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PORTLAND CEMENT.

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DEMOBILISATION.

Notes of a sermon by the Rev. J. Kirk Maoonachie at Union Church on Sanday morning-

"There is no discharge in that War."--Ecclen, S/S.

DAY. MARCH 19, 1918.

ablest of had-—so

WA

"Tis the most difficult of taska to keep,

"Heights which the son is

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an aðenture for the

dream-without i participants every one of strain, picked up easily in the them a soldier in its degree till course of life whose, real energim

The he finally drops out of the are otherwise engaged. mighty march?

Christian soldiership to wit As for man, when Job said, most of us would be the kind of there is a warfare appointed to conquest the Kaiser promised him on the earth, he stated the himself in 1914, a short, proose- same general law upon the human sional affair with plenty of flag- plane. If we eren consider how waying and bail-ringing and a fearfully and wonderfully we are quick triumph. Well, there are The whole varsa reads: "There made, how delicate and how com- few quick triumphs in the war CIGAR is no man that hath power over plex are the mechanism and the fare of the soul, and none of then the spirit to retain the spirit; chemistry of car physical make are permanent if one think to neither hath he power over the up and its mysterious processes, lay down one's arms, day of death; and there is no the strange thing would seem to discharge in the war; neither be not that few of us achieve the shall wickedness deliver him that three score years and ten, but is given to it. The writer's that any of us ever get near it competent to gaio.". thought, spparently, is that all But above that level is the moral through life man has to wage a struggle which marks us humans laid down ceaseless moral struggle, from out from the rest of creation, and John Milton,

to the last which he cannot escape, even affords possibilities both for worse doing battle for his ideals, winning should ha

off and better which belong to us through to the higbest expressions There is no alone. Truly in that warfare of his genius in spite of the blind- moral restraint, discharge in that war, even for there is no discharge, How!

ness which would have daunted a the deserter. "Life" say the delicate and complex is the less heroic soul. biologists, using the term in the spiritual organisation by which very widest sense, "is a constant we live. and more, hur struggle against opposing forces", easily injured in any of its now, and speedily, we hope, may and so indeed it is, throughout mysterious organs, mind, heart, the world's armed hosts be return the entire vegetable and animal will, conscience? You can mounted to their homes and hearths. kingdoms. Few are the acornsa maak to keep out the germs of They took up arms for a

and purpose, which grow to sturdy oaks, and influenss, bat what protection temporary

a.rg left after all

throw

So wrote one who never

his

arma,

Demobilisation is in the air just

if

if one of these hold on for hua-will exclude the infections which we dreds of years it is in an unending disease the soul, the taints and with aniversal conscription as an Dontest between the vital power poisons which pass from one to aftermath of the war, we shall within and the storms, chills, the another saheeded every hour as feel it was fought in vain. "I drought that beset it, with the evil seeks to diffuse itself in our am not a soldier, only a fighting chance always of some audden innocent Edens as of old? Whoan," said one of them, and he thunderbolt to blast it in a flash.even, one is sometimes in the poke for millions. They were Animal life also is under mood to ask, appears to care? willing to fight if need were, and similar necessities, surrounded Very easily we let ourselves grow they did fight heroically, but they by inimical inluences against weary in well-doing-

had no wish to make soldiering their business beyond the which watch and ward have to Most men's spiritual efforts are

They are be kept, threatened by disease, about the moss casual output in duration of the war. poison, accident, enemies, their whole lives. Our goodness holding its own against famine, is "like the morning dew which thirst and endless risks and goeth away early" because we chances which make suimal life want none bat such as can be

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etc., etc., etc. ... $75,00.

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MACHINERY DEPARTMENT,.

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Telephone 2487.

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eager now to claim their die charge, and return to the paths of peaceful citizenship where King and Country need them no less than they were needed in the regiments and battleships. And from that peace- fal service there is no discharge, no prospect of demobilisation st the expiry of a few years.

The danger of to-day, it is sail, lies in the return to civil life of meu in a mood of reaction from military discipline unitting them to take up again the yoke of com- mon unity. Then besides the fight- ing men the whole nation has been more or less under martial law,

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large numbers of its women and A. TACK & CO.,

youths organised on military lines for the vast aaited effort which the erisis demanded. That supreme effort is over, crowned, for the moment, with success, and having exacted its heavy price. Présently the tumult and the shouting will have died, the Captains and Kings departed to their more commonplace laties in normal life.

A new effort is being required of us, a new enlistment for the cause of country and the common good. For many, that will be a re-enlistment into the ranks of the world's accustomed workers and helpers. Others, let as trust, will dedicate to the purposes of peace

talents those unused which were unfolded from many

in the napkins

hour of emergency, The battle of life summons us now that the battle of nations has been decided. Ita duration for each of us is the daration of our life and power of Bervice, and we shall have missed the great lesson of the war if we let things slip back into the old struggle for individual advant- ages, or class privileges, or any-

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MOTOR CARS FOR HIRE & SALE. PROMPT SERVICE.

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thing short of the common weTHE ALEXANDRA CAFE.

"Every man for himself" is a miserable motto which has had too long # vogue already, and every man for his section, his tribe, his order, is little or nothing better. No poorer ambition can be con- ceived than just to fight away fill yon accumulate enough loot to retire to your cave as primitive man did, or your "palace, sa modern man wants to, and do nothing more for anybody,

We think "little of the soldier whose mind is the fixed on noth- ing but the day of demobilisation. But what better is the common ambition to get rid of work and of duty, and thenceforward do nothing but simply what one pleases?

"I will say unto my soul, Soul take thine ease "it is a lost soul which says that: God says to ity Thon fool; and man has a right to say, Thou Skirker. Perhaps inside every man's ekin their Iarks somewhere a skirker, a lazy coward who would like to desert,an idle skalker who thinks of nothing from the day he has to buckle on

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