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DR A ii Bohn D BO THE STRENGTH OF THE WEAK The capricious tyrant Domitian who was emperor of Rome forty or fifty years after the déath of Christ, once did an act of mercy. It was reported to him that there were in Palestine still men who claimed td be descendants of King David, men who belonged to the family of Jesua of Nazareth, who had been crucified. He was told that they, in common with all the rest of the Chrigtians throughout the empire, believed Jesus to 'be a king, and that ewen- tually He would reign over all the earth,. Domitian always suspicious of 'possible pretenders to the. throne, had them sent for all the way from Palestine and brought into his pre- scuee, . They came, those two Jewish pea- sants, grandsons of Jude the broth- er of our Lord. When they entered the presence of the all-powefful ty- rant, he asked them if they were des- cendants of David. They replied that they were. He asked them about their occupations, their worldly pos- sessions and the place they held in their own country, They replied that they were simple peasants, that the whole wealth the two of them pos- sessed together was only thirty-nine acres- of land, worth about '$1050 of our money. This they worked with their own hands, They showed to him their bodies hardy and sinewy with toil, their hands rough and cal- loused with labor. They told him that they believed in Christ as a king, but that His Kingdom was hea- venly and not earthly. The contrast between his own power and imperial state and their poverty and obscurity was so mark- ed, that even the suspicious tyrant Domitian dismissed them in contempt as unworthy his farther considera- tion. It is also said that from that time he xelaxed the severity of the laws against the Christians, 'hecause brn A: prio were too fooli$h and impotent to cause any fear. It was an act of mercy, but it was contemp- tuous merey. The thing was too weak even to be punished. Yet in scarcely more than two hundred years from the time when Domitian had so contemptuously dis- missed the Christians and their doc- trines from his thought and consid- eration, Christianity had been adopt- ed as official religion of the empire and the great emperor Constantine had been baptized in the faith of the despised Nazarene. The weak things of God had conquered the mighty tiMngs of earth. . Men often jeer at the plan and purpose of the Christian Church to win the world tor its religion. It is a favorite exercise of the to say that it is impossible. They say world-wise | thdt such nations as China, Japan and India, that dark continents like impenetrable Africa and still more impenetrable Asia, will never be con- quered by the cross, They point to the paucity of the numbers of the missionaries, the weakness of native churches, the poor little places of worship we have in these lands as compared with solidly entrenched fop of heathenism. and say with the self-confidence of self-conceit, *'It can never be done, You might just as well stay at home and keep your money at home. * ou are on a fool's errand, It can't Le done." Men who talk like that only show their ignorance of history, their In- ability to apply the lessons of the past to the present. There is nothing which has ever been attempted by modern missionaries half so hopeless infant Christian Church when It started out to conquer. the Roman Empire, Bt, Francis Xavier dying an a little island of the then closed empire of China which refused him leave even to set foot on its soul, Wm, Carey the English shoemaker setting out to win the three hundred millions of India, Livingstone, the young Scottish doctor plunging into darkest Africa to heal its sores, none of these gallant enterprises was half 80 hopeless as that undertaken by the Galilean fishermen who under- took to conquer Rome.' Can we form a conception of its audacity? Can we visualize it to our- selves? Think of something like this, Think of a group of peasants from British Honduras o1 the Gold Coast of Africa, or some other equally obs- cure and out-of-the-way corner of the British Empire starting out to win the King of England, the House of Lords and the House of Com: mons, the whole of the British Isles and all the great Dominions and Co- lonies of the empire to some new and fantastic faith of which we had never heard hefore. If we can con ceive of such thing as that, we have something parallel to that enterprise upon which the Galileans launched forth, A hare-brained adyenture! A hopeless task! None hut madmen would be so foolish. Yet this is just what the Galileans undertook, and this is just what they accomplished. And this is just what the Church of Christ is able Lo do still so long as it keeps alive the faith which thbse Galileans had. For it is still true that "the foolish- ness of God is wiser than men; and men. God takes pleasure in 'being Strength of the Weak. The OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1922 men sometimes living in one country and following their vocations in an- other. This followed the unsatis- factory plebiscite of some months ago.' This plebiscite was in turn followed by inability of France and Britain to decide for Poland and Germany how the frontier shogld actually be drawn. The reference to the League was made at a time when Germany and Poland seemed determined to fight over the question and there was dissension in the allied amps about fit. ) LJ Ll * Though not yet officially detailed the report that Italy and Britain are getting together In ageneral political and economic agreement, is in keep- ing with the friendship between the two countries. This has been tradi- tional in the past rather than actual- ly practical, The war brought them much closer together and they have stuck tg one another in a number of dificult diplomatic situations, Italy's position in the Mediterranean is al- ways a matter of grave concern to her and any formal treaty between the two would no doubt include im- portant provisions in that respect, LJ LJ as the enterprise undertaken by the ° Not only in Canada but through- eat the continent and the Empire there has been evoked a keen inter- est in the trouble with the Six Nations tindians on the Brant Reserve, Ont, There is always a halo of romance around the. Red man, though the day has gone when there is real dan- ger of Indian uprisings of magni: tude on this continent, Efforts made in some quarters to present the pre- sent trouble in the light of a menace to~Canada are to be deprecated. One may hope that good sense and fair dealing will prevail to the end and that a settlement will be reached without the violence' that some In- dian chiefs predict and some whites fear, As far as it can be sifted the matter resolves itself into a question as to whether certain Indians can be depossessed from a farm which it is alleged they acquired by simply squatting. The Indians claim the right to confirm their fellowmen there. The Government holds that possession is had by unlawful means. Anything that turns attention to our Indians on the Brant Reserve, Ont. people who have any acquaintance with history or love of romance. (Copyrighted British & Colonial (Press Limited) EVENING NEWS Brooklin Eagle:--Readers de- mand features in the evening news- papers, but they will not take the features without the best and latest news of what the day's happenings are bringing forth. And observers within the profession who can go back even a quarter of a century realize that with every year the "news field' of the evening daily has been broadening and the news field | the weakness of God is stronger than [oe 0 morning daily has been shrink-|$15.50. | Ing. The evening newspaper is a Inecesgity, Its errors are incidental (tg the conditions of its {That is a reflection which fair read- existence. | | Garis Bedtime (Continmed from page 6) mie; 'can you tell me where house 1s?" "No! No!" cawed the crow. "I don't know," and away he flapped on his black wings. It was beginning to get guek, and 'Sammie felt rather frightened, when, all bf a sudden, he heard a rustling in the bushes, and .out popped --_-- Uncle Wiggily! "Oh, Uncle Wiggily!" cried Sam- mie, "How glad I am to see you! You'll take me home, won't you?" "Of course," said the bunny. "But what are 'you doing so fav in the woods so late, Sammie?" "I--1 was kept in after school for not knowing my tree lesson," said Sammie, "Oh!" spoke Uncle Wiggily. 'Well, come along. I'll take you home" But as Sammie hopped along beside the bunny gentleman, the little rabbit boy became véry thirsty. "Can't I get a drink, Uucle Wigg- fly?" he asked. "Not for quite a while yet." an- swered Mr, Longears. 'There are no springs in part of the woods, and we are far from home." Sammie hopped along with his uncle, but the little rabbit boy became more and more tired and thirsty, "Oh, I do wish I had a drink!" 2 » » Sammie cried. Uncle Wiggily came to a stop, look- ed around and, going over to a certain kind of tree, he said: "Nibble a hole in this branch Sam- mie, and see what happens." 80 the rabbit boy nibbled the end off a low hanging tree hranch, and out came a few drops of sweet water, Sammie let the sweet water drop on his hot tongue, It was not much, but it stopped him from being thirsty. "Oh, that sweet water was good, Uncle Wiggily," said Sammie. "What kind of a tree was that," "A sugar maple," said the bunny gentleman. "At this time of the year sweet water, or sap, runs out of sugar maples when they are cut, You can always get a. drink from a sugar maple tree in the spring, Sammie," "'Oh!,' 'said the little rabbit boy. It's a good thing you know about trees, Uncle Wiggily. And--and-- I'm going to study my tree lesson as soon as I get home," "Good!" said Mr. Longears, and after that Sammie never had to be kept in for not knowing about the trees, So now, if the gas stove dosen't take the coal scuttle to the movies, and forget to bring it home again, the next story will be about Uncle Wiggily and Jackie's marbles. my Tennis Footwear We wish to emphasize the high qual- ity, of our Tennis footwear. They are undoubtedly the best to be had. The uppers are made from unusually, stout duck and the soles are nearly, twice the weight of ordinary makes. 