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PAGE 2. A STRIKING ILLUSTRATION OF THE ESSENTIAL character of Christianity has just come from another quarter. Mr. S. D. Gordon tells the following story: An officer of a Japanese liner on the Pacific, pacing the deck one day, listening to an American companion talking about the Christian faith, with pathetic intensity, broke into his companion’s talk with the abrupt question. “But is there power to make a man live it?” An Imperial University man, with the keenness characteristic of the Japanese, he touched the one critical spot. Happily he learned about the Man who died, lived again, and lives, and gives power to live it. His face showed something new inside. And for the rest of the voyage, he kept bringing men to _his_ friend’s stateroom to learn about A _I_. _ u-.. ‘A‘..n“" live 'the thing. This is essentially Christianity. Christ is “the power of God unto salvation" and transformation of life. IN THAT INTERESTING AND USEFUL MAGAZINE, The Missionary Review of the World for December, a story is told of a woman who is described as having gone out to the mission field “eight times over instead of once only.” About 50 years ago, a girl offered herself to a Foreign Mis- sion Board, but was declined on the score of being too young. She subsequently married, and she and her husband both vol- unteered for foreign mission service, but the verdict of the board was, “Not advisable.” Years passed, but the mission- ary purpose still filled their hearts, and when the husband was a pastor of 50 years of age, and his wife 45, they offered themselves once more. They had eight children and planned to place the older ones in school in America. At last they were accepted, their outfit was prepared, and they were ready to sail to Brazil. But at a meeting of the Presbytery, the question was again opened, and by a small majority, it was decided that it was too expensive to send a family to the field. At the close of the meeting, the pastor’s wife was, naturally, full of sadness. and tears were in her eyes. But determination was in her heart, and she said: “You Will not let me go, but I will send every child I have.” She not only gave her children, but trained them for lives of service and spent about 25 years in getting ready to go, “Not as one missionary, but as eight missionariesâ€"through her eight children.” She did not live to see all go out, but she died perfectly confident that some day they would all go. And so in a real sense they did. Six of them are in foreign service today; another, who was unable to go because of ill health, is at work with missionary purpose in America, while a daughter is living in America training her own chldren for Christian service. Thus, she may be said to have gone, as the article remarks, “eight times over instead of once only.” STATISTICS PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE executive of the Canadian Bible Society held in the Bible House on College Street, Toronto, showed that during the past year more than 400,000 copies of the Scriptures in many lan- guages had been distributed in Canada. In the same period, it was stated, more than 9,000,000 copies of the Scriptures were circulated in China by combined Bible Society effort, almost one-half of these by the British and Foreign Bible Society, of which the Canadian Bible Society is auxiliary. The purpose and work of the society is the wider circu- lation of the Scriptures to every man in his own language without note or comment. Interesting stories of the colpor- tage work along the shores of the St. Lawrence to Labrador, in the lumbering districts of the headwaters of the Ottawa and in the oulying districts of Ontario, were related. AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALCOHOLISM which has as its object the establishment of a working agreeâ€" ment with the League of Nations in the fight being waged against alcoholism in colonies and mandated territories and discussion of the repression of alcohol smuggling, as well as the conciliation of conflicts between exporting countries and states with prohibition or restrictive laws, was held in Gen- eva in September. It was attended by one hundred delegates representing fourteen governments and twenty-four nations, and was the first actual meeting of the International Bureau Against Alcoholism, which is the European Scientific Depart- ment of the World League Against Alcoholism. All the dele- gates paid their own expenses. AN INDIAN MISSIONARY IN THE STATE OF WASH- ington was called on to address a large church gathering. Rising, he began to speak in the jargon of his tribe. Noting the look of consternation that spread over the faces of his elgners !” THE ORGANIZATIONOF THE FIRST INDEPENDENT Christian Science Church of New York may be the beginning of a secession movement among Christian Scientists. They are human, after all! + + ' IN THE “LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL,” THERESA HUNT Wolcott introduced an appeal for Sunday School work with this interesting passage: A little girl whose parents were members of a famous religious sect always associated with Utah, was asked if she knew where Boston is: . . “Oh, yes,” she replied, “we send missionaries there!” Give me hard task, with strepfih that shall not fail; Conflict, with courage that shall never die! Better the hill-path, climbing toward the sky, Than languid air and smooth award of the vale! Better to dare the _wild_ wrath of the gale“ ' W “v "0' V' -vâ€" “Kin with furled nah}? 