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I
-PICKED up my Bible and read in the second
chapter of St. Luke:
"And she brought forth her firstborn son... and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger: because there was no room for them in the inn."
the postal censorship. can be made from drugs which At present this entails a great any one can buy without causing
It is easy enough to develop officialdom restricting the freedom less when the department is
working properly. The censor- them if you know what ink is of British life. A reader of the ship has three legitimate pur- being used. During the last war London press, recently arrived in poses namely, to stop spies every censorship tried to pro- England, might come to the con- from sending information, to duce a universal developer which clusion that Britain had ceased to stop other information which would show up all kinds of secret in
would be useful to our enemies, writing, as the charcoal in a gas ben democracy and
We are about to celebrate the 1,939th anniversary of the governed by a dictatorial bureau- trade and finance. Its misuse sonous gases,
and to interfere with enemy mask will stop all the very poi-birth of Jesus of Nazareth in the stable at Bethlehem.
cracy.
WAS ΠΟΥ
In those few words is contained the most significant story the history of the world.
Age-long custom has made Christmas-time an occasion. for for other purposes can be pre- Perhaps we have found such a rejoicing and good will among men. It is the feast of the Re- Yet if he asked himself how he vented if Parliament does its developer, but I am not very deemer of Mankind. had come to auch, a conclusion, he duty in protecting our rights. optimistic about it. If not, we
And while we rejoice we might, young boys who come to me from A lot of quite innocent people-have still got a number of first-take pains to read again the story of preparatory schools. Either they new would......aurely think......it_significant į that he had been led to it by read-end information which must be rate chemists who have not been the birth of Christ is recorded in the sent Biblical teaching or they
stopped. For, example, if a called up for National Service. Holy Bible.
posltively know nothing about the Bible at all, ing the public press. Was there woman in a seaport writes to
Do you read your Bible?
"The Bible to them is a penance and FINALLY we have famous general declared recently A ever a purely authoritarian State; sister in Holland that she cannot
underground trade that never a day passed without his not a pleasure. It has been a matter which permitted such free discus-sleep for the noise of the trains,
The this means that the port is being with the enemy. The Germans reading a passage of either the Old of astonishment to me that scores of
or New Testament.
remark boys who have come into my charge slen of grievances? Is there any used on a large scale, perhaps will soon be in desperate need occasioned some astonishment, be-since the war are quite unaware of cause for some reason or other even the big dramatic stories of the mention in German press of the for sending troops abrond; and of many raw materials. Theering and religion do not seem Old Testament-the call of Samuel suppression of news of the the letter must be held up. may be able to buy some of
or
character of German propaganda? Is anyone in Germany, in print, or in public speech, permitted to the administration or to
criticise suggest desirable reform?
You may be sure that your these from their neighbours, if to go together, although in paint of the tragedy of Samson, the beautiful Nazi they can make the manufactured at some of the most God-fearing character of Ruth, the story of David,
men have been soldiers.
and the Nemesis that walted on foreign friends, aren't
Every day before the House of Nebuchadnezzar,
"Are there no Bibles in the homes agents, but the nation can't take goods to pay for them. chances in wartime. Things will But some materials, like rub- Commons embarks on the questions be much easier if the Govern- ber, can only come by routes and debates of the hour the Chaplain of the well-nurtured youth of the reads a passage from the 67th Psalm country? Is religious teaching some- ment tell us in full detail what controlled by the British Navy. "God be merciful to us and bless thing that is postponed to a later day
and cause His face to shine upon in the modern prop:"?" It is remarkable evidence of kinds of things we must not Synthetic rubber cannot replace.
A country parson visiting London, Great Britain's retention of the write.
it for all purposes, and can on
And at the coronation of our Kings, staying at a leading commercial Then there are the not-quite- be made by men and machines the newly crowned Sovereign is hotel in the City of London for the democratic attitude that, though so-innocent people who try to and from materials which would given a Bible by the Primate with week-end, said, a little sadly: news about military matters and get things past the censor. For otherwise be used for making present you with this Book, the most Bible in the hotel, and although the the words, "Our Gracious King, we "I hnd reason to ask if there was a
foreign policy is obstinately cen- example, when there
explosives. So the Nazis will try valuable thing that this
world staff looked everywhere they could
was A
sored, there is no restraint what-shortage of fat in 1917 a woman to get rubber by every possible affords. Here is wisdom; this is the not find one."
royal law; these are the lively oracies
it.
I
The
CLS
Buch.
On the other hand, a member of Boever on general comment except wrote in Germany, that there means.
It will be supposed to be for of God."
