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fot Napoleon, they, ind learned nothing"

ah Lügün numing.

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zna bangal Them botning, and au Lecause led to cum the lessons

AT THE UNION THURCH.,

:

a very

This is not the time to discuss the

they should fall short of the ideal is

The feature of the service held at the terms of the Treaty in any detail. That senion Church, yesterday, was

Pev. J. Kirk Maçonochic. There was a their best men to the work and they have Ia nbedience to His Majesty's proclama, Frars, toy failed to seize the Dew oppue vigorous, and thoughtful address by "the inevitable, but the Allied nations put

tion, yesterday was set apart by the different churches in the Colony to return thanks to Almighty God for giving the Allied cause victory and restoring peace to the world.

AT THE ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.

in Wien were granted toen.

good attendance. mit us to murag run them" knu

1 warn the insous vaca WHE 1-2 wikit

We lesson J's war fave to teach us.

done their best in circumstances of exc

The service commenced with thy singing sive dialty. Surely the part of wisdom is to accept the Trenty as on the whole

O God our help in ages past.

all the war bath, to "teach us was our of

Drukсnny sky meřnopa.

All classes in our natija | After a prayer, the Psahu Now Israel! the best settlemen; attainable for tho

wwe lugeiler us

to

when war ONE

, and it was the strengt we are that reening of reherhood was us. the victory,

nbuse, divided against itself falleth

class duterences but all persunar q buished and men of every rank and class trained and-tought and died in a common

nations.

was rendered by the chair and

on modifications for the better will reveal congregations. The next vocal item was present, and to believe that as time goes the hymn For all the Saints who from their labours rest. It was evident that

themselves as desiruble and practicabl the their had taken special pains to pre- pare for their portion of the service.

The Germans, of course, have made a Thine, O Lord, is the great. The nathem

doubtless and a response throughout the

At St. John's Cathedral there was a Choral Eucharist at 7.30 am. This was tonowed by a special service at 11 am.. when the sacred edifice was alled. The

rotherhood, whien pernicated the allied detremely well anng; the four great outery. That was to be expected, The spirit of unsethan brother Eparts blended very harmoniously, theyet at the same time they scarcely deny that if they had won the war they would large congregation included H.E. the

At the innó part being exceptionally effective. Mr. Machochie's sermon was as fol

Time Officer Administering the Government must not be allowed to die. GMG3

a new and better

have, imposed terms much harder. (the Hon. Mr. Cinud Severn,

Wod peace is to bring

via this brotherly unseinsh spirit must lows: who was attended by Mr. P. P

We are net this morning in conformity will show whether the burden laid on the house, 1

all ADCHE Gealtivated. It is the spirit of Larist eral Ventris, the Hon. Mr. A. G

inat spirit vi unselsh brotherhood Last rule in the industrial and econome with the behest of the King, which will Germans is as they declare greater than Fletcher, the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock,

might is right" has prov K.C... the Hon. Mr. C. Mel, Messer, the world. That Hon. Mr.

Hon. Sir Paul e false in matters. of State politics; it whole Empire to runder thanks to God can be borne. If so, they can rely upon W. Chatham, CM.G. Chater, and the Hon. Mr. N. J. Stabb, less false in De business world, that the Trenty of Peace has at length reasonable and merciful spirit behind The notice has been too short for as to the machinery which the Treaty provides Wolfe, the

the Floathe old individualism which viewed a been signed.. E. D.

point of the Hon. Mr.

19d1-make such preparation as we should have for possible readjustment. Unfortunate row will trus affect me!!

wished, but I think it must be agreedly up to now they have been going exactly Mr. Lau Chu pak, the Hon. Mr. He things from the selfish stand

G. Alabaster, the

ereunted. Fook, the Hon. Mr. C.

the spirit of brotherhood teaches us that the earliest date possible is the most the wrong way about to promote such Hon. Mr. V. D. Parr, and the Hon. Mr. S. B. Dodwell, Sir William Rees-

that we are bound to be guided by the appropriate for the great solemn purpose. Mr. Justice

R.N.

atone, and that no course of conduct istress, and we should indeed do ill if we Capt. Basil

Mr. justinable which injures others in order tailed to acknowledge His goodness in the Treaty wax natural, but even in the Beckwith, Mr. S

hour of humiliation a great nation should. Dr. C. W. MeKenny, Mr. Phelip

fer benent ourselves. this is well put in the that the prayer was heard.

