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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, COLBORNE, ONT., THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1921, 3 Canadian Citizenship "He Shall Have Dominion Also From Sea to Sea and From the Rivers to the Ends of the Earth."--Psalm 72: 8. afters of By the Rev. Henry P. Charters. The story is told that Sir Leonard. If a raSftl is not guided by principle Tilley, who'later became Finance Min-I in his busir.i::s, men cease to put amy feter of Canada, and also Lieutenant- confidence in anything he says or doe; Governor of New Brunswick, happen- It is just so in public life--principb ed to read this 72nd Psulm one morn-j site:n •and wr.bvni'.vg, must control ing at his lnotel in Quebec in the|every act that has for its object the course of his dari!y devotion before' social and civil welfare of our fellow going out to attend a meeting of the' men. Where there is no principle Confederation" Conference, of which theTe is no stability of character. A he was a member. There had been | man actuated by principle is not im-rmany fruitless attempts on the partposed upon, flattered or coaxed into of the delegates to agree upon a name doubtful) petitions by the false repre-for the proposed confederation. As sentatlcr.a of designing men. You are Mr. Tilley read the eighth verse of the always sure where you find such a Psalm the thought immediately. man and you honor him for his eon-struck him-- here is an appropriate' sis ten oy and straightforward conduct, name for our country, "a dominion though it sitould be opposed to your that reaches from sea to sea and: views trod at variance with your from the rivers to the ends of the ] creed. earth." The silory has it that when- Our acts 03 citizens, next to he submitted the idea which had thus; acts as Chri: occurred to him, to his colleagues of serious importance. Church memtocir-the conference, the appropriateness ship we regard as a eokimn trancac-of the name Dominion of Canada was' tion between the Soul and its Maker, aiekmowleaged by all the assembled j We invest it with a responsibility Fathers of Confederation and the [which every thinking man aeknDwl-name of our country was practically, edges to be just. But we look upon decided upon. | actions affecting a nai'.iion in a very Canada celebrates this year the! different light. And yet that dlffeir fifty-fourth anriversiary of her con- ence is not so great after all-federation as a dominion. The years same sincerity, the same honest oc that have passed since the scattered| vtetfons, the same purity of mot: provinces and territories were knit: should be apparent in ons oafi* as together have seen many changes, j the other. A mteai is responsible at There have been periods when de-jtho Bar of Cod, ,,nct simply ftar ho velopment was hardly perceptible, religious professicn, but for the whole and again there have been years when' of his life, and where he suppresses the country hias advanced by leaps and; the convictions of conscience for tk bounds along the read of material j maxims of policy he renders himself prosperity. For long yetars our ma-, amenable to a higher than human jur-tc-rhl growth testified to tlv world bbclbn. Thu-o is no art of i:v.i!i-that we were woiking under such free gerrc man so significant in its results British institutions that the individual: as to be beneath the notice of the Ab had am opportunity to attain a com-1 mighty, and just as the acts be petence with greater ease to himself gages in are far-reaching than was possible in almost any other! prehcrsive in their .sweep, embracing country under the sun. The result was! the destinies of coming gens-rati': that our growth in the years sir.ee the; and affecting the glory cf God! in < consummation of confederation was! kingdoms of the world, do they cai pher.omer.ai. j with them an importance and n From a material standpoint Canada! memtousnt'ss that can scarcely to a dominion which stretches from j realized ot weighed. When we rem Beta to sea--the At'antic to the Pa- an account of our stewardship th. d|fib «adlfycnnthe(ilvers--the miigh try j will be nut otnCy a classification cf . St. Lawrence and the Great Laikes and1 specific ac'.i3 but a scrutiny of mo-their connecting livera--to the ends; fives, a laying bare of secret springs of the earth--the polar regions. But'of action and a revealing of hidden He Colors His Majesty King George 0 inaugurated the Northern Parlia-nt on June 22. This is the first Irish Parliament