'All points subject to hard wear are specially re- inforced. No other manufacturer gives a written guarantee with each pair, as do the makers of this high grade line. Shoes Our stock of White Shoes for-summer is al- most complete. It is one of the nicest assort- ments we have ever been able to offer to our cus- tomers. Our prices on this line are very low, and we believe will stand competition anywhere in the country. We cannot, however, con- sidering the quality of our line, attempt to undersell the "cheaper quality" makes and "seconds." A few cents would be the only difference in price in any case. A selection of six dif- ferent lines of fine qual- ity at $2.50 is an unusual "opening of the season" feature in our ladies' de- partment Medium or flat heels in strap and oxford styles may be had in all sizes, RUBBER HEELS A SPECIAL FEATU Ladies Ald Met King St. Ladies Aid met last | Thursday, when Mrs. D. L. Jackson {gave an enjoyable reading. The pro- {ceeds of the meeting amounted to OSHAWA | Attending conferences seems to he all the rage. looks as if the world is going to the pow wow! --Brooklin We have all i = of them in Tennis Footwear of every kind. The Burns Company Ltd. E [Th favorite sheet they can he sure that ET -------- "oy Wa eben grap Es SILVOTS Vat i 18 the ue .,.,. . ._......... a "NM Bt WwW Id E t votes that are not always in propor-teay trust the good faith of their! al g or ven 8 tion to the need. Militia md navhl " A - -- [estimates in this country are beingiyigiakes will be frankly a wnoy- | ¢ . ; --- p-- e hi t b t c n Pp a r b 4 |] 1 »v t ° bh ove end ome toi ttd TE La LE RE NARS AF SL oo (Conginuea irom page 9). concern of tne whole Empire, and that the "extent and form whereto the burden should be shared, should be left until after the Washington Conference." The results of that Con- ference were now know but Britian had no word of the comfort or offer of help from the other nations of the Empire On the contrary she was confronted with signs of even more drastic reductions of Dominion na- wieg, and signs among some of them | ol uemobobzing altogether, The re- sult was that Britian was being com- Beverly cut, Bonuses Lo givil sel edged and false impressions as to| jis, giving in lieu of increases Nip org will he evanescent and unim-| order Lo meet the higher cost of ing as compared with pre-war ti tare also being reduced. On sala@es |or over $2,400 it is suggested there should be no bonuses Niv- {portant es, | A famous band leader remarks) ' . | "at | (hat the most embarrassing moment ull. | o¢ his life occured when he was in- The politicians may argue as tolthe | ,qy0e4 to Hon. W. E. Ramey, At- merit or demerits of some measures. What Canada hopes for lis a steady improvement in the com- | : : : : W mercial and industrial situation. * * * . | very once in a while the lof Nations shows that it was based | | pellied to shoulder the entire respon {on sound principles and has an as- | sibility of the protection of the: com- merce and liberties of the JKmpire She would continue to do it as long as she could. This was nnfair aud unwise said Lord Lee. Well most Canadians feel that they would like to do more to case the motherlsnd's burdens,or to become responsible for their own defence. But here as in the other Dominions every len of financial responsibility must "un the gauntlet of close scrutiny and in- spection. It is not easy to decide that large sums should be expended for naval apd-Military purposes when absolutely essential works must stand aside or be content with money sured future if the nations will but support it. It 'is announced from | Genoa that representatives of Ger- many and Poland have ccepted the regulations of the League of Nations | for the settlement of th® Upper | Silesia question. Germans and Poles at Geneva, where the League Council has been dealing with the matter, have heen instructed to sign a treaty binding for fifteen years. This in addition to defining the frontier lines, settles many other intricate and vex- atious matters. For instance in many sections the raw materials for cer- tain manufacture were in one eoun- try and the factories in another, work- of these| , hey-General of Ontario, as John Phillip Souse.--Ottawa Journal. | | p-- Freckle-Face | | Now is the Time to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots Do you know how easy it is to re- move those ugly spots so that no one will call you freckle-face? 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