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Newmarket Era hat Largest In north York It hit been built Without Iho Aid of The leading County as well as Oldest No sent out of North York unless paid in advance JACKSON Editor and Proprietor NEWMARKET FRIDAY JAN HIS HAPPY NEW YEAR was walking in angry down Iho snowy street Ho wasUiink- ing about a business deal lhat bad just fallen completely through and ing his partner for it Indeed ho had only minute ago parted from his partner with scornful words And partner who was a man had said nothing He loo had felt thai the blame was all tils and ho was nshamed and grieved But harder than having lost Hie business for the firm that young man found it to have lost Iho goodwill and respect of Ids senior partner ho admired oven revered angry man was suddenly called from hi unpleasant thoughts by a little newsboy thrust ing paper under his Alt about Iho murder the In murder bo intoned Ifimugh his little nose Paper The angry man shoved the hoy away Get out of my path he growled absentmindedly Hut the newsboy was not taken aback He grinned up into Hie clouded face and drawled and altogether kind It THE IMMANENCE OF THE SPIRIT WORLD material universe is bedded in and shot through with Spiritual Its move ment is coincident with a spiritual impulse its every change an upward urge of Spirit its every- harmony an echo its every beauty a re flection of tho realities which cradled it and still maintain it To us flic thought of reality has always been associated with things material things so lhat it requires a definite effort of the mind to transfer that concept to Hie spiritual We find it to perceive that facts and material things have reality Qnly as spiritual realities are manifest In them or as they are manifesta- THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS On the after Christmas we despair I lions of Man has failed or prospered according as man has obeyed the urge of the Spirit Man kind in savagery thought spirit forces malign and inimical to human needs and for ages made propitiatory offerings in order to win ho favor of spirit world It was a wonderful revelation which made it clear lo that the spirit forces were altogether a greater words had he been in his anger But then came clear and calm Lei yourself have a happy let yoursedf have a happy New Year revelation when man perceived that the Great walked another block before IhcSptril desired to become intimate and hed his so absorbed ignoble desired to meet each individual on his plane and to direct bis slops towards tho ays of joy and peace The troubles in mans world today come from his refusal to perceive the presence of the Spirit in the material things with which he is accustomed to occupy himself and in his re fusal to obey the urge of the Spirit toward the unselfish and the altruistic forget his rituals and his forms lei him immediately and honestly obey voice of Hie Spirit which speaks in the depths of his own soul and he will immedi ately find that the Kingdom of God has come on earth as it is in Heaven Wo pray Thy Kingdom come expecting it to come If our faith has reached the point of expectancy ex- peoting it to come from the external world reality it lies within the soul already How foolish would he the man who wouldnt let himself have a happy New Yiear 1 Bad busi ness of turning business away from you Nobody could give you a happy New course unless you let yourself have it Funny fought But stop Wasnt that exactly what he was doing now not letting himself happy New Year Bad business that won lliunlhat his young partner had fallen into bad business Suddenly he stopped about traced his steps Im to cut myself out of a happy New Year just to indulge myself in a little poisonous anger he said to himself Ill just hurry back to the office and invite my partner lo lunch with me Weve always been god pals untl now And he did hurry to catch bis partner before he too loft the office But he did not hurry so much that he could not stop at the corner and buy the few remaning papers from insolent little newsboy there though it goes without paving he hadnt time to stop for the change Ethel Eliot THE SALVATION ARMY LEADERSHIP la obedience lo set it forth i PRAYER The friends of the Salvation Army they belong to all creeds and classes earnestly hope the problem of the succession lo the leadership will be solved without impairing the harmony and unify of that worldwide body The issue has been raised by the illness of Booth the great son of a great father The Armys founder William Booth one of the figuers of modern times named as his successor a choice ratified by I tie unanimous approval of the Army and just fied by personal qualities he has shown himself to be a supreme administrator just the man needed to conserve and strength en the organization which tho creative spirit father had called into being Under his wise farsighted direction the temporal affairs the Army have been safeguarded and ex tended Shout losing sight of its religious aims and motives But apparently there are men and women high in its do mot think this method of a leader will invar work as happy results as in the first in stance General Wm Booth had a remark able family but there is no guarantee his genius will descend even to the third and fourth generation Hence the decision to sum Hie high representing all the countries where the Army unfurls its banner discuss proposals for a change in policy which would broaden its base and place succession in the hands of the Council or some other body of trusted officials elected pointed for the purpose Christian and social workers everywhere may well pray that there will he no division in the Army and that dif Terences of opinion which may honestly arise will be solved without open Why should we be afraid to believe in a God ho grows more wonderful every century as catch larger glimpses of the Godhead Why should we lack courage to dn to Him in the mystery of prayer I poverty of our words that limit our visi Prayer is the experiment which proves the reality of God It is an experiment which human being can carry out It is not for every man to verify the experiments science We accept hem by faith just as men of science accept them Prayer is experiment which we can all verify- It soaring into certainty There is nothing in life so wonderful as racle of prayer for it enables us to be th the One in whom we live and have being and nobody can reason ns out of knowledge of thisspiritual order and law and harmony which we call the peace of God that passethall understanding is a more ab solute knowledge than any other J Douglas I yflW Mm 1 hi NEWMARKET PHONE GIRLS HAVE GAY NIGHT The Bell Telephone girls had a party Years Ago From Era Municipal Election Newmarket Jackson reeve Co deputy Ed Murphy Whitchurch J Miller councillors North III Albert reeve Scott Stephen Winch Glover H reeve Baker deputy Jos DonneDK J council- Holland Landing W H Thome reeve Fred Jos Thompson Gulnan J A- Basted and H were reelected as public school Advertiser QUENCHIN6 THE SMOKING FLAX be LIVING EPISTLES boot more beautifully of the Christ toward the weak wo and wandering Christian than the The bruised reed He will not break the flax He will not quench till He send forth Hi If mem unto victory When faiths fires burn low and nothing smoke can be seen it is an easy thing lo it out Heaping ridicule upon it or pouring on the cold water of criticism never caused its smoking spark lo burst into a flame The Masters of meeting His discipl after they had been filled with doubts about Him was to breathe upon them and say ve the Spirit and from the thick blanket of that had chilled their very souls there suddenly hurst up by the breath of His love a warm flame of response that never died down again The doubts of our day have caused the dim The gospel of Jesus Christ is Our Lord Himself Inch has come down to us and now He never diotatfd a syllable to His apostles There is no letter written by finger of the Master which is in our possession Id have written if He had chosen but rot boose have now in the of early writing scratched on lets of black basalt or on i lay cylinders these are probably six thousand years old there is no word of which is so He committed His teachings to His disciples and trusted to their rather memories to record what He wished recorded But if the writing had so im portant He could have written Himself and made perfectly sure that the message would be preserved exactly as He delivered it But He did not do this Why most of us the answer is clear The message was to be recorded in the lives of en and the preaching was to be by holy and would tell clearly than any writing could what the spirit of Christianity was Christs life the light of men and the lives of His foil tpday are still the light of men And when the gospel fails or seems to we may be sure not that Che Christ has lost His power but that the light is not shining clearly enough to understand it well CALLOUS INDEED Well I must confess I am glad to get back amongst my own kin and friends where people aint too or too unfeeling or too luckup to take some interest in one another Mrs Polley Now theres them post office folks down to Chicago I found em actually hardhearted Why would you believe it that man that brings It that once burned brightly die letters to Mabels hes queer for Christ alandoffish that when be handed me my a smoking wick is oil mM cx how mother bad fell scissors without be oil never so much as open- ARCHIVES OF TORONTO