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PAGE TWELVE Selected, for Sunday Reading IMMORTALITY 2) The day dies into a night, but the next morning it appears again and revives. Plants and flowers die in the ground and are covered with snow, but they peep again from their graves. Thus nature is preserved by perishing and revives by dying. Sure ly, then, man, who is lord over these things, will not die, never to appear again! The sadaest example of .ingrati- tude is the poverty of the thankful- ness of those who are, in some mea- sure, thankful for God's greatest gift, It is strange and melancholy * that Christians should love, and love so little; should be thankful, and so tepid in it; should exercise some, vet so imperfect, surrender. None at all, or a great deal more, would be intelligble; but sugh thanks for such a gift as the average Christian brings are surely mysteriously incon- i gruous,--Alexander Maclaren, The Gideons placed 48,475 Bibles in hotels during their last fiscal year. This total was exceeded only in 191} and 1912, when Bibles were so much cheaper thap now, They supply either the King James or the Am- erican, Standard Bible as requested. In one cagé the Fort Worth Preshy- terian church paid for 600 Bibles for the new three million dollar Texas | Hotel in that eity, It's a Body-builder for Young and Old Delivery All Over City Phone 12095 | 18 WAYS® OF BEING HAPPY | Happy is the man whom God cor- recteth, for He maketh sore and bindeth up. Happy is the man whose God is 'he Lord. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding. Happy is the man that feareth al- way. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he al- loweth, He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. Whoso trusteth in the 'Lord, hap- py 18 he. He that keepet! the law, happy is he. If ye suffer for righteousness' sake happy are ye. | If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye. Behold, we count them happy which endure, If ye know these things, happy are ye if-ye do them. GEMS OF THOUGHT He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, 1s a poor, frozen churl. --~Joann Baillie, Some people think .that all the world should share their misfortunes though they do not share ip the suf- ferings of any one elge.--A. Poince- lot. I have unlearned contempt. It is {n sin that is engendered earliest in | the soul, and doth beset it like a f poison-worm, feeding on all its beau- | ty. --N. D. Willis. Whoever feels pain in hearing a feel pleasure in the reverse; and those who despair to rise to distine- tion by their virtues are happy if i others can"be depressed to a level & with themselves.--J,. Barker. Pear is not in the habit of speak- ing truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has any one who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth, any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.--Tacitus. Opportunity has hair in front; be- | hind she is bald; if you seize her by OLTaFF O'LIFE the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter him- self can catch her again.--From the Latin. Solve your GI «apeme by purchasing year-- Tea Strainers, ape DUTCH SILVER. been looking for. ware. Cut Glass, Silverware aad China for Christmas Gifts Silverware or China. We specially invite your attention to our line of Novelties in Silverware this Measures, etc.,--all in that NEW Our stock of Crown Derby, Coalport and Aynsley China is very complete us to show you that line of "Byzanta" ARTHUR Jeweler "THE GIFT SHOP" FT problem for the a piece of Cut Glass, Bells, Napkin Rings, Just what you have . Ask O. FELT T hat Xmas Dinner "will be the best ever if you use our goods as follows: --The best Graham Flour, Corn Meal, Rolled Odits, Wheat Granules, Sugar, Salt, and Potatoes. Use these according to directions given in a fam- Bread Flour, Pastry Flour, good character of his neighbor, will, @ Nowadays the up-to-date farmer raises his own feedstuffs and food- etuff, What keeps him strapped is buying his Ford stuffs.--Norfolk. Ir ider your. very testy and quarr me people as I do a loaded gun, may, by accident, at any time, go off and kill people.--Shen: stone, It's easy to meet expenses these days, You run on to them every time you turn around, -- Western Christian Advocate (Cincinnati), Nothing is such an obstacle to the production of excellence as the pow- er of producing what is good with ease and rapidity. --Aikin. If any one will tell me how truth may be spoken without offending some, I will spare no labor to learn the art of it.--Bishop Horne. Those who honestly mean to be true contradict themselves more rare ly than those w, Mio 11} try to be consls- tent.--0., W. Holme on -- Perhaps the wind wills 80 in win. ter for the summer's death; and all sad sounds are nature's funeral «George Hliot, areay/ is he who enjoys his earth- enware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more hag earthen ware. -- Seneca. 1 could never draw the line be- tween meanness and dishonesty. What is mean, so far I can see, slides by indistinguishable gradua- tions into what is dishonest.