casual allusions. Two years he spent in Arabia, after his conversion; but we know not where or how. Ten silent. years: followed his return to | Tarsus, before Barnabas called him jtorth into missionary work. What fwas he doing there for so long a [time ? Two years he spent in pris- {on in Caesarea, with a great measure of freedom; but we have no details. It seems as if God heavily accents He wants his ser J jvants to get ready. Ripening is thle {all-important process for character, las for fruit. Paul had to do a good [deal of hard, quiet, detached think- {ing and reading before he could be- come the master mind of Christian- ity and of the world. There is no encouragement in the life or word: of Paul for superficial thinking or unprepared speaking or service. This rare thinker was also a mighty doer. He had great and eul- tivated gifts, plus tireless devotion All of his natural talents would have been unavailing for his achieve- ments had he not been diligent ir their use. Many men of extraordin- ary qualities have failed to leave 2 mark on their generation; whereas lesser men, more active, have dome work regarded as great. This rest- less and ambitious apostle, divinely discontent with himself, who was forever reaching out to fresh fields and new service, echoes by his ex- ample his own admonition. "Be ye| doers of the word, and not hear ers only." Withal, he depended more upon the promulgation of truth | than upon the perfecting of organ-| ization for the success of his Cause. | Fresh Life for a Stale World. When the world grows stale and jaded, and begins to rot in its own | vices, then the only cure is'a strong fresh infusion of life by way of a| man. Thus, to speak only of the] Christian &ra, we have had Augus-| tine, and Francis of Assisi, and Sav- onarola, and Luther, and Calvin, and Knox, and Wesley, and Fox, and Whitefleld--men who have had the vision to gee that the one great need of the world was spiritual. Most of those cited were awakened to their mission by wotds of the Apostle Paul who himself was first of their line. It was a decaying civilization. into which Paul came. He gave it a sim- ple cure for its complex illness. All his preaching and writing is postu- lated upon the principle that the only way to right moral wrongs-- which all quickly grow into social wrongs--is to satisfy the soul hun- ger of man. So he offered Christ as & complete satisfaction and reward, and as an adequate incentive and motive, for the human spirit. In Paul's eyes, Jesus was the solution to every problem. It was a personal experience of Jesus, on the Damascus Road, that had made him a Chris- tian; it was a conscious fellowship with Christ that had made him a missionary and an apostle, and that sustained him throughout every ex- perience, even to the last tragic hours in a Roman dungeon. Any- body who will follow Paul will find himsel? at once in the company of the strong and sweet and satlying Saviour, Great, Greater Greatness. All that we need to know about the warm human qualities of this matchless old warrior for God is re- vealed by the fact that wherever he went he drew people to himself per- sonally, especially young men--and the man whom young men admire has to be real. great leaders of the race, who have bequeathed a permanent influence, Paul made disciples, who were at helpers. Isn't it remarkable that so few pas- tors build up disciples for them- selves and 80 also for their Master ? This Paul was greater than any of his contemporiries. As in Rome this autumn I have studied the remain: ing traces of the abiding great it has been surprising to see how little of permanence even the great have left. But Paul, whose best -certifiad mémento in Rome is the Mamartins dubgeon, is to-day a living = world leader. His great teaching, that Christ makes new mer out of old, and that Christ changds the world by changing people, is the one vital ly hopeful message for our own im- perilled generation. In a brief characterization; Dean Farrar writes that Paul was ad "en- 8s Jolin; Paul the J-------------- i ray MAGIC BAKING POWDER and thats the highest Made in Canada NO ALUM €.W. GILLETT ¢O. LTD. TORONTO LE EVI POWDER -- ~ - mn White Christmas Thoughts] In "Thoughts for a White Christ- mas" in Canadian Homes & Gardens for December, Anne Elizabeth Wil- son makes the following commentary on the Canadian's attitude toward snow: For myself, I have never under- stood why Canadians are sensitive about their snow. If there is any- thing magnificent and heart-gripping | in its brilliancy and utter beauty, it is the Canadian Winter--fields and hills and rutted ways, all swept into one on-carrying vista under the fresh-fallen snow. Our Summers are delightful as any in the temperate zone, our Autumns ard intoxicating in their color, butsslir Winters are the zenith of wonder and festivity. I believe a Canadian enjoys a white Winter more than any other out-door enticement. Exhilarating and alluring--is there anything to equal the call of a fresh fall of foot- deep snow? I do not know of any- thing that can rouse the true-born Canadian so much, Scrambling for snoe-shoes, skates, toboggans and skis, he is out fn his pull-overs and snow-padks; hefora a footprint can be laid upon his favorite ravine. The rinks are crowded, the hills are dot- ted with children and men and wo- men, glorying in the advent of real Winter, It 'has always been a source ot wonder to me why Canada resented Mr, Kipling's allegory! We ourselves look out upon a snowfall with some- | thing akin to exultation, semtiment- ally calling it "the beautiful." Which simply goes to prove that you cannot tell Canadians anything about them- Like most of thePselves, any more than you can blame one Scotsman in the absence of an- other, no matter what excellent enemies they may be. But to me, it is a question whether I love the garden more when it is heavy with the color and scent of June--or when the incomparable soft masses of the wind-blown white, lle like cloudy bloom along the Branches, and bushes gem-encased with ge, | crackle and wave long, arms. might as well try to content oneself without Daffodils in April, as say that the loss of a white Christmas makes no difference. 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