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& * | h. < 1 4g t WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8TH, 1921 WE CAN HANDLE YOUR PRINTING IN SHORT TIME CHARTERS PUBLISHING COMPANY, LIMITED R. Dunbar Viceâ€"Cha: Lloyd Harris Honcrary Tressnres: €ir Edmund Osle‘r Ontario Com!lites: Chairmau, Viceâ€"Chairmen: Hon:E.\.C. Druty. Premier of Ontario. Hlis â€" Worship,. T T. Chures, Mayor «of Tororto. Hon. W. A. Charlten, M 2. . WWm. Thomson. Orillia. A. ©. Hardy, BrockviÂ¥e. EF‘atron: His Exc«ilency The Duke of Devonshire, K.G., G.C.M.G., Ete., Governorâ€"General of Canada. » Honorary Committec: Chairman, His Honour Lionel H. Clarke, Lieuterantâ€"Governor .of Ontario. T. A. Russell Weston Pro _Property For $9.00 per it. Eecretary: Watch This Space for â€"â€"~â€"~â€" the Offer SIHMaR «xd § & e f § e K o y _ p@ Ry 3 W Po" P h q > D «/‘ £] & 4& w v);‘i “ «’.:““I‘::j“.‘ \,’:( !.5"’1 1: Z:F """ ‘:E:â€" '{i \533, rg‘: Jg ‘.’;{,\v’& ’?.2 3. s & AS [ 0 r ' Â¥ E4€ EVC £ & C e Is It Worth It ? On January 14, this year, Sir . William Gage, founder of the instiâ€"( tutionâ€"the one man who had conâ€" tributed most largely to its support, A fow roontas for each patisnt soor mieans taousunas cared for. ON November 30th last, the 4 Muskoka Free Hospital for Consumptives was destroyed ky fire. The Muskoka Free Hospital for Consumptives, destroved by fire oa November 30th last, reust e replaced by buildings, larger and fireproof. Accommodztion is needed zt the Muskoka Free Hospital for 400 adulis in ea~ly stages of thedisecse. This wl rest re 250 aftnem to tie.r howesand loved enesâ€"cured. "I he remain3er vill Lo greatly beuefted. ~3 T. f‘f\‘;fix?& cedqaarters: 465â€"48 King St. East. Torontoâ€"Osposite King Edward Hotel a ts & Telspuones: Main 4128â€"4151â€"6353â€"4 5â€"6â€"7. _Â¥Uery iO0NAL SANMITA&RIUM ASSCCIATION Consumptives‘ Emergency Million Dollar Fund Neeay Consumptive Mast Still be cared for" ! "I have a very keen desire to go | over the place," I said, disappointedly, ‘at’ter he had told me that they had given up the key. "Some relatives of !mine once lived there and the house lhas so many pleasant memories for me. Is it absolutely impossible to obâ€" (tain entrance to it ?" > "Hma a;‘fraid so, sir," the man. anâ€" j o Funds are urgently needed for this work. Again â€" adults in advanced stages must be treated at the King Edward Sanatorium, on the hanks of the Humber, neer Weston. Extensons are necesâ€" sary. â€" Many cf thesepatients can be saved. And againâ€"lifle chadrenâ€" stricken with the dread d seaseâ€" must ba cared for at th> Queen Mery Hospital f r Consumptive Chiidren, mear Weston. Nivety per cent. of these cre saved to and for twentyâ€"five years the outâ€" standing friend of needy consumpâ€" tivesâ€"died. n Toâ€"day, more than ever before, poor, suffering consumptives need your assistance. Giveâ€"give all you can â€"to the National Sanitarium Association‘s He walked away with a businessâ€" like air in order to disarm any susâ€" picion that he had been bribed, reâ€" turned with a ledger, commenced to recommend other houses, and subseâ€" quently gave me a latchâ€"key with one stipulation that it must be returned to him at nineâ€"thirty next morning. While hurrying along Knights\oridge I met Fyneshade unexpectedly, and wishing to hear about Mabel and Markwick, accepted his invitation to dine at the St. Stephen‘s Club, instead of going on direct to Gloucester Square. During the meal I learned that since the evening I had left him stealing from his house like a thief he had not returned there. Only that morning he had arrived back. from Rome and knew nothing of Mabel or of the man who, according to her statement, had been the cause of their estrangement. Finding that he could give me no information I excused myâ€" self soon after dinner, and purchasing a cheap bull‘sâ€"eye lantern and a box of matches in a back street in Westâ€" minster, entered a hansom. Had it not been for the fact that I had promised to return the key to the house agent‘s clerk at that early hour in the morning, I would have Slowly I drew from my vest pocket a sovereign and slipped it unobserved into his palm, saying: ‘"Lend me that key until toâ€"morrow." "The case is rather peculiar. Alâ€" though this Mr. Fryer has taken the house and we have given up the key, yet to effect an entrance would really be easy enough. You must keep secret from the firm what I tell you, but the fact is, when the house was first put into our hands some years ago, we had a caretaker who did not live on the premises, and as we required to keep a key here in case any one called to go over the house, we had to have a duplicate key made for him. We have that key still in our possession." Heâ€"smiled and glanced at me with a knowing