---G. Macdonald. A detailea character study of the late Dr. Alexander Graham Bell is bound up with a study of Theodore N. Vail in the recently published book, "In One Man's Life." Since it was Mr. Vail who first recognized in the great invention something more thau a toy, his life-sstory, as told by Albert Bigelow Paine, Is Recess ily intertwined with that of Dr. Bell, News of the Churches id Presbyterian Church REV, GEO, YULE - (at both services) + SERVICES, SUNDAY, DEC. 17. 11 a.m.--COMMUNION SERVICE, Subject: --*'Three of God's Great Things." 7 p.m.~--~THANKSGIVING SER. VICE, The choir will render their Christmas music, 3 p.m.--MEETING OF BROTHER- HOOD, A Hearty Welcome to all Services. BAPTIST CHURCH Emmanuel Baptist Church--King E. Rev, J. L. Harton, B.Th., Pastor, Residence, 18 Aberdeen 8 t CHRISTIAN WORKERS' Athol St, West SERVICES, SUNDAY, DEC. 11' a,m,--Public Worship. 2.30 p.m.--Sunday School, 7 p.m,--~Public Worship.. Mr. Mullen, who has been in| Yonge St. Mission, Toronto, for the | past seventeen years, will have charge of both services, - CHRISTIAN BUIENCE 18 Simcoe St. N, SERVICES, SUNDAY, DEC, 17. 11 a.m.--~Subject: 'Is the Universe, including Man, evolved by Atomic Force?" Wednesday, 8 p.m, -- Testimony | meeting. To these services a cordal | invitation is extended to all, SERVICES, SUNDAY, DEC. 17 11 a.m.--Public Worship. 7 p.m.--Public Worship. The last of the series of sermons on The Story of Christ and the Great Painters, SIMCOE ST, METHODIST CHURCH Rev, J. H. McBain, B.A,, Minister, SERVICES, SUNDAY, DEC. 17. 11 a.m. subject: -- "THAT THORN IN THE FLESH 7 pm.:-- "A FOOLISH BARGAIN" A Men's Choir will legd the Serv. 4ce of Song. At the Fireside Hour, Mr. J, G. Althouse will speak. 3 pm.:-- Sunday School and Men's Club. THE SALVATION ARMY Brigadier (Miss) L. Prescott and Oapt, (Miss) I. Froud, Com- manding Officers | SERVICES, SUNDAY, DEC. 17th. 10 a.m, -- Children's Directory | Classes, 11 a.m.--Holiness Meeting, 3 p.m.--Praise Service. 7 p.m.--Salvation Meeting. All are welcome, | Sunday School and Bible Class at 2 p.m. Monday night at 8 o'clock. Tuesday--Life Saving Scouts and | Life Saving Guards. 7.30 p.m, -- Also cottage prayer | meeting at 8 p.m. | Saturday -- Praise meeting at 8| p.m. Salvation meeting OLD DUGOUTS ARE FAST DISAPPEARING Veterans Do Not Recognize Familiar Spots In Belgium A correspondent, Brussels, says the speak of a devasted area today, but refer to the fighting zone as the | "reconstructed area." In the same way there are two distinct and very different fronts. The "tourist" front has been care- fully selected with a view of sparing dilapidated motor cars, avoiding ac- cidents, and above all, saving 'travel- lers from bruising and shaking in- cidental to "doing" the real fromt. Besides this, there is a strange reticence in the Belgian character. Willing to talk about devastation in general, no local authority will let you see the scars of war in his par- ticular beat. "Go on; commiserate the next town," he says, "and come here when the work is finished." New constructions are shown with beaming smiles, but woe to the in- qQuisitive stranger who wants to esti- nlate the effect of shell fire on mod- ern masonry. The very upheaval of the land, it |appears, has been decidedly beneficial to agriculture, excepting in places where the shell-fire did its work too well and ploughed up the under- clay belt, which shows in unhealthy looking blue-grey patches among the rich loam of the fields. writing from ous Cook Book we supply to purchasers of Purity Flour and Xmas we'll Cooper - Smith Company Phone 8 The new business street just south of Post Office be Merry. 16 Celina St. {| but The ground is practically all clear- ed--a long job, when it is remem- bered that the engineers had to scour the place for "surprises" and traps that were left to blow the un- ~ary to smithereens. Shells were exploded and barbed || wire gathered into immense balls, {| that still lie there like untidy heaps tof twine. Bricks are plentiful in Flanders water is scarce. It has been laid on. Roads were quickly made or remade. Light railways were constructed, and, everything being ready, an entirely new city was 1 d in pl where nothing of We Encourage Enterprise S an institution that has played a vital gust in. developing Canadian Sa- merce, this Bank is always assist the financing of sound i terprise. Manufacturers, importers are invited to i Tn en- and our local DOMINION BANK OSHAWA BRANCH CEDAR DALE BRANCH BROQI N BRANCH - C. x HENRY, Manager Manama EC CROSS, Mansger Flanders . -| mugoh-en the original town was left. Menin seven-roomed houses with double-walls in brick and con- crete, only three weeks ago, are habitable today. Near Ypres an entire garden city has been conj comparatively easy near but is more difficult; the resuits also are less satisfactory. Everywhere, however, the place drainage and pure water supplies in their turn. are the Belgians never | The only dissatisfied panties in today hitherto] kvious eyes at the red tilled and blue | shutters of the new habitations. | | Down by the French fronfier, at Wervicq, Cominas, and Warneton, there is still much to be done. Cor- rugated-iron shelters still 2bound, | while traces of the vindictive spirit | {in which the damage was