'iioi-i forev'er lie! Give me hard tasks, with qtrgngyh that shall not fail: J‘V' 5V5 w "wâ€"'â€" '-‘vâ€"â€" Strong in the struggle that Mini t'ritimph high, Not without loss the hero shall prevail; Give me hard tasks, with strength that shall not fail. O..- J"- m v--â€"_ anilict, with confide that '13th never die! Not for a light 10nd fitting shoulders frail Not for an unearned victory _I sigh; The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small, Are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread, Where love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpet, ring no bells, The Book of Life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes, After its. own life-working. A child’s kiss Set on thy singing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense of se vice which thou renderest. For The QuietHour VI. w I. . -vuâ€" â€" wv" |yes, theu'Mgm, that cahuhie-lp a man actually THE HARD TASKS DUTY -â€"Robert Browning. SCHOOL HONOR ROLLS ‘ FOR PAST MONTH Durham Public School Sr IV â€"-Bernard Clarke, Harry Ry_a{1, géorge _H‘ahn, Dottie. Mervyn. "11?“ [Vlfiomtliy Pickering, Glen Rowe, Gordon McCrae, Audrey Bell, Norman McIntyre. --John A. Graham Principal. IV 3â€"38le Falkingham, J o- sie rFalconer, Tobin, Genie Harrison, Eddie _Mi_l e_r_. A nun; I uuusu sun Sr. III A.â€"E§hel Mervyn, Grace Becker and Doris Taylor e ual, Vel- ma Noble, Frank Goodohi d, Irene Elliott. Sr. III BIâ€"Alma Kress, Janet Wat- son, Norman Dean, Reta Willis, Isa- be! JamiesonpngIRulgy W‘illis ggqal. v -vâ€"â€"â€"â€" "Jr. III .â€"-Merlda Havens, H‘elcn Youn, Annie Campbell, Norma Al- lan, enevievo Saunders. â€"Edna A. Browning. Teacher. I Sr. 11 A.â€"Mar aret. Dunsmoor, Louise Jamieson, oil Hind, Elsie Pin-.ketjgog, Mgrgaret _S_ibbalgi. â€" 'SE'TI' flipâ€"Frances Hay, Jean M- kinson. Marie Allen, Ina MacDon- ald, May Braithwaite. â€"Annie Macdonald, Teacher. Jr. 11 A.â€"Lilly Long, Florence Havens and Marg Pickering equal, Arthur Koch hirley McIntyre, Walter Neaves. Jr. 11 B.â€"-Mar garet Watson, Har- old Trafl'ord, Olive Dunsmoor, Clara Falkingham, Nora Baird. ~Mary E. Morton, Teacher. Sr. I.â€"Victor Goodchild. Clara Thompson, Mary Firth, Jean Rowe, Olieda Hahn. , _7 "Jif'lécecirge Braithwaite, Gor- don McComb, Iris Hugill, Bobby Gray, Carman Noble. â€"«Donalda McEachern, Teacher. Sr. Pr. A.â€"-Kat.hleen McFadden, Gordon Graham and Edith Miles equal. Gordon Kennedy, Arthur Nicholson and Percy Murdock equal, Clarkl Saunders and Delbert. Moore, equa. n - up I. '1 I â€"Sadie F. MacDonald, Teacher. ley Lawrence, Edgar Howard Watsgn. 411019. Primer B.--Re ie Wilson, Hazel Watson, James argrave, Francis Daley, Alice Daley. Number on roll 39. Average attendance 34. 8. 8. lo. 2, Eminent... Sr. III.-â€"-Eileen Aberdem‘ 79 Lucy Robins' 71, Joseph Campbefi 55, Mar Campbell 52. Jr. II .oâ€"Pearl Gordpn 72, Thomas Davis 54, Sr. II.â€"<Normn Fer son‘ 84, Vera Johnston‘jz, Sadig via 40. I -A “____ UVI llku var, "r“... __ .. ' Jr. II.â€"Norman Gordon 76, Doug- las Johnston 6!. . Sr. Lâ€"‘James Fe sonf 88, W}!- liam_ Damage" .77, elvnlle Robms ‘An vâ€"â€"â€"v.â€" 56, James Hannifghn'w Sr. Pr. â€"Ivan ohnston". Jr. Pr. “Percy Gordon, Robert W’ebbar, Milford Robins‘, Arthur Hanni n. ( ) resent every day. Number on rol'l' 20. Average attendance 18. 4. 8. 8. No. 5, Glenda. Sr. IV.â€"â€"Vera Robins', Charlie Timmins. Jr. I‘Mâ€"Catherine Timmins. Sr. [ILâ€"Iola Noble', Ewen McNab, George Blair. Sr. II. -â€" William Peart, Isabel Kliest, Mary McNab', Daisy Street. Jr. II.â€"Gordon Nobe. Sr. I.â€"Evite Hastie. Sr. Pmâ€"Juanita Noble', Wallxter Street. Jr. Pr.â€"Esther White, Victor Street. (') Present. every day. HOCKEY PICTOBIAQ The editor has received a copy of the Hockey Pictorial, 1926 edition, which is now on sale at all news- stands, and which is at once the handsomest and most complete pub- lication ever produced in the world for any single sport. It is a marvel in artistry and industry of achieve- ment. It is impossible to speak too highly _of it. -â€"Reta L. Barbour, Teacher. Mary E. McBride, Teacher. G. R. Wiggins, Teacher. â€" vâ€"vâ€"w BOOK OF CHAMPIONS Those interested in accident pre- vention work are to stage a pro- vmceâ€"wide campaign to induce other counties in Ontario to follow the example recently set. by Went- worth, the County Council of which haspassed a hy-law requiring all vehicles to carry lights at mght or face the enalty o! a fifty-dollar fine. Nor Ba and Ottawa also re- cently passed ights on all vehicles at night try-laws, but important as such a regulation is in an urban UUUII I- I we “I“. v.- -â€" ntre, it is even more so in the run] parts of counties. 'fiie Ontsno Motor League is taking a leading part. in bringing this fact to the at- tention o! oouny officials. It‘a getting so the only thing that will 3”? young folks a thrill is be- In 9 J0} new ! uem km c .10} ecu mom on can a (LWhy take a week to sell customer: who can be sold in a morning â€"by Long Distance 1' {if} now an um Ml ALL "It E33! â€"-.:m°tes 0 Hardware Merchant s‘moo clothes my Wife mm s M We “Wild puzzles \ou‘?“ “Well, Whm ShP “M118 ‘0 l anything. she pokns 111.}; neck. but when sh. Wald?“ h... it again, its wax ““M’n‘h' -‘A-‘D-‘- ” BAZ- Mfi NTEED R 00‘“ ‘>'_. ‘ All of the 1 to reckless dri' large number 0 automobile ex] of incomplete < ing, which is t of illuminating Mtlly pooplv \\ luminting gets and gems $00!]! in ‘1 dangers of mlmll haust gas. 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