to sit in 121 years. Canada's crc? of 1920 of 1,187,250,-050 bushels was the highest on record and above the average in quality as as in quantity. What is the blue on our flag, boys? The waves-of the boundless sea, Where our vessels ride in their tameless-pride And the feet of the winds are free; From the sun and smiles of the coral isles To the ice of the South and North, With dauntless tread through tempest dread The guardian ships go forth. What is the white on our flag, boys ? The honor of our land. Which bums in our sight like a beacon light And stands while the hills shall stand; Yea, dearer than fame is our land's great name, And we fight wherever we be, For the mothers and wives that pray for the lives Of the brave hearts over the sea. What is the red on our flag, boys? The blood of our heroes akin. On the burning sands, in the wild waste lands And the froth of the purple main; And it cries to God from the crimsoned sod And the crest of the waves uprolkd That He send us men to fight again As our fathers fought of old. We'll stand by the dear old flag, boys, Whatever be said or done, Though the shot comes fa3t, as we face the blast, And the foe be ten to one; Though our only reward be the thrust of a sword And a bullet in heart or brain, What matters one gone if the flag floats on And Britain be Lord of the main. --Frederick George Scott. the name of our glorious horitagi should be more to us than a material name. Our duty, and especially at this time, 13 to make Canada try in which God shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the to the ends of the earth. To bring this shout it is necessary for every individual citizen as an integral part of the great commonwealth to build up in Canada a Christian citizenship. Christian Citizenship should include in the individual INTELLIGENCE and RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLE. No man who does not possess in some measure such qualification can hene-gt the nation of which he is a mem- ber. INTELLIGENCE is particularly necestnry where there is so much equality as there ii in Canada--that no ma'n need despair cf attaining the hightist honors. We have a noble system of education but not intended nor specially adapted to afford the higher forms of knowledge which Chnis'Lan citizenship demands. The In eiiig£.-..-e of which I speak is only to be gained by experience and study. If, as in many lands, people had little or no interest in the selection cf their rulers a.nd but little acquaintance with social e.bics, to demand such intelligence would be unwise, as it would be unnecessary. But our case is vastly different. Every citizen of this country may, without the smallest difficulty, gain such an amount of knowledge as will make him an independent agent in every matter that the commonwealth. We do not believe in thus land that ignorance is i virtue, but we do believe that know! edge and intelligence are the birthright cf every class and that wherever they are general there will be the greatest amount of individual happiness, the firmest government and the mcst righteous laws. It is admitted that there never was a time when knowledge was generally c'riffused than at the pr At the same time those who art versant with the literary tastes cf the day declare that thi period when there was less demand for the more solid and thoughtful production of genius than there . Is mow. Wore there a demand for serial publications at all proportioned to the citizenship of the nation there would foe little cause of regret. But large masses of our population have no knowledge but what comes to them decortd-hanld. In such a country as ours where books aire so cheap and the channels «f information are so abundant and feiee, and where there are so many inducements to rise to the superior positiorM in society, it is a shame for any man to be satisfied with the mere ^nothings of the world, No man need Cftll another master as regards the Ipore common subjects that demand attention, and he who values intelligence so poorly -as to put forth no efforts to obtain it or goes about the Streets gathering up the crumbs of (Commonplace conversation ig unworthy to exercise the privileges of $tizenship cir obtain any honor within the gifts of his fallow men, Christian citizenship shouSd aiso in-' sJude reJlgious principle. thoughts. If we bad such ciV.ze.ns what a ration would be enveloped Within the r.oxt century. What a power would this lar.id execufba eta ccntro'.Ving the acts of other nations, what silent