perpet- | rated are still apparent. Ypres is stijl in the construction, but the about, that appeared quite irre- claimable, is covered with crops. Oblong patches, railed off with barb- {ed wire, with small black, weather- worn crosses, show where a soldier ™ lies. Dixmude, that was destroyed so | entirely that one stone was not found on another, is almost rebuilt, somewhat offensive in its very new- ness. Church and Cloth Hall have been reconstructed with the original stones. It is curious to note that the flower-loving Fleming is planting his garden city with vegetables. Somehow eh doesn't feel it is time for flowers. Right through the worst area, near the French border, only one flower-covered house was seen. From afar the pink roses flaunted in the sun, and everyone said. "Be- hold the optimist." He turned out to be nothing of the sort; the build- ing was the village inn, and the flowers simply a clever advertise- ment to indicate to all and sundry that business was being carried on as usual. throes of re- land round that moves at the rate of 2% million miles an hour, which even beats the speed seen on the new Hamilton Highway.--Gailt Reformer. The Quebec Legislature is going to have prayers, hereafter. Likely as not, however, the members will em- ploy someone to Woodstock Sen (Continued from -page 3) COURTICE Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Shannonville. have, returned hme after having vis- ited parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nichols here. Mr. Roy Nicholls was a visitor in Bowmanville on Tuesday, Mr, Gay is having a large chimney built on his house, Mr. John Brock and family are now living north of Javing moved last week from Grove. A skating party was held on Mon- vied pr were pot destroyed. War-morn and | shabby, the occupants look with en- cries for what has been and is not. | OHURCH | v. | The astronomers have found a star |- apt teams played a game on the arena at Brooks'. Mr. Harold Muir's team won over Mr, Willams', Mr. Glen Courtice and Carl Short were skating on the Bowmanville pond last Wednesday. They report a fine time, Mr. Sidney Nicholls was a visitor in Bowmanville on Tuesday. Mr, Wes Chapman has secured a position at McLaughlin's, He is boarding at Mr. David Bickle's, Osh- awe, Mr. Wilson Clarke was a visitor in Port Hope recently as Oshawa High School's representative for hockey. Mr. Elton Werry was in charge of the "Live Wire" class Sunday, and taught the lesson in Mr. Gay's ab- sence, A good crowd was out to Sunday School, Farmers around are getting their odd jobs completed in readiness for the winter. ! Mr. and Mrs. Dennison nave heen visitors in Napanee for a few days on account of the death of her nephew, Miss Eleanor Boyce was home from Toronto for a few days last week, She is attending the Univer- sity of Toronto, Mr. Everett Walters visited friends in Port Hope, Peterboro and Keen last week, Congratulatiops to Mr. and Mrs. A. Muir on the arrival of a son. Mr, Frank Walters has secured a position in Toronto in the McKay Food Co. He is the city agent, Mr, Garrett js a daily visitor to dur town, being in charge of a brick truck running hetween Bowmanville and Oshawa, Mrs. James Short and Mrs. W, Courtice visited at Mrs. John Found's on Monday. Mrs. Found is recuperating from an accident, While housecleaning she fell from a stepladder and was somewhat hurt: though not seriously. AUTOS HAVE RINGBONE, SPAVINS, AND HEAVES (Orillia Packet) Mr. Frank Smith's automobile broke down on the street last week, and when he $oo0k it to the garage it was found to be suffering from both | {ringbone and spavin. But Mr. Smith {says that he would far rather have his car than the one Bert Eaton drives which is broken down with the heaves from oyer eatin', LOSING THE LITTLE TOE. The often * repeated story that many English ladies of fashion have had their little toes amputa- ted so as to be able to wear the latest fashdon of pointed shoes moves an American foot specialist. to announce that the ladies can in future save themselves this paintul sacrifice to their vanity, for they will have only four toes. He declares that women's ; _ | the course of many Thus, for instance, the mummiés of Egyptian women still show four joints in the little toe. But the wo- men of ancient Greece had no more than three. At the present time the deterioration has left only, in many cases, not more than :one knuckle. It therefore seems that the female little toe is fated to ex- tinction. The authority cited traces generations. little toe has been deteriorating in this Phenomenon to the use of shoes with' high heels. R. | The Arcade will be open every evening commencing Monday till Xmas Monday and Tuesday till 9 o'clock, balance of the week till 10 o'clock. A Complete Stock of Useful Xmas Gifts Displayed for easy choosing and marked at our usual small profits. THOS. MILLER & SONS COME TO THE CANDY SHOP SIMCOE STREET NORTH AND CATCH CHEER! LS EEA wl The Christmas Spirit HERE ARE THE CANDIES THAT RADIATE GOOD Lullabys to the Palate iin Cue TON Wr 4 Bins G MACOONALDS cy. z, Brier: MO DA on [of af © 3 o' Last Saturday two of our Bway PACKAGE hoc uocwan\wa's Cut Ax CS 5 15¢8 25¢ Ra SoM op wnt a ----