air, as if calculating the amount of the "tip" that I might be expected to disburse, and then exâ€" claimed in a low tone so that his felâ€" low clerks should not overhear: "Come," I ‘said, bending over the counter toward him, "I feel sure the tenant would not object to me going over the place. Here is my card, and if there are any little outâ€"ofâ€"pocket expenses, I‘m prepared to pay them, you know." A swered. "The tenant, has possession. It is his own fault that the board has not been removed." TIMES AND GUIDFE, WESTON FEifteen thousand needy conâ€" sunmiptives have been cared for to date at the hospitals conâ€" ducted by the Association. Funds are urgently needed to cover the cost of extenszions. Further, funds are urgently needed to carry on the work of The Gage Institute in the City of Toronto, where the needy poor come for free examinations, inâ€" cluding Xâ€"ray, and for medical and nursing assistance. become healthy men and Passing to the end, her thin evening shoes making ro noise on the thick dustâ€"covered carpet, she crept like & thief to the opposite erd of the spaâ€" Had she entered with sinister deâ€" sign, or was this weird, . neglected place her home? Thinking only of the elucidation of the mystery that had surrounded Sybil, I crept noiseâ€" lessly on after her. Apparently she was no stranger to the place, for. passing the first room on the left, she entered the secord, which proved to be the great drawingâ€"room where 1 had once stood besige my lost bride. The rustling approached â€" rapidly, and in a few moments a slim, graceful woman. in a beautiful evening gown of <‘cream silk, and carrying in her hand a redâ€"shaded lamp, passed the door, As she went by the crimson glow ilâ€" luminated her face. Her appearance gave me a sudden start. She wore a black mask! * N(-)t daring to move, I listened. It was the frouâ€"frou of silk! Someone was ascending the stairs! As I put it down there surged through my mind a flood of memories of those pleasant bygone days. Sudâ€" denly a sound caused me to start. was shuttered and barred, and on the doorâ€"lintel I could still trace where the crevices had been stopped. Had any one since myself been enâ€" ticed into ~that lethal chamber? As I turned, after examining the room thoroughly, I saw, standing upon a small table near the window, a cheap photograph frame in carved white, wood. The portrait was of an old lady, and did not interest me, but the frame riveted my attention. . I recogâ€" nized it,. Across the top it had the: single word, "Luchon," carved. I took it up and examined it closely. Yes. It had belonged to Sybil. I had been with her when, attracted by its quaintnéss, she had purchased it for three francs. © As I ascended, my feet fell noiseâ€" lessly upon the thick carpet, raising clouds of dust, the particles Of which canced in the bright ray from my lamp like motes in a streak of sunâ€" light. The ceiling of the hall had been beautifully painted, but portions of it had now fallen away, revealing ugly holes and naked laths. The first room I entered\on reachâ€" ing the landing was, I discovered, the small study into which I had been ushered on that night. It was much cleaner than the other apartments; but on going to the grate and bending to examine it, I found that the crimâ€" ney was still closed by an iron plate, and in the fireplace there remained a quantity of burned charcoal. It was covered with dust, and was, no doubt, the same that had been used to renâ€" der me unconscious. The window, too, Room after room on the ground floo:r I entered. The doors of most of them were open, but all the apartâ€" ments were incrusted by the dust and cobwebs of years. The furniture, some oi it green with mildew, ‘was slowly decaying, the hangings had.in many places rotted and fallen, while, the lace curtains that still remained at the closely â€"ghuttered windows, were perâ€" fectly black with age. It was a house full of grim shadows of the past. The furniture was of a style in vogue a century ago, handâ€" some and costly, but irretrievably ruined by neglect.. Fully half an hour I occupied in exploring the QDagement and ground floor, then slowly I esâ€" cended the wide staircase in search of the well remembered room wherein I had unwittingly been one of the contracting parties to as strange a marriage ceremony as had ever been fierformed. What profit could an intimate knowledge of this place be to me, I asked myself. But I answered this question by reflecting that the place was empty, therefore I at least had nothing to fear as long as I got in unâ€" observed. If the police detected me I should, in all probability, be compelled to go to the nearest station and subâ€" mit to a crossâ€"examination by an inâ€" spector. All was quiet and I had no time