tout omnipotent influenza wcultdi be felt wherever her noire was me'r.tionod. If we had such citi'r'er.s what senators, what legislators1, what mc.g'iflTate; would represerit us 2n oar vlsrv; cf honor. Nor is .there any true panacea for the social and political evils whkh afflict us, in common with ttfciar countries, hut a rnising of the entire social structure. It is riot by this cr that gC'Vernmer.t, it is not by a me* change of political leaders nor th. conflict of party that true matl'oir.ul greatness can be achieved, but by tba prevalence cf religious print'lpl? among the inhabitants, by the spread of the Bible truth and by well-fillel churches. A standing amy is good and useful in its place; armies mei arsenals and fleets of warships may give external prestige and grandeur to a nation, but the best defence that any country can possess is am en- i lightened, moral and law-abiding citizenship, a free and complete sys^ , cf education as to meet the just' demands of every faith and every rank and condition of life. "Happy people that is. in such yea, happy is that people whose God the Loud." Next to the duty we owe to the Church of Christ aire our obligations to the nation--obligations whkh increase and rise in importance dn proportion as we enlarge our conception of the land in which we live. Let us then, at the present important juncture in ou~ country's history, realize the responsibilities and act as Christian men who intend to give her such a name and standing as shall exalt our land in the eyes of the world and start her in a new career of usefulness and honor. While we love and pray for the prosperity of other kingdoms, the welfare of this land of our birth or cur adoption must be the fir3t wish •of every patriot. Arctic Canada has 640 species of flowering plants and three times as many noiwSowering species, per Stef" The Guard of the Eastern Gate. Halifax sits on her throne by the s In the might of her prlde-*-Invincible, terrible, beuV.ful is she With a sword at her side. To right and left of her, battlements And fortresses frown, While she sits on her throne without favor or fear, With her cannon as crown. Coast guard and sentinel, watch of the weal a nation she keeps; But her hand is encased in a gauntlet of steel And her thunder but sleeps. Who Will Be Its Shakespeare?--From the Great Lakes to the Hidden North--Keeping the Peace Under the Aurora. Many timet now I have travelled the length of it, and havo wandered up and down through a considerable portion of the depth of it upon various occasions; and here I sit down again, in Its extremo west, to rest a spell a£fcer my last journey through it, to meditate on the thousands cf miles I havo come, and let my memory play with the collected pictures, Some foolish fellow of the Yellow Press, that Press that dotes upon the shrill, tho high-pitched, the superla-phraee, is sure to rise up one day and ask for "the greatest Canadian writer" to tell it all, Consider what has to be told--of the Newfoundland banks, fished by Elizabethan fishermen, and by fishers from France centuries ago, when the great continent behind them was but a Land Unknown; of the Gaelic-speaking folk of a patch of Nova Scotia; of Arcadia, a little world apart; the Annapolis Valley and its apple-blos- By Frederick Niven of the Labrador and the Moravians'; of the old-world towns of the provlaco of Quebec; of the Queheo hinterland and the habitant; of the butoend of Ontario down toward the Great Lakes, and Its hard-working farmers; of that other Ontario, northward, by Mua-fceka and beyond, where the farms thin out and an apparent laziness begins, That "greatest writer" would have to teJl also of the Ontario that becomes definitely north, where the little Stores are stocked with mosquito-net and OTOwshoes, with rifles and fishing-rods, steel traps and Mackinaw coats, the Ontario of the birch-hark canoes and the shining, tawny yellow Peberboro canoes, that onia learns to love as one loves a fino living thing; of that land beyond, the land of quiet, and blue and ochre distance, where the glint of a wet paddle, across the- Win J-^rushed llakel, alone announces another human being there; of the traiils that are only for portaging the canoe from one waterway to another, trails different from any other trail on the continent, the brush close to the ground, hut cropped away about five or six feet up, for the passage of a man carrying canoe, overturned, cn his back. Does this develop into an inves toffy? The inventory fa inevitable. The