Eight months ago, when news of the shew anne dignity, and refrain from 511- H. A. Nesbit, Mr. T. E Perkins, MT report of the Archbishop's Committee on

armistice came, the Churches filled as ofing the air with shrill expostulations and E. Bullock, Mr. A. Dyer Bali,

Ormes

Christianity and Industrial problems The primary function s

themselves at shorter notice still. Such mitterings of revenge. Then there is the where we read W. Franks, Mr. GN

Ř E. Lindsell,

was the profound sense of relief and Scapa Flow incident and the burning of industry is social service, not merely per- Mr. Mr. T. F. Claxton,

sonal gain. A man is bound to judge as evonomic activities not by the pronts gratitude for perils past, for blood the French flags. One may confess sona George Anderson (U.S.A.), Suzuki (Japan), Mr. Vladimir d'Oettin Mr. F. Een da Silva

mained closed the people were almost in over. being of others"

14 Dividualism which had ruled a mind to have forced them oper. We

Davies, payout Us Cobouraterests of others and not of ourselves We cried to God when we were in disa spirit.

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Mr.

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That they should be reluctant to accept

sailor who

tr. E. G. Anderson (Peru), contribution which they make to the well indicated, that had church doors re-scuttles his ship rather than hand ber

V

zalez Bindo (Chile), Wood of the

But the bad faith of the business is

in the industrial and ecodome world be-Britons are not religiously demonstrative. well it is bad faith, which, when all is

Mr. G. 3. D. Hand (Netherlands). Mr. G. Gurner, Surg. Capt. Commander Myburgh, Commander Hodg. Tore the war nan brought as to the verge of class wartare at home. Capital and son, Lieut.-Commander Kilgour, Lieut- Commander Jenkin, Lieut Commander Labour were becoming more and more Commander Reed, Engr. hostile to each other, or each was then-

(Naval

al Chap

theuerman menace is removed it loves CB..

as it the old feeling of bitterness between fain), Lieut. Col. John Ward, M.P., C.M.G

Col. JR. Young Licut-Lol,

Later and Labour is 11sdy to meet out Pussby, Lient Col. F. J. Thursby in ruinous struggle. Litt-Col Leut. Col. Harvey, List

Englan

our

was an occasion when

gins, and the sin beyond all others which but that reserve was broken down, our affection aid, bus been the worst of GermIANY'S secret that the thing we desired most. of make an easier settlement impossible. As of indifference forgotten, and we made no praise the God of cur fathers. Our hearts lack of knightliness and the spirit of overflowed, and the praises which risespite and hate on the part of all Germany, from overflowing hearts fail not to reach from the highest to the lowest, which have cansed the bitterest disillusionment of the ear of the God of Sabaoth.

the Rev. F. G. Bay. Lieut. Holborn,' ing solely of its own interests. Now that all was to assemble ourselves together to for the burning of the flags it shows the

der

Pelham Smith, Lieut.-Cal. Cales, Lieat

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still.

But she has much to be lived down it will be to short or easy task, and he is no true friend of Germany who speaks

Since then, the world has passed the war to many who had thought wall In those woo hast are bent on keeping ar they have, wale mose who have no through a trying and anxious experience, of the Germans, and are the despair of Col. Mayhew, Lieut. Col. A. Chapman,

are weat on getting all they can, is theThe trial and anxiety are by no means those who would like to think well of them Are the German people mad, that they Major L. Cassel, Major Buck, Major

uu spirit of selfish individuulamis stall fended, but a stage of extreme importance H. Wakeman and

and Sir Boshan Welyk to be rampant, then the lessons of the war has been reached with the definite signa- The Rev.

have been taught in vain, then we have ture of the Treaty of Peace between the persist in giving themselves more and W. T. Featherstone.

nothing from the war, and our Allied nations and their chief opponent always more to be lived down 1 Insclent The service commenced with the render-earned wiis tail bezore the insupe Irenzy The Germans have at length been obliged in victory, truculent in defeat, why do assisted by the Copley Mogle

of God, our help in ages ing processions, followed by special of Dolshevisin and our civilization will to admit themselves beaten. Their signa- they make it so difficult to sy wyda of unqualified defeat, in the face of all arguments for the view that the worst exhortation, and Psalms 95, 98, and 30. perish like that of Muebeb and Tyre and ture of the Treaty is an acknowledgment word for them, and only furnish Ber construction is sure to be the right one Special lessons were read from Isaiah AG Babylon-

Gloria in Ex- But we must learn the lessons of the mankind,

Such an admission was necessary, for to put on whatever they say or do! It and Revelations 4.

If the gentle accents Ye are retcis

was sung by all present and the war.

was

charted.