to lose, therefore, slipping out the key, I inserted it in the heavy door, and a few seconds later stood in the spacâ€" ious hall with the door closed behind me. For a moment the total darkâ€" ness unnerved me andâ€" my heart thumped so quickly that I could hear its beating. I remembered how, while on a similar night search, I had disâ€" covered ‘the body of Gilbert Sternâ€" royd. Quickly I lighted my lantern, and by its welcome light stole along, makâ€" ing no sound. The darkness seemed to envelop me and caused me to fear making any noise. There was a close mustyâ€"smell about the place, a comâ€" bined odor of dirt and_mildew, but as I flashed my lamp hither and thither into the most distant corners, I was surprised to discover the size of the hall, the, magnificence of the great crystal chandelier and the beauty of the crystal balustrade and banigters of the wide handsome staircase. The paintings in the hall were old family portraits, but over them many spiders had spun their webs, which also wayâ€" ed in festoons from the chandelier and from the ceiling. Years must have elapsed since the place had been cleaned, yet it was strange, for on my visit on the night of Sybil‘s death had not noticed these signs of neâ€" glect. I am not naturally. nervous, but I confess I did not like the prospect of entering that great gloomy mansion alone. This main entrance being at the rear, only one or two staircaseâ€" windows looked out upon the street in which I stood, and all were closely barred,. About the exterior, with its grimy conservatomfi,f mudâ€"bespattered door and littered/ doorsteps, there seemed an indescribable mysteriousâ€" ness, and I found myself hesitating. Then the place had been brilliantly lighted: now all was dark, squalid and funcreal. gladly postponed my investigations until daylight, but hindered as I had been by Fyneshade, it was about halfâ€" past nine when I alighted from the cab at the corner of Hyde Park Square and walked to Radnor Place, where the front entrance of the houses formâ€" ing one side of Gloucester Square are situated. Halting un%ér the great.dark portico of number#79, I glanced up and down the street{. The lamps shed only a dim sickly light, the street was deserted, and the quiet, only broken by the monotonous tinkling of a cabâ€" bell somewhere in Southwick Cresâ€" cent and the howling of a distant dog. What if I had been imprisoned here? The horrifying prospect of slow starvation in an. empty, deserted house appalled me, and I sprang toâ€" ward the heavy door that had at some time or other been strengthened by bands of iron. £ I turned the handle. It was locked! Staggering back I gave vent to an exclamation of despair. The pain in, my skull was terrible, and as I placed my hand at the back of my head, I felt my hair stiff and matted by conâ€" gealed blood. One thought alone posâ€" sessed me.I knew that my life dependâ€" ed on my e§cape. Again L tried to recollect minutely every incident of the previous night, but it all seemed like some terrible nightmare. In fact in my nervous anxiety to free myself I was unable to realize that Dora had actually been present, and tried to convince myself that it had been merely some strange chimera producâ€" ec by my unbalanced imagination. Yet <o vividly did it all recur to me that there seemed no room for doubt. The one fear uppermost in my mind was that Dora herself had met with foul play. I remembered the firm look of desperation upon her beautiful face as she had drawn the revolver from her bosomand glanced at its trigge:, and I tried to imagine.what scene of horror had she witnessed in that; brilliatlyâ€"lit inner room that should cause that look of horror upon her ‘ountenance. Evidenly she had enterâ€" ed this weird, neglected house with Toward the window â€"I walked to obtain fresh air, but found what I had at first imagined to be shutters were not shutters at all. The streak of welâ€" come light came through a little barred aperture about three inches wide inâ€"the pavement above. P There was something about the place that I could not understand. I felt stifled; my nostrils were filled by a strange sickening odor. These and a thousand other puzzling thoughts filled my brain, as I stood in that gloomy, subterranean, verminâ€" infested place into which I had been thrust. It was not large, but half filled by a great heap.of lumber piled up to the roof. ; â€" P c In this halfâ€"dreamy stupor I must have remained a very long time. Hours passed. I lay as one dead, unâ€" able to move, unable to think. As I recalled the startling encounter of the previous night I recollected that she had been dressed as if for a dance, and it was therefore probable that she had slipped away from home on some errand that was ‘imperative. But for what reason had she carried a revolâ€" ver? For purpose of attack, or for defense? Opening my eyes at last I found myâ€" sell in darkness, save for a glimmer oi faint gray light that crept in over the top of what I _ imagined to be heavy closelyâ€"barred shutters. It was about ten o‘clock at night when I had been struck down; it was now already morning.