if I fl more home news every week than two vi Papers in North York combined and is acknowledged to be the Leading County I i a per J A I i AND ADVERTISER 8 P York in A Ho 28 Copies Gonls Each j J Newmarket Ont Friday Tune 30 Letter iron Japan fiy missionary if paid in advance Japan April Dear Follow Workers and Leaguers Homo of you are wanting to know more about our school I IS PUREST IS STRONGEST IS IS LONGEST This Mark Is every TO THE LB THE BLUE FLAME OIL STOVE Will give you and I Save Yon Many Dollars GIVEN METAL AND BIDING IS PROTECTION AGAINST FIRE AND LIGHTNING The largo difference in cost of Insur ance must also be considered See Samples and Get Prices iiuaii ana STOVES FURNACES j PAINTS OILS jG LASS Plumbing and General TinSmithing NEWMARKET because oxo We have just opened up our Spring Stock of Prints Shirtings c C Also some very desirable lines in You will find them right in quality and right in and uptodate in every particular 1 are always fresh and right Highest market price for produce Our Groceries J DENTAL I Post Office opposite Methodist Church Air for he at the office of Dr Brad ford every fl Voice Culture w4 Violin of and all Instrument INSURANCE fl Agent for Money to at Current j of of Woe- Ater Ohio Queen i R R Ramsay Fire Insurance Agent and Newmarket NEWMARKET IN Monuments and Head Stones Call Ordering will try to make you a bettor ac quainted with it and its It is called in Japanese Eigak- kuin which means English School In the eyes of Japanese Govern- it is a privato school owned by Mr principal who- la supposed to foreign teaohers fact is that foreigners cannot hold property or establish schools out side of certain districts in the treaty ports so in other places such as Kana- this must bo done in of a principal Mr is one of the oldest members of our one of tho earliest converts in our work is a member of Quarterly Board being ono of stewards of tho church He has the reputation of a very successful teacher and a strong and good influence in tho city His salary is paid by the Missionary Society the fees of the scholars being but sufficient to pay an assistant teacher and part of the running expenses of the school In the schools of Kanaawa there are many desirous of getting help in their English so that our school has many from other schools and on ac count all tbe classes are in the after noon and The description given of the school in Government which grants permission to establish such schools is as follows This school is a place where correot English Language and Literature shall be taught to those Wishing to higher schools or to bo examined for some other school The courses of study and subjects taught are also described in this docu ment The idea of establishing such a school is to come in contact with students and have an opportunity of teaching Christianity to them This year the attendance is about less than half of whom will take the full course in literature Many of them come from towns in the country where they have not come in contact with Missionaries of Christian work and thoy are exceedingly shy of a Christian meeting The two- ladies of the stationed here teach English conver sation as I also do We do our best to become so acquainted with the students that they may los9 their shy ness of us and some to the preaching services on Sunday Rev Mr the native pastor Miss aod myself teach Bible Classes so that aJHt nearly all are re ceiving Bible instruction There are many changes in the personnel of the students some leaving after one quarters attendance so that it is quite a taek to track of them at and become acquainted with them Lately several have left and gone to other places who had become deeply interested in Christianity As far as possible I keooupacorrespondence with those who seem to be earnest seekers afte God and send them upon various subjects as wo discuss religion in our letters Just last week I had a very encouraging letter from a young man who is now teaching school about 46mites north of here In my last I mentioned one who had written in an essay that he could not understand whether Christ or was Gods son and that he felt helpless and intended to study hard in order to understand about re ligion Last week he told that he now fully believed and accepted Christ and had an experience in his heart that could not tell in words At the prayermeeting last week ho con fessed Christ in the presence of a num ber of his companions I rejoice in being able to tell you of this and I firmly that some of Mb com panions will follow him There was one young man who has one of the most promising mem bers of my Bible as I thought who has lately ceased altogether to at tend our He is polite and friendly as ever when I meet him or call on him but bo has been to prayer meeting or Bible for about two months I have much troubled on Wa account as last fall I thought that ho was the roost likely of all to become a Lately I learned that those from Government Higher School who come to Christian services and Bible classes aro subjected to much persecu tion and annoyance from their college mates is a strong association of young men who at school who very determined in opposing Christianity associa tion has over 600 members among tho students find teachers of Buddhists Young Mona Associations organized in near ly every city and town along the coast They copy as far as they can or ganizations of Christianity In a town miles from here whore wo had a preaching place and service twice a week they have succeeded in preventing us from renting the place and so shut us out for a la another place on this district one of our evangelists was struck from be hind knocked down and beaten and the police did He is unable to hold owing to the oppoai tion hut God is on our side and the sun shines day so we go right on with our work in any and every way that opens up At the Quarterly Meeting service in January wo had one baptism The candidate told the congregation in a manly straightforward way of his faith in Christ and his determination to lead a Christian He had been led to study tho Bible over ten years ago but it had taken a long time and a hard struggle for him to abandon his old prejudices and accept Jc3us as he is revealed in Gods word In when we were thereon an evangelistic visit two weeks ago wo bad a teacher of the school at both our meetings who came in foot a distance of six or seven miles in order to attend Wo had a talk with him afterwards and since then ho has written mo asking for light on several points in connection with what was said on religion at the meeting I was told by our pastor there that several of tbe young men who were at the meeting had been most strictly forbidden to go to a Christian service by their parents and that they had to get out under pretences or else run the risk of their parents dis pleasure are very poetic and often in writing at this time of the year they begin their letters some thing like this Now Spring has come and everywhere the blossoms