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HUGHES, He has the only improved first class 'workmanship. 403 PRINCESS ST. renovating system in Kingston, 3 400 FRINGES STRERE (Ness Diteion 5) "TH ra To The Editor | Joan of Arc. | { Kingston, April 16.-- (To the Bdi- | itor): "The Maid of Orleans," burn-| {ed alive in the market-place of | | Rouen, May 30th, 1431, is consider- | | #4 one of the most remarkable per-| [sonages in all history. To account| for what she 41d in freeing her coun- | try of the English has puzzled the! world for nearly five hundred years. George Bernard Shaw, whose play | "Saint Joan" is creating such a fur- | ore, "admits he is the first author to understand Joan of Are, France's heroine." He says, "all others have been wrong in estimates of the | Queerest Fish of Mjddle Ages." It! strikes one as queer that he should use such a slang expression if he really understood her. Shaw's esti- mate-of the pucele (maid) accord- ing to what 18 published in ah article no more correct than other authors cited therein. have been a number of authors, both Bnglish and French, who have given historical facts which, in the light of | present day knowledge, explain the character and the action of Jeanne d@'Are quite understandably. No one can understand the life of the pu- celle fully from simply reading one author on the subject. Should you read only Lamertine or Michlet you would get the French side of the story. Should you read only Hume, Dickens or Bartlett, you would get the English side. In addition to] these authors, read Henri, Martin, DeQuincy and Grimke; then you will be in a position to form an intelli- gent opinion of the inspired leader of the French soldiers. Joan's ideas were not due to "clerical prompt. ing," not was she--a "mascot," as suggested by Anatole France. Neither were her actions due to "realistic imagination' as the article above referred to states. "Shaw re- creates his heroine as a girl of "ter- ritying ability," but, if so, it is not a true representation or interpretation of her life and conduct. The explan- ation is simpler, yet more marvel- lous, touching and profound. One needs to know the anteced- ents of this wonderful girl; the his- background of the great drama in which she played a leading Dart, to get a true perspective. Shé lived in a superstitious age among & superstitious people. In, her day the church was supreme and here- ties were put to death frfely. Domremy, a village among the hills of Lorraine, was the place where the heroine of Orleans and Reims first saw the light. Of all loca- tions on earth this was perhaps the one place for such prodigies as Jeanne d'Arc to be born. For hun- dreds of years before the birth of this girl, Domremy had, as Michelét Says, enjoyed "all the poetry of war." Being located on the line ana in fact at the cross-roads between Burgandy and that portion of France which was loyal to the king, armies Were constantly passing and repass- ing; neither the King of France nor the Duke of Burgandy were able to afford the people protection. They continually called upon and looked for some supermundane power for deliverance, and devoutly believed that through some miracul- ous interposition, God would not only save Lorraine but that through that province the alliance between England and Burgandy would be to come and comfort her. her mother that "sainted LETTERS ||| lights and with voices soft and musi- cal and moving unto tears, came and in the Whig, Saturday, April 4th, is| any of the] a There | COmmand. | oughly convinced her father and her broken and all France be saved. Long before Jeanne's birth a French prophet had foretold that France would be saved by a virgin, and all through the Province of Lor- raine the people believed this vir- gin was to be born in one of Its four Domremys. Though Jeanne néver knew one letter from another, she drank in all the traditions of the church. Her religion and her patriotism were not items in her life; her lite was merely an item in her devotion to religion and her country. Signs of mediumship began to manifest themselves in Jeanne when she was very young. 8. M. Grimke Says: "She was but eight years old when all these signs were manifest in her. She seemed like the ancient Sybils, marked from--intsncy with the fatal seal of sadness, of beauty end of isolation among the daugh- ters of men." Then she was less than thirteen years old, being in her father's gar- den one day, she was attracted bya light 'which she said was above the brightness of the sun, and turning to it, saw two of the most beautiful 4nd resplendid objects she had ever behéld. One of them spoke and sald: "Jeanne, be a good and obed- lent girl and go often to church." The apparition vanished. She said: "0 mother, the music of that voice excéeds anything I ever heard, not Sxcepting your own voite." From this time forward the whole tenor of her life seemed to be feel her E DAILY BRITISH She told women countless in_white; amid comforted her." "O Mother, I so longed for ' them to take me with them." ; Bartlett says: '"'Wonderfal and majestic forms floated in the sky past her,.and mysterious language | was addressed to her. It was pro- mised France should be delivered, and through her aid. These sights and apparitions became more and more frequent and more definite in their import. The spirits that came | Were genepally those of St. Catherine and St. Margaret, the guardian saints of Domremy church, Michael, the archangel, at one time came to the lovely maid." On her trial several years after she said: "I saw him with these eyes as plainly as I see you now." When | dlosély questioned again, she re- | plied: "Yes, I do believe firmly, as firmly as I believe in the Christian faith, and that God has redeemed us from the pains of hell, that these voices came from Him and by His 'Jeanne determined, as did one of old, not to be disobedient unto the | heavenly vision." When she told her parents, her father threw every. thing possible in her way: he even told his son to drown her rather than suffer the disgrace of having his sister go into the army. He went as | far as to get a young man to claim | her hand in marriage, and to swear | that Jeanne had in her childhood days promised to marry him. She faced her accusers and spoke 80 sin. cerely and truthfully, and so thor- would-be husband of intrigue that the ecclesiastical judges without a moment's hesitation, decided the case In her favor. This was the "suit for breach of promise of marriage," referred to, in a disparaging way, in the last paragraph of the article be- fore mentioned. Joan's mediumehip, religion and patriotism explain her character and career without any other theories whatsoever. She was an instrument in the hands of the "angels" whom she saw, and whose '"volces" she heard, to save France. Who can say how much we of to-day ve this girl? Frafice redeemed by the Maia of Orleans became a strong people. In the recent Great War she was the buffer nation and performed a mighty part in saving the world from subjection. and tyranny. Since writing the above I have read with interest and very great re "Make your home a bette» meeting place for the young folks." 