\ Stretching forth my cold nerveless fingers, I groped to feel my surroundings on either side, discoverâ€" ing mysell still lying on the floor; but wheras the drawingâ€"room "in which I had encountered Dora had been wellâ€" carpeted, this room seemed bare, for I was lying on cold flags. With a sudden movement I put out my hands and raised my head in an\endeayor to regain .my feet. But, this action brought vividly to my. mind that the injury I had received was serious. A pain shot through my head. So excruciating was it that I fainted. During the hours that followed all was again blank. When I reopened my hot fevered eyes I saw that the streak oi‘ dawn, the one welcome ray that inâ€" spired hope within me, was now a thin golden bar of sunshine that gave just sufficient light to enable me to distinguish my strange surroundings. Endeaworing .to reflect, calmly, my eyei/were fixed upon the blagkened ceiling. At first I wondered what had caused it to become so sooty, anc calculated the number of years during which spiders had festooned their dustâ€"laden webs upon it, when suddenâ€" ly my eyes clearly distinguished thar the ceiling was arched; that it was unplastered, and o. bare begsrimed brick. 6 â€" Eageg’.y I looked on either side. The walls also were of bare brick. I was In a cellar! 5 Struggling unsteadily to my feet I stood amazed. Who, I wondered, had conveyed me to this place? Surely no Dora! I1 I had been murderous!ly ez tacked, might not she also have falien a victim ? ]jut why had sheâ€"come here; by what means had she obtained an entrance ? ‘ My only recollection is that I felt the presence of some person near me, and I heard words uttered. But upon my ears they fell as if spoken so far away as to be indistinguishable. Scenes strangely distorted, sad and humorous, pleasing and horrible, flitâ€" ted through my mind as I lay dozing, halfâ€"conscious, strivingâ€" to think, but unable even by the dint of greatest effort to sufficiently collect my senses to reflect with reason. Gradually, however, I found my mind growing clearer. Thoughts that at first were hopelessly mixed, slowly shaped themselves, and yI remember trying to recall the startling events that had preceeded the cowardly blow dealt me by some unknown hand. Thus, painfully and with the utmost difficulty, I struggled to regain knowâ€" ledge of things about me. How long I remained unconscious, or what events occurred during the oblivion that fell upon me, I have no idea. I sprang forward to arrest her proâ€" gress, but at that instant a frightful blow fell upon the back of my skull, crushing me, and I fell senseless like a log. I loaked was Dora! Clutching the weapon in her slim, trembling hand, she prepared to enter. One long, deep breath she drew, and set her teeth in desperation; but, as with her left hand she pushed back the hair from her cl:{mmy brow, she disarranged the mask and it fell from her face. She peered in, but, next second, drew back terrified. Without a moâ€" ment‘s hesitation she placed her right hand in her breast and drew thereâ€" from a revolver. ‘The seene within the room had held her spellbound with horror, which seemed to grasp her heart as if with icy fingers. For a moment she hesitated, placâ€" ing her hand upon her breast, as if to stay the wild beating of her heart. Then, slowly and noiselessly, she turned the handle of the door, and a flood of brilliant lightâ€"streamed forthn. clous apartment and placed\the lamp upon a little table. ‘Then, for the first tiume, I saw that behind it was a door, and I crept back into the shadow so ked, and stood stupefied. It In Silent Company CHAPTER XXIHWI a firm resolve, but what her purpose had been I failed to imagine. Had I been placed in that cellar by my assailant, who,. finding me unâ€" conscious, had been under the apâ€" prehension that he had committed murcer? This seemed. at. least a reasonable surmise. Yet apparently I bad been felled for no other purpose than because I hKad rushed forward to stay Dora‘s hand. It was utterly inexplicable. _ing again and reign will be the Golden Age of which social philosphers have dreamed and poets have sung. All carnage will be at an end and evem the little babe will be safe anywhere. War will be at an ed, "they shall not hurt nor destroy any of my holy mountain.