catalogue ds only dipped into. Away north., far beyond, are the lonely posts of Hudson's Bay with all their strange history, blent of the sophisticated far from home and of the foarfbaric; and 'beyond' again are Chesterfield Inlet and Corona^feion Gulf, where whale™ from Dundee lie ice-bound the Winter through, and a lone patrol of mounted police (mounted only in name there), for the saJce of the Eskimos and humanity and civilization in general, keeps the peace beneath the Aurora. It can't all be put In one book. In a little article, like a string of beads, it may be suggested. Beyond, to west, are lumbermen again, as in New Brunswick ' e i0 1 ng for oil, and Indians trapping; and south of them are the Great Plains, once dotted with buffalo head's, more recently with the long-horned Steesra, and now with tho grain elevators. The car goes everywhere, even where there a-e no roads, bobbing up! and down over the swe&s of that part of the earth as a boat careens in a billowy see. There the front, of tba great wall of the Rockies takes tba sunrise every day like a mirror flashing; amiti tho ways cf life again change, the speech of the people changes yet again, the phrases of common talk are drawn, yet again, fj'Dia other employ. And it is aU Canada, The sign of te ui»$fe leaf is stall their sign; but wtot Wcrids away is the Yeilow Head Pa.s from Yonge Street, Toronto! Iharougth ilha mountains are clusters of dhieks fa beads of sandy rivers and jbsi washing fwr goJd with sluice and kt«g-handled shovel, cr with hydraulic a-.ponatus like a fireman's hose.; and a little way on, over am*, other r.ang^ of peaks* tsader the ghi? ideate of wMch fee big grizzlies and the BitSe coaays Sive, there is no sand ttt afH bat gold in the white quarts, sfflver and fc&d sparkHng in ub» oSntnfcg of galena, Of copper with its dull glint in amalgams made through the ages. And up llho ravers from the v/es* come t&a ealmon ixt their season. To *s31 of fcam is to run the risk of 'being raak«d w'uh MaoraJevSBe or even with JfeiMshwssen. Would they believe on Tweedeiide, or on Speysfde, tales of rivers w<here tho "sauiir.on" run in suc& wise that the rivers seem to be tCatost as much of fish ss of waiter, ar<5 the Indians half wade in water, Iciif slcde about on the sJip-pary fhto, end tosa tfcem out on to the banks? Over saooky fires they hang tbcai to prepare the store of winter food. Every yea/' the canner-ks broile nCth renewed activity. Everywhere, over all, through the balsam woods, or in "the land of little sticks," on the level plains, the rolling plains, or down the linked waterways, oven in tho cities, there is a sense of the bigness of the land. It almost appals the voyager through the desolate beauty of the North Shore (Superior); at the call of a loon breaking the silence awe fills the heart there; it quickens the pulse through Southern Alberta, especially if some great show cf Nature be afoot, such as. that of the tumble-weed in the south-west wind--■ bush after bush blown away, brittle, from its stem, bobbing from horizon to horizon with, an effect as. of loping coyote packs. Always there is this sense of vast-ness, by lake and plain and on into the mountains where electric storms, when little rain follows, set the woods alight so that one whole range is as a bonfire, and still on to where the great, luscious peaches grow, in the There I have sat down to rest, and recall my journey of the last six months. These are the pictures on which I meditate, and I know what lies beyond, westward still: the lumber camps, the sound of the axe in the high wroods of the Coast Ranges, the warning call of "Timber!" and then the dull thud. The logs go down to the mills that send up their white feathers of steam along the inlet sides, in clearings among pines and firs, and circular saws come up at a pull of the lever through slots in the moving platforms that carry the logs along, and then '•buzz!" the shrill sound breaks out, mounts to a scream, dies away to a hum. Let no one foolishly ask, "When will the Shakespeare of Canada rise to tell it aU?" It will take a thousand voices from a thousand parts to tell of it all. Only after they are dead many, many years, may someone lump together the work of them all, and inform the credulous that it was the work of one, and make him a bugbear to all future! Canadians telling the tale or singing the song of their own corner of the vasty land. That Is the only way to get "the greatest writer" out of the wide dominion.--The World'* Work.