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-- A MAN, A MOMENT, A MISSION International Sunday Sc hool Lesson for July 20th Is: "The Baptism of Parallel By WILLIAM T. ELLIS Few travellers ever cross the Jor- * dan to what Syria calls 'the East," i Where the ancient ways still sur- wive, Nobody really knows the Holy Land until he has gone to the 'esert; and to the rich, windy up- '®ds which lie between the Jordan and Arabia proper. Up and ; WR the jength of the Jordan, es: _Pecially in thé northern stretches, ust below the Lake of Galilee, ura wild, rocky, rugged wildernesses, which the untutored imagination easily peoples with spirits. This Western world could not devise a more spectacular setting for the 'Wilderness experiences of Jesus and John and Paul than the traveller may find east of the Jordan. ~ Two men in sacred history are visualized as desert men, dwellers apart in the stern solitudes in rig- : self-denial and abstemious- ness, accompanied only by their 'own austere meditations. These Were Elijah and John spirit. Hard circumstances develop hardy soflls. John, the Nazarite, Yowed to a life of asceticism, grew up in the wilderness, a hairy man and uncouth, and a fearsome figure _ dn his single camel's hair garment, ~tled around the leather thong. - He was a man apart, an inhabitant of the soli- tudes, where he was made ready . for his unique mission as the her- . ald of the Coming One, The Cousin of the Christ. In our western world we have Sone daft over individualism; we @ccept each person by himself, re- gardless of his family. Not so the : Orient, which deeply understands the truth, "He setteth the solitary 'In families." A man finds his stanchest allies in his family and for javalid's Shain, for ~ picnics, for yac ting or Boning of any description and for many other uses, JAEGER pure wool rugs, © woven ja soft tones and Ne ne A JAEGER is a prised : Poiscsion ther will last you a As the oriental makers weave the stories Jesus."--Mark 1:1-11, and the Baptist, | 'whom Jesus declared to bs one in| Passages. | clan in the East; and it is worth noting that John, the forerunner of | Jesus, was also his cousin, a blood relative, The kinship of their mothers, Mary and Elizabeth, is sometimes overlooked in studying the relationship of the two. Doubt- less they had met in boyhood: Cer- tainly, each knew the story of the other's peculiar, attestation before birth, and his unlzue call and prep- aration. Both began and contin- ued life under a stkange sense of a mission -- which is\gtill the surest road for any boy or girl to great service. Some sensational preachers think to show themselves, like John, an original, by the way they dress and wear their hair; which ig cheap theatrics. The Baptist was big, and utterly himself, because he scorned to imitate the rabbis of his time. He had heard the Voice; and so he knew himself to be a voice and not an echo of other men's messages. John was so great that he realized that he was only a second-place man; for it is possible to be a first- class man in a second place. He had a clear voice call to his own work; and blessed is the person who middle with a] has found his mission, whatever it may be. Ask the average celebrity -- es- pecially the second-rater -- to talk about himself, and he will tell you a bookful of stuff. This John the Baptist called himself only an orien- tal SAIS: The servant who runs ahead of the horse or carriage of the great one and clears the road for him. I've seen this "forerunner" in Fgypt and Syria and Bagdad and India. John was merely a herald, AR announcer, a preparer. All his effort merely indicated the Coming Cne. He was a finger-board to Christ; and any stick may point, so long as it is straight. High in the little gallery of t 'world's immor- tals is the Baptist because he was what he was, greatly and without pretence, A fearless protestant, a preacher of repentance, an arraign- er of the rich and the powerful of- fenders of his day, a social reform- er after the pattern of the Hebrew prophets, the Baptist is a model for every editor and teacher and preach- er. . -- Fitness and a Job, There was more to John's mission than 'even he knew. He had spurn- ed the sychopant arts of a court preacher; and he had become the vogue, first with the rabble and then ¥ith all : classes. His work was mighty, merely as a preacher of righteousness. (Parenthetically, it may bey remarked that no man is called to any pulpit who is not first of all a preacher of sheer and simple | righteousness.) Yet, like all sensi- tive souls, he had his moods of de- pression and wonderment. Was it only for this that he had made ready 89 strenuously? Was not the Christ to be attested? In tals case, as In countless oth- ers, we see worked out the prin- ciple that opportunity waits upon fitness. Man's part is to get ready; God's part is to find the task. If there were more young people in- tent upon becoming tully prepared, ahd fewer merely seeking positions, the work of the world would be' bet- 'sr done. John got ready for the 4reatest work in the world and in the fulness of time his hour of op- portunity came. This Lesson should drive home to the 'hearts of youth the all important message of prep- EXACT REPRODUCTIONS OF DRESSES ON SALE Every Wash Dress in our store or reserved. Light Dresses, Dark D learance Sale OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF 650 Summer Wash Dresses "VOILES," "RATINES," "CREPES," Etc. Selling Regularly up to $25.00--Clearing at 5:95 $7.95 3g.es Dresses for Misses, Women and Matrons. 