Parliament, who has lately been were big queues waiting to se¿ that imposed by the critics on)
In Wormwood Scrubs prominent in the House, confessed: a-music-hall star called G. R. cycle tyres or goloshes in neutral
"My Bible is the first of my bedside themselves. New orders and re- Ease!
countries, and there will be large
In the course of the past few days books. 1 try, even after the most gulations are frankly discussed.
And last come the real spies. fortunes for those who supply have spoken to many and various prolonged session, to read a chapter
people of all sorts and conditions or two. Complaints against hardship are They can't send cipher messages
bout the Bible.
"I open it at random but almost freely ventilated. The press is beginning QVAXL, but they can TRADING with the There was a London man-about- always I find some verses which are helpful use, apparently harmless invoices
enemy can only be town. He had lived a carefree life arrest attention, which nctive in giving expression to what as codes if they are in. a com- checked by carefully examining evening after a wild party he was philosophy in the Old Testament than He had been self-indulgent. One and of guidance. There is more the people are thinking, and Mem-mercial office.
all commercial documents going arrested for motoring offence in all the other books of the world bers of Parliament are alert in Or they can have a prearranged abroad, and in the case of some and the courts sent him to Wormwood
together." asking questions in the House and code. "The cat had seven kit- commodities by abolishing pri- Scrubs for two months,
And a few other reactions. For the first week the only tera-
porter
at the block of flats extracting answers and explana- tens" means that seven trans- vate foreign trade altogether, as ture allowed in his cell was a copy where I live: tious from Ministers, which in ports left a port iast week, was done in 1914-18.
of the Bible.
"I am a Spiritualist. I am aware "Aunt Lottie is not so well" Honest traders will agree to "I thought that the issue of the of the after life. My belief has. thelr turn, are reported in the
Bible to prisoners, was a subtle form means that there are four battle- such measures only if they are of punishment," he said, "But that nothing to do with Christian teaching papers.
ships in the harbour, and "Aunt sure that the regulations will be was before I began to read it-the
"But I read the Bible, because, Lottie is up again" means that used only for national ends, and Book I had hated as much at school as though, porters are not supposed they, have put out to sea.
I did Caesar's "Gallie War," and only Aunt Flora stands for three I find it is the greatest read-
that those who are found guilty, because of the way in which we were, to have either Imagination or much. ing in the world. Every story that has: battleships, and so on. This sort be treated as severely as any line. of thing is hard to check, until other traitors,
"But in my cell 1 began to realise ever been told is to be found in much
abuses or rectify mistakes. Errors, has kittens every month, or that it will be extremely and desery- Geneals, And the Spirit of God
A Mother's Advice
SUNDAY school teacher: of course, seem inevitable. The in- the writer has seventeen aunta! edly unpopular unless its duties moved upon the face of the waters,
"I am surprised at your "Even when the time came that 1 dispensable bureaucrat exceeds and, THIS kind of code only are explained to the people, its was allowed some lighter reading 1 question. Of course I read the Bible, works for routine in work supervised by Parliament, found myself turning to the Bible, and I make my class learn passages. the justifiable limits of his far-formation such as troop move and workers in it who exceed Now when I feel a little homely and by heart because it is good for them,
ments. A spy can also, ue in their duties are transferred to depressed and things pre not going "And I give them lilustrated texts.
read youd a certain point. The people tween the lines of an ordinary nuisance to their fellow-citizens.
that they may always be reminded some passage, I like." •
of what they ought to know."
A labourer remaking theji road
close are not silenced. The public will letter, using a colourless solution If these things are done, I be None In The Homes? la not ignored. Great as are the which shows up when treated Heve that the public will accept Then there was the "CASO of a to where I live:
*I have no time to read the Bible, sacrifices and the loance of freedom with the right chemical.
schools.. Ho said:
"fumaniazed at the ignorance football results and the pool papers...
PLEASE Turn To Pago.5. concerning the Bible among tho
The result is that public opinion, anxious to back up the Government in regard to all restrictions which
are necessary in war, is exarung
cennaless pressure on it to remove some one notices that the cat A censorship is necessary, but Bible, even from the second verse of
the newer, fresher beauty of the more exciting form in the Bible."
will doubtless continue to exceed
reaching poworn. But never be- visible ink. One can write be- Jobs where they are no longer a well, I often pick up the Bible and every Sunday for their scrapbooks so
the necessity for the censorship house-master at one of our big public or In fact, anything at all accept the
which war Involves the democratic A great many kinds of in- ag they have accepted the need one'sanctions are still operative. visible inks are known, and somg for black-outs,
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