Special all one in Christ Jesus, did not move without it the glamour of German mili.is true that bere and, there some sober other publicist recalls the people to ing collects and prayers were

us to a spirit of unselfish brotherhood, tary power, would not have been wholly voice arises; some journalist, deputy or recited by the Rev. Mr. Featherstone.

at least we must not fail to learn the swept away. The ideals, such as they are, do The "All people that on earth dwell

9. Collowed by the anthem lesson when it has been emphasised and which that evil system stood for, have reason and shews a perception of the We can but hope that with time these thundered into our cars by these years of been, for the time at any rate, over realities of the situation.

whelmed in disaster, which is for the Sing O fleaves."

war. We must take care that in the new The sermon was preached by the Rev. VH. Copley Moyle, who took as his text era which is dawning, life shall be worth soul's health of the world, and not cast wiser counsels will gather weight, and "Glory to God in the highest, and on living for everyone, and everything shall of the German people themselves, if they that the nation at large, as it resumes be free to develop the best that is in him, will so accept it. To the last they have contact with the world outside, will come earth peach " (Luke 2.14). The. Tez.

that conditions of housing and work will striven to avoid open acknowledgment to its better mind, for without some gentleman said:

Our King has called upon all people be such that a healthy happy Christian that they have been met and unequivo-serious change of mind in Germany, there hier tenporary exclusion from the throughout the Empire to offer public life may be lived by everyone; that there cally worsted on their own chosen ground is no hope for her future. She complains thanks to God today, for the Peace with shall be no slums, no sweated injuries, no of military might.

Their representatives have made every League of Nations, but it is only her own Germany which is now an accomplished preventible sickness and death...

Thank God there are signs that this effort, open and secret, to appear as, in impénitent intractability which shuts ber out. Let her shew by a better spirit that tact. A year ago there seemed little pros- pect of an early end to the war. Ger- many had large numbers of fresh reserves, spirit of unselman brothergood is alive some sort, negotiators on terms more or

ve and strong in many hearts, and that less equal for the winding up of a war she is qualified for partnership, and the she had the advantage of position and

dwill prevail not only in industrial and which all parties were weary of, and had way is open to her. could strike when and where best suited

economic circles but also in the larger come to regard as a great mistake. In the same spirit their nationals in China, her plans. But within four months she was hopelessly defeated, and has now been world or international politics.

lf selfishness is to be driven out of the as you will remember, desired to take forced to sign the pencs dictated to her

bearts or individuals and of classes, part in the rejoicings over the Armistice. by the victorious Allies.

It 18, we believe, a peace based on jus must not be anowed to asqueraue That was forbidden, and rightly. Even if offences of such gravity can be for- in the Far East it would never have done given and forgotten in a week, even though the monarchy under which they tice and not on. force, & peace for which patrit, adu

it is as false to to allow the beaten aggressor to save were perpetrated has been replaced by a we may sincerely thank God with a clear intentional rations.

by face in any such way. can pront a new and better tal de nation conscienc It marks

It is necessary as a first step to future Republic Nations, like men, must learn by hard adversity that repentance apart era in world politics, for by its terms ner's van, as it 15

the common life of justice

is to be for all, and the vindicliveCapital and Labour have antagonistic in improvement in

nations, of races, that that latent conspi- from every restitution possible is only an and

revengeful spirit which has often been

Miel cols.

The ambition of the Central Empires manifested in other peace treaties

120 League of Nations comes into exis-racy against their common rights and empty word, ...absent.

Germany has broken every law of God trace to emphasize the solidarity of liberties should be known beyond all and man, and her people have made arian interests, and to make permanent doubt to have failed like others before has been their downfall, and had involved una universal that spirit of brotherliness it, and to have involved the conspirators, all but civilisation itself in the crash. protest as long as their forces were vic-

which has been wound amongst the Aliled act only in execration, but in ruin. The Millions of brave and valuable lives bava torious, so of course justice demands that

bo good has signing of the Treaty is a republication been given to save humanity from slavery. Germany be punished. But she is being nauons during the war. punished in a stern judicial spirit and come out or evil and the future nas pro- of the old lesson that what men do to Millions-we use the word, but happily act with vindictive tury. Her colonies muse of glorious years or unsast peace others they bring in the ead upon them imagination is wholly unequal to the task selves, that wrong-doing inevitably recoils of visualising its content. Ruin, destruc have Een taken from her. It was inevitau prosperity. able. She has proved herself unfit to rule ay Irinos, the spirit of brotherliness with a stroke which is grievous. "Though tion and misery of the most appalling between individuals, between classes and hand join in hand." said Solomon, yet nature and extent have been wantonly The history of Germany's colonial efforts between nations which the war has engen-shall not the evil gan go unpunished. spread over many of the fairest portions It is true. proved true, once again that of the world. The risk that it would is one of the darkest, vilest pages in the ueret, can only be made permanent by a history of the last 100 years. No native had any chance against a German, Han- general spresuing and difusice of the all may" mark and learn. Much we used be so was deliberately run by those who, dreds have been logged to death, whole spirit of Christ. So let us go back to to hear about the irresistible power of at their own chosen time, let looss the tribes have been practically wiped out the fields of Bethlehem and hear again the the German military machine, and indeed dogs of war and offered the alternatives German colonies were run entirely in the Angel's songilory to God, in the bighits like bad not been seen in history. But of rapice or submission to neighbour peo supposed interests of Germany without est and on earth peace," let us go back we have been shown once more that no ples who had neither harmed them nor Germany cried Hold" when, and only regard to the rights or well being of the in thought to the anger at Bethlehem weapon which is formed against God can wished to harm them,

that we may purity and renew our ideals, prosper.