‘" The whole earth then "shall be ‘full of the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea," then and not until then (Dan. 9: 26, |R. V.). "In that day‘" the Lord Jesus, "the root of Jesse," the promised Messiah, the King of the Jews, shalt attract all peoples to Himself, "unto Him shall the nations seek" and "His resting place shall be glorious." Power would be theirs when the Ghost came upon them (R. Vals would not have power until then. II~The True Occufiation of Believâ€" ers in Christ Till He Comes, Ac. 1: 6â€"9. Probably those who assigned the title of this lesson meant by it "Makâ€" ing the World Christian‘‘ in the presâ€" ent dispensation, and took the passage from Isaiah as referring to the triâ€" umphs of the gospel. However, if anyâ€" one will study the passage carefully and compare it with other jassages of Scripture along the same line, he will see that it describes the earth as 1t shall be after the second coming of Christ in connection with His reignm here upon earth. Our Lord Jesus was the "rod" or rather "shoot" "out of the stock of Jesse." The figure is of a. tree cut down and a new sprout comâ€" ing out ‘of it, which shall become a. tree. Jesse was the father of David, and the family as far as its outward manifestation is concerned, was cut. down and was no longer a stately tree; but by the birth of Jesus of Nazareth of the virgin Mary, who was a lineal descendant of David, a new "shoot‘"" sprang out of this trunk and thus "a. Branch" came "out of his roots," and. this "Branch out of his roots shall bear fruit," when. our Lord comes: back. In verses 2â€"5 we have a wonderâ€" ful description of this coming King, the Messiah, our Lord Jesus. The "Spirit of the Lord" shall rest upon Him at His baptism (Mat..3: 17), and ‘He was thus ‘"anionted" "with the Holy Spirit and with power," and thus obtained power for the work which He was called upon to do (Ac. 10; 38; ct. Jno. 1: 33). The phrases ‘‘The Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding,‘* "the Spirit of Counsel and Might,"* and "the Spirit of Knowledge and Fear of the Lord" are three different names of the Holy Spirit, setting forth different phases of the Holy Spirit‘s work. The Holy.Spirit resting upon the Christ makes Him of quick, underâ€" standing so that His delight is in the fear of Jehovah. Because of the Spirit of God resting upon Him, the Messiah shall not judge according to outward appearances nor reprove people be~ cause of what He hears about thent. His judgment will be more just, than that of the wisest and best of earthly monarechs. When He reigns the poor will |get their just rights. Poor men stand little chance toâ€"day in human courts, but then their King and Judge will be their defender. He will "reâ€" prove" the oppressor and deliver "the meek of the earth" (cf. Mat. B g® Jas. 5: 4, 6â€"8). The wicked of, the earth shall be smitten, ‘"with the rod of Hig mouth"*and "with the breath of His lips shall Heâ€"slay the wicked.‘* This especially refers to the destrucâ€" tion of The Wicked One,â€" the Antiâ€" 20 9+ Lne wicked / One,. the Antisial Christ, who is coming. We are told. distinctly in the Holy Spjrit‘s interpreâ€" _ tation of this prophec)‘n 2 Thes. 2 / 8 "then shall be revealed the Lawless: â€" One, whom the Lord Jesus shall Slay _ With‘ The Breath of; His Moulk."* (The Hebrew and the Greek word for. a "spirit" and "breath" are the same. . And the "breath of His lips"‘ in the | passage we are studying is beyond f question the same as the ‘"‘spirit of, n His mouth" of 2 Thes. 2: §). The | The "Lawless One" of 2 Thes. 2: 8/ is called "that Wicked" in the A. V. and 7 the "man of sin‘"‘ in both the A. V. and _ R. V. in the third verse of the chapâ€" _ ter. Jesus‘ reign is to be charact-’erized‘ by "righteousness" and "faithfulness. fy n "Faithfulness" means that He can be absolutely depended upon to do riéht. Verses 6â€"8 describe the change even in the animal world. Many take these verses figuratively, but we are disâ€" tinctly taught thatlin connection with the Second Coming of Christ "the creation itself shall be delivered front the bondage of corruption unto the liberty .of the glory of the children of God" (Rom. 8: 19â€"21; cf. Isa. 55: 13; 65: 2[5; 320 15; 25: 1; 2 Pet. 3: 12, 134 Rev. 22: 1). The day of Christ‘s comâ€" Timeâ€"713 B. C. and Thursday, A. IB. 30% Placeâ€"The whole earth. Expositionâ€"I. The Complete Triâ€" umph of Righteosness when God‘s King Comes, Isa. 11: 1â€"10, Lesson ’l‘extâ€"Isa.wllfi:vml--lo; Ac. T 6â€"9. (Read Esth. 4: 13â€"160; Ps, 33: 12 Prov. 4: 343. Lessen XL June 12, 193215. MAKING THE WORLD CHRISTIAN Golden Textâ€"The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Isa. 11; 9. (M. T his Week‘s 8.85. Lesson _ ay .Be .T (To be continued) babe will be safe a,nywhere.- be at an ed, "they shall not destroy any of my holy . Used _. with . Missionary Applications). PAGE THRER 2