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May I ask you, with your usual courtesy to publish the follow- ing letter which was receatly admit- ted into the "Christian Guidance" and my reply which was refused in- sertion in that paper. Yours faithfully, ~--JAMES LAWSON. BR ---- . Another View of the Matter. Dear Sir,--In your issue of No- vember 5th, Dr. Lawson concludes a reply to Mr. Black with these grandiloquent words: "the stupend- ous miracle of the rising from the dead of our Lord Jesus Christ is the one sure foundation of the church, which is the Body of .Christ." When Peter replied to Jesus' ques- tion "bit whom say ye that I am." "Thou are the Christ the Son of the living God!" Jesus replied:. "Upon --~------ ~-- this rock will I build My church." We cannot see any {illusion in that statement to "the stupendous mir- acle of the rising from the dead of our Lord Jesus Christ." Thousands there are, have been, and always will be, who will not hesitate to accept Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, but who have much hesi- tancy in believing in his physieal re- surrection. In these days of growing scientific knowledge men's ' faith in Jesus Christ and his: teaching and lite is not determined solely or mainly by the certificate of His miracles. If mén will not accept Moses and the prophets and the Son of God, neither would they believe or "be pursuad- ed it one rose from the dead." (8gd.) G. H. Lord, Baldur, Man. Another View of the Matter. Dear 8ir,--As '"grandiloquent" means bombastic, Rev. G. H. Lord would show better taste by reserving such compliments as his first para- graph contains. The prophets often wrote 'better than they knew," and so did I more than half a century ago when 1 wrote the Guardian. suggesting that we Wesleyan Methodists drop our prefix and ask all the smaller Meth- odist bodies to do the same, and all unite in one grand Methodist church. This was taken up by others and Some years later became an estab lished fact. Little did I then know or think I should live to see the time when our church would have a very questionable right to the prefix Wes- leyan, Where are we at, when an ordained member of a Methodist onference, through our church pay casts doubt on the Methodist because scriptural doctrine of Chin's resurrection? 1 wonder t & minister would have to preach in these days for which he would be brought to time by the church, ¥ I scarcely think our mutual friend, "Mr. Black," will much appreciate the uncalled for assistance of his would-be champion. Mr. Lord is exceedingly unfortun- ate himself in his choice of scrip- tural proof for his contention. He could scarcely have chosen a passage more in harmony with my expressed views and directly opposite to his jown. He should have read a few "these days of growing scientific knowledge" (by the way, will he kindly tell us what kind of know- ledge is not scientific)! by no means alters the fundamental doctrine of Christ's resurrection, which He Him- self gave as a proof of His Megsiah- ehip. The New Testament is full of it. See Paul's strong and unanswerable argument in I Cor. 15, and other Passages almolt without number. "Jrowe who "hesitate" in accepting this doctrine do not really "accept Jesus" In a saving and scriptural WAY. the power of His resurrection; nor do they say with the inspired apostle, "It is Christ that fled, yea father, that is risen again." ~--JAMES LAWSON. 62 Seneca street, Ottawa. Murney Tower | Professor D. A. MacArthur, head of the historical] department at Queen's has kindly shown the Whig Some passages which throw light on the name Murray as applied to the martello tower which the Kingston Historical Society has taken over. This tower is now called the Murney tower, but the name carved above the entrance is Murnay and the let- ter N is of metal, suggesting that a clumsy attempt has been made to change Murray into Murney. The two passages from the Argus, a Kingston newspaper, of the year 18468 when the tower was under con- struction, show clearly that the name of the tower was actually Mur- ray and that the point on which it Stands had had its name changed to Murray Point. Asked what he eon- sidered that the point had previously be called, Professor MacArthur sug- gested that it might easily have been Murney, a title resumed later when the memory of Sir George Murray had been forgotten. One of the passages from the Argys dated, June 12th, 1846, reads: OUR FORTIFICATIONS. On Wednesday last a detachment of the Royal Artillery placed a can- non of the martello tower in course of erection at Murray Point, for the purpose of trying the strength of the work. Sir Richard Bonnycastle com- manding the Royal Engineers, was preseat, and, we understand, ex- pressed himself well pleased with the manner in which the compara- tively gréen masonry withstood the firing. Mr, George , Davidson, the Contractor, has been most expedit- fous in fulfilling his contract, and They do not know him and | or May eieleie sels ol tole olerierene 15€, for Summer ...i......, (ean lDCs Newman & Shaw THE ALWAYS BUSY STORE ; Rov. Dr. MacLean Seriously at Inverness, Que. The many friends of Mrs. J. A, un, Frontenac street, will he' to hear that she was called very suddenly to Invernéss, Quebec, on account of the serious illness of tier husband. Rev. Dr. MacLean has been the Presbyterian minfster in' that place for the past two years,