seen covering the earth with beauty sun shines with bright ness and dark winter has fled away I used to be very much amused at some of these effusions but I have be come accustomed to them and I rath er like them remind me that the Spirit of God power and beauty are manifest in nature is at work also in the hearts of men and that there is a springtime coming for humanity Last week we had cold raw cloudy weather and snow fell in some places in north of Japan It seemed as if the spring might not come after all but today from my study window can the Cherrv and Camellia trees all white and and purple beautiful and with flowers bathed in sunshine At times tho wintry blasts of selfishness and unbelief ignorance and superstition and the various form in which sin manifest themselves within and without chilling our spiritual and may lead us to doubt the coming of Gods Kingdom but it is coming nevertheless coming with power and will manifest in forms of beauty and loveliness among of have not sent me any Sunday School papers yet Day We Celebrate mains Song ggINXE the Confeder ation of the Prov inces July Canada has rapidly risen in importance and today is re garded aw brightest gem in the Empire As citizen of Canada we have reason to rejoice and heartily celebrate Dominion Day having a continuously growing population while her wealth of field and forest fisheries and mines show unprecedented development among a happy and contented people In June while addressing a large assemblage the eldest son erf- late John who previous to coming Canada taught- school in the parish of Scotland and after wards for many years in the Town ship of Alexander came to Canada an infant in his mothers arms His early education he received at his fathers school at from which lie matriculated to Queens University Kingston He graduated and received his degree of in 1851 Borne time after grad uation Mr Muir had an experience which he will never forget While attempting to save the property of a neighbor from fire ho fell from roof of a building and narrowly escap ed death After a weary illness of How faithfully the grand old Chief- tian kept his word was demonstrated jnontbH later fie concluded address to the people of Canada with these words A British subject V I was born a British I shall die A Mr Alexander is one of best known of contemporary ton tan a It is no exaggeration that his song The Maple Leaf hag more towards creating a nation al sentiment in Canada than all other similar efforts Mr has had a varied experience A graduate of Glasgow University he has been a teacher lecturer and author He was among the plucky band of volunteers that repelled the Fenian laid into Canada from States We several popular from Mr Muffs pen but The Maple Leaf has caught on and is a familial song everywhere the English language is spoken Mr a man of much practical experience and wide sprnpathies he is a kindly jovial genial gentleman and there is prob ably no man in Canada who is regard ed among thousands who know him with a more sincerely affection- ate esteem Alexander of citizens in Queens Park Toronto expressed the hope that the author of The Maple Leaf would write a months he began teaching school at and continued there until J AGO He afterwards at poem which would become the J Newmarket and otic song of the French as well the in went to Toronto as principal English Irish and Scotch citizens of of one of the public schools He is at Canada The result is the patriotic present principal of the Gladstone song by Mr Alexander which avenue school one of the was given to the public for tho first test educational institutions in the ma AAIKHH f MAPLE LEAP COMPOSED IN GG It was during his labors as teacher at Leslie Wile in 186G that he compos- The Maple Leaf the song which was destined to become the national to Daughters of anthem of his adopted country One The To the Editor of the Era Dear Sip I see by your various correspondents that an Electric line could be built from by way of Kettleby to turner- agree with them it be useful The distance would be about twelve miles land the advantages it would afford the people of jthi3 part of the township would be far greater than any other route The Courts at Aurora and Newmarket be easily reach ed also the Registry Banks Ac The scenery is the finest in On tario overlooking Lake the Holland River and Marsh a vast stretch of country to the North and West By inserting the above in your valuable paper you will oblige Yours truly J June time in the columns of the Empire The words of the song which is en titled Canada Forever are as fol lows CANADA think that perhaps it is their turn next though if any of those who have al ready sent me some have some more to send thoy had better Bond them on and not wait for others to send Wo a sort of reading room and I have been very thankful for the regu larity with one League has Bent me papers and the variety lias been good lie blessing of Father may rest abundantly upon you all is the earnest of yours in His Service NoRlfAK Canada Hurrah hurrah for Loved Freedoms hippy home A so grand a land so vast Washed by three oceans The land where and plenty And Heaven smiled the nations of earth She a Then cheer boys cheer for Canada Canada forever And let make welkin ring Canada forever Fred Matthews a steam- employed on the canal ork Cornwall Sir fan of by passing i I for Canada land of wealth and worth Eer daughters fair of beauty rare None fairer on this earth eons though loving peace than the battles shock and made sacred by the blood Of Wolfe Montcalm and Brook Hurrah hurrah for Canada Land of the Maple Leaf The thrifty Beaver still shall be model and oar chief Upward and onward to excel Oar labors shall not While beads shall proudly wave Old Union Jack Hurrah hurrah for Canada Oar fair unrivalled land Well trust In work for her all Qor heart baud pVU honor her well pray for her To the Most Well live or bar and If needs be For well fighting die I Mr composer of he music if the national for Canada and author of verses was born in Scotland in He i i day Mr was walking home from school and through Leslies nursery a maple fell on his coat Young Leslie who was with I him suggested that he should write a poem upon the maple leaf Mr went to his home the house still stands at the northeast corner of avenue and Queen street and composed the now famous verses which he handed two hours later to Mr the postoffice Next day Mr Muir while amusing his children repeated the verses Mrs who was present suggested that her hus band should set the words to music and within an hour the soulstiring strains of The Maple Leaf were evolved Six months later the words and were published fiom office of the Christian Guardian In Mr Muir produced the words and music of Canada Land of the Maple Tree and during the same vear The Old Union Jack In followed Abide in Me which witssun recently in California by Mr Martens with suc cess In December Mr 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