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Brockville EXACT REPRODUCTIONS OF DRESSES ON SALE PREPARA- aration, TION! Preparation, A High Hour By The River. While John was faithfully carry- ing on, destiny drew near. He had dealt faithfully with the pharisees, with the king, with the soldiers, with the workingmen, with the rab- ble. In the very midst of his Jordan preaching of repentance, and the practice of his new rite or symbol of baptism, Jesus appeared amidst the multitude.' : We pause to think of the great hours in the life of Christ, of. which this was one. Like everybody else who has really lived our Lord knew his periods of exaltation--the moun- tain-peake of experience that rose memorably above the plain of every- dayness. This was the first of them Senay all. His baptism, whereby he forma ly identified himself with the com- mon lot, and demonstrated that ho had come to share the experiences of all of us, was a period of immeas- urable spiritual exhilaration. What this formal commencement of his ca- reer meant to the sensitive Christ we cannot imagine. The baptism by John, and his testimony; and the at- testation from the clouds, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased," were only parts of a single overwhelming experience, which made this one of the mighty mo- ments in the life of Jesus. Other transcendant experiences were the Passion of the North, when Peter acclaimed him the Messiah; the transfiguration, the triumphal entry; the night in the Garden of Gethsemane; and the Crucifixion it- self. From a purely human stand- | point, Jesus could say, "I have liv-| ed." And surely God whnts all his other children to have thelr high hours, also to impart a profouad significance to life, ' of C i -- i Regarding the Rites. A wholesome swing away. from mere ritualism and a stressing of the .inner spirit of religion, marks our day. Questions over which our fathers quarrelled interests us but slightly. Theological niceties and ec- clesiastical ceremonials* and usages leave , this generation cold. Our search is more for the spirit of Christ, and for the mind and works hrist. CT ------ bould openly and fully align our- elves with the Christian ""church, dccepting its 'symbols and sacra- ments. "Join the Church!" |g the practical exhortation of the story ot the baptism of Jesus. ------ GOOD CROPS ANTICIPATED, ---- Reports From the Farmers About Tichborne, Tichborne, July 14.--The show- ers of last week were welcomed by all as rain was badly needed. The | farmers are busily engaged in re- pairing their machines for Adaying. T. H. Swerbrick has a gang of men grading on the road between Tich- borne and Oconto. The L.O.L. and L. O. B. A. took in the celebration at Perth, on Saturday. Prospects says good crops for farmers this year, The qudrterly communion service was held in the Presbyterian church Seri * Mustard--no ~ | on Sunday by Rev. Mr, Moyse. The camps and boarding houses are kept busy with tourists this summer. John Kennedy who has been poorly tor Some time is somewhat better. Visitors: A. 0. Kennedy, Franke lin, N.-H., Robert Kennedy, Worring- ton, Ont., Mrs. Simon Keller, Wil liamston, N.Y., and Mrs. S. M. Mec- Kerror, Toronto. at their brother's, John Kennedy; Mr. and Mrs. Leslie and family, Oak Flats at Joseph Steelé's; Mrs. Bailey and daughter, Kingston, at Mrs. J. Robinson's; Mr, and Mrs. Ross Steele, Toronto, at Mrs. A. Kennedy's, Sr; Mrs. H. Campbell and Miss Mary at Mrs. * William Steele's; Mr. and Mrs, Har- old Smith have returned to their home in Webster, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kennedy, Trenton, at William Kennedy's. Miss Georgina Jeffrey is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. George Goodfellow. stard al ils fix if fresh well as part of Toe ror rimot its pu unléss freshly mixed for foods. Nevertheless, it is easy to over- look the place of rites in righteons- Mess' Symbols do signify. Nobody | can be so blind to the historic facts of the life of Christ as to ignore the meaning of the simple record which shows him, from his circumeison to bis last passover, fulfilling the cere- monial requ ts of the law. At Jordan he signalized the be- ginning of his mission -- his com- | mencement, his inauguration, Jhis |. initiation, as it were--by taking on John's outward seal of membership in the fellowship of righteousness. Although he did not stand in need of the cleansing from sin which baptism represented, yet it was one: tond of fellowship, one more token of membership in the kingdom, and 80 Jesus joined John the Baptist's church by the sacrament of baptism. | As the Master whose very sandals | Et Se the best rel i Hime; 50 we, superior > a VE GOOD MEALS ...JHE VICTORIA CAFE Host unfit of us feel ourselves to be |f 0 the membership of Whe body, |\ * i