The instrument forged in Germany when, the scourge was about to cross her natives.

And the same principle obtained

Ahere we see the unselfishness of God, Alsace-I

Lorraine and the parts of Poland who laid aaide His power and glory to was set to attempt the one impossible own border, as some of us prophesied she that were under German rule. The inter- take our human nature, that He might thing, namely to back its way through would." Let those who think the terms ests of the inhabitants were not consider redeem us from our sins and exalt us to the moral law. Its edge was blunted at imposed upon her too severe remember He the first stroke-the invasion of blameless that were they twice as bard the Germans German interests were all important is own glory, as St. Paul wroto

horrer und havoc they imposed upon Justice demanded that a power which had was richy get or your sake He became Belgium-and now it is cast aside, broken, will deyer suffer aught approaching the been so abused should be done away with.

poor that through His poverty might befouled, a byeword.

To the last as you must know, it was others, imposed without rath and with a vindictive in that, But there is nothermans are tound be rich. There we see the ideal, which and already some

towers above all our efforts at unzelfish said among the Chinese around us that light heart, imposed upon avowed prin. ready to acknowledge justice of the torms which have been forced upon their mess and ever leads us onward, the life Germany would never sign the Trenty. ciple and prepared system, imposed with af Christ not only shows us the ideal of The war would be renewed, the Allies callous disregard of every consideration country.

The menace of German military aggres-unselfishness but fle enables us in some would be set against each other, some except the sordid end in view-German

way out would be found-the one thing domination.

Such is the verdict of the civilised ion, which for years past has kept the measure to gain the unselfish spirit." xpenditure on armaments at such a high As we stand here alive to-day while so not to be believed was that the puissant resolved that it shall not agan threaten in the War, as we realise that God has so loudly and shewn itself so warlike whose repetition the world is bound, so. agure, is now at an end, and the Allies are many better men and women have fallen and self-confident race which bad, boasted world. Such is the catastrophe from the world. Germany has long been a entrusted to us the re-fashioning of the would be forced to swallow its pride and military nation ruled by a military caste, world, let us ask ourselves whether our drink the cup of humiliation it had long far as possible, to secure itself, and so and how long it will take her to change ideals are worthy. of the greatness, of our prepared for others. Bat that is what long as the criminal nation continues to her nature remains to be seen.

opportunities; are they ideals chiefly of has come to pass, and it is well it should justify itself there is no alternative but

its power to renew ite offences. One of the outstanding facts of the war self interest or are they the unselfish be understood in the Far East as through to hold it tight in leash and keep it beyond is that free men, fighting for

We want no imitations in the Eastern We celebrate peace to-day, and no one ideals of our Lord Jesus Christ; are they eat the whole world. have vanguished the sternly disciplined hosts of Germany. We used like the ideals of those who laid down hemisphere of the militaristic, conspiracy would wish to minimise the reality of the that it took many years' training to make their lives that we might gain this victory which has so ignominiously collapsed in great blessing. But the distressing quali-

soldier.

But in the last five years we and Peace ?

Glory to God in the highest, and on the West. When God's judgments are in fication is never absent from our minds, an angry and un have seen men, who had never fired a

learn righteousness. It would almost been made with rife or done the goose step when war was earth peace among men in whom He is the earth the inhabitants of the world that the peace, such sa it is, h declared, hold at bay the trained legions well pleased,"

seem that at the present stage of human repentant-nation; which has vowed- of Germany and at last drive them back The service concluded with the render in confusion

and break the vaunted iming of Now Thank we all our God, development they refuse to learn that ly yielded only to force, and re-

line pregnability of the Hindenberg

the Te Deum," and the National under any other circumstances. Well, if gards itself as badly used in being put the issue of the late war is not the most upon probation and required to repair. And now that peace is signed we turn Anthem. from the blood and turmoil, from the The Bymas and psalms were sung by an impressive reminder of the fact that only up to the limit of its capacity, the evil righteousness can exalt any nation, there it has brought upon the world. Be the. honour and the sorrows of war to the augmented choir. future. It was said of the Royal family The collection, which was in aid of St. is neither such a thing as Divine govern- caso stands, and we can but make the of France, the Bourbons, that when they Dunstan's Home for Blinded Baldiersment of the world nor any moral meaning best of it. hoping that as years pass the

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