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THE CHURCHES” ORDEAL.

MONDAY, JANUARY 20. – 1919,

this world, has reways, and

sak ourselves strange questions...whether the road will WAR AND THE FAITH OF really lead us all the way,

MAN.

Mr. Arthur Mee writes in the Daily Chronicle as follows:-

The victorions Allies have saved the world from something worse than death, they have saved it, also, from something more appalling than they know.

They have saved mankind from the loss of its faith in God. The faith in the Creater and Sustainer of the world could hardly survivo the victory of the forces of devilry in Europe.

Let it be never forgotten that the mastery of the German was to be not over empire only, but over the mind of the world. Deeper than we knew was the depth of the bottomless pit, for the mind of the conquered world was to be amptied not only of its faith in liberty, in justice, in fraternity. but of its faith in God. FRUITS OF THE GERMAN GOSPEL.;

The young men are away from our cities but they were in their boyhood when there swept scross these islands a German wave which was to overwhelm our faith and accomplish our destruc- tion. It is 20 years since the floodgates of Materialism were opened in Germany, letting loose their foul waters to carry the seed of despair and doubt and disbelief wherever the children of God might be. For faith in God. belief in justice, the hope eternal; in the heart of man were the mighty barrier in the. German path. A world that believed in God would never band before the the brute.

whether the light beyond is really there at all or whether there hás been through all these years a great illusion beckoning us?

ON THE SINKING SANDS."

"One power in Europe can solve the doubts and save the faith of men. It is the business of the Church to shift itself from sink- ing sands and set its house upan

a rock. We have won our liberty,' but, more than all, we must keep our faith. Men everywhere are asking solemn questions. They are asking for a God Who will fit the facts. It is for the Church to face the facts or to fall to pieces. It is for the Church to open its doors that the river of knowledge may flow in.

God and His armies can stand the facts. Let the Church wel- come them, and the pews will not be big enough to hold the men when they come home. Our men have faced the enemy of liberty and beaten him; are we to cringe. when they come home, before the enemy of Truth? Are we to teach these men what is not true,

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fear to teach what is Is religion, bared on the Rock of Ages, woven into the warp and weft of the world, integral and eternal, in the heart of nature, to be clothed in NarroW creeds, in age fong ignorance, in terrorand timidity and supersti- tion? Are men to be afraid of God lest, like a German, He throw them into an everlasting fire?

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It is probable that we shall have some Munchausena, but the real stories will be so strange and dreadful that imagination will falter and faint at the mere idea of adding to them.

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The wave of German Materia- lism which was to make the way easier for German Militarism by sapping dry the fountain of our being is spent, but with the war

the war for the enslavement of mind. There is no room for God in the German Kaiser arch, and two foul things have come afreah across the Rhine. One is the lie that Might is Right, the other is the lie of Professor Haeckel that the war has ended the illusion of the existence of God.

It is Professor Haeckel who helped to sow the seed of the war; it is the Gospel of Material- Ism according to Haeckel that was supposed to have superseded the Gospel according to St. John. Well, by their fruits ye shall know them. The fruits of the German Gospel are in Belgium and Serbia and Poland. along the bed of the Atlantic Ocean. They will be seen in millions of babies yet to be bom in Germany beyond the pale, with the shadow of the brand of Cain upon their brow,

They lie strewn

It is not the Gospel of St. John that has gone to its destruction in this war. It is not Professor Haeckel who has triumphed in this fight against high Heaven. It is his god of steel that has been set up above all others in Berlin: but there is another God, and Germany will remember the Creator in the days of her doom. There lies upon us all the solemn task of saving the faith of the world. We know in Whom we have believed. Above and behind and beyond mankind is God; beneath us are the Everlast-1 ing Arms. But time, on

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tales, and by-and-by there was dancing to the music of the ñddle and the bagpipes.

ceilidh. To the selected farm- house boats with curved sails] came skimming over the moan-lit. loohs, and the stout farm carta with rough-coated ponies camā over miles of steep and stony The Creator of the World, the beneficent Ruler of Mankind, the

roads to the tryst. The big farm

not the invention of some ancient Eternal Father of His Children, is kitchen, with three or four concealed beds, was cleared, and priest that we should be afraid the beds made excellent boxes, lest He crumble. The Everlast-

where the audience could ing God can stand four-square to

ні dangling their Ings all the winds that blow. The over.. the edge of them, Church that is afraid God will and listen to the tales that were: collapse, and faith break down-told. The women brought their science is true, is an idol of Baal foundations of the earth when and will perish. He who laid the the morning stars sang together has no need of it. The God of Moses, the God of the be- ginning and the end, is smothered in a scientific text- book. Science has no contradic- tion of God: it has no conflict with Truth. Science is the name we give to man's explanations of God's universe, and the deeper we peer into science the more inevitable and illimitable is God. The War has not broken Christianity down

it has strengthened the faith of men and set it on a rock. We beliève in a God Who has not broken down before the Kaiser, but rules over the nations of Europe, and it rests with the Church to teach the everlasting truth or to perish in its sinking sands.

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During the performance of Chu Chin Chow at His Majesty's Theatre recently Mr. Sheriff Langton, the manager, died suddenly. The piece Was stopped and all money returned

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It will do both men and women good to have each other again. They have been too long apart. The women have got a little mannish, and rather heavy in hand. The responsibility of voting has made them think that it is important to be in earnest; they have get to learn that one may vote carefully yet cheerily, and that if politics are taken humorously so much the better. The acrid politician is never a really wise ons.

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The woman is abt by nature a good raconteuse. She is apt to be both profix and sentimental,] and her humour lacks balance. It either effervesces or is non- existent. The discreet sparkle of champagne, enough yet not too much, is seldom attained by her.

Yet it was a woman who told. the most wondrous tales of sl told them, too, in fear of her very life. Scheherezade was the Queen of Story Tellors, and, if they cultivate the art, women may "ba queens of story-telling still.

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